Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium

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Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium
Entrance to the high school
type of school high school
founding 1897
address

Bundesstrasse 78

place Hamburg
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 34 '17 "  N , 9 ° 58' 22"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '17 "  N , 9 ° 58' 22"  E
carrier Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg
student 1,000 (2015)
Teachers 93 (2019)
management Thomas Frey
Website ewg-hamburg.de

The Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium (EWG) is a high school in the Hamburg district of Eimsbüttel . The school was founded in 1897 and recognized as a lyceum in 1912 . In 1923 the school moved into the brick building on Bundesstrasse designed by Hamburg architects Distel & Grubitz , which is now a listed building . The school was named in 1923 after the women's rights activist Emilie Wüstenfeld . Today the EWG is one of the larger high schools in Hamburg with four to five- class grades . The EWG offers profile courses and extracurricular activities with a focus on English, music and theater .

history

Emilie Wüstenfeld was a Hamburg women's rights activist and philanthropist who campaigned for female education. After her death in 1874, the Emilie Wüstenfeld Foundation continued this work with the foundation assets from her inheritance. In 1897 the foundation established a board of trustees school, i. H. a private, nine- grade girls' high school . This school was located in the Central Hotel at Rentzelstrasse 72. In 1912 it was recognized by the state as a lyceum , and in 1923 - the year of hyperinflation and the associated devaluation of paper assets - the school was nationalized. The nationalization went hand in hand with the merger with the “New State Lyceum on the right bank of the Alster”. The unified girls' school was named Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Schule (EWS) and moved into the new building on Bundesstraße.

In 1926 the school became a full institution of the type Deutsche Oberschule für Mädchen (OfM). Until 1937, the school had the two types of school, Realschule and Deutsche OfM. The school building survived the heavy bombing raids on Hamburg in 1943 without major damage, but it was cleared to accommodate the bombed out Hamburgers. School operations continued in a reduced form in the Bogenstrasse 32 school (today Helene-Lange-Gymnasium ). After the end of the war in 1945, the Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Schule was still occupied, among other things by the Eimsbüttel district office . It was not until 1953 that the school was able to resume in its own building.

From 1965 the school was run as a double institution together with the Gymnasium Bundesstrasse 78 as a seven-level and advanced high school. In 1968 the two schools were also organizationally united and were given the name Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium (EWG). In the same year, classes in grades 5-6 ended. In 1996 the nine-level grammar school was reintroduced. These levels were reduced to eight with the introduction of the G12 Abitur .

architecture

The main building of the school is located in Hamburg-Eimsbüttel on a corner plot of around 6,000 m² east of the intersection of Bundesstraße and Gustav-Falke-Straße. The original design came from Distel & Grubitz , who won a competition from the City of Hamburg in 1915 to build a new secondary school for girls. Construction work was delayed due to the war and lasted from 1919 to completion in 1923. The main building has an L-shaped floor plan, with the long side of the L aligned parallel to Gustav-Falke-Straße. The main entrance is in the throat of L. The building has three full floors , plus an attic and the basement . The net floor area (NGF) of the main building is approx. 5700 m².

The main building is made of solid brick and fits in stylistically with the typical clinker brick architecture of public buildings in Hamburg under the auspices of the City Planning Director Fritz Schumacher . The masonry is designed flat and sparingly decorated with terracotta building decorations. The rather large lattice windows in the classrooms are embedded flush in the brickwork. Pilaster strips connect the recessed windows on the upper floors with the basement. The very high attic is designed as a mansard hipped roof . In 2015 planning began for the renovation of the main building, for which a budget of 8 million euros was set.

The second location of the EWG is the area southeast of the intersection of Gustav-Falke-Straße and Bogenstraße, about 250 m from the main building. An auditorium and a gymnasium were built from 1927 to 1928 .

The painter Gretchen Wohlwill , employed as an art teacher at the school, created two murals in the stairwell of the EWS in 1931 with state funding . Wohlwill was persecuted as Jewish and dismissed from school in 1933. In 1938 her murals were painted over with motifs from the HJ and the BDM . In 1993 Wohlwill's pictures were exposed again. A memorial plaque in the school commemorates Wohlwill and her murdered colleague Martha Behrend.

  • main building

  • Windows of the main building

  • Relief on the main building

  • Building decorations on the main building

  • Bogenstrasse building

Today's profile

The EWG is an all-day school and has around 1,000 students. The catchment area is Hoheluft-West , Eimsbüttel and Rotherbaum . When the social index for Hamburg schools was surveyed in 2011, a social index of 5 was calculated for the EEC on a scale from 1 (disadvantageous requirements of the student body, highest need for support) to 6 (best conditions, no need for support). The neighboring high schools HLG and Kaifu were also classified with the social index 5, the slightly more distant high schools WG and Eppendorf had the social index 6. In the 2016/17 school year, almost 23% of the EEC students had a migration background , significantly less than the average for all Hamburg high schools.

