Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium

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Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium
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type of school high school
founding 1601
address

Augustinerbach 2-7

place Aachen
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 46 '37 "  N , 6 ° 4' 55"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '37 "  N , 6 ° 4' 55"  E
carrier City Aachen
student about 850
Teachers about 70
management Jürgen Bertram
Website www.kaiser-karls-gymnasium.de
Old school building, general view
Alternative quarters from 1902 to 1906
Main entrance, staircase and music room
The old school building with its two extensions and the cathedral and town hall in the background

The Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium (short: KKG ) was founded in 1601 by the Jesuit community of Aachen and is the oldest grammar school in the city of Aachen . The former boys' school now has around 39 percent of female students.

history

In September 1601 the school opened, at that time still under the name "Gymnasium Marianum des Jesuitenordens" , in Scherpstrasse (today's Annastrasse). At first she had two grammar classes. Two more classes were established by 1602. In April 1615 the foundation stone was laid for the construction of the grammar school and the college building. In the great fire of Aachen in 1656, however, the college buildings were almost completely destroyed; only the school building remained undamaged.

The high school grew in size and importance. In the 17th and 18th centuries it grew into a seven-class full institution, around 1000 students attended the Jesuit school. In 1773 the Jesuit order was dissolved by Pope Clement XIV , the grammar school and college building were then closed. The buildings fell to the Free Imperial City of Aachen and accordingly called themselves "Gymnasium Marianum of the Free Imperial City of Aachen" .

From 1792 to 1794 Aachen was occupied by the French revolutionary troops, the school building was confiscated. The school then had to be temporarily housed in the monastery of the regulators; one year later, lessons were forced to take place in the private rooms of the five class leaders. In 1802 the teachers were no longer paid by the city of Aachen and were dependent on the school fees of only 63 students.

In 1803, the French prefect Alexandre Méchin approved the construction of a secondary school based on the French model. Four teachers from the former grammar school Marianum directed the lessons. The Napoleonic procurator Franz Gall was appointed director. On August 3, 1804, Napoleon issued a decree , on the basis of which the school was housed in the Augustinian monastery in Pontstraße , which had fallen to the French state through secularization . The former St. Katharina Church belonging to the monastery remained at the grammar school and was henceforth known as the Aula Carolina . On December 1, 1805, the College opened in the presence of the new Prefect Jean Charles Joseph de Laumond . In 1811 the theologian Josef Erckens replaced Gall as director.

On January 18, 1814, Aachen was liberated by the Allied troops. Eight months later, a decree followed, according to which the school was to be continued as the “Preussisches Gymnasium” or “Gymnasium zu den Augustinern” and comprised four classes. The subjects German, history, Greek and mathematics have been reinforced. In 1820 the grammar school had 116 students and had six classes. In 1827 Johann Joseph Schoen was appointed director of the school as the successor to the classical philologist Friedrich Anton Rigler and held this position for 44 years. By 1830 the number of students had grown to 292. During the July Revolution in the same year, which also led to massive unrest in Aachen, teachers and students armed themselves and provided security guards. In 1842 the school was officially given the name " Königliches Gymnasium zu Aachen " and in 1886 its current name, Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium . The number of students at that time was 557. From 1888 a new building was planned on the Augustinerbach. In 1903 construction began on the new school building based on designs by the Aachen city master builder Joseph Laurent . It was ready to move into on April 4, 1906, after the school had temporarily found space in the former and rededicated Franciscan monastery in Aachen from 1902 . The current building on Augustinerbach is more than a hundred years old. During the First World War , several students and teachers were drafted, there were emergency maturity exams and the number of students dropped to 507.

In the course of the 1920s the number of pupils continued to decline and in 1929 was only 466. After Adolf Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, the Nazi rulers began to access the school. Politically high-profile teachers were reprimanded, other teachers were assigned. In 1934, teaching was regulated by the “Rust Decrees” , and pupils and teachers were called to the Napola . After the school reform of 1937, the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium remained as one of the few schools in the Rhine Province as a humanistic high school with Latin and Greek as compulsory subjects; The high school education path was shortened from nine to eight school years, so in 1937 two school-leaving exams were held.

Today the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium has around 866 students. The school, formerly known for teaching "ancient languages", has focused on the natural sciences. The school is also known for its art floor. The painter Hubert Werden taught at the school from 1939 to 1979 as an art teacher .

The Aula Carolina, which was massively damaged in the Second World War, was not completely rebuilt until 1980 based on the old model, but adapted to today's use, restored, renovated and placed under monument protection. It is used by the KKG for internal operations on school days until 5 p.m. and is available outside of these school hours for external events, especially for classical concerts, receptions, lectures, theater performances, readings and exhibitions.

The Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium has a high school library with old stock.

