mnitz
Dresden
Grossenhain
Saxony Leipzig
Oschatz
Plauen
Rosswein
Zittau

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Arnstadt

Wurttemberg Stuttgart

SCHOOLS FOR FOREMEN

(Werkmeisterschulen)

The Werkmeisterschulen or schools for foremen, are quite prominent in
the scheme of secondary instruction. The courses given in these schools
are of a general character, for the most part practical, and the
institution, as the name implies, fits men to occupy positions as
foremen and overseers. Machine construction is the chief industry for
which these schools train. The first school of this character was opened
in 1855 at Chemnitz, Saxony. There are at present twenty-one schools of
this class in the Empire. Sixteen is the regular age of admission.
Candidates must have an elementary education on presenting themselves.
Two years is the average length of course, including both winter and
summer terms. A requisite for admission also is practical experience in
the trade, hence little other than theoretical instruction is given.

To the objection made by some, to extending the course over two years of
residence and of including the elementary branches in the curriculum
(such opposition favoring a reduction in time given to preparation) the
answer comes that the school should give a well grounded education, such
as will fit the participant for all the functions of his social and
industrial life. Fifty to sixty marks is charged yearly for tuition
fees. Certain of these schools have both evening and Sunday classes, the
tuition being twenty marks yearly for week day evenings, eight to nine
forty-five, and Sundays, eight to ten in the forenoon.

Table showing location of schools for foremen:

Anhalt Dessau
Baden Mannheim
Bavaria Four Mechanische Fachschulen

Hamburg
Altona
Cologne
Dortmund
Duisburg
Elberfeld-Barmen

Prussia Gleiwitz
Gorlitz
Hanover
Magdeburg
Iserlohn
Reimscheid