German School Helsinki

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German School Helsinki
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type of school Preschool , elementary school , high school
founding 1881
address

Malminkatu 14

place Helsinki
Maakunta Uusimaa
Country Finland
Coordinates 60 ° 10 '2 "  N , 24 ° 55' 55"  E Coordinates: 60 ° 10 '2 "  N , 24 ° 55' 55"  E
carrier Pestalozzi School Association Skolföreningen RY, Helsinki
student about 600
Teachers 80
management Thomas Dietrich
Website www.dsh.fi
German School Helsinki

The German School Helsinki (DSH) is a German school abroad in Helsinki with around 650 students. It was founded in 1881 as a private school . The DSH sees itself as an encounter school and leads in two German and one Finnish lines (classes 1–9) and then in two classes (10–12) each up to the Abitur . The German School Helsinki is supported by the Pestalozzi School Association Skolföreningen RY

Culture at the German School Helsinki

Young people make music and children make music

  • This event is always held at the beginning of the second half of the school year.
  • 2007 regional competition (January) and national competition Northern and Eastern Europe (March) Helsinki Finland
  • 2008 Regional Competition Helsinki Finland 11. – 16. January 2008
  • 2009 Regional Competition Helsinki Finland 15. – 20. January 2009

classes

  • Grades 1–4: Sports, German, Finnish, religion, Russian, music, art, mathematics, ethics,
  • Grades 5–9: Sports, German, Finnish, religion, Russian, music, art, mathematics, ethics, chemistry, biology, academic counseling (grades 8 and 9), geography, English, history, politics (six months in grades 9), French , Swedish, Latin (AG), physics

principal

Until 2011, Wolfgang Weber was the headmaster of the German school in Helsinki (he then switched to the Clemens-Brentano-Gymnasium in Dülmen ). His successor until 2016 was Frank Kühn, who had previously headed the KHS Donaueschingen (commercial and home economics schools) from 2004 to 2011, then Thomas Dietrich (previously head of the Hohenstaufen grammar school in Bad Wimpfen 2000–2010, the German International School Dubai 2010– 2013). and the Friedrich II grammar school in Lorch 2013–2016

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ The German School Helsinki . Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  3. ^ The history of the German School Helsinki . Retrieved April 26, 2019.
  4. ^ Farewell Thomas Dietrich . In: Expat Current . Retrieved April 25, 2019.
  5. SDZ Druck und Medien GmbH: High school needs a new head . In: Swabian Post . May 12, 2016. Retrieved April 25, 2019.

literature

  • Uta-Maria Liertz: On the way for 125 years: German School Helsinki. In: Arcturus. German-speaking area and European Northeast 4, 2007, pp. 151–164.

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