Telecommunication School Munich

The telecommunications school of the Munich Oberpostdirektion was one of the twenty-four telecommunications schools of the former Deutsche Bundespost . After several different uses, the building was rededicated as the Commundo conference hotel Ismaning .

Establishment of the Munich Telecommunications School and commission

In April 1959, the Munich Telecommunications School was set up as a special unit of the then Department III J (later Department 35B) of the Oberpostdirektion (OPD) Munich. Their main task consisted in the education and training of civil servants, employees and workers in the field of communications, postal and structural engineering. The counterpart to the telecommunications school was the post school in Dachau, which was responsible for the training and further education of post office and post bank employees and initially also for all post office candidates for the upper and higher service. The telecommunications school was managed by the technical chief telecommunications inspector (TFOI) Wolf. After a short time the headmaster Färber took over the fate of the telecommunications school. The telecommunications school (FSchule), which was subordinate to the training department under the head of Igel, took on the district training and further education in the technical service for all newcomers and up-and-coming workers (exception: senior and senior service).

After the employees had completed their vocational training / studies, the tasks of the telecommunications school as a district educational institution of the Munich Oberpostdirektion were:

• the training of qualified engineers from universities of applied sciences in the field of communications engineering ,
• Mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and structural engineering for high-level technical services
• from 1990: Graduates with the general university entrance qualification for the administrative career of the higher non-technical service (previously vocational training centers and post school of the OPD Munich)
• to prepare the junior employees of the simple, middle technical and non-technical service through training courses for the diverse requirements of the individual civil servant careers for the operational challenges and diverse tasks or to qualify them for the assumption in the individual civil servant careers.

These included:

• basic and advanced training for postal workers (PAng (w)),
• Telecommunication service (F) and technical service (T) with the basic and advanced courses before acceptance into the civil service
• Language training
• Basic and advanced training for telecommunications tradespeople (FHandw) for the AFt / BFt service (simple and medium-sized telecommunications service)
• Training and advanced training in postal technology (Pt), for the APt and BPt service with the basic and advanced courses prior to acceptance into the civil service
• Training of the TFIAw (technical telecommunications inspector candidate)
• Training of postal assistant candidates (PAssAw), later also all postal inspector candidates (PIAw)
• Training of the technical post inspector candidates (TPIAw) and the post graduate in the practical telecommunications service, later also the training of the trainee according to training section 1 (higher service)
• all special courses and courses for the managerial area of ​​technical disciplines (advancement courses), machine aspirants, punch card courses and
• Training for the Iranian telephone staff

The telecommunications offices (offices) and the vocational training centers were left with only practical training at the employment offices, service meetings, visits to the office, monitoring and work at the workplace and the personal affairs of the newcomers. The lecture halls, practice rooms and offices of the telecommunications school were scattered throughout the Upper Post Office building at Arnulfstrasse 60.

Establishment of the telecommunications school in Arnulfstrasse 83-85

In 1969, a former furniture warehouse in the "Transhand" house at Arnulfstrasse 83-85 was rented. All the necessary classrooms, technical rooms and practice rooms could be accommodated there. While 969 participants were trained in 41 courses in 1959, the number grew to 547 basic and advanced training courses with 8137 participants by 1988 and in 1990 already reached 600 courses with approx. 11,000 participants. 33,000 teaching hours were completed by 35 full-time teachers and a larger number of part-time teachers (so-called technical experts). In 1989 the telecommunications school in Munich celebrates its 30th anniversary.

The complexity of the tasks and specialist topics required organizational changes. Thus, specialist groups each with a group leader were established in the

- Line technique

- switching technology

- Transmission technology

- Electronics as well

- Postal technology and the

- Administration

Installed. The new telecommunications school director from 1971, in the era of which these serious changes took place, was Josef Marklowski.

Innovations in further education

In addition to the civil service training of the junior staff, the need for business-related further training measures increased sharply in the 1990s due to the increasing competitive pressure. This related in particular to network management, sales and marketing, as well as changes in operating procedures and procedures. In addition to the technical prerequisites, the employees at the middle management levels now also had to be taught the tools to manage and manage departments, employee motivation, motivation and identification with the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom company. According to the Vocational Training Act (BBiG of 1969), from 1974 onwards, all trainers and teachers at the Deutsche Bundespost had to acquire the qualifications for the training and further education of young people and adults in a nine-week series of seminars. This task was also done organizationally and personally by teachers from the telecommunications school.

Renting further premises

Increasing tasks in training and further education required an additional rental of rooms at the turn of 1980/1981. With a branch at Arnulfstrasse 199 with computer, technology, teaching and administration rooms, as well as the outsourcing of the postal technology group with additional teaching, training and technology rooms in the vocational training center of Telecommunications Office 2 Munich at Leopoldstrasse 250, the emergency space problems could be solved for the first time. Thus the telecommunications school of the OPD München Telekom is housed in three separate buildings in the city of Munich until 1990. Course participants who were dependent on overnight accommodation had to be distributed to different post office residences. If there was not enough space available, overnight accommodations were rented in hotels. The local fragmentation naturally made the implementation of the courses difficult and also impaired the success of the training results.

