The German European School Singapore was founded in 1971 by expatriate German parents with just six students. This event resulted from German engineers flooding into a rapidly growing post-colonial Singapore, which achieved its independence in 1965 and industrialized to become a global financial center. This made the country highly attractive to West German corporations, which flourished under West Germany’s post-WWII economic boom and aggressively expanded into Southeast Asia.

1971

West Berlin’s Economic Miracle & Singapore’s Industrialisation

German Schools Abroad Society