Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium Chemnitz

Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium Chemnitz
type of school	high school
founding	1857
address	Park of the Victims of Fascism  2
place	Chemnitz
country	Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 49 '50 "  N , 12 ° 55' 50"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '50 "  N , 12 ° 55' 50"  E
student	550
Teachers	67
management	Silvia Fehlberg
Website	https://www.gym-agricola.de/

Jehmlich organ above the high school auditorium

Jehmlich organ

The Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium is the oldest high school in the city of Chemnitz . It has both an in-depth linguistic and a scientific focus. The school was named after Georgius Agricola . The in-depth linguistic focus makes the grammar school unique in and around Chemnitz.

A special feature in addition to the bilingual language classes is, for example, the school's own observatory and an organ made by the renowned organ manufacturer Jehmlich from Dresden. The high school has a modern and extremely efficient IT infrastructure (around 100 computers distributed over three computer cabinets and specialist rooms as well as 8 (partly virtualized) servers) based on Linux. It also has a large library and a library catalog (OPAC) for book management on the school's intranet.

The school has a lot of study groups and a school newspaper called Pausenbrot .

The school building is a listed building and has been renovated in recent years.

history

On October 13, 1857, the secondary school was opened under the direction of director Carl August Caspari on Poststrasse. 12 years later, after a year of construction, a new school building was inaugurated on Reitbahnstraße because the old building had become too small due to the increasing number of students. In 1871 the school was given the title " Realgymnasium I. Order", but in 1884 it was renamed "Realgymnasium". In June 1912 the “Natural Science Association Chemnitzer Realgymnasiasten” was founded. The number of pupils rose again, so that in 1914 the Chemnitz architect Emil Ebert was commissioned to build a new building for the secondary school. However, this was not started for the time being when the First World War broke out. In 1929 the new building of the secondary school was finally inaugurated on the former Johannisfriedhof. The reliefs and ceramics on the building were made by the Chemnitz sculptor Bruno Ziegler , the figures by Heinrich Brenner . The model for one of the figures was the student and later physicist Moritz Goldhaber .

During the time of National Socialism , all student associations were dissolved by the Ministry of National Education and in 1936 the two top youth figures were removed at the instigation of headmaster Kurt Nestler, as the models were both of Jewish origin. In 1938 it was renamed “Horst Wessel School”. In 1939/1940, teachers and students of the 1941 Abitur class were drafted into the Wehrmacht due to the outbreak of the Second World War. When the city was bombed on March 5, 1945, fire guards prevented major damage to the school building.

In 1946 regular school-leaving exams were held again. Another renaming - this time in the socialist sense - to "Karl-Marx- Oberschule " took place in 1949 - eponymous for the exemplary character of the school in the socialist GDR . The reorientation associated with the turnaround led to the foundation of the "Förderverein Realgymnasium e. V. “and at the beginning of the renovation of the school. In 1992/1993 the school became a grammar school - combined with the renaming to "Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium". In 2000, the portal sculptures created by Erik Neukirchner (as a replacement for those removed during the Nazi era) were inaugurated. Furthermore, the organ was renovated, the inauguration of which could be celebrated a year later.

In 2007 the festival week "150 Years of the Chemnitz Realgymnasium" took place.

Well-known graduates

• Eberhard Aurich (* 1946), First Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ
• Juliane Fisch (* 1987), theater and television actress
• Jens Füssel (* 1957), medical technician
• Thomas Geßner (1954–2016), physicist
• Maurice Goldhaber (1911–2011), nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• Erich Heckel (1883–1970), painter and graphic artist
• Wolfgang Heiderich (* 1932), actor and director
• Karlheinz Hengst (* 1934), linguist and member of the People's Chamber
• Jürgen Hering (* 1937), library scientist
• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880–1938), painter and graphic artist
• Irmtraud Morgner (1933–1990), writer
• Michael Morgner (* 1942), painter and graphic artist
• Wieland Müller (* 1955), opera singer
• Carsten Nicolai (* 1965), artist and musician
• Olaf Nicolai (* 1962), artist
• Dieter Noll (1927–2008), writer
• Joachim Oelsner (* 1932), orientalist
• Stephan Tanneberger (1935–2018), doctor and cancer researcher
• Herbert Theile (* 1930), doctor and human geneticist
• Siegfried Thiele (* 1934), composer
• Harry Trumpold (1928–2012), university professor and member of the People's Chamber
• Joachim Walther (1943–2020), writer
• Folker Weißgerber (1941–2007), former VW board member
• Karola Wille (* 1959), director of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
• Harry Wünsche (1929–2008), German international lawyer

Known teachers

• Friedrich Dittes (1829–1896), educator, reformer of the Austrian school system
• Fedor Flinzer (1832–1911), author, educator and one of the most important illustrators of the early years

literature

• Annual report of the municipal high school in Chemnitz. Chemnitz 1885–1888 ( digitized version )
• Annual report of the secondary school with secondary school classes in Chemnitz. Chemnitz 1889-1893 ( digitized version )
• Annual report of the secondary school in Chemnitz. Chemnitz 1894–1916 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium Chemnitz  - Collection of pictures

• Website of the Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium Chemnitz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 150 years of the Chemnitz grammar school. Chemnitz University of Technology, accessed on February 11, 2020 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} school chronicle - 1857 until today. Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium, accessed on February 11, 2020 .