Schloss Torgelow: About Us
Sponsoring family & management
The Heidelberg family Lehmann represents a value- and performance-oriented boarding school education in its fourth generation. At Schloss Torgelow, they have realized their dream: a school as a school should be.
Schloss Torgelow was founded in 1994 as the first private boarding school in the new federal states. With its establishment, the Lehmann family aimed to particularly promote high-achieving students. Since its opening, Schloss Torgelow has offered the Abitur after 12 school years and can proudly reflect on the outstanding results of its students in its still short history.
Today, Mario Lehmann, a lawyer and managing director, and his wife Kirsten Lehmann, a high school teacher for German and politics, represent the founding family and bear the responsibility for Schloss Torgelow.
The daughters Clara, Annika, and Marie have themselves attended Schloss Torgelow as students and want to continue the boarding school later in the 4th generation.
Schloss Torgelow is the sister school of the Kurpfalz Boarding School in Bammental near Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, which was founded in 1961 by Mario Lehmann’s grandmother, Mrs. Erna Lehmann. The first student at that time was Helge Lehmann, who continued at the school after completing his high school diploma and studying psychology.
For more than 50 years, intelligent children who do not fully realize their potential have received the support they need to become successful. The Lehmann family also focuses on small classes with a maximum of 10 students at the Kurpfalz boarding school. At the state-recognized Kurpfalz boarding school, they systematically address knowledge gaps, gain self-confidence, and achieve success. The educational program offered includes the Gymnasium (G8), secondary school, and a secondary school preparation course leading to the Abitur.
The management team
Our management team for the boarding school, the school, and the administration, kitchen, and technology.
Markus Klein was born on December 2, 1961, in Hallgarten/Rhineland-Palatinate and studied Catholic theology at the universities of Mainz and Salamanca (Spain) from 1986 to 1991.
After his internship period in Speyer, he led various parishes in Ludwigshafen. In the summer of 2002, he took over the leadership of the Kurpfalz boarding school and also taught religious studies and time management.
In addition, he qualified as a therapist. In October 2004, he came to Torgelow with his wife Elvira Klein and took over the management of the private boarding school.
In September 2005, he took over the overall management from founding director Friedrich W. Buckel, who retired.
Heidrun Franke was born on September 15, 1962, in Wismar and completed her teaching degree in Mathematics and Geography in Greifswald from 1981 to 1985. Since 1985, she has been working as a teacher.
From 1991 to 1997, she taught as a high school teacher at the Gerhart-Hauptmann-Gymnasium Wismar, and from 1997 to 2005 at the Gymnasium Malchin. There, she became deputy principal in 1997. In 2002, she took over as the principal at the Gymnasium Malchin.
On August 1, 2005, she succeeded the founding director Friedrich W. Buckel, who retired, as the headmistress at Schloss Torgelow.
Steffen Bütow was born on May 20, 1971, in Magdeburg and studied business administration at the University of Göttingen from 1990 to 1995. He then worked for nine years at an internationally oriented service company in Hanover, where he spent his last few years as a department head coordinating the controlling of several foreign branches.
Since February 2004, Mr. Bütow has been employed as commercial director at the private boarding school Schloss Torgelow, where he also heads the memory training and business administration projects. From 2001 to 2003, he was runner-up in the German Memory Championships and is a member of Mensa e.V.