Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium Berlin
| Alexander von Humboldt High School | |
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| Entrance hall of the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium with wing to Mentzelstrasse | |
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1929 (as "Dorotheenschule") |
| address |
Oberspreestrasse 173–181 |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 26 '43 " N , 13 ° 34' 0" E |
| student | about 600 |
| management | Wolfgang von Schwedler |
| Website | avh-schule.de |
The Alexander von Humboldt-Gymnasium (AvH) is a high school with science profile in the Berlin local situation Spindlersfeld the district Koepenick near the Spree is. The school named after Alexander von Humboldt is the successor to the Dorotheenschule zu Köpenick .
architecture
The main building on the corner of Oberspreestrasse and Mentzelstrasse was built in the Bauhaus style between 1928 and 1929 according to plans and under the direction of the architect Max Taut . At the main entrance one is ceramic relief by Rudolf Belling mounted that the Holy Dorothea illustrating how they distributed bread to refugees. The entrance hall has a multi-flight staircase and connects the five-story, slightly curved class wing with the gym along Mentzelstrasse with the wing along Oberspreestrasse.
Originally the listed building had a yellow facade made of ceramic tiles , parts of which have been loosening and falling since 1969 without any external influence. In 1974 an extensive restoration took place, during which the tiles were chipped off for safety reasons and the facade was given a gray plaster. The window structure and the director's house from 1930 have been preserved. The association Köpenicker Brücken e. V. is trying to restore the ceramic facade, for which funds were approved in 2017 from the federal government's special monument protection program.
history
After completion of the construction work, the building was handed over to the students on November 30, 1929 as the Oberlyzeum Dorotheenschule . The school also served as accommodation for rowers during the 1936 Summer Olympics .
The Dorotheenschule was renamed the Eichendorff School in 1939 in honor of the poet Joseph von Eichendorff . At the end of the Second World War , the building served as a hospital. It was not until 1950 that regular lessons could be held in the building again. When the Hegel School was first integrated into the Eichendorff School in 1954 and the Nansen School as well in 1956 , the district office gave the name Oberschule Köpenick . On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Alexander von Humboldt , it was renamed the Alexander von Humboldt Oberschule in 1959 .
In addition to the secondary school, the building temporarily housed the adult education center of Spindlersfeld, a school for nurses and the children's and youth sports school for water sports and football. The latter formed the basis for 1. FC Union Berlin , which recruited its members from here . After the fall of the Wall in 1991, the school became the first Gymnasium in Köpenick. Since the summer of 2006, the school has had a new sports field on the site of the former facility that was built in the 1950s.
The time as a Dorothee School
Physical education was also part of the training for the girls at the Dorotheenschule. In the Weimar Republic , a search took place for body characteristics that distinguish people from one another and that could be regarded as "racial characteristics". Research that seamlessly merged into the “ Aryan selection” of the National Socialists . The sports teacher Charlotte Warrach, who made comparisons with pupils at the Dorotheenschule in Köpenick about physique, physical and mental performance, made a contribution by finding out that “in general physical and mental performance go parallel”. Furthermore, Elisabeth Wyneken (1876 / 1877-1959), sister of Gustav Wyneken , worked at the Lyceum as a teacher of German and history.
Prominent former students (selection)
- Jaecki Schwarz , actor
- Dagmar Manzel , actress, singer and radio play speaker
- Gabriele Heinz , actress, daughter of Wolfgang Heinz
- Ellen Brombacher , politician ( Die Linke )
- Klaus-Peter Plessow , actor
- Jochen Schümann , Olympic sailing champion
- Laura Berlin , actress and model
- Pure beauty , Hollywood actor
- Thomas Natschinski , rock musician
- Toni Krahl , rock musician
- Wolfgang Wruck , national soccer player
- Chaim Noll , writer
- Rainer Dellmuth , former opposition member of the SED dictatorship
See also
- List of Alexander von Humboldt schools
- List of Humboldt schools
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Website of the Köpenicker Brücken e. V.
- ↑ Reconstruction of the original ceramic facade cladding at the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Gymnasium . In: www.cdu-tk.de.
- ^ Last names of residents with W> Warrach, Charlotte . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, I, p. 3265 (senior teacher, residing at Alt-Glienicke, Strasse 108).
- ↑ Wolfgang Kohlrausch : physical structure and growth , p. 54.