Hansagymnasium Cologne

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Hansa High School
Hansa High School, 1898/99
type of school high school
School number 166637
founding 1899, 1925 official establishment of the secondary school
address

Hansaring 56

place Cologne
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 56 '53 "  N , 6 ° 57' 3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '53 "  N , 6 ° 57' 3"  E
carrier city ​​Cologne
student 700 to 850
Teachers 59
management Erika Nausester-Hahn; Niels Menge (deputy)
Website www.hansa-gymnasium-koeln.de

The Hansagymnasium (also Hansa-Gymnasium , until 1941 Oberrealschule am Hansaring ) was opened in 1899 as a municipal commercial school. From May 1, 1901 to 1907, the building, built in the neo-Gothic style , was also used by the newly established Cologne University of Commerce, which was founded by the Cologne industrialist and politician Gustav von Mevissen . From 1925 the school was run as an upper secondary school. The Hansagymnasium is located in the Neustadt-Nord district of Cologne on Hansaring .

history

Gustav von Mevissen and the commercial college

Gustav Mevissen in 1848. Lithograph after a drawing by Valentin Schertle.
The building before the First World War

In the 18th century the idea of ​​a Rhenish commercial college arose for the first time. From 1776 to 1778 the project of an "Action Academy" was considered in the Bergisch state capital Düsseldorf. Ten years later, a plea for such an institution was made in Cologne, because after the closure of the old University of Cologne by the French authorities in 1798, the city had developed into a trading center without an intellectual center. It was above all von Mevissen who, as early as 1847, took up the idea of ​​helping the city back to a higher education institution and promoted it. Since there had been a university in Bonn since 1818, he initially thought of a technical university, which was not set up in Cologne but in Aachen (1863-1870).

In 1866 he again suggested the “Foundation of Commercial Academies” in a memorandum , which he linked on the occasion of the golden wedding anniversary of the imperial couple who were personally acquainted with him on June 11, 1879 with the announcement of a foundation for a university fund of initially 100,000 marks : “The to founding educational establishment must be mentally and in the method of teaching at the same level with the university, mainly take the curriculum the wide sphere of working life for accusation and the teaching of this widely ramified material at the same time emphasize the peculiar conditions of employment. " in addition to the economics demanded by Mevissen also teach the following areas: "World history and history of the German Empire, physics and mathematics, encyclopedia of the philosophical sciences, literature and art history."

According to Mevissen's ideas, the new university should not only serve to train prospective businesspeople, but also to provide advanced training for those who were already working. After the city of Leipzig had founded a commercial academy and Frankfurt am Main was also considering such a foundation, the Cologne city ​​council decided in the wake of the general wave of many new business schools between 1898 and 1919 in the German Reich on June 12, 1900, on Mevissen's proposals To be heard. Mevissen's plan became a reality with the city of 260,000 Marks to one million Marks - as requested by Mevissen - and meanwhile increased through endowments and a legacy from the Mevissens will. After approval by the Kingdom of Prussia on September 19, the new university was opened on May 1, 1901 in the main wing of the previously built commercial school. This commercial college was then transferred to the University of Cologne , founded by Konrad Adenauer's initiative , in 1919 together with the Academy for Practical Medicine founded in 1904 and the University for Communal and Social Administration founded in 1912 .

During the First World War , there was an overhang of female students due to the conscription and the voluntary reports for service at the weapon. In 1914, 21 of the 30 graduates from the commercial college were male and nine were female; in 1915 the ratio had changed to 12:23, in the third year of the war it changed to 5:11 and in 1917 the ratio of the sexes was 3:18. From 1914 to 1918 the proportion of women ranged between 66 and 86 percent. Of the 101 business teachers in Cologne, 56 were Catholic and 40 Protestant, the remaining five must have been Jewish; they mostly came from (petty) bourgeois backgrounds.

Change to high school

In the first few years of the university's operations, the rooms in the building were sufficient for both facilities. At the beginning, the commercial college had six professors and other guest lecturers , and the number of students enrolled in the first semester was only 68. The number of students grew rapidly in the following years, with 304 enrolled in 1905 . Due to the ongoing influx, the premises were no longer sufficient, so that in 1907 the commercial college was relocated to a new, larger building in the Römerpark at the opposite end of the Cologne rings (today Cologne University of Applied Sciences ).

