Lessing School (Bremerhaven)
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 27.5 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 11.4" E
The Lessing School Bremerhaven was an upper secondary school in Bremerhaven - Lehe , at Ernst-Reuter-Platz / Hafenstrasse 122 / Melchior-Schwoonstrasse, which today bears the name Schule am Ernst-Reuter-Platz as the Integrated District School Lehe (Oberschule) .
history
Surname
- Founded as a secondary school in Lehe in 1904 and inaugurated as a building in 1906.
- Oberschule Lehe from 1937
- From 1950 to 2010 the school was named after Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781), an important poet of the German Enlightenment.
- In 2010, against the protests of many citizens, the school received the new name from the adjacent square, named after Ernst Reuter (1889–1953), German politician (SPD), Lord Mayor or Governing Mayor of Berlin . With the renaming, the school conference followed a vote of the students. The decision was confirmed in spring 2011 by the school committee of the city council.
building
Around 24,000 people lived in Lehe at the turn of the century. Lehe had also grown rapidly thanks to the port in Bremerhaven. The existing schools could no longer cope with the further influx of students. New higher schools had to be built, such as the Storm School (1902), the Lessing School (1906) and the Körnerschule (1909).
In 1906 a new building was built for the Lessing School in Lehe on Hafenstrasse. The three-storey building, faced with brick, is a typical building of the turn of the century: massive, representative, equipped with neo-Gothic and historicizing elements and a baroque turret, it is a representative of the eclecticism of this time, in which the architecture cites several architectural styles - Elements of bygone eras. The roughly three-winged building with a massive central gable for the large entrance was adapted to the neighboring Pauluskirche (Bremerhaven) from 1905.
From 2008 to 2011, the building was thoroughly renovated for around 7 million euros. A new building with twelve classrooms and a teaching kitchen was created.
School uses
In 1713 there was a first reformed Latin school in Lehe on Kirchplatz in Langenstrasse. In 1856 this Latin school received its first school building on Marktstrasse (today Leher Markt). In 1897 it was dissolved.
In 1903 the community college decided to found a higher boys' school, which, in contrast to Bremerhaven and Geestemünde, was to become an upper secondary school , according to the ideas of the Prussian State Councilor Christian Peter Wilhelm Beuth . Oberrealschule was a nine-year school without Latin, approved in Prussia since 1882, with the school-leaving certificate of which one could study. In 1904 the Oberrealschule zu Lehe for boys was founded. Schoolrooms were initially rented until the inauguration of the secondary school, later the Lessing School, took place on September 1, 1906. Initially, 202 students were accepted. In 1911 the first high school graduate left school.
In 1928 the school team won under her gym instructor Duncker in Berlin the title of Prussian Championship rounders .
In 1937 the higher schools in Germany were uniformly called Oberschulen .
After the Second World War , the school was an additive comprehensive school , which in the early 1950s was divided into branches A and H = Hauptschule , B and M / R = Middle School / Realschule and D or G = Gymnasium . The grammar school started with the 5th grade and required an entrance examination in the first few years. The school was oriented towards science and modern languages (English, French), but also had a strong arts area. Coeducation has existed since 1950 . The school had around 1000 to 1100 students later.
At the beginning of the 1974/75 school year, the upper levels of five of the six Bremerhaven high schools were merged. The Lessing School was now a school in the lower secondary level and until 2009 a combined school with an orientation level, secondary and middle school and grammar school.
Current
- School on Ernst-Reuter-Platz
The school at Ernst-Reuter-Platz was founded in 2008 and moved into the building of the old Lessing School in 2010/11 as the new Integrated District School Lehe (ISL) and all-day secondary school . She received new room concepts for the project lessons during the renovation. The all-day program at the school is known as the “student academy”. Society, culture and language are highlighted as the school profile. In addition to the core subjects German, English, mathematics and the second foreign language (French or Italian), a large part of the lessons are organized as project lessons .
- Others
The wind orchestra of the Lessing School Bremerhaven , once founded by the founder of the choir and orchestra, Heinz Inderst, exists under the old name.
Well-known teachers and students
Teacher
- Professor Bredau, senior teacher since 1906
- Dr. Richard Cappelle (1886–1954), from 1920 class councilor and from 1950 to 1953 as senior class councilor head of branch D (high school branch)
- Michael Frost, the founding director of the school on Ernst-Reuter-Platz since 2008, was elected full-time city councilor and head of department for schools and culture by the Bremerhaven city council in July 2012.
- Heinz Inderst (1909–2004), music teacher, choir and orchestra leader at the school and in Bremerhaven.
- Arnold Kniest, senior director of studies, headmaster from 1906 to 1936.
- Heinrich Kreipe (1892–1966), rector in the 1950s
- Dr. Otto, senior teacher after 1906
- Walter Zimmermann (1892–1968), school councilor, from 1954 to 1961 honorary teacher
student
- Max Hansen (1901–1978), metallographer in Berlin and Chicago
- Adolf Butenandt (1903–1995), 1921 Abitur, biochemist, 1939 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry
- Rolf Dircksen (1907–1983) ornithologist , professor of biology
- Yasemin Karakaşoğlu (* 1965), Turkologist and educationalist
- Roland Kutzki (* 1942), architect and urban planner
- Peter Riebensahm (* 1938), high school diploma around 1957/58, as a high jumper (best height 2.10 meters) 1962 German indoor champion , 1960 Olympic participant in Rome and 1958, 1960, 1961 and 1962 German runner-up
- Gustav W. Rogge (1903–1987), Abitur 1921, Dr. Ing., Major civil engineering contractor
- Heinz Vollmers (1902–?), Secondary school leaving certificate 1918, navigator and captain a. a. on the Berlin and Bremen , flagships of the North German Lloyd , 1968 captain at the Schaffermahlzeit
See also
literature
- Annual report. School news about the school year from Easter to Easter ... ... . Lehe 1905–1910 ( digitized version )
- Arnold Kniest: Description of the school house . In: Annual Report. School news about the school year from Easter ... to Easter. Lehe 1907 ( digitized version )
- Annual report. School news about the school year from Easter to Easter ... ... . Lehe 1911, 1915 ( digitized version )
- Kurt Kohlweyer (Hrsg.): Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the Lessing School in Bremerhaven . Nordwestdeutscher Verlag Dietzen, Bremerhaven 1954.
- Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries; Volumes I to III, from 1827 to 1991. Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 , ISBN 3-927857-37-8 , ISBN 3-927857-22-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nordsee-Zeitung of February 14, 2010.
- ^ Wind orchestra of Lessing School Bremerhaven ( Memento from January 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )