Colonial school

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Colonial schools were educational establishments for the training of colonial officials and settlers.

Colonial powers in Western and Southern Europe

The oldest such school was built in Leiden ( Netherlands ) and later moved to Delft . In France , a school for the education of young Cambodians was established in 1885 . In 1889 an institute for the preparation of colonial officials was attached to this institution, which was expanded in 1892 and 1896. A Belgian colonial school was established in Antwerp in the 1920s , later called the Belgian Colonial College . A colonial school of the Italian police was in Tivoli near Rome.

The United Kingdom did not have a state school of this type; rather, the colonial officials were trained at the universities and in the colonies themselves. For this there were various institutions that took care of the training of young people who wanted to go to the colonies as settlers. B. the Colonial College and Training Farms near Harwich . This facility corresponds to the Reichsackerbauinstitut near Wageningen in Holland.

German Empire

In Germany, the German Colonial School for Agriculture, Commerce and Industry was founded in Witzenhausen near Kassel on the initiative of the Evangelical Africa Association, following the example of these latter schools . It was built with private funds. The main aim of this was to train colonists, merchants and planters. The seminar for oriental languages at Berlin University , founded in 1887, also served to train colonial officials. Other German colonial schools and educational institutions with colonial training were the Hamburg Colonial Institute and later the Colonial Women's School in Rendsburg .

literature

  • Beneke: Training of the colonial officials . Berlin (1894)
  • Walter KH Hoffmann: From colonial expert to expert in development cooperation. Eight case studies on the history of the training of specialists for overseas in Germany and Switzerland , Saarbrücken, Fort Lauderdale, Breitenbach 1980

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. History of Architecture: The High Colonial School. Flanders Info, March 22, 2018, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  2. Patrick Bernhard: The "Colonial Axis " - The Nazi State and Italian Africa 1935 to 1943, in: Lutz Klinkhammer, Amedeo Osti Guerrazzi, Thomas Schlemmer (eds.): The Axis in War 1939–1945 - Politics, Ideology and Warfare 1939-1945. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn / Munich / Vienna / Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76547-5 , p. 170.