At the beginning of the school year 1925/1926, a German secondary school was attached to the commercial secondary school . In the autumn of 1926, the City Council of Cologne voted to expand the previous commercial secondary school into an upper secondary school, which was named Städtische Oberrealschule am Hansaring . The council also agreed to the proposal to convert the German secondary school affiliated to the institution into an upper secondary school. In February 1930 the first oral final examination took place at the commercial secondary school. In February 1931, 19 senior primary students passed the secondary school leaving examination for the first time and the secondary school was also recognized as a full institution. With this, the expansion of the old commercial secondary school into an upper secondary school was completed. It was called Oberrealschule am Hansaring with Aufbauschule i. E. Commercial class .

Decline and rise

The number of teaching staff decreased from 38 to 28 between 1934 and 1940. Due to the conscription to the Wehrmacht, only twelve teachers were active at the school in 1944. An average of 400 to 500 students were taught, the majority of whom were Catholic. In 1936 the school was awarded the HJ flag due to the almost complete coverage of the student body in the Hitler Youth .

The school building, still in use today, which was badly damaged in 1943 and 60 percent destroyed at the end of the war, was rebuilt or repaired. After the war, the school became a boys' science school. This gender segregation came to an end in 1974 when girls were also admitted to the Hansa High School.

In 1958 the Hansagymnasium's irregular school newspaper, the Hansekogge (abbreviated: HAKO ) named after the school 's symbol of the same name, was founded, making it one of the oldest school newspapers in the Federal Republic of Germany. She has already won the Silver Pen a few times . Henryk M. Broder , a student at the Hansagymnasium in the 1960s, described his school days with the words: “ It is one of the worst memories of my life. I still dream today that I will not pass the Abitur. It wasn't a school, it was a penitentiary. That's why I don't want to write anything about it. "

The reputation of the school, which was purely a boys' grammar school until the 1970s, has suffered severely since the 1980s; it was assumed that the high proportion of immigrant children at the inner city school and their additional teaching requirements would mean that the level of teaching would suffer. This led to a temporary decline in student registrations, including from migrants. The reputation and popularity improved under Eckhard Wieberneit - the Hansa High School is now considered a Cologne school with a good reputation.

Timeline of developments since 1992:

  • 1992 - First of the annual human rights seminars held in our own school camp in the southern Eifel .
  • 1994 - The Hansagymnasium becomes a Unesco project school. As a result, contemporary witnesses or historians such as Philomena Franz and Gideon Greif are invited to discuss historical topics.
  • 1994 - From now on the Hansagymnasium participates annually in the Schull and Vedelszöch of the city of Cologne.
  • 1996 - Since then, but only since 2010 in cooperation with the other parts of the educational landscape of the Altstadt-Nord , the art special has been held.
To this end, the school invites visual artists, writers and musicians, for example 2010 a. a. Jaume Cabré and Juli Zeh .
Entrance area, mezzanine floor
Cross-vaulted corridor
  • 2002 - Since then there has been an annual German-Polish student exchange between the Hansagymnasium Cologne and the partner school, the VIII. Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Adama Asnyka in Łódź .
  • 2006 - start of the BAN project
  • 2012 - Due to the labor migration to Cologne, the international class is established. It is also used by many refugee children .
  • 2013 - The high school produces its own carnival medals for the first time .
  • 2014 - A student exchange between the Hansa High School and the Collège Lucie Faure in Paris takes place.
  • since 2015 - The grammar school has moved to the evening grammar school in Cologne due to renovation work .

The building

Neo-Gothic tracery of the windows
A school classroom

The building project was built from 1898 to 1899 on behalf of the city according to plans by the city ​​master builder Friedrich Carl Heimann (1850–1921) as a commercial school. Heimann created a building in a neo-Gothic style with rich ornamental and figural decorations .

In the roof area, the building suffered severe damage during the Second World War . Between 1951 and 1958 the roof area was rebuilt in a simplified form. The side facades were made of brick with natural stone integrations . A considerable part of the originally existing turrets, bay windows and other decorations such as friezes and capitals on the front are missing, and the gable is no longer designed with steps. The facade of the front facing the Hansaring was clad in sand and tuff and is dominated by the mighty windows. Over the arches of the main entrance there are statues of the personalities who have made a contribution to the development of Cologne's trade:

The three-storey extension on Ritterstrasse was built in the 1950s. A fundamental facade restoration took place a few years ago.

The building renovation was completed in 2002. Today the premises of the three-class Hansa grammar school are by far no longer sufficient to be able to offer the approx. 800 students appropriate learning locations. For this reason, the school will receive an extension, and new rooms (library and self-study center, cafeteria and work rooms) are to be created as part of the educational landscape of Altstadt-Nord. Construction work should start in 2013, but was delayed until 2015, at the moment the side wing has been partially demolished and work is being carried out on the library.