At the EWG six profiles are currently offered in the upper level , including a .:

  • English profile, with English as profiling and bilingual lessons in history and theater
  • Art / history profile
  • PGW / geography profile
  • PGW / physics profile

Practical music courses, psychology, economics or computer science can be taken in the elective area. English can be used up to the Cambridge certificate . Outside of school there is a wide range of music, from afternoon instrument lessons in the classroom to participation in various music ensembles.

Well-known teachers and students

  • Lucy Borchard (1877–1969), shipowner, worked for five years as a teacher at the Hamburg Higher Girls' School, the forerunner of the EEC
  • Gretchen Wohlwill (1878–1962), painter and member of the Hamburg Secession (from 1910 until her dismissal for racist reasons in 1933, art teacher at the EWS)
  • Martha Behrend (1881–1941 / 42), teacher of handicraft and gymnastics at the EWS (released from school service in 1933 due to her Jewish descent, deported to the Minsk ghetto in 1941 and murdered there)
  • Hans Lüthje (1891–1977), chemistry teacher, senior teacher and headmaster of the Heilwig School, then from 1945 to 1957 headmaster of the EWS.
  • Magda Thürey (1899–1945), teacher, communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism (student at the "Emilie Wüstenfeld" lyceum)
  • Elsa Bromeis (1914–1992), canoeist, student at the Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Lyceum
  • Peter von Sassen (* 1953), TV journalist and presenter (Abitur at the EWG)
  • Tetje Mierendorf (* 1972) comedian and actor (1992 Abitur at the EEC)
  • Jasmin Ramadan (* 1974), writer (Abitur at the EEC)
  • Carolyn Genzkow (* 1992), actress (2010 high school diploma at the EWG)
  • Leonie Landa (* 1994), actress (Abitur at the EEC)
  • Gro Swantje Kohlhof (* 1994), actress (2012 high school graduation from the EEC)
  • Lino Böttcher (* 2000), voice actor (student at the EWG)

literature

  • Helga Fiechtner (editor): 90 years of the Emilie Wüstenfeld School: 1897–1987 . Stubbemann, Hamburg 1987.
  • Hein Hocker (Red.): Festschrift Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium: 1897–1997 . Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium, Hamburg 1997.

Web links

Commons : Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The College of the EEC on the website of the grammar school
  2. ^ Call for the establishment of a foundation in the Hamburger Nachrichten on February 24, 1875 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b c Directory of schools from 1933 to 1945 , excerpt from Uwe Schmidt: Hamburg Schools in the Third Reich , p. 849.
  4. ^ A b c d Announcement: DE-20355 Hamburg 10/2015 , VOF renovation of the Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium at the location Bundesstrasse 78, Hamburg
  5. ↑ Notes and Contests. In: Deutsche Bau-Zeitung , vol. 49 (1915), No. 2, p. XLIV.
  6. ^ Ralf Lange : Architectural Guide Hamburg . Edition Menges, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 978-3-930698-58-5 , p. 116. (Entry "C 83 Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium")
  7. ^ Frank Kürschner-Pelkmann: Jewish life in Hamburg: a city guide . Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-930802-62-7 , p. 35f. (Chapter Bundesstrasse 78: Wall painting by Gretchen Wohlwill in the Emilie-Wüstenfeld-Gymnasium ).
  8. ↑ Memorial plaque for the Jewish teachers Martha Behrend and Gretchen Wohlwill In: Memorials in Hamburg
  9. ↑ Small written question from MP Robert Heinemann (CDU) of February 28, 2013 and answer from the Senate. Citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - 20th electoral period, printed matter 20/7094 , Annex 4b: Old and new social indices of the state secondary schools, p. 27.
  10. ↑ Peter Ulrich Meyer: That's how high the proportion of migrants in Hamburg schools is . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from April 19, 2018 (at the Hamburg grammar schools, the average was 37.3%)
  11. ^ Upper level profiles at the EEC
  12. ^ Maria Koser: Martha Behrend in the database of Hamburg women biographies, State Center for Political Education Hamburg
  13. ↑ Hans-Peter the Lorent: Hans Lüthje . In: The same: Perpetrator Profiles , Volume 2, State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-946246-13-8 .
  14. ↑ Hans-Peter der Lorent: Elsa Bromeis . Project of the State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2017.