Helmholtz School (Frankfurt am Main)
Helmholtz School | |
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type of school | high school |
founding | 1912, inauguration April 16 |
address |
Habsburgerallee 57-59 |
place | Frankfurt am Main |
country | Hesse |
Country | Germany |
Coordinates | 50 ° 7 '7 " N , 8 ° 42' 27" E |
carrier | town Frankfurt am Main |
student | around 900 |
Teachers | 67 |
management | Gerrit Ulmke |
Website | helmholtzschule-frankfurt.de |
The Helmholtz School is a grammar school in the Ostend district of Frankfurt am Main . Around 900 students are taught by around 80 teachers at the school. The school is named after the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz . The school has produced a large number of well-known personalities, including nationally known names.
location
The Helmholtz School was built in a densely populated residential area in Frankfurt's Ostend, in which industrial and commercial buildings had also existed since the end of the 19th century, e.g. B. the nearby soap and perfume factory JG Mouson & Cie. (from 1881) in Bergweg (today: Waldschmidtstraße) or the nearby industrial company of the Naxos Union (from the mid-1870s) in Wittelsbacherallee. The Helmholtz School is located in the Carrée between Habsburgerallee in the southwest, Helmholtzstrasse in the northwest, Dahlmannstrasse in the northeast and Brüder-Grimm-Strasse in the southeast. Directly in front of the main entrance to the school in Habsburgerallee, the green areas, which have been redesigned as hills, contain some of the rubble from the bombing war. These green spaces also serve as escape and assembly points for students and teachers, e.g. B. for test alarms.
Profile and activities
The school has various focuses. In addition to the natural sciences, there is also the option of acquiring special language certificates in French and English. The social sciences regularly take part in competitions with success. Since September 2006, a fifth and sixth grade have been trained in a special "wind class" on a wind instrument of their choice.
The student council has been known for its mostly left-wing liberal political commitment for decades . With a protest action against the teaching guarantee (plus) developed by the Hessian Ministry of Culture and against general tuition fees , the students caused a sensation nationwide in September 2006.
Subjects
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Faculty I | Department II | Department III | Department IV |
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German | politic and economy | biology | Sports |
English | Geography | chemistry | |
French | ethics | physics | |
Latin | history | Computer science | |
Spanish | Ev. religion | mathematics | |
art | Catholic religion | ||
music |
Working groups
- Basketball AG
- Big Band group (wind ensemble and orchestra)
- Cambridge-AG (English certificates CAE and FCE)
- AG choir (lower, intermediate and advanced)
- AG Choir Former Helmholtz Students (VEH)
- Delf-AG (French certificate)
- FAN project (French)
- Soccer AG
- Knobel AG
- Palmengarten AG
- Chess AG (lower and intermediate level)
- AG student radio
- Theater AG
- AG Laptop Orchestra (LOHHS)
In 2006, the boys' team at the Helmholtz School in Hesse became champions in basketball and took fourth place in the national finals in the youth training for the Olympics school competition in Berlin .
In football, the girls' team at the Helmholtz School has won several city, district and Hessen championships. In 2002, because of these successes, they qualified for the national finals in the youth training school competition for the Olympics in Berlin and took fourth place nationwide.
The Schach-AG, founded in 1989, regularly takes part in external competitions, such as the Hessian school chess championships, the Hessian school chess cup and the Frankfurt school tournament, the Frankfurt tournament Hibbdebach-Dribbdebach . The students reached the state finals several times in different age groups, two fourth places were their greatest successes to date. They won several times in a row at the Frankfurt tournament.
The Theater-AG, founded in 1987, first appeared on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Helmholtz School with the play Die Helmholtzrevue . Then she dared to tackle more difficult material, such as Franz Grillparzer : Die Ahnfrau (1989), Alan Ayckbourn : Frohe Feste (1990), Jean Giraudoux : Undine , the in-house productions Wärmetod (1993), Hinz and Kunz or It is normal, different zu sein (1995), Trafford Tanzi after Claire Luckham (1996) or Leonce and Lena after Georg Büchner . In 1992 and 1993, the Helmholtz School's theater group received the sponsorship award at the Hessian School Theater Days in Zwingenberg , in 1995 the sponsorship award from the Frankfurter Sparkasse , and in 1996 the sponsorship award from the Hessian Cultural Foundation . Together with Leonce and Lena , she was invited to the youth theater meeting organized by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in 1998 and thus denied the opening performance.
