Klaus Harms School

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Klaus Harms School
Klaus Harms School School building.JPG
type of school high school
founding 1923
address

Hüholz 16

place Kappeln
country Schleswig-Holstein
Country Germany
Coordinates 54 ° 39 '20 "  N , 9 ° 55' 12"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 39 '20 "  N , 9 ° 55' 12"  E
carrier City of Kappeln
student 624
Teachers 57
management Thomas Hellmuth
Website khs-kappeln.de

The Klaus Harms School is a high school in Kappeln . 624 students are currently attending the school (as of 2018).

history

Founding time

The Klaus Harms School was founded in 1923 at Kirchstrasse 7. Before that, the building was used as a preparation facility, where future elementary school teachers were trained. Today there is a branch of the BBZ Schleswig . The school was named after Claus Harms because, in addition to his theological teaching, he advocated the Low German language and "the rights of the bourgeois people against the rulers" as a native of Schleswig-Holstein in the period after the lost First World War and the referendum on Northern Schleswig appeared as a figure of identification in the demarcation to Denmark.

In the time of National Socialism

From the beginning of 1934, the school day was opened with a flag parade (black-white-red and swastika flag ) , as ordered nationwide . On November 7, 1935, the Schleibote reported that “93.5% of the Klaus Harms students were in the Hitler Youth, so the school had acquired the right to fly the flag of the Hitler Youth.” The Klaus Harms School was like also z. As all the clubs on site into line , which went smoothly in Kappeln, Kappeln since very early far-than-average election results for the NSDAP had. In the 1932 Reichstag election (as an example), the NSDAP in Kappeln received 53.9% of the vote, with a result in the Reich of 33.1%. In 1939/1940 a nine-month preparatory course for high school for highly talented pupils from elementary schools was held at the Klaus Harms School. The students came from all over northern Germany, right up to East Prussia . The students lived on Gut Buckhagen, where a boarding school had been set up for this purpose. One of the students was the later writer Siegfried Lenz . Out of fifty initial participants, only ten were able to finish the course and were thus entitled to transfer to a grammar school. Half of the graduates were sent to a Napola school. Lenz was able to attend a boarding school in East Prussia. It is currently unknown if this course was held more than once.

New beginning after 1945

After the end of the war on May 8, 1945, the Klaus Harms School was closed by the Allies, like all other German schools, until further notice, because, as everywhere, a very large proportion of the teachers were burdened by membership in the NSDAP. The original intention was to prevent the students from being further influenced accordingly. In order to finally get the children off the streets, the school in Kappeln was reopened in August. In the summer of 1945, only the most serious cases were sorted out as unsuitable for further school service.

With the appointment of Willi Lassen as director, a long phase of reorientation began in 1956. Lassen, who was involved in the military resistance against Hitler before 1945 and who had held a leading position in the training of German prisoners of war in English camps in England until 1948, tried to create a liberal, artistically interested and cosmopolitan atmosphere at the Klaus Harms School to accomplish. He specifically encouraged colleagues and efforts that increasingly determined the image of the school in this sense. So he gave Gerda Schmidt-Panknin , who was working as an art teacher at the Klaus Harms School at the time, a lot of freedom in her lessons, which resulted in a large number of high school graduates from the school, e.g. B. began studying at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and are now known as artists. Lassen had to leave school in 1968 for health reasons, at a time when the younger colleagues, who were also recruited through his initiative, began to push ahead with the reorientation of school life.

present

At the beginning of 1979 the school moved to the newly built school center in Hüholz. The Christophorus School was also located there until it was closed in 2012. Today the school distinguishes itself as a UNESCO project school and promotes international exchange to a high degree, a concern that the former director Willi Lassen had already aimed at.

classes

The school offers the eight-year high school G8 for pupils starting from 2008 to 2017 with the 5th grade . From the 2018/19 school year , the Abitur will be switched back to after thirteen years (G9).

English is taught from the fifth grade. From the sixth grade onwards, students choose between Latin and French as their second foreign language . In the eighth and ninth grades, a third foreign language can also be taken or another course can be chosen. From 7th through 9th grade there is a bilingual branch in which geography and history are taught in English. Spanish is offered in the upper school.

Projects

UNESCO project school

The Klaus Harms School has been a recognized UNESCO project school since 2012 .

Ecopolicyad

The Klaus Harms School made it into the national competition several times in the Ecopolicyade and took first place once.

  • 2009: 2nd place
  • 2010: 2nd place
  • 2011: 3rd place
  • 2012: 1st place

Student exchange

There are student exchange programs with schools in Italy, France and Poland.

Former students (chronological order)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Facts and Figures: Klaus Harms School
  2. ↑ SchulZeitReisen The Klaus Harms School
  3. ↑ Why was the school named after Klaus Harms? - Excerpt from: 75 Years of the Klaus Harms School - Festschrift for the anniversary, reproduced in: Schulzeitreisen.de, accessed on June 18, 2015
  4. ↑ Fritz Werner Dehncke, History Kappeln during the time of National Socialism, Kappeln 1988, p 29ff
  5. ↑ Fritz Werner Dehncke, History Kappeln during the time of National Socialism, Kappeln 1988, p. 16
  6. ↑ Erich Maletzke: Siegfried Lenz: A biographical approach. To Klampen Verlag, 2014, p. 19f. [1]
  7. ↑ Nicolaus Schmidt, Willi Lassen - a biographical sketch, in "Democratic History" Vol. 26, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, 2015, p. 220
  8. ^ Nicolaus Schmidt, Willi Lassen - a biographical sketch, in "Democratic History" Vol. 26, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Geschichtsverlag, 2015, pp. 219ff
  9. ↑ End after 38 years: A school no longer exists Schlei-Bote from June 22, 2012
  10. ^ School profile: Klaus Harms School
  11. ↑ Klaus Harms School The UNESCO AG ( memento from June 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 24, 2015.
  12. ↑ Schleswig-Holstein wins second place in the Ecopolicyade-Bundeschscheid in Berlin SPD Ostholstein
  13. ↑ Hagedorn opens the Ecopolicyade federal decision for the third time in Berlin Bettina Hagedorn, press release from July 1, 2011
  14. ↑ "Ecopolicyade": National winners come from Kappeln Flensburger Tageblatt from May 16, 2012
  15. ↑ School exchange khs-kappeln.de ( Memento from June 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ [2] Heimatverein fishing, 100th birthday of Oskar Hepp, accessed on June 19, 2015
  17. ↑ Erich Maletzke: Siegfried Lenz: A biographical approach. To Klampen Verlag, 2014, p. 19f. [3]
  18. ↑ "Theses for a human-friendly building": Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Peter Hübner on the topic “Building for Children” (PDF), accessed on June 19, 2015
  19. ^ Experts from the University of Kiel: Flüh, Prof. Ernst , accessed on June 19, 2015