Anna Schmidt School

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Anna Schmidt School
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type of school Primary school , high school ( private school )
founding 1886
address

Gärtnerweg 29

place Frankfurt am Main
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 7 '8 "  N , 8 ° 40' 28"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 7 '8 "  N , 8 ° 40' 28"  E
carrier School Association Anna Schmidt e. V.
student around 1430
Teachers around 170 (plus around 20 administrative employees)
management Petra König (Pedagogical and Personnel Director)
Marco Steinführer (Administrative Director)
Website www.anna-schmidt-schule.de

The Anna-Schmidt-Schule (short: ASS ) is a private school in the Westend and Nieder-Erlenbach districts of Frankfurt am Main .

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Administration building in Nieder-Erlenbach
One of the school buildings in Nieder-Erlenbach

The school was named after Anna Schmidt (1852–1929). The school is run by the Anna Schmidt e. V. The school offers the Montessori children's house , the Montessori elementary school , the regular elementary school and the grammar school . A grammar school upper level is only offered in the Westend location. The Anna Schmidt School has been a recognized UNESCO project school and also an all-day school since 1979 . About 1320 students are taught by about 160 teachers. The school also has around 20 administrative staff.

Student exchange programs

The Anna Schmidt School operates exchanges with France ( Hennebont , Bretagne , Marseille ), Ireland ( Lucan ), Hungary ( Budapest ) and China ( Guangzhou ).

history

Founder Anna Schmidt (April 11, 1852 - September 24, 1929)

Today's Anna Schmidt School was founded in 1886 by Anna Schmidt, who was born in Frankfurt . The first location was on Mainzer Landstrasse , which was intended for female students. After three years, the school moved into a "real" school building on Blittersdorffplatz due to foreseeable success. The Royal Provincial School College recognized it as a higher education institution in 1900, which is why the school management expanded the teaching program. In addition to the classic subjects such as German, arithmetic, religion, languages ​​and handicrafts, natural sciences and gymnastics were now also taught. In 1929 Anna Schmidt died, who up until then had earned the school an excellent reputation in the field of foreign languages.

Käthe Heisterbergk took over the management as the successor to Anna Schmidt. Heisterbergk kept the school going during the Great Depression , the Nazi era , the war and the post-war period . Several times she had to find new accommodation for her students because the classrooms were destroyed by aerial bombs in the air raids on Frankfurt am Main . Käthe Heisterbergk died in 1948.

Three years after the end of the Second World War , Paul Scheid took over the Anna Schmidt School. He introduced primary school classes for boys and girls, opened a Montessori children's home and a Montessori primary school, which are committed to the principles of Maria Montessori (“Help me to do it myself”). Thanks to its international work, the school was recognized as a UNESCO project school in 1979.

In 1986 Herbert Weidlich took over the management of the school, which was then taken over by Michael Gehrig in 1998. In November 2008 allegations of misappropriation of financial donations against school principal Michael Gehrig led to his replacement by Petra König. Students and parents reacted with violent reproaches and expressed their solidarity with Gehrig. In the summer of 2010, the deputy director Detlev Drascher left the Anna Schmidt School due to internal quarrels with the new school management and founded the private school Mundanis, where some teachers from the Anna Schmidt School also moved at the beginning of 2010.

Rectors from 1886 until today
Period Rector
1886-1929 Anna Schmidt
1929-1948 Käthe Heisterbergk
1948-1986 Paul Scheid
1986-1998 Herbert Weidlich
1998-2009 Michael Gehrig
2009 – today Petra King

UNESCO project school

The Anna Schmidt School has been a UNESCO project school since 1979. It is one of about twenty UNESCO project schools in the state of Hesse , whose goals are to promote education, science, culture and communication in the world, something which the Anna Schmidt School is also committed to. She runs foreign programs in China , India ( Vikasana ), Kenya ( Ilmissigiyo ) and cultural work, the aim of which is cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians. These tasks are taken over by the teaching staff, which includes the tasks of international education in the lessons. The parents of the students also provide financial support for some of these programs.

Others

Web links

Commons : Anna-Schmidt-Schule  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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