"Every day was a school day" – The early days of PGH

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The early 2000s

PGH Private Ganztagsschule Holzkirchen Ueber Uns Boom

Holzkirchen begins to boom

  • Business rates reform helps to attract numerous companies to Holzkirchen, including pharmaceutical corporation Sandoz
  • The municipality lobbies the Bavarian Private Schools' Association (VBP), demanding an increased choice of schools and offering renovated premises in the old hospital for the purpose.
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2003

Privatgymnasium Holzkirchen

The school opens – Tuition in the "hospital"

  • 2003 The school is founded by Bernd Dietrich, current President of the VBP. The school opens with a single Year 1 and Year 5 class.
  • "Every day was a school day", he says, recalling times when flexibility was paramount. Patients and pupils shared the corridors, and lessons took place next door to an operating theatre
  • 2004 The school takes sole ownership of the premises at 7 Krankenhausstrasse
  • Ongoing renovation of the premises
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From 2009

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State certification

  • 2009 State certification of the primary school
  • 2012 State certification of the secondary school
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From 2014

PGH Ueber Uns Geschaeftsfuehrung

New management

  • From the 2014/2015 school year Dorothea and Heribert Zimmermann take over management of the school
  • The couple have already established a successful private vocational school and physiotherapy academy and are active members of the VBP
  • August 2019 Construction starts on the new secondary school premises