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Odenwaldschule

May 19, 2023

The Odenwaldschule was a German school located in Heppenheim in the Odenwald. Founded in 1910, it was Germany's oldest Landerziehungsheim, a private boarding school located in a rural setting. Edith and Paul Geheeb established it using their concept of progressive education, which integrated the work of the head and hand. The school went bankrupt and was closed in 2015, following the revelation of numerous cases of sexual abuse of students.

Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim
Political instruction at the Odenwaldschule during the Nazi era

History and educational concept

 
The Goethehaus at the Odenwaldschule

The Odenwaldschulewas founded by Paul and Edith Geheeb on 14 April 1910, emerging as part of the reformed education movement at the beginning of the 20th century. Edith Geheeb's father, Max Cassirer, was the town councilmember for Berlin, and supported the founding of the school, financing the land purchase and the buildings.

Geheeb felt inspired by the phrase "be who you are" (Γένοιο οἷος ἔσσι.) from the Greek poet Pindar. Thus the school was to promote community, personality and self-determined actions. To begin with, there were only 14 students, all housed in the main building, the Goethehaus.

The founders' concept was originally based on the fundamentals of the work schools, for example in the introduction of a course system and the dispensation with year groups, and the idea that all students should be able to co-create, participate, and be equally responsible. The school rules underpinned this philosophy, reading "The Odenwaldschule is a free community, in which the different generations treat each other impartially and can learn from each other". Where possible, students received individual learning stimuli such as intellectual, practical, musical and artistic learning methods, and academic learning was connected with vocational training. Students lived in a mix-age living area, headed by a teacher, and rearranged every year . Being on an informal basis with the teacher was a further unusual characteristics of the school's educational concept, long before the mainstream emergence of anti-authoritarian schooling.

In the 1920s the school was internationally recognised, and until 1938 teachers from other countries, including England and the United States, taught there. From 1924 until 1932 the educator Martin Wagenschein worked at the school. In 1934 Paul and Edith Geheeb emigrated to Switzerland with around 25 students and some teachers and formed the Ecole d'Humanité. In 1939 the Reicharbeitsdienst (Reich Labour Service of the National Socialist government) requested the takeover of the Odenwaldschule as it contradicted the "concept of the national socialistic schooling community."

After the war, the school was run by Minna Specht from 1946 to 1951.[1] In the years following the Second World War, the school's teaching system was reformed many times. In 1963 it became a UNESCO ASPNet project. The school was a member of the Schulverbund Blick über den Zaun (literally: School Union - view over the fence).

Integrated Comprehensive School

The Odenwaldschule was an integrated comprehensive school. It was possible to take a metalwork vocational course or a chemistry assistant course with a state qualification, alongside a technical diploma or the full Abitur.

Life at the Odenwaldschule

There were approximately 250 school places, although the number of student fluctuated. At the end of 2011 there was roughly 200 students at the Odenwaldschule. In 2010 almost half of the students came from the state of Hesse, one fifth came directly from the Bergstraße district, and "almost a third were state supported children."[2] Most of the students lived at the boarding school in family-like groups of six to ten people. The average class size was 17 students. Roughly half of the 120 employees were teachers at the school.

Costs

A boarding school place cost 2.370 € (as of the 2012/13 academic year), and there were additional fees for vocational courses. External students paid a lower amount.

Abuse Cases

Official school letters, found in archives and reviewed in a dissertation, point to sexual abuse of girls and boys under the management of school founders Paul and Edith Geheeb. However no one contacted the police.[3][4]

In 1998 reports from former students were made public, according to which the then-headmaster Gerold Becker had sexually abused multiple students in the 1970s to the 1980s.[2] Andreas Huckele, a former student, who attended Odenwaldschule from 1981 to 1988 and was later protected by the Frankfurter Rundschau with the pseudonym Jürgen Dehmers, had sent two letters to headmaster Wolfgang Harder in June 1998.

The school explained in 1998 that the former headmaster had never contradicted "the victim's statements when he had to meet with the board of directors and vacated his functions and duties". In 1998 the victims of sexual abuse met with the former headteacher Harder and the former SPD-MP Peter Conradi - as the vice-president of the sponsoring organisation - and agreed to review the abuse accusations, but this did not happen as promised.[5]

In the late 1990s, and again in 2010, the school became the center of national attention when an investigation revealed the sexual abuse of more than 130 pupils by at least 8 teachers in the 1970s and 1980s.[6][7][8]

Review

One year later the Darmstadt prosecution service dismissed the penal case review due to statutory limitations. When Jörg Schindler reported the accusations in the Frankfurter Rundschau in November 1999, Florian Lindermann, the spokesman for the former students, criticized the coverage as over the top.

