Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium (Munich)

Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium Munich
type of school	high school
School number	0193
founding	1908
address	Ebenböckstr. 1
place	Munich
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	48 ° 8 '44 "  N , 11 ° 27' 52"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '44 "  N , 11 ° 27' 52"  E
carrier	State capital Munich
student	717 (school year 2016/17)
Teachers	69
management	Sigrid Fischer-Jokl
Website	www.elsa.musin.de

The Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium is a linguistic high school in Munich . The school is named after the Swedish nurse and philanthropist Elsa Brändström .

location

The Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium is located in a side street off Landsberger Straße ( B2 ) in the west of Munich in Pasing .

history

In 1908 Berta Hamer, with the support of the Evangelical Girls' School Association, founded in 1907, founded the first private secondary school for girls in Pasing, whose classrooms were housed in the Steinerbad restaurant . The educational institution had to move several times before it could move into the newly built school building at Oselstrasse 21 (Richard-Wagner-Strasse at the time). In 1920 the teacher Martha von Grot, who had been expelled from the Baltic States, took over the management of the school. She expanded the educational institution into a reform school, supported by the reform pedagogue Georg Kerschensteiner . On the evening of his life he dedicated his work 'Authority and Freedom as Educational Principles' to Martha Grot and her colleagues (Gebsattel 1949, p. 19).

In so-called. Grotschule it was a private denominational Higher School for Girls , the 1924 Girls Secondary School was named. The upbringing there was shaped by Christian values, liberality, tolerance and the reform pedagogical concept of educational teaching . Marie Freiin von Gebsattel , at the time a member of the government at the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , stated about the educational teaching school, the pedagogical concept of which has been adopted by other secondary girls' schools (in Augsburg and Nuremberg):

What does the school of educational teaching now represent itself as? 1. As a work group for the development of knowledge and work paths and at the same time as a work group for the education of students; 2. as a living community in mutual service and mutual responsibility; 3. as a fellowship with Christ , that is, as an organic fellowship in the sense of the Pauline word: members of a body whose head is Christ. (Gebsattel 1949, p. 21)

At the end of the school year 1927 Martha von Grot accepted a call to Neuwied am Rhein, where she took over the Zinzendorf School. The Pasing girls' college was continued in their interest, partly by some of their former students.

Schoolchildren and teachers had to endure challenges from the National Socialist regime. In 1941 the educational institution was taken over by the city of Munich.

In 1951, the three higher girls' schools in Pasing were merged into a single grammar school. This new school suffered from being housed in three widely spaced buildings. In 1958 the three girls' high schools were able to move into the secondary school for girls at the current location on Ebenböckstr. 1 can be integrated. In 1960 the school was named after Elsa Brändström. It was not until the 1980s that the educational institution changed from an all-girls school to one for both sexes.

The former Grotschule was located in the building that now houses the primary school on Oselstrasse , where only a few classes are taught in the old school building.

Language sequence

Students have the option of learning either English (5th grade), Latin (6th grade) and Spanish (8th grade) or three modern foreign languages ​​with English, French and Spanish.

Well-known graduates

• Florian David Fitz , actor
• Gisela Forster , Vagant Bishop
• Minh-Khai Phan-Thi , actress, presenter
• Christian Schiffer , journalist
• Inka-Gabriela Schmidt , writer

literature

• Manfred Berger:  Grot, Martha von. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 30, Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-478-6 , Sp. I. V ..
• Marie Freiin von Gebsattel: School of Educational Classes (Grotschule), Paderborn, 1949
• Gertrud Marchand / Irmgard Schmidt: The Grotschule in Pasing. In: Landeshauptstadt München (Ed.): On the history of education in Munich, Munich 2001, pp. 78–87

Web links

Commons : Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium Munich  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the Elsa-Brändström-Gymnasium

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art. Retrieved March 7, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Erna Schwertberger: Martha von Grot. Life and work of a reform pedagogue, Munich 1998 (unpublished diploma thesis)