Flag roll call (school event)

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Pioneer organization Ernst Thälmann , big weekly flag roll call in the Polytechnic Oberschule (POS) Elsterwerda-Biehla (approx. 1960)
There were roll calls at the beginning of the school year (beginning of September) and on special occasions, such as here at the inauguration of the 39th POS in Erfurt, a type school building built in 1972 .
Flag roll call in Bernsdorf, 1979

The flag ceremony was in the GDR a formally to the extensive military ritual ajar event at general schools , which several times a year on special occasions, such as the first and last day of school, took place. Teachers and students gathered in the school yard , in the auditorium or in the gym for a ceremony . The ceremony followed military rules; they marched in and out and commands such as “eyes straight ahead”, “left around” or “stand still” were used.

In particular, a flag cult was celebrated, which consisted in the ceremonial carrying in of the pioneer and FDJ flag by a "flag squad". The flags were greeted with the “ pioneer greeting” or the FDJ greeting and were the focus of attention during the roll call as the highest authority (and symbol for the uniform ideological orientation). The roll call was only ended after the flag command had ceremoniously brought the flags back to the pioneer room or another “worthy” storage location.

history

The flag roll call had its origin in the Soviet pedagogy according to Anton Semjonowitsch Makarenko (see → collective education ). In the 1920s, Makarenko found two reasons for (external) military forms of interaction between teachers and young people as well as one another (and was criticized for this by the contemporary authorities). On the one hand, the Red Army was the only reliable pillar of the Soviet power for several years and thus the most important bearer of state order; moreover, the neglected young people, for whose rehabilitation Makarenko's Gorky colony was created, had not yet known any other stable order. Military customs and rituals thus formed a safe framework for everyday life in the colony. The collective structures for working and learning in the Gorky Colony essentially consisted of "operational departments" and their "commanders".

It was easy for the GDR superiors to consider these customs and rituals to be expedient even under GDR conditions, since the former tsarist Russian military was trained on the basis of the Prussian drill regulations and the Red Army naturally followed them. Thus this kind of drill was already somewhat familiar to the educators of the young GDR.

During the event, texts, songs and poems on a specific topic (e.g. peace ) were usually performed by a school class ; more rarely there was also music from a tape or lectures by special guests (e.g. anti-fascist resistance fighters or their widows ). As part of the appeal also were badges for special academic, athletic, or political benefits awarded.

Appropriate clothing was desirable, but not compulsory: for the pioneers a white pioneer shirt with an emblem on the sleeve, a red (since 1974) or blue pioneer cloth ( Thälmann or young pioneer ); for FDJers: FDJ shirt .

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Implementation and procedure of a flag roll call at ddr-geschichte.de, accessed on March 17, 2018.
  2. ↑ During roll call and GDR lessons, the class has completely new experiences at rtl.de, accessed on March 17, 2018.
  3. ↑ Fahnenappell at jugendopposition.de, accessed on March 17, 2018.
  4. ↑ Young Pioneers | Childhood in the GDR at zeitklicks.de, accessed on March 17, 2018.