Lothar Meyer High School

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Lothar Meyer High School
Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium Varel, main building.jpg
type of school high school
founding Founded in 1841 as a citizen school, from 1923 upper secondary school with Abitur law, since 1975 with the current name
address

Moltkestrasse 11
26136 Varel

place Varel
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 23 '54 "  N , 8 ° 8' 30"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 23 '54 "  N , 8 ° 8' 30"  E
student about 1000
Teachers about 90
management Christian Mueller
Website www.lmg-varel.de/

The Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium ( LMG ) in the Lower Saxony city ​​of Varel is the only general high school in the southern part of the Friesland district . The open all-day school was named in 1975 after the chemist Lothar Meyer , who was born in Varel . In addition to the city of Varel, the school's catchment area mainly includes the Frisian communities of Bockhorn and Zetel .

history

Development of the school into a high school

There were probably Latin courses in Varel as early as the middle of the 17th century , but it was not until 1734 that a school building was built behind the castle church , which over the next 100 years, in addition to a secondary and compulsory school, an elementary school and a girls' school, was also a cantor school with Latin lessons Private students included; There was an additional writing and arithmetic class in this school from 1829. Since 1836 there were plans to convert the school into a community school. Unlike the public schools in the surrounding towns, the 1841 founding of the Vareler done is public school in the building of the present city library then due to private commitments. In this new school boys and girls were taught from the beginning. After unsuccessful applications in 1861 and 1869, it was only approved at the third attempt in 1872 to hand over the school to the city, which had been city first class since 1858.

In 1876 there was a separation into a secondary school for girls on the one hand and a secondary school for boys on the other, each at different locations. On the initiative of the headmaster, the latter was converted into a secondary school of the first order with optional Latin lessons in 1877 and thus largely equated with the grammar schools in the area. In the following years, the citizens of Varel wanted to upgrade the school to an upper secondary school. That u. a. the dissenting vote of the then mayor of Thünen opposed this request, led to complaints from the majority of the city council to the interior ministry and a public petition to limit the mayor's term of office.

Also for cost reasons, the secondary school of the first order and the secondary secondary school were combined to form a coeducational secondary school in 1902, before it was again the Varel citizens in 1912/13 who petitioned for the school to be converted into an upper secondary school. This conversion did not take place until after the First World War in 1923. The new municipal upper secondary school now also received the right to award the Abitur, which 6 students took for the first time in 1926.

From 1933, the rule of National Socialism was also evident at the Städtische Oberrealschule Varel: In 1936, Director Schenck promised to run the school in the National Socialist spirit and repeated this statement in his celebratory speech to celebrate the school's 100th anniversary in 1941. Because of enforced racial segregation Empire could no Jewish students attend school and during 1937 as in the whole German World War II as students everywhere were u. a. Committed as anti-aircraft helper and teachers drafted into the Volkssturm, a total of 185 pupils and teachers were killed. At the end of the war, the school buildings were used as a hospital and refugee accommodation, before lessons, which were resumed in October, were held in the old buildings again in December 1945.

Eleven years after the end of the war, in 1956, the school was renamed the Varel grammar school in the course of the harmonization of terms in Lower Saxony, then renamed the Lothar Meyer grammar school in 1975 following the application of a student in the general conference in honor of the Varel-born chemist . 100 years after his death, a memorial with the heads of the three chemists Lothar Meyer, Dmitri Mendeleev and Stanislao Cannizzaro was inaugurated in front of the school in 1995, and in 2003 the school also received its own logo. In 2004, a branch of the grammar school was set up in the neighboring municipality of Zetel , which has expired since 2016 after the establishment of a new IGS in Zetel. In 2016, the school also celebrated the 175th anniversary of the secondary school system in Varel.

Today the Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium is a school with different focus areas (music branch, bilingual class, MINT class, sports class) and with 169 new registrations at the beginning of the 2017/18 school year it is the most popular school in the district.

building

Today's school grounds were created - in keeping with the eventful history of the school - over the decades through conversions, additions, new constructions and the conversion of adjacent buildings. In 1908, the original buildings, including the Art Nouveau- style auditorium, were expanded according to plans by the Bremen architect Hugo Wagner , so that the main features of today's old building and today's administration wing were created. The old building was expanded again in 1950 and the auditorium was fundamentally renovated over the decades so that the original style is no longer recognizable.

In 1962, due to the existing natural science branch of the school, a separate natural science wing was built, followed in 1964 by a separate gym, which the Varel residents called the "dream hall". In 1979, today's art and music building and the technical center were taken over by the special school at the time. The technical center was built in 1895 as a building for the grand ducal building trade and machine school in the neo-renaissance style and was last renovated in 2018.

In 1986 the class wing, which had been installed as a pavilion 15 years earlier, was inaugurated as an extension to the old building. In addition, a cafeteria was opened in 2002 and a break hall in 2006.

Number of students

1841 1859 1906 1918 1928 1932 1939 1945 1953 1962 1981 2003 2004 2006 2009 2014
140 196 235 520 431 344 215 358 706 438 851 638 1080 1200 1400 1000

today

classes

As early as the 1960s and 1970s, the upper level of the grammar school was divided into a mathematical-scientific, an ancient language and a modern language branch, which had to be abolished in the course of the structural reform of the upper level. In 1985/86 the school was selected as a test school to try out new technologies. In 1996, as part of the "Schools on the Net" project, it was one of 250 schools across Germany that received an ISDN connection very early on.

