Municipal Riemerschmid Business School Munich
| Municipal Riemerschmid business school | |
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| type of school | Business school for girls |
| founding | 1862 |
| address |
Frauenstrasse 19 |
| place | Munich |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 8 '5 " N , 11 ° 34' 45" E |
| carrier | State capital Munich |
| student | about 375 (as of January 2011) |
| Teachers | about 29 |
| management | Heidemarie Valentiner |
| Website | www.rws.musin.de |
The Riemerschmid Municipal Business School in Munich is a business school for girls. When it was founded as a private institution by the liqueur manufacturer Anton Riemerschmid and his authorized signatory Matthias Reischle in 1862, it was the first commercial school for girls in Germany . It has been in municipal hands since 1898.
history
Matthias Reischle , a former commercial teacher from Augsburg and then authorized signatory of Anton Riemerschmid's liqueur factory in Munich , approached his boss in 1862 with the proposal to found a commercial school for girls. Due to his experience in his own company, Riemerschmid, unlike most of his contemporaries, was convinced that women were suitable for a commercial position . In the same year, he and his authorized signatory founded a commercial school in Munich under the name Commercial College for Women . The step was justified with the need to open up a new field of activity for women and thus enable them to have a higher income and greater independence.
Like Reischle, director from 1862 until his death in 1897, other teachers also waived payment for lessons they had done; attendance at school was free of charge. The lessons in commercial arithmetic , bookkeeping , exchange theory , commercial correspondence , French language and calligraphy were initially planned for three years; practical considerations, however, allowed only two years of training. The canon of subjects was expanded to include shorthand ; English as a subject was added in 1884, and typewriting in 1894.
The new school was so successful that it was expanded in 1872 and the city paid some of the cost. Among other things, referring to the women's issue , the good reputation of the school and the need for commercial office staff, Georg Kerschensteiner obtained the takeover by the city as the Städtische Riemerschmid commercial school after Reischle's death in 1898 , after a takeover by the Münchner Volksbildungsverein failed for financial reasons . The school should be expanded so that the following higher costs could no longer be expected of the Riemerschmid family. As a city school councilor, Kerschensteiner set up the school as a secondary school after compulsory schooling and extended the lessons to three years. The Riemerschmid family continued to make a financial contribution. From then on, however, school fees were levied, as is customary in municipal schools of this type. In Germany, further, also private teaching institutions have been founded that advertised teaching according to the "Riemerschmid method", which, however, in Kerschensteiner's opinion, did not exist.
After the classrooms were initially in the Riemerschmid house in the then Kanalstrasse and later in the Rosental, then in the von Thann-Strasse, the schoolhouse on the Frauenstrasse, which is still in use today, was moved into in 1901. From 1904 the school had a teachers' seminar , which was closed again in 1909 because the one-year training offered proved to be inadequate. In 1931 the Riemerschmid commercial school was authorized to take the secondary school leaving examination . A first practice office was set up in 1937. The school was badly damaged in the Second World War . Until 1958, when a neighboring vocational school building on Westenriederstrasse was taken over, other schools had to be used.
The school has had its current name since 1973. In the same year, IT lessons were started, which have been practically carried out on electronic computers since 1976 ; a language laboratory followed in 1977. The training company Anton Riemerschmid GmbH, beverage wholesale , was founded in 1982, in 1985 the first participants passed the IHK examination for office assistants and thus received a completed vocational training in addition to the secondary school leaving certificate ; In the Federal Republic of Germany , the Riemerschmid School again played a pioneering role.
The school received several awards for the project "Honorary Office in Supervised Institutions", including the Business School Special Prize 2005 and the Citizen Culture Prize 2005 from the President of the Bavarian State Parliament . The project "Jewish Life in Munich" received the 2007 History Award. In the stock exchange simulation game , the students achieved first place in 2006 and third place in 2010.
Since 2017, the school family of the Städtische Riemerschmid-Wirtschaftsschule has been a "school without racism - school with courage ". Mayor Christine Strobl is the sponsor for this school profile.
School directors
- Matthias Reischle 1862-1897
- August Weiss 1898-1924
- Ludwig Reicherl 1924–1945
- Hans Hürmer 1946–1949
- Max Weiß 1949–1950
- Hermine Maier 1950–1957
- Valentin Billmayer 1957–1973
- Auguste Zrenner 1973–1977
- Josef Hofstetter 1977–1995
- Gundula Amberg 1995-2000
- Karl Andreas Handfest 2001–2011
- Heidemarie Valentiner 2011-
Building and location
The school building is located in the center of Munich, near the Isartor (between Frauenstrasse and Westenriederstrasse). The four-wing complex with a small inner courtyard is free on three sides. Robert Rehlen built the building in Baroque Art Nouveau in 1900 and 1901; it is a listed building. In 1978 the school buildings underwent a first general renovation, in 2012/13 the second general renovation took place. a. laid the technical basis for modern, high-quality media equipment at RWS.
School trains offered
In contrast to the Realschule in Bavaria , transfer to a business school is also possible after the 5th grade of middle school and later. Four trains are offered at the Riemerschmid School:
- Five-year business school: Transfer after the 5th or 6th grade
- Four-year business school: Transfer after 6th or 7th grade
- Three-year business school: Transfer after 7th or 8th grade
- Two-year vocational school for economics : Transfer after the 9th grade with a secondary school certificate / qualifying secondary school certificate .
Pupils from grammar school, junior high school or middle school M branch can also transfer to the business school.
Languages and electives
In addition to English as a compulsory subject, the students can choose between French, Spanish and Italian as a second language. Further elective subjects are offered: School without racism, school with courage, student library, media skills, theater & culture and fitness.
Projects, prizes and international partnerships
The interdisciplinary project ÜSA (transition from school to work) takes 2½ months and prepares the students intensively for choosing a career and applying. RWS is supported by professional partners: NaturTalent Foundation, speakers from administration and business, employment agencies and (annually changing) cooperating training companies.
In the spirit of Europe, the Riemerschmid Business School has participated in many EU projects (Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius, Grundtvig) since 2004 and maintains school partnerships with many European schools. A successful Erasmus program with educational partners has been carried out in Malta since 2017.
Extra-curricular and social
The school has had a student council since 1947, and the student newspaper Die Riemerschmide has been published since 1951.
A social team takes care of the concerns of schoolgirls. In addition to counseling and liaison teachers, there is a school psychologist, a school social pedagogue , a girl representative and a family representative as contact persons for problems .
The Heinrich Riemerschmid Foundation and the Bernhard Borst Foundation award cash prizes to the best female graduates every year. In addition to excellent school performance, the prizes are praised for behavior. There are close ties between the two foundations and the school: While the school owes its foundation and name to the Riemerschmid family, Erna Borst was herself the best prize student at the "Riemerschmid School of Commerce" and later the wife of the well-known architect and builder of the Borstei ( Bernhard Borst ).
literature
- Josef Hofstetter (Red.): 125 years of the Riemerschmid Municipal Business School in Munich. 1862-1987 , Munich 1987
- Carsten Hofmann / Heidemarie Valentiner (Red.): 150 years of the Riemschmid Municipal Business School in Munich. 1862-2012 , Munich 2012
- Hans Sehling: The development of the Munich commercial school system from the beginning to the redesign under Kerschensteiner (1770-1920). Ehrenwirth, Munich 1966
Web links
- Municipal Riemerschmid business school
- City Riemerschmid Business School Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
Individual evidence
- ↑ School without Racism - School with Courage: Home. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
- ↑ BayernViewer-denkmal ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
