Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (Poznan)

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The Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium Posen was a higher school in Posen from 1834 to 1920 (or 1923) .

history

Leaving certificate from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (1850)

From 1804 to 1834, the Royal High School was the only high school in Poznan. It emerged from the Poznan Voivodeship School (Wojewódzka Szkoła Wydziałowa) , which in turn was in the tradition of the Jesuit College and the Lubrański Academy . When the province of Posen became part of the Kingdom of Prussia after the Congress of Vienna , the Prussian government president Eduard von Flottwell (term of office 1830–1841) pursued a policy of Germanization . The establishment of the German-speaking Protestant Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in 1834 can be seen in this context. At the Mariengymnasium , which was founded at the same time, the Catholic Poles were almost among themselves. Until 1846 the teachers at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium were paid better than those at the Mariengymnasium; then they were equated on petition from the estates .

Former building of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium (today III.Liceum)

Originally housed in a former residential building, the school building housed six classrooms located on the ground floor. The headmaster lived on the first floor, while the caretaker's apartments were in the basement. Because of the limited space, the lessons had to be held in blocks, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, until 1857. After the school building was severely attacked by several storms between 1850 and 1856, a new, larger building was inaugurated in 1857. But as early as 1868 the local conditions were again described as "difficult". In February 1869 the school had 555 students in the seven actual grammar school levels (sixth to prima), plus 144 in the three classes of the “preschool”. Of the total of 699 students, 350 were Protestant, 327 Jewish and 22 Catholic. 564 came directly from Poznan, 135 from outside.

After Posen ceded to the newly founded Second Polish Republic as a result of the Treaty of Versailles , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium initially remained a school for the German-speaking minority. In view of the declining number of German-speaking students and the increase in Polish students in Poznan, the German grammar school moved to a smaller building on Krakowska Street in the 1922/23 school year. The previous building of the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium, on the other hand, was occupied by a newly founded Polish lyceum , which was named after St. John of Krakow in 1923 .

The building at ulica Strzelecka 10 now houses the III. Liceum "Jan Kanty".

Teacher

Wilhelm Schwartz, director of the grammar school (1872–1882)

In chronological order

student

Leo Koenigsberger
Georg Heym, high school student (1899/1900)

According to year of birth

literature

  • Hermann Starke: History of the Royal Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Posen. Poznan 1884. ( Online in the Wielkopolska Digital Library )
  • Königliches Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium Posen (Ed.): To the ... taking place public examination invites ... devoutly. 1884–1891 digitized
  • Königliches Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium Posen (Ed.): Annual report of the Königliches Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Posen. 1902–1915 digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address book of the provincial, capital and residential city of Poznan (1911)
  2. ↑ Helmut Glück, Konrad Schröder: Learning German in the Polish Countries from the 15th Century to 1918. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2007, p. XXII.
  3. ^ Gotthold Rhode: History of the City of Posen. Freimund-Verlag, 1953, p. 111.
  4. ↑ JP Jordan (Ed.): Yearbooks for Slavic Literature, Art and Science. Fourth year, 1846, Slawische Buchhandlung, Leipzig, p. 33.
  5. ^ A b Richard Hoche :  Schaper, Karl Julius Heinrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 30, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1890, p. 576.
  6. ↑ Carl Schaper (Ed.): To the public examination of the students of the Königl. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Poznan. W. Decker & Comp., Posen 1870, pp. 10-11.
  7. ↑ Historia szkoły. Website of the III. Liceum Ogólnokształcące, accessed on November 22, 2018.