Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf
Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf | |
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type of school | high school |
School number | 164320 |
founding | 1838 |
address |
Pempelforter Strasse 40 |
place | Dusseldorf |
country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Country | Germany |
Coordinates | 51 ° 13 '47 " N , 6 ° 47' 31" E |
carrier | City of Düsseldorf |
student | 1251 |
Teachers | 98 |
management | Volker Syring |
Website | humboldt-duesseldorf.de |
The Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf is a municipal high school in Düsseldorf . It is currently called "high school with a musical focus" and is attended by 1251 students.
history
Surname | period of service | Remarks |
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Franz Heinen | 1838-1870 | Died in 1870 |
Vacancy time | 1870-1872 | |
Julius Ostendorf | 1872-1877 | Died in 1877 |
Carl Bottcher | 1878-1882 | |
Friedrich Kirchner | 1882-1885 | from 1885 director of the Knight's Academy in Liegnitz |
Adolf Matthias | 1885-1898 | then a school councilor in Koblenz and lecturer at the ministry; Died in 1917 |
Paul Cauer | 1898-1905 | |
Johannes Leitritz | 1905-1910 | was head of the municipal secondary school on Prinz-Georg-Straße from 1903 to 1905 ; Died in 1910 |
Vacancy time | 1910-1911 | |
Eberhard Erythropel | 1911-1927 | |
Hans Ellenbeck | 1927-1945 | |
Hans Sandgathe | 1945-1950 | |
Hubert Kreuzberg | 1950-1951 | acting management |
Gustav Würtenberg | 1951-1963 | |
Werner Ochel | 1963-1974 | |
Manfred Drillisch | 1975-1995 | |
Marie-Luise Balkenhol | 1996-2006 | |
Volker Syring | since 2006 |
The school was in 1838 under the name "Urban Secondary School in Citadellstraße" in a former convent of the Franciscan (today Maxhaus founded) in Dusseldorf. In 1860 she graduated from secondary school ( called Realgymnasium from 1882 ) and moved to a new building on Klosterstrasse (then Pfannenschopstrasse). The no longer existing building was built in 1858 in the classic form of the Schinkel School . From 1890 onwards, with the first Abitur exams in 1889, it was renamed the Städtisches Realgymnasium and Gymnasium on Klosterstrasse . In the old school building on Citadellstrasse, a “citizen school” was established, which was administratively assigned to the Realschule 1st order, but became independent in 1878 and later moved to Füstenwall. Today's Geschwister-Scholl-Gymnasium emerges from it.
After the First World War , the grammar school chose the name " Hindenburg School ". During the Second World War, the school building was completely destroyed in an air raid on June 12, 1943 . Classes were continued for the remaining students in rural areas who had not been drafted into the Wehrmacht or who were deployed as air force helpers, but without specialist training, and were completely stopped at Christmas 1944. In October 1945 the modern history of the grammar school begins. It was renamed "Humboldt-Gymnasium" on October 12, 1945 by resolution of the Confidence Committee of the City of Düsseldorf and was officially called "Städtisches Altsprachliches Gymnasium with modern (Romance) branch". Regular classes could only be restarted in April 1946, the students were taught in the buildings of the Görres-Gymnasium and the Luisenschule in different shifts (alternating with the students of the host schools). In 1955, the current school building on Pempelforter Strasse, planned by Ernst Petersen and Walter Köngeter , was completed with a sports hall, auditorium, foyer and specialist rooms. From 1972 they taught together , a year later the reformed upper school was introduced. In 1988 the neighboring Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium (founded in 1970, mathematical and scientific branch of the Luisen-Gymnasium ) was attached to the Humboldt-Gymnasium. Since then the school has had two school buildings and two sports halls. Part of the former Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium is used as a branch by the Walter-Eucken vocational college.
