Georg Simon Ohm Vocational College
| Georg Simon Ohm Vocational College | |
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| type of school | Vocational college upper secondary level Vocational high school |
| School number | 175055 |
| founding | 1950s |
| address |
Westerwaldstrasse 92 |
| place | Cologne |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 55 '39 " N , 6 ° 59' 44" E |
| student | 2200 |
| Teachers | 80 |
| management | Helmut Raabe |
| Website | www.gso-koeln.de |
The Georg Simon Ohm School in Cologne is a vocational college , a school of secondary education . The namesake Georg Simon Ohm was a German physicist who developed Ohm's law .
Over the past few years, between 2,200 and 2,500 pupils have attended school and are taught by 80 teachers. It is a recognized dual training partner for the media city of Cologne with the associated companies in the television and IT sector.
To the historical development
Trade schools in Cologne
Today there are 17 vocational colleges in Cologne that cover various professional fields. The history of Cologne's vocational or “trade schools”, as they used to be called, goes back to the year 1822. The first elementary drawing school for “builders and professionals” founded in Cologne was based on the private initiative of the painter Agidius Mengelberg. In November 1822 he opened the school as a Sunday school with the subjects drawing and modeling in the Jesuit building. In 1921 the term vocational school appeared for the first time in Cologne. The development of the city of Cologne with many incorporations and the expansion of compulsory schooling to include female apprentices soon led to the division into several vocational schools. The number of pupils at the vocational school for craft apprentices had grown to 8,853 in 1925. In the same year the city decided to partition. The vocational school for the metal industry, which was newly created when the division was divided, was also responsible for all electrotechnical apprenticeships, for all apprenticeships in the metalworking trade and for all apprenticeships in the iron industry. Obviously, school space shortages have always been a big problem for vocational schools, because the vocational school for the metal industry had not only 13 specialist departments, but also 13 different learning locations. In the city center, teaching was held in four school buildings: in the classrooms Schwalbengasse 5, Krebsgasse 28/30 and Georgstraße 9/13 as well as in the makeshift buildings Severinswall 50, in which the electrical installers were housed. In Cologne suburbs, such as Bayenthal, Ehrenfeld, Nippes, Dellbrück, Poll etc., a total of nine branch offices were used. The average number of hours of teaching per week was eight in the inner city and six in the suburbs.
After the currency reform, the number of apprentices in the electrical sector increased sharply, as in the entire metal sector. The resulting high demand for additional teachers could only be met by transferring from other schools, as the vocational teacher training had only just started again.
Vocational school for mechanics, electrical engineering and installation (GB3)
In 1952 the vocational school for the metal industry was divided into two new vocational schools: The vocational school for mechanical engineering and steel construction was housed in the primary school building in Westerwaldstrasse. The vocational school for mechanics, electrical engineering and installation was established as the second successor school to the vocational school for the metal industry.
This new name, which was given in 1952, Vocational School for Mechanics, Electrical Engineering and Installation , already shows that the school was divided into three large departments:
- A department for mechanics with the apprenticeships precision mechanic, office machine mechanic, motor vehicle mechanic and motor vehicle fitter
- A department for electrical engineering with the apprenticeships electrical fitters, electrical machine builders, high-voltage electricians, telecommunications electricians and automotive electricians
- A department for installation with the apprenticeships gas and water plumbers and heating engineers
The specialist classes for tank attendants and vulcanizers could not be assigned to any of the three departments.
The advanced vocational school, which had already been set up in 1950, was also part of the vocational school for mechanics, electrical engineering and installation.
In late autumn 1953, the new, modern school building on Eitorfer Strasse in Cologne-Deutz was finally ready for occupancy. This building was then shared as the headquarters of the vocational school for mechanical engineering and steel construction and the vocational school for mechanics, electrical engineering and installation, in addition to other branch offices.
In the Eitorfer Straße, the school received two classrooms on the ground floor, six classrooms on the third floor, two administration rooms and a narrow teacher's room. The classrooms on Westerwaldstrasse and in the Frankstrasse building were used as a branch.
