VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN SOVIET ZONE GERMANY

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• Document Release Date: August 18, 2011
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• Publication Date: June 20, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENflY REPOR
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD O.
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
Soviet Zone Germany DATE OF
INFORMATION .1949
Sociological - Vocational T-aining, schools
Semimonthly periodical
Berlin
15 Dec 1949
T
DATE DIST. dt Jun 1950
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
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Arbeit and Sozialfuersorge, No 24, 1949.
VOCATIONAL TRAINI_`'.ri IN SOVIET ZONE GERMANY
The program for vocatio-al training during the two-year plan. contained
the following requirements.,
1. All. boys and girls leaving the lower schools must enter vocational
schools.
2. By 1950, 725,0('0 vocational students must be receiving an average
of 10 hours of instruction per week.
This means that during 194Q and 1950, 150 new trade schools were to be
opened, and 440 new factory trade schools were to be founded by 31 December
1949. Agricultural trade schools are also to be opened in every Machine Ren-
tal Station.
In 1949, out of 805,000 students subject to compulsory attendance at vo-
cational schools in the German Democratic Republic, 750,000 or 94 percent,
were receiving vocational training. The greatest relative increase in voca-
tional school enrollment has been in Mecklenburg. Between 1935 and 1938 the
number-of vocational students increased only from 1.0,000 to 15,000, or 50 per-
cent, whereas between 1945 and 1.949 there was an increase of 100,000 students,
or 1,000 percent.
All students leaving the lower schools are now being enrolled in vocational
schools.
The factory trade schools have shown the greatest increase, from 13,000
students in 1948 to 60,000 in 1949, However, this figure is still less than 10
percent of the number attending public trade schools. By 1 September 1950, the
number at such schools should be increased to 120,000.
STATE
ARMY
CONFIUE M1AL
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Dirtribution of Students
Land
Public
Vocational
Schools
Factory
Vocational
Schools
Full-mime
Vocational
Schools
Total
1948
1949
1948
1949
1948
1949
1948
1949
Brandenburg
66,274
86,646
1,736
8,769
633
625
68,643
96,040
hleclc enburg
61,522
99,950
786
6,340
885
781
63,193
107,071
Sac,isen
192,882
224,992
3,829
16,301
6,099
2,931
202,810
244,224
3a.4. en-Anhalt 145,760
162,913
3,565
10,787
2,278
3,188
151,603
176,888
Thueringen
91.,643
108,029
3,581
18,006
2,636
2,060
97,860
128,095
Total
558,081
682,530
13,497
60,023
12,531
9,585
584,109
752,318
Hours of Training Per Week.
Year No of Students Av Hr per Wk Total Hr per Wk
.1938 445,000 5.5 2.4 million
-1948 584,000 7.5 4.4 million
1949 750,Ou0 9.; 7.4 million
1950 Jlan7 850,000 12.0 10.2 million
Trade Schools
Land
Factory Full-Time
Trade Trade
Branches Schools Schools Total
15 Oct 15 Oct
1948 1949 1948 1949 1948 1949 1948 1949.1948 1949* 1949**
Brandenburg 76 84 - 145 11 87 11 10 98 326 181
Mecklenburg 45 48 - 631 8 54 11 8 64 741 110
Sachsen 287 259 - 70 21 112 26 43 33,11 484 414
Sachsen-Anhalt 57 86 - 8 19 116 23 29 99 239 231
Thueringen 118 164 - 95 29 140 33 30 180 429 334
Total 583 641 - 949 88 509 104 120 775 2219 1,270
Increase in 1949 58 421 16 495
Including branches
** Not iL:.luding branches
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;Number of Cla=aes and Class Attendance
Pio of Classes
Land
1948
19+9
arandenburg
2746
2759
Mecklenbu'.'g
2501
3803
Sachsen
7503
7907
Sachsen-Anhalt
5687
6634
Thueringen
3560
4176
tomilom lad.
Class Attendance
198 1949
25
35
25
28
27
31
27
31
27
31
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