Reichsmütterschule Wedding

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The Reichsmütterschule Wedding was a National Socialist educational institution in the Berlin district of Wedding , in which functionaries of the maternity service were trained between 1936 and 1945 and young women received lessons in household chores as well as child care and upbringing in accordance with the Nazi ideology .

tasks

The Reichsmütterschule Wedding had several tasks. On the one hand, it served the same purpose as each of the more than 500 mothers' schools at the time and offered various courses for young women to prepare them for their role as wives and mothers in the National Socialist dictatorship. The courses offered were, for example, “Baby care”, “Home design, folk and customs”, “Sewing at home” or “Cooking and housekeeping”. In addition to imparting technical knowledge, the aim was always to consolidate the National Socialist worldview.
Sometimes women attended these courses under financial pressure, as proof of course attendance was made a condition for paying out marital loans . Attending the course was also compulsory for unemployed women who were dependent on government support.

On the other hand, the Reichsmütterschule Wedding served as a training and further education facility for the teachers of other mother schools. In a brochure of the Reichsfrauenführung Berlin it says: "All teachers of the maternity service are specialists who [...] are continuously [...] trained both in ideology and professionally."

Furthermore, the Reichsmütterschule Wedding represented a kind of model school. It was supposed to represent the ideal image of the National Socialist mother's school in public and therefore received groups of visitors almost every day.

location

The Reichsmütterschule was located in what was then Berlin's Wedding district at Schulstrasse 13–15, at the corner of Ruheplatzstrasse. In an advertising brochure from 1941 it says: “The location of the school in the formerly“ redest ”area of ​​the north of Berlin was decisive in the decision of the Reichsfrauenführer in favor of this house.” It was hoped that this would have an increased ideological influence on the Weddinger working-class families.

Towards the end of the Second World War , the house was destroyed and the property leveled in the post-war period. The sky bed has been located here since 2013 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Reichsfrauenführung Berlin (ed.): Reichsmütterschule Berlin-Wedding . Dresden 1941, p. 6 .
  2. ↑ a b Wolfgang Benz: Encyclopedia of National Socialism . 5th edition. dtv, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-423-34408-1 , p. 648 .
  3. ↑ Milena Rolka: Mothers' schools in the "Third Reich". In: LeMO - Living Museum Online. August 7, 2015, accessed June 11, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '53 "  N , 13 ° 21' 44"  E