Partner schools and exchanges
The grammar school is involved in the Comenius program , in which pupils within the European Union visit other countries for one year.
The Helmholtz School has two partner schools, in Canada and the USA
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Canada : Harry Ainlay High School , Edmonton , Alberta
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United States : Richland High School , Richland ( Washington )
history
Organizational form
The school was founded in 1912 as a two-tier Realschule for boys with pre-school classes and in 1919 it was converted into an Oberrealschule for boys with a focus on science. Today this specialization is no longer applicable. From 1937 the designation "Oberrealschule" was changed to "Deutsche Oberschule". In the post-war period, the Helmholtzschule became a high school for boys, from 1964 a high school for boys with a modern language and mathematical-scientific branch, and from 1968 a high school for girls and boys.
1912 to 1918
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After a year of organizational preparation at the existing neighboring Herderschule , the new Helmholtz School was inaugurated on April 16, 1912. She started her school operations with a quinta (38 students), a sexta (41 students), a second preschool class (17 students) and a third preschool class (33 students). Before each class began, the students marched into the building in rows of two after they had used the doormat, held their student hats, which were colored differently depending on the year, and did not speak. What all the student hats had in common was a circumferential blue ribbon with the name of the school. During the breaks, the pupils were given the opportunity to drink milk in the milk kitchen after they had registered with the pedel . In the same year the east port was opened, so the Helmholtz students proudly stood in line as the emperor drove by in August when he visited the east port.
In the school year 1914/15 the Helmholtz School, which was well received by the population right from the start, already had 307 students (boys); For example, two sixths (5th grade) had to be set up. In 1914 the school year started as usual after Easter, the director commemorated the 50th return of the storming of the Düppeler Schanzen in the German-Danish War at the opening ceremony of the new school year . The annual school trip took place in May, at a time when no pupil or teacher had any idea of what was going to happen. On August 1, 1914, the First World War began and was celebrated with euphoria:
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“The enthusiasm for war that gripped young and old also gave our school life new content. The lessons were temporarily dominated by interest in the big events of the day. The progress of the war was honored first and foremost in class, our victories were celebrated with speeches and chants in the auditorium with the loss of a few lessons . ”The Christmas party was canceled, but at the school celebration for the Emperor's birthday (January 27), besides the Students and teachers also received many parents.
In the four years ahead of the war, students and teachers were involved in many collection campaigns for the soldiers and the war economy . Towards the end of the war, however, these actions gave an ever greater sense of the war that had long been lost: in 1918, the pupils were supposed to collect leaves to give to the military service horses as a substitute feed for hay that was no longer available . Further collection campaigns included As scrap metal, waste paper, window handles from brass , rags, nettles as a substitute for cotton , medicinal herbs, tea herbs ... As part of the November Revolution , the portraits of the emperor at the decision of were Workers' and Soldiers Council of 23 November 1918 from all classrooms and administrative offices away.
1919 to 1933
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Before Easter 1920, the first pupils at the Helmholtz School passed their regular Abitur. Up to this year the schools also celebrated Sedan Day every year at the beginning of September , but a decree of the Ministry of Culture of August 26, 1920 prohibited any school celebration on this occasion for the first time. Instead, the Constitution Day ( Weimar Constitution ) was celebrated annually from August 11, 1920 . The consequences of the war were palpable for every student and teacher. For example, the gymnasium is not heated, and the students' gymnastics lessons were preferably held outdoors even in winter. New syllabus has been shorthand , in handicraft classes were Buchbinder - and joinery learned. For the first time, there was a breakfast menu at the Helmholtz School, which 60 students made use of. In addition, the Quakers offered a meal that was attended by 67 students. Several school trips were geologically oriented. Friends of the school and parents made it possible for pupils in need to take part in a stay at the Wegscheide Children's Village . After completing secondary school, many Jewish students switched from the Realschule for Boys of the Israelite Religious Society (from 1928: Samson-Raphael-Hirsch School ) to the Helmholtz School in order to complete their Abitur there.
