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The Study’s context With the publication of this data manual on education in the former GDR, the publication series of data manuals on German Education History, funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) since 1987, is continued. Koehler’s and Rochow’s volume to the education system of the former GDR follows up in a temporal perspective on the following data manuals of: - Müller und Zymek über die mittleren und höheren Schulen im Deutschen Reich zwischen 1800 und 1945 ( Data manual on lower and upper secondary schools of the German Empire between 1800 and 1945), (GESIS-Study-no.: ZA8240) and - Titze über das Hochschulstudium in Preußen und Deutschland von 1820 bis 1944 (Academic studies in Prussia and Germany between 1820 and 1944) (GESIS-Study-no: ZA8142). Koehler’s and Rochow’s data compilation supplements the Data Manuals on the development of schools and universities in the Federal Republic of Germany of Peter Lundgreen: - Köhler, Helmut; Lundgreen, Peter (2014), Allgemeinbildende Schulen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949 – 2010. ( Schools of general education in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1949 – 2010)(GESIS-Study-no: ZA8570); - Lundgreen, Peter; Scheunemann, Jana (2008 ), Berufliche Schulen und Hochschulen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949-2001 Teil I: Berufliche Schulen. (Vocational Schools and Universities in the Federal Republic of Germany. Part I: Vocational Schools)(GESIS-Study-no: ZA8201) - Lundgreen, Peter; Schwibbe, Gudrun (2008 ), Berufliche Schulen und Hochschulen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1949-2001 Teil II: Hochschulen. (Vocational Schools and Universities in the Federal Republic of Germany. Part II: Universities) (GESIS-Study-no: ZA8202) All these studies’ data have been archived under the Study-number mentioned in the brackets and the data are free of access via GESIS-data archive in Cologne. The data can be downloaded via the Online-Database HISTAT (http://www.gesis.org/histat/) under the subject ‘Bildung’...