Institut Montana Zugerberg
| Institut Montana Zugerberg | |
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| Institute-Montana (2005) | |
| type of school | Boarding school |
| founding | 1926 |
| address |
6300 Zugerberg |
| place | Zugerberg |
| Canton | train |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 683 073 / 222 049 |
| student | ~ 300 (150 in boarding school) |
| Teachers | ~ 120 |
| management | Alexander Biner |
| Website | www.montana-zug.ch |
Institut Montana Zugerberg is a Swiss / international boarding and day school, located on the Zugerberg near the city of Zug and the adjacent Lake Zug . It was opened in May 1926 and today teaches around 300 boys and girls. The students come from around 40 countries and include children from the age of 6 to secondary school, either in the form of the Swiss high school Matura or the International Baccalaureate Diploma.
history
The Montana Institute was founded by Max Husmann , who bought today's main building, opened in 1869 as the Grand Hotel Schönfels , and the surrounding area in 1925 and opened his school with six students the following year. The campus was expanded in 1937 with the purchase of the nearby Felsenegg Hotel and the construction of teaching laboratories, workshops, sports fields and a swimming pool. Husmann's conviction that an international school education would help to maintain the fragile European peace served as a guide for the educational orientation of the school.
The Second World War decimated the number of students, but the school managed to stay afloat. In 1945 Husmann was involved in Operation Sunrise - secret negotiations that would lead to the surrender of the German army in northern Italy. The following year, Josef Ostermayer took over the management of the school and the Max Husmann Foundation was established to ensure the continuation of the school's founding principles.
In 1995 the number of pupils fell below a financially sustainable level, so that the school management and board of directors announced the imminent closure of the school. However, a rescue plan was worked out by various employees, parents, friends and former students under the direction of Beat Bernet and François Loeb and more than CHF 3.5 million in donations were collected, which ensured the school's continued existence in the short and medium term.
School operation
Students between the ages of 6 and 10 attend the day school only. Boarding school students are accepted from the age of 10. Class sizes are limited to a maximum of 15 students and tutoring on an individual student basis is offered if required. The one at almost 1000 m. ü. M. located campus is in a typical environment of forests and fields for the pre-Alps and can be reached from Zurich in about an hour. The bilingual primary school, which offers a language immersion program in German and English, is attended between the ages of 6 and 12.
The curriculum is based on the requirements of the Canton of Zug, with adjustments that optimally prepare students for entry into an international secondary school program - the Swiss Gymnasium or the IB Diploma Program. The high school at Institut Montana was recognized as a federal Matura school in 1936, where the students can complete either a monolingual or bilingual (German-English) course and later gain access to all Swiss universities. Institut Montana has been accredited as an international school since 1952. The international course is based on the Foundation Years Program, where the IGCSE and then the IB Diploma are completed. Since 1987 the Montana Institute has been the first Swiss boarding school to be recognized as an IB World School.
Extracurricular activities
Institut Montana has been offering a Model United Nations program (IMZMUN) since 2009 , where students practice conducting political debates on a weekly basis, attending various international MUN conferences and holding one themselves every year. IMZMUN is intended to educate its members about global political, social and economic processes of the present and serve as additional international experience. In addition, IMZMUN prepares its members for university education by promoting formal skills in presentation and argumentation. Other activities that are offered are clubs for entrepreneurially and scientifically particularly interested students, as well as teams in several sports.
Former
Former students of the Montana Institute include the Spanish princes Alfons Jaime de Borbón and Gonzalo de Borbón , the former US Secretary of State John Kerry , director Marc Forster , entrepreneur Nicolas Hayek , comic artist Mike van Audenhove, the Bitburger brewing technologist Axel Th. Simon and the Dutch scientist and entrepreneur Willem PC Stemmer . The American Ambassador Robert P. Jackson taught French and English at the Montana Institute in 1982.
literature
- Sara Randell: End the war. Operation Sunrise and Max Husmann. Stämpfli Verlag , Bern 2018, ISBN 978-3-7272-6013-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Montana: Site of the Montana Institute on the Zugerberg
- ^ Huldreich Sauerwein: International Education. In: Problems in Modern Education. Ed. ED Laborde, Cambridge University, 1939.
- ^ Sara Randell: Ending the War: Operation Sunrise and Max Husmann. Staempfli Verlag, 2018.
- ^ Max Waibel: Operation Sunrise, 1945 Capitulation in Northern Italy, the Original Report of the Mediator. Novalis Media, 1981.
- ↑ Flurina Valsecchi: This is where tomorrow's elite learns. In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung. November 23, 2012.
- ↑ A loving look at Zurich's peculiarities. In: Tages-Anzeiger. 10 March 2009.
- ↑ Biography: Robert P. Jackson ( Memento November 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) US State Department, accessed January 26, 2020.
- ^ President Mahama receives US Ambassador's Credentials. In: Business and Financial Times. March 10, 2009.
- ^ Institut Montana: Announcement of new publication by Sara Randell: End the war
- ↑ Winfried Pogorzelski: Education and training in the service of peace. To the book by Sara Randell "Ending the War - Operation Sunrise and Max Husmann". In: Time questions. 15th January 2019.