Gaußschule high school at Löwenwall

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Gaußschule high school at Löwenwall
Historic entrance
type of school high school
founding 1909
place Braunschweig
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 15 '40 "  N , 10 ° 31' 50"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '40 "  N , 10 ° 31' 50"  E
carrier City of Braunschweig
student about 950
Teachers about 80
management Stefan Lüttenberg
Website gaussschule-braunschweig.de

The Gaußschule is a grammar school in the city of Braunschweig .

history

Partial view of the school building from Löwenwall

The Gaußschule was founded on April 21, 1909 as a municipal secondary school for boys and was officially named Gaußschule on October 2, 1911 , municipal upper secondary school on Löwenwall . The school was named after the Brunswick mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß . At the time, however, Gauss attended the Martino-Katharineum grammar school , which is also located in Braunschweig.

In 1913 the first twelve high school graduates left the school. 68 students and two teachers were killed in the First World War . In 1930 the school's own country home in Oderbrück in the Upper Harz Mountains, which still exists today. During the time of National Socialism , the number of students was inevitably greatly reduced, among other things by the systematic persecution of Jewish students and teachers. During the Second World War , the school building was partially destroyed by bombs. 136 students and two teachers fell, three students were missing.

From April to December 1945 classes were banned by the British military government ; the school building was looted by the needy population. From December 5th, classes were resumed to a limited extent. At Easter 1946 the first 61 students passed the post-war high school diploma.

One of the first German school newspapers after the end of the Second World War was “ Der Punkt ” from the Gauss School. The newspaper's number 1 appeared in September 1948. The journalist and diplomat Günter Gaus was the head of the student editorial team for several issues .

  • 1962: Inauguration of the school's own observatory
  • 1973: introduction of co-education
  • 1980: 50th anniversary of the school camp
  • 1982: First mixed Abitur class after the introduction of co-education
  • 1985: Foundation of the "Association of Former Gauss Students"
  • 1988: Introduction of the music branch
  • 1996: Introduction of a school cafeteria
  • 1997: The Gaußschule becomes an open all-day school
  • 2002: The Gaußschule becomes a media profile school
  • 2005: Inauguration of the school's own planetarium
  • 2006: Completion of the new school yard
  • 2009: 100th anniversary
  • 2011: Completion of the new leisure area
  • 2019: Completion of the renovation work on the Harzheim

Harzheim

The "Harzheim" of the Gaußschule in 2006

The Gauss School has had its own school camp since 1930. It is located 60 km south of Braunschweig in Oderbrück, in the Harz Mountains at an altitude of 800 m in the middle of the Harz National Park . The home has been owned by the "Gaußschulheim Oderbrück zu Braunschweig eV - The Friends of the Gaußschule" since 1928. After the Realschule John-F.-Kennedy-Platz and the Primary and Secondary School Pestalozzistraße had previously given up and sold their country homes for financial reasons, the Gaußschule is now the only school in Braunschweig that still has its own school home.

The building called "Harzheim" was built from 1929 with the help of private donations and was completed in 1930. At the beginning of April 1945, in the final phase of the Second World War, the Harz was declared a " Harz Fortress " by the National Socialists . The German combat units located there were supposed to stop the advancing American troops. So it came about a. around the Harzheim to fierce battles with high losses on both sides. The Harzheim and other buildings in Oderbrück and the surrounding area were destroyed down to their foundations. Not far from the Landheim is the Oderbrück cemetery of honor , a war cemetery where many of the dead from these last fighting operations were buried. After the Harzheim was destroyed, students, parents and teachers collected more money to be able to rebuild the home. It was reopened in 1950.

From 2009 to 2019 the Harzheim was completely renovated for 650,000 euros. The financing was partly secured by private donations, but also by funds from the federal government , the state of Lower Saxony , the Richard Borek Foundation and finally with 120,000 euros from funds from the European Union . Much of the work on and in the Harzheim was again carried out by students, parents and teachers themselves.