The building is a listed building and is one of the last remaining representative buildings from the Wilhelminian style on the Cologne rings. It was used as a filming location for television series twice: 2001 to 2009 for the series Mein Leben & Ich , 2010 for short excerpts from The Last Bull .

School camp Bouvier

The Bouvier castle near the Rhineland-Palatinate Niedersgegen , near the Luxembourg border is owned by the school and serves as a school camp . The manor castle from the 19th century is located in the so-called "Goldenen Grund" of the southern Eifel on the Sauer in the Eifel district Bitburg-Prüm , near the Luxembourg border, and is part of the "Castle and Hofgüter Körperich-Niedersgegen". From the fifth to the eighth grade, the students of the Hansagymnasium go to the Bouvier school camp once a year. In 2011 the school camp was completely renovated.

subjects

The Abitur is obtained at the Hansagymnasium after successfully completing the twelfth school year . There is an international class for students with a migration background and little or no knowledge of German.

Social sciences

There are advanced courses in history and art. Politics / economics and world culture are taught in the compulsory elective lessons at the intermediate level . There is a photo group, a samba group (in cooperation with other BAN schools), an upper school choir, a theater group and a UNESCO group. The school has been participating in the Cologne School Theater Week since 2014 .

Natural sciences

Health education is provided in lower secondary biology classes. Advanced courses are offered at the school in the subjects of biology , chemistry (in cooperation with the Königin-Luise-Schule) and mathematics . Natural sciences are taught in the compulsory elective classes at the intermediate level. There is a science group and a mathematics group.

The Hansa grammar school regularly takes part in discover chemistry , the mathematics Olympics and the mathematical kangaroo competition .

Linguistics

In the sixth year of school, Latin or French, which are traditionally highly attended at school, can be chosen as a second foreign language. Spanish or French (in cooperation with the Königin-Luise-Schule ) can be chosen from the eighth school year, as part of the compulsory elective lessons, as a third foreign language and from the upper level. German , English and French are also taught as advanced courses in the upper level of the grammar school. Since taking over a larger part of the book inventory from the former district library on Hansaring, the school has had an extensive school library. There is a Cambridge AG and a conversation course for Spanish.

Sports

In the years 1969–1976, the volleyball team of the Hansa Gymnasium under coach Henner Huhle was 5 times national champion of the schools and took part 3 times in the tournament youth trained for the Olympics in Berlin. In 1972, 12 students of class 11b volleyball in Volleyball Youth Camp of the Olympic Games in Munich . From 1964 to 1972, Henner Huhle trained 236 basic and 72 DLRG performance certificates as lifeguards at the Hansagymnasium , more than at all other Cologne high schools combined. In the test level , four school hours per week are given physical education, in the sixth year swimming lessons are given. There are three football clubs, one marathon club and one dance club.

The Hansagymnasium traditionally runs four relay teams in the Rhein Energie school marathon .

The Hansagymnasium reached the finals at the city championships for schools in football 2013/2014.

people

student

pedagogues

  • Martin Brand (* 1975), visual artist
  • Kurt Holl (1938–2015), radical democrat and holder of the "Alternative Cologne Honorary Citizenship"
  • Henner Huhle (* 1937), gymnast and compatriot, poet and short story writer, first volleyball coach at high school

Directors

  • 1897–1899 Otto Wilhelm Thomé
  • 1899–1903 Johannes Vogels
  • 1903–1922 Konrad Cüppers
  • 1923–1931 Paul Holzapfel
  • 1931–1933 Wilhelm Steinforth
  • 1935–1945 Johannes Becker (provisional from 1934)
  • 1945–1961 Dr. Johannes Halfmann (previously Humboldt-Gymnasium Cologne )
  • 1961–1974 Adolf Kagel
  • 1978–1993 Gisbert Gemein (from February 1, Schiller-Gymnasium )
  • 1993–2002 Eckhard Wieberneit
  • 2003–2012 Horst Kahl
  • 2012–2015 Norbert Subroweit
  • 2015–2016 Ulrike Thiede (acting)
  • 2016–2017 Niels Menge (acting)
  • since 2017 Erika Nausester-Hahn

