School policy draft of the Buchenwald Popular Front Committee

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The school policy draft of the Buchenwald Popular Front Committee (draft school policy emergency measures) is a manifesto on basic school policy issues that was adopted by the Popular Front Committee in the Buchenwald concentration camp as part of the planning of the German democratic reconstruction.

In the Buchenwald concentration camp , the Popular Front Committee was formed in 1944 under the direction of Hermann Brill . Here, anti-fascists had drawn up plans for a new democratic beginning across ideological and party lines. From August to October 1944 , it dealt with basic school policy issues . The result of this work by the Education Commission was the draft of immediate school policy measures , which Hans Brumme kept until the day the Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated . The immediate school policy measures included the following demands:

  • The cleaning of the teaching staff of all public schools according to the general civil service and labor law provisions.
  • At the end of the school year 1944/45, the middle and secondary schools are to be dissolved.
  • Religious instruction is being replaced by life science lessons.
  • Transfer of teacher training to the university in a separate philosophical-pedagogical faculty.
  • Admission of student self-administration and establishment of parents' councils.

Further statements can be found on the free teaching materials, on education allowances, on reducing the number of compulsory lessons for teachers, on the reopening of adult education centers.

literature

  • About the activities of the educational commission of the illegal Popular Front Committee in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944, Hans Brumme, in Monumenta Paedagogica Vol. XV, Berlin 1974, page 387ff.