Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium Viersen-Dülken
| Episcopal Albertus Magnus High School | |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 165864 |
| founding | 1967 |
| address |
Brandenburger Str. 7 |
| place | Viersen |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 14 '46 " N , 6 ° 19' 42" E |
| carrier | Diocese of Aachen |
| student | 1,222 |
| Teachers | 90 |
| management | Thomas Kamphausen |
| Website | amg-viersen.de |
The Episcopal Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium (short: AMG ) is a school in Viersen district Dülken . The body responsible for the private grammar school is the Aachen diocese . The namesake is the medieval polyhistor Albertus Magnus (around 1200–1280). The AMG was founded in 1967 and attended by 1222 students in the 2008/2009 school year, 374 of them in upper school. The current headmaster is Thomas Kamphausen.
history
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia decided in 1965/66 to test the concept of the day care center that had been tried and tested in Hessen for a number of years . Schoolchildren are offered lunch and supervised homework completion in the afternoon. The then Bishop of Aachen and school representative of the German Bishops' Conference Johannes Pohlschneider wanted to combine the relief of working parents with a Christian education that went beyond the pure imparting of knowledge with a new school based on this concept.
The high school was founded in 1967 as an all-boys school with an attached boarding school. Classes began on September 7, 1967 with six teachers and 70 students, 20 of whom lived in the boarding school. The first headmaster was Josef Kiwitz (1928–2016), senior director of studies until 1990. There were high school graduates for the first time in the 1975/76 school year. In 1982, co-education was introduced and girls were initially included, beginning with grades 5 and 11.
While the school originally began as an ancient language grammar school with Latin as the first foreign language and ancient Greek as an optional subject, English is now also offered as a first foreign language, as well as French and Spanish.
Regular student exchanges take place with the partner schools Association Scolaire St. Jean et la Croix in Saint-Quentin in Picardy (since 1983) and St. Marylebone in London .
Focuses and offers
As a school of the Diocese of Aachen, one of the main educational focuses is teaching Christian values. The pupils are given a Christian orientation not only through religious instruction, but also through offers such as regular school services and other contemplative and social activities.
The “AMG Big Band” has existed since 1990.
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The bronze sculpture Albertus Magnus by Gerhard Marcks (1955/70, height 85 cm, cast XI) has been located in an inner courtyard since 1990 .
In 2015, the Q1 advanced course in social sciences, led by Markus Zellkes, took part in the nationwide competition "Chef für 1 Tag" organized by Focus Money magazine . The course prevailed against several competitors and the AMG is now the official "Chef für 1 Tag Schule 2015".
Graduates
(Abitur class)
- 1980 Wolfram Goertz , journalist, culture editor of the Rheinische Post and culture critic of the time
- 1981 Markus Türk , musician (including Family 5 , Die Ärzte , Fehlfarben )
- 1981 Winfried Randerath , Chief Physician and Medical Director of the Scientific Institute for Pneumology at the University of Witten / Herdecke.
- 1982 Elmar Goerden , theater director
- 1983 Gregor Maria Hoff , theology professor Paris-Lodron University Salzburg
- 1983 Clemens Maria Kitschen , musician
- 1984 Frank Rehfeld , author
- 1986 Elmar Theveßen , deputy editor-in-chief of ZDF and ZDF terrorism expert
- 1991 Dietmar Brockes , politician ( FDP ), since 2000 MP in North Rhine-Westphalia
- 1991 Oliver Hilmes , writer and publicist
- 1993 Diana Menschig , writer
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of teachers
- ↑ school management. In: amg-viersen.de. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
- ↑ H. Strickling: Letter to parents. September 2008, p. 1.
- ↑ 25 years Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium , Festschrift, 1992, publisher Ernst Tomberg, p. 21.
- ↑ Nadine Fischer: A home for students and teachers In: Rheinische Post, September 7, 2017.
- ↑ 25 years Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium , Festschrift, 1992, publisher Ernst Tomberg, p. 25.
- ^ In: Rheinische Post, February 24, 2016, obituary notice .
- ↑ 25 years Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium , Festschrift, 1992, Ed. Ernst Tomberg, p. 109.
- ↑ 25 years Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium , Festschrift, 1992, publisher Ernst Tomberg, p. 97.
- ↑ Big Band of the AMG AMG website entry, accessed on May 23, 2017
- ↑ 25 years Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium , Festschrift, 1992, publisher Ernst Tomberg, p. 41.
- ↑ 25 years Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium , Festschrift, 1992, publisher Ernst Tomberg, p. 113.