THE THIRD REICH [Das Dritte Reich]
By Gerd Ruehle, Vol. Ill, 1935, pages 208, 212.
School education in racial policy
The directives for education in racial policy in schools, issued by the Reich Minister for Education at the end of January in agreement with the office for racial policy of the NSDAP, are based on the principles of national socialist ideology: they constitute a radical separation from the past which entirely lacked principles, and the beginning of a new spiritual era. They outlined the following tasks:
1. "To gain insight into the connections, the reasons and consequences of all problems connected with heredity and race;"
2. "To promote understanding of the importance of the phenomena of race and heredity for the life and fate of the German people and the tasks of the Government;"
3. "To strengthen in the youth the feeling of responsibility towards the entire nation, i.e. the ancestors, the present and the future generations, to awaken in them the pride of belonging to the German people as the main impersonation of nordic heredity and to influence the will of the students so that they consciously cooperate in improving the German race."
This racial education is to start already in the lower grades and should have the ultimate effect that—
"no boy or girl leaves school, without having gained perfect knowledge about the necessity and essential elements of blood purity."
RUST about the new organization of schools
Of programmatical importance was the speech by Reich Minister of Education, party member Rust, "about reshaping the school in accordance ivith national socialist principles," at a convention of the Prussian Staacsrat (22 March). He stated that the fundamentally new task of creating a new kind of human beings could be fulfilled only by a new kind of educators. The seminary incapable of producing such modern educators has been buried forever. The pedagogical academics also are only an inferior duplicate of the universities. ' The modern education of teachers must draw its strength from blood and soil. Therefore he has put the focal point of teacher education into academies strongly connected with the country. Another starting basis for modern forms of education is to be found in the national political institutions for education which form the character by physical exercise and sport contests. * * *
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Directives to unify the administration of universities
The directives to unify the administration of universities issued by the Reich Minister for Education on 3 April and which are based on the leader principle constitute another contribution to the national socialist reform of universities. They contain the following :
1. The university consists of the body of teachers [Dozentenschaft] and the student-body.
2. The body of teachers comprises all teachers of the university and their assistants.
3. The student body comprises all students who are fully registered of the university and who have German origin and mother tongue regardless of their citizenship.
4. Leader of the university is the rector. He is directly subor- . dinate and responsible only to the Reich Minister of Science.
5. The leader of the body of teachers is to be appointed by the
Reich Minister of Science after consultation of the rector and the regional leader of the NS-Dozentenbund. He is subordinate to the rector. '
6. The leader of the student-body is to be appointed by the Reich Minister of Science after consultation of the rector and the regional leader of the NS-league of students. He is subordinate to the rector.
7. The prorector and the deans are appointed by the Reich Minister of Science upon suggestion of the rector.
8. The senate is to assist the rector in an advisory capacity. The members are the leaders of the teachers and the student-bodies, the prorector, the deans and two additional members of the teacher-body, who are appointed by the rector and one of which belongs to the NS-Dozentenbund: substitution is not permissible.
9. The faculties carry out the departmental work.
10. The dean is the leader of his faculty. He appoints his deputy.
11. The facidty committee assists the dean in an advisory capacity. The members are the officiating permanent and guest professors of the faculty as well as two professors without office who are to be appointed by the leader of the teacher-body.
12. Official applications in matters concerning science or study are to be submitted to the dean, in matters concerning the teacher-body to the leader of the teacher-body, in matters concerning the student-body to the leader of the student body. From there, they go, in each case, to the rector for decision or to be sent on.
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Extracts from a book, on racial education in the schools, teacher training based on "blood and soil," physical training to form character, and the organization of universities under the leader principle
Authors
Gerd Ruehle (author/editor, ca. 1935-36)
Gerd Ruehle
German politician (1905-1949)
- Born: 1905-03-23 (Winnenden)
- Died: 1949-06-05 (Innsbruck)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Member of: Schutzstaffel
- Position held: Member of Landtag of Prussia; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/198273479
Bernhard Rust (minister for science, education, and culture)
Bernhard Rust
German Holocaust perpetrator (1883-1945)
- Born: 1883-09-30 (Hanover)
- Died: 1945-05-08 (Nübel)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: politician
- Member of political party: German Völkisch Freedom Party; Nazi Party
- Member of: Deutschvölkischer Schutz und Trutzbund; Militant League for German Culture; Sturmabteilung
- Military rank: lieutenant
- Position held: Reichsminister; member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany; member of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic
Date: 1935
Literal Title: Das Dritte Reich
Total Pages: 4
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2394
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450287
Notes:Ruehle is listed as the book's editor.
Trial Issues
Conspiracy (and Common plan, in IMT) (IMT, NMT 1, 3, 4) Education, propaganda, and youth programs (IMT) IMT count 1: common plan or conspiracy (IMT) Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…
Document Summary
PS-2394: Directives by the Reich Minister of education, 3 April 1935, concerning the reorganization of university administration in accordance with the "leader" principle