Colegio Pestalozzi (Argentina)

Private school in Buenos Aires, Argentina

34°34′09″S 58°27′44″W / 34.5692°S 58.4622°W / -34.5692; -58.4622InformationTypePrivateEstablished1 March 1934Websitehttp://www.pestalozzi.edu.ar

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.

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

^ 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"
^ 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.
^ (www.dw.com), Deutsche Welle. "First 'Stolperstein' Holocaust memorial laid outside Europe | DW Learn German". DW Learn German. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
^ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. ""Stolpersteine" en Buenos Aires | DW | 09.11.2017". DW.COM (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2022-09-18.

External links

(in German) Pestalozzi-Schule
(in Spanish) Pestalozzi-Schule

International education in Argentina

Buenos Aires

French	Lycée Franco-Argentin Jean Mermoz Colegio Franco Argentino (Buenos Aires)
British	Washington School
German	Colegio Pestalozzi
Irish	Colegio Cardenal Newman
Italian	Scuola Italiana Cristoforo Colombo
Korean	Instituto Coreano Argentino

Other

Escuela Dante Alighieri (Córdoba)
Colegio Parque de España (Rosario)
Goethe-Schule Buenos Aires (Boulogne Sur Mer)
Hölters Schule(*) (Villa Ballester)
St. George's College (Quilmes)
Asociación Escuelas Lincoln (Vicente López)

All schools are located within the city of Buenos Aires unless noted; Schools marked with asterisks (*) do not appear on the ZfA list of German schools.

v t e German international schools in South America
Argentina	Colegio Pestalozzi Hölters Schule(*) Goethe-Schule Buenos Aires
Bolivia	Deutsche Schule La Paz Deutsche Schule Santa Cruz
Brazil	Deutsche Schule Rio de Janeiro Colégio Humboldt São Paulo Colégio Visconde de Porto Seguro
Colombia	Deutsche Schule Bogotá German School of Barranquilla
Chile	Deutsche Schule Santiago Deutsche Schule Valdivia
Ecuador	German School of Guayaquil Deutsche Schule Cuenca Deutsche Schule Quito
Paraguay	Deutsche Schule Asunción
Peru	Colegio Peruano-Alemán Beata Imelda Deutsche Schule Lima Alexander von Humboldt Deutsche Schule Max Uhle Arequipa
Uruguay	German School of Montevideo
Venezuela	Colegio Humboldt, Caracas
Schools marked with asterisks *()** do not appear on the ZfA list of German schools. There were previously schools in Villa Ballester (Hölters Schule), Argentina; in Los Ángeles, Osorno, Puerto Montt, Puerto Varas, Punta Arenas, Temuco, Valparaiso, and La Unión, Chile and a school in Maracaibo recognized by the West German government (see p. 23-24 and 29/51)