German School Stockholm
| German School Stockholm | |
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| The rather inconspicuous entrance gate to the German School, Karlavägen 25 | |
| type of school | Preschool , elementary school , high school |
| founding | 1612 |
| address |
Karlavägen 25 |
| place | Stockholm |
| province | Stockholm County |
| Country | Sweden |
| Coordinates | 59 ° 20 ′ 31 ″ N , 18 ° 4 ′ 11 ″ E |
| carrier | German School Association Stockholm |
| student | 582 |
| Teachers | 57 |
| management | Matthias Peters |
| Website | tyskaskolan.se |
The German School Stockholm , also called DSS , was founded in 1612. It is one of two German schools in Sweden , the oldest school in Stockholm and the second oldest German school abroad, after the German School St. Petri in Copenhagen .
history
There was probably a German school in Stockholm as early as around 1550. However, it was not until 1612 that the school operated by the German Protestant community received a royal letter of privilege. This school still exists today, but not without interruptions. There are three phases.
Operation under the leadership of the German community in Stockholm's old town (1612–1888)
From 1612 to 1888 there was a German school run by the German St. Gertruds Congregation in Stockholm's old town (Gamla Stan), where an alley is still called “Tyska Skolgränd” (“Deutsche Schulgasse”) today. The privilege issued by Gustaf II Adolf in 1612 stated: “Likewise, the congregation may and should be entitled to run a German school where they can read and write their children and otherwise have them taught so that they can be used in church for singing to be able to, if necessary. And no more German schools than this one are entitled to be held here in the city. ”However, the school had difficulties enforcing its monopoly position. There were "Winckel- and Beyschulen" which also adorned themselves with the name "German School". In addition, there were only three classes, and lessons were also entrusted to private tutors by many parents. In 1670 the school was expanded and an adjoining house was acquired; the entrance of the school (Tyska Skolgränd 4) was adorned with a Latin inscription: "Dum schola teutonici coetus exstructa vigescit, exsurget studiis gloria iusta piis" .
In a law of December 1704, school hours were determined “from 7 to 11 and from 2 to 5, in winter from 8 to 11 and from 2 to 4”. King Charles XII. confirmed in 1717 the privilege of the German St. Gertrudsgemeinde to be the only institution to be allowed to maintain a German teaching facility. In the 1770s the school was called "Lyceum Deutscher Nation", and "Junge Frauenzimmer", girls of wealthy parents, were to receive lessons from 11 am to 1 am. In 1776, the legacy of the court cellar master Peter Hinrich Fuhrmann made it possible to build a new German school. The new building was at the corner of Tyska Skolgränd and Själagårdsgata, the old school at Tyska Skolgränd 4 was rented out. From the end of the 18th century, the “German National Lyceum” was increasingly visited by “young Swedes with higher educational intentions ”, including the later teacher Carl Ulrik Broocman . In 1797, the author and educator Karl Nernst came to the school first as vice rector, then later until his death in 1815 as rector. In the first half of the 19th century, German was expressly made the obligatory colloquial language of the school, “as the students increasingly spoke Swedish among themselves.” English was introduced as a further subject, and a “Swedish Orthograph” honored by the German community also gave Swedish language lessons. A fire in the upper part of the steeple of the German Church in 1878 caused financial difficulties for the German community in the following years. The German school (now in the premises of Själagårdsgata 15) had shrunk to 80 students (compared to 160 students in the 1820s), while at the same time German teaching expanded in Swedish public and private schools. Therefore it was decided to stop the school in its previous form.
Continuation as a language school
It was replaced by a language school financed by the Fuhrmann Foundation. Towards the end of the 1920s, there were around 100 students who had 12 hours of German lessons per week in this five-class language school. Only a quarter of the students were children of the community. The "Fuhrmannsche Sprachschule" as an institution of the German St. Gertrudsgemeinde still exists today. It offers German lessons as a foreign and native language for children.