In 2010 Margarita Kaufmann, headmistress at the school since 2007, called for a new inquiry into the sex abuse cases. Kaufmann spoke of 33 victims that she knew of, and eight teachers that she believed were guilty of sexual assault between 1966 and 1991; it was assumed that more than ten teachers were perpetrators. The music teacher Wolfgang Held, who died in 2006, was named as the main perpetrator alongside Becker.[9] The Frankfurter Rundschau daily newspaper reported on 6 March 2010 that they believed that there had been between 50 and 100 victims. The Darmstadt prosecution service dismissed six of the 13 preliminary proceedings. At the end of May 2010 the prosecution service investigated six former teachers and one student.[10] There was no court ruling until the end of 2012.

In a letter sent by Gerold Becker to the Odenwaldschule community in March 2010, he asked his victims for forgiveness and renewed his offer to come forward and speak to the victims. Becker died on 7 July 2010 without suffering legal consequences.[11]

The board of directors at the Odenwaldschule initially rejected the idea of financial compensation for the victims in a July 2010 letter.[12] In September 2010, however, the board of directors promised financial compensation for 50 former students who were affected. Additionally, there remained further unresolved cases requiring review.[13]

The lawyers Claudia Burgsmüller and Brigitte Tilmann were entrusted with the task of reviewing the sex abuse cases in 2010. According to the final report, released on 17 December 2010, at least 132 students were victims of attack by teachers between 1965 and 1998. The lawyers who wrote the report said the documentation was incomplete.[14][15]

In March 2011 Christian Füller's monograph, entitled Sündenfall. Wie die Reformschule ihre Ideale missbrauchte (literally: "The Fall from Grace. How the Reform School Abused its Ideals"), was published. Füller calls the school, when it was under Becker's management, a "reformed education paradise with a torture chamber in the basement" based on the model of a "aristocratic patriarchy". He speaks of paedophiles and "robbers of childhood", which had systematically taken over the part of the school.[16]

Two months later Tilman Jens, a former student and until the summer of 2014 a member of the Odenwaldschule's sponsoring organisation, published the book Freiwild. Die Odenwaldschule - Ein Lehrstück von Tätern und Opfern. (literally: "Fair game. The Odenwaldschule - a lesson of attackers and victims.") Jens demanded more balanced coverage: contrary to the customs of the constitutional state also innocent people were denounced as assailants or co-assailants.[17] In October 2014 an article of in Deutschlandfunk reported him as saying that even if the film Die Auserwählten (The Favored Few) was filmed at the Odenwaldschule -showing a willingness on the part of school's management to confront the history of misconduct -it failed in previous years to reach further resolutions.[18]

In September 2010 several victims formed a group called Glasbrechen (literally - breaking of glass), with the goal of helping people who had experienced sexual, physical and psychological attacks.[19][20]

In July 2011 the former headmistress Kaufmann resigned from her office to focus on the review of the sexual abuse cases.[21] In 2011 the club Odenwaldschule e.V. with the Altschülervereinigung und Förderkreis der Odenwaldschule e.V. (literally: "Association of former students and society for promotion of the Odenwaldschule") formed the foundation "Brücken bauen" (literally "building bridges").[22][23] According to its charter the foundation carries out and supports measures to aid victims of sexual violence, physical, psychological abuse at the Odenwaldschule.[24]

A fierce critic of the legal review process is Andreas Huckele, who published his book Wie laut soll ich denn noch schreien?, under a pseudonym. In his acceptance speech for winning the Geschwister-Scholl-Preis in 2012 he criticized the lack of action taken by the school since the first article was published in the Frankfurter Runschau in 1999.[25]

Teachers and management dismissed because of child pornography

On 9 April 2014 a teacher, who taught and lived at the school from 2011, had their room searched by the authorities. The teacher admitted to having downloaded child pornography before his appointment at the Odenwaldschule. He was immediately dismissed from teaching at the school. The district administrator Matthias Wilkes criticised the school's management because they had not adhered to promised transparency.

