School by the Sea Foundation

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Figurative mark of the Schule am Meer foundation , Juist , North Sea (1924–1934)

The Stiftung Schule am Meer Juist Nordsee was an institution financed with private and public funds to promote the reformed educational rural education home Schule am Meer on the East Frisian island of Juist in the Free State of Prussia , which between Easter 1925 and Easter 1934 served as an all-day school or boarding school for girls and boys musical focus (choir, orchestra, amateur theater). The highlight of the Foundation's work which is unique in Germany construction is considered a school's theater hall 1930/31 in Loog , which by the then Prussian Minister of State for Science, Culture and Education , Adolf Grimme (SPD) and the Central Institute of Education under Franz Hilker was promoted to serve as a central training and performance facility for amateur play educators for the entire German Reich .

Establishment and purpose of the foundation

Cover sheet of the first edition of the sheets of the outer community of the Schule am Meer Juist from July 1929 with the foundation logo

The foundation was established on October 4, 1924, while the school by the sea was not established until May 1, 1925. Even before the intended school was established, the foundation was to fulfill two tasks. It served as a marketing instrument to win sponsors for the private school, but also to draw the attention of interested parents, educators and government agencies to the project. The foundation acted as publisher of publications and as an integral part of the so-called “external community” of the SaM , which emerged from the “Association of Friends of Schools by the Sea”, which was founded on February 27, 1925 under the chairmanship of Hans Freyer and later was also directed by Alfred Ehrentreich . In addition to parents, the “external community” included former students, shop stewards and sponsors of the Schule am Meer , who were primarily located in the German Empire, the Republic of Austria and Switzerland.

Goal setting

Since the school, according to its founder and headmaster Martin Luserke, should not be run entirely as a private school, it was intended to generate medium and long-term subsidies from public funds. For this goal, however, private, organizational and educational preliminary work were required, of which the latter two in particular could not be achieved in the short term. Initially, one was therefore dependent on financing from private funds, whereby the school fees to be paid by the parents per pupil and school year would obviously not be sufficient (see also: chapter Financing in the main article on SaM ).

Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees of the School by the Sea Foundation consisted of the Swiss pedagogue Rudolf Aeschlimann , the Austrian painter Fritz Hafner , the German industrialist, art collector and patron Alfred Hess from Erfurt in Thuringia , the Berlin reform pedagogue Martin Luserke , and the social scientist Elisabeth Jaffé Freiin , who had a doctorate in Lorraine von Richthofen and the Franconian chemist Paul Reiner from Nuremberg with a doctorate . Aeschlimann, Hafner, Luserke and Reiner worked as teachers at the SaM .

Sponsors (selection)

According to the journals published between 1929 and 1934 by the outlying community of the Schule am Meer Juist and the information sheet about the Schule am Meer on the North Sea island of Juist from the school years 1928/29 and 1929/30, the sponsors of the Schule am Meer include :

Known people related to the school

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Luserke, Martin - School by the Sea Foundation, Juist / Ostfriesland . In: Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage, VI. HA, Nl Grimme, A., No. 2058, from: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de, accessed on May 28, 2017
  2. ↑ Martin Luserke: In conclusion - To the members of our external community . In: Leaflets of the outer community of the Schule am Meer Juist (North Sea), no. Year, no. No., November 1934, p. 2.
  3. ↑ State commissioner for the regulation of welfare in Prussia: Schule am Meer, Juist - application for the collection of monetary donations for the benefit of a hall construction to improve the cultural and sporting training opportunities. From: deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de, accessed on May 28, 2017
  4. ↑ Aid for the stage fund of the Schule am Meer foundation in Juist  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Staatsarchiv Hamburg, Sign. 361-2 V_894 a, at: staatsarchiv.hamburg.de, accessed on May 28, 2017@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / recherche.staatsarchiv.hamburg.de  
  5. ^ Stiftung Schule am Meer (Ed.), Paul Reiner (Red.): Leaflets of the outer community of the Schule am Meer Juist , 1st circular, Schule am Meer, Juist, Ostfriesland, July 1929
  6. ↑ Martin Luserke: In conclusion - To the members of our external community . In: Leaflets of the outer community of the Schule am Meer Juist (North Sea), no. Year, no. No., November 1934, p. 3.
  7. ↑ The afternoon was devoted to physical education and art . In: Ostfriesischer Kurier, No. 101, May 3, 1990, p. 31.