German Committee for Technical Education
The German Committee for Technical Education (DATSCH) was a private-law association founded in 1908 by the Association of German Engineers and the Association of German Mechanical Engineering Institutions , which dealt with the standardization of industrial vocational training.
aims
- Promotion of qualified young skilled workers, especially in industry
- Standardization of industrial vocational training
- Creation of uniform job titles and job content (professional code work)
Results
In cooperation with German business, DATSCH developed guiding principles, guidelines and training aids in the form of courses and vocational training plans. For this purpose, company tours were carried out, the results evaluated and discussed with experts and published in a separate monthly magazine ( Technical Education ). The principle of order was to collect and summarize the technical knowledge of the company practice in order to make it generally useful for a systematic further development of professional education:
- In 1911 the first vertical professional differentiation took place: skilled workers, semi-skilled workers and unskilled workers
- From 1919 the first courses for the metal industry were developed
- In 1925 the first job description of the machine fitter was developed; up to 1945 job profiles of around 500 apprenticeship and semi-skilled trades had been drawn up
- In 1935, DATSCH developed a standard apprenticeship contract , which was soon used as a model throughout the German Reich
- In 1935 DATSCH became the educational advisory body of the Reich Minister of Economics on all questions relating to skilled worker training and technical schooling
- 1937 followed the development of professional qualification requirements; around 100 apprenticeships were arranged, 50 more are in progress
- In 1939 the name was changed to "Reich Institute for Vocational Training in Commerce and Industry"
- In 1941 it was forcibly converted into a community body and incorporated into the German Labor Front .
literature
- Volkmar Herkner: German Committee for Technical Education; Investigations with special consideration of metal-technical professions , studies on vocational education , Vol. 7, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 9783830010326
Web links
- Newspaper article on the German Committee for Technical Education in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .