German high school association
The German Gymnasium Association was a teachers' association from 1890 to 1945, which represented the interests of the humanistic high schools in the German Reich.
It was founded as a reaction to the convening of the December conference on school reform in Prussia by Wilhelm II. Under the national liberal chairman and headmaster of Cologne, Oskar Jäger , the supporters of the traditional grammar school, who wanted to maintain the Abitur privilege of this type of school, united against the Representatives of the secondary schools. The association magazine became Das humanistische Gymnasium , which still exists today under the name Gymnasium . Later chairmen were Otto Immisch (1915–1927) and Otto Regenbogen , who was forced to resign in 1936 because of his Jewish wife. The last chairman was the National Socialist Rudolf Herzog (Gießen).
A spin-off was the German Classical Philology Association , which was founded in 1925, but from 1929 Otto Regenbogen also headed it in personal union.
First chair
- 1890-1892 Eduard Zeller (Berlin)
- 1892–1901 Wilhelm Schrader (Halle)
- 1901–1907 Oskar Jäger (Bonn)
- 1907–1913 Gottfried Friedrich Aly (Marburg)
- 1913–1914 Gustav Uhlig (Heidelberg)
- 1915–1926 Otto Immisch (Freiburg)
- 1926–1929 vacant, management by the second chairman Emil Kroymann (Berlin)
- 1929–1936 Otto Regenbogen (Heidelberg)
- 1936–1937 Emil Kroymann (Berlin)
- 1937–1945 Rudolf Herzog (Großhesselohe near Munich)
literature
- Hermann Easter : For the 50th anniversary of our magazine . In: Gymnasium . Volume 50 (1939), pp. 2-9