German School Hermannsburg
| German School Hermannsburg School | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1856 |
| place | Hermannsburg |
| province | KwaZulu-Natal |
| Country | South Africa |
| Coordinates | 29 ° 2 '30 " S , 30 ° 47' 51" E |
| Teachers | 34 |
| management | Ute Brand |
| Website | www.hmbschool.co.za |
The German School Hermannsburg (DSH), officially Hermannsburg School since the mid-2010s , is a school center founded in 1856 in Hermannsburg in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal .
history
The German School Hermannsburg was founded by the catechist Heinrich Hohls in 1856 with three students as part of the mission station of the Hermannsburg Mission in the Central Plateau of Natal, founded in 1854 . The school gained a good reputation within a few years, so that the number of English-speaking students soon exceeded that of German-speaking students (1870: 60 out of 82 students). The school has been co-educational since its early years, teaching both boarding and day students.
In 1910 the school was recognized by the state and was granted the right to teach in German and to give Lutheran denominational religious instruction. This concession was withdrawn again after the First World War in 1918.
In 1918 the school temporarily lost its sponsorship, but was later taken over again by the Protestant Church. The school has received state aid since 1924, which was withdrawn for only one year (1940/1941) during the Second World War . In order to prevent expropriation, the land on which the school stands was transferred from the Hermannsburg Mission to the Hermannsburg Synod shortly before the Second World War.
In 1956 the school celebrated its centenary with over 260 students. The following year, 1957, the secondary school exceeded one hundred students and was recognized as a high school. In 1965 the largest number of pupils to date was reached with 303 pupils.
Since 1967, the German School Hermannsburg has received financial support from the Federal Republic of Germany through the Central Office for Schools Abroad in Cologne .
Even before the end of apartheid , the school opened to all South Africans in the early 1980s. From 1982 Reinhard Keding , later bishop in Namibia, was pastor of the school.
In 1992 the German School Hermannsburg was spun off from the church organization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa and became legally independent. It is run by a trusteeship, half of which are nominated by support organizations and half of which are elected. At the same time, there is a close connection with the local Protestant Peter and Paul congregation, whose congregation pastor has also been a school pastor since the 1990s.
Since 2001 there have been regular student exchanges between Hermannsburg and schools in Germany, since 2005 with the Reutlingen-Nord education center in Baden-Württemberg .
Since 2001, foreign-language and non-white pupils have also been admitted according to a set procedure, who have taken part in regular classes from the start, with the exception of German and religion. In 2006, for the first time, a non-white pupil took her matric at the German School in Hermannsburg. With a current share of 14% non-white pupils in the upper level, the German School Hermannsburg is on the way from a language group school only aimed at the German-speaking community to an encounter school , as the German Bundestag is striving for for all German schools abroad.
Known students
- Sir Charles Saunders , Chief Magistrate and Civil Commissioner of Zululand
- Sir George Leuchars , Commander in the Second Boer War, Natal Cabinet Secretary in the Sutton Cabinet (1903/04)
- Sir Frederick Moor , politician in Natal: 1893 Minister of Native Affairs, 1906–1910 last Prime Minister of the independent colony of Natal, after the establishment of the South African Union Trade Minister in the cabinet of Louis Botha .
- Louis Botha , first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
- Wolfram Kistner , theologian and opponent of apartheid, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Peter Gastrow , politician and opponent of apartheid, program director of the United States Institute of Peace
- Monica Drögemöller , track and field athlete, Two Oceans Marathon record winner (four wins: 1988, 1990, 1991 and 1992)
literature
- Hermannsburg 1856–2006: [Festschrift] . Hermannsburg (KwaZulu-Natal), 2006.
See also
Web links
- Hermannsburg School (English)