 This community wanted a school where their children would be taught in German.Plans started to take shape in 1888 but this ambitious undertaking failed in the following year due to a severe economic crisis.Despite this, Pastor Hermann Kuschke did not give up and started to give lessons at his home at the beginning of 1890 and later at the church of the Berlin Mission Community to a single learner, Ernst Ritter, the son of church board member J. Ritter.