Hermann-Ehlers-Gymnasium

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Hermann-Ehlers-Gymnasium
130901-Steglitz Hermann-Ehlers-Gymnasium Elisenstraße.JPG
type of school high school
School number 06Y08
founding 1896
address

Elisenstrasse 3–4
12169 Berlin

place Berlin-Steglitz
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 27 '11 "  N , 13 ° 20' 2"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '11 "  N , 13 ° 20' 2"  E
carrier State of Berlin
student 504 (2016/2017)
Teachers 60 (2016/2017)
management Mrs. Vogler
Website www.hermann-ehlers-schule.de/

The Hermann-Ehlers-Gymnasium is a high school in the Berlin district of Berlin-Steglitz ( district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf ). It is located at Elisenstraße 3–4 and includes grades 7 to 12.

Namesake

The school is named after the German politician Hermann Ehlers ( CDU ), who was President of the German Bundestag from 1950 until his death . Ehlers is a former student of the school who passed his school-leaving examination there in September 1922. The school was named in memory of Ehlers on December 4, 1954, around a month after his death.

history

Foundation and First World War (1896 to 1918)

Seal of the Oberrealschule zu Steglitz

Before 1920, today's district of Berlin-Steglitz was an independent municipality. Since 1870, the development of the Berlin suburbs and the establishment of the villa colonies in Südende , Dahlem and Lichterfelde led to a rapid increase in the population. Previously there were only a few schools in the community of Steglitz; in 1896 the first grammar school, the Steglitz grammar school, was founded. In 1896, today's Hermann-Ehlers-Gymnasium was founded under the name Realschule Steglitz and moved into a school building on Florastraße . The first director was Dr. Oskar Lüdeke, who had previously taught at the Steglitz grammar school from 1886 to 1896. The first school leaving exams were taken around Easter 1898. As early as 1902, it was decided to upgrade the Realschule to become an Oberrealschule. Latin was still not taught at the school, as was customary in higher schools that allowed students to study. With the acquisition of a school-leaving certificate (i.e. a diploma) at a secondary school, one was still entitled to study certain subjects. From 1900 the restrictions on certain subjects were lifted and one could study all subjects with the acquisition of a school-leaving certificate.

In November 1903 around 500 pupils were already attending the school. Therefore it was decided to increase the capacity with an extension. In February 1904 it was decided to build a larger school building on Elisenstrasse . The foundation stone was laid in June 1905, and in October 1905 the students moved into the new building. The old building at Florastraße 13 continued to be used as a school. At the time of National Socialism, it housed a business school, and since 1999 the old building has been the seat of the Upper School Office Management 1 . The inauguration of the new school building took place on October 28, 1905.

Since moving to the new building, a large number of associations have been founded. In September 1907 the gymnastics club of the upper secondary school Steglitz was founded, in October 1907 the rowing association of the upper secondary school Steglitz . In 1909 the old man's association of the gymnastics club of the upper secondary school in Steglitz and in 1913 the first alumni association, the association of former Steglitz high school students, VESTOR 1913 e. V. founded. In 1921 the Association of Friends of the Upper Secondary School Steglitz was founded.

From 1914 to 1918, as at most other schools during the First World War, there was a voluntary opportunity to take an emergency maturity test in order to be able to enter the military earlier. Nothing is known about the exact number of students who made use of it and about the number of losses at the Oberrealschule Steglitz.

Weimar Period (1919 to 1933)

In 1921 Dr. Georg Pann new director of the school. In the same year he applied to teach Latin at the school. For the school year 1924/1925, Latin lessons were introduced from the lower secondary level. The school was renamed Reform Realgymnasiums . From 1928 the school was called Oberrealschule together with Reform Realgymnasium Steglitz . In the same year a wing was added to the school building.

National Socialism and the Post-War Period (1933 to 1954)

Little is known about changes in everyday life at the Hermann-Ehlers-Gymnasium during National Socialism. In 1938 the educational institution was renamed the Wrangel School, named after the old General Wrangel , who had the rebels of the Berlin Revolution of 1848 cartat down. Now you noticed in music lessons where and how the music was playing. We sang 'Flamme up', 'Auf, heben our flags' and the first songs by the Hitler Youth songwriter Hans Baumann , 'And die Morgenfrühe' and 'Only freedom belongs to our life'. These songs were also necessary, because from now on there were also appeals in the school on the special political holidays . At the time of the air raids on Berlin, many children were sent to the country . During the so-called Lankwitz bombing night on the night of August 23rd to 24th, 1943, the school building burned down almost completely as a result of a bomb attack. The educational facility was evacuated to the so-called Wartheland as part of the expanded KLV , with all teachers and all important school furniture . Lessons only started more than two months after the end of the war, in July 1945. As part of the introduction of co-education in Germany, girls were also admitted to the school from 1949.

