Prince Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences

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The Fürst Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences was a German university that was founded in Detmold in 1916 and existed until 1924.

Prince Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences

concept

The ruling Prince Leopold IV signed the decree establishing the academy on November 1, 1916. His cabinet counselor Georg von Eppstein supported him significantly in designing the institution . The financing was based on a capital stock that was built up through donations in 1916/17 and whose interest income was intended to cover the costs of ongoing operations. Tax money should not be used. The Academy's honorary committee included prominent politicians, industrialists and scientists such as Matthias Erzberger , Bernhard Harms , Wilhelm Kahl , Kurt Kleefeld , Ludwig Roselius , Emil Sehling and Gustav Stresemann . The original idea of ​​the academy was to create a training facility for war-disabled soldiers, with a focus on future use in municipal administrations as well as chambers of commerce and crafts. In addition to the Abitur , lower school qualifications ( Obersekundareife ) also entitle them to study if they had additional practical work experience. This makes the Detmold Academy a forerunner of the later technical colleges . "Common evening lectures" were also offered, which means that the academy in Detmold also took on the role of a community college .

development

The lawyer Otto Schreiber became the first director of studies in 1917 . The academy was officially opened on May 30, 1918. During the war, however, there were no regular lectures. The first 110 students were enrolled in the summer semester of 1919, eight of them were women. In the meantime , the director of studies was Hermann Kastner , who continued to focus on training in occupations related to administration. Training in the press did not go beyond basic approaches. After internal disputes, Kastner left Detmold at the end of 1920. The academy was now called the university and adopted a rectorate constitution. The first rector was the economist Hans Helmhart Auer von Herrenkirchen . He put more emphasis on an economic profile and in 1921 introduced the " Diplom-Volkswirt " degree as a degree . The International Hotel Owners Association financed a chair for business administration in 1922/23. The history of the academy is also reflected in its frequently changing names:

  • SS 1919: Prince Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences in Detmold
  • SS 1920: Prince Leopold Academy. University of Administrative Sciences in Detmold
  • WS 1920/21: University of Administrative Sciences in Detmold. Prince Leopold Academy
  • SS 1921: University of Administrative Sciences in Detmold. Prince Leopold University
  • SS 1922: University of State and Economics in Detmold. Prince Leopold University
  • SS 1923: University of State and Economics (Faculty of State and Economics) in Detmold

At the beginning of 1923, the university received the right to award doctorates (Dr. rer. Pol.) From the Lippe state presidium. The universities raised sharp objections at the Marburg University Day in March 1923. It was feared that a scientifically insufficient education and the associated devaluation of the doctoral degree were feared. Unlike the technical colleges and the commercial colleges , the universities prevailed with their resistance against the Lippe doctor. During the inflationary period, the academy benefited from Reich allocations to the Land of Lippe . When this ended in 1924 and the country refused to accept the lecturers into the state budget, the university could no longer exist. While the university had an ally in state politics with Adolf Neumann-Hofer , it was unable to win Heinrich Drake in particular for a stronger commitment. The attempt to add a pedagogical department for teacher training to the university could not be financed either. The university had to close at the end of 1924.

Well-known teachers

At the end of 1917, Marie Elisabeth Lüders was to be appointed professor of economics and social policy. The appointment failed due to the prince's veto. It was due to the rejections of the applicants that the business economists Erwin Geldmacher (1922) and Wilhelm Kalveram (1924) did not come to Detmold.

Well-known students

Political positions

The students in Detmold were to a high degree (90%) organized. In 1922 there were the right-wing armed forces in Falkenburg and Lower Saxony, the Reform Burschenschaft Teutoburg, the defeating Düsseldorpia, the Catholic German Student Union Grotenburg and a socialist student group . The latter was founded in June 1922 in response to the assassination of Foreign Minister Rathenau . As early as 1919 there was a "student committee", which was renamed the General Student Committee in 1921, following the Prussian model . In Detmold, too, the völkisch majority wing dominated the political dispute within the German student body vis-à-vis the republican-constitutional minority.

literature

  • Carsten Doerfert: The Fürst Leopold Academy for Administrative Sciences. Attempt and failure of a university in Detmold (1916–1924). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-7395-1088-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eLernstatt Karin Wunderlich: Bremer Women's Museum - portraits of women: Emmalene Bulling ,. (No longer available online.) In: www.bremer-frauenmuseum.de. Archived from the original on January 23, 2016 ; Retrieved July 3, 2016 .
  2. ^ The Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government - Panhorst, Karl Heinrich. In: www.bundesarchiv.de. Retrieved July 3, 2016 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '10.8 "  N , 8 ° 52' 53.2"  E