After this incident, in June 2014, the headmaster Däschler-Seiler handed in his resignation. In July 2014, the sponsoring organisation dismissed the entire management.

Attempts to save the Odenwaldschule

In February 2015, Gerhard Herbert, as chairman of the sponsoring organisation, introduced a new management team consisting of the boarding school's headteacher Sonya Mayoufi and manager Marcus Halfen-Kieper. The new management team tried to rebuild trust in the Odenwaldschule. Additionally the school's sponsorship was to be transferred to a foundation and a not-for-profit private limited company. The new management team were to take over the running of the organization that summer, but the sponsoring organisation dismissed the team on 27 July 2015 after unspecified disputes.

Closure of the school

The sponsoring organisation publicly announced on 25 April 2015 that it had not succeeded in securing the finances for continued operation, after a large part of the trust funded by former students had been spent. This meant the definite end of the school. The remaining time until the next academic year was used to wind down all school operations and to move the students to other schools, according to Vice District Administrator Schimpf. "The school is where it is now through its own mistakes, its own structures, by turning a blind eye and ducking away, through its own non-action", the head of the management team, Marcus Halfen-Kieper, explained. "We could and should neither try to blame the responsibility for the situation on the media nor the regulators or the politics nor even the victims of sexual assault at the school."

Parents and students fought to keep the school open. On 30 May 2015, the chairman of the sponsoring organisation resigned after temporarily giving up the reigns to the new management team on 17 May 2015. The school, parents, and former students hoped to attract financing for the next two academic years by setting up a trust, but were not successful.

On 16 June 2015, the sponsoring organisation declared itself bankrupt and in September 2015, the school was permanently closed.

In 2016, the inventory of the school (furniture, tools and the library) were sold by public auction, and the school's archive was given to a public archive in Darmstadt for preservation. Months later, the buildings were sold to an entrepreneur from Mannheim. Also in 2016, a group consisting of parents and donors who wanted to reopen the school under a new name ("Schuldorf Lindenstein") declared the end of their efforts.

Future plans

According to the purchaser of the school's buildings, the buildings are planned to be renovated and established as a housing complex, a holiday park and a historical museum following the acquisition of adjacent land. The new amenities are planned to provide space for 300 people and will be named "Wohnpark Ober-Hambach".[26]

Notable alumni

Notable staff and teachers

See also

In film

  • Und wir sind nicht die Einzigen [de]. Director: Christoph Röhl; Produzenten: Dirk Wilutzky, Anja Wedell; Redakteure: Inge Classen, Udo Bremer. Eine Produktion von Herbstfilm im Auftrag von 3Sat 2011, 85 min
  • Geschlossene Gesellschaft.[28]
  • Die Auserwählten. Director: Christoph Röhl[29]

Further reading

  • Detmers, Jürgen (2011). Wie laut soll ich denn noch schreien? Die Odenwaldschule und der sexuelle Missbrauch (in German). Rowohlt, Reinbek. ISBN 978-3-498-01332-5.

