List of well-known personalities of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg

This list contains well-known former teachers and students of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg.

principal

Surname	Life dates	Headmaster at the flat share	life and work
Hermann Genthe	1838! 1838-1886	1881! 1881-1886	Classical philologist and local historian
Otto Pauli	1841! 1841-1890	1887! 1887-1890
Julius Bintz	1843! 1843-1891	1891! 1891	Classical philologist and historian
Wilhelm Wegehaupt	1845! 1845-1917	1892! 1892-1912	Classical philologist
Wolfgang Meyer	1867! 1867-1957	1912! 1912-1914	Classical and German philologist
Heinrich Gerstenberg	1864! 1864-1838	1916! 1916-1923	Germanist
Adolf Boerner	1870! 1870-1930	1923! 1923-1926	Classical philologist, doctorate in 1894, from 1898 senior teacher at the shared apartment
Paul Wetzel	1882! 1882-1950	1926! 1926-1933	historian
Bernhard Lundius	1884! 1884-1947	1933! 1933-1945	Historian and Germanist
Wilhelm Ax	1890! 1890-1954	1845! 1945-1954	Classical philologist
Franz Bömer	1911! 1911-2004	1955! 1955-1972	Classical philologist
Hans Liermann		1972! 1972-1984	Classical philologist
Alfred Luebke	1925-2019	1984! 1984-1991	Historian and Germanist
Olaf Hauschild		1990! 1991-2000	High school teacher (mathematics and physics), previously headmaster of the "Collegio Visconde de Porto Seguro" in São Paulo
Antje Westenhoff	1948! 1948-2016	2000! 2000-2013	High school teacher (mathematics and music), first woman in the office of headmistress
Martin Richter		2013! since 2013	High school teacher for Latin and English, at the flat since 1997, previously head of the upper level department

Teacher

Surname	Year of birth	Years at the flat share	Apprenticeship, work at the flat share
Carl Bertheau	1878	1904! 1904/1906	Theologian and modern speaker, taught Protestant religion, Hebrew and Latin
Edmund Hoppe	1854	1896! 1896 to 1919	Physicist, doctorate in 1877, taught physics and mathematics
Edmund Kelter	1867	1892! 1892 to 1914	Classical philologist, doctorate in 1890, probationary candidate at the flat share from 1892, senior teacher 1895, taught Greek, Latin and history
Elga concern	1940	1970! 1970 to 1973	Evangelical theologian, taught religion
Erich Ziebarth	1868	1900! 1900 to 1919	Ancient historian, history teacher at the flat share, from 1919 professor of ancient history at the University of Hamburg
Franz Geppert	1874	1921! 1921 to 1934	Historian, doctorate in 1898, prematurely retired at the age of 60 as a “ non-Aryan ”
Hans Nirrnheim	1865	1890! 1890 to 1892	Historian, doctorate in 1890, later head of the Hamburg State Archives
Hermann Schuett	1888	1937! 1937 to 1941	Music pedagogue
Johannes Geffcken	1861	1940! 1889 to 1907	Classical philologist, doctorate in 1886, probationary year 1887, senior teacher in 1889, then high school professor at the shared apartment, then professorship in Rostock
Karl Dissel	1857	1882! 1882 to 1922	Classical philologist, doctorate in 1882, senior teacher at the flat share from 1882, there from 1887 until retirement as a high school professor
Karl Jacoby	1849	1886! 1886 to 1921	Classical philologist, doctorate in 1871, senior teacher at the flat share from 1886 until retirement in 1921, in 1918 deputy headmaster for a short time
Karl Wilhelm Augustin	1845	1887! 1887 to 1913	Philologist, doctorate in 1872, from 1882 in the flat share, senior teacher in 1887, high school professor in 1903, retired in 1913. Next to that, entomologist.
Martin Klamroth	1855	1884! 1884 to 1890	Arabist and science historian, doctorate in 1878, from 1884 in shared flat, senior teacher 1887
Richard Linde	1860	1893! 1893 to 1925	Classical philologist, local historian and author
Robert Odenwald	1838	1882! from 1882	Music pedagogue and choir director, from 1882 singing teacher at the Johanneum secondary school and at the shared flat, died in 1899
Theodor Körner	1880	1904! 1904 to 1930	Mathematics and physics teacher, from 1904 senior teacher at the shared apartment
Volker Ullrich	1943	1976! After 1976	Historian, doctorate in 1975, taught German and history at the WG
Ulrich Peters	1878	1920! 1920 to 1924	Historian, doctorate in 1909, founded a high school course at the shared apartment in 1920 with German and history as the core subjects
Wilhelm Roettiger	1858	1895! 1895 to 1903	Modern language philologist, doctorate in 1883, from 1895 teacher at the flat share, high school professor 1900
Wilhelm Sieveking	1895	1924! 1924	Classical philologist, doctorate in 1919, candidate for a few months in a shared apartment in 1924
Adolf Lindemann	1880	1922! 1922 to 1945

