Technical High School Stuttgart
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| type of school | Vocational high school , vocational college and vocational training school |
| founding | 1957 |
| address |
Hohenheimer Strasse 12 |
| place | Stuttgart |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 46 '19 " N , 9 ° 11' 13" E |
| carrier | City of Stuttgart |
| Website | http://www.to-stuttgart.de/ |
The Technische Oberschule Stuttgart (also TO Stuttgart ) is a school of the second educational path in Stuttgart , which enables people with completed vocational training and intermediate educational qualification (usually secondary school qualification) to acquire the subject-specific higher education entrance qualification in two years . If you study a second foreign language, you can acquire the general university entrance qualification (Abitur). The Technical High School in Stuttgart is the oldest institution of its kind in Germany.
Alternatively, students who want to study at a technical college or university can acquire the technical college entrance qualification in one-year vocational colleges specializing in technology or design . For pupils who do not have an intermediate educational qualification, the in-house vocational school is offered, where pupils can catch up on the qualification in one year of full-time school.
history
In 1937 so-called support classes were set up at vocational schools in Württemberg to offer talented vocational students the opportunity to receive further general education. This should enable them to enter an engineering or construction school on their second educational path. On February 28, 1938, a first course on “Promotion of preparatory studies for young skilled workers”, a preliminary stage of today's technical high school, began in Stuttgart. After three years it was stopped again because the men were called up for military service.
After the advanced courses were re-established in Stuttgart in the years after the Second World War, the Technical High School Stuttgart was founded as an independent technical advanced school in 1957.
In 1963, TO Stuttgart moved to its current location at Hohenheimer Strasse 12. The building was designed by the Stuttgart city architect Emil Mayer and built between 1894 and 1896. Until the technical secondary school moved in, it housed the Wilhelm Realschule until 1963. The school building with its facades made of light brown Haller stone, the granite base and the slate-covered roof stands on the acute-angled property between Hohenheimer Strasse and Danneckerstrasse. It has two wings that lead into a corner pavilion with a roof dome based on the Berlin Reichstag. The building, which is included in the list of monuments of the city of Stuttgart, is based on the French Baroque, as is characteristic of representative buildings of the time.
On February 1, 2018, TO Stuttgart merged with the commercial school in Hoppenlau to form the new commercial school in Hoppenlau with the Technical Oberschule Stuttgart . As a department of the new school, the TO will remain at Hohenheimer Straße 12 until further notice.
Well-known alumni
- Hans-Jörg Bullinger , Former President of the Fraunhofer Society
- Ernst Messerschmid , German physicist and former space traveler
- Bernd Murschel , member of the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg
- Norbert Sternmut , German writer and painter