Friedrichs-Gymnasium Herford

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Friedrichs-Gymnasium
Friedrichs-Gymnasium (1) .JPG
type of school high school
School number 168798
founding after 800
address

Werrestrasse 9

place Herford
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 7 '14 "  N , 8 ° 40' 25"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 7 '14 "  N , 8 ° 40' 25"  E
carrier City of Herford
student 748 (2018)
management Gudrun Horst de Cuestas
Website www.fgh-online.de

The Friedrichs-Gymnasium is one of three Herford high schools and the oldest school in the Herford district as well as one of the oldest in the German-speaking area .

location

The school is located on the edge of Herford city center in Neustädter Feldmark in a quiet green area on Werrestrasse. The Ravensberger Gymnasium Herford is within sight . Even the Herford Station can be reached on foot in about 15 minutes.

history

founding

With the founding of a monastery for the daughters of the Saxon nobility by St. Waltger in 789, the school's history, which cannot be documented, begins. R. Pape assumes that there was a two-class school for the noble daughters and for prospective acolytes and clergymen.

Latin school

Evidence for the existence of the boys' school is the education of the first two bishops of Iceland in Herford. This school, which was taught in Latin, was called “de gemeyne Schole der Münster Kerken” in the city, especially since its rectors were appointed exclusively by the Herford abbess until 1540. After the Reformation had been introduced in Herford , the last Augustinian hermits donated their monastery to the city on June 30, 1540, and the Roman school of the imperial monastery with its last principal Homerus Buteranus was relocated there. The abbess and the city council were initially responsible for school supervision. In the humanistic and Reformation age, the school had a great spiritual radiance with a university character, also thanks to the taken over monastery library, especially since there was no university in all of Westphalia.

After the “imperial glory” of the city of Herford , confirmed by the Imperial Court of Justice in 1631 and by the Emperor in 1642, after a brief dispute the abbess was excluded from having a say in appointments.

Naming

In 1766 the “Gymnasium Fridericianum” was named after King Friedrich II of Prussia (the great) through the initiative of the Herford mayor at the time, Ernst Philipp Rischmüller . Since 2015, the back of the school building on Werreufer has been named "Rischmüllerufer" in memory of the innovator. Apart from this school, since 1997 only the Friedrich-Gymnasium in Luckenwalde has been named after FdG. He had approved two nationwide collections for renovating and rebuilding the ailing monastery buildings. These half-timbered buildings had to make way for a school expansion in 1930.

Of the 63 students in 1766, a third was female. However, this was probably a kind of school experiment, which probably ended around 1774. In 1779 the designations Infima ( Sexta ), Quinta, Quarta, Tertia, Secunda and Prima were introduced for the classes . The first Abitur exams took place in 1789.

Humanistic high school

In the 19th century the school became a humanistic grammar school after an attempt to convert the grammar school into a higher middle school had been fought off in 1822. However, in 1844 a real department was set up, in which French, commercial German and arithmetic were taught to the students without using ancient Greek.

In 1869 the city of the school built a new building in the classical style, which stood on the site of the old Augustinian church on Brüderstraße.

In the 19th century grammar school, the emphasis was on the ancient languages ​​Latin and Greek, which took up more than two-fifths of the teaching time. In the Abitur, the students had to write not only a German, but also a Latin essay by 1890. It was deleted at the initiative of Kaiser Wilhelm II at the December conference in 1890 . In addition, the translation of a German text into Latin was required by 1925. As a modern foreign language, French was on the curriculum, which was replaced by English after 1933. At Friedrichs-Gymnasium, English did not replace Latin as the first foreign language until 1991. The second foreign language has since been Latin or French.

As a result of the expansion of the existing secondary school, initiated in 1925, into a mathematical and scientific-oriented Oberrealschule (today Ravensberger Gymnasium Herford ), the Friedrichs-Gymnasium faced competition, because Oberrealschulen were also allowed to award general university entrance qualifications since 1901. But the reputation of the Friedrichs-Gymnasium also grew, because in 1929 the Prussian ministerial decree awarded it the rare honor of "particularly important institution".