Known teachers (selection)

Former students (selection)

Surname Life dates School epoch comment
Walter Ameling 1958– KKG Ancient historian
Matthias Baltes 1940-2003 KKG Classical philologist
Eduard Beaucamp 1937– KKG Art critic and publicist
Theodor Beaucamp 1892-1944 KKG Administrative officer, district administrator in Kirchhain and Düren
Nicolaus Wilhelm Beckers around 1630–1703 Marianum Physician and personal physician
Stephan Beissel 1841-1915 Royal high school Jesuit and art historian
Caspar Anton von Belderbusch 1722-1784 Marianum Teutonic Knights and Prime Minister in Kurköln
Dirk Bieresborn 1965– KKG Lawyer and judge at the Federal Social Court
Franz Bock 1823-1899 Augustinum Canon and art historian
Detlef Müller-Böling 1948– KKG Economist and social scientist
Elena Bongartz 1988– KKG Sister of David Garrett, songwriter and pianist
Frank groom 1975– KKG Journalist and lawyer, moderator of the ARD law guide
August Brandt 1866-1917 Royal high school theologian
Joseph Ludwig Buchkremer 1899-1986 KKG Auxiliary Bishop of Aachen
Stephan Buchkremer 1901-2000 KKG Electrical engineer and founder of the Aachen Cathedral Guard
Egbert Bulles 1946– KKG Chief Public Prosecutor in Cologne
Erwin Classen 1889-1944 KKG Administrative officer and district administrator
Severin Corsten 1920-2008 KKG Director of the University and City Library of Cologne
Johann Joseph Couven 1701-1763 Marianum Baroque architect and builder
Peter Josef Franz Dautzenberg 1769-1828 Marianum Journalist and newspaper publisher as well as founder of the Aachen City Library
Alfred Dickersbach 1931– KKG Presiding judge at the Federal Administrative Court
Julius Dorpmüller 1869-1945 Royal high school Reichsbahn General Director and Reich Minister of Transport
Arthur Oak Green 1867-1949 Royal high school Chemist and inventor of acetylsalicylic acid
Otto Eschweiler 1931– KKG Chief Executive of the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Honorary Consul of the Netherlands
Marino Freistedt 1954– KKG Politician (CDU)
Jörg Fündling 1970– KKG Ancient historian
Albert Greed 1953– KKG Founder of librettology in Germany, professor at the University of Bamberg
Martin Gies 1951– KKG Director and screenwriter
Hans Globke 1898-1973 KKG Commentator on the Nuremberg Race Laws , State Secretary in the Adenauer government
Franz Josef Goertz 1947-2017 KKG Journalist, editor and writer
Herbert Goertz 1955– KKG Conductor and director of the Cologne University of Music, Aachen department
Joseph Greving 1868-1919 Royal high school Church historian
Rolf Große 1958– KKG Professor at the German Historical Institute Paris (DHIP) for medieval history
Achim Grossmann 1947– KKG Member of the Bundestag, State Secretary in the Ministry of Transport
Cornelius of Guaita 1766-1821 Marianum Needle manufacturer as well as mayor and mayor
Werner Hacke 1948– KKG Neurologist and stroke researcher
Heinrich Hahn 1800-1882 Marianum Doctor, member of the Prussian state parliament and founder of the German Franziskus Xaverius Association
Joseph Mutton 1868-1944 Royal high school Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne
Michael Hammers 1965– KKG German artist and designer
Wilhelm Havers 1879-1961 KKG Linguist and Indo-Europeanist
Wilhelm Heerde 1898-1991 KKG German sculptor and politician ( NSDAP )
Hanns Heidemanns 1927-2012 KKG pharmacist
Gerd Heinz 1940– KKG Actor, director, professor and head of the opera school at the Staatliche Musikhochschule Freiburg im Breisgau
Johannes Helmrath 1953– KKG Historian of Medieval History
Will Hermanns 1885-1958 KKG Dialect poet and director of the International Newspaper Museum and the press office of the city of Aachen
Nikolaus Heyendal 1658-1733 Marianum theologian and abbot of Rolduc Abbey from Walhorn in what was then the Duchy of Limburg
Klaus Honnef 1939– KKG Art historian and art critic
Leo Hugot 1925-1982 KKG Cathedral builder and city curator of Aachen, architect, builder of the city hall towers of Aachen
Andrej Hunko 1963– KKG Politician and member of the Bundestag for the Left Party
Wilfried Jacobs 1944– KKG Chairman of the AOK Rhineland and spokesman for the Rhineland primary funds
Hermann Jansen 1869-1945 Royal high school Architect and urban planner
Johann Ferdinand Jansen 1758-1834 Marianum History and landscape painter as well as local poet
Wilhelm Leopold Janssen 1830-1900 Royal high school Administrative officer, district administrator and politician
Franz Jörissen 1868-1932 Royal high school Economic Party politician
Matthias Joseph Johnen 1817-1906 Augustinum Dome of Honor at Cologne Cathedral
Egidius disciples 1833-1895 Royal high school Roman Catholic clergyman and Bishop of Nesqually
Joseph Klinkenberg 1857-1917 Royal high school High school teacher and historian
Lothar Koenigs 1965– KKG conductor
Jens Jürgen Korff 1960– KKG Historian and political scientist
Max Krabbel 1887-1961 KKG Surgeon and advocate of eugenics
