Goethe-Gymnasium (Berlin-Wilmersdorf)
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| type of school | Ancient language , humanistic grammar school |
| School number | 04Y11 |
| founding | 1954 |
| address |
Gasteiner Street 23 |
| place | Berlin-Wilmersdorf |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 29 '14 " N , 13 ° 19' 18" E |
| carrier | State of Berlin |
| student | 600 (2019/2020) |
| Teachers | 46 + 5 trainee lawyers (2019/2020) |
| management | Jörg Freese |
| Website | goethe-gymnasium.berlin |
The Goethe-Gymnasium is an undergraduate humanistic high school in the Wilmersdorf part of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin . It is named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
The focus on the ancient languages Latin and ancient Greek is characteristic of the school . Students start with Latin lessons in 5th grade and Greek in 7th grade . As one of the last schools in Germany, it required the choice of one of the two languages as an advanced course. This obligation was abolished in 2011 due to the requirements of the Senate Administration. The school management is supported by a non-profit "Association of Friends of the Goethe-Gymnasium Berlin eV".
Together with other traditional grammar schools such as the Steglitz grammar school , the French grammar school , the Canisius college and the gray monastery , the Goethe grammar school is one of the better-known schools in Berlin.
Historical development
Today's Goethe-Gymnasium can refer to three schools as forerunners. It got its name from the former Goethe School, the school type from the former Bismarck Gymnasium, and the building from the Victoria Luisen School. In the following there is a historical outline of the previous schools and the establishment of the Goethe-Gymnasium.
Bismarck High School
The Bismarck-Gymnasium was founded in 1895, got its name because of the 80th birthday of the former Chancellor and founder of the Empire, Prince Otto von Bismarck, and was located at Pfalzburger Straße 30 in Wilmersdorf.
The Bismarck-Gymnasium was an old-language school that asserted itself against the Realgymnasium favored by the Kaiser in terms of educational policy . The grammar school was not founded by the state , but by private individuals . One of the first senior teachers was Walter Henze . During the time of National Socialism , the Bismarck-Gymnasium was able to receive Hebrew as an optional subject . Since the premises in Pfalzburger Strasse had been destroyed in the Second World War , they looked for new premises. After the grammar school was temporarily housed in the Cäcilienschule on Nikolsburger Platz , it moved to the building of the former Victoria-Luisen-Schule on Gasteiner Straße . After the end of the war, the Berlin schools had to discard their names and received numbers from the occupation authorities. The Bismarck-Gymnasium received the number 15 in Wilmersdorf. The last headmaster was Dr. Bleckmann. After the end of the war, he succeeded in enforcing sparse Latin lessons against the occupying power .
Victoria Luisen School
A public secondary school for girls was established from a private school . To name it, Kaiser Wilhelm II gave permission to give this institution the name of his only daughter, Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia . The foundation stone was laid on September 13, 1903. The school was built on the corner of Uhlandstrasse and Gasteiner Strasse according to plans by Otto Herrnring . The building was completed in October 1904 and, because of its decorations, even found its way into the press. The foyer, stairwell, the ornate ceiling of the auditorium and the organ, which came from the imperial court organ builder Wilhelm Sauer , have been preserved from the early days of the building - which was listed as a historical monument in 1991 . In 1907 the school was visited by Her Imperial Majesty Auguste Viktoria . In 1939 the school was closed and the building became part of the Conservatory of the Reich capital. The war damage to the building was limited and on May 21, 1945 the Berliner Philharmoniker were rehearsing in the school auditorium for a concert in the Titania Palace . The building was used by the two former schools, Bismarck-Gymnasium and Goethe-Schule. The Viktoria Luise School was not continued as an institution.
Goethe School
The Goethe School was a reform high school on Münsterschen Strasse . The building erected between 1905 and 1907 by Otto Herrnring is a listed building and is now used by the Katharina Heinroth primary school.
Goethe high school
On May 10, 1954, the West Berlin Senate under the Governing Mayor Walther Schreiber and Education Senator Joachim Tiburtius decided to set up the Goethe School in the house of the former Victoria Luisen School and the Steglitz Gymnasium in Heesestrasse as "schools with a special educational character". They were therefore no longer part of the "Oberschulen Wissenschaftlichen Zweig" (OWZ), which is otherwise common in West Berlin, at which the university entrance qualification was obtained. The schools received the predicates basic (deviating from the Berlin rule of starting secondary school after the 6th grade already after the 4th grade) and humanistic (i.e. with Latin as the first foreign language). In contrast to the OWZs, they were allowed to call themselves " Gymnasium ". The school was set up as the successor to the destroyed Bismarck High School.
