Elisabeth von Thadden School
| Elisabeth von Thadden School Heidelberg | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1927 |
| address |
Klostergasse 2-4 |
| place | Heidelberg |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 25 '28 " N , 8 ° 38' 59" E |
| student | approx. 900 |
| Teachers | 73 |
| management | Heinz-Martin Döpp |
| Website | elisabeth-von-thadden-schule.de |
The Elisabeth-von-Thadden-Schule is a Protestant private high school in Heidelberg-Wieblingen . The school is part of the school foundation of the Evangelical Church in Baden . She gained fame above all through the founder Elisabeth von Thadden and her resistance to National Socialism .
The school has a staff of around 80 teachers and around 900 students.
The Elisabeth von Thadden elementary school in Heidelberg- Pfaffengrund also belongs to the grammar school .
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The Elisabeth von Thadden School was founded in 1927 as a Protestant rural education home. Elisabeth von Thadden wanted a permanent position as a teacher, but she did not have the relevant certificates. So she decided to found her own school based on the example of the Schule Schloss Salem .
After a while she found a suitable place near the empty Wieblingen Castle. She leased it and founded the Evangelisches Landerziehungsheim Wieblingen e. V. as a school authority. Oriented towards the Christian reform pedagogy , the school started as an all-girls boarding school at Easter 1927. Despite the religious attitude, von Thadden was open and also took in girls of Jewish origin. Von Thadden often had to answer to the National Socialists because she did not want to hang pictures of Adolf Hitler in the classroom or because she did not force her pupils to greet them with the Hitler salute .
When all schools were nationalized in 1941 and no more Jews could be accepted, von Thadden helped many Jews to emigrate abroad. For a while, she moved classes to Tutzing on Lake Starnberg for fear of the nearby western front . After an interrogation by the Gestapo and a house search because of a tip from the mother of a schoolgirl, the state reformatory was taken from her. A few years later, Elisabeth von Thadden was sentenced to death by the People's Court under its President Roland Freisler in July 1944 because of a denunciation as a member of the Solf Circle , in which people critical of the regime met, and was beheaded on September 8 in Berlin-Plötzensee.
After the Second World War , classes went back to normal. Many schools had a shortage of teachers because they did not want to employ former National Socialists as teachers. This did not exist at the Thaddenschule - because of the high proportion of Jewish teachers who returned after the war.
Mission statement and offer
The Elisabeth von Thadden School says it is open to all religions and worldviews despite its Christian orientation. However, it is not an integrative school .
It is also a “ MINT-friendly ” school. In 2014 there was a project initiated by the student council with which the school joined the federal coordination “School without Racism - School with Courage”, which called for more courage to be shown against racism.
The school offers four language profiles with Latin, English, French and Spanish and a science profile. There are various exchange programs and study trips to Newcastle , Auckland , Kutaisi , Bielsko-Biała , Morlaix , Madrid and Kiryat Bialik .
There are also voluntary Wednesday devotions from the 7th grade onwards.
In an article from November 21, 2013, the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung described the school lunch in the canteen and cafeteria as “perfect all round”.
Building and location
The school is located in the heart of Wieblingen . Part of the school grounds include a large park, the former Wieblingen Castle, its own chapel and various other buildings that are named after important people from the school's history.
Former students
- Maria Wellershoff (* 1922), b. von Thadden, writer, attended school 1938/1939
- Heide Mommsen (* 1941), classical archaeologist, high school diploma in 1960
- Elisabeth Plessen (* 1944), writer
- Heike Hatzmann (* 1959), member of parliament, Abitur 1978
- Jutta Ditfurth (* 1951), sociologist, politician, author, Abitur 1969
- Silvia Sommerlath (* 1943), later Queen of Sweden
- Daniel B. Werz (* 1975), organic chemist and university lecturer, Abitur 1995
- Dörte Pietron (* 1981), mountaineer, Abitur 2000
- Heide-Marie Lauterer (* 1952), author and historian
- Danilo Barthel (* 1991), basketball player, Abitur 2011
Web links
- Website of the Elisabeth-von-Thadden School
Individual evidence
- ^ College. In: elisabeth-von-thadden-schule.de. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Exchange. In: elisabeth-von-thadden-schule.d. Retrieved March 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Top or Flop? School people in the test. In: elisabeth-von-thadden-schule.de. Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , November 21, 2013, p. 30 , accessed on March 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Maria Wellershoff: Wieblingen - one year in the women's school. In: Maria Wellershoff: From place to place. A youth in Pomerania. Cologne, 2010, page 207 ff.
- ^ Südwest Presse Online-Dienst GmbH: Queen Silvia of Sweden: With the heart in Heidelberg . In: swp.de . August 20, 2016 ( swp.de [accessed April 10, 2017]).