Friedrich Wilhelm High School (Cologne)

Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Cologne
type of school	high school
School number	166613
founding	1825
address	Severinstrasse 241
place	Cologne
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 55 '51 "  N , 6 ° 57' 23"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '51 "  N , 6 ° 57' 23"  E
carrier	city ​​Cologne
student	about 1000
Teachers	95
management	Meinolf Arnold
Website	www.fwg-koeln.de

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Cologne Waidmarkt from above. In the second half of the video, the entire high school can be seen from above. (2019)

The Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium is a humanistic high school founded in Cologne in 1825 .

history

After the Dreikönigsgymnasium (Dreikönigsgymnasium) , which was founded by the church in 1450 , the then municipal “higher citizen school” in the buildings of the abolished Carmelite monastery in Severinstrasse was elevated to a “complete” grammar school by a ministerial rescript of the Prussian government on September 28, 1825. It was initially named "Karmeliter-Gymnasium" and in 1829 it was renamed "Evangelisches Gymnasium". On October 19, 1830, the school was finally given the title "Royal Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium" after the then Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. From the beginning, the basis was Wilhelm von Humboldt's new humanist educational concept . Students of all denominations were accepted , but the character was more Protestant .

A total of 51 students from the grammar school registered as volunteers for the army in the course of the First World War . The senior citizen Heinrich Würtz was the first to be killed in school - he fell in the battle of Langemarck .

In 1939 the Prussian government closed the Protestant grammar school and other schools on the grounds that there were too many grammar schools in Cologne . During the Second World War , the historic school building in downtown Cologne was destroyed. After the war, three abandoned and destroyed grammar schools were rebuilt, first together and under the name Staatliches Apostelgymnasium, combined with the former Friedrich Wilhelm grammar school and the former Schiller grammar school . In the 1950s, a modern new building was built at Severinstrasse 241. After the war, a new language branch was introduced from 1961 onwards as the “Romanesque branch”. Girls were also accepted in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1972, when coeducation was made possible, but the old language branch was retained Form of teaching. In 1975 the FWG was one of the first high schools in Cologne to introduce the reformed upper level course system. Since 1998, students from the 1st grade onwards have been learning Latin and English at the same time, and since 2007 they have also been able to acquire the International Baccalaureate .

Seal of the Cölnisches Gymnasium with a Berlin bear and year of re-establishment

On March 3, 2009, the historical archive of the City of Cologne on the opposite side collapsed due to excavation work as part of the underground construction . The school had to be completely evacuated. Subsequently, significant cracks and subsidence were found in parts of the school building. The building was completely renovated in three years for around 26 million euros. School operations took place in the Volkshochschule building on Neumarkt until July 2012 . At the end of August 2012 the school moved back to its original building. In October 2013, further renovation and expansion works were completed.

Known teachers

• Karl Friedrich August Grashof (1770–1841), Protestant theologian, philologist, Prussian. Konsistorialrat, 1820–1841 headmaster of the FWG
• Karl Georg Jacob (1796–1849), philologist and historian
• Gustav Pfarrius (1800–1884), "Singer of the Nahe Valley"
• Heinrich Knebel (1801–1859), philologist and headmaster
• Eduard Heis (1806–1877), mathematician and astronomer
  

  Gottlieb Leuchtenberger
• Franz Weinkauff (1823–1892), teacher and writer
• Oskar Jäger (1830–1910), history teacher and headmaster
• Gottlieb Leuchtenberger (1839–1914), teacher and school principal
• Albert Lauscher (1872–1944), Catholic priest and theologian
• Theodor Litt (1880–1962), cultural and social philosopher

Known students

1700-1900

• Ludwig Wihl (1807–1882), classical philologist, orientalist, writer and publicist
• Heinrich Gisbert Maria Heimsoeth (1811–1887), President of the Rhenish Court of Appeals
• Ferdinand Wolff (1812–1905), journalist, editor of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung
• Friedrich Heimsoeth (1814–1877), professor of eloquence in Bonn

Andreas Gottschalk

• Andreas Gottschalk (1815–1849), doctor for the poor in Cologne, pioneer of the labor movement
• Louis de Leuw (1819-1858), doctor
• Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen (1827–1894), civil servant and politician
• Friedrich Leopold Devens (1831–1894), 1868–1875 Cologne police chief
  

  Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen
• August Philipp Ottokar Meyer (1835–1908), doctor and clinic director
• Wilhelm Lexis (1837–1914), mathematician, statistician and economist
• Johannes Fastenrath (1839–1908), writer
• Anton Fischer (1840–1912), Archbishop of Cologne and Cardinal
• Emil Hartwich (1843–1886), lawyer and sports educator
• Emil Baehrens (1848–1888), classical philologist.
• Anton Opfergelt (1850–1915), politician and lawyer
• Peter Stern (1852–1929), Mayor of Viersen
• Fritz Schroeder (1853–1931), gymnastics and sports pedagogue
• Louis Hagen (1855–1932), banker
• Jakob Odenthal (1858–1921), pastor
• Richard Grüneberg (1862–1926), chemist and industrialist
• Wilhelm Schneider-Clauß (1862–1949), dialect poet and president of the Kölsche Funke ruut-wieß
• Bruno Eichhorn (1864–1926), Prussian administrative lawyer and district administrator
• Gustav von Stein (1872–1952), Prussian lawyer and district administrator
• Berthold Laufer (1874–1934), anthropologist
• Rudolf Breitscheid (1874–1944), social democratic politician
• Otto Fee (1877–1954), actor
• Klaus Thormaehlen (1892–1981), engineer, winemaker and the inventor of the mulching sickle
• Robert Servatius (1894–1983), defense attorney in the Nuremberg trials and in the Eichmann trial
• Hans Encke (1896–1976), Protestant clergyman
• Heinrich Held (1897–1957), pastor; President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland

