Carl-Humann-Gymnasium

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Carl-Humann-Gymnasium
Carl-Humann-Gymnasium Steele.jpg
type of school high school
School number 164872
founding 1854
address

Laurentiusweg 20
45276 Essen

place eat
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 26 '52 "  N , 7 ° 4' 16"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '52 "  N , 7 ° 4' 16"  E
carrier City of Essen
Teachers 78 (school year 2018/19)
management Thomas Reuter
Website carl-humann.de

The Carl-Humann-Gymnasium is a general education high school in the independent city of Essen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Beginnings

On October 21, 1854, approval was given to build a rectorate school in the then independent town of Steele. After it was initially located in the street Alte Linien, two rooms in the Fürstin-Franziska-Christine-Stiftung were moved into in 1856 .

From the rectorate school to the grammar school

After the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71 , the Steeler city council decided to build a new school building due to the subsequent economic boom. It concerns the building of today's cultural center Grend , built in 1877, on the corner of Westfalenstrasse and Passstrasse. A school flag with a picture of Mary and Jesus and the inscription SEDES SAPIENTIAE dates from 1894 . On the reverse there is the coat of arms of the city of Steele with the inscription INITIUM SAPIENTIAE TIMOR DOMINI (The beginning of wisdom is the fear of God).

At the end of the 19th century, the Rector's School was expanded into a Progymnasium . After an upper secondary school was established in 1897 and a lower secondary school in 1898 , the final approval to operate as a Progymnasium followed in 1899. Under the direction of the headmaster Anton Wirtz, who was appointed to office in 1901 and who came to Steele from the Burggymnasium in Essen, the school became a full high school with the upper secondary (1901), lower prima (1902) and upper prima (1903) grades. In 1904 the school building on Laurentiusweg began operations.

Second World War and the aftermath

After the major attack by the Allies on March 5, 1943, the school building on Laurentiusweg was used as an emergency room for people from the area who had lost their homes and had been bombed out by the bombing. In April of that year, the Kinderlandverschickung followed . It was not until two years later, shortly before the end of the war in March and April 1945, that the schoolhouse suffered bombing and other severe damage from artillery fire.

Some war damage was makeshift repairs from August 1945. As a result, classes were resumed on November 2, 1945. When the space shortage was very high in the post-war period, the Humboldt Gymnasium, today's Frida Levy Comprehensive School , used the premises of the Carl Humann Gymnasium until the mid-1950s. Rooms were also available in a barrack in the school yard and in the nearby Laurentius School.

From the 1950s until today

In 1954 the Carl-Humann-Gymnasium received the approval to set up a mathematical and natural science branch, for which a three-story extension was completed in 1957. This year, for the first time, there was a fifth class with English as a foreign language, but this did not take hold because the school insisted on Latin as the first foreign language.

In the 1960s, the number of pupils in the Greater Steele area increased significantly, also due to newly emerging housing estates such as Bergmannsfeld and Isinger Feld. The number of high school students rose from 9,000 in 1962 to 15,500 in 1968. At the beginning of the 1968 school year, three entrance classes were registered at the Carl-Humann-Gymnasium in Steele for the Gymnasium an der Wolfskuhle , which only had its own school building from 1974.

Coeducation followed in 1972 , so that for the first time girls were allowed to attend the grammar school, which had previously been reserved exclusively for boys. The first female teachers existed since the late 1960s.

Naming

During an exhibition on important personalities of the former city of Steele (it was incorporated into Essen in 1929) and the city of Essen in the school, the idea of ​​naming the high school after the engineer, architect and classical archaeologist Carl Humann , who was born in Steele in 1839 , arose . He is known as the discoverer of the Pergamon Altar. At the naming ceremony on June 22, 1935, his then 85-year-old sister appeared. A bust of Humann was unveiled next to the main entrance.

school-building

On May 17, 1904, the school building on Laurentiusweg was "built according to the models of the Nordic Renaissance in the neo-renaissance style". It was, for a tendered by the City of Steele competition among the members of Architects Association Cologne, from 1902, designed by architect Otto Mueller Jena built (1875-1958) and is since July 13, 1995 under monument protection . The three-story school building stands on a polygonal floor plan. The quarry stone masonry of the main building with the entrance from Laurentiusweg is representatively structured and has a curved gable. The entrance portal itself has two coupled full columns with attached triangular gables bearing the inscription MUSIS PATRIAEDEO (The Muses, the Fatherland and God). For the renaming in 1935, the new school name Karl Humann Gymnasium followed in the archway below. The inner staircase has a groin vault supported by columns. The originally erected wing of the building with the director's apartment and the associated gymnasium were demolished in the 1960s and replaced by extension wings that were modern at the time.

Cooperations

The school cooperates with

Former students

  • Josef Meermann (1888–1965) studied economics as well as law and political science in Bonn, Freiburg im Breisgau, Münster and Strasbourg. After receiving his doctorate in 1912, he did practical training in banking at the Rheinische Bank in Essen and attended the higher technical college for spinning, weaving and knitting in Reutlingen. Subsequently, he entered the parental business , a textile retail company.
  • Theodor Blank (1905–1972), passed his Abitur examination at the Carl-Humann-Gymnasium in 1936 as an external student; CDU politician. Blank built up and headed the Blank Office named after him, a predecessor institution of the Federal Ministry of Defense. From 1955 to 1956 he was the first Federal Minister of Defense of the Federal Republic of Germany and from 1957 to 1965 Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs.
  • Gisbert Kranz (1921–2009; pseudonym: Kris Tanzberg ), writer, literary scholar, biographer, educator and Roman Catholic theologian
  • Dietrich Hermann Reick (1928–2012), painter, graphic artist, filmmaker and object and action artist
  • Alfred Herrhausen (1930–1989), bank manager and board spokesman for Deutsche Bank
  • Horst Albach (* 1931), economist
  • Michael Bacht (* 1947), object and installation artist
  • Rolf Hempelmann (* 1948), politician (SPD), high school teacher, senior director of studies, from 1994 to 2013 member of the German Bundestag, from 1998 to 2008 president of the Rot-Weiss Essen football club
  • Kai Krause (* 1957), software developer, designer of human-machine interfaces and musician
  • Gerhard Klimeck (* 1966), scientist, university professor, textbook author in the field of molecular nanotechnology and electrical engineering
  • Stefan Keuter (* 1972), politician (AfD), member of the 19th German Bundestag

Web links

Individual references and sources

  • Archive of the Carl-Humann-Gymnasium
  • Festschriften from 1954, 1979 and 2004
  • Humann-Kurier (messages from the alumni association)
  1. ↑ College of the CHG ; accessed on September 12, 2018
  2. ↑ Ernst Heymann: Kon rad Kibbeck, History of the City of Essen, published by the City of Essen on the basis of a foundation of Mr. Albert v. "Waldhausen . In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History. German Department . Volume 40 , no. 1 , January 1, 1919, ISSN  2304-4861 , doi : 10.7767 / zrgga.1919.40.1.340 .
  3. ^ Architectural monument Carl-Humann-Gymnasium in the monument list of the city of Essen ; accessed on September 12, 2018
  4. ^ Carl-Humann-Gymnasium: Cooperations ; accessed on September 12, 2018