Matura principle
The Matura principle requires that the students of a university or the members of an association must have the Abitur (Matura).
The Matura principle played a role in the social recognition of technical universities and commercial colleges as educational institutions with equal rights to universities . In the 19th century, the Abitur was not a mandatory entry requirement for the polytechnic universities and the higher commercial schools; Around the turn of the century, demands became louder to set the Abitur as a mandatory entry requirement in order to create "equivalence [...] with the students of the other disciplines". With the increasing academic process of the technical universities , the maturity principle became binding for many of these universities.
In parallel to the universities, individual umbrella associations of student associations also followed the Matura principle. They did not make any connections that would allow members without high school diplomas to join their ranks. During the academization process of the technical and commercial colleges, this led to problems with the recognition and establishment of connections at commercial and technical colleges.
literature
- Franz, Heike: Between Market and Profession: Business Economists in Germany in the Field of Tension Between Educational and Business Citizenship (1900 - 1945) , Göttingen, 1998
- Schulze, Friedrich and Ssymant, Paul: The German student life from the oldest times to the present , Verlag für Hochschulkunde, Munich, 1932 (reprint)
Individual evidence
- ^ Heike Franz: Between Market and Profession: Business Economists in Germany in the Field of Tension Between Educational and Economic Citizenship (1900-1945) , Göttingen, 1998; P. 39