ABSTRACT
Schulaufsicht denotes governmental competence, and relates not only to the person and work of the teacher but also to the general structure of teaching and the management and guidance of educational matters. The number of teaching staff in private schools has shown a corresponding increase, even if one only considers officially recognized teachers and those whose principal profession is teaching. The church has limited powers of control over the teacher in questions of religious instruction. The teacher is, historically speaking, first a functionary, i.e. commissioned by the educational powers of church and state; then the trustee of home and parents, church, state, youth, and society. The head teacher is responsible to the authorities for the arrangement of the life of the school and may give teachers instructions about their conduct in official matters. Schools in Germany emerged in the early Middle Ages as church institutions to take care of the recruitment for the priesthood.