student

Surname	Year of birth	Graduated from a shared flat	life and work
Albert Suhr	1920	1940! High school diploma in 1940	Student and resistance fighter in the White Rose Hamburg , imprisoned from 1943 until liberation in 1945, doctor
Alexander Hunzinger	1910	1930! High school diploma in 1930	actor
Alfred Jepsen	1900	1918! Abitur in 1918	Ev.-luth. Theologian, from 1931 to 1946 professor of Old Testament science at the University of Rostock
Alfred Petersen	1885	1905! High School	Member of the board of the later metal company , persecuted as a "half-Jew", after the war leading role in employers' associations
Alwin Münchmeyer the Elder J.	1908	1926! Abitur in 1926	Entrepreneur, owner of Münchmeyer & Co. , holder of numerous honorary positions in the German economy
Annette Otterstedt	1951	1970! High School	Gambist and research assistant at the State Institute for Music Research in Berlin
Ariane Reimers	1973	1992! High school diploma in 1992	TV journalist at NDR
Arthur Zarden	1885	1904! Abitur in 1904	Finance expert, State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Finance in 1932; Suicide in the Gestapo prison in 1944
Ascan Lutteroth	1874	1900! Change of school	Lawyer, Director of the Hamburg Regional Court , retired genealogist
Axel von Ambesser	1910	1930! 1930 without high school diploma	Actor, writer and director
Bernhard Karlsberg	1899	1917! Graduation from high school in 1917	Lawyer, persecuted as Jewish, resistance fighter against National Socialism, emigrated in 1935
Britta Hilpert	1966	1985! High School	Journalist at ZDF
Bruno Schoeneberg	1906	1925! Abitur in 1925	mathematician
Burkhardt Müller-Sönksen	1959	1978! Graduation 1978	FDP politician, Member of the Bundestag from 2005 to 2013
Carl Albert Lange	1892	1911! Abitur in 1911	Writer and journalist
Carl Braband	1870	1889! High School	Lawyer and Liberal Politician
Carl Mönckeberg (lawyer)	1873	1892! High School	Lawyer, editor, writer, playwright, publicist and liberal local politician
Carl-Heinz Witt	1964!	1983! Abitur 1983	Legal scholar
Charlotte Engel-Reimers	1870	1901! As an external 1901	Economist and women's rights activist, one of the first women in Hamburg with a high school diploma
Curt Rothenberger	1896	1914! Abitur in 1914	Lawyer, NSDAP member, Hamburg Senator for Justice, State Secretary in the RJM , sentenced to seven years in prison in the legal process
Dieter Irmer	1935	1955! Abitur 1955	Classical philologist; research assistant at the Archive for Greek Lexicography at the University of Hamburg
Egon Emmel	1914	1934! Abitur in 1934	Foreign service diplomat
Ellery from Gorrissen	1886	1904! Abitur in 1904	Aviation pioneer, holder of the number 4 pilot's license in Germany
Emil Hecker	1897	1916! Graduation from high school in 1916	Writer, wrote works in Low German
Erich Nuernbergk	1900	1918! Abitur in 1918	Botanist, professor of general botany at the University of Hamburg from 1957 to 1965
Ernst Loewenberg	1896	1915! High School	Teacher, persecuted as Jewish, emigrated in 1938
Felix Ascher	1883	1902! Abitur in 1902	Architect, persecuted as Jewish, emigrated in 1938
Florentine Joop	1973	1992! High School	Daughter of Wolfgang Joop , children's book illustrator
Frank Wagner	1929	1948! Visit until 1948	Bookseller, publisher and author
Friedrich Beermann	1912	1932! Abitur at the flat share	General of the Bundeswehr, SPD politician and Member of the Bundestag
Friedrich Mehmel	1910	1929! Abitur in 1929	Classical philologist, professor at the University of Münster from 1946 until his death as a result of a war wound in 1951
George von Schröder	1867	1885! High School	Lawyer and administrator
