German City School Committee, Brno

Collection

Scope and content:: The fonds documents the development of the German nursery, primary and burgher lower secondary school system during the period 1907-1945, plus certain issues concerning the Czech school system during the periods 1907-1919 and 1939-1945. It also contains material pertaining to the teaching of Judaic religious classes at the contemporary Brno German schools, and especially to the Jewish children in these schools, including their persecution during the Protectorate years: agnostic children-religious classes, numbers of Jewish children in German schools (1906–1929); School reports of Jewish and Czechoslovak pupils, religious classes in German schools (1933-1940); Enrolments of pupils to German schools, dealing with claims, transfers of pupils to Czech schools and eventually to German schools, appeals concerning school affiliation A–Ž, pupils from mixed marriages, admission of children of Protectorate nationality to German schools, pupils-Jew of mixed race-in German schools, children of foreign nationals in German schools (1922-1945); Enrolment of children of school age (1937-1944)-inter alia of Jew of a mixed race to German schools-reports of numbers; Religious classes (1906-1943)-inter alia Classes of Evangelic and Judaic religion; Teacher and pupil libraries (1907-1939)-inter alia elimination of works by Jewish authors; Some nursery schools (1913-1929)-inter alia Jewish nursery school-established in Silniční Street.

Archival history:: After liberation of Brno in 1945 the Registry of the German School Board, also containing the materials of its predecessors, remained under the administration of the Czech City School Committee, and in 1950 was taken over by the Brno City Archives. In 1970-1971 some files in the fonds were appraised and the fonds was arranged.

Administrative/biographical history:: In December 1906 the Brno School Department was split into a separate School Department and a separate German District School Committee (and in parallel also a separate Czech District School Committee). During the period 1921-1923 the creator’s documents of the School Department were deposited together with those of the Czech District School Committee, but in 1923 the two were again split. The Nazi administration of the City of Brno in 1939 abolished this entity as well as the School Department, and substituted the two with a German School Board (1939-1945), which was abolished after the end of World War 2. Its competencies applied first only within the boundaries of the Brno cadastre set prior to 1919, later to the entire Greater Brno area in accordance with law, and eventually also to Líšeň, which became a part of Brno in 1944.

Subject terms:: Antisemitism; Antisemitism--Antisemitic boycotts; Children; Education; Education--Schools and universities; Interfaith marriage; Jewish-Christian relations; Libraries

System of arrangement:: Since the Registry was established, files were deposited into nineteen material groups, denoted by capital letters of the alphabet; each group was divided into sections denoted by Arabic numerals; sections were further divided into subsections also denoted by Arabic numerals. This system was retained when the fonds was arranged.

Finding aids:: Burian V: Německá školní rada, později Německý městský školní výbor v Brně 1907-1945. Inventář, 1971, 68 s., ev. č. 234.