Royal Academy in Poznan
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| founding | November 4, 1903 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Poznan , Kingdom of Prussia |
| Rector | Rodgero Prümers |
| Professors | 23 |
The Royal Academy in Posen was a Prussian educational institution in Posen from 1903 to 1919 .
As part of the expansion of the scientific education facilities in the Poznan Province , the Royal Academy in Poznan was founded on November 4, 1903. The Academy had a statute awarded by the Prussian King (and German Emperor ) Wilhelm II . The initiative was largely the result of efforts by the head of the university department in the Prussian Ministry of Education, Ministerialdirektor Friedrich Althoff .
In the areas that fell to Prussia after the partition of Poland and the Congress of Vienna , the intention was to strengthen Germanism in the area of higher education as well. The Prussian state could not bring itself to founding a university. A later upgrade of the Royal Academy would not have been ruled out. It was a singular institution in Prussia in this form, an educational establishment with free listeners, which was located in the middle between the university and the “ adult education center ”.
The Royal Academy was primarily responsible for training in the humanities . The purpose was to promote the general education of the German-speaking bourgeoisie in Poznan (including many members of the civil service and the military); special courses also served for teacher training . The founding rector was the philosopher and literary scholar Eugen Kühnemann . The scientific activity was dominated by German politics, including the first German institute for Eastern European regional studies and history under the direction of the historian Otto Hoetzsch .
Between 1905 and 1910 a representative building in the neo-renaissance style was built according to the design of the building councilor Eduard Fürstenau , which supplemented the “Kaiserforum” with the new residential palace .
Poznan came to Poland after the First World War due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . The Royal Academy was dissolved and its facilities were taken over by the University of Poznan, founded in 1919 .
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literature
- The new building of the Royal Academy in Poznan . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , vol. 61, 1911, Sp. 521-538 ( digitized version of the Central and State Library Berlin ).
- Hein Retter: In memory of the Prussian Poland policy 100 years ago. The "Royal Academy in Posen" and Peter Petersen as editor of the "East German Correspondence for National Politics" with further references
- Christoph Schutte: The Royal Academy in Posen (1903-1919) and other cultural institutions as part of the policy to "elevate Germanness" . Herder Institute, Marburg 2008 (= materials and studies on East Central Europe research 19), ISBN 978-3-87969-343-6
- List of lectures for the winter semester 1911/12 , Ostdeutsche Buchdruckerei, Posen, 1911.
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 27.9 ″ N , 16 ° 54 ′ 56.5 ″ E