Gerhard Lassar	1888	1906! High School	Lawyer, professor of administrative law at the University of Hamburg from 1925 to 1933, persecuted as a Jew, suicide in 1936
Gösta from Uexküll	1909	1929! Abitur in 1929	Writer and journalist
Gottfried Boettger	1949	19! Abitur in 1969	Boogie woogie and ragtime pianist, etc. a. Founding member of Udo Lindenberg's panic orchestra
Gustav Embden	1874	1893! Abitur in 1893	Biochemist, co-investigated the mechanism of glycolysis , publicly humiliated as a Jew and died in 1933
HA Rey	1898	1916! Abitur in 1916	Children's book author (“ Curious George ”) of Jewish origin, emigrated from France to the USA in 1940
Hagen Staack	1913	1933! Abitur in 1933	Ev.-luth. Pastor and theologian
Hans Eggers	1907	1925! Abitur in 1925	Linguist
Hans Ehrenberg	1883	1902! Abitur in 1902	Ev.-luth. Theologian, co-founder of the Confessing Church , concentration camp imprisonment, emigration
Hans-Günter Martens	1930	1949! Abitur in 1949	Actor and radio presenter
Hans-Heinrich Isenbart	1923	1943!	Journalist and sports reporter
Hans-Peter Drögemüller	1932	1951! Abitur 1951	Classical philologist and high school teacher
Hanns Theodor Flemming	1915	1935! Abitur in 1935	Professor of Art History at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Harald Fuchs	1900	1918! Abitur in 1918	Classical philologist. Professor at the University of Basel from 1932 to 1970
Harry Marcus	1880	1899! High School	Physician and university professor, persecuted as Jewish, emigrated in 1938
Heinrich Amsinck	1892	1910! High School	Architect, took part in the Olympics as a polo player in 1936
Heinrich Embden	1871	1889! Abitur in 1889	Neurologist, head of the Department of Nervous Diseases at the Israelite Hospital , persecuted as “quarter Jews”, emigrated in 1938
Henning Rübsam	1968	1987!	choreographer
Herbert Pardo	1887	1905! High School	Lawyer, for the SPD from 1919 to 1931 in the Hamburg citizenship, persecuted as a Jew, emigrated in 1933
Herbert Spiro	1924	1938! Emigrated in 1938	Persecuted as a Jew, after the war professor of political science at the Free University of Berlin , ambassador of the USA in Africa
Hermann Carl Vering	1879	1908!	Industrialist, politician of the DVP and Hamburg Senator.
Hermann Degkwitz	1921	1938! Abitur in 1938	Graphic designer, professor of graphics at the University of Design in Bremen
Hermann Popert	1871	1890!	Judge and national writer
Hermann Raschke	1887	1910! Abitur in 1910	Evangelical pastor and theologian
Hildegard von Marchtaler	1897	1915! As an external 1915	Teacher and genealogist
Hubert Plaut	1889	1909! High School	Mathematician, persecuted as Jewish, emigrated in 1936
Horst W. Janson	1913	1932! Abitur in 1932	Art historian and university professor, emigrated in 1935
James Franck	1882	1902! Abitur in 1902	Physicist, Nobel Prize winner 1926; persecuted as a Jew and emigrated in 1933; Collaboration on the Manhattan project ; Franck Report 1944
Joachim Kaiser	1928	1948! Abitur in 1948	Music and theater critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, from 1977 to 1996 professor of music history at the Stuttgart University of Music
Jürgen Ponto	1923	1942! Abitur in 1942	Board spokesman of Dresdner Bank AG ; murdered by the RAF in 1977
Karl Retzlaff	1890	1910! Abitur in 1910	Lawyer and police officer, NSDAP member, lieutenant general of the police and SS group leader
Karl Wilhelm Berkhan	1915	1931! High school diploma in 1931	SPD politician, Member of the Bundestag, MEP, State Secretary and Armed Forces Commissioner
Katharina Wolff	1983	2003! Abitur 2003	Entrepreneur, member of the Hamburg Parliament from 2011 to 2015 for the CDU
Klaus Bruhn	1928	1947! Abitur in 1947	Indologist , professor of Indian philology at the Free University of Berlin from 1969 to 1991
