Federal Commercial Academy and Federal Commercial School Lustenau

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The Federal Commercial Academy and Federal Commercial School Lustenau in the market town of Lustenau was founded as a commercial school in 1903 and as a commercial academy in Vorarlberg in 1937 .

history

After Alwin Hauser had to close his officially authorized commercial school with boarding school Villa Liebenstein, which was founded in Bregenz in 1877 , he applied for language and commercial courses in Lustenau, whereby he also offered the courses for girls separately. He was encouraged and moved his school to Lustenau. When he asked the community for financial support in 1903, his school became a public interest. When Alwin Hauser suddenly died unexpectedly and tragically, the community and Mayor Eduard Hämmerle came under pressure about how to proceed with the school. On July 20, 1903, the municipal council decided to take over the school and run it as the municipal trade and commerce school . Alfred Wehner, who was a valued teacher under Alwin Hauser, became director. On September 16, 1903, the school was opened on the 3rd floor of the elementary school in Rheindorf with 2 classes and a total of 20 students. As early as 1904, the curriculum of the 2-class commercial school was approximated and the name was restricted to the municipal commercial school .

Old commercial school building completed in 1908, today used as a music school; with memorial plaque to the director Alfred Wehner
Seal of the "Kaiser Franz Josef I. Jubilee Business School"

The municipal council decided in 1905 to build a new school building. Two citizens offered the community a piece of land free of charge. With generous donations from the population, the new building could be completed quickly and the new school building was opened on September 17, 1908. Because of the 60th anniversary of the reign, the plaque names the school Kaiser-Franz-Josef I-Jubilee-Handelsschule Lustenau . When the commercial school was granted public rights in 1913, this resulted in the graduation of an apprenticeship in the commercial trade and the shortening of military service to two years. In 1913 the school needed more teachers for around 100 students in three classes. The chronicle names the teacher Dr. Falger and Dr. Keilwerth.

During the World War half of the teachers were drafted into military service. After the war in the republic, the State Office for Education ordered the listing of the Lustenau Public Business School . Disability courses were offered for retraining for seriously injured soldiers. In the twenties, 180 students were taught in 5 classes and additional classrooms were created in the attic. The long overdue currency reform of 1925 was highlighted by Professor Dr. Reitter in a contribution to the annual report under the title: From the kroon currency to the shilling currency - with special consideration of emergency money. In 1932, with the support of the commercial school board of trustees and a lot of debate by director Alfred Wehner as a national liberal functionary, girls were also able to attend school with a narrow majority in the municipal council of 19:16 votes. Baby boomers left the number of students at around 250, spread over 5 classes with up to 60 students in one class, taught by 9 teachers.

In 1934, with the corporate state, the school was given a new curriculum and renamed the commercial business school . Under Mayor Josef Peintner, with a decree from the Ministry of Education, a business academy with a first class was set up in 1937 with director Josef Linder as head of the school. In 1938, when Austria was annexed to Hitler's Germany, Linder was deposed as director and the commercial academy was relocated to the Mehrerau monastery school in Bregenz- Mehrerau , and the remaining commercial school was named the Lustenau municipal business school for boys and girls . The competition from the business school in Bregenz-Mehrerau resulted in a sharp decline in the number of students. In the Second World War , reactivated pensioners and temporary workers had to teach because the teachers were on military service.

In 1945, in the Second Republic, the school was called the Public Commercial School for Boys and Girls. The number of pupils fell from 140 to 80 over the years. The mayor Ferdinand Jussel tried to have the commercial academy returned from Bregenz to Lustenau, and the Vorarlberg state parliament approved this on May 27, 1947. Financing was not easy, especially since a secondary school was built for boys in addition to the already existing community school for girls and opened in the school year 1949/1950. In July 1950, the municipal council decided not to take over the commercial academy with a 17-9 vote. With 1952 under the direction of Scheffknecht, the school was called the Public Trade School for Boys and Girls . In 1953, on the 50th anniversary, a graduate association was founded.

The politics of the community with Mayor Robert Bösch made a limited survey and aimed at the establishment of a high school. However, the Ministry of Education saw the expansion of vocational schools in the Dornbirn district as a priority and wanted to take over the commercial school with the commercial academy. The local council decided unanimously on November 17, 1970 to decide in favor of a federal commercial academy without giving up the right to a grammar school in the future. Governor Herbert Kessler informed the public and the Lustenau population on the occasion of the opening of the Lustenau embroidery center on June 5, 1971, the beginning of the commercial academy in Lustenau in autumn 1971. In 1976, the year of the first Matura, the construction of the new school for the commercial academy began In the design, with a few changes, adhered to the plans for the school building of the Commercial Academy Perg in Upper Austria. The new building was occupied on October 19, 1977 with the two schools of the Federal Commercial Academy and the Federal Commercial School with 19 classes with 534 students and, in addition to the director, had 32 teachers.

From June 2013 to March 2016, the building was extensively renovated and, according to plans by the Swiss architect Alex Herter, heightened and expanded by an extension of around 730 square meters.

management

  • 1903 Alwin Hauser
  • 1903–1936 Alfred Wehner
  • 1936–1938 Josef Linder
  • 1938–1940 Ferdinand Falger
  • 1940–1945 Emil Keilwerth, provisional
  • 1945–1949 Anton Aichinger
  • 1949–1952 Thomas Hämmerle
  • 1952–1963 Ernst Scheffknecht
  • 1963–1964 Anton Aichinger, provisional
  • 1964–1967 Friedrich Kerer, then state school inspector for vocational schools
  • 1967–1973 Franz Holleyn
  • 1973–1985 Johann Mathis
  • 1985–2000 Heinrich Peter
  • 2000–2015 Hermann Begle
  • since 2015 Johann Scheffknecht

Graduates

Commercial college

Commercial school

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The all-round renewed BHAK / HAS in Lustenau was officially opened . In: Marktgemeinde Lustenau (Ed.): Lustenauer Gemeindeblatt . No. 11 , 2016, p. 10 f .
  2. ↑ Change of director at the HAK . In: Marktgemeinde Lustenau (Ed.): Lustenauer Gemeindeblatt . No. 48 , 2015, p. 7 ( online [accessed November 26, 2015]).

Coordinates: 47 ° 26 ′ 0.6 ″  N , 9 ° 39 ′ 48.1 ″  E