A support library was set up at the school to enable pupils from needy parental homes to borrow textbooks, which are otherwise chargeable. Since not all parents could afford the school fees, 80 so-called “free spaces” were created at the Helmholtz School for pupils who were allowed to attend school free of charge. As pioneering new and certainly as shamefaced as inquisitive, the outgoing pupils from the upper prima (OI) = grade 13 (Abitur) and the lower secondary (UII) = grade 10 (secondary school leaving certificate) have registered at the time that the school doctor has now given them a preparatory lecture held about sex life.
In 1922 the Helmholtz School was given a black, red and gold flag for the first time , which was allowed to be raised next to the black and white flag of Prussia . The black-white-red flag of the empire, on the other hand, was banned. In 1923, the hyperinflation attributable to the First World War and its aftermath led to a school attendance of a pupil, the purchase of a textbook or the participation in the school lunch costing his parents first thousands of Reichsmarks , then millions and finally billions.
In the school year 1925/26 the Helmholtz School had sixteen school classes with 651 pupils, in the school year 1926/27 it had eighteen classes. The school was bursting at the seams, so on May 14, 1925, the director asked in writing for a second gymnasium (not realized until 1971/72), for the expansion of the school building according to the original plan and for an extension to the side wing for the natural sciences area. Despite the approval of this application, the municipal authorities of the city of Frankfurt did not have the means to implement the project at the time. Instead, it was decreed in 1925 that each higher school in the city was only allowed to set up a single Sexta (5th grade) with a maximum of 55 students.
Between the mid and late 1920s, the school garden of the Helmholtz School was laid out and taken care of by the students. It was a so-called open-air aquarium with water plants, surrounded by a silting zone with corresponding planting and beds with various plants that showed the most important ecological conditions of the flora. The school garden was part of the school yard on Brüder-Grimm-Straße, exactly on the area on which the IPI building was built in 1971/72.
1933 to 1945
After January 30, 1933 , the conditions and the character of the Helmholtz School gradually changed. As the first visible measure, the black, red and gold flags of the Weimar Republic disappeared and were replaced by the black, white and red flags of the empire by order of President Paul von Hindenburg . In addition - where possible - the swastika flag should be raised, confirmed by the Reichsflaggengesetz in 1935 . The law to restore the civil service , passed on April 7, 1933, formed the basis for transfers and dismissals of teachers critical of the system (e.g. Jews, pacifists, socialists). Immediately thereafter, on April 25, 1933, the law against the overcrowding of German schools and universities followed , which introduced “racial affiliation” as a criterion for access to secondary schools and universities. From May 2, 1933, the portrait of Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler hung next to that of the aged Reich President in the school classes. Students to be awarded the prize received the book "Army and Fleet". The German greeting was introduced on August 12, 1933 . All pupils had to watch the compulsory film "Sport and soldiers". In September a shop steward for the Hitler Youth was named at the school . From December 1, 1933, every pupil had to pay a compulsory contribution to the Association for Germanness Abroad . The sexual education in school lessons introduced during the Weimar Republic was banned by ministerial decree. After Hindenburg's death on August 2, 1934, teachers were instructed to wear a mourning armband for 14 days during class.
Between 1933 and 1935, the Nazi teachers' association specifically influenced the teaching staff in order to train and convince them in the spirit of the National Socialists . The focus was on heredity and race theory . According to the law against overcrowding in German schools and universities of April 25, 1933, the number of Jewish pupils in public schools was halved by 1935; after the November pogroms of 1938 there were almost no Jewish pupils left who were allowed to attend public schools. More than 70 Jewish teachers and students at the Helmholtz School were expelled, persecuted, deported and murdered during the Nazi era.
