To simplify our study, we shall consider only such institutions as deal with a single trade each, leaving the schools for the building trades and the like, and those dealing with industrial art and drawing to be treated elsewhere. Specialization has been carried so far that the following lists of schools, each training for its own particular trade or calling, may be given. The list is arranged alphabetically and without reference to the relative importance of the various vocations, or to the number of schools. Such schools are now found pretty generally in the larger cities throughout the Empire. Some of these are day schools; some evening schools, and others again offer both day and evening courses and Sunday instruction.
Single Trade Schools
- Schools for Bakers
- ""Barbers and Hairdressers
- ""Basketmakers, Wickerworkers, and Strawplaiters
- ""Blacksmiths
- ""Bookbinders
- ""Carpenters and Cabinetmakers
- ""Chimney Sweeps
- ""Confectioners
- ""Coopers
- ""Gardeners
- ""Glaziers
- ""Joiners
- ""Marine Machinists
- ""Masons
- ""Painters
- ""Paperhangers and Decorators
- ""Plumbers
- ""Photographers
- ""Potters
- ""Printers
- ""Saddlers, Trimmers and Trunkmakers
- ""Shoemakers
- ""Tailors
- ""Tinsmiths
- ""Toymakers
- ""Upholsterers
- ""Wagonmakers and Wheelwrights
- ""Watch and Clockmakers
- ""Woodcarvers
Some of the above named institutions are in certain localities styled apprenticeship schools. These train workmen and foremen of a minor degree. Shop work is offered, and in some cases pure and applied art as well.
The evening work of the so-called Artisans’ Schools of Berlin, are deserving of special mention. There are two such institutions, called respectively school number one and school number two. The first was established in 1880; the second in 1892. The aim of these schools is to give to tradesmen and apprentices in their leisure hours such a knowledge of drawing, the arts and sciences, as will find an application in their own lines of work.
The grade of instruction varies from quite elementary work to that for advanced students, the latter being obliged to present evidence of fitness before entering.
The following courses are offered, the figures indicating the number of hours per week devoted to each.
In addition to the foregoing, school number two offers:
| Chasing | 4 |
| Practical wrought-iron work | 4 |
| Sketching and calculating the elements of machinery | 2 |