Einhard High School

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Einhard High School Aachen
Aachen 11-11 Robert-Schuman-Strasse EinhardGymnasium.jpg
type of school high school
founding 1886
address

Robert-Schuman-Strasse 4

place Aachen
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 45 '25 "  N , 6 ° 5' 34"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '25 "  N , 6 ° 5' 34"  E
carrier City Aachen
student around 1100
Teachers about 90
management Ralf Gablik
Website www.einhard-gymnasium.de

The Einhard-Gymnasium Aachen is a municipal high school in the Aachen - Burtscheid district , which was opened under the name Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium on May 1, 1886.

Construction and development until 1914

At the initiative of the Aachener und Münchener Feuerversicherungsgesellschaft, a forerunner of the later AachenMünchener and today's Generali Deutschland , an offer was made to the then regional president Otto von Hoffmann on April 27, 1881 , due to a steadily growing society with increased educational needs for the youth of the cities of Aachen and Burtscheid , which at that time was still an independent town, decided to build a new high school for boys. Thanks you had this initiative but ultimately the founder of the Aachen Fire Insurance Company, David Hansemann (1790-1864), who in founding this 1824 the company has determined that half of annual earnings over his sponsoring organization, the Aachen Society for the Promotion of industriousness , should be available for such social projects. For example, the management and the board of directors, chaired by the regional court assessor a. D. and legal advisor Robert von Görschen together with the mayor Carl Eduard Dahmen , the secret councilor of commerce Leopold Scheibler , the councilor of commerce Robert Kesselkaul as well as the cloth manufacturers Konrad Starz, Emil Lochner and Franz Carl Freiherr von Nellessen and others, the royal state government the commitment for around 300,000 Goldmark given for the new school project. This enabled the necessary land, then still in the Aachen area in Lothringerstraße, to be acquired and construction to be commissioned. On May 1, 1886, the school was officially opened under the name " Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium " by the first headmaster, Privy Councilor Regel. In the following years, the subsidies from the insurance company did not run dry and thus additional company apartments and a sports area could be acquired. Students of the grammar school were among others also founders of the soccer club Aachen , the forerunner of Alemannia Aachen .

1914-1947

former Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Lothringer Straße, today vocational college for economics and administration

With the beginning of the First World War , there were also considerable changes at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium. Many students and teachers were called up for military service and lost their lives in the process. A memorial plaque, again donated by the Aachener und Münchener Feuerversicherungsgesellschaft, commemorates the victims. In 1919 the Belgian military confiscated the school and set up an “ Ecole Belge ” there. Eight generations of students therefore had to be distributed among other Aachen schools. It was not until 1930 that the parent company could be repurchased. After extensive renovation and refurbishment by the new headmaster and classical philologist Ludwig Mader , the school was officially opened for the second time on November 29, 1930. As early as 1929, the insurance company again made a donation available, this time intended exclusively for the promotion of talented students. Here the school took on a pioneering role that it should remain true to in the modern era.

With the onset of National Socialism , there were again restrictions, as the high school was downgraded by the National Socialist cultural authority to the eight-year Kaiser Wilhelm High School for boys. When the evacuation of the population of Aachen became necessary during the Second World War due to the American bombing raids , the younger grades of the school were sent to the Sudetenland , accompanied by the teacher Paul Adenaw, where they continued to study . All 15-year-old students were deployed as flak helpers in 1943 . The school was badly destroyed in the attacks and official school operations were suspended until 1946. In the last year of the war, Paul Adenaw, fearful of the Russians advancing into the Sudetenland, took the students back to Aachen with great willingness to make sacrifices.

1947 until today

After the turmoil of the war, the school was renamed Einhard-Gymnasium in memory of the Frankish scholar at the court of Charlemagne, Einhard , and opened for the third time as a state modern-language high school by the director Karl Samanns. The first years were devoted to reconstruction and expansion. In the period that followed, however, it became apparent that the grammar school, which was originally only designed for around 350 students, was no longer able to cope with the new requirements due to the steadily increasing number of students and due to the admission of girls and secondary school graduates. It was therefore decided at the end of the sixties to acquire a new piece of land on the hot mountain in Aachen-Burtscheid, adjacent to the hot mountain cemetery in Burtscheid / Aachen and to build a new modern building there. Before that, the house with a pond and old trees belonging to the cloth manufacturer Friedrich Erckens, the owner of the Ellermühle, known as Villa Wäldchen , had been on the site since 1911 . In 1938, his grandson Maximilian sold the house, which then served as an officers' home and after the Second World War as emergency accommodation under the popular name Villa Lustig . In July 1973, the new school building, which had now also become the responsibility of the city of Aachen, was inaugurated by the new director Franz Seewald.