Attempted renaming of the Gaußschule

On March 15, 2016, the school board decided with a majority of two votes that the school should be renamed "Gymnasium Carl Friedrich Gauß Braunschweig" and that an application for a name change should be submitted to the city of Braunschweig. The reason was that the headmistress Lenck-Ackermann had commissioned a marketing agency to revise the school's corporate image […] with all the relevant elements . The decision of the school board met with vehement resistance from teachers and students as well as from numerous former students and teachers (including Lenck-Ackermann's two predecessors). Above all, the lack of communication between the school management and teachers, students and parents regarding the intended renaming was criticized. In particular, the lack of necessity and / or sense of such a step was questioned.

A retired, former teacher who had taught at the Gaußschule for 41 years then initiated an online petition on openPetition on March 22, 2016 against the intended renaming, as this would have any need and support from the overwhelming majority of teachers, students and parents missing. Almost 1,000 people signed within the first 24 hours. By the end of the subscription period on April 18, 2016, 2927 people from around the world had signed.

“The vote of the school board in no way reflects the majority relationships within the college and the student body of the Gaußschule. While around 80% of the students who took part in an online survey refused to rename the school, the staff, with an overwhelming majority, voted in favor of keeping the name "Gaußschule". "

- Grounds for the petition

Representatives of all parties represented in the Braunschweig city council also expressed incomprehension regarding the necessity of the renaming.

In view of the massive criticism caused by the decision of the school board, the headmistress turned to the board in an open letter on April 11, 2016 and asked them to revoke the decision to rename. She justified this, among other things, with the fact that with this decision something had been set in motion by the press work of some and the political influence of others, which did not do justice to the Gauss School and its overall internal values . In fact, no new name is needed. On April 20, 2016, the school board withdrew its decision to rename the company from March 15, 2016.

Known students

Günter Gaus , graduated from high school in 1949
Rolf-Dieter Krause , graduated from high school in 1971
  • Jürgen Blänsdorf (* 1936), classical philologist, graduated from high school in 1956
  • Ernst-Joachim Brunke (1946–1995), chemist, graduated from high school in 1966
  • Sebastian Ebel (* 1963), Chief Financial Officer Vodafone, President of Eintracht Braunschweig, graduated from high school in 1982
  • Günter Gaus (1929–2004), journalist, publicist, diplomat and politician, from 1974 to 1981 head of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic in the GDR, graduated from high school in 1949
  • Werner Goldschmidt (1903–1975), art historian and music publisher, graduated from high school in 1923
  • Stefan Grimme (* 1963), Professor of Theoretical Chemistry, Leibniz Prize winner, graduation class 1982
  • Marcus Herrenberger (* 1955), artist, graduated from high school in 1975
  • Werner Knopp (1931–2019), lawyer and from 1977 to 1998 President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, graduation class 1950
  • Rolf-Dieter Krause (* 1951), TV journalist and head of the ARD studio in Brussels, born in 1971
  • Wolfgang Meibeyer (* 1938), geographer, graduated from high school in 1958
  • Rudolf S. Morgenstern (* 1939), architect, professor at the Technical University of Dresden, graduated from high school in 1959
  • Bernfried EG Pröve (* 1963), musician and composer, graduated from high school in 1982
  • Wilfried Rödiger (1937–2016), doctor, graduated from high school in 1958
  • Dirk Rühmann (* 1960), writer, graduated from high school in 1979
  • Eckhard Schimpf (* 1938), journalist, author and motor sportsman
  • Ulf Schmidt (* 1966), playwright and scholar, graduated from high school in 1986.
  • Ulrich Seiffert (* 1941), entrepreneur and board member of Volkswagen AG
  • Manfred Sohn (* 1955), politician, graduated from high school in 1975
  • Thomas Steg (* 1960), political and communications consultant, manager at VW, graduated from high school in 1979
  • Theodor Stiebel (1894–1960), engineer, inventor, designer and founder of the Stiebel Eltron company, graduated from high school in 1913
  • Hans-Georg Unger (* 1926), engineer, graduated from high school in 1950
  • Joelle Wedemeyer (* 1996), soccer player at VfL Wolfsburg and U20 soccer world champion 2014
  • Hannes Westermann (1912–1989), architect, graduated from high school in 1932
  • Wolfgang in der Wiesche (* 1960), artist, graduated from high school in 1980
  • Heinz Wolff (1909 -?), Architect and urban planner, graduated from high school in 1928
  • Ruprecht Zwirner (1929–2010), doctor, recipient of the Paracelsus Medal of the German medical profession, born in 1950