Short-term resumption under another sponsorship (1941–1945)
From 1941 to 1945 there was a German school run by Tyska Skolan AB. This was approved by the Swedish government, disregarding the privilege of the German St. Gertruds Congregation. It was located in the renovated building of Anna Sandströms Skola, Karlavägen 25, where the current German School Stockholm resides. The re-establishment is striking at a time when the Third Reich was at the height of its power and territorial expansion. However, as early as 1938 there had been voices that stated that “Stockholm Germans did not have a school of their own”. The chair of the school advisory board was chaired by the German-Swedish Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Hans von Euler , who was also a member of the German-friendly associations Riksföreningen Sverige-Tyskland and Svensk-tyska föreningen . Another prominent member of the school board was Sven Hedin . The language of instruction was German; however, the subjects of Swedish language, Swedish history, local history and religion were taught in Swedish (the main pastor of the German community Emil Ohly (1885-1944) had refused to take over religious instruction at the school). The solemn inauguration took place in the presence of the German-born Hereditary Princess Sibylla , mother of today's King Carl XVI. Gustaf , instead. The school described itself as “not suitable for children with below average talent” and had a growing influx, even during the further years of the war (1941: 182 students, 1942/43: 232 students, 1943/44: 267 students). She was co-educational and had more Swedish than “Reich German” students. Shortly before it was closed at the end of the war, twelve high school graduates passed the first and only matriculation examination on May 5, 1945. After the building was confiscated, the Karlavägen 25 property served as the tax office.
Today's German school (since 1953)
Since 1953 there has been a German school again, initially sponsored by an “Östermalm Committee”, which was replaced in 1955 by the German School Association. The school initially resided on the second floor of the house Svartmangatan 16 in the old town (Gamla Stan) and started with only seven boys and girls, from 1954 it was a guest with 22 students in several rooms of a youth home in Folkungagatan in Södermalm. In 1955, teachers from the Federal Republic of Germany were first committed to the school. In 1958, the school moved to the Karlavägen 25 building, where the German School was also based during the Nazi era of 1941–1945. The building that was initially rented is now owned by the Federal Republic of Germany. Also in 1958, the German School in Stockholm was recognized by the Conference of Ministers of Education as a "German School Abroad"; a parent council was founded in the same year. The school, which was subordinate to the Swedish school supervisory authority, had flourished up to grade 10 and offered its students both the German secondary school leaving certificate and the Swedish real exam. She now had 150 students. In 1960 a kindergarten was set up, in 1962 (the number of students had grown to over 200) there was the first high school graduation class with five - only male - graduates. The five-day week was introduced in the 1968/69 school year. In the 1970s and 1980s, there was an intense debate and effort to design the German School as a meeting school after voices had been raised that the school - also for financial reasons - would call it a so-called “expert school” (ie a school only for wanted to reduce the children of German experts temporarily residing in Stockholm, such as business people, diplomats). A model was developed to integrate native German and native Swedish children who initially attend separate primary school classes in the lower grades of grammar school. In 1988 the school got a larger cafeteria in the school yard; In 2004 the primary school of the German School Stockholm was able to move into the embassy building of the former GDR . The then Federal President Johannes Rau also took part in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the reopening in 2003 .
Fifteen years earlier (1988) Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker had attended the German School together with the Swedish royal couple. On May 4, 2012, Joachim Gauck, the third German Federal President, visited the German School Stockholm and gave a speech on the occasion of its 400th anniversary. The Swedish royal couple was also present, Queen Silvia spoke to the guests and students.
Former students
- Gustav Düben , composer, 1628–1690
- Nicodemus Tessin the Younger , architect, 1654–1728
- Sophia Elisabeth Brenner , writer, 1659–1730
- Christopher Polhem , scientist, 1661–1751
- Johann Arent Bellman, 1664–1709, rector of Uppsala University (1704), grandfather of the Swedish national poet Carl Michael Bellman
- Mårten Triewald , co-founder of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences , 1691–1747
- Johan Helmich Roman , composer, 1694–1758
- Carl Reinhold Berch , numismatist, 1706–1777
- Daniel Fehrman , one of the most famous medal engravers in Europe in the 18th century, 1710–1780
- Niclas Lafrensen, portrait painter, 1737–1807
- Johan Tobias Sergel , sculptor, 1740–1814
- Carl Ulrik Broocman , educator, 1783–1812
type of school
The DSS consists of a 4-year elementary school and a 9-year high school . There is neither a secondary nor a secondary school . Therefore, the school tries to prepare all students for high school. The school is a private school financed by German and Swedish tax revenue. Your partner is the central office for schools abroad . Some of the teachers live in Sweden, around 15 are temporarily seconded to the school from Germany , Austria or Switzerland .
Student Co-Administration
At the DSS there is a student co-administration (SMV), consisting of class, level and student representatives. There are also two trust teachers elected by the SMV. The SMV meets every second to third month.
Parents Advisory Board
The parents' council is the publisher of the magazine “Unter der Ulme” and organizes, among other things, afternoon activities and the Christmas bazaar, which attracts Germans from all over Stockholm with its German delicacies.