The Lothar Meyer Gymnasium has been organized as an open all-day school since 2005 . The pupils can attend the grammar school from the 5th grade and after the 12th grade, in the course of the reforms in the state of Lower Saxony, can soon take the Abitur after the 13th grade . Since there has been a wind class in every year since 2003, it has recently been possible to attend the musical branch from year 5 onwards, and in years 9/10 a bilingual class, a MINT class or a sports class can also be attended.

The languages ​​German, English, French, Latin and Spanish, the artistic subjects art, music and performing games, the social sciences geography, history, politics, religion and values ​​and norms, the MINT subjects mathematics, computer science, biology, chemistry and Physics and sports are taught.

Partner schools

The Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium offered an exchange with a school in London - Hampstead as early as 1960 . Since then there have been various exchange programs, including a. also with schools in Poland and Hungary , of which the following currently exist:

School newspaper

As early as 1959 there was a newspaper at the Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium called “Der Ring”, which was initially brought into being by teachers and then produced by students from 1960 onwards. More than three decades later, the school newspaper Kaktus was founded in 1992 , which has since been one of the most award-winning school newspapers in Lower Saxony. So she was u. a. Awarded the best school newspaper in Lower Saxony in 1997 and 2003, and in the recent past has repeatedly achieved top 3 placements at the Lower Saxony Youth Press Prize. One of the highlights in the almost 30-year history of the newspaper, which has now been published almost 50 times, was the 2nd prize in the Federal President's school newspaper competition in 2004 . It is also noteworthy that there was a comprehensive online edition of the cactus relatively early on, which was awarded 2nd prize in the nationwide Spiegel competition in 2001.

Theater and music

  • The school can look back on a long theater tradition. In 1984 the theater group was revived and since then has been staging its own productions every year, which have also attracted national attention. In 2005, for example, the students in the working group received a prize from the Theodor Heuss Foundation's “Democratic Action” competition for their staging of Aristophanes ' comedy “ Lysistrata ”, and in 2009 they were staged by Jostein Gaarder's novel “ The Orange Girl ” by of the German-Norwegian Society to Oslo , where they performed the piece in the presence of the author.
  • There have also always been various music groups at the Lothar Meyer High School: as early as 1960 there was a string orchestra and various choirs. In addition to the musical branch (see above), there are currently two large choirs, an orchestra, a chamber music ensemble, a rock group, a percussion group and a big band, so that extensive concert programs are regularly presented. The big band "Lothar Meyer Confusion", which has existed since 1989 and gives concerts in the Alten Kurhaus Dangast , has the longest tradition .

Special events

In April and May 2002 the Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium got into the media all over Germany because the Abitur had to be taken under police protection after a threatening letter, which had been taken particularly seriously in the light of the recent rampage in Erfurt .

Well-known former students

  • Lothar Meyer (1830–1895, as a chemist co-founder of the periodic table of the elements and namesake of the grammar school, 1841 to 1847 pupil of the former community school)
  • Oskar Emil Meyer (1834–1909, physicist and university professor, pupil of the former community school)
  • Ferdinand Hardekopf (1876–1954, journalist and expressionist writer, 1883–1887 pupil of the then secondary school)
  • Hans Walter Berg (1916–2003, as a journalist, first Asia correspondent for German television, until 1933 pupil of the then high school)
  • Hildegard Behrens (1937–2009, as a soprano especially famous for her interpretations of the Wagner roles Sieglinde and Brünnhilde , 1957 Abitur at the Varel High School)
  • Hans-Joachim Janßen (* 1960, politician ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) and member of the Lower Saxony state parliament , 1980 Abitur at Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium)
  • Gerd-Christian Wagner (* 1964, politician ( SPD ) and Mayor of Varel since 2006, 1984 Abitur at Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium)
  • Niels Klein (* 1978, awarded as a jazz saxophonist, among others, with the ECHO Jazz 2015 , 1997 Abitur at the Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium)
  • Johannes Bitter (* 1982, as handball goalkeeper among others world champion 2007 , 2001 Abitur at Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Homepage of the Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium: Description of the Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium Varel , www.lmg-varel.de, accessed on March 27, 2018
  2. ↑ Our school management (LMG website). Retrieved September 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Homepage of the Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium: Schulchronik , www.lmg-varel.de, accessed on March 27, 2018
  4. ↑ Homepage of the city of Varel: Lothar-Meyer Gymnasium ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , www.varel.de, accessed on March 27, 2018 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.varel.de
  5. ^ Paul Henk: General and community-political history of the city of Varel . Varel 1920 (hereinafter: P. Henk: Geschichte Varel ), p. 82ff. In: Rainer Urban: A school in context - materials for the chronicle of the Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium in Varel . Varel 2010 (hereinafter: R. Urban: Chronik LMG ), p. 8. Rainer Urban, a former teacher of the school, published this work in 2010, a comprehensively researched chronicle of the school. Many of the original sources for this article are referenced through this Chronicle, p. 12
  6. ↑ Ernst Wagner: Guide through Varel and the surrounding area . Varel 1914 (?), P. 35f. (hereinafter: E. Wagner: Stadtführer ) and P. Henk: Geschichte Varel , p. 96f. and p. 117f. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 12ff.
  7. ^ Ado Jürgens: Economic and administrative history of the city of Varel . Oldenburg 1908 (hereinafter: A. Jürgens: Geschichte Varel ), p. 118ff. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 19ff.
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  11. ^ School year report of the Lothar-Meyer-Gymnasium (hereinafter: SJB LMG ) 1923/24, p. 12. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 58
  12. ↑ SJB LMG 1925/26, p. 20. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 61
  13. ