turnschulen

Updated: May 20, 2025

Patriotic enthusiasm was, however, not so speedily suppressed amid the youthful students in the academies and universities. The prescribed object of these Turnschulen was the promotion of Christian, moral, German manners, the universal fraternization of all German students, the complete eradication of the provincialism and license inherent in the various associations formed at the universities.

Wolfgang Menzel - Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4