Colegio Pestalozzi (Argentina)

Colegio Pestalozzi (German: Pestalozzi Schule) is a German international school in Belgrano, Buenos Aires. It is governed by the Asociación Cultural Pestalozzi.[1] It serves kindergarten through secondary school: Colegio Pestalozzi offers elementary and secondary education as well as an "initial level" for children from two to five years.

Colegio Pestalozzi
Address
Ramón Freire 1824

Buenos Aires

Argentina
Coordinates34.5692°S 58.4622°W / -34.5692; -58.4622
Information
TypePrivate
Established1 March 1934
Websitehttp://www.pestalozzi.edu.ar

It was founded in 1934 by Dr. Ernesto Alemann, an Argentine of Swiss origin. It was founded in opposition to the Nazi regime that was prevalent in Germany at the time, as a consequence of the incoming migration from Germany into Argentina.[2] The school welcomed many pedagogues that were fleeing Germany for political reasons, as well as many German-Jewish, mostly secular, students. Colegio Pesalozzi houses the first Stolpersteine in Buenos Aires (and the first outside of Europe), a plate that commemorates the victims of Nazism.[3][4]

Alemann's aim was to create a place for free and humanistic education in accordance with the thoughts of the Swiss pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, where the values of the central European culture and the German language could be upheld.

References
  1. Home page (Spanish). Pestalozzi-Schule. Retrieved on February 9, 2015. "El Colegio Pestalozzi, ubicado en el barrio de Belgrano de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, es una institución educativa mixta, laica y bicultural." and "Asociación Cultural Pestalozzi | Ramón Freire 1882 | C1428CYB | Ciudad de Buenos Aires | Argentina"
  2. Friedmann, Germán C. (2011). "Educación, política e identidad. La escuela Pestalozzi de Buenos Aires entre 1934 y 1945". Iberoamericana (2001-). 11 (43): 61–77. ISSN 1577-3388.
  3. (www.dw.com), Deutsche Welle. "First 'Stolperstein' Holocaust memorial laid outside Europe | DW Learn German". DW Learn German. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  4. Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. ""Stolpersteine" en Buenos Aires | DW | 09.11.2017". DW.COM (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-18.


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