From 1936/37 the church struggle and "opinion-forming" subjects such as German and history were the focus of the Nazi regime. Increasingly, the students came to class in uniform, the Hitler Youth exerted a far stronger influence on them than the school. In the subject of family studies, the students had to draw up clan charts and family trees of their families. In geography lessons, the concept of home was the basis for the propagated struggle for living space, the distribution of "races" on German soil and the claimed "world reputation" of Germans, in which colonial history also took up a large part. The chemistry subject included all types of explosives that were militarily relevant. In mathematics, the word problems were trimmed entirely to Nazi ideology, for example, it was about economic considerations of "unworthy" life or military calculations.
On September 1, 1939, the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland , an event that marked the beginning of World War II . In a victorious mood, the Helmholtz School started a series of field post letters in May 1940 to former students who were now fighting as soldiers at the front. On January 28, 1941, the school planned to publish a book entitled “The Helmholtz School and its Soldiers” for the post-war period, in anticipation of the expected victorious conclusion of the war of conquest. By November 1943, the school administration had sent seventeen such letters to their alumni. In 1943, the Helmholtz students ranked fifth among all schools in Frankfurt am Main in the waste material collection. 7th grade pupils were drafted as flak helpers , while teachers and older pupils had to do military service during the school summer vacation, which was reduced to three weeks.
During the first British-American major attack on Frankfurt am Main with 400–500 bombers on the night of October 4, 1943, during which around 4,000 high-explosive bombs and around 25,000 incendiary bombs were dropped, the Ostend was one of the hardest hit areas in the city. The Helmholtz School was badly damaged in the process, and the outbuildings and extensions were partially completely destroyed, including the former staircase between the main entrance hall and the gym (the entrance was behind today's wall mosaic). Two external views of the school from around 1939 and after the destruction in 1943 can be accessed via the individual records.
1945 to 1962
During the Second World War , the school lost its architecturally impressive mansard - hipped roof with dormers , the transition to the former director and caretaker building and this itself. Up until the 1950s, everyday school life was affected by the damage caused by bombing. Gymnastics took place in the auditorium, which had been freed from rubble by students, parents, caretakers and teachers; the water was in the basement. In the whole school there was only one woman, one teacher, Anneliese Thiel, wife of the future director.
On the occasion of the 40th existence of the school, an invitation to a colorful spring festival was held on May 24, 1952. Opposite the north side entrance of the school on the corner of Helmholtzstrasse and Habsburger Allee lay the ruins of the former residential building for the director and the caretaker, which was destroyed in the war. After the final demolition and removal of the rubble, a white-painted, ground-level wooden pavilion with two classrooms was built on the site, similar to those that are still used today by the Zentgrafenschule . The temporary arrangement served to relieve the classroom, as not all classrooms in the main building had yet been restored. Later on, the pavilion remained important due to the steadily increasing number of high school students. At the end of the 1950s, pupils had to move to other schools for lessons, e. B. in the Linné school, for sports in the gym of the FTV 1860 in the Pfingstweidstrasse or for swimming in the indoor pool in Fechenheim.
The 1950s were all about jazz at the Helmholtz School , a jazz club was founded, and the Helmholtz Springtime Jazz Festival took place in the auditorium for several years . Well- known Frankfurt jazz musicians (see well- known students ) and the Barrelhouse jazz band emerged from the jazz club, which rehearsed in a specially set up jazz cellar of the school . In 1957, it won first prize in a Hessischer Rundfunk competition for school orchestras that was televised . The wall mosaic by Hans Günter König in the foyer of the main building was created at the end of the reconstruction phase in 1958. The school received an additional floor and, in contrast to the previous voluminous hipped roof with corresponding storage areas, a more cost-effective, flattened roof. In 1959 the student exchange with Lyon began , in 1962 the school celebrated its 50th anniversary, for which a commemorative publication was published.
