Rhine-Main site for education (Citadel Mainz)

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The Rhein-Mainische site for education on the Mainz citadel was a supraregional training center for the National Socialist ideologization of teachers and students in the pre-war years from 1933 to 1936 inclusive. In addition to training courses for teachers from the German Reich , racial exhibitions were held. In 1934/35 the Rhein-Mainische site for education on the citadel staged a large exhibition entitled "Rasse-Volk-Familie", in which 29 well-known textbook publishers from all over Germany took part (including Beltz , Diesterweg and Schroedel ).

Establishment

In addition to the so-called leadership camps for educators established by the Central Institute for Education and Teaching in 1934 in 18 districts, there were central ideological training institutions at the supraregional level such as the Thuringian State School for Leadership and Politics in Egendorf and the Rhein-Mainsche Site for Education in Mainz. The latter emerged from the institute for international pedagogy , which is open to world culture and which was set up on the citadel in 1931 on the initiative of school councilor Franz Joseph Niemann . The institute presented educational concepts and modern school models from different countries in exhibitions; a conference center for teachers from home and abroad was attached to it. In the course of the “ Gleichschaltung” , the institute was converted into the Rhein-Mainische Site for Education in 1933 . On January 1, 1934, Senior Director Dr. Ernst Ratz (director of the Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium from 1939 ) appointed its head. The institutions responsible were the People's State of Hesse and the City of Mainz .

Training camp

The task of the Rhein-Mainischen site for education was to "train teachers of all types of schools in a 14-day change in the sense of the National Socialist worldview". Such teacher camps are archived for the period from 1934 to 1936. In addition, ideological seminars sponsored by other institutions were held at the Mainz Citadel , such as the "Training Week for Racial Studies and Heredity" organized by the Central Institute from November 25 to December 1, 1934.

Exhibition "Race-People-Family"

1934 built the Rhein-Mainische center for education under the title "race-people-family" at the Mainz citadel a nationally significant exhibition on Nazi ideology of pupils for the purposes of eugenics on. The show, conceived for all types of schools, offered departments on genetics, racial studies , German language and writing (as an expression of the “racial soul”) as well as family studies in the sense of hereditary health care. In addition to active members of the National Socialist Teachers Association (NSLB) , officials, such as city doctor Dr. Walter Vetzberger (Mainz Health Department, local group leader of the Society for Racial Hygiene ), and natural history institutions such as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology , 29 school book publishers from all over Germany also took part in the show with explanatory boards that could be used in lessons to achieve the greatest possible aftereffect. The exhibition should "serve to pave the way for racist knowledge and the ideological penetration of National Socialism into the hearts of German educators and students."

literature

  • Ratz, Ernst u. a .: Race – people – family. Catalog for the exhibition of the Rhein-Mainischen site for education Mainz, Zitadelle, Mainz (Zaberndruck) undated [1934/35].
  • Harten, Hans-Christian u. a .: Racial hygiene as an educational ideology of the Third Reich: Bio-bibliographical manual, Berlin 2006.
  • Kraas, Andreas: Teachers' Camp 1932–1945. Political function and educational design, Bad Heilbrunn 2004.
  • Müller-Commichau, Wolfgang: Adult education in Mainz: 1924–1936, Cologne a. a. 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article "Citadel: Institute for International Education"
  2. ↑ For the biography see Harten et al., Rassenhygiene als Erziehungsideologie des Third Reichs, p. 449.
  3. ↑ Ratz et al., Rasse-Volk-Familie, p. 4.
  4. ^ Kraas, teachers' camp 1932–1945, p. 350 (with references).
  5. ^ Kraas, teachers' camp 1932–1945, p. 340 (with references).
  6. ↑ For the biography see Harten et al., Rassenhygiene als Erziehungsideologie des Third Reichs, p. 483.
  7. ↑ Ratz et al., Rasse-Volk-Familie, p. 7.

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