Due to the constantly increasing number of apprentices, teaching was sometimes carried out in three shifts in the main building:
- 1st shift 7:30 am-10:45am
- 2nd shift 10:45 am - 1:15 pm
- 3rd shift 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm
In 1957, construction work began on the third construction phase in Cologne-Deutz with the aim of finally building a school building for the vocational school for mechanics and electrical engineering. The school moved into this building during the Easter break in 1960. The new school building was connected to the building completed in the first construction phase, which from now on was solely available to the vocational school for mechanical and steel construction, through a shared administration wing with the business rooms, the offices for the headmasters and their deputies and the caretaker's boxes.
Vocational School for Mechanics and Electrical Engineering (GB3a)
When the school was again divided in 1963, the schools were named vocational school for mechanics and electrical engineering and vocational school for automotive technology . Now the vocational school for mechanics and electrical engineering has been assigned the vocational school classes for the apprenticeships of office machine mechanics, electrical installers, electrical machine builders, electrical machine winders, electrical mechanics, telecommunications craftsmen, telecommunications mechanics, precision mechanics, mechanics, radio and television mechanics and high-voltage electricians as well as the vocational training school.
At the end of the 1960s, the names of the subjects taught at vocational schools were "modernized". These changes were also intended to express that the structure of the teaching content and its teaching methods had experienced a stronger scientific orientation in the past few years, while at the same time “rules” were being pushed back:
- Expertise> Technology
- Specialized Computing> Mathematics
- Technical drawing> Technical drawing
- Citizenship> Politics
- Correspondence> Economics
On August 1, 1968, the start of the school year was changed from April 1 to August 1. This change involved three short school years.
Vocational school for mechanics and telecommunications technology (BBS13)
At the end of the 1968/69 school year, the vocational school for mechanics and electrical engineering was divided again due to a council resolution of 1967. The schools were named Vocational School for Electrical Engineering and Electronics (today's Werner von Siemens Vocational College) and Vocational School for Mechanics and Telecommunications Technology (today's Georg Simon Ohm Vocational College).
The school management of the vocational school for mechanics and telecommunications technology remained with the previous headmaster Peter Lersch, who retired in 1981. Heinz Sterz, who was appointed as his deputy in 1970, then succeeded him as headmaster in 1982 as senior studies director.
Name given to the Georg Simon Ohm School
On December 17, 1982, the school changed its name as the first vocational college in Cologne in a large naming ceremony with a lecture by Friedrich Kurylo. From BBS13 was Georg Simon Ohm School . At a ceremony on the occasion of the 200th birthday of Georg Simon Ohm on March 16, 1989, the Nobel laureate for physics, Klaus von Klitzing, gave the keynote lecture on the topic: “From the mercury standard to the quantum measure”.
Renaming to Georg-Simon-Ohm-Berufskolleg
In North Rhine-Westphalia, the vocational schools were renamed vocational colleges at the end of the 1990s.
During this time, the school experienced a significant change in the number of pupils due to the elimination of telecommunications technology to under 800 pupils in 1997. Due to the new developments in professions such as
- the IT professions,
- of the event technician and
- of the media designer, in which the school, together with the Cologne Chamber of Commerce and the WDR, took a leading role,
the number of students rose again to over 2,400 within a few years.
Today there are 17 public and 7 private vocational colleges in Cologne with a total of 45,583 students and 13.4% of foreign students (as of 10.2010).
New school building
Located in Cologne-Deutz on the right bank of the Rhine since the 1950s , the company moved to a new school building in the neighboring Cologne-Humboldt / Gremberg district in 2000 . The move to Cologne-Gremberg became necessary due to the increasing number of students, especially in the IT and media sectors. This was also a result of the Institute for School Development Research commissioned by the City of Cologne with regard to the new media professions. According to these plans, the Georg Simon Ohm School will become a media vocational school where media-related professions will be taught.
The development until then:
- 1992 architectural competition won by the architect Michael Bohm with his new campus building.
- May 1996 decision of the city council to build the award-winning design by Michael Bohm in Humboldt / Gremberg. The construction company Strabag wins the tender, the supervision lies with the building authority of the city of Cologne
- November 28, 1997 laying of the foundation stone
- August 27, 1999 inauguration
- August 2000 lessons begin in the new building
The building was adapted while the preliminary planning was already completed by the newly designed professions of media technicians and event technicians. State funding made it possible to plan two television studios with a director's seat, a sound studio and digital editing suites, as well as an auditorium that could be converted into a studio.