After the re-establishment in 1955, the lessons started with three parallel classes (two Latin and one English), from the 1997/1998 school year the Humboldt-Gymnasium was run in four classes and since 2010/2011 with two Latin and three English classes in five classes. In the 2015/16 school year, a (one-off) start was made in the 5th grade with six parallel classes. The classes starting from 2008 to 2017 are taught according to "G8" ; since 2018, "G9" has again been compulsory for the new 5th grades. The number of students has been relatively constant for years at around 1240, the number of teachers around 100.
The 50-year-old school building was extensively renovated between 2005 and 2006. A renovation of the Lise-Meitner Gymnasium is being planned, as is a new construction of a modern gym on the property area on Wielandstrasse that was previously used as a sports field.
In 2013, the 175th school anniversary was celebrated with a variety of events. The main act was the world premiere of a Humboldt symphony in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf , which was composed by Wilfried Stein Maßl, music teacher at the school, especially for the anniversary. The orchestra consisted of school members, supplemented by musicians from the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf.
Art on the school building
Of the works of art of the Hindenburg School, including Friese, (executed 1861–1866) and windows in the auditorium (1889) by Eduard Bendemann , windows in the stairwell by Erhardt Klonk (1938), a plaster sculpture The young man by Ivo Beucker (1934) are only a fountain sculpture by Ivo Beucker (see below) and four of a total of seven headmaster portraits of the directors Heinen, Ostendorf, Kirchner and Leitritz created by HE Walter Jost in 1913, as well as a portrait of Erythropel (made in 1936 by the painter Leopold Wenzel). These portraits hung for a long time in the hallway to the staff room of the current school.
Ivo Beucker
There is a special and lasting relationship between the school and the artist as its former student. As early as 1938 he created a bronze sculpture of a youth for a fountain at the Hindenburg School. The sculpture is now placed on a brick base on the edge of the school yard towards the Wielandstrasse entrance. In 1955 he was commissioned by the city to make two busts of the Humboldt brothers. They were set up at the entrance portal, but removed by the artist in the same year due to damage. For a long time they were thought to be lost, but after restoration they were put back in the auditorium during a ceremony on the occasion of Beucker's 100th birthday in 2009. In 1958 he designed a memorial for the victims of the two wars , which was carried out by Ferdi Walther , as a replacement for the memorial of the fallen students and teachers of the First World War , which was destroyed in the war . It was unveiled on April 29, 1958, in the presence of the artist, installed on the first floor of the stairwell. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the school in 1963, the school, commissioned by former students, was given the newly created bronze sculpture of young reading man (located on the first floor of the stairwell).
Hans Kindermann
On the first floor of the stairwell, the wall relief Ornithes created in 1955 , the name of a play by Aristophanes , refers to theater performances in the auditorium. This piece was performed there as part of the school inauguration ceremony.
Curt Beckmann
Opposite Ornithes, the sun god Helios is executed as a bas-relief .
Erwin Heerich
At the transition from the main staircase to the class wing, fountain rooms were set up on all three floors in a glass bay window, which housed drinking fountains designed by Heerich. Unfortunately, the wells are no longer preserved, with the introduction of the reformed upper level in 1973, offices were built in the bay windows.
Erwin Kretz
On the facade of the eastern wing of the building there are four mosaic panels (approx. 100 × 80 cm), the symbols of which represent the four elements.
Günter Grote
On the first floor of the staircase, two wall-high mosaic works, Mikrokosmos and Macrocosmos , have been created.
Maria von Ohlen
The bronze sculpture, created in 1959, was donated in 1963 for the opening of the Clara-Schumann-Gymnasium and installed there. After the school closed in 1989, the sculpture was given to the Humboldt-Gymnasium by the city of Düsseldorf.
Languages and differentiation area
Differentiation areas
- Grade 5 - English and Latin if necessary
- Grade 6 - French, Latin
- Grade 8 - Ancient Greek, Math / Computer Science, Biology +, Music Practical, French
- Grade 10 (EF) - Ancient Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese (ZK, cross-school course), Russian (ZK, cross-school course)
Latin plus
Since a successful pilot project in 2001, it has been possible to teach English and Latin at the same time from the fifth grade onwards. With the appropriate language skills, these students can also take French from the 7th grade onwards . From the 8th on there is a regular offer to learn Ancient Greek as the 4th language. From level 10, you can even take a sixth language in a central course (ZK).
