Georg-Herwegh-Gymnasium

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Georg-Herwegh-Gymnasium
Georg herwegh oberschule.jpg
type of school high school
School number 12Y05
founding 1962
address

Fellbacher Strasse 18
13467 Berlin

place Berlin-Hermsdorf
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 37 '0 "  N , 13 ° 18' 11"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 37 '0 "  N , 13 ° 18' 11"  E
carrier State of Berlin
student 877 (2017/2018)
Teachers 73 + 11 trainee lawyers (2017/2018)
management Uwe Peters
Website www.herwegh-gymnasium.de

The Georg-Herwegh-Gymnasium (short: GHG ) is a high school in Hermsdorf in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf . The school was named after the German poet Georg Herwegh .

history

The school was founded in its current form in 1962. This happened through the union of the boys 'school and the girls' school.

Boys school

In 1849, the then Rector Langhagen opened a private boys' school in Albrechtstrasse (today Falkentaler Steig). In 1911 the municipality of Hermsdorf took over the school and began teaching 94 students. In 1919 the school was officially recognized as a Realprogymnasium . In 1921 the Hermsdorfer Realprogymnasium was merged with the Frohnau boys' school. In 1923 the school was expanded to become the municipal reform high school. In 1928 the Realgymnasium moved to the new school building in Kaiserstraße (today's Fellbacher Straße). After the school was renamed the Friedrich Nietzsche School in 1938 , it was merged with the Friedrichswerder Gymnasium in 1939 .

During the Second World War , the school building on Kaiserstrasse served as a military hospital . After that it was used as an epidemic hospital from 1945 to 1951.

In 1948 the boys' school was renamed the Georg Herwegh Oberschule. The philosopher Rudolf Schottlaender taught there from autumn 1949 to 1956 .

Girls school

The girls' school was founded in 1891 by Anna Hagemann from a private school group. In 1893 she was granted the license to run a private high school for girls. This girls' school was then opened at Augusta-Viktoria-Straße 2. In 1897 the school was sold to Emma Kempe.

In 1903 Margarete Siegert took over the management. After the girls' school had grown from 5 to 9 classes with 119 students (in 1908 three pre-school and six higher classes), the school moved to a new building built by the municipality of Hermsdorf in Humboldtstraße (today: Olafstraße). With the reform of the higher girls 'school system in Prussia in the same year, three types of state-recognized, higher girls' schools entitled to qualifications were created for the first time: " Lyzeum ", "Oberlyzeum" and "Studienanstalt".

The girls' school became a lyceum. In 1916 the girls' school was sold again, this time to Florentine Franke, who was able to provide evidence of the senior teacher examination required to run a lyceum. 14 graduates received their first school leaving certificate from the Lyceum in 1918. The Higher Girls' School Frohnau , which has existed since 1911 and has been recognized as a Lyceum since 1919 , was integrated into the Hermsdorf Lyceum in 1921. As a result, the lessons took place partly in Hermsdorf, partly in Frohnau.

In 1928 it was converted into a municipal school. Florentine Franke, was appointed Director of Studies. In 1938 the name was changed to “ Hans Thoma School. High School for Girls (Linguistic Reform) ”. With the renaming, the establishment of an upper level leading to the Abitur began. In 1941 the first female pupils at the school were able to take the Abitur exams. In 1943 the school was evacuated to the Giant Mountains due to the war . In 1949 Florentine Franke retired. Gertrud Stankiewicz became his successor.

building

Today's school building consists of the listed old building, completed in 1928, on which there is a short, square clock tower, and a new building erected in 1982. The construction costs for the original building amounted to the equivalent of around 8,000,000 euros.

The masonry is plastered. In addition, since 1929, there has been an additional building on the school grounds on Hermsdorfer Damm, the director's residence, now known as the villa for short . In the so-called mayor's villa , u. a. the former district mayor of Berlin-Reinickendorf, Herbert Grigers .

Until the opening of the new building, the 7th grades were mainly taught in a pavilion on the grounds of the Gustav Dreyer Primary School.

On November 27, 2009, the preparatory work began for a new building on the open-air site at Hermsdorfer Damm. A three-story building made of concrete and wood was built there. The cafeteria and a total of ten classrooms that are located in it went into use in autumn 2011.

particularities

In 2002, the entire school library was digitally cataloged as part of a project.

The school participates in the Berlin program for in-depth professional orientation (BvBO) and offers its students support in professional orientation and career choice.

The Georg-Herwegh-Gymnasium was even used as a hospital at times.

Musical train

After an advanced music course was set up in the upper school level in 1976, the school has been offering a musical course since 1997 . In addition to the two hours of music per week, students in the music-oriented classes have the opportunity to take lessons in an instrument. In addition, the music-oriented students must take part in a music group. You can choose between a wind and a symphony orchestra , a small and a large choir (depending on the grade level) and a big band .

Scientific train (MINT)

In addition to the musical aspect of the grammar school, there is a special science branch. In these classes, students receive special support in mathematics, computer science and the natural sciences. You take part in numerous scientific projects such as Chem-kids and the Junior Science Olympiad. They also have a partnership with the TU and the Berlin Zoo . Due to special support in chemistry in the 7th grade, one lesson in sports and English is canceled.

Alumni

Alumni meetings are held regularly in the schoolyard and in the building, where graduates from high school years in the past also meet with one another and with former teachers. The current students organize the meetings and look after the guests.

Well-known former students

literature

  • Festschrift for the inauguration of the new building of the Realgymnasium in Kaiserstraße and the new building of the elementary school in Freiherr-vom-Stein Straße . Berlin-Reinickendorf 1928.
  • Buildings for art, education and science. Schools . In: Architects and Engineers Association Berlin (Hrsg.): Berlin and its buildings . Part V. Volume C. Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-433-02205-4 , pp. 408 .
  • Bettina Goldberg: School history as social history. The secondary schools in the Berlin suburb of Hermsdorf (1893–1945) . In: Series German Past. Sites of the history of Berlin . tape 99 . Edition Hentrich, 1994, ISBN 3-89468-087-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b school directory. In: berlin.de. September 19, 2008, accessed June 12, 2018 .
  2. ^ Rudolf Schottlaender, In spite of all this, a German. My path in life since the beginning of the century. Herder, Freiburg, 1986. p. 62
  3. ↑ Reinickendorf. In: www.bvbo-berlin.de. Retrieved October 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Reinickendorf - Infoportal BvBO 2.0. Retrieved October 4, 2016 .