1962 to 1987
In 1966, the AG Auto was founded in the school yard , in which pupils could practice driving and car technology before they were 18 years old. The city paid the costs. From September 1, 1968, the Helmholtz School was also opened to girls as part of co-educational teaching, which means that more teachers were assigned to the school. However, the girls were clearly underrepresented in the first few years (class share in 1974 for example 20 percent). The Computer-AG was founded in 1969, making the Helmholtz School the first school in Hesse to have computers. In November 1970 the school was the focus of media interest. With the support of Olivetti, the Computer-AG was the first German school to ever take part in projections (for the Hessian state elections) and its forecasts were very close to those of the ZDF or close to the later official final result. The Hessian Minister of Education, Professor Ludwig von Friedeburg, was present at the election party organized for this purpose in the auditorium and was very impressed by the achievements of the Helmholtz students. In these Hessian state elections, two former Helmholtz students, Rudi Arndt and Heinz Herbert Karry, ran as the top candidate of his party. Both were successful with their candidacies, so that at the beginning of the 1970s two Frankfurt Helmholtz students became Hessian ministers of state at the same time, Arndt for finance and Karry for economics and technology.
The makeshift pavilion with two classrooms on the site of the former director's and caretaker's building that had been destroyed during the war was demolished in 1971 to make way for a single-field gym, which was inaugurated in the 1972 Munich Olympics ; it cost 690,000 DM. It made the schoolyard noticeably smaller. Because of the high frequency of schoolchildren, the old gym in the basement has not been sufficient for years, so that many classes had to shift physical education to public open spaces in the vicinity (including in the Ostpark and the nearby Pfungststraße sports field). Years 5/6 learned to swim in the indoor swimming pool of the nearby Dahlmann School. There were too few rooms for the around 1,200 students, so the 1st school lesson was brought forward from 7:45 a.m. to a start at 7:30 a.m. and the previous 6-hour school day was extended by an additional 7th school lesson. The promise initially given to the concerned students that no class would actually have a full 7-hour day could soon no longer be kept. In addition, afternoon classes were introduced for the upper school to provide further relief. At the same time, the schoolyard was reduced in size when an extension was built on the area of the former school garden on Brüder-Grimm-Straße, the so-called IPI building , a blue light-weight construction with silver-colored slat formwork on the inside for stabilization with screwed steel struts which were positioned crosswise in front of the windows of the classrooms. The blue referred to the color that has been handed down at the Helmholtz School since 1912, which was already adorned with a band of fabric on the student hats. The walls of the IPI building were so thin that you could sometimes see what was happening in the neighboring rooms as soon as it got a little louder there. Harmless scuffles between students led to individual elements of the partition walls being broken through and the students falling into the next room. Individual classrooms in the building were so small that special school classes were formed for them, which were not allowed to exceed a maximum of 24 students, while others had around 35 students.
In the wake of the 1968 movement , the 1970s were marked by student protests, including the Red Cell Helmholtz , or Rotzhelm for short . She called for school boycotts and thus triggered police operations on the school grounds. The first blood-red lettering was applied to the walls and outer walls of the school at night and was admired and discussed by all the students and teachers as something extraordinary the next day. The Kino-AG (AGF) organized film screenings in the auditorium at irregular intervals in the afternoons, an opportunity that the students like to use to watch films that are no longer up-to-date at a reasonable price.
1972 marked the school's 60th anniversary and a commemorative publication was published. Rudi Arndt, Peter Iden , who has just been appointed mayor of Frankfurt, and the Hessian Minister of State for Economics and Technology, Heinz-Herbert Karry, acted as keynote speakers at the anniversary celebration - all three former Helmholtz students. In the mid-1970s, the school was a pilot project for the introduction of the reformed upper level in Hesse , hotly debated and controversial.
In addition to the art room on the 3rd floor, the Helmholtz School was the first school in Frankfurt to have a language laboratory . It consisted of a number of workstations without partitions with integrated tape recorders and headsets, which was far too small for the average class size of around 35 students at the time, and a teacher's desk from which the teacher could listen to the speech exercises carried out at each workstation and, if necessary, intervene. Some of the students had to sit in twos or even threes at a workplace, except for the teacher, all of them sat with their backs to the daylight. After countless technical problems ( tape salad ), which the students were not entirely innocent of, the language laboratory was dismantled after a few years.