Klaus Nickau	1934	1954! Abitur 1954	Classical philologist, from 1970 to 2000 professor of classical philology at the University of Göttingen
Kurt Christians	1909	1925! Middle school leaving certificate	Printer and publisher
Kurt Fitzler	1885	1904! Abitur in 1904	Ancient historians, especially ancient economic history, killed in World War I in 1914
Kurt Siemers	1873	1892!	Merchant, shipowner and banker
Kurt Hartwig Siemers	1907	1926! Abitur in 1926	Banker, Ship Broker, and Philanthropist
Lotte Labowsky	1905	1924! Abitur in 1924	Philosopher and classical scholar, persecuted as Jewish, emigrated in 1934
Louis Sanne	1875	1891! Untersekunda 1891	Merchant, member of the Hamburg Parliament and publicist
Magnus Weidemann	1880	1900!	Pastor, painter, graphic artist, photographer and author
Manfred Jäger	1965	1984! High school diploma in 1984	Lawyer, member of the Hamburg Parliament in the CDU parliamentary group, Hamburg State Council
Martin Wassermann	1871	19!	jurist
Max Bondy	1892	1910! Abitur in 1910	Reform pedagogue, co-founder of the rural education homes
Max Eichholz	1881	1900! High school diploma in 1900	Lawyer, politician of the DDP , imprisonment in a concentration camp, murdered in Auschwitz in 1943
Max Emden	1874	1893! Abitur in 1893	Wholesaler and art collector, persecuted as a Jew and emigrated to Switzerland in 1933
Max August Zorn	1906	1923! Abitur in 1923	mathematician
Menso Heyl	1949	1969! Abitur in 1969	Journalist, editor-in-chief of the Hamburger Abendblatt from 2001 to 2008
Oscar Martienssen	1874	1892! Abitur in 1892	Physicist, professor of technical physics at Kiel University from 1921 to 1936
Oscar de la Camp	1871	1889! Abitur in 1889	Physician, internist and radiologist, professor and rector at the University of Freiburg
Otto Scarlet	1876	1894!	Lawyer, persecuted as a Jew, emigrated to Switzerland from 1939 to 1947
Patrick Esume	1974	High school diploma in 1994	American football trainer and TV presenter at Ran (sports show)
Paul Bonheim	1877	1895! Abitur in 1895	Medical director of the Freemason Hospital in Hamburg, persecuted as Jewish, imprisonment in a concentration camp, emigrated to the Netherlands, suicide there in 1942
Reinhold Meyer	1920	1940! High school diploma in 1940	Student and resistance fighter of the White Rose Hamburg , died in 1944 in the Fuhlsbüttel police prison
Ronald G. Asch	1953	1972! High School	Historian, professor of early modern history at the University of Osnabrück from 1996 to 2003
Thomas Brandis	1935	1953!	Violinist, from 1977 to 2002 professor at the HdK Berlin
Walter Edwin Griesbach	1888	1906! Abitur in 1906	Pharmacologist, metabolic pathologist and endocrinologist, persecuted as a Jew, emigrated to New Zealand in 1938
Walter Lienau	1906	1924! Abitur in 1924	Student official and chairman of the German student body
Walter Ruben	1899	1917! Graduation from high school in 1917	Indologist, from 1950 to 1965 professor and director of the Institute for India Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin
Walther Classen	1874	1893! Abitur in 1893	Protestant theologian
Walther Cropp	1890	1908! Abitur in 1908	Music teacher and composer
Werner Burkhardt	1928	1948! Abitur in 1948	Theater and music critic, especially for jazz
Werner Deuchler	1916	1936! Abitur in 1936	Lawyer, President of the German Bar Association from 1970 to 1974
Wilhelm Kieckbusch	1891	1916! Abitur in 1916	Bishop of the Ev.-Luth. Regional Church Eutin from 1930 to 1977
Wilt Aden Schröder	1942	1960! High School	Classical philologist, professor at the University of Hamburg from 1985 to 2006
Wolfgang Brinckmann	1871	1890! Abitur in 1890	Lawyer and member of the German Democratic Party (DDP) in the Hamburg Parliament

