Helmholtz High School Essen

Helmholtz high school
	Main entrance of the Helmholtz-Gymnasium
type of school	Gymnasium with secondary levels I and II
School number	164800
founding	1864
address	Rosastrasse 83 ; 45130 Essen-Rüttenscheid
place	Essen - Rüttenscheid
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 26 '12 " N , 7 ° 0' 59" E Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '12 " N , 7 ° 0' 59" E
student	about 1000
Teachers	about 80
management	Rainer Severin
Website	www.helmholtz-gymnasium.de

The Helmholtz Gymnasium is located in the Rüttenscheid district of Essen . At the grammar school, founded in 1864, around 1000 students are currently taught by 70 teachers. The Helmholtz Gymnasium is an elite sports school . Together with the Elsa-Brändström-Realschule it is a partner school of the Essen sports boarding school.

The students have the opportunity to attend a sports class. In addition, you can take a special branch of sport in upper school.

In 2019 the school won the quiz show The Best Class in Germany .

history

The school was founded in 1864 as a secondary school of the second order (without Latin). In 1869 she moved into a new building at Steeler Tor . 1879-80 the school was converted into a junior high school first order and from 1883 as a secondary school called. After the Realschule (later the Humboldt School) was separated in 1893, a new building was moved into on Heinickestrasse in 1899.

It was named Helmholtz Realgymnasium in 1922. This gave the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz its name. In 1943, the school building was destroyed in World War II.

The current school building on Rosastraße was moved into in 1958. Once under the country's school pilot sport high schools , a new focus was put on the sport, it was from 1972 through the reform of the upper secondary level possible, an advanced course to prove sport. The coeducation was introduced in 1976 by taking up girls in grades 5 and 10. FIG.

Former students of the Helmholtz-Gymnasium Essen (selection)

Fritz Funke (1888–1975), chairman of the supervisory board of the Essen Actien brewery, which later became the Stern brewery
Fritz Gummert (1895–1963), industrialist
Otto Dietrich (1897–1952), State Secretary under National Socialism
Paul Klinger (1907–1971), film actor
Helmut Käutner (1908–1980), director
Erich Grauheding (1911–2000), lawyer
Jean Sprenger (1912–1980), sculptor
Gerd Uffelmann (1912–1999), lawyer and pharmacist
Jürgen Lodemann (* 1936), writer and television journalist
Peter Schöttler (* 1950), historian
Piet Klocke (* 1957), cabaret artist
Christian Keller (* 1972), swimmer and four-time Olympic participant
Sebastian Siebrecht (* 1973), chess player
Jens Geier (* 1961), member of the European Parliament

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