The school network comprises approximately 450 computers for computer-related teaching. All server services are set up and maintained on our own responsibility from the start.
In 2013, the media technology training area received new HD-capable equipment and thus again has a presentable digital HD control room that corresponds to the state of the art.
Educational offers
In addition to the professions in media and information technology ( media designer for image and sound , specialist for event technology , IT specialist , IT system electronics ), the corresponding full -time courses are also represented in the vocational college: vocational school , technical college , technical school and, as a full-time school course, the information technology assistant , which does not only vocational training according to state law is offered, but also the advanced technical college entrance qualification or the general university entrance qualification can be obtained at the same time .
A specialty of these areas is the technical school for computer engineering. The Georg-Simon-Ohm-Schule is the only school in Germany that offers a day form in addition to the evening form.
As a participant in the model project Independent School , the school, in partnership with China, trained Chinese students to become information technology assistants in full-time school courses. After a one-year language course and intensive support from student mentors , the first graduates were able to return to China. German vocational training is widely recognized there.
As part of their training, the budding media designers for image and sound also produce films and television programs that can be seen on the nationwide television learning channel nrwision . Your professional skills are very often rewarded with success outside of school (first prizes at the Baden-Baden Award, at the federal foreign language competition, etc.).
Many vocational school students also acquire the KMK foreign language certificate English or the Europass Mobility in addition to their lessons .
Extra-curricular
Europe activities
Links to several European educational institutions have been established in projects. There has been a sponsorship with a school in Warsaw since 1990 .
Since the 2003/2004 school year there has been a partnership with the IES Campanillas vocational school in Málaga as part of an EU project based on the Leonardo da Vinci program . Every year twelve IT trainees go to Spain for a month and work there in Spanish IT companies - mediated by IES Campanillas. In return, Spanish IT students come to Germany, do an internship in German training companies and attend vocational school. The stay and the qualifications gained in Spanish companies are certified with the Europass Mobility .
Since 2008 there has been a partnership with the French school Le Lycée Professionnel Régional AMPERE from Marseille . It enables students to do internships in the other country. The exchange is supported by the EU's Leonardo project.
Due to a large number of European activities, the school is now on the way to becoming a European school .
Healthy and clean school
The longstanding activities in this area were rewarded in 2009 with a school development award. It's about promoting health and skills and influencing health-related framework conditions at school level. Results were visible e.g. B. through a healthy breakfast, purchase of a climate box, health promotion during class, provision of a constantly filled apple box in the break hall and the installation of water dispensers. First aid courses are held with pupils and teachers, a defibrillator is purchased and a school medical service is introduced.
School and art
The school is also active in the arts. A log house from Udmurtia was built on the school premises , which is an exhibition object and also an exhibition space for joint German- Russian projects.
Working groups
There are several student working groups. The Eine-Welt-AG was established as the oldest in 1981. In addition to the technical working groups in the computer area , an amateur radio station is also operated ( callsign DL0GSO). Outside of the class, there are sports activities and theater games .
Project weeks
Active students organize project weeks, open-space days, information days and events before elections together with committed teachers.
Well-known alumni and alumni
- Jean Pütz (* 1936), former teacher, science journalist and television presenter
- Harry Voigtsberger (* 1950), ex. Headmaster, ex. State Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Andreas Henseler, ex. Teacher, ex. Head of Schools of the City of Cologne
- Holger Nikelis (* 1978), former student, athlete and Paralympic gold medalist
- Vanessa Low (* 1990), formerly a student, athlete and Paralympic participant
- Niko Opper (* 1992), former student, soccer player and U17 European champion
Individual evidence
- ↑ Records of the former teacher Hans Nagel with source research in the historical archive of the city of Cologne
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook of the City of Cologne 2011 (PDF; 2.8 MB)
- ↑ macher from a to z - Georg-Simon-Ohm-Vocational College (GSO). In: www.nrwision.de. Retrieved on May 31, 2020 (TV broadcasts by GSO media designers in the nrwision media library).
- ^ The KMK language certificate in English. In: www.schulministerium.nrw.de. Archived from the original on September 15, 2013 ; accessed on May 31, 2020 .