The school policy of the National Socialists downgraded the (old-language) grammar school to an undesirable special form. The number of pupils at Friedrichs-Gymnasium was almost halved between 1933 and 1942 (from 270 to 143). In 1938 it was even threatened with liquidation, as only three students were registered for the Sexta. It was only through the personal commitment of the director of the upper secondary school and the mayor of Herford that more students could be won over to set up a sixth room.

Advanced train for secondary school graduates and co-education

In 1961, an extension train for secondary school graduates was added, in which they could obtain the Abitur within three school years. During this time the great Latinum had to be acquired. The catchment area of ​​the assembly train went far beyond the boundaries of the city and the Herford district, as this type of school was not very widespread in the 1960s.

The co-education outside the building train was introduced in 1964 again. Before that, girls could only be admitted with special permission from the school authorities. However, in 1964, 14 percent of the entire school population and even 23 percent of the old-language school leavers were female.

New building

In 1972 the grammar school moved from Brüderstraße to Werre Gardens near Hansastraße. The old classicist building was torn down despite major protests from the population in order to build a department store there. In 1975 the school reluctantly reorganized the upper level of the gymnasium .

In 1983, thanks to private donations, an observatory was inaugurated on the roof of the school .

In 2011, an illuminated sign with the Latin name Gymnasium Fridericianum was placed on the facade , which was financed by the alumni association.

At the beginning of the 2014/2015 school year, a new bilingual branch was set up at Friedrichs-Gymnasium. While the pupils in this branch initially receive further English lessons in the first two school years, the subjects biology are taught in English from grade 7 and history from grade 8.

List of Rectors, from 1839: Directors

  • 1540-1548: Homerus Buteranus
  • 1548–1553: Christian Schleibing
  • 1553–1555: Heinrich Sibäus
  • 1555-1560: Albert Lonicerus
  • 1560–1563: Johann Glandorp
  • 1563-1567: Albert Lonicerius
  • 1567–1580: Franz Luckius
  • 1580–1585: Caspar Kemna [de]
  • 1585–1586: Heinrich Froböse
  • 1586–1593: Johann Happen
  • 1593–1598: Eucharius Catharinus
  • 1598-1623: Wendelin Lonicerus
  • 1623–1627: Sylvester Priebe [nius]
  • 1627–1628: Jakob Stephani
  • 1628–1633: Christoph Schröder
  • 1633–1636: Joachim von Laer
  • 1636–1638: Andreas Didelius
  • 1638–1652: Franz Schröder
  • 1652–1674: Christoph Kracht
  • 1674–1679: Gottschalk von Laer
  • 1679–1685: Bernhard Teutscher
  • 1685–1729: Thomas Müller
  • 1729–1731: Johann Caspar Rumpf
  • 1732–1738: Johann Heinrich Volmar
  • 1738–1746: Johann Heinrich Bose
  • 1746–1758: Christoph Matthias Mölling
  • 1758–1759: Arnold Heinrich Hotho
  • 1759–1763: Johann Friedrich Wesselmann
  • 1764–1779: Johann Heinrich Höcker
  • 1781–1789: Friedrich August Benzler
  • 1790–1794: Ludwig Wachler
  • 1799–1807: Karl Engelbrecht Bergmann
  • 1807–1838: Konrad Ernst Knefel
  • 1839–1857: Friedrich Gothold Schöne
  • 1864–1883: Gustav Bode
  • 1884–1895: Bernhard Steussloff
  • 1895–1911: Hans Windel
  • 1911–1914: Rudolf Gräber
  • 1914–1946: Theodor Denecke
  • 1946–1949: Gustav Schierholz
  • 1949–1953: Wilhelm Holtschmidt
  • 1953–1960: Karl Brumberg
  • 1960–1974: Bernhard Otto
  • 1974–1989: Herbert Disep
  • 1990-2001: Werner Bulk
  • 2001–2011: Hans-Joachim Becker
  • since 2011: Gudrun Horst de Cuestas