Year 9 ski camps led to the holiday home of the city of Frankfurt am Main in Spitzingsee in Upper Bavaria. In grade 10, the classes optionally traveled e.g. B. to Paris, London or Rome.
In 1987 the 75th anniversary of the Helmholtz School was celebrated and a commemorative publication was published.
1987 until today
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Since 1995, a student radio has been providing relaxation during the long breaks. The asbestos- contaminated IPI building was renovated in 1996. On November 10, 1999, a bronze plaque donated by the Anneliese and Hans Thiel Fund for Peace Work was hung in the foyer of the school in memory of the murdered Jewish students and teachers during the Nazi era . In a pilot project in 2001/02 the Helmholtz School was a partner of the European Commission's GreenLight program. Different lighting concepts were installed and evaluated. The city used the results as a basis for further renovation measures in public schools. In 2004, a counseling and pastoral care room was set up in the Helmholtz School, the first of its kind in Frankfurt am Main, where a pastor is available to the students for confidential discussions if necessary.
In autumn 2007, with the demolition of the old toilets and their new construction, the planning and construction phase of a two-story extension building began. Contrary to earlier plans, this was implemented in the alignment of the IPI building. A cafeteria, a library and two classrooms were set up there in 2009/10; the opening was on September 10, 2010. The construction phase caused considerable impairments for the school management, the teaching staff, the caretaker and the students for a relatively long period of time led the students to public protests (May 2009). As a result of the extension, the schoolyard permanently lost a considerable part of its open space. In September 2011 the school premises were hit by a pest plague that attracted nationwide attention, which led to allergic reactions ( caterpillar dermatitis ) in around 200 pupils and the school was temporarily closed. The cause of the problem was the oak processionary moth . The school website was relaunched in autumn 2011, but a lot of the content is still missing. After all, the download area offers previous editions of the Helmholtz Info periodical, which has been published since 1970 . In 2012 the school celebrated its 100th anniversary (inauguration: April 16, 1912), for which a commemorative publication was published.
Extracurricular use
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Like most school gyms, the halls of the Helmholtz School were and are used by clubs in the evenings. At the end of the 1920s, for example, the table tennis department of Eintracht Frankfurt trained in the old gym in the basement of the school, and the indoor soccer group of the Seckbach 1875 gymnastics club is currently training in the new hall .
Directors
- 1912–1930: Bruno Eggert
- 1930–1935: Georg Wallhäuser
- 1935–1945: Theodor Zeiger
- 1946–1947: Julius Wagner (geographer)
- 1947–1950: Wilhelm Steitz
- 1950–1969: Gerhard Röhl
- 1970–1985: Hans Thiel
- 1986–1999: Klaus Schäfer
- 2000–2012: Volker Dorsch
- since 10/2012: Gerrit Ulmke
Known teachers
- Julius Wagner (geographer) (1886–1970) - teacher (geography, chemistry)
- Erich Grube (1890–1952) - teacher (art), artist
- Herbert Hess (1933–2015) - teacher (music, history, substituting English), jazz musician
- Vollrad Kutscher (* 1945) - teacher (art), installation artist, university lecturer
- Eckhard Nordhofen (* 1945) - teacher (religion), university lecturer, philosopher, author
- Cornelia-Katrin von Plottnitz (* 1943) - teacher (English, German), city councilor in Frankfurt am Main
Known students
→ See: List of former students at the Helmholtz School Frankfurt am Main
Association of former Helmholtz students
In 1925 the association of former students of the Helmholtz secondary school was founded and entered in the association register. At this time around 160 members are already registered. Sporadically a newspaper of its own appeared, regular tables, lectures, excursions and balls were held. In 1952, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the school, the name was changed to Association of Former Helmholtz Students (VEH). In the 1950s and 1960s, joint bus trips were made to Brussels and Paris . In addition, balls and hikes, but also jazz festivals, are organized, later panel discussions and orientation trips. The VEH has also been a co-organizer of school events since the 1980s. The periodical VEH-Informations for members has been published and sent to members on a quarterly basis since 1981 , and for some time it has also been available online as a PDF file. In addition, the VEH has published a series of publications since 1988.
