A Brief History of the Wirtschaftsschule
1922: The former private school run by the “Giessener Kaufmännischer Verein”, a commercial association, grows into a School of Higher Commercial Training “Kaufmännische Pflichtfortbildungsschule”.
1923: Dipl.-Handelslehrer (Graduate Vocational Commercial Teacher) Dr. Friedrich Feld becomes headmaster of the school.
1925: The one year Höhere Handelsschule (commercial college) and the two year Kaufmännische Berufsfachschule (Commercial Vocational College) come into being.
Commercial Education Institute and High School
situated in the Nordanlage 11 from 1936 - 1944
1956: The school moves into the newly built main building (House A), which it still occupies today. Over time the school spreads into two further buildings, the former Aliceschule (House C) on the same site and the former Albert-Schweitzer-Schule (House D) one street away.
Oswaldsgarten in the sixties
In the background: House A of the FFS, the current main building (picture: Giessener Anzeiger 2011-02-12)
1970s and 1980s: The school expands and offers further courses and qualifications. These include the dual system vocational school for wholesale and foreign trade professionals, a vocational orientation year, two-year courses for secretaries with foreign languages and two-year courses for commercial IT-specialists.
2004: Introduction of two-year higher vocational school for Office Management
2016: The Friedrich-Feld-Schule was renamed Wirtschaftsschule am Oswaldsgarten when evidence was found that Feld's later publications promoted the values of the Nazi ideology.
