In fact, the first four foundations of free Protestant schools in the Federal Republic of Germany (Reutlingen, Bremen, Giessen, Frankfurt) were (and are) in no way Russian-German in character. They also did not and do not call themselves “evangelical” and three of the four foundations were certainly not located in the “Bible Belt”. (These four schools had an absolutely formative role in the loose umbrella organization AEBS (until 2006) with a respective right of veto.)
The schools in L\u00f6rrach (1989, today 2,350 children and young people, currently the largest private school in Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg), D\u00fcsseldorf (1990, 1,450), Freiburg (1991, 730) and Munich (1998, 1,100), which were also founded soon afterwards by Protestant parents, were even founded in cities with a strong Catholic influence, far from the “Bible Belt”, none of them had or have a Russian-German character.<\/p>\n\n
Although the academic literature repeatedly characterizes independent Protestant schools as “Russian-German”, there is not a single full-time employee in the umbrella associations AEBS and later VEBS who has a Russian-German background. On the board of the VEBS – even when generously categorized – representatives of schools with a “Russian-German” background make up at most a third of the members – which, measured by the number of pupils and daycare children, corresponds roughly to the numerical ratio in the association. <\/p>\n\n
Behind the unity of the umbrella organization VEBS, which is essentially based on the common foundation of the Alliance’s faith, there is an enriching internal diversity of school and daycare provider types – very similar to the structure of the Evangelical Alliance in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At the beginning of the new school year, the August Hermann Franke Schools in Hamburg are celebrating their 30th anniversary. This anniversary of a growing school provider in a major German city, which now teaches more than 1,100 pupils and is respected by the authorities, shows that the majority of independent Protestant schools are by no means “Russian-German” or located in evangelical strongholds (“Bible Belt”), as can be read time and again in academic articles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[289,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-page","category-nicht-kategorisiert"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n