Neustadt grammar school in West Prussia

School building today

The Königliche Gymnasium ( Royal Catholic Gymnasium until 1875 ) was a school in Neustadt in West Prussia (Wejherowo) from 1861 to 1919. It was then continued as a state gymnasium .

history

In 1857 the Royal Catholic Progymnasium was founded in Neustadt. It was located in the building of the Franciscan School, which existed from 1651 to 1826. There were four classes.

In 1861 it was converted into a Royal Catholic High School . In 1866 a new school building was completed.

The high school had six classes. The majority of the students were Polish. The language of instruction was German, in addition to the other high school subjects, Polish was also taught. This was only optional since the 1870s, it no longer existed since 1901. Several underground student movements emerged among Polish students over the decades. From 1857 to 1915 there were 532 graduates, 284 of whom were Catholic.

In 1920 the school was continued as the Polish State High School, since 1923 under the name Gimnazjum i liceum im. Króla Jana III. Sobieskiego . In 1939 this remained in place after the German occupation, but almost all Polish teachers were dismissed, some of them killed.

From 1945 the grammar school was used again. In 1965 there was a move. The school is now called I Liceum ogólnokształcące im. Króla Jana III. Sobieskiego . The old school building from 1866 at ul.Króla Jana Sobieskiego 300 is now Szkoła podstawowa No. 9 .

Personalities

Andrzej Wyka

Directors

• Johannes Seemann , 1857–1885
• Max Koenigsbeck , 1885–1903
• Johannes Rittau , 1903-1919
• Andrzej Wyka , 1920-1923

Teacher

• Robert Thomaszewski , 1857–1867
• Stanisław Maroński , History, Latin, Polish 1857–1872
• Franz Schultz (1841 – around 1925), around 1865–1867

Paul Nipkow, 1884

student

• Paul Nipkow (1860–1940), inventor and pioneer of television, pupil 1880–1882
• Bernhard Buchholz (1870–1954), government director in Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia
• Hans Albert Hohnfeldt (1897 – after 1939), NSDAP Gauleiter and Senator in Danzig
• Gerhard Schramm (1903–1998), railway engineer

Web links

Commons : School building from 1866  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• History of the Liceum Wejherowo grammar school (Memento, Polish)
• Literature from the Neustadt grammar school in West Prussia at WorldCat
• Literature from the Neustadt grammar school in West Prussia in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Directors of the Neustadt / Wejherowo grammar school up to the present day I Liceum Wejherowo (Memento, Polish)