Technical vocational college Solingen

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Technical vocational college Solingen
Technical vocational college Solingen
type of school Vocational college
School number 173125
founding 1904
address

Oligschlägerweg 9

place Solingen
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 10 '25 "  N , 7 ° 4' 51"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 10 '25 "  N , 7 ° 4' 51"  E
carrier City of Solingen
student about 2500
Teachers 81
management Michael Becker
Website www.tbk-solingen.de

The Technical Vocational College Solingen (TBK Solingen) is one of the three municipal vocational colleges in the city ​​of Solingen . In addition to the commercial Friedrich List vocational college and the Mildred Scheel vocational college for health and social affairs, it trains its students in the commercial and technical field. The TBK consists of the technical vocational college and the Solingen technical college. The TBK Solingen is an upper secondary school as a vocational college and is attended by almost 2000 students who are taught by 75 teachers.

history

The history of the Solingen vocational schools goes back to the tradition of the Solingen Sunday Schools. As the oldest vocational school in Solingen, the TBS has its roots deep in the 19th century. The tradition of the Technical Vocational College Solingen can be seen in these Sunday and advanced training schools, which tried to improve the basic education of Solingen workers since the first half of the 19th century. This development was formative for the entire Solingen vocational school system.

Until the college was founded in 1904

As early as 1806, the idea of ​​founding a technical school to improve the "design and mechanical quality" of Solingen steel products was proven. These considerations had become necessary because the traditional Solingen cutlery was far inferior to its English competition from Sheffield . The Solingen manufacturer Peres, who pointed the way at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, remarked: “... that our Bergisch factories also want to make their products their own in addition to the very good quality, as well as the beauty that the English goods highly recommends. ”These considerations were initially not pursued by the Prussian state side, but private initiatives led in the 30s and 40s of the 19th century to the establishment of two private drawing schools, which can be seen as one of the first stages of development towards the establishment of a technical school . Another line of development can be seen in the higher citizen school , at which learning content and goals were set down for the first time for Solingen in 1883: After that, this school wanted to offer “... apprentices and assistants of the tradespeople the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills in drawing that are necessary for successful Exercise of their profession are required to be acquired in the most comprehensive way possible. ”However, good results were not achieved to the desired extent, for example the examination committee of a Düsseldorf exhibition in 1885 classified the Solingen work as“ weak ”. In the following time, the voices from business and city leaders increased to promote the establishment of a Solingen technical school. The Paris World Exhibition in 1900 , which had shown “exemplary beautiful and tasteful, especially French steel goods”, made a significant contribution to this. In 1899, the then Lord Mayor of Solingen, August Dicke (Lord Mayor from 1896 to 1929 in Solingen), set up a technical school commission, the ten members of which promoted the establishment of the technical school. This took place in 1904 as the "Technical School of the Solingen Steel Goods Industry". As early as 1908, the newly built, magnificent technical school building in the style of a Bergisch villa on Blumenstrasse was ready to move into. This building is still in the service of school use and was completely upgraded in terms of fire protection in 2008 by the city of Solingen as the carrier of the TBS .

The Solingen advanced training system

Essential for the development of the TBK are the Solingen advanced training schools, which tried - like the drawing schools for the artistic and creative field, to train the Solingen workforce in the technical and commercial field. In the various districts of Solingen, Wald , Höhscheid, Ohligs and Gräfrath , advanced training schools have been established since 1872. In the course of their development they increasingly took on the character of vocational schools and specialized in “job-specific content”. The Ohligser advanced training school can be cited as an example, which offers specialist classes for typical Solingen professions such as locksmith , reider, grinder, etc. had set up. The school supplementary training lasted three years and thus bears essential characteristics of the vocational school practice that is still common today. The specialized teaching was decisive, although it was “a further aim of the school… to establish or consolidate the moral, religious and national sentiments. ... The Ohligs model of a further education school was ... in the five-city area (today's city of Solingen) so convincing that from 1909 at the latest a change of heart towards a vocational school could be recognized. ”In 1911 the Solingen city ​​council decided for the commercial further education school, a three-year To introduce compulsory education, which was supplemented by the general compulsory continuing education in the Weimar Constitution of 1919. The roots of today's dual system of vocational training can be clearly seen in these developments. Attempts followed to centralize the advanced training system in Solingen, which eventually led to the vocational school. The last step was the merger of the crafts school with the commercial vocational school to form the 'Commercial-Technical Vocational Schools of the City of Solingen' in 1937. The commercial-technical training in Solingen was based on three pillars: the training of craft apprentices, apprentices from industrial professions and the training at the technical school for the Solingen steel goods industry. No information is given in the secondary literature about the behavior of schools under National Socialist rule .