References

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Odenwaldschule.
  1. ^ Dr. Inge Hansen-Schaberg, Erinnerung an Minna Specht 21 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine Philosophical-Political Academy. Retrieved July 19, 2010 (in German)
  2. ^ a b "Sonder- und Videomaut". asfinag.at. Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  3. ^ Matthias Bartsch, Markus Verbeet (2010), "Die Wurzeln des Missbrauchs", Der Spiegel, 19 July 2010, no. 29
  4. ^ Christl Stark: Idee und Gestalt einer Schule im Urteil des Elternhauses. Dissertation, Pädagogische Hochschule Heidelberg 1998.
  5. ^ Jörg Schindler (17 November 1999). "Der Lack ist ab". Frankfurter Rundschau. Retrieved 9 August 2011.
  6. ^ Menke, Birger (1 March 2010). "Diskret ins Desaster". Spiegel Online.
  7. ^ Burgsmüller, Claudia; Tilmann, Brigitte. "Abschlussbericht über die bisherigen Mitteilungen über sexuelle Ausbeutung von Schülern und Schülerinnen an der Odenwaldschule im Zeitraum 1960 bis 2010" ((PDF; 395 kB)).
  8. ^ Bartsch, Matthias; Verbeet, Markus (22 July 2010). "The Roots of Abuse: Decades of Molestation Haunt Odenwaldschule". Der Spiegel. ISSN 2195-1349. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
  9. ^ z. B. "OED" s. v. ahoy
  10. ^ see quote in the retrospective language
  11. ^ "Ex-Direktor der Odenwaldschule gestorben". DIE WELT. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
  12. ^ Wille, Joachim (8 July 2010). "Odenwaldschule lehnt Entschädigung ab: "Es gibt nichts zu feiern"". fr-online.de (in German). Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  13. ^ Wille, Joachim (27 September 2010). "Odenwaldschule: Missbrauchsopfer müssen warten". fr-online.de (in German). Retrieved 4 December 2015.
  14. ^ Claudia Burgsmüller, Brigitte Tilmann Abschlussbericht über die bisherigen Mitteilungen über sexuelle Ausbeutung von Schülern und Schülerinnen an der Odenwaldschule im Zeitraum 1960 bis 2010 (PDF; 395 kB)
  15. ^ www.tagesschau.de
  16. ^ "Paradies mit Folterkeller". tagesspiegel.de. n.d. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  17. ^ Tilman Jens im Gespräch mit Joachim Scholl: "Wir haben nicht genau hingeguckt". Odenwaldschule: Tilman Jens beklagt "Hatz" auf nachweislich unschuldige Lehrer. Deutschlandradio Kultur, Radiofeuilleton, 16 May 2011, 15.07 Uhr, retrieved 17 May 2011.
  18. ^ "Deutschlandfunk – Film über Odenwaldschule Stockende Aufklärung". Retrieved 3 October 2014.
  19. ^ Adrian Koerfer: Erneut versagt die Schule, Frankfurter Rundschau, 17 September 2011.
  20. ^ Satzung des Vereins "Glasbrechen". (PDF; 99 kB) Stand 24 October 2012.
  21. ^ dpa (9 June 2011). "Missbrauchsskandal: Leiterin der Odenwaldschule tritt zurück". zeit.de. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  22. ^ Die Stifter. Website der Stiftung "Brücken bauen", retrieved 30 April 2013.
  23. ^ "Sexueller Missbrauch: 7.000 Euro für Opfer der Odenwaldschule". zeit.de. 18 January 2012. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  24. ^ Stiftungszweck und Förderrahmen. Website der Stiftung "Brücken bauen", retrieved 30 April 2013.
  25. ^ Jürgen Detmers: Wie laut soll ich denn noch schreien? Die Odenwaldschule und der sexuelle Missbrauch. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-498-01332-5
  26. ^ "Odenwaldschule soll Ferienpark werden". spiegel.de. 20 April 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2017.
  27. ^ "Odenwaldschule: Familie Weizsäcker bricht Schweigen". Spiegel Online. 27 March 2010. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
  28. ^ Tobias Büchner. . Archived from the original on 5 March 2017. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  29. ^ "Film zum Missbrauchsskandal an der Odenwaldschule". 5 July 2014. Retrieved 2 October 2014.

