Colegio Pestalozzi (german: Pestalozzi Schule) is a German international

school A school is an educational institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students under the direction of teachers. Most countries have systems of formal education, which is sometimes compuls ...

Belgrano Belgrano may refer to: People * Joaquín Belgrano (1773–1848), an Argentine patriot * José Denis Belgrano (1844–1917), Spanish painter * Joseph Belgrano (1762–1823), Argentine military officer and politician, brother of Manuel * Manuel Belg ...

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

. It is governed by the Asociación Cultural Pestalozzi. 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 Ernesto Alemann (1893–1982) was the son of Swiss immigrants to Argentina. For several decades he was the editor-in-chief and publisher of the family newspaper ''Argentinisches Tageblatt'', printed in German, in Buenos Aires. Ernesto Alemann playe ...

, 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. The school welcomed many pedagogues that were fleeing Germany for political reasons, as well as many

German-Jewish The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (''circa'' 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi 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. 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 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (, ; 12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking r ...

, where the values of the central European culture and the German language could be upheld.

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