Music offer
Music lessons take place continuously from grades 5–9, in the upper level as an optional subject (basic / advanced course).
The MUSIKplus offer has existed since the 2002/2003 school year : teachers and lecturers from the Clara Schumann Music School and the Robert Schumann University give instrumental and vocal lessons in the school. The MUSIKplus offer begins in the 5th grade and ends after the 6th grade. The lessons can then be continued in the music school. There are two beginner classes and two expert classes (for children with previous instrumental experience), as well as a singing class from 2011 .
The instruments to choose from are:
- String instruments : violin , viola , cello , double bass
- Woodwind instruments : flute , clarinet , saxophone , bassoon and oboe
- Brass instruments : trumpet , trombone , horn , baritone , tuba .
- guitar
- rhythmic percussion (since the 2010/11 school year)
The music and movement dance project is integrated into the MUSIKPlus offer .
Various music ensembles exist at the school. In addition to the jazz orchestra, the brass band and the orchestra for plucked instruments Giratte in grades 5–8, which are open to all students with at least two years of instrument experience or who have taken part in the MUSIKplus program. From the 7th grade up to the Abitur, participation in the Siyanda Strings (string orchestra) is possible, from the 9th grade onwards you can switch to the symphony orchestra or the big band . There is also a lower school and an intermediate / upper school choir. In addition, Cave Cantum , a parent-teacher-alumni choir under the direction of Tilman Wohlleber, has established itself.
The choir of singing classes was involved in the project of the band Die Toten Hosen and the Robert Schumann Hochschule for three concerts in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf in October 2013 on degenerate music . In addition, a live album entitled Degenerate Music - Welcome to Germany was released.
social commitment
Since 2018, the school has been included in the School without Racism - School with Courage program. Oliver Fink, captain of the Fortuna Düsseldorf soccer team, is the project sponsor. From the 8th grade onwards, students can take part in a 30-hour advanced training course to become mediators, and from the 9th grade onwards, they can become a school medical service.
School trips and exchanges
In school years 5–9, the pupils go on a five-day class trip to the school's own school camp in Waldbröl ; in the 10th grade (EF) there is a 3-day "level finding trip". In level EF, students also have the option of taking part in a ten-day exchange with France at the École Alsacienne Paris or a three-week exchange at the Wayzata Senior High School near Minneapolis . Other partner schools with student exchange are the Chengnan Middle School in the Chinese purpose and the Liceo GD Cassini in Genoa .
School camp house Pempelfort
At the beginning of the 1950s, the 50,000 m² site on the upper outskirts of Waldbröl was acquired by committed teachers and sponsors of the grammar school. The school camp is located in the former building of a planning barracks for the Adolf Hitler School with a district castle planned in 1938 (design by Clemens Klotz ), the construction of which was discontinued in 1940. Today there are only relics of the facility in the form of a retaining wall, approaches to the outside staircase and the sports field, today there is an additional hard court for further sporting activities. After renovations, the house was inaugurated on December 7, 1957 and has since been a non-profit educational institution under the sponsorship of the association of the same name. The occupancy with full board can currently take place with 58 students and up to 5 accompanying persons (single room). Today there are two classrooms (with a piano), a separate dining room (the “Glass Palace” with a view of the grounds), a table tennis room, a pool table, a table football and a separate staff room. During the times not used by your own school classes, the school camp can also be rented by other groups or associations at any time.
Partnerships
The Humboldt-Gymnasium has a partnership with the Clara-Schumann-Musikschule of the city of Düsseldorf and with the Robert-Schumann-Musikhochschule , and earlier with the Tanzhaus NRW .
