Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium (Königsberg)

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Kgl. Wilhelms-Gymnasium
Luise with her sons Friedrich Wilhelm and Wilhelm (Carl Steffeck)
College of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Königsberg in 1912. Professor Jäger (Jimbo), probationary candidate Unger, Professor Amoneit (Asaph), seminar candidate Schimanski, Professor Bork, Professor Peters, senior teacher Cybulla (Schybs), Professor Luther, director Wagner, preschool teacher Braun, Professor Stange (Humpel), Head Teacher Foethke, Professor Lullies, Head Teacher Dehnen (Barbarossa), Professor Joost, Head Teacher Kroll, Preschool Teacher Kirbuß, Professor Lanenpusch, Professor Kühn (Audax), Professor Kröhnert, Preschool Teacher Michaelis, Drawing Teacher Ludat.
College of the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Königsberg in 1912. Professor Jäger (Jimbo), probationary candidate Unger, Professor Amoneit (Asaph), seminar candidate Schimanski, Professor Bork, Professor Peters, senior teacher Cybulla (Schybs), Professor Luther, director Wagner, preschool teacher Braun, Professor Stange (Humpel), Head Teacher Foethke, Professor Lullies, Head Teacher Dehnen (Barbarossa), Professor Joost, Head Teacher Kroll, Preschool Teacher Kirbuß, Professor Lanenpusch, Professor Kühn (Audax), Professor Kröhnert, Preschool Teacher Michaelis, Drawing Teacher Ludat.

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

student

Color Map (1903)

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 .

Web links

Commons : Königliches Wilhelms-Gymnasium  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 54 ° 43 '  N , 20 ° 31'  E