Reichsschule Feldafing

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The Reichsschule Feldafing was founded on April 10, 1934 as a nine-class National Socialist German Oberschule Starnberger See and was initially located in several villas in Feldafing on Starnberger See .

history

The Reichsschule Feldafing was initially based in a villa above Lake Starnberg before it became a private school of the SA leadership. It was opened on April 1, 1934 by Ernst Röhm . The school was initially furnished with military lockers and beds. The teachers were SA members and military sports were taught according to state curricula . According to the Reich selection process, each Reichsgau could send three candidates to Feldafing annually, only Berlin and Munich five each. The former school building, now converted into apartment flats, served as the administration building for the imperial school. After the war the building was used as the school house of the boarding school “Institut Dr. Greite ”, which was headed by the former SS-Sturmbannführer Walter Greite (1907–1984).

In 1938 the school moved into a new building based on plans by Alois Degano and was renamed the Reichsschule der NSDAP Feldafing (RSF). The school was under the auspices of the party chancellery of the NSDAP . A satellite camp of the Dachau concentration camp was set up in 1942 on a neighboring property .

The school was closed on April 23, 1945, after the Second World War its students were excluded from higher education by order of the occupying powers until 1949 .

On the grounds of the imperial school was from the military administration US the DP camp Feldafing to house Jewish so-called displaced persons furnished. The camp was closed in 1951 and stood empty for several years.

After it was set up in 1956, the Bundeswehr took over the site. The telecommunications school and technical school of the army for electrical engineering (now the Bundeswehr Information Technology School ), which was first set up in Sonthofen , was relocated to Feldafing in 1959 after the renovation and conversion of the property had been completed.

The “Villino”, a house built in 1912, in which the writer Thomas Mann also had a stake at times, is also located on the site .

function

The school was part of the system of the National Socialist elite schools to train an elite in the sense of the National Socialist educational system .

Former students

Well-known students of the Reichsschule were among others the banker Alfred Herrhausen , the journalists Jochen Steinmayr , Otto Schuster and Werner Holzer as well as Adolf Martin Bormann , the son of Martin Bormann .

literature

  • Johannes Leeb: We were Hitler's elite students. Former pupils of the Nazi elite schools break their silence ; Munich: Heyne, 1999; ISBN 3-453-16504-7
  • Dirk Heisserer (Ed.): Thomas Mann's “Villino” on Lake Starnberg 1919–1923 ; Munich: Kirchheim Verlag, 2001; ISBN 3-87410-089-8

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The young men of Feldafing. 10 years of imperial school. In: The fight for freedom , official newspaper. Dresden, Easter 1944, p. 3.
  2. ↑ Institute Dr. Greite ( Memento from June 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Michael Grüttner : Biographical Lexicon for National Socialist Science Policy (= Studies on Science and University History. Volume 6). Synchron, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-935025-68-8 , pp. 63-64.
  4. ↑ Villenkolonie am Höhenberg ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.feldafing.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: feldafing.de . Retrieved August 21, 2016.

Coordinates: 47 ° 56 ′ 9 ″  N , 11 ° 17 ′ 35 ″  E