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506 The right to establish private schools shall be guaranteed. Private schools as substitute for State schools shall require the sanction of the State and shall be subject to Land legislation. The sanction must be given if the private schools, in their educational aims and facilities, as well as in the scholarly training of their teaching personnel, are not inferior to the State schools and if a separation of the pupils according to the means of the parents is not encouraged. The sanction must be withheld if the economic and legal status of the teaching personnel is not sufficiently assured.

A private elementary school shall be permitted only if the educational administration recognises a specific pedagogic interest or, at the request of those entitled to bring up children. if it is to be established as a general community school (Gemeinschaftsschule), as a confessional or ideological school, or if a state elementary school of this type does not exist in the Gemeinde.

Preparatory schools shall remain abolished.

All Germans shall have the right, without prior notification or permission, to assemble peacefully and unarmed.

For open air meetings this right may be restricted by legislation or on the basis of a law.

All Germans shall have the right to form associations and societies.

Associations, the objects or activities of which conflict with the criminal laws or which are directed against the constitutional order or the concept of international understanding, shall be prohibited.

The right to form associations to safeguard and improve working and economic conditions shall be guaranteed to every one and to all professions. Agreements which seek to restrict or hinder this right shall be null and void; measures directed to this end shall be illegal.

Secrecy of the mail as well as secrecy of the post and telecommunications shall be inviolable. Restrictions may be ordered only on the basis of a law.