Schule Schloss Salem
Schule Schloss Salem ("School of the Castle of Salem") is a boarding school in Salem, Southern Germany. It is considered one of the most prestigious such schools in Europe, and is often attended by German and European nobility.
It is divided into the primary school in Hohenfels Castle, the middle school in Salem Castle and the 'upper' secondary school in Spetzgart Castle and the new campus of Härlen.
It offers the German "Abitur", as well as the International Baccalaureate (IB). With a scholarship program and its "Dienste" (Services) such as the Firebrigade, the "Technisches Hilfswerk" short: THW (Technical Support Organisation) or the nautical service. The Schule Schloss Salem, also commonly referred to as Salem College, hence offers an education for its students at the academic as well as social levels.
The school was established by the educator Kurt Hahn with support of Maximilian, Prince of Baden in 1920 and from the beginning accepted girls and boys. Hahn later emigrated to Scotland where he founded the British Salem School of Gordonstoun.
Alumni
- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (as Prince of Greece) (b. 1921)
- (His children attented the British Salem School in Gordonstoun)
- Queen Sofia of Spain (as Princess of Greece)
- Begum Inaara Aga Khan (as Gabriele Thyssen)
- Count Berthold Maria Schenk von Stauffenberg (b. 1934), major general and eldest son of count Claus von Stauffenberg
- Golo Mann (1909-1994), writer and son of Thomas Mann
- Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck (born 1930), head of the princely house of Bismarck
- His Imperial Majesty Eduardo Rivero
- Patrice Bart-Williams (b. 1979), reggae singer
- Moritz A. Kruse (b. 1987)
- Chris Queitsch the man
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