literature

Web links

Commons : Hansagymnasium (Cologne)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Hansagymnasium Köln: The staff of the Hansa-Gymnasium in the school year 2016-17. 2017, accessed August 1, 2017 .
  2. ^ Hansagymnasium Cologne: school management. 2017, accessed August 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Hansa-Gymnasium (Order 571). Historical Archive Cologne, accessed on January 22, 2014 .
  4. ^ A b Klara von Eyl: Gustav von Mevissen 1815 to 1899. In: University and City Library Cologne (ed.): Gustav von Mevissen (1815–1899) and his library. Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-931596-13-3 , p. 91. (= publications of the University and City Library Cologne , ISSN  0938-7765 , volume 9.)
  5. ^ Matthias Weber : The Old University of Cologne. (= Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 269.) Cologne 1982, p. 7.
  6. ↑ a b c Klara von Eyl: Gustav von Mevissen 1815 to 1899. In: University and City Library Cologne (ed.): Gustav von Mevissen (1815-1899) and his library. Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-931596-13-3 , p. 94. (= publications of the University and City Library Cologne , ISSN  0938-7765 , volume 9.)
  7. ↑ Anne-Kathrin Horstmann: Scientific Colonialism Between Theory and Practice: The East Africa Expedition of the Cologne Commercial College 1908. Kopfwelten.org, accessed on January 20, 2014 .
  8. ↑ a b Carl Dietmar, p. 299
  9. ^ Weber, p. 9
  10. ↑ a b Jens Blecher, Gerald Wiemers (ed.): Universities and anniversaries. The use of historical archives. P. 40 f.
  11. ↑ a b c Hansa-Gymnasium. Historical archive of the city of Cologne, accessed on January 22, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Former. In the course of its 111-year history, the Hansa-Gymnasium can look back on a number of impressive graduates and teachers. We'll introduce you to some of them below. In: www.hansa-gymnasium-koeln.de. Retrieved January 20, 2015 .
  13. ↑ Hako online: The long journey of the Hansekogge. The school newspaper of the Hansa-Gymnasium Cologne. Retrieved January 20, 2014 .
  14. ↑ 10 /// Hansa Geschichte (n) /// Former “It wasn't a school, it was a prison”. (PDF; 138 kB) Hansagymnasium Cologne, accessed on November 20, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Tabea Brauner, David Weihrich: ?? From the life of a space walker. Hans Schlegel /// Astronaut, Abitur 1970. Hansagymnasium Köln, 2013, accessed on January 27, 2014 .
  16. ↑ I wanted to do better and reduce authority. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, July 15, 2002, accessed on January 26, 2014 .
  17. ↑ Human rights seminar 2013. Hansagymnasium Köln, 2013, accessed on January 26, 2014 .
  18. ↑ Anselika Gurov: Under the spell of concentration camp survivors: Inmate 10550. Philomena Franz as a contemporary witness at the opening of the exhibition "To understand the incomprehensible and never to forget". Hansagymnasium Köln, 2012, accessed on January 20, 2014 .
  19. ^ Hansagymnasium Köln: Gideon Greif speaks about the role of the Jewish special commando in Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Israeli historian and educator Prof. Dr. On November 19, 2013, Gideon Greif informed the attending students from levels 9 to Q2, their parents and teachers as well as interested guests in the fully filled auditorium of the Hansa-Gymnasium Cologne about this topic. This extraordinary event, which was organized on the initiative of the history department, was financed with funds from the STIFTUNG ERINNERN ERMÖGLICHEN, to which we would like to thank. December 2013, accessed January 20, 2014 .
  20. ↑ Juta Blaton-Sallowsky, Anna Schmidder-Ricchiuto: Shaping education together. They took photos, podcasts, read, sang, kicked, designed walls, developed their own songs, celebrated parties ... The ideas of the children and young people for realistic, responsible and inclusive learning, teaching and living in the BAN couldn't be more different could be. And also in the past year, a number of new project plans were initiated as part of the youth ideas conference. BAN-Journal, February 2012, accessed on January 21, 2014 .
  21. ^ Educational landscape of the old town north: ART SPECIAL. An art landscape in downtown Cologne. January 2014, accessed January 19, 2014 .
  22. ↑ Julia Gerlach: "Islamic instruction" - a school experiment in Cologne. Will there be Islam classes in Berlin schools in the future? Can the "Islamic Federation", which is suspected of extremism, participate? The Federal Administrative Court will decide this Wednesday. Berliner Zeitung, February 20, 2000, accessed on January 26, 2014 .
  23. ^ Hansagymnasium Cologne: UNESCO. UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural & Communication Organization of the United Nations. Founded in London in 1945, its headquarters have been in Paris since 1946. January 2014, accessed January 19, 2014 .
  24. ↑ a b Norbert Subroweit, Ulrike Thiede: Annual Review 2012. (No longer available online.) Hansagymnasium Cologne, December 2012, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; accessed on January 22, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hansa.digionline.de
