Location: British School Hamburg
| Name: | British School Hamburg |
| BFPO: | BAOR 3 |
| Camp: | Altona District |
| Town: | Hamburg |
| Country: | Germany |
| Type(s): | Primary, Secondary |
| Notes A day school open between 1947 to 1954. In the 1947 BFES Gazette the school is called Hohnezollernring (the name of a nearby street) with 325 pupils and 19 staff. The building was previously a school, as it is today. All the other schools listed on this website for the Hamburg area are described as kindergartens.......for the under 7s. This information is courtesy of Brian Strand. | |
The Altona Gynmasium today.
The school served the children of Army, Navy and RAF personnel serving in Hamburg area of the British sector of North Germany.
BSH became in 1947 perhaps the UK's first comprehensive day school
The closure, in 1954, was as a consequence of the British Zone of Occupation rebadging to a defence commitment within the framework of NATO and was relocated west of the Rhine.
A picture of the school on the front steps......image courtesy of The Army Children Archive website (opens in a new window)
The caption reads............ A teenage boy pulling a girl's pigtails as they leave the British School Hamburg with a group of friends, January 1949. The children of British military and government personnel attended a secondary day school (now Gymnasium Altona) located at Hohenzollernring.
(Photo by Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The Kindergardens in the catchment area of the BSH were:
Alsterdorf
Bergedorf
Blankenese
Harvestehude
Othmarschen
Rahlstedt