Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (Berlin)

Postcard for the centenary of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium

The Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (also Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium ) in Berlin was a royal high school that existed from 1797 until the end of the Second World War . The educational establishment owes its existence to the first Realschule in Berlin, which the Pietist Johann Julius Hecker founded in 1747 (from 1783 "Königliche Realschule"). After 30 years, the school had over 1,400 students, some of whom attended the pedagogy , a class that led to university studies with the ancient languages. The enormous increase in students and the wide range of courses led to the expansion and conversion of the pedagogy into a grammar school.

history

The school was named after King Friedrich Wilhelm III. , who wanted to upgrade the successful secondary school on the occasion of the 50th anniversary. Friedrich Wilhelm III. donated a separate building for the grammar school, the completion of which in 1805 paved the way for the grammar school to be separated from the organization in 1811. But it remained with the secondary school and the girls' school (since 1827 Elisabethschule) under a common rector, initially the nephew of the founder Andreas Jacob Hecker . Only Rector August Spilleke began a thorough renewal of the curriculum in 1820 and accepted more students - from 508 (1820) to 1458 (1841). The Realschule was renamed to Realschule 1st order in 1859 and to Realgymnasium in 1882 ; Since then it has been called Kaiser Wilhelm Realgymnasium . The grammar school became one of the leading humanistic grammar schools in Prussia.

The school buildings were on Kochstrasse in Berlin's Friedrichstadt . The grammar school was located at Kochstrasse at the corner of Friedrichstrasse 41 until 1890 (demolished in 1890) and then in a new building built according to plans by building officer Friedrich Schulze from 1888–1890 in Kochstrasse 13 (south), the secondary school and Elisabeth school were located at Kochstrasse 66 and 65 (north). All buildings were destroyed in the Second World War.

After the First World War , the school was to be closed and the buildings abandoned. But the parents and the parents' council managed to get it, even a completely new school building was planned. This was finished in 1929; it was built according to plans by building officer Heinrich Beckmann in Zwillingestrasse for around 1.5 million marks. This sum also included modern, new interior fittings, such as experiment rooms for chemistry, physics, biology or bright, friendly drawing rooms. Worth mentioning are the auditorium , which even received an organ , and the gym below .

Known teachers

Johann Heinrich Christian Barby August Ferdinand Bernhardi , Rector 1819/20 Fritz Böhm (folklorist) Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Bötticher Eduard Bonnell Hermann Bonitz Julius Deuschle Karl Moritz Fleischer Theodor Heinsius Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Friedrich Wilhelm Jungius Hermann Kern , director 1876–1891 Leo Koenigsberger Johann Christian Friedrich Kühnau Bernhard Kuhse Konrad Levezow Gottlieb Leuchtenberger

Samuel Ferdinand Lubbe Hans Lucas Emil Walter Mayer Richard Noetel , director 1891–1906 Julius Plücker Karl Ferdinand Ranke , Rector 1842–1876 Woldemar Ribbeck , assistant teacher 1853–1858 Gustav Adolf Rüthning Ludwig Scheeffer Arthur Moritz Schoenflies August Spilleke , rector 1820–1841 Christian Gottlieb Friedrich Stöwe , teacher from 1780–1784 Emil Taubert Friedrich Wagner Ludwig Adolf Wiese Ernst Ferdinand Yxem August Wilhelm Zumpt

Known students

Bruno Bauer , philosopher Adolf von Baeyer , chemist, Nobel Prize winner Hans von Beseler , General and Commander-in-Chief in occupied Poland Otto von Bismarck , Reich Chancellor Max von Boehn , General and Commander in Chief of Army Group Boehn Georg Bohlmann , mathematician Richard Bohn , classical archaeologist and building researcher Adolf Brecher , educator and historian Alexander Duncker , bookseller Georg Erbkam , architect Nicolaus Prince von Handjery , politician Philipp Heimann , administrative lawyer, imperial judge Kurt Hensel , mathematician Otto Hellwig , politician Paul Heyse , writer Jakob van Hoddis , poet

Carl Gustav Homeyer , legal historian Georg Humbert , Undersecretary of State James Israel , urologist and surgeon Gustav Janke , publisher Max Kienitz , forester, forest scientist and nature conservationist Wolfgang Kapp , author of the Kapp Putsch Karl August Koberstein , literary historian Johannes Lepsius , orientalist Arnold Mendelssohn , physician Carl Nerenz , Consul General Salomon Neumann , social medicine specialist and local politician Friedrich August Berthold Nitzsch , theologian Gerhard Oestreich , historian Herman von Petersdorff , historian, archivist and author Richard Plüddemann , architect Ernst Posner , historian and archivist Karl von Reitzenstein , historian Paul Tillich , theologian Rudolf Schlechter , botanist Ludwig Adolf Wiese , head of the grammar school department in the Prussian Ministry of Culture

literature

• Annual report on the local royal secondary school . Berlin 1828-1832; 1838-1884; 1886-1887; 1889–1890 ( digitized version )
• Annual report on the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin . Berlin 1841; 1885–1915 ( digitized version )
• Among the school celebrations, which ... are found in the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelm Gymnasium is . Berlin 1836; 1842-1847; 1849–1875 ( digitized version )
• Invitation letter ... to the ... secular celebration of the Realschule and the institutions that resulted from it, the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium, the Elisabethschule and the preschool . Berlin 1847 ( digitized version )
• School news about the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin. Berlin 1848 ( digitized version )
• Annual report on the school year Easter ... until Easter ... Berlin 1892; 1902–1915 ( digitized version )
• Report on the school year from Easter… to Easter… Berlin 1893–1901 ( digitized version )
• The royal secondary school and the military certificates. Hayn, Berlin 1893
  • Volume A. 1814–1834 ( digitized version )
  • Volume B. 1834–1892 ( digitized version )
• Outline of the history of the Royal Secondary School. Hayn, Berlin 1897, vol. 1 ( digitized version )
• Ludwig Wiese: The higher school system in Prussia, historical-statistical representation . Berlin 1864, books.google.de , especially from p. 97

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrichs-Strasse . In: CF Wegener: House and General Address Book of the Royal. Capital and residence city Berlin , 1822, part 3, p. 85.
2. ↑ Uwe Kieling: Berlin building officials and state architects in the 19th century , Berlin, 1986, p. 81
3. ^ The Royal Friedrich Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Berlin . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen , Volume 43 (1893), Sp. 587-592, Plates 60-61. Digitized in the holdings of the Central and State Library Berlin .
4. ↑ Beckmann, Heinrich . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1929, part 1, p. 166. “Magistr.-Baurat a. D. ".
5. ↑ A modern high school. Model institute opened in Neukölln. In: Vossische Zeitung , April 10, 1929.

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 20.7 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 21.7"  E