Felix-Klein-Gymnasium Göttingen

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Felix-Klein-Gymnasium Göttingen
FKG Göttingen.jpg
Old part of the building with main entrance and auditorium
type of school high school
founding 1890 as a high school
address

Böttingerstr. 17th

place Goettingen
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 31 '34 "  N , 9 ° 55' 52"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '34 "  N , 9 ° 55' 52"  E
carrier City of Göttingen
student 1200
Teachers 106
management Michael Brüggemann
Website www.fkg-goettingen.de
Extension from 1970 and connection to the old part of the building

The Felix-Klein-Gymnasium (FKG) is a grammar school in Göttingen . The name goes back to the mathematician Felix Klein . Currently about 1,200 students attend the school and are taught by 106 teachers. A bilingual branch has been offered since 1990 and a mathematical and scientific branch since 1995.

history

The forerunner of the school was the "Higher Citizens School" opened on April 17, 1890 at Rote Straße 16, which was justified by the Göttingen school politicians on March 7, 1890 with the claim of a "realistic, advanced educational facility". From now on, practitioners such as engineers, businesspeople and others should also benefit from a higher education. The head of the school was principal Persson. First, however, the school was limited to only two classes, the Sexta and Quinta. It was not until the following year, 1891, that she should have a third class, the Quarta, and Hermann Ahrens, her own director. The class was initially relocated to a house on Kornmarkt, the number of students gradually rose to 113. With this increase a new school became more and more apparent and was finally realized in 1892, because on April 28th the "Kaiser Wilhelm II. Oberrealschule für boys" was opened at the corner of Lotzestraße-Walkemühlenweg, today Böttingerstraße. The school now offered space for almost 300 students.

From 1894 the school had all grades and was able to say goodbye to 20 high school graduates from the final classes for the first time at Easter 1895. However, the pupils were only able to celebrate their first “real” Abitur in 1906, as it was only in that year that the school was officially recognized as a high school and full institution. Along with the graduation ceremony, an extension was inaugurated in the same year. In 1912, Max Heckhoff succeeded Hermann Ahrens as director of the school, at which time 350 students were already attending classes. They had to raise a school fee of 150 marks a year, for non-residents the amount was 180 or 230 marks, depending on whether the students in Göttingen were retired or not. Three years later, on the 25th anniversary of the school's founding, the anniversary was canceled due to the First World War , in which Max Heckhoff also died as a soldier in Verdun . During the war, Ludwig Krätzschmar took over the management of the school, he was replaced by Walter Litzmann on July 1, 1919. Litzmann himself was a close colleague of Felix Klein.

From 1925 the school was called "Kaiser Wilhelm II. Oberrealschule mit Reformgymnasium". As a result of a further increase in the number of pupils, the school was forced to use barracks and buildings of the Voigtschule in Bürgerstraße in addition to its own classrooms. Another new building was also considered, which was not without problems due to the precarious economic situation in the city. Nevertheless, the foundation stone was laid in 1926 and the new building was realized. This was unprecedented in Göttingen and was opened in 1928. A complete wing of the new school building was dedicated to the three natural sciences, physics, biology and chemistry, which allowed natural science lessons under favorable conditions. The new school building cost around 1.7 million marks, with which well-known people such as the Göttingen city planning officer Otto Frey and the structural engineer Walter Krauspe are associated. They created a building faced with violet fused iron bricks, which stylistically moves between the architecture of the Bauhaus and the New Objectivity . After numerous redesigns of the rooms, the original shape of the building was only partially preserved. For example, by hanging the ceilings, the monumental was muted and the sobriety of the rooms was whitewashed with a new color scheme. In 1926–28, the listed building, which still exists today, was erected 150 meters south-west on Böttingerstrasse; By the beginning of the 30s, the simpler term “Oberrealschule with Reformrealgymnasium” gradually established itself.

