ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR KARL MARX SCHOOL OF ADVANCED EDUCATION IN GDR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700150472-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 472
• Publication Date: December 23, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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EN'T'RANCE RE(iUIREMETi FOR KARL MARX SCHOOL OF ADVANCED EDUCATION; IN GDR
Neues Deutschland,
Berlin, 19 Sep 1953
The second 3-year course and the fifth one-year course will begin on
5 January 1954 at the Karl Marc School of Advanced Education Zno location
given, which is sponsored by the Central Committee of the SED (Socialist
Unity Party).
At the conclusion of the 3-year course, the students will take rtate
examinations. The one-year course qualifies students for positions
leading functionaries.
Persons recormoended for these courses should be under 25 years of age.
They must possess at least 3-years of practical experience in party work,
and they must have a thorough grasp of the subject ratter taught in the
6-month course of the former Land party school.
The acceptance of students for both study courses is based on the
recorraendation of the Central Committee, the Bezirk and Kreis managements,
and the personal petitions of fellow party workers. The request for
penaission to take the entrance examination is to be accompanied by a
completed questionnaire, a detailed personal history statement, a health
certificate, and two photographs, and is to be submitted to the appropriate
Bczirk Party msnngement.
The men and women selected to attend the courses will receive invitations
from the Central Committee to take the entrance examination for the party
school. All selected applicants will be granted a 14-day leave of absence
Zf'rom uork7, with pay, to prepare for the entrance examination. In this
connection, it is suggested that the applicants study the following litera-
ture: Marx/En;els: "Co:maunist I?iani:'esto"; Marx: "Criticism of the Gotha
Pro"ra "; Lenin: "Ispcrialism - IliRhest Stage of Capitalism"; I. V. Stalin:
"History of the VFG'(b). Short Course" (including the writings on dialectical
and historical rraterialisr:O; I. V. Stalin: "Problems of Leninism"; "Documents
of the XIX Party Con;ress of the CPSU''; and "Resolutions and Documents of
the Central Cer:ndttce of the SED".
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