Helmholtz High School Potsdam

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Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Gymnasium European School
Potsdam-Helmholtz-Gymnasium-05-01-2009-23.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1738
address

Kurfürstenstrasse 53

place Potsdam
country Brandenburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 24 '14 "  N , 13 ° 3' 34"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 24 '14 "  N , 13 ° 3' 34"  E
carrier Potsdam
student 709 (as of: school year 2019/2020)
Teachers 55 (as of: school year 2019/2020)
management Grit stone book
Website Helmholtzschule.de

The Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Gymnasium is a public high school and a European school in Potsdam , which was named after the former student Hermann von Helmholtz . Older historical names were Great City School and Victoria High School .

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The school has a science and a bilingual branch. In the bilingual branch, history, political education and economics are taught in English; the Abitur examination in history is also in English. The grammar school is a European school , participated in the Socrates program , is a member of the MINT-EC and since September 2008 all-day school. In 2005, the grammar school took third place in the Brandenburg state ranking based on the grades of the Brandenburg Central Abitur.

history

In 1738, due to the expansion of Potsdam into a garrison town by the soldier king Friedrich Wilhelm I, it became necessary to found a new school. The "Great City School" or "La Grande École", in today's Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, initially consisted of only two teachers and two school classes. In 1812 the school was finally redesigned as a humanistic grammar school and enlarged under the rector Johann Samuel Büttner (rector from 1794 to 1824, † 1839). At that time, only boys were allowed to attend high school. One of the students was Hermann von Helmholtz .

In 1878 the school moved to a new building on Kurfürstenstrasse. The plans were made by the architect Richard Vogdt (1833–1894), who combined style elements from the late Gothic with the Renaissance . The three-storey, red brick building is decorated with elements made of light sandstone. The then name Viktoria-Gymnasium (also Victoria-Gymnasium ) was granted by Crown Princess Victoria . Hebrew was also taught at the grammar school until 1933 .

The school building survived the Second World War unscathed. In 1946, the grammar school was renamed the Helmholtz School and, after the educational reforms of the GDR, the Extended Oberschule (EOS). The school retained its good reputation in the GDR and was one of the best schools in the country. In 1991 the extended high school became a grammar school again.

Famous teachers and students of the high school

Teacher

  • Carl Kappus (1879–1951), linguist, teacher January – March 1919
  • Max Treu (1842–1915), philologist, director 1893–1907
  • Max Wellmann (1863–1933), medical historian, senior teacher 1902–1914

student

literature

  • Gymnasium Potsdam (Hrsg.): Program of the Gymnasium in Potsdam 1864 - 1875. Digitized
  • Königliches Viktoria-Gymnasium zu Potsdam (Ed.): Program of the Königliches Viktoria-Gymnasium zu Potsdam 1883 - 1912. Digitized
  • Königliches Viktoria-Gymnasium zu Potsdam (Hrsg.): Annual report of the Königliches Viktoria-Gymnasium zu Potsdam 1914 - 1915. Digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Yearbooks for Philology and Pedagogy , Vol. 9 (1839), p. 199.