Humboldt School (Erfurt)
| Humboldt School Erfurt | |
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| type of school | primary school |
| founding | 1879 |
| address |
Yuri Gagarin Ring 126 |
| place | Erfurt |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 ′ 41 ″ N , 11 ° 2 ′ 20 ″ E |
| carrier | City of Erfurt |
The Humboldt School is a former secondary school in Erfurt, founded in 1879 . It has been run as a primary school since 1991 .
location
In downtown Erfurt, Juri-Gagarin-Ring 126.
history
The school was founded on April 17, 1879 as a high school and first moved into the Collegium Maius , the old main building of the former Erfurt University - which had served as the town's workhouse for decades before taking over the school function. Due to the rapidly growing number of schoolchildren in the course of the industrial development of Erfurt in the early days, the building soon turned out to be too small and unsuitable, so that a new building was planned on what was then the Krämpferring. It was opened as the “Städtische Oberrealschule” on October 20, 1909 and offered space for 800 students. Even compared to today's standards, the new building had excellent basic equipment for the scientific subjects, an observatory, workshops such as carpentry, metalworking and blacksmithing, a sports hall with appropriate equipment for physical training, a library and, as a showpiece, a large auditorium with a concert grand piano and organ.
At the 50th anniversary of the municipal secondary school, it was named " Humboldt School " on April 17, 1929 in recognition of the life work of the brothers Wilhelm von Humboldt and Alexander von Humboldt .
After the seizure of power in 1933, the school gave particular support to National Socialism. In the course of the November pogroms of 1938 , 197 arrested Jewish men were rounded up in it and brought from there to the Buchenwald concentration camp . Towards the end of the Second World War , the building was also used for evacuation and war purposes. On February 19, 1945, apart from the east wing, the Humboldt School was completely destroyed in a British bombing raid by an air mine and eleven people, including four students from the fire station, were killed.
The remains of the main building on the Ring were demolished in the following post-war years. Only the east wing, which had largely been preserved, was rebuilt in the following years and used again as a school. At the same time, a new educational orientation followed in the sense of socialism and with a further expansion of the scientific focus. As a result, the teaching of the curriculum related primarily to the subjects of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history, geography, German, civics, English, Latin, French, Russian, music and gymnastics. Experimental classes in chemistry, physics and biology helped shape the course of the class. Religious education disappeared as it was viewed as a purely private matter for the religious communities. The suppression of everything religious led, for example, to the fact that the music teacher and later Weimar university professor Gert Frischmuth left school after he had learned that he should be reprimanded for his church music activities at the time. As part of the school reform of the GDR in 1959, the school became one of the three extended secondary schools in Erfurt.
In 1991, the Humboldt School in its previous form as a natural science educational institution was dissolved to achieve the Abitur and most of the furnishings, teaching materials, books and models were destroyed. Since then, the school has continued as Elementary School 9, Humboldt School .
Known students
- Günther Jahn (1930–2015), politician (SED)
- Jörg Hindemith , musician
- Petra Barthel , actress
- Helga Brück (1928–2013), music historian
- Alexander Lang , director and actor
- Anke Besser-Güth , sculptor
- Dirk Löhr , journalist
- Michael Geyer , psychologist and clinic director
literature
- Steffen Raßloff : "Never again fascism!" The Humboldt Elementary School is a haunting reminder of the Nazi crimes and destruction of the Second World War in Erfurt . In: Thüringer Allgemeine from June 14, 2014.
- Volker Freche and Jürgen Zerull: Humboldt School in Erfurt 1879 - 2009 . In: Thuringian Natural Letter from September 4, 2008.
- Birgit Kummer: On behalf of Humboldt, the Erfurt School is celebrating its 130th anniversary today . In: Thüringer Allgemeine from April 17, 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Wolf: Erfurt in the air war 1939-1945 ( writings of the association for the history and antiquity of Erfurt. Vol. 4 ). Glaux Verlag, Jena 2005, ISBN 3-931743-89-6 , p. 173
