Leibniz High School (Duisburg)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Comprehensive School
Historical part of the school building of today's Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Comprehensive School opposite the abbey (2012)
type of school	comprehensive school
School number	187793
founding	1904
address	Hamborner Strasse 274-278
place	Duisburg - Hamborn
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 29 '20 "  N , 6 ° 45' 52"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '20 "  N , 6 ° 45' 52"  E
carrier	City of Duisburg
Teachers	over 110 (2016)
management	Karl Hussmann
Website	www.leibnizhabenschule.de

The Leibniz-Gymnasium was a school in Duisburg district of Hamborn . Founded in 1904, it was gradually converted into the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Comprehensive School from 1980/81 .

history

founding

The first forerunner of what would later become the Leibniz Gymnasium was established in 1894 as a Catholic rectorate school for boys from fifth to eighth grade. With the establishment of such a secondary school, the increasing industrialization of Hamborn was to be taken into account, which led to repeated calls for their own school among the immigrants. The first plans for such a foundation seem to go back to Pastor Klösges. The plans were implemented by Kaplan Sprenger.

Accordingly, the school founded was assigned to Hamborn Abbey . First teaching was held there until a new building was erected on Meidericher Straße (today: Hamborner Straße) in 1902. After Cardinal Galen had consecrated the school under the name "Norbertinum" on May 13, 1903 , lessons could begin. The Norbertinum was to continue to exist independently until 1912, but from 1904 is only sparsely documented in sources.

In 1904, parallel to the institution called "Norbertinum", a communal higher boys' school was founded, which became the direct predecessor of the later Leibniz Gymnasium. This was preceded by a phase of disputes that was referred to as the so-called »Hamborner Kirchenkampf«. The reason for the disputes was the abbey’s application from 1902 to establish a higher girls’s school, which was controversial and fueled fears that the municipality might reject this application in favor of its own institution. This managed to approve its own and denominational schools, which contained the dispute. Approval was given to the establishment of a Catholic high school for girls, from which the later abbey grammar school was to emerge. This now stood by the side of the Norbertinum as a gender counterpart. The community itself also decided to build the above-mentioned higher boys 'school and a non-denominational higher girls' school, the later Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Gymnasium .

The boys' school, which was set up as a secondary school under director Ernst Krahl , was first located at Kaiserstraße 21 (today: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße) in Marxloh in a building rented by the farmer Schulte-Marxloh. In 1904, a piece of land was acquired on Moltkestrasse for a building of its own. In 1907 a "preschool" was added, which, as a three-year elementary school, enabled the transition to grammar school without exams (until 1921). From 1908 the expansion of the school into a reformed Realgymnasium according to the Frankfurt curriculum began. In 1912 the Norbertinum was integrated into the new Realgymnasium, whose director Wilhelm Uelentrup was until 1916 . For the time of the First World War , the sources are again poor.

After the First World War

Even before 1921, considerations were voiced to build a secondary school and split off the relevant branch from the now overcrowded secondary school. Corresponding classes have been run since 1921. The division was completed in 1925. Heinrich Menke , director since 1919, was initially responsible for both branches, with the completion of the separation in 1927 for the secondary school, which was expanded into an upper secondary school. Martin Eckhardt was responsible for the secondary school, which moved into the building of the old Norbertinum on Meidericher Strasse, which was expanded by a large annex in 1927 .

time of the nationalsocialism

With the rule of National Socialism , the so-called “ Gleichschaltung” of schools began. As early as 1933, the Realgymnasium was renamed "Schlageter School - Oberschule für Jungs" after Albert Leo Schlageter . By 1937 Eckhardt had been replaced by Max Langerhans . At the secondary school, however, Menke had to give way in 1933. After two years of the interregnum, a director Michel followed. In 1937, the upper secondary school was renamed "Tannenberg School" in accordance with the Nazi regime. In addition to various ideologically influenced subjects such as "racial studies" and "racial hygiene" and Hitler Youth liaison teachers, a traditionalism below the surface seems to have opposed this "externalization of school operations" (Kusenberg, 28) - and this increasingly with the beginning of the war in 1939. Ab In 1942, school operations could only be maintained in the Kinderlandverschickung .

Post-war and present

The war ended in 1945 - for Hamborn on March 27, when the city was occupied by the US Army. The secondary school building in Moltkestrasse (today: Dahlmannstrasse?) Was completely destroyed after air raids. The building of the secondary school on Meidericher Strasse showed considerable damage from artillery fire; only part of the inventory had been saved by teachers. Nevertheless, classes resumed on October 22nd. Since the British who had moved up had moved into the building on Meidericher Strasse as their quarters, they turned to Humboldtstrasse. Realgymnasium and Oberrealschule were merged again to form the "United High School for Boys - Duisburg-Hamborn". In 1949 the school, which was now increasingly oriented towards natural sciences, was named after the universal scholar Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and was now called "Leibniz-Gymnasium - Städtisches Naturwissenschaftliches Gymnasium Duisburg-Hamborn".

The school on Hamborner Strasse (now named as it is) received a new building in 1959 facing Jägerstrasse. When, after ten years, the number of students could no longer be managed, in 1968 the modern language classes were outsourced to the newly founded Clauberg Gymnasium, the last of which passed the high school diploma in 2010. In 1970, the transition to co-education was made with the first admission for girls . In 1977 buildings for a secondary school were built next to it. In 1979 the school celebrated its 75th anniversary, the last anniversary celebration as a grammar school.

Conversion into comprehensive school

In 1980 the city council decided to convert the grammar school and the adjoining secondary school into a comprehensive school . In 1981 the first pupils were accepted for the new school type. In 2004 the school celebrated its 100th anniversary. The school last celebrated its 25th anniversary as the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Comprehensive School on September 28, 2006.

literature

In addition to the sources given, see the literature given under the heading Duisburg and Hamborn .

• 50 years of Leibniz-Gymnasium Duisburg-Hamborn. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary 1904–1954 ; ed. by Peter Simonis, Duisburg 1954
• A school in Hamborn - 75 years of Leibniz grammar school. Commemorative publication for the school anniversary in September 1979 ; ed. by Hans Erich Peters, Duisburg 1979
• Theo Kusenberg, pictures from the history of the higher boys' school in Duisburg-Hamborn- 1894–1954 ; in: 50 Years of Leibniz Gymnasium ... , 9-51
• Hartmut Pietsch, A school in Hamborn - 75 years of Leibniz-Gymnasium: From the history of the school ; in: A school ... , 7-51

Web links

Commons : Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesamtschule (Duisburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• School homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/duisburg/nord/Bittersuesse-Abschlussfeier-id3350485.html