From 1900

• Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler (1918–2001), chief commentator on GDR television , moderator of the propaganda program Der Schwarze Kanal
• Philipp W. Fabry (* 1927), classical philologist and historian
• Kurt Mueller-Vollmer (1928–2019), Professor of German Studies and Humanities, Emeritus, Stanford University
• Franz-Wilhelm Heimer (* 1930), professor emeritus for Sociology and African Studies at the ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute
• Karl Kießwetter (1930–2019), professor of educational science with special focus on mathematics at the University of Hamburg, inventor of the Kiesswetter function, founder of the association "William Stern Society for Talent Research and Promotion of Talented Students eV"
• Heribert Hellenbroich (1937–2014), lawyer, President of the Federal Intelligence Service a. D.
• Bijan Benjamin (* 1983), film director
• Jürgen Koebke (1945–2012), anatomist and professor at the University of Cologne
• Hans Brügelmann (* 1946), professor of educational science at the universities of Bremen and Siegen
• Robert Hübner (* 1948), German chess grandmaster
• Gereon Sievernich (* 1948), ethnologist, cultural manager and honorary professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt / Main, director of the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin
• Hermann-Josef Emons (* 1950), Cologne publisher
• Günter Bannas (* 1952), journalist
• Dieter C. Schütz (* 1953), art and cultural scientist, university director in Cologne and Berlin
• Dirk Baecker (* 1955), sociologist and university professor
• Helmut Heinen (* 1955), publisher of the Kölnische Rundschau
• Peter Hirsch (* 1956), conductor
• Achim Preiß (* 1956), art historian and professor of architectural history in Weimar
• Christoph Augsten (* 1961), ice hockey Bundesliga player with the Kölner Haien , German champion 1984, 1986 a. 1987
• Anselm Jappe (* 1962), philosopher and university professor at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Frosinone / Italy
• Eva Meyer-Hermann (* 1962), art historian and exhibition curator, director of the Kunsthalle Nürnberg
• Henrike Spätgens , b. Hansmeyer (* 1962), goalkeeper of the FRG national hockey team, European indoor hockey champion 1985, vice world champion field hockey 1986, German indoor hockey champion 1985, German field hockey champion 1986 a. 1987
• Marcus Trier (* 1962), German early historian and director of the Roman-Germanic Museum since 2012
• Stephan Detjen (* 1965), editor-in-chief of Deutschlandfunk in Cologne
• Manuel Andrack (* 1965), editor and book author
• Daniel Fulda (* 1966), professor of literature in Halle / Saale
• Marc Samwer (* 1970), internet entrepreneur
• Oliver Samwer (* 1972), internet entrepreneur
• Alexander Samwer (* 1975), internet entrepreneur
• Matthias Bäcker (lawyer) (* 1975), university professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Fabian Erlinghäuser (* 1976), illustrator, comic artist and animator
• Peter Horn , co-founder and member (1977–1986) of the Höhner music group

literature

• The Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (ban.), March 7, 2009, p. 7
• Conrad-Kohler, Spancken, Frizen (ed.): 175 years of Friedrich-Wilhelm high school . Emons Verlag, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-89705-198-2 .

Web links

Commons : Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Cologne)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Cologne. 
• Rowing club of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Cologne from 1921
• Alumni association of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Cologne
• Cologne education server

Individual evidence

1. ↑ school management. In: www.fwg-koeln.de. Retrieved April 20, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Cologne in the First World War , in Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , edition of May 9, 2014, p. 27
3. ↑ Festschrift of the APG from 1960 p. 32
4. ↑ Festschrift APG on moving into the new building, Cologne 1961, p. 8
5. ↑ 37 all-day construction sites . In: Kölnische Rundschau , December 4, 2009
6. ^ City of Cologne: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium returns to Waidmarkt. Most modern school in Cologne. Retrieved October 24, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium completely renovated. (Video) (No longer available online.) In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . October 11, 2013, archived from the original on February 24, 2014 ; Retrieved February 19, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Carl Krafft:  Grashof, Karl Friedrich August . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 587 f.
9. ^ Curriculum vitae on the university website. (PDF) Retrieved February 19, 2014 (English). 
10. ↑ Talent promoter in mathematics turns 80 - Festival colloquium in honor of Prof. Dr. Karl Kießwetter. In: www.uni-hamburg.de. September 21, 2010, accessed October 20, 2019 . 
11. ↑ The Hamburg model for talent research and promotion of talented students in the field of mathematics. In: hbf-mathematik.de. Retrieved October 20, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Viewpoints - Cologne personalities on the collapse of the historical archive of the city of Cologne. (PDF) 2010, archived from the original on July 14, 2010 ; accessed on December 1, 2011 (foreword, p. 2). 
13. ↑ Inge Swolek: The man of 1000 crime novels. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . M. DuMont Schauberg Verlag, April 29, 2013, accessed on February 19, 2014 . 
14. ^ Website of the conductor. In: www.peterhirsch.de. Retrieved February 19, 2014 . 
15. ^ Shark legends: Christoph Augsten. In: eishockey-magazin.de. Retrieved April 5, 2016 . 
16. ^ European Hockey Championships. In: www.rrk-online.de. Retrieved April 5, 2016 . 
17. ↑ Hockey World Championships. In: www.rrk-online.de. Retrieved April 5, 2016 . 
18. ^ German hockey champions. In: www.rrk-online.de. Retrieved April 5, 2016 . 
19. ↑ Person page at KIT. In: www.zar.kit.edu. Retrieved April 9, 2015 .