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State, Church, and the Politics of School Reform during the Kulturkampf

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Marjorie Lamberti
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Symposium: Catholics and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany
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Central European History , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 63 - 81
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Copyright © Conference Group for Central European History of the American Historical Association 1986

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1. Apart from discussing the School Supervision Law of 11 March 1872, the accounts of the Kulturkampf in Prussia in Dettmer's, GüntherDie ost- und westpreussischen Behörden im Kulturkampf (Heidelberg, 1958)Google Scholar, Schmidt-Volkmar's, ErichDer Kulturkampf in Deutschland 1871–1890 (Göttingen, 1962)Google Scholar, Wahl's, AdalbertDeutsche Geschichte 1871–1914 (Stuttgart, 1926)Google Scholar, and Zielinski's, Zygmunt “Der Kulturkampf in der Provinz Posen,” Historisches Jahrbuch 101 (1981): 447–61Google Scholar, do not examine the fight that the state waged against the Catholic Church in the elementary school system. Schiffer, Heinrich takes note of the extensive conflict in the school domain without analyzing its full importance in Der Kulturkampf in Stadt und Regierungsbezirk Aachen (Aachen, 1929)Google Scholar. School politics is treated superficially and uncritically in Foerster's, ErichAdalbert Falk: Sein Leben und Wirken als Preussischer Kultusminister (Gotha, 1927)Google Scholar. Josef Becker is exceptional in the careful attention that he gives to the school question during the Kulturkampf in Baden, in his Liberaler Staat und Kirche in der Ära von Reichsgründung und Kulturkampf (Mainz, 1973).Google Scholar

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11. “Motive zu dem Entwurf des Unterrichtsgesetzes (1862),” op. cit., 226.

12. Ibid., 229–32.

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19. These characteristics and aims are most clearly exhibited in Schulrat Linnig's reorganization of the school system in Cologne. A Catholic and a former Gymnasium teacher, Linnig was the most energetic and enterprising reformer in the school bureauracy in the Rhine Province during the 1870s. Hauptstaatsarchiv Düsseldorf (hereafter cited as St. D.), Regierung Köln, Nr. 2885, Linnig's proposals for the reform of Cologne's school system, dated 25 June and 2 December 1874.

20. Stenographische Berichte (31 Jan. 1874), 982.

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23. St. D., Regierung Düsseldorf, Nr. 2619, report of the county councillor of München-Gladbach, dated 25 Mar. 1873.

24. Ibid., district government to Falk, dated 4 May 1873; the minister's reply, dated 15 May 1873.

25. St. D., Regierung Köln, Nr. 2722. For the Center Party's reliance on the clergy in election campaigns, see Anderson, Margaret L., Windthorst: A Political Biography (Oxford, 1981), 260–66.Google Scholar

26. St. D., Regierung Köln, Nr. 2722, county councillor of Bonn to the district government, dated 26 Dec. 1873.

27. St. D., Regierung Düsseldorf, Nr. 2620, provincial governor to the five district governors, dated 15 Dec. 1873.

28. Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz (hereafter cited as St. K.), Abt. 403, Nr. 10412, Cologne district government to the provincial governor, dated 7 Jan. 1874.

29. Ibid., Aachen district government to the provincial governor, dated 13 Jan. 1874.

30. St. K., Abt. 441, Nr. 26204, Koblenz district government to the provincial governor, dated 10 Jan. 1874.

31. St. K., Abt. 403, Nr. 10412, Cologne district government to the provincial governor, dated 7 Jan. 1874.

32. St. K., Abt. 403, Nr. 10412, provincial governor to Falk, dated 28 Jan. 1874.

33. Ibid., provincial governor to Falk, dated 30 Mar. 1874.

34. Ibid., Düsseldorf district government to the provincial governor, dated 7 Feb. 1874; his reply, dated 17 Feb. St. D., Regierung Düsseldorf, Nr. 2620, Falk to the provincial governor, dated 12 Feb. 1874, [copy].

35. St. D., Regierung Aachen, Nr. 17587, district government to Falk, dated 24 Oct. 1876.

36. In Düsseldorf Schulrat Wittig recommended six Roman Catholic candidates to District Governor von Ende on 14 Mar. 1874. The final choice made by Ende two days later included three Old Catholics among the six nominations sent to the minister. St. D., Regierung Düsseldorf, Nr. 2620, the district government to the provincial governor, dated 16 Mar. 1874.

37. Stenographische Berichte (14 Mar. 1876), 607; (24 Jan. 1877), 73ff; (22 Feb. 1877), 773.

38. The Minister of Education gave these statistics in the House of Deputies. Stenographische Berichte (28 Feb. 1883), 1006.

39. St. K., Abt. 403, Nr. 10524.

40. Ibid., directive of the Düsseldorf district government, dated 3 Feb. 1875.

41. Stauder, an official in the ministry speaking for Falk, gave this explanation in a debate on the decree in the House of Lords. Stenographische Berichte über die Verhandlungen des Herrenhauses (27 May 1876), 257.

42. Stenographische Berichte (14 Mar. 1876), 612.

43. For the text of the decree, see Centralblatt für die gesamte Unterrichtsverwaltung in Preussen (Feb. 1876), 120–23.

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47. Stenographische Berichte (15 Mar. 1876), 661–63; (7 Mar. 1889), 879.

48. St. D. Regierung Aachen, Nr. 2122 and Nr. 2123; Regierung Köln, Nr. 2777 and Nr. 3109; St. K., Regierung Trier, Nr. 1033, school inspectors' reports. Center Party politicians were not dispassionate or totally fair when they judged the new school inspectors as ambitious place seekers and political opportunists. In 1877 a Catholic deputy from the Rhineland charged that “the newly appointed school inspectors have plunged themselves into the Kulturkampf and have seen their task essentially in the exercise of their office in the service of a certain partisan line.” See Stenographische Berichte (30 Nov. 1877), 643–44. The secular school inspectors in the Rhine Province should not be judged on the basis of the reputation that the new inspectors had acquired in the Polish-speaking districts. In Posen a large number of the secular school inspectors were Protestants of the German nationality. They were outsiders with little knowledge of the Polish language and the culture of the Polish-speaking population. They were drawn deeply into the nationality conflict by enforcing the government's regulations on school instruction in the German language. Upon them fell much of the resentment that the Poles felt toward the Prussian state authorities.

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52. St. D., Regierung Köln, Nr. 2725. Pastors who submitted petitions to the district government and then appealed to the minister were not given the reasons for their dismissal.

53. Centralblatt für die gesamte Unterrichtsverwaltung in Preussen (Mar. 1884), 128–39.

54. Stenographische Berichte (12 Mar. 1875), 719–21; (24 Feb. 1877), 872; (30 Nov. 1877), 643–45.