The time of the Third Reich also brought changes for the school. The swastika flag was hoisted on the tower for the first time on January 30, 1933 . The school was renamed again and was named "High School for Boys". Further consequences for the school concerned the dismissal of the high school teacher Rudolf Küchemann by the Nazi dictatorship, against which the teaching staff of the school spoke out. Nevertheless, their protest did not prevent the majority of teachers from joining the NSDAP from 1933 onwards . Between the conflict between politics and education, most teachers saw their profession as a calling and in this way combined education with politics. The last Jewish student graduated from the school in autumn 1937. In the years that followed, teachers were increasingly called upon for military action, which meant that substitute workers, including retirees, teachers and subject teachers, had to be deployed in the school. Among those drafted was the discharged teacher Küchemann, who returned to school in 1941. Due to the war, lessons were shortened and reassigned again and again, the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the school on April 1, 1940 was only held as a simple memorial hour. After teachers had already been appointed to serve in the military, from September 1943 pupils were also called in. They experienced their first assignments as air force helpers, in the following year in shipping, and in December 1944 they were also obliged to serve in the Volkssturm . From January to October 1945, the school was used as an auxiliary hospital, while the American invasion ended classes.

In July 1945 the school began to resume classes. Initially, this only took place in the middle school classes and with few teachers, as many of them had to go through the denazification process before they could hope for employment again. In December of the same year, lessons in the lower grades were allowed again, before the upper grades finally followed in February 1946 . On November 1, 1946, Walter Litzmann resigned from the school management after 27 years . The “high school for boys” had 830 pupils at the time, of which 242 were refugee children. The school had to wait just over a year for an official successor before Friedrich Seyfahrt took over the management in September 1947. Under his rectorate there was a student exchange with Denmark as early as 1948 , and contacts with France were made a year later . For the 100th birthday of its namesake on April 30, 1948, the school was also given a new name, "Felix-Klein-Oberschule". The current name "Felix-Klein-Gymnasium" took place in 1956. However, 1951 was to become the most important year in the immediate post-war period. Interest in the school, which now has 984 students, increased, as did the stays in the country school in the school's country home in Eddigehausen in an old half-timbered farm below Plesse Castle . A school exchange with the English city ​​of Cheltenham took place on the initiative of Erwin Helms . This exchange also marked the beginning of the town twinning between Göttingen and Cheltenham.

In addition to the intensified international contacts, the school also increasingly attracted the attention of well-known personalities. An example of this is the lecture of May 27, 1957 by the physicist Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker . His speech took place in the context of the Göttingen Declaration by the 18 physicists , which in 1957 opposed the arming of the German armed forces with nuclear weapons. Three years earlier, Friedrich Seyfahrt was replaced in the school management by Hans Denecke, who a year later reached a new record with 1,275 students. The number of pupils did not go back to 779 until 1964, when the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium was founded and the school system was reorganized in Göttingen. From July 1, 1959, the abolition of school fees was resolved, and three years later the school management changed again. Fritz Focke became the new rector. During his tenure, under the direction of the music teacher Franz Herzog , the school choir of the FKG became the Göttingen Boys Choir , which gave its first concert in the Göttingen Jacobi Church on September 27, 1962 . The choir achieved success at home and abroad, recorded records and appeared frequently on radio and television. The choir is still rehearsing in its original rehearsal rooms in the FKG today. On January 1, 1965, the school became the responsibility of the city and celebrated its 75th anniversary in July of the same year.

At that time, the school was still a school for boys, and it was not until the summer of 1970 that the first girls were accepted into the sexta. This was preceded by school reductions in 1965/1966 in order to move the school year from Easter to summer, and the appointment of Karl-Peter Schwien as the new director of the school. In connection with his person, there was a scandal from December 1969 about the right-wing extremist teacher Schinke. The school was in the news as early as 1963, when it was about a fatal assassination attempt on Adolf Kraus, who was killed by a former student. Despite these events, the school continued to expand, so a contemporary language laboratory was set up and the building complex was expanded to include a modern extension in January 1970. The sponsorship changed again in 1975 and the school was under the supervision of the Göttingen district from this point on . In the same year, the grammar school also celebrated its 85th anniversary and the first prize of the Heinemann history competition, which the pupils of class 11R received from Walter Scheel in the presence of Gustav Heinemann . On August 1, 1976, after reforms at the school , advanced and basic courses were introduced for the first time in grades 11 to 13 of upper secondary level. From this point on, the school leaving examination was called the Abitur examination , or in May 1978 the “Reformabitur”. Of the 1,444 students at the time, 572 were women who were able to attend the orientation level for the first time on August 1, 1980 .

