Hamburg Agreement

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The Hamburg Agreement is an agreement of the Prime Ministers of the individual federal states with the aim of standardizing the general education system in the Federal Republic of Germany . It was drawn up by the Standing Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK) and adopted on October 28, 1964. With several subsequent additions, it is an essential basis of the common basic structure of the German education system to this day . The Hamburg Agreement replaced the Düsseldorf Agreement of the KMK from 1955.

Contents of the agreement

The Hamburg Agreement contains general provisions on the length of the school year , compulsory schooling and holidays . It defines uniform terms in the general educational school system . The primary school is a compulsory lower level for all pupils, on which the secondary school types of Hauptschule , Realschule , Gymnasium and Fachoberschule build on. It encompasses nationwide regulations on the sequence of foreign languages ​​within the school types, on the designation of certificate grades and on the mutual recognition of certificates and teacher training examinations. All higher schools leading to the Abitur were given the uniform designation gymnasium, including the school types “ Realgymnasium ” and “ Oberrealschule ”.

Basic regulations are e.g. B .:

  • Start of the school year: August 1st (§ 1)
  • Beginning of compulsory schooling (§ 2 Paragraph 1)
  • Compulsory full-time schooling ends after nine years (Section 2, Paragraph 2)
  • Total duration of the school holidays: 75 working days (§ 3)
  • Uniform designation of the school types (§ 4 ff.)
  • Class designation from 1st year of primary school onwards from classes 1 to 13 in ascending order (§ 8)
  • Recognition of examinations (§§ 17 ff.)
  • Designation of the grade levels (§ 19)

Holiday regulation

With regard to the holiday regulation (75 days), Section 3 (4) also stipulates that the summer holidays “should be between July 1 and September 10”. Section 3 (1) stipulates that the holidays are "primarily determined according to educational criteria".

Changes by the agreement

The main changes were the uniform start of the school year after the summer holidays, which in many federal states resulted in short school years or a long school year. This change was implemented by August 1, 1967 after lengthy negotiations. Completion of the secondary school was only possible with the ninth school year, whereby a voluntary tenth school year could help to a qualified secondary school diploma. The widespread term “ elementary school ” could only be continued if it offered both types of school, elementary school and secondary school. A foreign language (mostly English) was taught in all school types from grade 5 onwards .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bernhard Gayer and Stefan Reip: School and civil service law for teacher training and school practice in Baden-Württemberg . Europa-Lehrmittel Nourney, Vollmer, Haan-Gruiten 2012, ISBN 978-3-8085-7954-1 , p. 21 .
  2. ^ Agreement between the federal states of the Federal Republic of Germany for the standardization of the school system (of October 28, 1964 in the version of October 14, 1971). (PDF (1.21 MB)) KMK Erg.-Lfg. No. 18 of February 9, 1973. In: kmk.org. KMK, August 22, 1978, p. 3 , archived from the original on October 15, 2012 ; accessed on February 6, 2015 .
  3. ^ Further development , resolution of the KMK of May 10, 2001, PDF-Doc. 33 kB.
  4. ↑ . See article in Der Spiegel limit of endurance , No. 4/1966 v.. 17th January 1966.
  5. ↑ The graduation year 1970 was affected for the first time in Bavaria by the extension of compulsory schooling at the secondary school.
  6. ↑ For a definition of elementary school, see Section 4, Paragraph 3 of the Hamburg Agreement
  7. ↑ English as a foreign language see § 9 Paragraph 2 Hamburg Agreement