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odenwaldschule, german, school, located, heppenheim, odenwald, founded, 1910, germany, oldest, landerziehungsheim, private, boarding, school, located, rural, setting, edith, paul, geheeb, established, using, their, concept, progressive, education, which, integ. The Odenwaldschule was a German school located in Heppenheim in the Odenwald Founded in 1910 it was Germany s oldest Landerziehungsheim a private boarding school located in a rural setting Edith and Paul Geheeb established it using their concept of progressive education which integrated the work of the head and hand The school went bankrupt and was closed in 2015 following the revelation of numerous cases of sexual abuse of students Odenwaldschule in Heppenheim Political instruction at the Odenwaldschule during the Nazi era Contents 1 History and educational concept 2 Integrated Comprehensive School 2 1 Life at the Odenwaldschule 2 2 Costs 3 Abuse Cases 3 1 Review 4 Teachers and management dismissed because of child pornography 5 Attempts to save the Odenwaldschule 5 1 Closure of the school 5 2 Future plans 6 Notable alumni 7 Notable staff and teachers 8 See also 9 In film 10 Further reading 11 ReferencesHistory and educational concept Edit The Goethehaus at the Odenwaldschule The Odenwaldschulewas founded by Paul and Edith Geheeb on 14 April 1910 emerging as part of the reformed education movement at the beginning of the 20th century Edith Geheeb s father Max Cassirer was the town councilmember for Berlin and supported the founding of the school financing the land purchase and the buildings Geheeb felt inspired by the phrase be who you are Genoio oἷos ἔssi from the Greek poet Pindar Thus the school was to promote community personality and self determined actions To begin with there were only 14 students all housed in the main building the Goethehaus The founders concept was originally based on the fundamentals of the work schools for example in the introduction of a course system and the dispensation with year groups and the idea that all students should be able to co create participate and be equally responsible The school rules underpinned this philosophy reading The Odenwaldschule is a free community in which the different generations treat each other impartially and can learn from each other Where possible students received individual learning stimuli such as intellectual practical musical and artistic learning methods and academic learning was connected with vocational training Students lived in a mix age living area headed by a teacher and rearranged every year Being on an informal basis with the teacher was a further unusual characteristics of the school s educational concept long before the mainstream emergence of anti authoritarian schooling In the 1920s the school was internationally recognised and until 1938 teachers from other countries including England and the United States taught there From 1924 until 1932 the educator Martin Wagenschein worked at the school In 1934 Paul and Edith Geheeb emigrated to Switzerland with around 25 students and some teachers and formed the Ecole d Humanite In 1939 the Reicharbeitsdienst Reich Labour Service of the National Socialist government requested the takeover of the Odenwaldschule as it contradicted the concept of the national socialistic schooling community After the war the school was run by Minna Specht from 1946 to 1951 1 In the years following the Second World War the school s teaching system was reformed many times In 1963 it became a UNESCO ASPNet project The school was a member of the Schulverbund Blick uber den Zaun literally School Union view over the fence Integrated Comprehensive School EditThe Odenwaldschule was an integrated comprehensive school It was possible to take a metalwork vocational course or a chemistry assistant course with a state qualification alongside a technical diploma or the full Abitur Life at the Odenwaldschule Edit There were approximately 250 school places although the number of student fluctuated At the end of 2011 there was roughly 200 students at the Odenwaldschule In 2010 almost half of the students came from the state of Hesse one fifth came directly from the Bergstrasse district and almost a third were state supported children 2 Most of the students lived at the boarding school in family like groups of six to ten people The average class size was 17 students Roughly half of the 120 employees were teachers at the school Costs Edit A boarding school place cost 2 370 as of the 2012 13 academic year and there were additional fees for vocational courses External students paid a lower amount Abuse Cases EditOfficial school letters found in archives and reviewed in a dissertation point to sexual abuse of girls and boys under the management of school founders Paul and Edith Geheeb However no one contacted the police 3 4 In 1998 reports from former students were made public according to which the then headmaster Gerold Becker had sexually abused multiple students in the 1970s to the 1980s 2 Andreas Huckele a former student who attended Odenwaldschule from 1981 to 1988 and was later protected by the Frankfurter Rundschau with the pseudonym Jurgen Dehmers had sent two letters to headmaster Wolfgang Harder in June 1998 The school explained in 1998 that the former headmaster had never contradicted the victim s statements when he had to meet with the board of