English Translation

22-La, on the other hand, also something of the robustly based force of the Egerländertums, however, have already determined their nature from the beginning. If you also adhere to something traditional, it is unfortunately conditions that have always made their work considerably more difficult, but have certainly kept their forces awake. The visit, which at the opening in 1892 with the record number of 108 students for the first class, reached the highest number of almost seven hundred in an increasing line, has kept the school in breath and tension ever since. If one considers the inextricable abundance of distractions and temptations which the spa town offers to the young people, there can be no doubt about the vitally elevated strength which the dutiful educator of this school already provided in the years of peace. The fact that his personality values were sometimes put to the extreme test may confirm the memory of the difficult days of the overthrow of 1918, since the kind of authority was laid and the luxuriant Jewish student community of Karlovy Vary believed their hour. However, as a particularly attached element of tradition, it is also necessary to record the need for space, which weighs heavily on the largest higher educational institution of the administrative district and is just jettisoned in the summit points of its crisis curve. If, therefore, the conditions of their work have always been very difficult, our school can, after all, have the courage to account for their past achievements. The awareness that thousands of competent native sons have been assigned to the state-supporting mission of Germanism in the old monarchy and later to the Sudeten German struggle for popularism and job plass is allowed to satisfy their 226 teachers with satisfaction. In this context, matrimonial examinations taken at school in 1267 have their special significance. Since the strong faculty of special talents was never broken, there was still a branch on the life tree of the institution that was in bloom and provided freshness. The often extremely lively musical life of the school, a stately series of events recognized high style, the very early initiative in the field of physical education and a respectful participation of the teachers in the scientific and artistic life always gave the school a certain vitality and laid strong bridges of femaleness to the outside world. It can only arise from a very serious whim of fate that the 50th day of the school's birth shines even brighter war torches than the 25th Weighing Festival, which passed unnoticed in the tension of the fourth year of the world war. Its appearance calls our gaze back to the decisive today and binds the mind already to the expected morning. For however much the school is in the process of making its skills fruitful in the service of the war front, the experience of its doings is already far beyond the smoking battlefields in a world of future construction. If for the time being this can only be imagined in broad outlines, the school must hold itself all the closer to the germ mass itself, from which the final German form is to blossom, to the National Socialist idea in its true, eternally revolutionary form, directed towards the vibrancy of all its districts. To participate in the process of this growing and becoming in the garden of the German youth as a fine-hearing and juiceful organ, which controls every solidification of the once called school forces victoriously, every cheap formula with a grain of realness precedees from the shadow of their educational and experiential goods, but defeats every petty-bourgeois modesty by believing momentum, can only correspond to the highly measured responsibility of a higher school. Thus our high school enters the new stage of its existence in the undivided will to serve with its means faithfully the work of the Führer and never to forget that the tradition of the Sudeten German struggle and the land of Karlovy Vary sanctified by it obliges them to do so completely. 4