Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium

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Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium
Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium
type of school high school
founding 1888
address

Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee 6–8

place Frankfurt am Main
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 6 '53 "  N , 8 ° 42' 0"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 6 '53 "  N , 8 ° 42' 0"  E
carrier town Frankfurt am Main
student about 1000
Teachers about 80
management Gerhard Koehler
Website hvgg.de

The Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium (short: HvGG ) is a humanistic or old-language high school with a modern language branch in Frankfurt am Main . The school is located on Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee in the Ostend district , across from the southern western wall of the Frankfurt Zoo . Around 1000 pupils are currently taught by around 80 teachers at the school.

history

Seal mark of the Royal Kaiser-Friedrichs Gymnasium

When it was founded in 1888, the school was named after the then Emperor Friedrich III. Named Kaiser-Friedrichs-Gymnasium . The grammar school was founded mainly to relieve the urban grammar school that had existed since the 16th century; The latter was split up in 1897 into the old-language Lessing-Gymnasium , which still exists today, and the modern-language Goethe-Gymnasium , which also still exists . The frescoes by Wilhelm Steinhausen , completed and preserved in 1906, date back to the founding phase , a rare example of large-scale Art Nouveau painting in an auditorium. After the Second World War , the school was called the Staatliches Gymnasium Frankfurt am Main , before it was given its current name on the centenary of the opening of the Frankfurt National Assembly in the Paulskirche after Heinrich Freiherr von Gagern , President of the National Assembly. During the 1968 movement, the school attracted attention as a place of highly political action. Schoolchildren had ongoing conflicts with teachers on site, so that the police were called in several times and, despite the marked peacefulness on the part of the activists, there were violent evictions. Political polarity ebbed after the 1970s. The line is still clear, however, as the parties Die Linke and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen always reaped over 60 percent in the 2015 to 2019 school elections.

In memory of Heinrich von Gagern, a school group created a sandstone sculpture that has been in the schoolyard since November 1998.

The modern extension that follows the old building replaces the Jewish Samson-Raphael-Hirsch school , which was demolished in 1960 and which has been remembered by bronze plaques since 1989 and 2001.

The school has been located on Bernhard-Grzimek-Allee since 2008 , the former western section of the street "Am Tiergarten" was renamed in honor of Bernhard Grzimek .

principal

High School

The Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium offers the Abitur after the twelfth grade (G8). When it comes to the Abitur average, the grammar school is regularly in first place in the rankings in Frankfurt.

planetarium

In 1989, as part of a school project week, a planetarium with a dome size of 3.2 meters was designed and built. From this an astronomy group developed, which among other things rebuilt the planetarium in 1999. The stars are depicted using the hole projection method and are completely represented up to the 3rd magnitude , as well as some stars of the 4th magnitude. An additional projector for the planets was in work in May 2007.

Detlev Kittstein Hall

The new gym of the school, which was officially inaugurated in autumn 2007, was planned by the Frankfurt architect Zvonko Turkali . For reasons of space, the building combines two gyms on top of each other. While the upper hall receives daylight thanks to a skylight construction, the lower hall is opened by a glass front. A pattern on a wall in the stairwell symbolizes the chestnut in the schoolyard. The gym bears the name of the former national hockey player Detlev Kittstein , who graduated from high school in 1967 and was a sports teacher at the school from 1969 until his death in 1996. He was a member of the German national field hockey team , with which he became European champion in 1970 and Olympic champion in 1972.

Orchestra and choir

At Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium there is a “small”, “medium” and “large orchestra”, a lower school choir for grades 5 and 6, a mixed choir, a teacher choir as well as various jazz formations and several big bands. The pre-Christmas music-making for charitable purposes in the B-level of the Hauptwache public transport station has a tradition of over 25 years .

Working groups (AGs)

In addition to the musical focus, the school offers numerous other working groups in the areas of languages, astronomy, photography, computer science, physics, sports and a school medical service. The theater group, headed by Hans-Martin Scholder , regularly performs classical material in (post-) modern staging.