Partner schools are:
- since 1976 Wayzata High School in Plymouth, Minnesota ( USA )
- since 1983 the Ecole Alsacienne in Paris ( France )
- since 2008 the Chengnan Middle School in Zusatz ( People's Republic of China )
- since 2009 the Liceo GD Cassini in Genoa ( Italy )
- from 2014 to 2017 the Buca Isilay Saygin Güzel Sanatlar Lisesi in Izmir for the singing classes
- since 2017 the Evangelical School Köpenick
School-related associations and projects
Association of alumni and friends of the Humboldt-Gymnasium in Düsseldorf eV
The forerunner of the current association goes back to 1926, the year the Alumni Association of the Hindenburg School was founded. The aim of the current association is to promote the exchange of ideas between parents, teachers, students and alumni of the Humboldt-Gymnasium, the Hindenburgschule and the Lise-Meitner-Gymnasium in line with the Humboldt school ideal and to enable subsidies for teaching material, for school events and for needy students . He is the founder of a foundation to support his statutory tasks.
Every two years, a career information evening is organized in which former students can answer questions about their professions "in everyday life, first-hand".
School camp Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf eV
Founded in 1957, the non-profit association is the sponsor of the school camp in Waldbröl.
Friends of the Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf eV
The association was founded on March 7, 1991. So far, with annual income of currently approx. € 25,000, he has many individual projects such as a. Book procurement, financing of excursions, procurement of IT equipment possible. The current focus of funding is (supplementary) equipping the school with electronic media such as iPads , ActiveBoards , and document cameras . He has been the sponsor of the school café since 2005.
Humboldt Solar GbR
In 2008, with the support of the school and the city of Düsseldorf, a photovoltaic system with an area of 280 m² was installed on the roof of the main building . The proceeds were used to build a photovoltaic system in cooperation with "SEWA-Sonnenenergie für Westafrika eV" for a school in Saya ( Burkina Faso ).
Known students
- Gregor Bachmann (Abitur 1985)
- Rudolf Barthelmess (retired in 1879)
- Otto Bender (upper secondary qualification 1865)
- Ivo Beucker (Abitur 1928)
- Michael Breitkopf (Abitur 1983)
- Campino (Andreas Frege, Abitur 1983)
- Claus-Wilhelm Canaris (Abitur 1957)
- Christian von Coelln (Abitur 1987)
- Philipp van Endert (Abitur 1989)
- Joachim Erwin (Abitur 1968)
- Paul-Otto Fassbender
- Ossip K. Flechtheim (Abitur 1927)
- Joachim Funke (Abitur 1972)
- Volker Gösel (Abitur 1978), former German master in tournament dance, director of the Düsseldorf dance house
- Hanno Goffin (Abitur 1978)
- Theodor Groll (secondary school leaving certificate 1878)
- Christof Hartmann (Abitur 1978), artist, Düsseldorf
- Heinrich Hermanns (left in 1883)
- John H. Herz (Abitur 1927)
- Gerhard Höhn (Abitur 1959)
- Peter Janssen (retired early)
- Ernst Kapp (Abitur 1906)
- Andreas Kämmerling (retired early)
- Konrad Klapheck (Abitur 1954)
- Erich Klausener (Abitur 1903)
- Thomas Kling (Abitur 1977)
- Wehwalt Koslovsky (Abitur 1992)
- Hans Langsdorff (Abitur 1912)
- Wilhelm Levison (Abitur 1894)
- Theodor Litt (Abitur 1899)
- Jens Loenhoff (Abitur 1978) communications scientist
- Dirk Luckow (Abitur 1978)
- Rudolf Lupp (left in 1846), industrialist, President of the Düsseldorf Chamber of Commerce and Industry from 1879 to 1885
- Valentin Lusin (Abitur 2006)
- Stephan Martin (Abitur 1982) diabetologist in Düsseldorf, associate professor at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Ulrich Menzel (Abitur 1967)
- Hans Müller (Abitur 1933)
- Marius Müller-Westernhagen (retired early)
- Jochem Poensgen (retired early)
- Ulrich Preis (Abitur 1976)
- Jürgen Schläder (Abitur 1967)
- Gregor Schell (Abitur 1977)
- Andreas Schmidt (Abitur 1979)
- Hermann Harry Schmitz (retired early)
- Emil Schrödter (secondary school leaving certificate 1872)
- Walter Siebel (Abitur 1958)
- Friedrich Sieburg (Abitur 1912)
- Hubertus Siegert (Abitur 1978)
- Willy Spatz (retired in 1879)
- Alfred Sohn-Rethel (retired early)
- Cornelius Sommer (Abitur 1959)
- Josef Stübben (secondary school leaving certificate 1863)
- Andreas Tönnesmann (Abitur 1972)
- Christian Gottfried Trinkaus (school leaving certificate 1859), banker
- Otto Vautier (retired in 1882)
- Friedrich Vogel (Abitur 1920)
- Rainer Wernicke (Abitur 1982)
- Albrecht Woeste (Abitur 1956)
- Dirk Zetzsche (Abitur 1994)
Known teachers
s. a. List of directors
literature
- HW Erdbrügger (Ed.): Tradition and Present . Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the municipal Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 1963.