New beginning after 1945

After the collapse of the Third Reich , vocational training was reorganized in schools and companies in Solingen. Many buildings had been destroyed and there were only a few teachers left. The name of the school has now changed to "Commercial Vocational and Vocational Schools of the City of Solingen" (GBBS), with the main metal-working department growing again considerably. As early as 1949, the first considerations for a new construction of the vocational school on the rubble area close to the city between Weyersberger Strasse, Augustastrasse and Blumenstrasse, today's school grounds. Even if not all plans of the first drafts were implemented, today's school buildings 1–4 were built between 1949 and 1964 and form the core of the campus-like school complex. In the seventies, the workshop building (house 5) was built for the advanced training center in the regional office for international vocational training, followed by house 6, the “technical center” on the former production site of a small machine tool factory. In addition, there is the old technical school building (completed in 1908) at the Blumenstrasse site, which has been expanded over the years to include the design center, an electroplating laboratory and the student dormitory (houses 7-10). The school uses the nearby municipal blade hall for physical education. The development and expansion of the school can also be read from the name; from the “Commercial Vocational and Vocational Schools of the City of Solingen” via the “Technical Schools Solingen” (1986) to the current name “Technisches Berufskolleg Solingen” and “Fachschule Solingen” (1998).

Courses

At the technical vocational college in Solingen and the technical college in Solingen, a wide range of educational offers with a wide variety of qualifications and entry requirements are offered . They can be broken down as follows:

professional school

In the vocational school sector, the following options are offered in various training areas in vocational training in the dual system . In the metal technology training area, these are the industrial professions:

Craft professions
In the field of automotive engineering
In the electrical engineering training area
In the electroplating training area
In the field of design technology
In the civil engineering training area

The vocational school year also includes the vocational primary school year (BGJ), which, as a full-time course, offers the opportunity to deepen general education and to prepare for professional practice. The BGJ is offered in the following professional fields:

In addition, students in the career orientation year and as young people without an apprenticeship are prepared for the world of work.

Vocational school

The vocational school provides a school-based professional qualification according to state law and the advanced technical college entrance qualification. This assistant training is offered in three subject areas by the technical vocational college in Solingen:

Technical school

In the technical school Solingen be certified technicians and technicians in electroplating (Surface Technology), and formed in mechanical engineering. It is trained both in the day form as a full-time school and in the evening form.

Technical high school Solingen

In this course as an alternative to the upper level of the gymnasium , the general university entrance qualification is imparted and at the same time prepared for studying engineering . Advanced courses are mathematics and mechanical engineering. Particular emphasis is placed on practical and project-oriented training.

Technical Academy Solingen

The technical vocational college Solingen and the technical college Solingen cooperate with the associations of the Solingen industry and the "Friends of the technical vocational college and the technical college Solingen" in order to create a professional further education and qualification offer in the technical field. The initial vocational training and inter-company qualification are to be accompanied and supported by a wide range of courses.

particularities

Cross-national specialist classes

At the Technical Vocational College in Solingen, surface coaters from industry and craft for the entire north German area attend the vocational school in supraregional specialist classes . Solingen is also one of the few school training locations in Germany for training as an engraver and metalworker. In the three-year training courses, the lessons are divided into six blocks in which the students are taught for six to seven weeks in Solingen. Foreign students have the opportunity to live cheaply in the dormitory of the Technical Vocational College in Solingen.

Dorm

The historic factory building of the former Perlmann company is right next to the technical school in Blumenstrasse. This was converted into a modern dormitory in 2002. The six residential units now each offer 4–6 trainees a place to sleep in single and double rooms. Each apartment has a fully equipped kitchen and one or two bathrooms. The apartments are primarily used by students from the state-level classes of engravers, metalworkers and surface coaters, some of whom travel to Solingen from far away for their block lessons at the technical vocational college.

Metallography

The metallography represents a special component in the system of the technical vocational college Solingen. Solingen cutlery has been tested for quality since 1938 in the material investigation office of the technical school for metal design and metal technology. The modern and practical training of technical assistants for metallography and materials science with a technical college entrance qualification is based on the requirements that result from the constant further development of materials. Solingen is v. a. next to the Berliner Letteverein one of the few locations where this training path can be followed. Nevertheless, because of the high standard, only a few graduates complete their training every year, but they are in great demand on the labor market.

location

The technical vocational college in Solingen is located in the heart of Solingen not far from the center. Due to its vastness, the area has a campus character. The various buildings are mainly distributed over two locations, Oligschlägerweg 9 and Blumenstraße 93, which are a few hundred meters apart.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schlossorsch, Bernd: From Sunday Schools in the Five-City Area to the Technical Vocational College Solingen - 1815 to 2009. Solingen 2008. P. 65.
  2. ↑ Schlossorsch, Bernd: From Sunday Schools in the Five-City Area to the Technical Vocational College Solingen - 1815 to 2009. Solingen 2008. P. 67.
  3. ↑ See Schlossorsch, Bernd: From Sunday Schools in the Five-City Area to the Technical Vocational College Solingen - 1815 to 2009. Solingen 2008. P. 68.
  4. ^ Schlossorsch, Bernd: From Sunday Schools in the Five-City Area to the Technical Vocational College Solingen - 1815 to 2009. Solingen 2008. P. 73.
  5. ↑ Schlossorsch, Bernd: From Sunday Schools in the Five-City Area to the Technical Vocational College Solingen - 1815 to 2009. Solingen 2008. P. 77.
  6. ^ Schlossorsch, Bernd: From Sunday Schools in the Five-City Area to the Solingen Technical College - 1815 to 2009. Solingen 2008. P. 109.
  7. ↑ See Schlossorsch, Bernd: From Sunday Schools in the Five-City Area to the Technical Vocational College Solingen - 1815 to 2009. Solingen 2008. S. 142.

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