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Everything began in September 1979 when a group of Francophone and Francophile residents in Hamburg created a public Franco-German school, initially named the École franco-allemande, which started with six children in a youth center in Alsterdorf (Bebelallee). When space became cramped, the school moved to the City-Nord district (Mexikoring). The cofounder Elisabeth Bockelmann welcomed growing enrollment as Hamburg's economy integrated with Europe and foreign-language knowledge grew in importance. Early studies showed that foreign languages could be learned early and that immersion with native speakers provided an ideal learning context, making the Franco-German school popular with both French and Hamburg students from the start. In 1987 the two French schools merged and the school became Lycée Français de Hambourg; AbiBac was introduced in 2000, and in August 2020 the DFG-LFA began operating at Hartsprung while a new Altona campus on Struenseestraße was being planned.
The school is headed by a Proviseur for the LFA, Torge Lorenzen, and a Proviseure for the French section, Florence Burger. Class coordinators include Anja Théry for 5e/6e, Simon Anderson for 5e/4e, and Christina Finck for 3e/2de. The school community includes student delegates and parent representatives (Elternrat), and there are associations that stand alongside the LFA to support activities and projects.
The Elternrat is a nine-member parent team representing all DFG Hamburg parents; many members also serve as class parent representatives. The Elternrat works to ensure the school offers the best of both the French and German systems and fosters bilingualism, intercultural competence, and collaborative teamwork. It provides regular information to parents and can be contacted at elternrat(at)dfg-hamburg.de. Four Elternrat representatives regularly attend school conferences with the principal and other staff, and elections are held each September for three-year terms. The Elternrat addresses topics such as school rules, information access for new families, the canteen, school supplies, conflict prevention, backpack weight, and lost-and-found items. For general matters, the Elternrat can be reached at elternrat(at)dfg-hamburg.de; for issues affecting a specific student or class, parents should contact the class teacher or the class parent representative via the school's conflict-pyramid process.
The Lycée Franco-Allemand Hamburg (LFA Hamburg) is a Franco-German high school co-financed by France and Germany and part of the AEFE network. It serves pupils aged 10 to 18 and offers a bilingual curriculum that blends French and German educational traditions. The partner language is taught daily by native-speaking teachers, and English is introduced from CM2 with additional European languages available. From 4th grade, more subjects are taught jointly in both languages, and from 2nde German and French students study in mixed classes with about half the courses in each language. The school supports bilingual learning across subjects and collaboration across languages; the Franco-German Baccalaureate enables entry to higher education in both countries, and Erasmus+ exchanges are conducted with partner schools. The campus opened at Hartsprung in 2020, with a planned Altona campus near the Elbe in late 2025. Facilities include a central CDI library, a cafeteria, lockers, and new sports halls; media projects such as radio, cinema, and DFG TV are part of the curriculum. After-school care (GBS) operates on-site.
