Fürstenschüler Foundation

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Grimma St Augustine
Sankt Afra High School, 2005
Pforta gatehouse

The Association of Former Princely Students V. was founded in Dresden in 1875 by former students from all three Saxon state and princely schools in Meißen , Naumburg and Grimma .

The aim of the members has been to the ideals and ties to their former schools St. Afra in Meissen, Schulpforta in Naumburg and St. Augustine maintain in Grimma, all three with Duke Moritz of Saxony and his adopted 1543 New Landesordnung a common had spiritual father.

The association existed until 2002. Its archive is now part of the archives of the Fürstenschüler Foundation . The location of the archive, which also houses documents on the history of the monastery church Grimma , is the St. Augustin high school in Grimma. The remaining assets of the association of former students Prince became the foundation capital, which was founded shortly after Prince Student Foundation .

In December 2017, the decision was made in Grimma to dissolve the Fürstenschüler Foundation and to hand over its archive to the Augustiner Foundation .

history

The starting point is the Association of Former Princes' Students. V., which had been founded in Dresden in 1875 by former students of all three Saxon princely and state schools (Meißen, Schulpforta and Grimma). After the First World War, the Schulpforta State School, whose region had become Prussian due to the Congress of Vienna in 1815, left the association and founded the Pförtner Bund e. V., but remained in close contact with the founding association. Dresden remained the club's permanent location until 1950, when the GDR forcibly dissolved all clubs.

In the course of time, the association of former princely pupils formed an association archive, which was destroyed on the night of bombing in Dresden on February 13, 1945 . Fortunately, many members still had material from this archive, as publications from the association's own publishing house could be purchased.

The situation in divided Germany after the Second World War was that, because of the events of the war and their consequences, numerous princely students lived, studied, worked or were in hospitals there on the territory of the then Federal Republic. They looked for and found each other and decided to revive the association of former princely students.

This happened in the late 1950s / early 1960s. That was the time when this newly founded association of former princely students e. V. with the Pförtner Bund e. V. and the Alter Joachimsthaler e. V. played a leading role in founding a traditional school in Meinerzhagen in the Sauerland. The decisive factor was that, from the point of view of the association's members, the belief in a reunification of the two German states had dwindled, but the princely school traditions should not perish. In 1965 the foundation stone was laid in Meinerzhagen and in 1968 the Evangelical State School opened at the gate .

The school sponsorship of this new state school at the gate was the Evangelical Church of Westphalia . However, the ideas about the path between the school authority and the founding associations diverged more and more. Therefore, the founding associations withdrew. In 1992 the school was closed and in 2005 it was demolished.

The events in Germany in the early 1990s and German reunification sparked the desire to bring the archive holdings back to their traditional Saxon homeland. The archive found its current home in the former state and princely school in Grimma, which is now the St. Augustin High School.

On September 12, 2002, the association of former princely students in Meißen dissolved after 127 years of existence due to the aging of its members. In order to preserve the valuable and important archives of the Princely Schools for posterity, the last general meeting decided to keep it as the basis for a foundation to be established - the Princely Schools Foundation. The remaining assets of the association of former princely students served as foundation capital. The patron was the Lord Mayor of the City of Grimma.

literature

  • Eduard Wunder : The characteristics of the princely schools. Certificates of the importance of the princely schools for the training and education of the youth. Print version of the lecture from 1850. Published by the Association of Former Princely Students, Dresden 1889
  • Georg Fraustadt : The Association of Former Princely Students and the Princely Schools - Ceremonial speech to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the association on September 9, 1926 . In: Augustiner Blätter 3, Grimma 1926
  • Volker Beyrich : Reformation and State Schools - "... so that over time there is no shortage of church servants and other learned people ..." In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , Muldental edition, October 6, 2014, p. 29
  • Cornelia Braun: Princely treasure trove for resourceful researchers - Volker Beyrich and Martina Bloi keep the foundation archive in the Grimmaer Gymnasium / move planned . In: Leipziger Volkszeitung , Muldental edition, April 14, 2015, p. 26

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.lvz.de/Region/Grimma/Grimma-Stadtrat-besiegel-das-Ende-der-Fuerstenschueler-Stiftung - accessed on December 23, 2017
  2. ↑ Kurt Schwabe : The archive of the association of former princely students and his way from Dresden via the old Federal Republic to Grimma in the St. Augustin high school. Further development until 2010. A chronology (six-page typewriter manuscript, completed on April 4, 2010). In the archives of the Fürstenschüler Foundation, Grimma.
  3. ↑ Klaus Harder: To whom faith gives strength. Encounters in the Grimma archive of the Fürstenschüler Foundation (contribution via archive manager Kurt Schwabe ). In: Meißner Tageblatt, April 26, 2007, p. 10
  4. ↑ One copy is in the archives of the Fürstenschüler Foundation