The VEH sees its task in reuniting former classmates who have lost sight of each other over the years or decades. In this context, data mining is carried out in order to be able to provide addresses at class, high school and year-end meetings. In addition, the VEH initiates (mostly project-related) monetary and material donations to the school, since 1992 in cooperation with the friends' association. Events often take place in cooperation with the school, sometimes with the participation of the choir of the former Helmholtz students. The VEH-Member Information will also be collected in the City and University Library. The VEH currently has around 280 members, around 1,700 former Helmholtz students have registered with StayFriends , some of them entire school leavers - many hundreds with portrait and class photos.
Association of Friends and Supporters of the Helmholtz School
The Association of Friends and Supporters of the Helmholtz School (VFFH) was initially founded in 1992 in personal union with the Association of Former Helmholtz Students . Ten years later it broke away from the VEH and has been run by parents ever since. The aim of the friends' association is to provide non-material and financial support for education and upbringing by optimizing the framework conditions that influence the quality of teaching and the other offers at the school. This includes, among other things, investments that the school authority does not make, but also support for care measures, working groups, events. To this end, the association tries to motivate parents to actively participate. In addition to the membership fees collected, the income from the student café and an annual parent donation serve as fundraising. In addition, fines from court decisions flow through the judicial coffers.
literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 5th, revised and supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-15-010464-5 .
- Wolfgang Sandner : Jazz in Frankfurt. Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-7973-0480-3 .
- Erich Kurzweil: Farewell and a new beginning - From the life of a Jewish educator. Waldemar Kramer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1992, ISBN 3-7829-0424-9 .
- Jürgen Schwab : The Frankfurt sound. A city and its jazz history (s). Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-7973-0888-4 .
- Association of former Helmholtz students (publisher): 60 years of the Helmholtz School Frankfurt am Main. 1912-1972. Frankfurt am Main 1972.
- Association of former Helmholtz students (publisher): 75 years of the Helmholtz School Frankfurt am Main. 1912-1987. Frankfurt am Main 1987.
- Association of former Helmholtz students (ed.); Hans Thiel: Alumni of the Helmholtz School. Brief portraits of teachers and students. Frankfurt am Main 1988.
Second episode: Frankfurt am Main 1990.
Third episode :. Frankfurt am Main 1995.
Fourth episode: Frankfurt am Main 2002.
Fifth episode: Frankfurt am Main 2008. - Association of former Helmholtz students (ed.); Hans Thiel: The Jewish teachers and students of the Frankfurt Helmholtz School 1912-1936. Frankfurt am Main 1990.
- Association of former Helmholtz students (ed.); Hans Thiel: History of the association of former Helmholtz students. Frankfurt am Main 1993.
- Association of former Helmholtz students (ed.); Hans Thiel: History of the Helmholtz School. A chronicle with 90 illustrations. Frankfurt am Main 2000.
- Association of former Helmholtz students (ed.); Hans Thiel: Contributions to the history of the Helmholtz school. Frankfurt am Main 2005.
Web links
- Helmholtz School
- Association of Former Helmholtz Students V.
- Association of Friends and Supporters of the Helmholtz School e. V.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmholtz School on: frankfurt.de
- ↑ Photo and bilingual report: Student exchange Montpellier-Frankfurt ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: schulserver.hessen.de
- ↑ Drawing: Helmholtz School, undated on: altfrankfurt.com
- ^ Minutes of the first teachers' conference of the Helmholtz School on April 19, 1912, p. 11/12
- ^ Association of former Helmholtz students (ed.). Hans Thiel: “History of the Helmholtz School. A chronicle with 90 illustrations ”. Frankfurt am Main 2000.
