Carl Duisberg High School

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Carl Duisberg High School
The CDG in the East School Center (2010)
type of school high school
School number 165402
founding 1861
address

Max-Planck-Str. 10

place Wuppertal
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 16 '39 "  N , 7 ° 13' 16"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '39 "  N , 7 ° 13' 16"  E
carrier City of Wuppertal
student around 1400
Teachers about 90
management Silvia Schwarz
Website www.cdg.wtal.de

The Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasium (short name: CDG) is one of the oldest secondary schools in today's Wuppertal . From 1861 to 1978 it was located in Wupperfeld ; then she moved to the new school center east in the Wichlinghausen district . The two former school buildings on Sternstrasse and Diesterwegstrasse are now under monument protection .

history

First school building (1861), at Sternstrasse 75
Second school building (1873), in Diesterwegstraße 3
Portal of the extension building (1907) in Diesterwegstrasse, in the gable cartouche the name Oberrealschule )

It was founded in 1861 as the Barmen-Wupperfelder Filial-Realschule ; this was in extensive succession of the since 1579 existing office school on the Gemarke . According to the census, the rapidly expanding industrial city of Barmen had almost 50,000 inhabitants at that time. The first school building was on the eastern Sternstrasse; the first rector (until 1888) was Adolf Burmester, father of the painter Georg Burmester . In 1867, the CDG was upgraded to the Higher Citizens' School in Barmen-Wupperfeld and three years later to the secondary school - this meant that Latin was not a compulsory language. In 1873 the company moved to the "other side of the recently built Immanuelskirche ", in Diesterwegstrasse. In March 1876, the first class of students passed their school-leaving exams there; this also included the later namesake Carl Duisberg . In 1893 it was recognized as a high school for boys with a focus on mathematics and science. The building was expanded in 1906/07.

The name change to Carl-Duisberg-Oberrealschule took place on its own initiative in February 1936 - according to the school website, in order to “prevent worse things”. After the war-related evacuation of the pupils (August 1943), it was rebuilt on October 1, 1945 as a mathematical and natural science high school at the old Diesterwegstrasse location, which was expanded by a new building on Wupperfelder Strasse in the mid-1960s. In 1967, the nationwide changeover of the beginning of the school year from Easter to summer - after two so-called “ short school years ” - was also completed at the CDG. In 1968 there was a premiere: on the occasion of the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops in Czechoslovakia , the school administration ordered a demonstration of students and teachers leading through Barmen during the lessons. Coeducation was only introduced at the CDG at the beginning of the 1970s - in parallel with the closure of the neighboring girls' grammar school on Sternstrasse after it was relocated to the grammar school Am Kothen . Since November 1977, lessons have taken place in the school complex on Max-Planck-Strasse.

On the occasion of Carl Duisberg's 150th birthday, the Association for Research into Social Movements in Wuppertal , like the faction of the Greens in Wuppertal City Hall in 1985, demanded that the grammar school be renamed. As a researcher and producer of poison gas and as a co-initiator of the forced deportations of Belgian civilians during the First World War, he was unsustainable as a namesake.

In the years 2010 to 2012, the school building was extensively renovated, including to remove asbestos and improve the energy balance .

The school today

A good 1400 pupils are currently attending the Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasium with up to six classes; they are taught by more than 90 teachers. There is currently a regular student exchange with three partner schools in Alcester (Alcester Grammar School) , Aix-en-Provence (Lycée Paul Cézanne) and Košice (Gymnázium Opatovská 7) . In addition, there is an institutionalized “learning partnership” supported by the Wuppertal Institute for early information about the professional world with the local paint manufacturer Axalta . This continues a tradition that has existed since the late 1960s, at that time with the man-made fiber producer JP Bemberg .

The special features of the CDG include various working groups (e.g. in the arts, computer science and law) and project courses in Chinese and Indian (including a trip to India). In addition, an independent sports club emerged from the school with the SV CDG Wuppertal , which is particularly successful in handball (promotion up to the association league) and whose teams have formed a syndicate with Grün-Weiß Wuppertal since 2004 . Furthermore, the Carl Duisberg Foundation, founded in 1929, has financed a study visit to the Deutsches Museum in Munich since 1930, mainly for underprimans (today: students in grade 11) of the CDG . After all, the school has had its own campus since 1927 , the Sulzfluh mountain home in Latschau ( Vorarlberg ), which was confiscated by the Austrian state in 1945 and only returned in 1958. A separate sponsoring association (“Alpenverein Bergheim eV”) was founded for its administration; until 1993 the Ernst-Meister-Gymnasium in Hagen-Haspe was a co-user.

Headmasters, well-known graduates and teachers

Directors

  • Adolf Burmester (1861–1888)
  • Friedrich Kaiser (1888–1906)
  • Adolf Hasse (1906–1923)
  • Ernst Wilmanns (1923–1943)
  • Rudolf Hochreuther (1945–1952)
  • Günter Klemm (1953–1971)
  • Hans Hochreuter (1971–1997)
  • Antonia Dicken-Gegich (1997-2007)
  • Hans-Werner Jahn (2007-2008, provisional)
  • Silvia Schwarz (since 2008)

student

Teacher

Web links

Commons : Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasium  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b school history. Retrieved August 1, 2016 (grammar school website).
  2. ↑ Location according to Friedrich George's plan of the city of Barmen (1863), corresponding excerpt in Herbert Pogt: Historical views from the Wuppertal of the 18th and 19th centuries. Self-published by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein - Dept. Wuppertal, Wuppertal 1998 2. , ISBN 3-9801338-1-8 , p. 36. This building at Sternstrasse 75, which was later expanded twice, is also a listed building (see the entry in the Wuppertal monument list) .
  3. ↑ Herbert Pogt: Historical Views from the Wuppertal 18th and 19th centuries. Self-published by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein - Dept. Wuppertal, Wuppertal 1998 2. , ISBN 3-9801338-1-8 , p. 39
  4. ↑ cf. the entry in the Wuppertal monument list
  5. ^ Open letter to the Carl Duisberg Gymnasium ( Memento from June 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Carl Duisberg Foundation. Retrieved August 1, 2016 (grammar school website).
  7. ^ Names and terms of office according to a communication from the school secretariat on September 28, 2010
  8. ↑ Only temporarily; Rau was also a student at the former Siegesstrasse grammar school
  9. ↑ see this CV and this message
  10. ↑ see this CV