Hohenstaufen High School in Göppingen
| Hohenstaufen High School (HoGy) Göppingen | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1831 |
| address |
Hohenstaufenstrasse 39 |
| place | Goeppingen |
| country | Baden-Württemberg |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 42 '16 " N , 9 ° 40' 5" E |
| carrier | Goeppingen |
| student | 628 |
| Teachers | 60 |
| management | Director of Studies Annette Staudenmayer (Deputy Head of School) |
| Website | School homepage |
The Hohenstaufen Gymnasium is a state- sponsored bilingual school in Göppingen , Baden-Württemberg . Until 1959 it was housed in the premises of today's Göppinger Freihof-Gymnasium .
history
In 1831 a school was founded, from which today's Hohenstaufen high school emerged. In 1874 the foundation stone was laid for a secondary school (today the main building of the Freihof grammar school). In 1903 an expansion to secondary school with school-leaving examination . In 1907 a secondary school was established, combined with an upper secondary school. This went hand in hand with the adoption of the tradition of the Göppingen Latin School. In 1938 the name was changed to Hohenstaufen High School for Boys and in 1954 to Hohenstaufen High School.
In 1959 the grammar school moved to its current location in Hohenstaufenstrasse.
Location and building
The school is in the direction of Hohenstaufen , within sight of the city center and the Swabian Alb .
The current building is based on a design by the architect Günter Behnisch , who also designed the Bundestag in Bonn and the Olympic Stadium in Munich . The building, which is now a listed building, was opened in 1959. The school has a gym, a sports field and an indoor swimming pool. There is an observatory on the roof of the school building .
profile
The school's foreign language courses include English, French, Latin and Spanish and, as the only grammar school in Göppingen, also Russian.
The school offers a bilingual profile with more English lessons in the 5th and 6th grades and then with the subjects geography (7th and 8th grade), history (8th grade) and biology (9th and 10th grade) in English.
By continuing the English-language biology course in the upper level and an English-language Abitur in biology, pupils can acquire the "International Abitur Baden-Württemberg" certificate.
The Hohenstaufen Gymnasium Göppingen is a MINT subject school type.
Well-known graduates
- Karl Hinderer (1931-2010) - mathematician at the University of Hamburg , University of Karlsruhe and TU Dresden
- Dieter Hundt (* 1938) - former President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA) and former Chairman of the Supervisory Board of VfB Stuttgart
- Horst Kern (* 1940) - Professor at the Leibniz University of Hanover
- Hans-Jochen Kleineidam (1943–2018) - Professor at the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
- Matthias Dannenmann (* 1943) - Protestant theologian and managing pastor in Bad Waldsee
- Ulrich Klieber (* 1953) - visual artist and university lecturer
- Jochen Stutzky (* 1980) - football commentator and television presenter
- Simon Schempp (* 1988) - biathlete
Individual evidence
- ^ Hohenstaufen-Gymnasium on Göppingen.de
- ↑ English bilingual. Hohenstaufen-Gymnasium Göppingen, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Silver medal. Hohenstaufen-Gymnasium Göppingen, accessed on May 29, 2020 .