Catholic School Association Hamburg
The Catholic School Association Hamburg was the largest private school organization in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg until the end of 2016 . He was a corporation under public law with the status of an employer , so he could appoint civil servants. Its forerunner, the Association of Roman Catholic Churches in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg , was dissolved on August 31, 2007, and on September 1, 2007, the Catholic School Association took over its school administration duties. The then head of the school department, Hermann Vortmann, took on the role of managing director until he retired on March 31, 2010. His successor was Wolfgang Schmitz until January 2013. After a short vacancy, the leadership of the Catholic School Association was transferred to a dual leadership: On August 1, 2013, Erhard Porten became head of education and personnel, while Volker Reitstätter was responsible for structural and commercial matters as administrative director. The chairman of the board of directors was Peter Mies, pastor in Blankenese from September 1, 2007 to November 30, 2012. He was succeeded on December 1, 2012 by Vicar General Franz-Peter Spiza. Even after his change from the office of vicar general to the post of provost at the Hamburg Episcopal Church of St. Mary, Spiza remained in this position.
The Catholic School Association Hamburg was the sponsor of 21 school locations, some of which combine elementary school and district school, but some also run just one type of school (elementary school, district school or grammar school ). Over 700 teachers currently teach around 9,500 students at Hamburg's Catholic schools. The schools have a good reputation (e.g. Niels-Stensen-Gymnasium , Sankt-Ansgar-Schule and Sophie-Barat-Schule ). However, the amendment to the statutes of April 15, 2016 announced a change of sponsor for the Catholic schools in Hamburg: They were to be transferred from the Catholic School Association Hamburg to the sponsorship of the Archdiocese of Hamburg . This change of agency took effect on January 1, 2017.
Catholic schools have existed in Hamburg for over 150 years; As a rule, they emerged as community schools, often built at the same time as or in front of the church. With the increasing influx of Catholic workers in the 19th and 20th centuries, they founded their own communities in Protestant Hamburg, which belonged to the Diocese of Osnabrück . Since there was no Catholic religious instruction in Hamburg's public schools , they built their own schools. Even today these are of great interest to Catholic immigrants, so that in some locations migrants from a large number of nations are trained. On the website of the Catholic school St. Joseph in Wandsbek (founded in 1887) z. B. Flags of 25 nations.
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- Günter Dörnte: Catholic schools in Hamburg 1832-1939 . Diss. Phil., Hamburg, 1984.
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- ↑ Art. 1 Para. 4 of the statutes of the Catholic School Association Hamburg of April 15, 2016 ( Church Official Gazette Archbishopric Hamburg, 22nd year, No. 4, Art. 50, p. 55 ff. , PDF, 664 kB)