Well-known teachers

principal

  • Wilhelm Levin (1909–1927)
  • Albert Oppermann (1927–1938)
  • Karl Lies (1938–1945)
  • Georg Daub (1945–1946)
  • Lothar Dingerling (1946–1954)
  • Karl Lies (1954–1968)
  • Wolfram Keller (1969–1991)
  • Gernot Tartsch (1991-2006)
  • Christine Lenck-Ackermann (2006-2019)
  • Stefan Lüttenberg (since 2019)

Impressions

literature

  • NN: 50 years of Gaußschule 1909–1959. Festschrift of the Gaußschule Braunschweig for the 50th anniversary, Braunschweig 1959.
  • Karl Lies: The Gauss School - Tradition and History. Braunschweig around 1967.
  • School management (Ed.): 75 years of Gaußschule 1909–1984. Braunschweig 1984.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gauss in key words. In: gaussschule-braunschweig.de. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The Harzheim website at gaussschule-braunschweig.de
  3. ↑ Harzheim club on gaussschule-braunschweig.de
  4. ↑ Eckhard Schimpf : About the Harzheim and the "wonderful Hort". In: Braunschweiger Zeitung from January 6, 2017.
  5. ↑ Katja Dartsch: Gauss students sweat for their Harzheim. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung from June 20, 2017.
  6. ↑ Katja Dartsch: Harzheim of the Gaußschule again tip top. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung from January 28, 2019.
  7. ↑ Katja Dartsch: “I like going to school every day”. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung from January 17, 2019.
  8. ↑ a b Gauss School remains Gauss School after all. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of April 12, 2016, p. 15.
  9. ↑ Gaußschule - "The indignation is very typical." In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of March 26, 2016.
  10. ↑ No approval for the name change of the Gaußschule without a vote. Press release from the SPD parliamentary group in Braunschweig
  11. ↑ Online petition against the new name of the Gaußschule. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of March 23, 2016, p. 17.
  12. ↑ Online petition against the renaming of the Gaußschule on openpetition.de (as of April 19, 2016)
  13. ^ Voices from all over the world for the Gauss School. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of April 8, 2016.
  14. ↑ Gauss School - Arrogance or "Brand"? In: Braunschweiger Zeitung of April 4, 2016, p. 19.
  15. ^ A b Günter Gaus: contradictions. Memories of a left conservative. Propylaea, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-549-07181-7 , p. 119.
  16. ^ NN: 50 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1959. P. 105.
  17. ↑ School management (ed.): 75 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1984. P. 121.
  18. ↑ CV on romanherzoginstitut.de
  19. ^ NN: 50 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1959. P. 113.
  20. ↑ School management (ed.): 75 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1984. P. 115.
  21. ^ NN: 50 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1959. P. 113.
  22. ↑ a b School management (ed.): 75 years Gaußschule 1909–1984. P. 122.
  23. ↑ Press review ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. from August 5, 2014 on gaussschule-bs.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gaussschule-bs.de
  24. ^ NN: 50 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1959. Festschrift of the Gaußschule Braunschweig on the 50th anniversary, Braunschweig 1959, p. 107.
  25. ^ Obituary in the Ärzteblatt Baden-Württemberg ÄBW 08-2010, p. 323. (PDF file)
  26. ^ NN: 50 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1959. P. 94.
  27. ^ NN: 50 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1959. Festschrift of the Gaußschule Braunschweig on the 50th anniversary, Braunschweig 1959, p. 97.
  28. ↑ Ann Claire Richter: Always uncomplicated to the goal. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung from January 12, 2019.
  29. ^ NN: 50 years of the Gaußschule 1909–1959. Festschrift of the Gaußschule for the 50th anniversary. Braunschweig 1959.
  30. ^ Chronicle of the City of Braunschweig 1993
  31. ^ Chronicle of the City of Braunschweig 1991
  32. ^ Chronicle of the City of Braunschweig 2006