  25. ↑ Hansagymnasium Köln: HansaKogge - home port Kölle eV In our association "HansaKogge - home port Kölle e. V. ”, which is made up of students, parents and teachers, a lot revolves around maintaining Cologne's customs at the unesco project school Hansa-Gymnasium in Cologne. Every year we take part in the Schull- un Veedelzöch with an international student body. Retrieved January 12, 2014 .
  26. ↑ Hansagymnasium Cologne: On y go! En route pour la France: student exchange with Paris. From April 5th to April 11th 21 7th grade students made their way to Paris to spend a week exploring the French world, culture and language as part of a first-time student exchange. "Une semaine phantastique". That was not only the opinion of the students, but also of the teachers involved, Mrs. Lützler and Mr. Eles, as well as the French teacher Mrs. Rosero. Retrieved June 21, 2014 .
  27. ↑ a b c Hansagymnasium Köln: Start Hansa 2012/2013. A handout from parents for parents. 2012, p. 5 , accessed January 19, 2014 .
  28. ^ Hansagymnasium Köln: Start Hansa 2012/2013. A handout from parents for parents. 2012, p. 4 , accessed January 19, 2014 .
  29. ↑ competitionline: Hansa Gymnasium Cologne: general renovation and expansion as part of the "Bildungslandschaft Altstadt Nord". Tender. June 20, 2013, p. 4 , accessed January 20, 2014 .
  30. ↑ Hansagymnasium Cologne: Bouvier Castle, school camp. Retrieved October 16, 2013 .
  31. ↑ Friends of the Hansa High School in Cologne: Schullandheim-Niedersgegen. History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 20, 2015 ; Retrieved October 16, 2013 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schullandheim-niedersgegen.de
  32. ↑ Friends of the Hansa High School in Cologne: Start Hansa 2012/2013. A handout from parents for parents. P. 29 , accessed January 19, 2014 .
  33. ^ Hansagymnasium Cologne: Art. The task of schools cannot just be to prepare students for working life. We also want to give them a better understanding of our fast-paced world, which is shaped by visual and media, and at the same time provide space for haptic experience. 2013, accessed January 12, 2014 .
  34. ↑ a b Hansagymnasium Cologne: intermediate level. Grades 7 to 9, 2013, accessed on January 20, 2014 .
  35. ↑ a b c d Hansagymnasium Köln: Overview of the AG offer in the 2013-14 school year. 2015, accessed November 20, 2015 .
  36. ^ Hansagymnasium Köln: Theater project takes part in school theater week. May 2014, accessed May 8, 2014 .
  37. ↑ Health Education . We educate our students preventively about topics such as addiction and sexuality. 2013, accessed January 20, 2014 .
  38. ^ Hansagymnasium Cologne: Physics. In physics lessons, the pupils receive a comprehensive insight into the importance of physics in the natural sciences, but also its great social relevance. 2013, accessed January 12, 2014 .
  39. ^ Hansagymnasium Cologne: Chemistry. In order to arouse the students' interest in the new subject chemistry, the focus is initially on student experiments and their documentation as well as their evaluation, as well as a systematic connection to phenomena of everyday student life. 2013, accessed January 12, 2014 .
  40. ^ Hansagymnasium Köln: Mathematics. This page is still under construction. 2013, accessed January 12, 2014 .
  41. ^ Hansagymnasium Köln: Information on French as a subject. 2013, accessed January 12, 2014 .
  42. ^ Hansagymnasium Köln: Library. Since we took over a larger part of the book inventory from the former district library on Hansaring in 1996, we have had an extensive library. 2013, accessed January 20, 2014 .
  43. ^ Hansagymnasium Cologne: Sport. Information on teaching in sport. January 2014, accessed January 22, 2014 .
  44. ↑ Hansagymnasium Köln: Hanseatic marathoners. Almost 60 children from our school take part in the RheinEnergie school marathon under the direction of Ms. Lepperhoff and Mr. Schwartz. With this high number of participants, the Hansa has the most relay teams. The runners ran over distances of 5 km, 7.195 km and 10 km, so that 6 runners divided the entire marathon distance. January 2014, accessed January 12, 2014 .
  45. ^ Hansagymnasium Cologne: City championships in football. The Hansa and its team reached the final round after strong performances. After a 0-0 draw in a nervous first game against HMG, two wins against EvT and GBG with a defeat against APG were enough to reach the round of the last four. January 2014, accessed January 12, 2014 .
  46. ^ Henryk M. Broder: "Sport was out of the question". Tagesspiegel, December 18, 2007, accessed January 22, 2014 .
  47. ↑ Hansagymnasium Köln: "The students were great". 12 /// Hansa story (s) /// Alumni. (No longer available online.) 2013, archived from the original on February 1, 2014 ; accessed on January 21, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / hansa.digionline.de
  48. ↑ Assessment in the KStA from January 28, 2002