Cologne high school and endowment fund

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The Cologne High School and Foundation Fund was founded in 1800 as a foundation administration for numerous educational foundations in Cologne . Donors and sponsors can set up and manage their own foundation for education here. The foundations of the Cologne High School and Foundation Fund promote the education of young people throughout the Federal Republic. The oldest foundation managed by the Cologne High School and Foundation Fund dates back to 1422, the youngest from 2019.

Purpose and legal status

The Cologne Gymnasium- und Stiftungsfonds today manages the foundation assets of around 300 foundations as well as historical school assets. He uses the income from these foundation and school assets to finance scholarships , non-material support programs and support projects. The foundations of the Cologne High School and Foundation Fund support young people during their training at secondary schools, colleges and universities. Talented as well as socially and socially committed young people receive financial and ideal support. In addition, the Cologne grammar school and foundation fund subsidizes selected projects to support schoolchildren with special needs. The student and study support of the Cologne Gymnasium and Foundation Fund is financed exclusively from foundation funds of private origin and is therefore unique in Germany.

The Kölner Gymnasial- und Stiftungsfonds is a legal foundation under public law with the statutes of the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs of December 8, 1964. It exclusively and directly pursues charitable purposes .

Granting of scholarships

The main focus of the educational funding of the Cologne High School and Foundation Fund is the award of individual scholarships to schoolchildren. There is no later repayment obligation. The amount of a scholarship is based on the respective social and financial situation of an applicant and is paid out in the form of a subsidy for training and living costs . Every year around 250 students and 30 pupils at secondary schools are financially supported with scholarships. Every year around 80 students and 20 pupils are accepted into the funding program. In addition, around 400 students and about 150 scholarships to family fellows, so the descendants of the 90 partly very old family foundations awarded.

The financial support is supplemented by non-material support in the form of an education and mentoring program. The educational program offers scholarship holders the opportunity to take part in seminars and workshops on topics relevant to their studies and work. The mentoring program, on the other hand, is an instrument for the personal development and individual career planning of the sponsored. It is about the exchange of experiences and personal contact between alumnus and scholarship holders of the Cologne high school and foundation fund.

Funding programs

The Cologne grammar school and endowment fund supports various programs to promote schoolchildren with special needs.

Get in - get on!

The support program Get in - Get on! is financed from the income of the "Helene-und-Paul-Plum" foundation, which has been administered by the Cologne grammar school and foundation fund since 2007. The funding is aimed at young people with learning difficulties and social problems, who are to be supported in completing their schooling and finding a training position. The core of the support program is individual student coaching by educators who help the students with school and family problems and who also help them after leaving school, e.g. B. in the search for a training position. The support program Get in - Get on! we you. a. from the funds of the community foundation to create opportunities.

Cooperation between company and school

The support program for cooperation between companies and schools is a cooperation between four Cologne vocational colleges , various companies in the region and the Cologne grammar school and endowment fund. It is a measure for training and career preparation for disadvantaged young people and young adults. The participants spend three days a week in a craft or industrial company for a year to gain practical experience. On the other two working days, classes take place at the vocational schools. The aim of the cooperative internship is the acceptance into an apprenticeship or employment relationship and personal stabilization of the young people.

Support of foundations

The Cologne High School and Foundation Fund is an umbrella organization for currently around 300 educational foundations. For more than 200 years, private donors have set up their own legally dependent foundations here . Each foundation bears the name of its founder and has its own foundation statute with an individually designed foundation purpose. A founder can invest a wide variety of assets , such as B. bring agricultural land, real estate and securities into his foundation. The Cologne grammar school and foundation fund supports donors during the foundation phase and in the development and concrete implementation of their own funding ideas and projects. So it is e.g. For example, it is possible to use the income from your own foundation to support disadvantaged and talented schoolchildren through grants, to support existing projects or to create new projects and to award a prize, for example for special social commitment . The oldest study foundation, which is administered today by the Cologne high school and endowment fund, dates back to 1422. It was founded by the doctor Johann Wesebeder. The most recent foundation dates from 2019.

Asset management

The assets of the Cologne grammar school and foundation fund consist of the grammar school fund , with around a third of the total assets as well as historical school and cultural assets, and the foundation fund , which makes up around two thirds of the total assets and currently comprises around 300 foundations. When choosing suitable investments, it is taken into account that both the value of the foundation's assets are securely preserved and that the income is maximized. The foundations' assets are invested in a wide variety of different asset classes (49% in agricultural property , 37% in real estate , heritable building rights including property, 14% in financial assets ).

history

The history of the Cologne high school and foundation fund as the central administration of old Cologne study foundations and historical school assets begins in 1800, when under French rule in Cologne from 1794 to 1814 the administration and school system in the Rhineland was reorganized. The history of the private Cologne study foundations began around 400 years earlier.