Nowadays the school, as a four-class high school for boys and girls, is characterized on the one hand by its modern language and on the other hand by its scientific profile. The approx. 1100 young people are taught by approx. 90 teachers in what is still a very modern, functional building with excellent technical equipment. As in 1929, at the beginning of the 21st century the school again showed itself to be a pioneer in promoting the gifted. Even before the Abitur had been introduced across the board for all grammar school years after twelve years , the grammar school was the first school in the city and district of Aachen to have a profile class in which talented and particularly motivated young people could shorten their school time by one year. The promotion of such pupils is continued in a special, extended course (subject profile classes) also in the G8 course as a profile feature of this grammar school, but without a reduction in school time.

By special offers of cooperation with partnership companies or the opportunities to junior student or summer schools take part or as a young student already lectures to get at the college, the young people can be promoted in the field of natural sciences in a special way according to the current requirements of the economy. Since 2001, the school is therefore as MINT-EC schools ( M athematics / I nformatik / N aturwissenschaften / T has been regularly certified technic).

Global partner projects such as the European educational project “ Comenius Program ” or the “ Model United Nations ” in The Hague as well as various scientific competitions and numerous student exchanges serve to generally expand knowledge and skills. The associated, comprehensive offer of being able to learn modern foreign languages ​​led to recognition as the "European School NRW" in 2009. In this context, the Einhard-Gymnasium has so far won the Brigitte Gilles Prize twice , initially in 2007 with the project " fit for study - level 12 ", in which students in grade twelve study science and technology to study in these areas and again in 2013 with the project “ Girls learn MINT each other ”.

Since the money from the long-standing sponsor AachenMünchener Versicherungs-AG was no longer so lavish, a sponsorship association was founded in 1968 to support the material and non- material support of the school and the pupils in order to support everyone who is unable to raise the necessary funds for the various activities and requirements. The excellent equipment of the school also bears the signature of the Association of Friends and Alumni.

In addition, the school is a member of the Walter Hasenclever Society and, together with this society, the City of Aachen, the Aachen Book Trade and the German Literature Archive Marbach, awards the Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize of the City of Aachen every two years . As part of a literature prize group, the following award winners have been brought into conversation with the students in the auditorium on the Monday after the Sunday award ceremony: Christoph Hein (2008), Michael Lentz (2012), Michael Köhlmeier (2014), Jenny Erpenbeck (2016) and Robert Menasse (2018).

School and business partnerships

Known teachers

Known students

Sources and literature

  • Annual report: Royal Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Aachen . Aachen 1886/87 - 1914/15. ( Digitized version )
  • Heinrich Savelsberg: Festschrift on the occasion of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution at Easter 1911. Aachen 1911.
  • Heinrich Savelsberg: Review of the first twenty-five years of the Königl. Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Aachen: Festschrift on the occasion of the celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the institution at Easter 1911 . Aachener Verlags- u. Druckerei-Ges., Aachen 1911. ( digitized )
  • Heinrich Savelsberg: The celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Royal Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Aachen . Festive report by Prof. Dr. Heinrich Savelsberg, Aachen 1912. Aachener Verlags- u. Druckerei-Ges., Aachen 1911. ( digitized )
  • 50 years of the State Kaiser Wilhelm High School in Aachen 1886–1936. Festschrift Aachen 1936.
  • The magnifying glass. School newspaper of the Einhard-Gymnasium Aachen. Issue 1, Aachen 1954.
  • Einhard-Gymnasium Aachen 1886–1961. Festschrift for the 75th anniversary. Aachen 1961.
  • Speeches by the headmaster Franz Seewald in 1961 and 1973, school files.
  • 1886 Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium - Einhard-Gymnasium 1986. Festschrift for the centenary, Aachen 1986.
  • Maria Behre: The Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize of the City of Aachen. An overview from 1994–2014 - at the age of twenty.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Namesake Einhard-Gymnasium , on the profile page of the school homepage
  2. ↑ Holger A. Dux: This is how manufacturers lived. The former 'Haus Wäldchen'. Maximilian and Olga Erckens' villa . In: Society Burtscheid for history and present eV (Hrsg.): Under steam. Contributions to the Burtscheider textile industry history . Writings tape 14 . Aachen-Burtscheid 2017, p. 115-136 .
  3. ↑ Brigitte Gilles Prize 2007
  4. ↑ Brigitte Gilles Prize 2013
  5. ^ Maria Behre: The Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize of the City of Aachen. An overview from 1994–2014 - at the age of 20 on Literaturkritik.de from November 6, 2014.
  6. ↑ Lycee-fabert
  7. ↑ Język niemiecki - XVII LO im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego. Retrieved May 2, 2020 (pl-PL).