directors and vacated his functions and duties In 1998 the victims of sexual abuse met with the former headteacher Harder and the former SPD MP Peter Conradi as the vice president of the sponsoring organisation and agreed to review the abuse accusations but this did not happen as promised 5 In the late 1990s and again in 2010 the school became the center of national attention when an investigation revealed the sexual abuse of more than 130 pupils by at least 8 teachers in the 1970s and 1980s 6 7 8 Review Edit One year later the Darmstadt prosecution service dismissed the penal case review due to statutory limitations When Jorg Schindler reported the accusations in the Frankfurter Rundschau in November 1999 Florian Lindermann the spokesman for the former students criticized the coverage as over the top In 2010 Margarita Kaufmann headmistress at the school since 2007 called for a new inquiry into the sex abuse cases Kaufmann spoke of 33 victims that she knew of and eight teachers that she believed were guilty of sexual assault between 1966 and 1991 it was assumed that more than ten teachers were perpetrators The music teacher Wolfgang Held who died in 2006 was named as the main perpetrator alongside Becker 9 The Frankfurter Rundschau daily newspaper reported on 6 March 2010 that they believed that there had been between 50 and 100 victims The Darmstadt prosecution service dismissed six of the 13 preliminary proceedings At the end of May 2010 the prosecution service investigated six former teachers and one student 10 There was no court ruling until the end of 2012 In a letter sent by Gerold Becker to the Odenwaldschule community in March 2010 he asked his victims for forgiveness and renewed his offer to come forward and speak to the victims Becker died on 7 July 2010 without suffering legal consequences 11 The board of directors at the Odenwaldschule initially rejected the idea of financial compensation for the victims in a July 2010 letter 12 In September 2010 however the board of directors promised financial compensation for 50 former students who were affected Additionally there remained further unresolved cases requiring review 13 The lawyers Claudia Burgsmuller and Brigitte Tilmann were entrusted with the task of reviewing the sex abuse cases in 2010 According to the final report released on 17 December 2010 at least 132 students were victims of attack by teachers between 1965 and 1998 The lawyers who wrote the report said the documentation was incomplete 14 15 In March 2011 Christian Fuller s monograph entitled Sundenfall Wie die Reformschule ihre Ideale missbrauchte literally The Fall from Grace How the Reform School Abused its Ideals was published Fuller calls the school when it was under Becker s management a reformed education paradise with a torture chamber in the basement based on the model of a aristocratic patriarchy He speaks of paedophiles and robbers of childhood which had systematically taken over the part of the school 16 Two months later Tilman Jens a former student and until the summer of 2014 a member of the Odenwaldschule s sponsoring organisation published the book Freiwild Die Odenwaldschule Ein Lehrstuck von Tatern und Opfern literally Fair game The Odenwaldschule a lesson of attackers and victims Jens demanded more balanced coverage contrary to the customs of the constitutional state also innocent people were denounced as assailants or co assailants 17 In October 2014 an article of in Deutschlandfunk reported him as saying that even if the film Die Auserwahlten The Favored Few was filmed at the Odenwaldschule showing a willingness on the part of school s management to confront the history of misconduct it failed in previous years to reach further resolutions 18 In September 2010 several victims formed a group called Glasbrechen literally breaking of glass with the goal of helping people who had experienced sexual physical and psychological attacks 19 20 In July 2011 the former headmistress Kaufmann resigned from her office to focus on the review of the sexual abuse cases 21 In 2011 the club Odenwaldschule e V with the Altschulervereinigung und Forderkreis der Odenwaldschule e V literally Association of former students and society for promotion of the Odenwaldschule formed the foundation Brucken bauen literally building bridges 22 23 According to its charter the foundation carries out and supports measures to aid victims of sexual violence physical psychological abuse at the Odenwaldschule 24 A fierce critic of the legal review process is Andreas Huckele who published his book Wie laut soll ich denn noch schreien under a pseudonym In his acceptance speech for winning the Geschwister Scholl Preis in 2012 he criticized the lack of action taken by the school since the first article was published in the Frankfurter Runschau in 1999 25 Teachers and management dismissed because of child pornography EditOn 9 April 2014 a teacher who taught and lived at the school from 2011 had their room searched by the authorities The teacher admitted to having downloaded child pornography before his appointment at the Odenwaldschule He was immediately dismissed from teaching at the school The district administrator Matthias Wilkes criticised the school s management because they had not adhered to promised transparency After this incident in June 2014 the headmaster Daschler Seiler handed in his resignation In July 2014 the sponsoring organisation dismissed