Vocational Schools IV “Dr. Otto Schlein "

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The vocational schools IV “Dr. Otto Schlein ” is a vocational school in the Magdeburg district of Westerhüsen .

Profile and equipment

The vocational school run by the city of Magdeburg is located in a listed building at the address Alt Westerhüsen 51-52 . In the school forms of vocational school, vocational school , technical school and technical college , training takes place in various professions in the field of health, social and laboratory work.

Around 1400 students in 64 classes study at the school. 70 teachers and 5 employees for administration and building services are employed. The school has 62 classrooms. There are laboratories , teaching kitchens, special practice rooms for physiotherapy and massage , cabinets for computers, games and music. Workshops are available for training occupational therapists . In addition, the school has sports halls, a library and a canteen.

In addition to the good development through local public transport through a tram stop in front of the door, the school has two parking spaces with 155 car parking spaces.

The school director is Ms. Russek (as of 2015). There is a sponsoring association for the school.

history

First of all, the northernmost part was built in 1951 as a company vocational school of VEB Fahlberg-List , whose factory premises were a little further north in the Salbke district. The " Heinz Kapelle " company vocational school was founded on September 1, 1949 and initially housed in temporary rooms in the plant. In the year it was founded, there were initially four teachers. In the 1970s, 45 teachers were employed at the company vocational school alone. Heinz Schwefler was the head of the company vocational school for many years . On November 1, 1959, the club was awarded Young technicians operating vocational school as part of the Fair of the Masters of tomorrow in Leipzig the Honorary Award of the Central Committee and a gold medal. Excellent achievements in the development of the chemistry program were cited as justification.

Main entrance in 1954
Front page 1954

In this northern part of the building also founded on October 1, 1951 drew operation College of chemicals company, initially with 60 students. As early as 1952, the extension with the main entrance, located south of this, took place, which was then used by the business school. Since 1953 the business school has been called the “Justus von Liebig” engineering school , often abbreviated as ICM . In 1953 the south wing was added. The bust of Justus von Liebig , who gave the school its name, was placed in front of the main portal in 1953 by Max Rossdeutscher . In 1959, training in radiochemistry began . An extension for laboratory rooms was planned as a west wing from 1955 and was implemented in 1960/61. This wing was connected to the main building through a glazed connecting corridor. From 1962, the heat was supplied by a district heating pipeline . For the school's tenth anniversary in 1961, 620 students studied at the school, which had developed into the second largest training facility for chemical engineers in the GDR.

In addition to school and administration rooms, the entire complex also included a sports hall, a cafeteria building with an auditorium, a library with 6000 books and magazines, rooms for the lecturers and three boarding schools with 175 seats each. A first phase of construction cost 2 million DM, a second 4.8 million DM. In the period that followed, employees and students made use of their own contributions to social and cultural facilities such as day nurseries, bowling alleys, singing clubs and student clubs. The latter was in the Magdeburg district of Fermersleben . From 1956 to 1986 Rudolf Zernick was director of the school.

Around 600 to 700 direct students, according to other sources an average of up to 400, studied at the engineering school every year, including students from abroad. There were also around 1000 distance students , making the school the second largest facility in its field in the GDR. The students were grouped into seminar groups of around 30 students and had to complete between 34 and 38 lessons per week. Internships were carried out within the school and aimed at solving industrial tasks. In 1959 the school formed a commission to solve industrial problems. Internships took place in changing departments of Fahlberg-List or other chemical plants. In 1958 the internship was mainly carried out in the Fahlberg list, which made it possible to maintain contact with the school and lecturers during the internship. The courses included the fields of technology in chemistry, domestic trade, teacher for vocational theory classes for apprentices in the chemical industry and socialist business administration / engineering economics. Also Radiochemistry and explosive chemistry among the disciplines. The school trained a significant part of the middle management level of the chemical industry in the GDR.