School newspaper Swell and its successors
Swell was the first school newspaper and first appeared in 2005. After the second edition, however, no further copies were published. There is now a new school magazine under the name "Unter der Ulme", which has been published since August 2018.
Travel and student exchanges
The DSS offers its students several trips and exchanges, mainly in German-speaking countries. The pupils of the elementary school are offered language trips to host families in Germany; every year the 6th grade takes part in an exchange with two schools in Lübeck. Since 2007 an annual bus tour through Germany has been organized under the name DSS on Tour , the 12th grades travel to Berlin. There are also offers organized by individual teachers, such as an exchange with a school from Leipzig in 2006 .
In cooperation with the Lycée Français Saint Louis de Stockholm , 35 students from both Stockholm schools abroad traveled together through Germany and France from September 7 to 21, 1991, with the stations Stralsund - Berlin - Potsdam - Weimar - Wartburg - Eisenach (Bach -Haus) - Buchenwald Concentration Camp - Heidelberg - Colmar - Strasbourg (European Parliament) - Reims - Paris - Versailles - Compiègne (Clairière de l'Armistice) - Verdun / Douaumont (battlefields of the First World War / military cemeteries) - Calais - Arras - Aachen - Cologne - Lübeck.
It was planned to offer the students the opportunity for an internship at the end of the 11th grade. This should take place for the first time in 2009 and is supported by the German-Swedish Chamber of Commerce.
Others
The DSS also includes a three-year kindergarten and a leisure home .
Teacher statistics
| Number of foreign service teachers | 14th |
| Number of program teachers | 0 |
| Number of German Local teachers | 29 |
| Number of other local teachers | 14th |
Student statistics
| Total number of students | 582 |
| Number of German-speaking students | 366 |
| Number of German citizens | 313 |
| Number of children in kindergarten | 32 |
| Number of children in preschool |
literature
- Emil Schieche: The German School in Stockholm , Stockholm 1977.
- Claus Wittmaack: Chronicle of the German School Stockholm , Stockholm 2003.
- Jörgen Hedman: Historien om Tyska Skolan Stockholm inför 400-årsminnet av det kungliga privilegiebrevet av år 1612 / The history of the German School Stockholm on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the royal letter of privilege from 1612 , German translation by Barbro Wollberg, ed. by Tyska Skolföreningen Stockholm 2012, ISBN 978-91-980322-0-8 .
Web links
- Website of the German School Stockholm
- [1] "Att gå på Tyska skolan under andra världskriget" - Ingrid Widoff berättar (in Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ school management. In: tyskaskolan.se. Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
- ↑ according to a broadcast by Radio Sweden on October 21, 2011, even the oldest still active school in Sweden, see http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2108&artikel=4758937 (accessed and monitored on April 13, 2012)
- ↑ Complete directory of schools abroad (as of 05/2011) on the website of the Federal Office of Administration - Central Office for Schools Abroad. (PDF; 1.4 MB) (No longer available online.) Pp. 135f , formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 18, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hedman (see bibliography), p. 9.
- ↑ quoted from Schieche (see bibliography), p. 6.
- ↑ Schieche, p. 7.
- ↑ quoted from Schieche, p. 8.
- ↑ Schieche, p. 9.
- ↑ Schieche, p. 11.
- ↑ Schieche, p. 12.
- ↑ a b Schieche, p. 14.
- ↑ Schieche, p. 15.
- ↑ a b Schieche, p. 16.
- ↑ Schieche, p. 17.
- ↑ Schieche, p. 17
- ↑ Schieche, p. 17 and P. 19.
- ↑ a b Schieche, p. 21
- ↑ Wittmaack, p. 12 (see bibliography).
- ↑ Wittmaack, p. 13.
- ↑ Wittmaack, p. 14.
- ↑ Wittmaack, p. 17.
- ↑ Wittmaack, p. 27.
- ↑ Read on the website of the Federal President's Office at http://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Reden/DE/Joachim-Gauck/Reden/2012/05/120504-Deutsche-Schule-Stockholm.html , accessed on May 4, 2012
- ↑ To be read at: http://www.kungahuset.se/kungafamiljen/hmdrottningsilvia/tal/hmdtal/hmdrottningenstalvidtyskaskolans400arsjubileum4maj2012.5.4a3da1313658e148c313e0.html , accessed on May 5, 2012.
- ↑ a b Complete directory of schools abroad (as of 05/2011) on the website of the Federal Office of Administration - Central Office for Schools Abroad. (PDF; 1.4 MB) (No longer available online.) P. 246f , formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 18, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