1388–1798: The old University of Cologne

Soon after Cologne University was founded in 1388, the first private foundations were established in Cologne. Without private legacies, the school and university system in Cologne would not have been viable, as it was not - like other universities at the time - financed by a financially strong princely sovereign and therefore had to be borne by the citizens of Cologne . This is how three private high schools, originally called Bursen , were built in Cologne : the Tricoronatum , the Montanum and the Laurentianum , which quickly became an integral part of the old university. The three study houses formed the artist faculty , named after the seven liberal arts that were taught there and that were supposed to prepare for higher studies (theology, law, medicine) at the university. The Tricoronatum, the Montanum and the Laurentianum thus formed a kind of entrance faculty for the University of Cologne. Through bequests and foundations, clergymen, wealthy citizens as well as rulers and teachers of the aforementioned high schools and the old university supported the three teaching institutions and thus the Cologne study system. In 1422, the Mainz doctor Johann Wesebeder established the first of such study foundations at the old University of Cologne, and until its dissolution in 1798 , over 160 people followed his example. The beneficiaries were mostly family descendants or talented and needy young men from the hometown of the respective founder. The private foundations were administered by the respective rulers of the Cologne high schools.

1794–1814: French rule

The Napoleonic Wars brought fundamental changes to the education and foundation system in Cologne. In October 1794 French troops occupied the free imperial city of Cologne. After the Rhineland was occupied by the French revolutionary troops, the educational landscape was completely restructured: the old Cologne University and the Cologne high schools Tricoronatum, Montanum and Laurentianum were dissolved in 1798. With the dissolution of these educational institutions and the dismissal of the regents, who until then had administered the study foundations, the school and foundation assets initially fell to the state. A central school was founded, for the financing of which the extensive foundation and school assets of the old institutions were used. Instead of the former rulers, the professors of the central school took over the administration of the school and foundation assets. Since this professorial administration was obviously overburdened with the task assigned to it, it was released from its administrative function after two years and replaced by a five-person commission made up of Cologne business people and administrative lawyers. This commission, appointed by the responsible prefect , was given the task of running the administration free of charge and under state supervision.

The Cologne Gymnasium- und Stiftungsfonds sees this appointment of the commission on July 20, 1800 as the hour of its current administrative activity. By the by I Emperor Napoleon issued a " Brumaire - Decree " of 1805 this administrative entity found his official confirmation. Through the decree, the central foundation administration thus created was granted financial autonomy and thus the status of a legal person .

The grammar school and the foundation fund

As part of the creation of a new foundation administration, the school and foundation assets were divided into two funds , on the one hand the school fund - later called the grammar school fund - with the assets of the old grammar schools including their art and cultural assets, and on the other hand the foundation fund with all study and family foundations . Today, the former Catholic high schools in Cologne, the Apostle and Dreikönigsgymnasium , are funded from the grammar school fund . Its profits are partly directly to the Ministry of Education of North Rhine-Westphalia , the school board was of the two high schools. The art and cultural assets of the old grammar schools, the "Physical Cabinet ", the " Graphic Collection" and the " Grammar School Library " are now on permanent loan in the Cologne City Museum , the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud in Cologne and in the university - and Cologne City Library . The foundation fund now contains 295 legally dependent educational foundations. This fund is used to award scholarships to schoolchildren and students and to finance funding projects. The foundation fund is designed for growth: Here founders can set up and manage a personally tailored support foundation for the education of young people.

1814–1918: Prussian rule

With the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the Rhineland became part of the Kingdom of Prussia . This was the beginning of the Prussian reign in Cologne. Despite the unsteady relations of rule, the school and foundation fund in Cologne was able to continue its work essentially unchanged for over 50 years. It was only through a “very high decree” in 1868 that the foundation administration received a modern, legally anchored legal basis. A new foundation period began in 1822, but it ended abruptly after the First World War . Exactly 100 study foundations were set up in this 100-year period. The foundations from this period were no longer primarily tied to a local area, and scholarship recipients could now be pupils and students at any German university.

1933–1945: National Socialism

During the Nazi era , the previous principles of foundation administration were severely curtailed. From 1937 onwards, the Nazi regime took over the rights of school sponsorship as well as the school administration, which had been the responsibility of the Cologne Gymnasium and Foundation Fund. From 1939 on, the Gymnasialkasse was withdrawn from the Gymnasialfonds and assigned to the main government fund and the right to collect school fees was denied. The National Socialist worldview was particularly displeased with the fact that income from the foundations was used, among other things, for the training of theologians and clergy. Confessionally oriented education was classified as competition to the ruling state ideology and was particularly suspicious of it. In the course of the Second World War , the “highest decree” of 1868 was repealed by a new statute issued in August 1942. The change in the statutes meant that maintenance allowances could only be paid to applicants with "German or related blood". At the same time as this amendment to the statutes, the grammar school and foundation fund was renamed the school and scholarship foundation. The responsible board of directors had already been partly filled with members who were ideologically compliant.

post war period

Since 1951, the Cologne High School and Foundation Fund has again had its old name, which was temporarily changed by the Nazi regime. In an air raid in 1944, the business premises at Gereonshof were irretrievably destroyed. In October 1958, the Cologne grammar school and foundation fund got the place of business that is still in use today with a building on the city forest belt that was partly destroyed in the war and restored after it was acquired. Around 300 foundations are currently managed under the umbrella of the Cologne High School and Foundation Fund.

literature

  • Founding education. Kölner Gymnasial- und Stiftungsfonds, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-9807481-0-3 .
  • Kölner Gymnasial- und Stiftungsfonds - Annual Report 2015. Kölner Gymnasial- und Stiftungsfonds, Cologne 2015.
  • Image brochure Donate education . Ed .: Cologne High School and Foundation Fund. Cologne 2015.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d The source for this paragraph is the foundation's website
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