With the political turning point in 1989 and the cessation of production at Fahlberg-List, the previous school, known as the chemistry school, was also given up. Instead, it was converted into a vocational school for health and social professions in 1996. The vocational school, initially referred to as number VIII, received its current name after Otto Schlein, a Magdeburg doctor and victim of National Socialism .

In 2005, a modern extension was built south of the previous listed complex, which is connected to the old building via a new glazed corridor. In the course of this renovation, the connection of the west wing to the main building was changed and the connecting passage there was replaced.

architecture

View from the north
Liebig bust in front of the school

The complex is an early, high-quality example of the reconstruction efforts in the GDR after the Second World War . The spacious, three-story building was designed by the architects Walter Feldmann and Arno Runge and, in its simple, functional design, is linked to the architecture of the pre-war period. The plastered facades are characterized by a large number of ribbon-like windows and appear functional. The neoclassical entrance area, created in 1952, on the other hand, is already characterized by the will to represent, which shows the self-image of the then new socialist system. The tendency towards monumentalism, which can often be observed in later buildings of this phase , is not yet dominant at the chemistry school. The roofs of the building complex are designed as flat hipped roofs and protrude slightly beyond the structure.

The southern part of the old building is a little higher and thus functions as a head building for the earlier components, which are slightly offset to the north. The building is asymmetrical to the street in front of it. The representative entrance area is located at the angle of the offset of the northern parts of the building. Under a serving as weather protection, supported by four pillars Altan there are three double doors.

The interior of the building has a single-hip structure and is also simple.

In addition to the building complex of the chemistry school and the Liebig bust, the green area including the brick enclosure is part of the listed ensemble.

Well-known graduates

The later well-known GDR athlete Karin Balzer (* 1938) was trained as a chemical skilled worker at the Heinz Kapelle company vocational school until 1955. The anatomist and neurobiologist Helmke Schierhorn (1934–1986) completed an apprenticeship as a chemical technician from 1953 to 1956 . From 1960 to 1966, Herbert Rasenberger , who later became a local researcher and author, completed an evening course as a chemical engineer at the school. Edith Weber (* 1941), later union chairwoman, studied at the engineering school from 1961 to 1964 and graduated as a chemical engineer / technologist. The later publicist Ed Stuhler (* 1945) studied at the school from 1965 and left it in 1968 as a chemical engineer. Sabine Fischer (* 1948) finished her studies in 1966 as an engineer for chemical technology . She was later a union official in the FDGB and a member of the GDR People's Chamber. Roland Resch (* 1951), later Minister of Education in Brandenburg, studied at the school from 1973 and graduated in 1976 as an engineer for water management.

literature

  • Herbert Rasenberger, From the sweet beginning to the bitter end - 110 years of Fahlberg-List in Magdeburg , dr. ziethen Verlag Oschersleben 2009, ISBN 978-3-938380-06-2 .
  • Sabine Ullrich, Magdeburg Schools , State Capital Magdeburg 2006, page 81 ff.
  • Monument Directory Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 14, State Capital Magdeburg , State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt, Michael Imhof Verlag Petersberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-86568-531-5 , page 56.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Master of Tomorrow honored in New Germany on November 2, 1959, page 2
  2. Skilled Experts for Socialism in New Germany, September 30, 1961, p. 12
  3. Skilled Experts for Socialism in New Germany, September 30, 1961, p. 12
  4. ^ Karl-Heinz Busch: Zernick, Rudolf. In: Guido Heinrich, Gunter Schandera (ed.): Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon 19th and 20th centuries. Biographical lexicon for the state capital Magdeburg and the districts of Bördekreis, Jerichower Land, Ohrekreis and Schönebeck. Scriptum, Magdeburg 2002, ISBN 3-933046-49-1 , p. 828.
  5. ^ Gerhard Wittkowski, Internship with Rich Benefits in New Germany, September 27, 1962, page 5
  6. ^ Gerhard Wittkowski, Internship with Rich Benefits in New Germany, September 27, 1962, page 5

Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 38.4 "  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 42.4"  E