Hotel Management School Heidelberg
The Hotel Management School Heidelberg (Fritz Gabler School) is a state school. The school authority is the city of Heidelberg. It has existed since 1925 and is purely a training school. The school is named after the Heidelberg hotelier Fritz Gabler.
history
founding
The hotelier Fritz Gabler (1876–1953) was the driving force behind the founding of the Heidelberg Hotel Management School, which now bears his name.
Early on, he was involved in association and professional bodies. The improvement of the vocational training was a central concern for him. Together with other Heidelberg hoteliers, including largely Friedrich Ortenbach, he set up a hotel management school for commercial and technical training for the next generation of professionals. The intensive efforts ultimately convinced the Baden state government, which opened the Heidelberg Hotel Management School in April 1925.
Fritz Gabler remained closely associated with the school as a sponsor and advisor throughout his life. The hotel management school also benefited from its function as president of the "Alliance Internationale de l'Hotellerie" since 1937 in its international reputation. The foundation of the school's friends' association in the war years, today's Fritz-Gabler-Schulverein, also goes back to his initiative.
development
The higher hotel management school in Heidelberg was officially opened on April 30, 1925 as a public school in the state of Baden. 57 students made up the first year. Organizationally, it was affiliated as a department of the local commercial college. In his address, Fritz Gabler set the goal of training up-and-coming young professionals technically and linguistically, but above all in commercial thinking. From the beginning there were specialist lectures by viticulture experts, kitchen specialists, architects and the like in addition to the scheduled lessons. a. The close contact with the local hotels and restaurateurs and the rapidly growing group of graduates was characteristic. Already the first year formed an alumni association based on the model of a student union. The "Association of Hotel Management School Students in Heidelberg eV" (VHH), whose statutory purpose u. a. the promotion of professional education is, has around 1,400 members worldwide.
The conception of the school proved to be successful, the level of awareness and the number of students increased. In 1937, the hotel management school was able to move into its own building on Mönchhofstrasse and subsequently became an independent school from March 1938, the “Reichsfachschule für das Hotel- und Gastwirtschaft”. The first headmaster was Hellmut Büchler, who had been teaching at the school since 1925.
In April 1944, one of the few bombs that fell on Heidelberg completely burned the school down. Classes continued at various alternative locations, only the class 1945/46 was canceled due to the post-war confusion. Because of the lack of space, the school had to move to the neighboring town of Weinheim an der Bergstrasse from 1946 to 1950 . But even there the conditions were anything but ideal. Lessons were held in a "school barrack". From 1950 the hotel management school returned to Heidelberg , initially in makeshift rooms that it shared with the Hölderlin grammar school. Due to the difficult economic situation of the students, the lessons were spread over two winter semesters during this time. This enabled the students to work continuously in the lucrative summer season.
The spatial situation only relaxed with the move into the new building in the fall of 1959 in Rohrbacher Strasse, where the hotel management school was domiciled for the next 30 years. From 1963 a special course was added to the main course (first year of training) and the training was extended to two years, initially only for a few students. At the beginning of the 1970s, with the introduction of the degree "State-certified business economist - specializing in the hotel and restaurant trade", further training for commercial schools was generally extended to two years.
In 1978 a second course was added, the vocational school for gastronomy. Conceived as a master school in close cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry , it has since offered an optimal combination of the master's examination in the hospitality industry (as a kitchen, restaurant or hotel master) with the state qualification as a restaurateur.
In the 1980s, the school expanded under the direction of Marianne Müller and the school building on Rohrbacher Strasse became too small. In 1989 the building of the former Boxberg-Gymnasium in the forest park settlement Boxberg could be occupied. For the time being, the last course of study followed in 1992 at the technical school for sommeliers, which is the only public technical school to offer full-time training for aspiring wine experts.
Since 2016, the students of the hotel management school have, in addition to the classic degree in hotel business administration, also the opportunity to acquire the BA International Management by distance learning at the Berlin University of Economics, Technology and Culture .
Courses
- Technical school for hotel business administration and hotel management
- Technical school for gastronomy
- Technical school for sommeliers
degrees
- State-certified business economist
- State-certified restaurateur
- State-certified sommelier / State-certified sommelier
- Master in hospitality (Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
- University entrance qualification
- Bachelor of Arts International Management (hwtk Berlin)
Graduates (selection)
- Alphabetical -
Web links
- Hotel Management School Heidelberg - Official Site
supporting documents
- ↑ Gabler Fritz. In: LEO-BW . Retrieved January 2, 2019 .
- ^ City of Heidelberg: Fritz Gabler School. Retrieved January 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Willy Pauly: Fritz Gabler has passed away (obituary). In: Allgemeine Hotel- und Gaststätten-Zeitung , August 8, 1953.
- ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg : Fritz Gabler. In: LEO-BW . Retrieved January 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Stadtbuch the city of Heidelberg for the year 1930. Publisher Hörning, accessed on January 7, 2019 ( Digitalisat the UB Heidelberg ).
- ↑ statutes 2018. In: vhh-heidelberg.de. Retrieved January 3, 2019 (PDF).
- ↑ VHH history. In: vhh-heidelberg.de. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Heidelberger Stadt-Adreßbuch 1938. Verlag Hörning, accessed on January 7, 2019 (digitized version of the Heidelberg University Library).
- ↑ Timeline of Heidelberg history from 1933. In: Heidelberger Geschichtsverein . Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
- ^ Fritz Gabler School. In: City of Heidelberg. Retrieved January 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Business economist. In: Hotel Management School Heidelberg. Retrieved January 2, 2019 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 22 '20.2 " N , 8 ° 42' 11.9" E