New building of the telecommunications school

The increasingly urgent problems of the lack of space and the distribution of the training building over three locations found a solution after many preliminary considerations, drafts and concepts that were not allowed to be implemented. It was only under considerable pressure from the head of the department, Mr Wolfgang Ganz and the headmaster Josef Marklowski, that the course was set in 1985 for a new and permanent location for the telecommunications school in Ismaning . According to a decision by the state government, the Bavarian civil service college was no longer built in the greater Munich area, but in Hof. The property in Ismaning was acquired step by step from DBP Telekom. The building complex, consisting of a seminar building, an apartment block and the administration wing, was completed by the end of 1992. The building was completed turnkey by the Deutschbau company. In January 1993 the big move took place from Munich, Arnulfstraße 85 to Ismaning in the Seidl-Kreuz-Weg. From February 1993 the training operations started smoothly.

Data, facts and timing of the new building

A three-part building complex was created in an adapted construction on a 30,000 m² property. The two main complexes - training building with 58 classrooms and Practice rooms as well as trainer's offices and the guest house wing with 220 single-bed apartments as well as leisure facilities such as fitness room, bowling alley and table tennis room were connected by the connecting part of the administration building with the reception area, the school management and offices for course planning and convocation as well as the canteen pavilion. The house offers because of its variable installation options, z. B. via raised floors, the possibility to convert quickly and easily to new tasks. This means that rooms can be made available for a wide variety of innovative advanced training measures for Deutsche Bundespost Telekom in the shortest possible time. There are also several TV rooms, as well as reading room, library and meeting rooms.

The foundation stone was laid on November 28, 1990. The topping-out ceremony was on November 21, 1991, the handover of the house on December 21, 1992 and the start of operations on February 1, 1993. The opening took place on June 18, 1993. The pure property costs amounted to DM 12.9 million; the construction costs approx. 96 million DM.

• Property size: 27,000 m²,
• Total building area: 17,724 m² without underground parking, of which: 10,142 m² for training buildings, 2,000 m² for administration and casino and 5,582 m² for the guest house and 140 underground parking spaces as well as 60 free spaces
• Guest house: 215 single apartments, 6 double apartments and 3 handicapped-accessible single apartments.

Change of school management

During the planning period, the school management changed in autumn 1987: Josef Marklowski retired, and Manfred Sparrer (formerly District Staff Councilor in the Munich Post Office) took over management. There was also a change in Unit 35B for Vocational Education and Training. Wolfgang Ganz handed the business over to his successor Joachim Jung.

Postal reform

As a result of the postal reform carried out in 1990 and 1994, the new six training centers (BZ) were set up in 1994. The 24 telecommunication schools (F-schools) will be dissolved in the area and integrated into six high-performance BZ:

• BZ Nord, Hamburg (closed schools: Hamburg, Kiel, Hanover, Bremen, Braunschweig. Bargteheide, Berlin ....)
• BZ Ost, Leipzig
• BZ West, Neuss (closed schools: Neuss, Münster, Bielefeld, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Cologne ...)
• BZ Mitte, Darmstadt (closed schools: Darmstadt, Kleinheubach, Heusenstamm, Koblenz, Speyer, Saarbrücken ..)
• BZ Südwest, Stuttgart (closed schools: Stuttgart, Freiburg, Reutlingen, Konstanz, Karlsruhe ...) and
• BZ Süd Ismaning with (closed schools: Munich, Nuremberg and Regensburg)

In the six training centers, the seminars and advanced training events that have taken place in the regions and telecommunications schools to date have been bundled and now trained regionally for all telecommunications areas. Each region (as can be recognized by the BZ designation) also held special, highly specialized central advanced training events for various departments and units. In Munich these were in particular the post and building construction technology as well as vehicle technology.

The former telecommunications school in Munich as the Commundo conference hotel in Ismaning

In the administration, the seminar management, the conference service and an educational advisory service have been set up. Since the south region was very large (all of Bavaria), the then head Bernd Wittki set up both an educational and conference center in Nuremberg and in Ismaning. The old telecommunications school in Regensburg was gradually wound up and some trainers were transferred to Ismaning. In Nuremberg, an administrative building complex in the Süd-West-Park as well as a contingent of rooms in the neighboring Süd-West-Park-Hotel was rented. The house in Ismaning was also redesigned. There were u. a. New catering rooms created and new services for guests and the first company training courses established. From 1997 the house was opened to the outside so that foreign organizations and companies could also use the training center for their events. At the turn of the year 1997/1998, Wolfgang Mann took over the business of the house as the new manager, and the Süd-West-Park property with hotel was terminated due to economic requirements. Further organizational changes were also made at the Telekom headquarters. Furthermore, educational institutions are operated in the Telekom Headquarters (Bonn) and in the Telekom Management Academy (Bad Honnef and Bad Saarow-Pieskow).

At the end of 2013, it became known that Telekom plans to sell the building in Ismaning and move it out by 2018. The community showed interest in buying it in order to set up the planned Ismaning grammar school there. The grammar school was partially opened at the end of 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ (see also the article in Münchner Merkur, November 29, 1990, Ismaning and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, SZ “Laying of the foundation stone”)
2. ↑ (see also KreisBote München-Nord / Ost, News / Economy from June 24, 1994)
3. ↑ Ingenious solution for the new high school is worth as much as winning the lottery , Münchner Merkur from February 7, 2014
4. ↑ New high school in Ismaning, lessons next to the construction site

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 ′ 17.9 ″  N , 11 ° 40 ′ 52.9 ″  E