Ebermayer School
| Private school Ebermayer | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Elementary school |
| founding | 1898 |
| closure | 1938 |
| address |
Schraudolphstrasse 15 |
| place | Munich |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 9 '11 " N , 11 ° 34' 22" E |
The “private school Ebermayer” (as it was called in 1933 in the certificate) was founded in 1898 in Munich, Schraudolphstraße 15, by Ernestine Ebermayer (born March 26, 1861 in Aschaffenburg ; † unknown). With an average class size of 20 to 25 children, around 900 to 1000 boys and girls of different denominations have attended this four-class school in the 41 years of the school's existence. Even though at the beginning mostly only parents of aristocratic or very well-to-do families asked for their children to be admitted, in the following years this school became known mainly for the fact that “High German” was spoken there and not “Munich or Bavarian” as in the municipal elementary schools . The school fee was 20 Reichsmarks (siblings 18 RM).
family
Ernestine Ebermayer's father was the Munich university professor Ernst Ebermayer, a stepbrother of Senate President Ludwig Ebermayer . The writer Erich Ebermayer , a son of the Senate President, was a cousin of Ernestine and her sisters Ottilie and Frieda, although in his memoirs he referred to them as his "aunts", with whom he had lived as a student in Munich.
history
In a letter dated July 1, 1897, to the royal local school commission in Munich, Ernestine Ebermayer asked for permission to set up a private school. Since autumn 1895 she has been giving private lessons to eight children. After receiving a negative decision, she asked again for permission, stating that her father had undertaken to “provide the necessary funds”. In a letter dated August 20, 1897, the local school commission rejected it again on the grounds: "There is no need for the school in question."
A third or fourth application by Ernestine Ebermayer was decided positively with the decision of the Upper Bavaria administrative district, Chamber of the Interior of September 15, 1897. Ernestine Ebermayer had referred to the request of parents of her private students in her letter. Initially, there was only a permit for children who, on the basis of a medical certificate, should not attend elementary school, e.g. B. for hemophiliacs who could be injured too easily in the usual schoolyard scramble.
In a letter dated May 20, 1898 to the magistrate of the royal capital and residence of Munich, the now 37-year-old announced that she would start her private school in September on the ground floor of Schraudolphstrasse 15.
There are four folders with the call numbers 1268 / 1-4 in the Munich city archive. They end in 1924. Later files are no longer available. The loose-leaf collection Schulamt 1268/2 at the Munich City Archives contains information from 1901 to 1910 about new students, those with medical certificates, as well as reports from newly hired teaching staff. One of the main points of contention is the late entry of students in the middle of the school year.
Annette von Aretin , the first TV announcer in Bavaria, describes the children who are “sickly” according to the medical certificate :
“In the fall of 1926 ... I came to the Ebermayer School, like my sister and a little later my two brothers. It was a private school, for which school fees had to be paid, and when it was founded in 1897 the waves apparently went up. The two Ebermayer sisters, who had only limited success as painters, received permission from the royal district government of Upper Bavaria to set up a private elementary school for sick children without any relevant training. On the other hand, the magistrate, the school department and the town hall plenary took a storm, as a newspaper wrote in 1897, and readers' letters promptly came, for example: "The young lady seems to believe that her quality as the daughter of a university professor can make up for her inability to teach." Or: "Ernestine Ebermayer deserves an energetic frivolity punishment for trying to defy the township with a private school." That with the frivolity penalty does not seem to have worked, because on September 28, 1903 the school still existed, as can be seen from a meeting report of the examining city school inspector Schmidt. In order to be informed, he had looked through the relevant file and came across various medical certificates. "I had gathered from this that the children of the most distinguished families are sickly, and I felt sorry for the children and for the parents, whose children are said to have been so physically retarded ... Now when I entered the school, I saw tall, strong, fresh, funny, happy children who, however, have also done good. " And it stayed that way until my time. What the sickness was all about could not be found out. "
School closes
The school closed in 1938. The director Ernestine Ebermayer was 77 years old in March.
Your nephew (cousin) Erich Ebermayer reported the following in his diary:
“Berlin, April 7, 1936 ... Rust ordered the dismantling of private pre-schools by decree. This measure will hit my old cousins hard in Munich, who have brought their "Ebermayer School" to a great reputation there for 40 years. It is an elite school based on the English model. . . It was stricter than the elementary schools, the cane was often used, and the children of the aristocrats and plutocrats were not spoiled. She gave first-class preparatory training for high school. This type of school has now also fallen victim to the great leveling process. "
Prominent students
The student Ludwig Schnorr v. Carolsfeld (1903–1989, professor of law in Königsberg and Erlangen, a descendant of the famous painter dynasty) is exempt from teaching until September 10, 1912.
Lt. According to the headmistress on November 17, 1912, Erika Mann and Klaus Mann entered the school on October 24, 1912.
"Meanwhile, Erika and Klaus received the beginnings of education in the private school of the kind, strict Fraulein Ebermayer, whose institute visited a whole group of boys and girls from the neighborhood."
"The long way to school through the English Garden to Schwabing (where Fraulein Ebermayer worked) was made by a whole group of Herzogpark children together: Gretel Walter, we, Ricki , the pretty sons and the snappy daughter of General Krafft von Delmensingen."
In a letter dated September 17, 1917, Clemens von Fugger's entry into school was reported.
Princess Irmingard of Bavaria reports the following in a private school chapter:
“After some time of private lessons from the good teacher Breg, Heinrich and I were sent to a public school so that we should learn how to deal with other children. A private school was chosen which was run by two old Ebermayer sisters. ... Most came from middle-class families, sons and daughters of lawyers, doctors and Munich business people. Some of the aristocrats were among them, such as the sons of Prince Arenberg and the sons of Herr von Rauscher, who administered the property of our family. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Loseblattsammlung Schulamt Munich signatures 1268/1 (1897-1910) and 1268/3 (1911-1917), Munich City Archives
- ↑ Erich Ebermayer, Before I forget it ed. by Dirk Heißerer, LangenMüller 2005, p. 20
- ↑ Loseblattsammlung Schulamt Munich signatures 1268/1 (1897-1910) and 1268/3 (1911-1917), Munich City Archives
- ↑ a b typescript of the Munich school authority, signature 1268/3, Munich city archive
- ↑ Klaus Harpprecht : Thomas Mann, Eine Biographie , Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995, p. 331
- ↑ Klaus Mann: Child of this time , with an afterword by Uwe Naumann , Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1967/2000, p. 45