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HBC has found some information on the Deutsche Schule Bukarest from the late 1950s throught the 60s. The school was founded in 1751 and served both the German community and Romanians that wanted an academicaly rigorous education for their children. Classes were in German, but German until the 20th century was a nuvh more important language than it is today. We get to follow one class as they go through the school. So we not only to see the different styles for the various age groups, but also how school fashion was changing. The children wear light-colored shirts and Pioneer kerchiefs. Most of the boys began school wearing suspender short pants and finish school weaing long pants.
Germans appeared in what is now Romania during the 13th century. Various schools were founded to educate the children of the German community. Only one of those schools has survived--the Deutsche Schule Bukarest. A HBC reader spoke with school authorities to lear a little about the history of the Deutsche Schule Bukarest. This school was established in 1751 as the School of the Lutheran Parish in Bukarest. From the beginning the language of instruction was German. The school was divided into a girls' and a boys' school and named Deutsche Schule Bukarest (1855). At tghe time German was a much more importaht language than it is now. It was a language widely spoke throughout Central and Eastern Europe as well as an important laguage for scientists around the world. Romania became an independent country during the late 19th century. It acquired a German monarchy. The school by 1910 had about 2000 pupils. About 1/4 were children who spoke German at home. The others were mostly Romanian children who wanted to learn German. Many Germans left Romanian at the end of World War II. Unlike some neigboring countries, Romanian authorities after the War allowed many Germans to remain in Romania.
This was because unlike several neignoring countries (Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Yugoslavia), Romania was an Axis ally and the Germans did not commit terrible attrocities in Romania.
The Communist Government changed the name of the school changed to School # 21 (1956). The name was changed again, this time to the Lyzeum f�r Mathematik und Physik # 6 (1976). The communists kept changing the name. It now was named Industrielyzeum #34 (1982). Aftter the fall of Communism in Romania, the school was able to revive its old name, the school again became Deutsche Schule Bukarest (1989). The school, however, decided to adopt a new name, the Theoretisches Lyzeum Hermann Oberth (1990). It was named after Hermann Oberth, who was born in Transsylvania and who became a famous space scientist. At the moment the school's name is Deutsches Goethe Kollegium. It seems to be one of the best schools in Bukarest. [Ziegler]
We note views of the school during the late 1950s and early 60s.
The Kindergarten class has childrem wearing quite a range of different outfits. Both the boys and girls wear suspender short pants or skirts as the case may be. One boy wears a lederhosen halter, but mosr boys wear plain suspender shorts. All the boys appear to be wearing shorts. Several boys wear smocks. The girls do not seem to be wearing smocks, but many wear pinafores. Most wear white pinafores rather like the ones wiorn by Russian girls. One girl has a print pinafore. Some children wear kneesocks, but many wear sandals without socks.
No information available.
Most boys in the 2nd grade wear short pants, but few wear the suspender shorts that were so common in the kindergarten. The boys no longer wear smocks. Pinafores are no longer as popular for the girls, but a few girls still wear them. Several children have begun to wear their pioneer uniform of light shirts and kerchiefs.
HBC notes much more uniformuty in the 3rd grade class than was the case earlier. Most of the boys wear very similar suspender shorts with cross bars ("H bars"). The girls wear identical pinafores. A HBC reader finds it interesting that in the photo from 1961 all of the boys are wearing
suspender shorts again, just as they had in kindergarten. He writes, "My guess is
that in that year "State Children's Garment Factory #3" had overfilled their quota of nursery school styles for 8-year-olds, so that's what everybody had to wear." None of the children appear to be wearing their Pioneer kerchiefs.
No information available.
Ziegler, Winfried. Chairman of the Association for German Youth Organisations, 2006.
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