Hermann-Ehlers-Gymnasium (since 1954)

On December 4, 1954, the school in memory of the recently deceased was President of the Bundestag and former pupil Hermann Ehlers in Hermann-Ehlers-school renamed.

Architecture and terrain

terrain

The school grounds are bordered by residential buildings on Steinstrasse to the north, by the Helene-Lange School and Freiherr-von-Hünefeld-Schule to the east, by residential buildings on Albrechtstrasse to the west and by Elisenstrasse to the west.

building

The school is equipped with a total of eight science rooms, including three chemistry rooms, three biology rooms and two physics rooms. There are also two rooms for political science classes, two music halls and an auditorium, two art rooms and a wood and clay workshop, as well as a gymnastics hall and a gymnastics hall.

School life

School profile

Five different foreign languages ​​are taught at the Hermann-Ehlers-Gymnasium: English is generally the first foreign language and is taught as a mandatory requirement. As a second foreign language, it is also compulsory to choose between French, Italian or Russian. From grade 8 onwards, Italian, French or Latin can be chosen as a third foreign language as part of the compulsory elective lessons. The Latinum can be acquired in the upper level .

Elective courses

The Hermann-Ehlers-Gymnasium offers so-called elective subjects. A compulsory elective is a compulsory subject that must be selected from a group of subjects. Elective subjects can be taken at the Hermann-Ehlers-Gymnasium from the 8th grade. Since the 2013/2014 school year there have been elective subjects from the fields of art, science and language. In the artistic field, you can choose between art, music and performing games . From the natural science area, only mathematics is offered and from the linguistic area you can choose between French (if you study Latin as a second foreign language), Latin (if you take French as a second foreign language) and Italian.

Events

  • annual music evenings
  • Theatrical performances

Number of teachers and students

In the 2016/2017 school year, 504 students attended the school. Of these, 124 pupils did not have German citizenship and 275 pupils were of non-German language of origin. 296 pupils lived in the Steglitz-Zehlendorf district, another 159 in the neighboring districts of Spandau, Tempelhof-Schöneberg and Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. 39 students resided in other districts of Berlin and ten students outside Berlin. From the 2001/2002 school year to the 2011/2012 school year, the number of students remained relatively constant between 650 and 700, but the number of students has been falling since the 2012/2013 school year. Since 2001, the number of students has decreased by around 20 percent.

Of the 504 students, 102 were in grade 7, 77 in grade 8, 61 in grade 9 and 90 in grade 10. In grade 11 there were 83 students and in grade 12 there were 91 students.

A total of 60 teachers taught at the school. Of these, 50 are salaried teachers and 10 are trainees and candidates for teaching.

school year Teacher student
2001/2002 644
2002/2003 676
2003/2004 69 694
2004/2005 67 678
2005/2006 62 672
2006/2007 60 674
2007/2008 61 664
2008/2009 57 616
2009/2010 50 623
2010/2011 53 629
2011/2012 64 615
2012/2013 63 562
2013/2014 55 534
2014/2015 59 501
2015/2016 63 499
2016/2017 60 504

Source: School directory of Berlin schools

Personalities

Known teachers

  • Thilo Cornelissen (1904–1965), music teacher and composer, music teacher in 1946
  • Maximilian Modde (1862–1933), painter, art teacher 1915–1918
  • Marc Lingk (born March 5, 1964), composer, software developer, physicist from 2016

Known students

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Hermann-Ehlers-Gymnasium. In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Science and Research, accessed on April 19, 2017 .
  2. ↑ a b c school program ( memento of the original from June 30, 2017 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 the school website, accessed April 21, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hermann-ehlers-schule.de
  3. ↑ Name giver Hermann Ehlers ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2017 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 the school website, accessed April 21, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hermann-ehlers-schule.de
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Schulchronik ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2017 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 the school website, accessed April 21, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hermann-ehlers-schule.de
  5. ↑ Archive database of the library for research on the history of education: Personal data of teachers in Prussia: Dr. Oskar Lüdeke
  6. ↑ Upper level center for office management 1
  7. ↑ Archive database of the library for research on the history of education: Personal data of teachers in Prussia: Dr. Georg Pann
  8. ↑ Archive database of the library for research on the history of education: Personalkarte Dr. Georg Pann
  9. ↑ Schiller 1999, p. 286
  10. ↑ Schiller 1999, p. 288
  11. ↑ Profile ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2017 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 the school website, accessed April 23, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hermann-ehlers-schule.de

literature

  • Heinrich Schiller: Heinrich Schiller * October 17, 1924, in: Hermann Heitkamp / Alfred Plewa (Hrsg.): Social work in self-testimonies, Freiburg / Brsg. 1999, pp. 281-321