- Wolfgang Funken: Art in schools in Düsseldorf . In: Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf (Ed.): Publications from the Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf . tape 16 . Düsseldorf 2006.
- Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf (Ed.): Discovering the world together . 175 years of Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf 1838–2013. Düsseldorf 2013.
Web links
- Website of the Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf
- Alhumni.net - the alumni network of the Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf
- Campino leads Klaus Maria Brandauer through his former school. YouTube video (8 min) of a broadcast by arte
- Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Realgymnasium , Düsseldorf, on May 28, 1838 , 1888 ( digitized version )
- Annual report of the municipal high school with high school classes in Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf, 1884–1888 ( digitized version )
- Curricula and teaching assignments for the municipal grammar school and secondary school in Düsseldorf along with tertiary curricula from sixth to fourth and other individual versions . Voss, Düsseldorf 1894 ( digitized version )
- Catalog of the school library of the municipal grammar school and secondary school in Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf, 1904 ( digitized version )
- Annual report of the municipal grammar school and secondary school in Düsseldorf: for d. Time from Easter ... to Easter ... Düsseldorf, 1889–1915 ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ^ School system: New construction of a secondary school in Pfannenschoppenstrasse , in an administrative report for the year 1856 and the city of Düsseldorf's budget
- ↑ Städtisches Realgymnasium und Gymnasium (Klosterstrasse 7.) , address book of the city of Düsseldorf for the year 1890. Third part. Art and school institutions.
- ↑ Minutes of the meetings of the Confidence Committee from October 12, 1945 to November 29, 1945. Stadtarchiv Düsseldorf, p. 63.
- ↑ Press article
- ↑ Franz Heinen; Bendemann's mural in the auditorium of the Realschule Düsseldorf . Düsseldorf 1866.
- ^ Carola Gries: Departure with Humboldt (1945–2013). Works of art in the Humboldt Gymnasium. In: Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf (Ed.): Discovering the world together. 175 years of Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf 1838–2013. Düsseldorf 2013, pp. 52–61.
- ↑ Leaves of the Hindenburg School. No. 1 (1952), p. 3.
- ↑ Westdeutsche Zeitung. September 25, 2009.
- ↑ The Pempelforte. No. 3 (1958), p. 6.
- ↑ HW Erdbrügger (Ed.): Tradition and Presence. Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the Städt. Humboldt-Gymnasium Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 1963, p. 225.
- ↑ Invoices and plan drawings in Stadtarchiv IV, 25869 / III Volume 3
- ↑ Press article
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Plans and model photos in the school archive
- ↑ Wayzata High School website (in English)
- ↑ Website of the Ecolé Alsacienne (in French) ( Memento of the original from September 15, 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.
- ^ Website of the Liceo GD Cassini for exchange (in Italian)
- ↑ Humboldt Solar homepage
- ↑ Christian Gottfried Trinkaus, born in 1843, son of Christian Gottfried Trinkaus , entered his father's business in 1864.