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Peter de Lorent : Wolfgang Meyer . In: Perpetrator profiles , Volume 2. State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-946246-13-8 .
^ School community mourns Antje Westenhoff , In Newsletter No. 8 from June 9, 2016, Former Wilhelm-Gymnasiasten eV
↑ Erich Nuernbergk in the Hamburg professor catalog (accessed on September 30, 2019)
↑ Flemming, Hanns Theodor 1915-2005 in the VIAF
↑ Article in the English language Wikipedia , VIAF No. 75029008
^ Bruhn, Klaus 1928- in the VIAF, ID 47214180. The specialization in the history of art in South Asia at the FU
↑ Professor Dr. Oscar Martienssen in CAU
^ Jensen, Björn, Edel Germany GmbH: Believe the Hype! American football: more than just a game . Edel, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 3-8419-0555-2 .
↑ Dr. Paul Bonheim * 1877 In: Stolpersteine in Hamburg
^ Viola Angelika Heinzelmann-Schwarz: Walter Edwin Griesbach (1888–1968) - life and work . Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-631-34446-0 .

[1] Hans-Peter de Lorent : Wolfgang Meyer . In: Perpetrator profiles , Volume 2. State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-946246-13-8 .

[2] School community mourns Antje Westenhoff , In Newsletter No. 8 from June 9, 2016, Former Wilhelm-Gymnasiasten eV

[3] Erich Nuernbergk in the Hamburg professor catalog (accessed on September 30, 2019)

[4] Flemming, Hanns Theodor 1915-2005 in the VIAF

[5] Article in the English language Wikipedia , VIAF No. 75029008

[6] Bruhn, Klaus 1928- in the VIAF, ID 47214180. The specialization in the history of art in South Asia at the FU

[7] Professor Dr. Oscar Martienssen in CAU

[8] Jensen, Björn, Edel Germany GmbH: Believe the Hype! American football: more than just a game . Edel, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 3-8419-0555-2 .

[9] Dr. Paul Bonheim * 1877 In: Stolpersteine in Hamburg

[10] Viola Angelika Heinzelmann-Schwarz: Walter Edwin Griesbach (1888–1968) - life and work . Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-631-34446-0 .