Wilhelmstadt schools

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Wilhelmstadt schools
Smuts-Barracks-Spandau2009.jpg
type of school School center
founding 2004
address

Wilhelmstrasse 25-30

place Berlin-Wilhelmstadt
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 31 '10 "  N , 13 ° 10' 49"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 31 '10 "  N , 13 ° 10' 49"  E
carrier IBEB Initiative for Education Berlin gGmbH
student 648 (as of 2019)
Teachers around 120
management High school: B. Baykus,
high school: A. Ünver,
elementary school: A. Ünver,
Website www.wilhelmstadtschulen.de

The Wilhelmstadt schools are a private school center in the Berlin district of Wilhelmstadt , Spandau district .

The school center currently (as of July 2018) consists of three schools and a daycare center:

In the 2015/2016 school year, a total of 373 pupils were taught at the schools, around 82 percent of them with a non-German language of origin.

The school center is located in the buildings of the Imperial Training Barracks and the subsequent British Smuts Barracks on Wilhelmstrasse  28-30.

history

The origin of the school center is the TÜDESB Bildungsinstitut Berlin-Brandenburg e. V , an association that was founded in 1994 as a tutoring facility in Berlin-Kreuzberg and has since developed into a comprehensive education provider.

The Wilhelmstadt-Gymnasium was first founded on the site on Wilhelmstrasse in the 2004/2005 school year. A Realschule was added to the 2006/2007 school year , later the Integrated Secondary School . The Kinderparadies day care center was opened in 2009 . In 2012, the sponsoring association acquired the entire site. The technical college was added to the 2013/2014 school year and, finally, the Wilhelmstadt elementary school for the 2014/2015 school year.

With the increasing size of the institution, the sponsorship was transferred to the IBEB Initiative für Bildung und Erziehungs Berlin gGmbH .

Aware of the history of the property used by the Wilhelmstadt schools, the management has been in close contact with the Kameradschaft 248 GSU since 2010, which is a registered association in Berlin and is recruited from former members of the 248 German Security Unit of the British military police RMP . The unit was stationed in the former barracks between 1950 and 1994 .

Through joint projects, historical and historical aspects are integrated into the subject matter. In May 2012, for example , the last British city commandant in Berlin, Robert Corbett , gave a lecture to several school classes about the events of German reunification . In another project, in February 2015, the association organized an exhibition lasting several weeks on the property of today's school premises, in which schoolchildren were clearly involved.

The projects are regularly supported and promoted by the Spandau district office of Berlin and the district council meeting across factions.

Awards

Student of Wilhelm City High School were on December 1, 2015 Federal President Joachim Gauck in the Bellevue Palace invited to organize a student congress to work up the GDR history to appreciate through school. In 2014 and 2015, the high school was also awarded in the “Berlin Climate Schools” competition organized by the Berlin Climate Protection Information Center . At the beginning of 2020, the Wilhelmstadt Gymnasium was recorded as “ Jugend forscht Schule 2020”.

criticism

The schools have been criticized for their proximity to the Islamic Gülen movement . TÜDESB is the largest school sponsor of the Gülen movement in Germany. The schools therefore behave in a non-transparent manner. The goal of the movement's educational initiatives is to create a Muslim educational elite and to anchor conservative Islam in Western society. A willingness to enter into dialogue is shown to the outside world, but in the inner circle an educational Islamism is cultivated, which is itself highly political. A more or less closed education system in the spirit of Fethullah Gülens could be set up on the grounds of the Wilhelmstadt schools .

The chairman of the TÜDESB has expressly distanced himself from allegations that educational work is viewed as bait for proselytizing. The former headmistress of the grammar school Sabrina Leberecht also points out that it is not a denominational school and that there are no religious classes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Senate Department for Education, Youth and Science: Berlin Schools, accessed on June 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ The sponsoring association . Integrated Secondary School website, accessed June 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ Carsten Schanz: A full program for the Corbett's. In: website of the Kameradschaft 248 GSU e. V. May 10, 2012, accessed on July 13, 2018 (German).
  4. ^ Carsten Schanz: New HSE exhibition officially opened. In: website of the Kameradschaft 248 GSU e. V. February 11, 2015, accessed on July 13, 2018 (German).
  5. ↑ Event report . Website of the Federal Foundation Processing of the event “After State Bankruptcy. The change in the GDR and East Germany from a planned economy to a market economy ”on December 1, 2015, accessed on June 6, 2016.
  6. ^ Visit to Mr. Gauck . Website of the Wilhelmstadt Gymnasium, accessed on June 6, 2016.
  7. ^ Wilhelmstadt Gymnasium. Website of the Berlin Information Center for Climate Protection, accessed on June 6, 2016.
  8. ↑ Sabine Am Orde: A school and a suspicion . In: taz , October 29, 2004, accessed June 4, 2016.
  9. ↑ Uta Rasche: On the march through the institutions. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 4, 2014, accessed on June 5, 2016.
  10. ↑ Freia Peters: Preacher Gülen is breeding a Turkish elite. In: Die Welt , April 2, 2014, accessed June 4, 2016.
  11. ↑ Reiner Scholz: Modern Islam or Parallel World? The Gülen movement in Germany . At: NDR Kultur , May 20, 2016, 3:20 pm, accessed on June 4, 2016.
  12. ↑ Friedmann Eißler: Educational campus planned for the Gülen movement in Berlin . In: Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen , Materialdienst 2/2013, p. 68, accessed on June 5, 2016.
  13. ↑ Thomas Klatt: Turkish Social Institute is planning an educational campus in Berlin. At: Deutschlandfunk , April 2, 2013, accessed on June 4, 2016.
  14. ↑ Christian Schindler: Tüdesb denies influence of conservative preachers . In: Berliner Woche , May 19, 2014, accessed on June 4, 2016.
  15. ↑ Martin Spiewak: The nerd of Allah . In: Die Zeit , February 18, 2010, accessed June 4, 2016.