The family judge who ordered the removal of the Wunderlich children from their home in 2013 has now requested proof of the children’s school attendance.
Home-schooling is illegal in Germany and it was decided in January at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that moving the four children for three weeks to a children’s home was legal.
Dirk and Petra Wunderlich wanted to educate their four children at home so they could teach the Christian faith freely. The local family court took the view though that their non-attendance at school prevented them from being part of the community and learning social skills such as tolerance, assertiveness and ‘the ability to assert their own convictions against majority-held views’.
There were also fears that none of the kids were involved in any sports or music clubs and that they were living in a ‘symbiotic’ family where there were no other influences other than parental.
In August 2013, 33 police officers and seven youth welfare officers came into the home of the Wunderlich family near Darmstadt and took the four children, aged seven to 14 away
The authorities’ actions (not the legality of home schooling) were debated at the ECHR and it was decided the family’s right to privacy and a family life had not been violated.
A later assessment in 2014 established that the children were not being kept away from school against their…
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