East Prussian Girls' Trade School

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The East Prussian Girls' Trade School was an institute for the professional and industrial training of young women in Königsberg .

General background

In-company vocational training organized through the craft and industrial corporatism was largely closed to young women in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century. In the context of the emergence of female gainful employment and the expansion of professional labor markets for women, school-based vocational training paths developed as a substitute for the missing apprenticeship. Subjects such as cooking, tailoring, sewing, food chemistry, handicrafts, but also learning “the fine way of life” and “French-speaking” were on the program as subjects.

First location at Roßgärter Markt

The East Prussian Girls' Trade School (OMGS) emerged on October 1, 1909 from the Cecilienschule (also Cäcilienschule) of the Königsberger Verein Frauenwohl under Pauline Bohn and the East Prussian Household School under Luise Hippel and the Popp siblings. The old OMGS building stood on Roßgärter Markt.

The school was authorized to train teachers in housekeeping and female handicrafts. She ran quarterly courses in cooking, needlework, and ironing. The first course with 34 girls was headed by high school professor Georg Ellendt (1840–1908), who had also drawn up the curriculum for it. The first director was Gertrud Fuhr. In 1912 Marie Therese Gosse became the head of the school.

The new building on Beethovenstrasse

Since the old building at Roßgärter Markt became too narrow in the 1920s, the city took on the task of building a new building in February 1928 at the instigation of Marie Therese Gosse from the Frauenwohl association. The then highly modern building of the new OMGS was built in the Bauhaus style by the architect Hanns Hopp . The building was jokingly called "Klopsakademie" or "Mädchenaquarium" by the people of Königsberg.

At the girls' trade school there was a 1.90 m high bronze sculpture "Striding Girl" by Hermann Brachert , created in 1929, which was removed in 1933. Her whereabouts today are unknown, she is believed to have been lost.

Use of the new building since 1945

The building, which remained undestroyed during the Second World War, is now located on Ulitsa Kirowa, and was henceforth used as the base of the officers of the Soviet Army stationed in Kaliningrad. Today the house serves as the officers' home for the Baltic Fleet .

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  • Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. 3 volumes. 2nd / 3rd supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .

Coordinates: 54 ° 43 '  N , 20 ° 30'  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erna Albrecht (ed.), East Prussian Girls' Trade School and Vocational Education Institute Königsberg , in: The domestic and commercial women's education system in Germany from the beginnings to the present, The vocational school delivery 12 (1956), pp. 103-110
  2. ↑ Gabriele Wiesemann, Hanns Hopp 1890–1971 - Königsberg, Dresden, Halle East Berlin. A biographical study of modern architecture. Schwerin: Helms, 2000, ISBN 3-931185-61-3
  3. ↑ Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 , p. 98 f .
  4. ↑ Dietrich Zlomke (ed.): The sculptor Prof. Hermann Brachert 1890–1972. Exhibition for the 100th birthday. Weingarten 1990, p. 13 .