Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium

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Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium
coat of arms
type of school high school
founding 1905
address

Hermann-Böse-Strasse 1–9

place Bremen
country Bremen
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 5 '0 "  N , 8 ° 49' 7"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 5 '0 "  N , 8 ° 49' 7"  E
student circa 940
Teachers approx. 65
management Sibylle Müller
Website https://www.hbg-bremen.de/

The Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium is a state, bilingual high school in Bremen - Schwachhausen , Europaschule and IB World School .

history

To school

Towards the end of the 19th century, the number of pupils at the main school in Bremen, with its two branches, grammar school and commercial school , had grown to a total of 1,300, a figure that was "almost unheard of in Germany at the time". The continuing significant increase in the number of pupils in Bremen and the striving for technical / scientific professions was the reason for a new reform school that corresponded to the reform concept of the Frankfurt school system from 1892. In addition to the existing classical philological old school and the more modern languages new gymnasium at Barkhof business school one was in place Real full institution (secondary school) with the accent on mathematics , science and new languages necessary today Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium that and without Latin High School in the Dechanatstrasse was created. On December 5th and 8th, the citizens of Bremen and the Senate decided on the division of the secondary school.

School front view

The grammar school has remained true to this tradition to this day, as researched into numerous outstanding placements among young people as well as the teaching focus on economics in the upper level and the bilingual English branch.

In 1901 an architects' competition was announced for the two new buildings, the New High School and the Realgymnasium , to which 142 designs were submitted for the New High School and 80 for the Real Full School . The winner of the competition for the secondary school was the group of architects Paul Kranz, Ferdinand Köhler and Otto Gröffel from Berlin-Charlottenburg . Construction was carried out by the Bremen Building Inspectorate. Construction began in 1902, the first lessons began on April 3, 1905, and the school was formally inaugurated on April 19, 1906.

The building is very centrally located, about five minutes' walk from Bremen Central Station.

Hermann Böse


From 1933 to 1945 the school was named Lettow-Vorbeck school after General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck , a German officer who is highly controversial today as he headed not only the colonial force in German East Africa, but also in the Kapp Putsch took part . Today the high school has a partnership with a Namibian school.

After the Second World War , the KPD applied for the school to be named after a music teacher from the grammar school deported by the Nazis , Hermann Böse (1870–1943). However, the Senate named the street on which the school is located after Böse and the institute, as was common in Bremen at the time, as a grammar school on Hermann-Böse-Straße . It was not until May 2005 that the decision was made to rename it to Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium from August 2005, as it had long been known by this name or HBG for short among the students and the public in the city . In addition, it was considered sensible to link the values ​​of the namesake such as social justice , solidarity and humanity directly with the school.

Anti-colonial monument

Opposite the school in Nelson Mandela Park is a 7 m high brick elephant designed by the sculptor Fritz Behn , inaugurated on July 6, 1932. The elephant became the school's emblem.

To the building

The contests of the city for the construction of the secondary school had won the Charlottenburg group of architects Ferdinand Köhler, Paul Kranz and Otto Gröffel. The school was built from 1902 to 1906 according to their plans. The school was able to open on April 19, 1906.

The construction of the high school from the period of historicism was in the style of Neo-Renaissance designed; it takes style elements of the Weser Renaissance on most of the gables as well as the portal and the tower.

In the four-story building, sandstone was used on the facade for the borders of the door and window openings, for the portal, for the building edges, for the ornamental and figurative decorations and for the plinth . The wall surfaces wear rough plaster. As a contrast, some upper truss parts have a fine plaster. The roofs are covered with red tiles , the tower with copper. The additions of the director's house and gymnasium and the shape of the property resulted in a differentiated, somewhat inconsistent building complex with double-bent facades.

Courtyard side of the grammar school 2006

The building survived the Second World War relatively undamaged. In 1977 it was the first school building in Bremen to be listed as a historical monument , which from 1988 to 1989 was one of the reasons not to give up the school location Hermann-Böse-Straße.

With the establishment of the bilingual grammar school since 1991, renovations and new facilities in the building were necessary in order to be able to meet the teaching requirements of the emerging secondary level I. Since 2004, the lower secondary level at the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium has also included the 5th and 6th grades. With the fully bilingual lower secondary level, the school building has reached the end of its capacity again. That is why today some of the lessons (mainly those of the upper secondary level ) take place in the old school building of the Barkhof.

Monument protection

In 1977 the school building and the former director's residence were placed under monument protection: See also: List of cultural monuments in Schwachhausen .

The school today

The Latin motto above the entrance.

The school's motto can be read on the facade above the main entrance carved in stone “Non scholae sed vitae” (Latin, German: “ Not for school, but for life [we learn] ”), in the familiar inversion the saying of Seneca : " Non vitae sed scholae discimus ". From September 29th to October 1st, 2005 the grammar school celebrated its centenary.

Every year the school organizes an internal model European Parliament , in which mainly 10th grades of its own school take part. A selection of the participants will be given the opportunity to take part in the nationwide European Parliament model in Berlin . The school also takes part in the EU-funded Comenius program together with partner schools from the European Community . Because of these and other efforts on the topic of the European Community in 2007, the school received the award for European School . Since 2011/2012 the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium has also been an IB World School and offers the IB Diploma Program as an independent profile in the upper level.
In 2019, the school was named the eighth best school in Germany in the Federal President's history competition at Bellevue Palace .

School club

The 1952 school association supports school activities for which there are no other grants. In the mid-1960s, around 90% of the students were members of the association; in the meantime, parents and alumni make up the majority of the association's members.

Known teachers

Known students

See also

literature

  • Report: about the school year ... Bremen, 1906–1915 ( digital copy )
  • Rolf Gramatzki: 100 years of the Hermann-Böse-Gymnasium - through the ages. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-86108-570-4 .
  • Michael Weisser : “discimus!” - Life> Learn >> Live! Bremen 2005.
  • Michael Weisser: "SedVitae ..." Aesthetic field research - The HBG in pictures. Bremen 2005.
  • Rolf Gramatzki: The grammar school on Hermann-Böse-Strasse. Attempt at an iconological interpretation of a school building from the turn of the century. In: Bremisches Jahrbuch Volume 58, pp. 145 ff, Bremen 1980.
  • Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume 2: L-Z. 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X , pp. 711-712.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Report of the school council to the debtor's deputation of December 4, 1899 in: Verh. Betw. Senat und Bürgerschaft, 1900, p. 316.
  2. ↑ Bremisches Jahrbuch , Volume 58, p. 147
  3. ↑ Bremisches Jahrbuch, Volume 58, p. 148
  4. ^ Monument database of the State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen
  5. ↑ The Senator for Children and Education: Honored at Bellevue Palace - HBG at the top nationwide . In: Senate press release of November 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ From Bremen to Paris - and now there again: Jürgen Michaelsen . In: buten un inside . ( butenunbinnen.de [accessed on February 28, 2018]).

Web links

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