Euro Academy Hamburg

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Euro Academy Hamburg
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place Hamburg
state Hamburg
country Germany
management Astrid Lange
Website www.euroakademie.de/hamburg

The Euro Academy Hamburg (until 2014 Hamburger Fremdsprach- und Wirtschaftsschule GmbH - HFS) is a private educational institution in the Hamburg city ​​south . There are currently training courses in the fields of economics & management, foreign languages ​​& international affairs and education & social affairs. The school was founded in 1936, but at that time it operated under the name "Hamburger Fremdsprachenschule" as a pure interpreting school . The school is Germany's oldest and at times also the largest institute for the training of translators and interpreters. Today the Euro Akademie Hamburg is a member of the ESO Education Group. The ESO Education Group is one of the largest private education providers in Germany.

history

The HFS was founded in 1936 by the couple Carl and Elsbeth Zander as a pure interpreting school (Hamburg-Uhlenhorst, Carlstr. 38). Both founders were employed by Berlitz language schools before HFS . The "number of pupils increased rapidly" so that it became necessary to build a boarding school . Jewish students could finish their studies after 1938, although this was prohibited by law. Until 1943, all American , British and "half-Jewish" employees could continue to work at HFS. Only then was the school closed by the Gestapo after several searches had taken place. Carl Zander quoted a Gestapo employee in documents that "the Jewish shop [...] must be closed". During the bombing of Hamburg in the same year, all three boarding schools were destroyed.

As the first German interpreting institute, the HFS was able to reopen on September 15, 1945 after several American, British, Jewish and (already denazified) German witnesses had guaranteed Carl Zander's reputation as part of the British denazification . In March 1950, a day nursery was set up for single-parent students. In 1952 the number of students was almost 1,000 (almost two thirds female), 40% of whom were preparing for the IHK examination . After the death of Carl Zander in 1956 and his wife two years earlier, Annemarie Lüders, who had worked for many years, took over the management, which in turn was replaced in 1969 by the South African John Lewis. In the 1970s, the HFS increasingly offered language lessons and evening school courses . The German course for foreigners in particular enjoyed great popularity among guest workers . Despite the consistently successful results of the students in the IHK exams, the social democratic Hamburg city government refused state recognition to the HFS, which would have brought the status of the private HFS diplomas in line with that of state diplomas. The HFS was only able to achieve this status after the CDU acquired government responsibility in the Hamburg Senate in 2001 . In the late 1970s, the founder of the Euro-Schools Organization GmbH, Pierre Semidei, took ownership of the HFS. At the beginning of the eighties, there was less and less demand for graduates of private and non-academic courses to become interpreters. The qualification as an interpreter was completely transferred to the universities , where translation studies have already established itself. The HFS then shifted its offer for the then 500 pupils to training as foreign language correspondents and European secretaries. In 1993 the HFS founded the Euro Business College (EBC) as a sister institute, which offered private courses in European business administration. Astrid Lange has been running the school since August 2012, and around 120 students are currently registered.

Since 2015, the school has been part of the ESO Education Group under the name Euro Akademie Hamburg .

education

The following training courses are currently offered at the Hamburg Foreign Language and Business School:

Commercial foreign language training:

  • Foreign language correspondent

Economy & Management:

  • Commercial assistant
  • International Administration Manager ESA

Pedagogy and social issues:

  • educator
  • Social pedagogical assistant

Cooperations

There are currently collaborations with the following universities:

Web links

Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '39.6 "  N , 9 ° 59' 53.2"  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Thomas Martini: An attempt to trace 'turns' in translation theory at Hamburger Fremdsprach- und Wirtschaftsschule: possibly Germany's oldest Dolmetscherschule , 2009, p. 17
  2. ↑ HFS now Euro Akademie ESO Education Group, January 5, 2015, accessed on February 17, 2016.