Humboldt High School (Berlin-Tegel)
| Humboldt Gymnasium (grammar school) | |
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 12Y03 |
| founding | 1903 |
| address |
Hatzfeldallee 2-4, 13509 Berlin |
| place | Berlin Tegel |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 35 '30 " N , 13 ° 17' 21" E |
| carrier | State of Berlin |
| student | 1107 (2016/2017) |
| Teachers | 102 + 14 trainees (2016/2017) |
| management | Jörg Kayser |
| Website | www.humboldtschule-berlin.de |
The Humboldt Gymnasium is a grammar school in the Berlin district of Tegel in the Reinickendorf district . The school was founded in 1903 as a secondary school and then gradually expanded into a grammar school.
history
The school, founded in 1903, was initially located in the former Schöneberger Straße (today: Medebacher Weg), near the village green of Tegel. In the following years it was expanded into a secondary school and named in 1908 after the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt .
The school building on Hatzfeldtallee (formerly: Graf-Roedern-Korso ), built from 1910 to 1911 according to plans by Karl Fischer , is a listed building , and there are three other structural extensions.
particularities
Latin is generally taught as a second foreign language at the Humboldt Gymnasium - in contrast to most other Berlin schools. French or Chinese are offered as a third foreign language . In grade 8 you can choose between the two third foreign languages offered as compulsory elective subjects, as well as the subject technology and nature , an interdisciplinary combination of natural science subjects with computer science .
In the upper secondary level, in addition to economics , philosophy is also offered on a larger scale .
For particularly gifted students, there are three class trains at the Humboldt Oberschule that start in the 5th grade (support for gifted students). These fast-learning classes also take their Abitur after twelve years and also have more focused lessons in individual subjects, as well as interest-oriented project work.
The school's friends' association, the Association of Friends of the Humboldt-Oberschule Tegel (VdFHT), was founded on April 1, 1959 and celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2009. With his support, the school newspaper "Humboldt" appears several times a year. In addition, every year at Easter, it awards a prize to outstanding pupils who have done their work for the welfare of the school with the “Wölkerling Prize”. This goes back to Erich Wölkerling, who had bequeathed part of his fortune to the school with this aim in his will.
In addition to regular lessons, the school offers various options to promote the political commitment of the students. There is a memorial trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp once every school year . In addition, there has been a “Humboldt Without Racism” working group since the beginning of 2009, which regularly organizes events such as lectures, particularly on the subject of right-wing extremism .
At the same time, the "Politik-AG / Eine-Welt-AG" works with the Development Policy Education and Information Center e. V. and regularly sells fair trade products at the school . The proceeds from this and other projects were used to finance the construction of a school in Zambia .
Since 2003 there has been an independent school newspaper, Denk-mal! Which is operated entirely without the help of teachers and is published outside of the school's area of responsibility . which is distributed free of charge. By its fifth anniversary in autumn 2008, 26 issues had appeared.
Partnerships
The school maintains contacts abroad in order to be able to offer international projects for its students. There are a number of partner schools around the world, the Humboldt-Gymnasium has maintained a partnership with a Beijing secondary school since 2002 . A very constant exchange to China has been taking place with this school for a number of years, in which students of the optional Chinese can take in a Chinese student for two weeks and in return travel to Beijing for two weeks and live there with a Chinese host family. There were also exchange programs with Zambia , Poland , Estonia and other countries. As part of the Festival for the 100th anniversary of the school in 2003 took place on a Humboldt High School International Student Congress on Science in School ( German : International Student Congress in science subjects) with participants from different countries take such. B. from Canada , Kazakhstan and Italy .
Extensions
There are two extensions to the school: The pavilion built on the foundations of the old school bunker in the middle of the school yard, which was inaugurated in 1997. In addition, there has been the “Green House” on the corner of Ziekowstrasse and Wilhelm-Blume-Allee since the 2006/2007 school year, which previously housed the Tegel youth hostel. The entire building including the canteen on the first floor was converted into classrooms and integrated into the operation of the Humboldt High School.
literature
- 100 years of the Humboldt-Oberschule Berlin Tegel: 1903–2003 (commemorative publication for the 100th school anniversary). Berlin, 2003
- Head of the Humboldt-Oberschule Tegel (Ed.): Humboldt: the magazine of the Humboldt-Oberschule Berlin-Tegel , since 1995.
- Harry Hempel (Ed.): 80 Years of the Humboldt School Tegel, 1903–1983 . Berlin-Tegel: Humboldt-Oberschule, 1983 (= Humboldt-Heft, 6).
- Jörg Müller (Ed.): For the high school graduates of the Humboldt Oberschule in Berlin Tegel. December 1982. Berlin-Tegel 1982 (= Humboldt-Heft, 5).
- Klaus Pegler: The Humboldt Service of the Humboldt Gymnasium in Berlin. In: Die berufsbildende Schule 31 (1979), pp. 355–358
- 25 years of the Association of Friends of the Humboldt High School Tegel: 1949–1974 . Social fund [u. a.], Berlin 1975.
Web links
- Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- School homepage
- Chronicle of the history of the Humboldt School
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Humboldt Gymnasium. In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family, September 19, 2008, accessed on April 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List