Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium (Königsberg)
The Königliche Wilhelms-Gymnasium was a secondary school in East Prussia's provincial capital, Königsberg . It was named after King Wilhelm I of Prussia .
history
The grammar school was opened in Altroßgarten (Predigerstraße) after the establishment of the Reich in 1874; But it was not inaugurated until 1879 in the new buildings in Hintertragheim, on the northwest side of the castle pond. The auditorium was decorated in 1889 with paintings by well-known Königsberg painters:
- Emil Neide
- Kant and Fichte in conversation
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Announcement of the new agenda by Duke Albrecht von Prussen
- Carl Steffeck
- Friedrich Wilhelm III. with Baron von Stein and General York von Wartenburg
- Queen Luise with her older sons in Luisenwahl
- Grand Master Siegfried von Feuchtwangen moves into the Marienburg
- Georg Knorr
- Socrates and his students
- The monastery school
- Philipp Melanchthon, Reuchlin's pupil, and Desiderius Erasmus
- Wilhelm von Humboldt in consultation with his councilors about the reform of the grammar school
In 1901 the grammar school had 22 teachers and 533 students. After 1918 the grammar school was called "Wilhelms-Gymnasium". At the end of August 1944, the building was destroyed in an air raid by the Royal Air Force . On January 23, 1945 all schools in the city were closed by an official order. With that the Wilhelms-Gymnasium ceased to exist. Neither the building nor the school survived the Second World War .
Teacher
- Johann Eduard Loch
- Emil Zimmermann , senior teacher from 1899 to 1904
- Ernst Wilhelm Wagner , director from 1903 to 1922
- Otto Portzehl , senior teacher from 1888 to 1905
- Anton quarter
- Wilhelm Großmann , senior teacher until 1892
student
- Oswald Arnoldt
- Horst-Günter Benkmann
- Otto Besch
- Richard Emil to Dohna-Schlobitten
- Hans Ebel (pastor)
- Kunz Finck from Finckenstein
- Heinrich Gerlach (Author)
- Heinrich von Gottberg
- Erich Haslinger
- Jürgen Hinrich Hewers
- David Hilbert
- Arnold Japha
- Felix Japha
- Karl Kollwitz
- Alfred Lublin
- Ernst Meyer
- Erwin Moeller
- Jürgen Moser (mathematician)
- Perbandt's slave
- Eitel-Friedrich Rissmann
- Gerhard Saager
- Richard von Schaewen
- Fritz Schellong
- Botho von Schwerin
- Gustav Simon
- Paul Drift
- Franz Wessel
- Ernst Wollenberg
- Robert Wollenberg
literature
- Reinhard Adam: The Stadtgymnasium Altstadt-Kneiphof zu Königsberg (Pr.). 1304-1945. From the history of the two oldest schools in East Germany . Leer, Rautenberg 1977, ISBN 3-7921-0196-3 .
- Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
- Richard Armstedt : history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. Hobbing & Büchle, Stuttgart 1899 ( German land and life in single descriptions . 2, city stories), (reprint: Melchior-Verlag, Wolfenbüttel 2006, ISBN 3-939102-70-9 ( historical library )).
- Wolfgang Kapp : Wilhelms-Gymnasium zu Königsberg i. Pr. 1874-1945. A reminder . Leer 1958.
- Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. 3 volumes. 2nd / 3rd supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
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Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ' N , 20 ° 31' E