State school for leadership and politics

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The former Egendorf manor house as a residence for Lebenshilfe (2012)

The State School for Leadership and Politics was an ideological training facility of the NSDAP in Egendorf , a district of Blankenhain ( Thuringia ).

The state school emerged from a labor camp for teachers that was located on the Thuringian state estate of Egendorf. On the approximately 150-hectare site there was a school for boys, which was moved in 1933 when the state school was established. A teacher training camp for young unemployed teachers had already taken place there in 1932. The participants built roads and also took part in working groups that conveyed National Socialist ideas. Soon afterwards the NSDAP used the property, and from October 1933 also the state labor service. The first official “Teachers and NSDAP Officials Course ” was held in May 1933. In September 1933 the institution was named "State School for Leadership and Politics"; Regardless of its name, it was an institution of the NSDAP of the Gaus Thuringia. In 1936 the NSDAP took over the facility completely. At times, up to a thousand people per month were trained. In the training courses, teachers formed the largest group of participants; Officials, mayors, doctors, clergymen, local researchers, members of the National Socialist women's community , the girls' labor service and members of the SA were also trained (information from 1934).

In 1935, the state school was expanded to include the German home school in Bad Berka , which Theodor Scheffer had founded in 1922 and was a meeting point for the nationalist scene. The school in Bad Berka also provided the teaching staff for the "Mitteldeutsche Heimatschule" in nearby Nohra, which from March to May 1933 had been a refuge for forced education and militarism as the Nohra concentration camp .

With the beginning of the Second World War, the state school was used as a reserve hospital, at the beginning of 1942 it became a prisoner of war camp. Parts of the property were still used by the NSDAP. In 1944 the state school should be reopened; the intention remained.

Lecturers included Wilhelm Engel and Theodor Scheffer.

The doctors trained in racial politics included Nicolai Guleke , the surgeon Erich Harms, who was authorized to perform sterilizations, the ENT professor and assistant adjudicator at the genetic health court Johannes Zange (1880-1969), Rudolf Lemke , the internist Ludwig Heilmann, August Sundermann and the internist and tuberculosis researcher Julius Kayser-Petersen (1886–1954).

literature

  • Andreas Kraas: Teachers' Camp 1932–1945. Political function and educational design , Klinkhardt: Bad Heilbrunn 2004, pp. 54–64 (Chapter 2.2.3: Camp training on the rehearsal stage. Egendorf 1932–1935), ISBN 3-7815-1347-5 . Extract from google books

Web links

  • Rüdiger Stutz : "Education center for National Socialist selection" (Karl Astel). The Thuringian State School for Leadership and Politics in Egendorf, lecture from June 26, 2013 Powerpoint presentation with numerous pictures. Retrieved April 18, 2015 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristin Tolk: Therapeutic Inadequacies and National Beliefs. How the Jena psychiatrists working with Hans Berger treated their patients in the interwar period. Philosophical dissertation Jena 2018, p. 154.
  2. ^ Ernst Klee : German Medicine in the Third Reich. Careers before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-10-039310-4 , p. 232.

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