Former
- Alphabetical -
- Sarah Alles , actress and voice actress
- Heinz Berggruen , graduated from high school in 1932, art collector and founder of the Berggruen Museum
- Felix Boenheim , Abitur 1909, doctor and social politician
- Meret Becker , actress
- Henriette Confurius , actress
- Marlene Dietrich , April 13, 1917 to Easter 1918 (without Abitur)
- Nilam Farooq , actress
- Peter Gay , American historian and psychoanalyst
- Martin George , graduated from high school in 1968, Protestant church historian
- Alban Gerhardt , cellist
- Helmut Gröttrup , graduated from high school in 1935, engineer and inventor of the chip card
- Hans Bernd von Haeften , graduated from high school in 1924, diplomat and resistance fighter
- Kunrat von Hammerstein-Equord , officer and resistance fighter
- Axel von Harnack , librarian, historian
- Vincent-Immanuel Herr , graduated from high school in 2008, author and activist
- Liselotte Herrmann , graduated from high school in 1929, student and resistance fighter (executed in 1938)
- Ariane Jeßulat , music theorist and experimental musician
- Stefan Kipf , classical philologist and didactician
- Kurt Kutzler , graduated from high school in 1961, mathematician, President of the Technical University of Berlin
- Sven Felix Kellerhoff , graduated from high school in 1990, historian, journalist and book author
- Sigurd Littbarski , graduated from high school in 1969, lawyer and university professor
- Georg Malcovati , Abitur 2004, actor
- Kurt Mendelssohn , graduated from high school in 1925, physicist
- Luci van Org , graduated from high school in 1990, singer and actress
- Eberhard Rebling , pianist, music and theater scholar, rector of the "Hanns Eisler" University of Music in Berlin
- Cäcilia Rentmeister , Abitur 1968, art historian and gender researcher
- Georg Rosenthal , classical philologist and educator
- Alexander Riistow , Abitur 1903, social scientist / economist
- Eduard Schalfejew , Abitur 1897 (?), Manager / politician
- Marc Schubring , high school diploma in 1988, composer
- Adin Talbar , 1932–1933, Israeli athlete and sports official
- Henry C. Wallich , 1914–1988, Abitur 1932, American economist and central banker of German origin
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , graduated from high school in 1929, physicist / philosopher
- Richard von Weizsäcker , Abitur 1937, former Federal President D.
- Anna Werliková alias Solveig Kristin Kratzer, Yiddish singer
literature
- Annual report on the school year ... Berlin, 1897 ( digitized )
- Goethe-Gymnasium Berlin Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf: 50 years of the Goethe-Gymnasium. Berlin Goethe-Gymnasium 2004.
- Helmut Pieper, Thorsten Krüger (eds.): Goethe-Gymnasium Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Historical portrait. A Berlin school story. Goethe-Gymnasium Berlin-Wilmersdorf 2007.
- Annemarie Richter: The Viktoria-Luisen School, today's Goethe-Gymnasium, in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. Written term paper for the master’s examination at the Institute for Art Research at the TU Berlin in 1976.
Web links
- Website of the Goethe-Gymnasium.
- Goethe-Gymnasium Wilmersdorf in the school directory of the Senate Administration for Education, Youth and Family
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- Association of Friends of the Goethe-Gymnasium Berlin e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Current number of students and teachers at the GG. In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family, accessed on February 1, 2020 .
- ↑ school management. In: goethe-gymnasium.berlin. Retrieved June 20, 2020 .
- ↑ The Goethe-Gymnasium is repositioning itself. In: Website of the Goethe-Gymnasium. Archived from the original on May 15, 2011 ; accessed on June 22, 2020 .
- ^ Zickermann, Fritz .: Commemorative book for the 25th anniversary of the Bismarck High School in Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1895-1920 . AR Meyer, 1920 ( worldcat.org [accessed April 15, 2020]).
- ↑ From drilling thick boards. In: Homepage Goethe-Gymnasium. Archived from the original on October 1, 2017 ; accessed on June 22, 2020 .
swell
Much of the data, especially the historical data, comes from the commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the Goethe Gymnasium on May 10, 2004.