Alumni and Friends Association

The association of alumni and friends of the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium (formerly Kaiser-Friedrichs-Gymnasium) eV was founded in 1906 and is now an integral part of the school. In 2006, the Mayor Petra Roth was the guest of honor and numerous members were present to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the association.

The association has more than 650 members. These are high school graduates (1924 to today), former teachers and other friends of the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium and the former Kaiser-Friedrichs-Gymnasium, some of whom live scattered throughout the Federal Republic of Germany and abroad. For its members, the association organizes regular museum tours, lectures, a day for alumni and hikes together. In the club's journal, which appears four times a year, the club provides information about its activities and the latest news at the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium. The association is co-editor of the school's annual report. Through the financial support of the Alumni Association, various large-scale projects at Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium have been made possible over the years.

Personalities

Numerous people known to the public were and are associated with the school. The following list contains some of them (sorted by year of birth):

Teacher

  • Theodor Hartwig (1837-1917), history teacher at the Friedrichsgymnasium in Kassel and there of the later Emperor Wilhelm II ., First headmaster of the royal (Prussian) Kaiser-Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main (1888-1906)
  • Georg Wolff (1845–1929), archaeologist (from 1889 high school professor at the KFG). He is considered to be a founder of the scientific Limes research.
  • Alfred Biese (1856–1930) German literary historian, friend of Theodor Storm , headmaster of the Kaiser-Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main (1913–1921)
  • Hermann Pinnow (1884–1973), historian and educator, author of historical works (The State of Violence, Klett-Verlag 1960; German History, People and State in 1000 Years, Berlin 1929 and many others)
  • Otto Hufnagel (1885-1944), German teacher and politician (DDP; teacher at the HvGG 1939- † 1944)
  • Heinrich Weinstock (1889–1960), philosopher and educator (director at the KFG / HvGG 1926 to 1949)
  • Willibald Heilmann (1928–2006), classical philologist (teacher 1952 to 1964), from 1973 professor for subject didactics of classical language teaching at Goethe University
  • Detlev Kittstein (1944–1996), German athlete, European and Olympic champion in field hockey (sports teacher 1969–1996)
  • Hans-Wolfgang Krautz (1948–2003), classical philologist and historian of philosophy, taught Greek, Latin, German, philosophy and ethics at the HvGG from 1981–2001
  • Andreas Maier (* 1967), writer ( trainee lawyer for German and Latin 1996/97 at the HvGG)
  • Christine Büchner (* 1970), theologian and author ( trainee lawyer for Catholic religion and Latin 1995–1997 at the HvGG)

student

Web links

Commons : Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schütz: The stone house frescos
  2. ^ The school community of the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium mourns the loss of its former headmaster. Retrieved March 4, 2018 .
  3. ^ Association sheet of the association of the former and friends of the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium eV (No longer available online.) Association of the former and friends of the Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium formerly Kaiser-Friedrich-Gymnasium eV , archived from the original on March 4, 2018 ; accessed on March 4, 2018 . 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 / Verein.hvgg.de
  4. ^ Inga Janovic: Head of Heinrich von Gagern High School is retiring. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. February 1, 2018, accessed March 4, 2018 .
  5. ↑ HvGG: Who we are. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  6. ^ Heinz-Georg Ortmanns: HvGG: Reception of the new headmaster. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Inga Janovic: Frankfurt School Director: "G 8 is not a sin". (No longer available online.) In: Frankfurter Neue Presse. May 26, 2014, archived from the original on March 4, 2018 ; accessed on March 4, 2018 . 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.fnp.de
  8. ↑ Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium is great. In: Journal Frankfurt. August 25, 2014, accessed March 4, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Planetarium Club ( Memento from December 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Astronomie-AG - presentation . Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium ( hvgg.de [accessed on May 23, 2007]).
  11. ↑ Official inauguration of the gym . Heinrich-von-Gagern-Gymnasium
  12. ↑ Der Held (Thomas Panke): School was not my friend for a long time! The hero on Sunday evening. In: YouTube. Retrieved April 5, 2020 .