Known teachers

Known students

To the students of the educational institution in this place included Hathumod , Ísleifur Gissurarson , Gissur Ísleifsson , Heinrich von Herford , Hermann Dwerg , Justus Feuerborn , John Cothmann , Anton Fuerstenau , Simon Gogräve , Johann Botsack , Matthew Daniel Pöppelmann , Friedrich Wilhelm Offel Meyer , Adolph Bermpohl , Gerhard Friedrich Müller , Eduard Kleine , Friedrich Bokelmann , Wilhelm Normann , Otto Weddigen , Carl Menckhoff , Hermann Höpker-Aschoff , Hugo Gieseking , Walter Baade , Winfried Boecken , Erich Gutenberg , Hanns Dustmann , Ludwig Denecke , Hans Quest , Rolf Weinberg , Max Westfeld , Ernst L. Wynder , Hanns Joachim Friedrichs , Hans Wollschläger , Jürgen Kraus , Arnold Bernsmeier , Jan A. Ahlers , Dirk Ahlers , Roland Günter , Jürgen J. Rasch , Edgar Selge , Ulrich Knefelkamp , Berndt Lüderitz , Richard Sprick Jörg Echternkamp , Martin Heckmanns also:

See also

literature

  • History of the Friedrichs-Gymnasium zu Herford, written on the occasion of the third secular celebration of the foundation of the Gymnasium on July 7, 1840, by Dr. August Ludwig Francke, Conrector. Herford 1840.
  • The higher education system in Prussia. Historical-statistical presentation on behalf of the Minister of Spiritual, Educational and Medicinal Affairs, ed. by Dr. Ludwig A. Meadow. Berlin 1864.
  • In the old bond to new freedom, 425 years Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Herford 1540-1965. Herford 1965.
  • Friedrichs-Gymnasium Herford 1540–1990, commemorative publication for the 450th anniversary. Herford 1990.
  • Michael Baldzuhn: The oldest book directory of the school library of the Friedrichs-Gymnasium from 1736 and a previously unknown catalog from 1825. In: Historical yearbook for the Herford district. 17 (2010), pp. 228-255.
  • Rainer Bölling : Latin high school diploma theses at the classical grammar school from 1840-1990 . In: Pegasus online magazine. IX / 2, 2009, pp. 1–28 (case study on Friedrichs-Gymnasium)
  • Rainer Bölling : A little history of the Abitur. Paderborn 2010.

Web links

Commons : Friedrichs-Gymnasium Herford  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ School information from the Ministry of Education. In: https://www.schulministerium.nrw.de/ . Retrieved December 29, 2018 .
  2. ^ R. Pape: About the school at Herford Minster in the Middle Ages, in: Friedrichs-Gymnasium Herford 1540–1990, pp. 18–26
  3. ↑ Herford Chronicle. Legends and historical images from the past of the monastery and the city. A contribution to local history by Julius Normann, rector a. D., Herford 1910, pp. 63-65
  4. ↑ http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_herford/herford/herford/20816724_Buergermeister-weiht-Rischmuellerufer-ein.html
  5. ↑ Christoph Laue: Friedrichs Fridericianum? Historical yearbook for the Herford district 2013, Publishing House for Regional History Bielefeld, 2012.
  6. ↑ Topics of the German and Latin essays at Friedrichs-Gymnasium from the years 1840–1914 and examples in R. Bölling, Kleine Geschichte des Abiturs, pp. 139–144 and 160–166 as well as Bölling, Latin Abitur theses.
  7. ↑ Johann-Albrecht Haupt: User: Johann-Albrecht Haupt , self-disclosure on his own user page in the German-language Wikipedia in the version of June 11, 2020, 11:49 a.m.