Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl College

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Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl College
Wilhelm-Heinrich-Riehl-Kolleg building, June 2014.
type of school Further education college
founding 1958
address

Am Hackenbruch 35
40231 Düsseldorf

place Dusseldorf
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 12 '23 "  N , 6 ° 50' 6"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '23 "  N , 6 ° 50' 6"  E
carrier Institute for obtaining the university entrance qualification for craftsmen, skilled workers and other professionals who have completed their training e. V.
student around 350 (as of 2014)
Teachers around 35 (as of 2014)
management Jörg Masuch, Stefan Göbel
Website www.riehl-kolleg.de

The Wilhelm-Heinrich-Riehl-Kolleg (formerly Wilhelm-Heinrich-Riehl-Institut , Riehl-Kolleg for short ) is an institute for obtaining the university entrance qualification in Düsseldorf . The Riehl-Kolleg is a publicly recognized private substitute school .

founding

On December 13, 1957, the Düsseldorf Chamber of Skilled Crafts decided to create an institute that would enable working adults to acquire a higher education entrance qualification, enable “talented craftsmen to get into management positions” and thus at the same time enable the “youngsters of the house [the Chamber of Skilled Crafts] to enter the sciences in a planned manner “Should develop. At this point in time, there were only three other such institutions nationwide : in Braunschweig (founded in 1949), in Delmenhorst (1949) and in Oberhausen (1953).

The founding idea is the creation of

"Cohesion of the educational train, which begins with the apprenticeship, via the journeyman's examination, the vocational school to be completed at the same time as well as various educational institutions to the technical college entrance qualification and finally to the university entrance qualification.

- Craft newspaper

On the occasion of the graduation ceremony for high school graduates on March 10, 1961, the President of the Chamber of Crafts, Georg Schulhoff , stated:

"Based on the knowledge of the educational policy situation , the handicrafts of the Düsseldorf administrative region made a significant contribution to the last stage of the second educational path and, beyond that, fulfilled a cultural task."

- Craft newspaper

After being approved as a private substitute school in April 1958, the first entrance examination required at the time was held at the Oberhausen College with 93 applicants; on December 1st of that year 31 male students started the first course. Of these in turn 16 obtained the general university entrance qualification in March 1961.

Namesake

Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl around 1860

It is named after Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl as the scientific founder of folklore .

Foundation, endowment

The purpose of the "Foundation Institute for Preparation for the Higher Education Entrance Qualification for Craftsmen eV " was the operation of the Riehl Institute "taking into account the humanistic tradition, nevertheless in accordance with the realistic educational efforts of our day". The Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the City of Düsseldorf joined the foundation in 1964. The foundation continues to operate this school under a slightly different name (see above) .

School life

For the Abitur exams, the regulations for the Central Abitur of the Ministry of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia apply . The technical college entrance qualification can also be obtained. The course initially took five semesters to go to university entrance, and has been six semesters since the early 1980s. Regularly offered advanced courses are German , English and mathematics in one timeline and sociology , biology and history in the other .

In 2008 the 50th anniversary was celebrated and an extensive commemorative publication was created.

The Whole House Association has existed since 1988 . V.

School attendance of students, by parents independent student loans are funded, individual students can apply for a grant from the Hans Böckler Foundation apply.

people

principal

  • 1958–1959: Hans Pabst
  • 1959–1961: Anton Hackenbroich
  • 1961–1970: Mr. Berg
  • 1970–1996: Gerhard Brüggen
  • 1996-2017: Heinz-Jakob Dewey
  • since 2017: Jörg Masuch

Students

See also

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm-Heinrich-Riehl-Kolleg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. duesseldorf.de/archiv - official city archive. Retrieved June 3, 2014.
  2. a b c (Ed.) Hans-Jürgen Zarm: 1958–2008. 50 years of the Riehl-Kolleg, Düsseldorf 2008
  3. a b Wilhelm-Heinrich-Riehl-Institut was opened, in: Handwerks-Zeitung, March 28, 1958
  4. ^ HO: Now the gate to the university is open, in: Handwerks-Zeitung, March 31, 1961
  5. cf. Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl Institute was opened, in: Handwerks-Zeitung, March 28, 1958
  6. see: HO: Now the gate to the university is open, in: Handwerks-Zeitung, March 31, 1961
  7. Joachim Breitbach: I'll do something for my pear in the morning , Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung - website, February 13, 2014. Accessed March 4, 2015.
  8. Jörg Masuch: Former Riehler makes short film at the Riehl-Kolleg :. Accessed December 9, 2019 (German).
  9. ^ Brigitte Pavetic: Film Festival: Two filmmakers on their way to Hollywood. Retrieved December 9, 2019 .