Gisela High School

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Gisela-Gymnasium Munich
Gisela-Gymnasium-from-Elisabethplatz.jpg
type of school high school
School number 0184
founding 1904
address

Arcisstrasse 65
80801 Munich

place Munich
country Bavaria
Country Germany
Coordinates 48 ° 9 '24 "  N , 11 ° 34' 24"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '24 "  N , 11 ° 34' 24"  E
carrier Free State of Bavaria
student 1017 (school year 2016/17)
Teachers 78
management Christoph Pfaffendorf
Website www.gisela-gymnasium.de

The Gisela Gymnasium is a scientific-technological and linguistic grammar school in Munich district of Schwabing .

The school was named after Gisela von Österreich , daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth , and is state sponsored.

place

The school is in the southern part of Schwabing opposite the Elisabethmarkt and the vocational school for automotive mechanics .

history

Gisela von Österreich (second from left), patroness of the school, and her family in 1890

The old, still existing part of the school was built in 1903/04 by Cajetan Pacher in the neo-renaissance style and had 23 classrooms, a sports hall and temporarily a botanical garden. The school opened on September 21, 1904. It was among the first three schools that were built in Schwabing and classified as an upper secondary school. From the initial 273 students, the number rose to 700 in a few years. Due to a lack of space, an extension was added to the building in 1911. In 1920 the Gisela-Gymnasium became a seminar school and trained future teachers in the subjects of history, German, social studies, chemistry and biology.

During the Second World War , the 1st Engineer Battalion was housed in the school. At the end of the war the school was used as a military hospital.

In 1943 the school was shut down due to the war and the youngest students were evacuated ( Kinderlandverschickung ). The high school students born between 1926 and 1928 were drafted into the anti-aircraft gun service in and around Munich as air force helpers. By the end of the war, around 200 students at Gisela-Gymnasium had died. The school itself was badly damaged. After the Second World War, the school was rebuilt and two small sports halls were added.

The school introduced the college level system between 1971 and 1973 and has now been classified as a science high school. Another language branch was introduced in 1987. Since then there have been Latin, Spanish and French classes at the school. In the 1970s, the Gisela High School had about 1,300 students. Then the number fell to 600, and in the 1990s it rose again to 800 students.

In the years 2006–2011 the listed building was completely renovated.

Women at the Gisela High School

In 1953, despite resistance from the then director Hans Buchner , two teachers were hired. In 1972 13 of 66 teachers were women. Coeducation was not introduced at the school until the 1981/82 school year , but there were a few female students as early as 1959/60.

Inclusion of the hearing impaired

The school has offered integrative upper-level lessons since 1984 and has four classrooms with integrated audio systems that are tailored to the needs of the hearing impaired. The school attracts hearing-impaired students from all over Bavaria who want to take the Abitur at a regular school . Since the school year 2016/17 there has been an inclusion class for hearing-impaired students from the 5th grade.

School projects

The student seminar "DENK MAL - Remembrance in Public Space" reconstructed the biographies of the former Jewish students and teachers of the Gisela-Gymnasium during and after the Third Reich in the 2013/2014 school year . With the Reichspogromnacht in November 1938, all Jewish students and teachers were expelled from the school and struck from the school annals.

In the entrance area of ​​the school, a memorial in honor of the 45 persecuted and murdered Jewish students and teachers was inaugurated on November 10, 2014, which names their names and publicly commemorates them. Among the 170 participants in the evening were Bavaria's Minister of Education, Ludwig Spaenle, and representatives of various school associations and Jewish communities. Chancellor Angela Merkel , Federal President Joachim Gauck and Bavaria's Prime Minister Horst Seehofer also welcomed the project. Under the guidance of a student council, the students had researched the school archive for months. They found support in the Munich City Archives and the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen .

Logo of the campaign Courage: School without Racism - School with Courage

In January 2015 the Gisela-Gymnasium was awarded the title School without Racism - School with Courage as part of the federally funded Courage campaign . The chairman of the initiative “Stolpersteine ​​für München e. V. “ Terry Swartzberg is the project sponsor of the Gisela High School.

School directors

  • 1904–1916: Peter Arnold (1849–1918)
  • 1916–1920: Wilhelm Orschiedt (1854–1925)
  • 1920–1932: Karl Manger (1866–1932)
  • 1932–1943: Georg Wetzstein (* 1876)
  • 1943–1945: Albert Dittmar (* 1888)
  • 1945–1948: Andreas Blaha (* 1879)
  • 1948–1951: Stephan Ankenbrand (* 1884)
  • 1951–1972: Hans Buchner (1906–1997)
  • 1972–1980: Albert Lehmeier (* 1916)
  • 1980–1990: Ernst Weinzierl (* 1927)
  • 1990–2001: Axel Müller-Nordhorn (* 1942)
  • 2001–2020: Marianne Achatz
  • Since 2020: Christoph Pfaffendorf

literature

  • Gisela-Gymnasium Munich. 1904-2004 . Gisela-Gymnasium, Munich 2004

Web links

Commons : Gisela-Gymnasium  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art. Retrieved March 7, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Inclusion on the Gisela. Retrieved March 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ School project - pupils in search of clues ( memento of the original from September 24, 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. Bayerischer Rundfunk, November 11, 2014  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.br.de
  4. ↑ THINK! Students set an example against forgetting! Munich. tv, November 12, 2014
  5. ↑ Susanne Lettenbauer: Munich high school students commemorate deported students. Deutschlandfunk, broadcast on November 7, 2014
  6. ↑ "Denk Mal": History project by young people in Munich. January 24, 2017. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Gisela-Gymnasium awarded for anti-discrimination projects. Munich. tv, January 9, 2015