Karl Robert Kranemann 1967– KKG German lawyer, business graduate and circumnavigator
Heinrich Kranz 1901-1979 KKG German hereditary psychiatrist and neurologist
Adam Kuckhoff 1887-1943 KKG German writer, resistance fighter murdered by the Nazis
Ildikó from Kürthy 1968– KKG German author and journalist
Heinrich Lausberg 1912-1992 KKG Author of basic works on issues of rhetoric
Albert Lauscher 1872-1944 Royal high school Center Party theologian and politician
Verena Lepper 1973– KKG Egyptologist
Bernhard Maximilian Lersch 1817-1902 Augustinum Doctor and scientist
Theo Lieven 1952– KKG Entrepreneur
Joseph Lingens 1818-1902 Augustinum Politician (Center Party) and member of the Reichstag
Jürgen von der Lippe 1948– KKG German comedian, middle class: Hans-Jürgen Hubert Dohrenkamp
Hugo Loersch 1840-1907 Royal high school Legal historian and preservationist
Franz Loogen 1919-2010 KKG German cardiologist
German Hubert Christian Maaßen 1825-1910 Augustinum Catholic pastor and ancient historian
Heinz Malangré 1930-2017 KKG Manager and publisher
Kurt Malangre 1934-2018 KKG former Lord Mayor of Aachen
Josef Martinelli 1936– KKG Soccer player
Ludwig Mathar 1882-1958 KKG German writer
Andreas Meitzner 1956– KKG Diplomat , Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Kingdom of Denmark
Karl Franz Meyer 1728-1795 Marianum Historian and notary as well as head of the archive of the city of Aachen
Karl Franz Leonhard Meyer 1763-1821 Marianum Historian, private scholar and head of the Aachen City Archives
Johann Peter Joseph Monheim 1786-1855 Marianum Pharmacists, chemists and politicians
Karl von Monschau 1944– KKG born as Karl Winter, object artist
Joseph Müller 1802-1872 Marianum Philologist and naturalist as well as dialect poet
Josef neck 1860-1922 Royal high school Center Party politician
Franz-Josef Neumann 1955– KKG Physician, Managing Medical Director of the Bad Krozingen Heart Center
Franz Oppenhoff 1902-1945 KKG Mayor of Aachen murdered by the Nazis
Joseph Oppenhoff 1868-1958 Royal high school District Court President in Aachen
Friedrich Pauwels 1885-1980 KKG Orthopedist and biomechanics
Matthias Goswin Pelzer 1754-1814 Marianum Syndic of Aachen and President of the canton of Aix-la-Chapelle
Rudolf Pohl 1924– KKG Prelate and church musician as well as cathedral music director a. D.
Josef Ponten 1883-1940 KKG Writer and art historian
Johann Pütz 1851-1945 Royal high school Catholic clergyman
Wilhelm Rombach 1884-1973 KKG District Administrator von Düren, Lord Mayor of Aachen and District President
Karl Eduard Rothschuh 1908-1984 KKG Cardiac physiologist and medical historian
Georg Rudinger 1942– KKG gerontologist
Wilhelm Salber 1928-2016 KKG Psychologist and philosopher
Klaus Sallmann 1934– KKG Classical philologist
Leonhard Schmitz 1807-1890 Augustinum Classical philologist and ancient historian
Hermann Schnitzler 1905-1976 KKG Art historian
Felix Seulen 1900-1958 KKG District administrator in Eupen and Malmedy as well as senior district director in Aachen
Hans Siemons 1930-2006 KKG journalist
Squidward Soiron 1881-1957 KKG Franciscan (OFM), theologian and university professor
Hans Stercken 1923-1999 KKG Journalist and politician (CDU)
Hermann Strater 1891-1956 KKG Administrative officer and district administrator of the Aachen district
Hermann Joseph Strater 1866-1943 Royal high school Aachen cathedral provost and auxiliary bishop in Cologne and Aachen
Bernhard van Treeck 1964– KKG Textbook author and specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy
Wolfgang Trees 1942-2009 KKG former editor of Aachener Nachrichten and author of several books on the Aachen region and its history
Kaspar Vallot 1925– KKG former editor-in-chief of Aachener Nachrichten
Viktor Vanberg 1943– KKG University professor for economic policy
Joseph Heinrich Peter Vogt 1865-1937 Royal high school Canon lawyer and first bishop of Aachen
Dirk Edmund Zerwas 1968– KKG Elementary particle physicist
Carl Eugen Zimmermann 1828-1902 Augustinum Master builder and mayor of the city of Aachen

literature

  • Alfons Fritz : History of the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium in Aachen , in: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein (ZAGV), 42, 1921, pp. 90–232
  • Alfons Fritz: The dissolution of the Aachen Jesuit College and its consequences, in particular the dispute over the Jesuit property up to 1823 , in: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein (ZAGV) 29, 1907, pp. 211-276
  • Annual reports on the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium from 1886/87 to 1914/15 ULB Düsseldorf

Web links

Commons : Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium, Aachen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Fündling: KKG-Notabitur as part of mobilization. In: Aachener Nachrichten of June 28, 2014
  2. ^ Homepage of the school: Bibliotheks-AG ; see also: Fabian Handbook of Historical Book Holdings