Eduard Spranger High School (Landau)

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Eduard Spranger High School (ESG)
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type of school high school
founding 1432 as a Latin school
place Landau in the Palatinate
country Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Coordinates 49 ° 12 '3 "  N , 8 ° 7' 50"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 12 '3 "  N , 8 ° 7' 50"  E
student approx. 700 (August 2018)
Teachers 62 (school year 2017/18, incl. 7 trainees)
management Dagmar Linnert
Website www.esg-landau.de

The Eduard-Spranger-Gymnasium (ESG) is a state school in Landau in the Palatinate . It goes back to the first city Latin school founded in 1432 . The grammar school was named after the German educator Eduard Spranger in 1964 and was called "Staatliches Altsprachliches Gymnasium" until then.

General

To this day, humanistic education , ancient language teaching and music education are the main focus of the school. Around 950 pupils were taught in the 2009/10 school year; In 2018 there were around 700.

On August 25, 2007, the ESG celebrated its 575th anniversary.

School music

According to the artistic and musical orientation, the school has a choir , an orchestra and a big band . In wind classes , the grammar school enables students from the fifth grade to learn a wind instrument.

School partnerships

Relationships with the Collège Foch in Hagenau, Alsace, have existed since the mid-1960s . Since 1988 the Collège Montaigne in Vannes on the French Atlantic coast has been a partner school of the Eduard-Spranger-Gymnasium. Since 1991 there has been an exchange with the Ernestinum in Gotha in the state of Thuringia .

Discussion about renaming

A renaming of the school has been discussed since the late autumn of 2016, as the namesake Eduard Spranger appeared questionable because of his anti-Semitic convictions and his role in the time of National Socialism . For Benjamin Ortmeyer from the National Socialist Education Research Center at Frankfurt's Goethe University , Spranger was one of the pedagogical “gray area collaborators” and should not be honored by school names. The debate aroused little interest among the students and not a few considered the criticism of the namesake to be excessive. The main interest in the school community was to keep the familiar abbreviation "ESG", which is why one pupil suggested, just for fun, that the school could simply be called "A beautiful high school".

A democratic voting process in spring 2018 led to the decision to keep the previous name. The school committee voted 5: 3 for the retention, after the teachers committee had also voted 26:21 in favor and the parents committee voted 10: 2 against. Ortmeyer's suggestion to revoke the European award “ School without Racism - School with Courage ”, which was awarded in 2016, caused horror and outrage in the school community . The headmistress Dagmar Linnert, who had initiated the discussion about the namesake in 2016/17, then made it clear that the school “has nothing to do with racism , of course.” The State Center for Civic Education Rhineland-Palatinate , which awarded the award on behalf of the European Jugendinitiative, announced after consultation with the German coordination office of the award that the title would not be revoked. However, the school must "constantly deal with this time, with this person and discuss their ambivalences," said the director of the state headquarters, and this process should not be completed with the decision not to rename the school.

Well-known former students


Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sabine Schilling: “The process must not be completed”. In: Die Rheinpfalz , May 19, 2018, accessed March 2019.
  2. ↑ Falk Reimer: Landau: School was named after anti-Semite In: Die Rheinpfalz , June 14, 2017, accessed in March 2019.
  3. ↑ Paula Janke, Lena Wind: Eduard Spranger - “No idea who that is!” In: Die Rheinpfalz , 23 August 2017, accessed in March 2019.