In the 1980s, the school, since the 1960s and 1970s also referred to as the “sports gymnasium” among the students, received a new sports hall, which was inaugurated on February 1, 1983. Shortly before the school's 100th birthday, the school's old sports hall was demolished in 1987, and construction for a second hall began on June 1, 1989. One month later, on July 18, 1989, the long-time headmaster Karl-Peter Schwien said goodbye. One example of why the school was closely linked to sport was, among other things, the win of the German championship for a basketball team as part of the youth training for the Olympics event , which consisted of 13 to 14 year old students. A year earlier, however, the school ended another, long-cherished tradition and closed its country school home in Eddigehausen in 1982 . Schwien's successor was Thomas Häntsch, under whom the school celebrated its 100th anniversary from May 10th to 12th, 1990. To this day, the school has played an important role in the Göttingen school landscape, also due to its specifically scientifically oriented profile.

School profile

Since the beginning of the 2004/2005 school year, due to the abolition of the Orientation Level (OS) in Lower Saxony , 5th and 6th grade pupils have also been taught at the FKG. In the course of this, the nearby building of the former OS Jahn School was incorporated into the FKG, which is now referred to as "Little Felix".

For the 2006 World Cup, the FKG was selected as the “World Cup partner school for Mexico”. In the case of the FKG, this is a humanitarian project to financially support children and young people in Mexico - for example through sponsorships. In the same school year, a project to promote sporting talent was started with special working groups in the afternoon.

Furthermore, the FKG has been offering a bilingual branch since the 1990/1991 school year, a mathematical and scientific branch since the 1995/1996 school year, and since the 2007/2008 school year additional funding for young people with sporting skills. In December 2007 the FKG was the first state school in Lower Saxony to be accredited as an IB World School. Since the 2008/2009 school year, students have been able to choose the IB Diploma Program in the “International Branch”. The International Baccalaureate Diploma is recognized by the state as a high school diploma .

The school offers several exchange programs with schools abroad, some for many years. Among other things, the students can take part in an exchange with Mexico lasting around three to six months. There are also exchanges to Amiens, Villeurbanne near Lyon and Australia.

Prominent former students

literature

  • Wilhelm Schütte : 1928. Festschrift for the inauguration of the new Göttingen secondary school. Publisher H. Lange, Göttingen 1928.
  • Karl Baustaedt: Festschrift for the 60th anniversary of the Felix-Klein-Oberschule in Göttingen. Edited by the Association of Former Students. Göttingen 1950.
  • Albers (reporter): Report of the Felix Klein Oberschule Göttingen for the year 1952/53. Report on the school year. Annual report of the Felix-Klein-Oberschule Göttingen. Bohrßen, Göttingen 1953.
  • College of the Felix-Klein-Gymnasium: 75 years Felix-Klein-Gymnasium Göttingen. Festschrift, Göttingen 1965.
  • Otto Kampe: 50 years of the school building of today's Felix-Klein-Gymnasium. Göttingen 1979.
  • Regina Grenzmann u. a. (Ed.): 1890–1990 Felix-Klein-Gymnasium. 100 years of FKG. Festschrift. Saß + Co, Göttingen 1990.

Web links

Commons : Felix-Klein-Gymnasium  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fkg-goettingen.de accessed on February 22, 2017
  2. ^ Hans-Christian Winters: Higher education "for the practitioners" - The FKG celebrates 100 years of school . In: Göttinger Jahresblätter . 1990, ISSN  0172-861X , p. 140 .
  3. ^ Hans-Christian Winters: Higher education "for the practitioners" - The FKG celebrates 100 years of school . In: Göttinger Jahresblätter . 1990, ISSN  0172-861X , p. 143 .
  4. ^ Report from the Felix Klein Oberschule in Göttingen for the year 1952/53 , pp. 9-10.
  5. ↑ fkg.goettingen.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fkg.goettingen.de