North Sea Academy

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The North Sea Academy (until 2000: Heimvolkshochschule Leck) is an educational institution in the North Frisian community of Leck in the field of adult and further education . The charge carriers of the North Sea Academy is the German border Association eV

North Sea Academy, Haus Südtondern towards the northwest

history

The founding of today's Nordsee Akademie as a folk high school in 1921 was a consequence of the referendum of 1920 : After the German defeat in World War I , the Versailles Treaty on national affiliation in North and Central Schleswig stipulated a referendum in two zones with different Voting modalities and staggered on February 10, 1920 and March 14, 1920 took place. In the 1st zone, 74.9% of the electorate voted for Denmark and in the 2nd zone 80.2% voted for Germany . The German-Danish border was therefore determined on the basis of a majority vote of the affected population. On both sides of the new border, national minorities remained in southern and northern Schleswig .

On May 3, 1921, a founding committee decided to build the Heimvolkshochschule as a structural support measure for the newly created border area. The former district of Südtondern had taken over the property developer . On April 29, 1923, the local adult education college was opened in a building in the style of the homeland security architecture . At that time, Schleswig-Holstein was a Prussian province and the impetus to found it came from a memorandum from the Prussian Ministry of Culture, which took over the financing. The relatively long construction period of two years was a result of inflation . The focus of the newly opened educational institution was on post-school training for the rural population.

After the takeover of power , the Heimvolkshochschule closed in 1934 and its director Peter Krüger had to give up his office. During the Third Reich , the NSDAP operated the Nordmark School in the building for the Hitler Youth . After the Second World War , the Heimvolkshochschule was able to reopen on October 17, 1948 in the presence of District Administrator Friedrich Wilhelm Lübke . The basis for the reopening was a contract dated August 1, 1948, which was concluded between the German Border Association, the Südtondern district and the Adult Education Association Leck eV.

The growing number of students after the reopening made it necessary to build a south wing in addition to the main building (today: Haus Südtondern), which was inaugurated on July 24, 1954. The south wing burned down on March 5, 1959 after a lightning strike . Because of the severe labor shortage caused by the North program , there were problems with clearing up rubble and rebuilding it. Today the wing houses the Sylt area and the forum . In the 1970s an annex was added (today: Haus Nordfriesland).

North Sea Academy, park to the east

The Heimvolkshochschule has been operating under the new name Nordsee Akademie since 2000 . This underlines the change towards a modern conference and seminar house with a wide range of educational opportunities. There is a park directly on the property.

In the years 2000 to 2005 the North Sea Academy was completely renovated. Today it offers space for events, meetings and congresses of all kinds. The seminar and conference house has modern single or double rooms as well as an in-house restaurant.

Task and program

The Nordsee Akademie offers a wide range of educational opportunities from all areas. Despite their breadth, the offers are specially geared towards processes of change in business, culture and politics - in line with the company's motto: Only change is constant. In addition, the program of the Nordsee Akademie includes the topic of data security / data protection , which the Nordsee Akademie offers in cooperation with the Independent State Center for Data Protection, as well as seminars and study trips on the history, nature and culture of North Frisia , Schleswig-Holstein and Scandinavia .

Further focal points in the program since 2000 have been professional training , teaching new media and data protection. There are specially designed training courses for professional training in the specialist areas of mediation with recognized trainers from the Federal Association for Mediation; Systemic advice and supervision as well as addiction prevention . An international summer course has been part of the program since 1981, and the summer university of the Lessing University in Berlin since 2001 . With the project "jUNG zuSAMMEN - Dueppel 2014", a German-Danish youth meeting took place for the first time in 2014.

Directors

  • 1923–1929: Christian Kruse
  • 1929–1934: Peter Krüger
  • 1948–1970: Jacob Johannsen
  • 1970-1981: A. Makus
  • 1981–1999: Erich Rohner
  • 2000–2004: Brigitte Leitner
  • 2004–2016: Oke Sibbersen
  • 2016–2018: Ariane Huml
  • Provisional from June 8, 2018: Stefan Ploog
  • 2019–: Aaron Jessen

membership

  • Association of Educational Centers in Rural Areas eV

literature

  • Heimvolkshochschule Leck (Ed.): 50 years HVHS Leck 1923-1973. Leak 1973
  • Erich Rohner (Ed.): Education through encounter. Festschrift 75 years of the local adult education center in Leck . Leak 1998

Web links

  • Homepage. North Sea Academy, accessed on November 13, 2010 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Home adult education center Leck (Ed.): 50 years HVHS Leck 1923-1973 . Leck 1973, pp. 3-5.
  2. ^ A b German border association for cultural work in the Schleswig region: cultural work in a border region. Five-year report of the German border association for cultural work in the Schleswig region . Flensburg 1958, p. 28.
  3. ^ Fritz Trube: From the founding of the HVHS and its work until 1931 . In: Heimvolkshochschule Leck (Ed.): 50 years HVHS Leck 1923-1973 . Leck 1973, p. 7.
  4. ↑ Erich Rohner (Ed.): Education through encounter. Festschrift 75 years of the local adult education center in Leck . Leak 1998.
  5. ^ German border association for cultural work in the Schleswig region: cultural work in a border region. Five-year report of the German border association for cultural work in the Schleswig region . Flensburg 1958, p. 61.
  6. ↑ Jacob Johannsen: On the essence, growth and work of our folk high school . In: Heimvolkshochschule Leck (Ed.): 50 years HVHS Leck 1923-1973 . Leck 1973, p. 41f.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Runge: A school and its designers - comments on the directors in their time . In: Erich Rohner (Ed.): Education through encounter. Festschrift 75 years of the local adult education center in Leck . Leck 1998, pp. 31-50.
  8. ↑ nordsee-akademie.de: A new line for the North Sea Academy
  9. ↑ [1]

Coordinates: 54 ° 46 ′ 1.7 ″  N , 8 ° 58 ′ 41.8 ″  E