the entire management Attempts to save the Odenwaldschule EditIn February 2015 Gerhard Herbert as chairman of the sponsoring organisation introduced a new management team consisting of the boarding school s headteacher Sonya Mayoufi and manager Marcus Halfen Kieper The new management team tried to rebuild trust in the Odenwaldschule Additionally the school s sponsorship was to be transferred to a foundation and a not for profit private limited company The new management team were to take over the running of the organization that summer but the sponsoring organisation dismissed the team on 27 July 2015 after unspecified disputes Closure of the school Edit The sponsoring organisation publicly announced on 25 April 2015 that it had not succeeded in securing the finances for continued operation after a large part of the trust funded by former students had been spent This meant the definite end of the school The remaining time until the next academic year was used to wind down all school operations and to move the students to other schools according to Vice District Administrator Schimpf The school is where it is now through its own mistakes its own structures by turning a blind eye and ducking away through its own non action the head of the management team Marcus Halfen Kieper explained We could and should neither try to blame the responsibility for the situation on the media nor the regulators or the politics nor even the victims of sexual assault at the school Parents and students fought to keep the school open On 30 May 2015 the chairman of the sponsoring organisation resigned after temporarily giving up the reigns to the new management team on 17 May 2015 The school parents and former students hoped to attract financing for the next two academic years by setting up a trust but were not successful On 16 June 2015 the sponsoring organisation declared itself bankrupt and in September 2015 the school was permanently closed In 2016 the inventory of the school furniture tools and the library were sold by public auction and the school s archive was given to a public archive in Darmstadt for preservation Months later the buildings were sold to an entrepreneur from Mannheim Also in 2016 a group consisting of parents and donors who wanted to reopen the school under a new name Schuldorf Lindenstein declared the end of their efforts Future plans Edit According to the purchaser of the school s buildings the buildings are planned to be renovated and established as a housing complex a holiday park and a historical museum following the acquisition of adjacent land The new amenities are planned to provide space for 300 people and will be named Wohnpark Ober Hambach 26 Notable alumni EditHans Bethe Daniel Cohn Bendit Nigel Dennis Amelie Fried Klaus Gysi Wolfgang Hildesheimer Felicitas Kukuck Klaus Mann Sandra Nettelbeck daughter of Uwe Nettelbeck Konstantin Neven DuMont Rosalinde von Ossietzky Palm daughter of Carl von Ossietzky Wolfgang Porsche Dankwart Rustow Rudolf Ritsema Andreas von Weizsacker son of Richard von Weizsacker 27 Oda SchottmullerNotable staff and teachers EditFridolin Friedmann Alois Kottmann Alfred Lande Peter Suhrkamp Minna Specht Martin Wagenschein Wolfgang HildemannSee also EditLandschulheim HerrlingenIn film EditUnd wir sind nicht die Einzigen de Director Christoph Rohl Produzenten Dirk Wilutzky Anja Wedell Redakteure Inge Classen Udo Bremer Eine Produktion von Herbstfilm im Auftrag von 3Sat 2011 85 min Geschlossene Gesellschaft 28 Die Auserwahlten Director Christoph Rohl 29 Further reading EditDetmers Jurgen 2011 Wie laut soll ich denn noch schreien Die Odenwaldschule und der sexuelle Missbrauch in German Rowohlt Reinbek ISBN 978 3 498 01332 5 References Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Odenwaldschule Dr Inge Hansen Schaberg Erinnerung an Minna Specht Archived 21 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine Philosophical Political Academy Retrieved July 19 2010 in German a b Sonder und Videomaut asfinag at Retrieved 12 February 2015 Matthias Bartsch Markus Verbeet 2010 Die Wurzeln des Missbrauchs Der Spiegel 19 July 2010 no 29 Christl Stark Idee und Gestalt einer Schule im Urteil des Elternhauses Dissertation Padagogische Hochschule Heidelberg 1998 Jorg Schindler 17 November 1999 Der Lack ist ab Frankfurter Rundschau Retrieved 9 August 2011 Menke Birger 1 March 2010 Diskret ins Desaster Spiegel Online Burgsmuller Claudia Tilmann Brigitte Abschlussbericht uber die bisherigen Mitteilungen uber sexuelle Ausbeutung von Schulern und Schulerinnen an der Odenwaldschule im Zeitraum 1960 bis 2010 PDF 395 kB Bartsch Matthias Verbeet Markus 22 July 2010 The Roots of Abuse Decades of Molestation Haunt Odenwaldschule Der Spiegel ISSN 2195 1349 Retrieved 14 November 2021 z B OED s v ahoy see quote in the retrospective language Ex Direktor der Odenwaldschule gestorben DIE WELT Retrieved 2 December 2015 Wille Joachim 8 July 2010 Odenwaldschule lehnt Entschadigung ab Es gibt nichts zu feiern fr online de in German Retrieved 4 December 2015 Wille Joachim 27 September 2010 Odenwaldschule Missbrauchsopfer mussen warten fr online de in German Retrieved 4 December 2015 Claudia Burgsmuller Brigitte Tilmann Abschlussbericht uber die bisherigen Mitteilungen uber sexuelle Ausbeutung von Schulern und Schulerinnen an der Odenwaldschule im Zeitraum 1960 bis 2010 PDF 395 kB www tagesschau 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