Ostpreußische Mädchengewerbeschule

The East Prussian Girls Commercial School was an institution for vocational and industrial training of young women in Königsberg.

Organised on the craft and Industriekorporatismus company vocational training was the female youth in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century largely closed. In the context of the emergence of women's employment and the expansion of professional technical labor markets for women therefore developed school-based vocational training pathways as a substitute for the lack of teaching. How were subjects like cooking, tailoring, sewing, food chemistry, hand work, but also the learning of " fine living " and " Französischparlieren " as subjects on the program.

In 1912, Marie Therese gutter director of the school. At her instigation, a new building was erected in 1928 in the Beethoven Street in the district of front hooves designed by the architect Hanns Hopp Königsberg. The highly acclaimed in the press building, whose architecture has a significant relationship with the Dessau Bauhaus, was called by the king salvors jokingly " meatball Academy " or " girl Aquarium". It has survived the Second World War and is now used as an officer 's club.