- ↑ VEH-Info 92 from December 2003, p. 4. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. to: hhsabi77.de (PDF file; 209 KB)
- ^ Administrative report of the Helmholtz School, 1924–1929
- ^ The way of a school in the Nazi regime , 1933–1944 on: dhm.de
- ↑ Guidelines for Racial Studies , 1935 on: dhm.de
- ↑ Helmholtz School memorial plaque (1999) ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on: stadtgeschichte-ffm.de
- ↑ Hans Thiel: The Jewish teachers and students at the Frankfurt Helmholtz School, 1912–1936. VEH Frankfurt am Main. 1994
- ↑ School in the Nazi regime at: dhm.de
- ↑ "How I acquired the EK or the storm badge ..." Field post letters from the Helmholtz School 1940–1943 on: frankfurt1933-1945.de
- ↑ Feldpostbrief No. 16 from the Helmholtz School of June 25, 1943 at: frankfurt1933-1945.de
- ↑ Photo: Helmholtzschule, Habsburgerallee / corner of Brüder-Grimm-Straße, around 1939 on: ffmhist.de
- ↑ Photo: Helmholtzschule, Habsburgerallee / corner of Brüder-Grimm-Straße, after the destruction on October 4, 1943 at: ffmhist.de
- ↑ History of the Barrelhouse Jazzband at: barrelhouse-jazzband.de
- ↑ 1958: Completion of the reconstruction work at the Helmholtz School ( memento from June 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on: aufbau-ffm.de
- ↑ WG “Car in the school yard” of the Helmholtz School ( memento of the original from September 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: schulserver.hessen.de
- ↑ Helmholtz Info 95 of September 2004, Periodical of the Helmholtz School, Frankfurt am Main ( Memento of the original from November 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. to: hhsabi77.de (PDF file; 406 KB)
- ↑ Imbued with the Helmholtz spirit for over 50 years. In: VEH information for members No. 101 from March 2006 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on: vehev.de (PDF file; 645 KB)
- ↑ Unveiling of a memorial plaque for Jewish teachers and students at the Helmholtz School ( memento of the original from September 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: schulserver.hessen.de
- ↑ Speech of the student representative Michael Wiederstein from November 10, 1999 on the occasion of the unveiling of a memorial plaque ( memento of the original from September 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: schulserver.hessen.de
- ↑ New construction of the Helmholtzschule cafeteria at: helmholtzschule-frankfurt.de
- ↑ Extension in solid construction ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on: detail.de
- ↑ With an extension to the all-day school at: poroton.org
- ↑ Intercom systems for the Helmholtz School. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 31, 2009 at: faz.net
- ↑ Mysterious itching: high school closed. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 13, 2011 on faz.net
- ↑ School closes because of itching. In: Frankfurter Rundschau, September 13, 2011 at: fr-online.de
- ↑ Helmholtz School closed due to itching. In: Die Welt, September 14, 2011 on: welt.de
- ↑ Larvae to blame for mass allergy among schoolchildren. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 2011 at: faz.net.de
- ↑ Rash in 180 pupils, apparently due to caterpillars. In: Ärzte-Zeitung, September 15, 2011 at: aerztezeitung.de
- ↑ Helmholtz School closed again. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, September 29, 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: fnp.de
- ↑ Helmholtz School not yet clean. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, September 30, 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: fnp.de
- ↑ helmholtz info via download ( memento of the original from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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. to: helmholtzschule-frankfurt.de
- ↑ Agenda for the 100th anniversary of the Helmholtz School 2012. In: VEH-Info 123, December 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: vehev.de (PDF file, 3.4 megabytes)
- ↑ Photo: Table tennis in the Helmholtz School, September 28, 1928, Eintracht Frankfurt on: eintracht-tischtennis.de
- ↑ Photo: Table tennis in the Helmholtz School, undated, Eintracht Frankfurt on: eintracht-tischtennis.de
- ↑ Indoor Soccer TV Seckbach 1875 ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on: tv-seckbach.de
- ^ Association of former Helmholtz students (ed.). Dr. Hans Thiel: History of the Helmholtz School. A chronicle with 90 illustrations. Frankfurt am Main 2000.
- ↑ History of the Association of Former Helmholtz Students ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on: vehev.de
- ^ Association of Friends and Supporters of the Helmholtz School e. V. on: vffh.info