He had actually learned to be a banker.
But then he had doubts about his career choice - and he changed his plans.
Thomas Nistler is now a teacher - and has been the rector of Eching since September.
Eching
- With the start of the new school year, the elementary and middle school on Danziger Straße in Eching got a new principal with the 52-year-old Thomas Nistler. The native of Upper Palatinate succeeds Gerhard Röck, who had to retire from school in 2019 due to illness. In the meantime, teacher Barbara Müller had temporarily taken over the management of the school. Nistler is assisted by the Echingen teacher Beate Hammer, also in a new role, as the newly appointed acting vice rector.
Nistler came to the teaching profession in a number of detours: “I'm a career changer,” he says of his career. After graduating from high school, he first completed an apprenticeship as a banker and worked as a financial advisor for four years. But the fact that the focus was less and less on people and more and more interest in lucrative degrees made him doubt his career choice - and he was looking for a new direction. Before he decided to study to become a teacher, he gained further experience - studied theology for two semesters and spent a year abroad as a tennis teacher, after having been an ambitious tennis player from childhood. Even today he still plays himself and works as a trainer in the youth field.
The joy in dealing with and the good relationship with children and adolescents, not only in sports but also in Protestant youth work, ultimately made the difference for the teaching profession and the focus on secondary and secondary schools.
In the latter, it also played a role that secondary school students are not infrequently the “stepchildren in the German educational system” who need special support and encouragement.
"I have never worked at a primary school," says Nistler and is looking forward to his new place of work with a total of 430 students in 14 primary and seven middle school classes, who are taught by a staff of almost 50.
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His previous “school career” has taken him - after studying in Regensburg - to Rosenheim, Munich (Milbertshofen) and Dachau, where he worked for three years as Vice-Principal, and then again in Munich to take on the position of Deputy Headmaster.
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Beate Hammer is the new Vice Rector.
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After many years in the state capital, the desire to move his career and life to a more personal environment made him feel at home in Freising two years ago, where he took on the position of headmaster at the secondary school in Lerchenfeld. This is again a so-called focus school, at which the committed educator was able to implement the concept of a county-wide practice class, despite organizational difficulties caused by the pandemic. This offers a targeted offer and a special opportunity for low-learning and low-performing students with a high proportion of professional, especially craft practice.
Nistler reported that the project was received very positively by the school authorities as well as among the school principals.
Last but not least, this successful implementation has strengthened his desire to look for a new task again.
He successfully applied for the vacant headmaster position in Eching.
It was a nice coincidence that a good friend from Nistler's Milbertshofen time, also in a managerial position, “landed” almost parallel to him in the Freising district.
We are talking about the evangelical dean Christian Weigl, who insisted on welcoming Eching's first graders together with the new headmaster at the service at the beginning of the new school year and wishing them all the best.
Ulrike Wilms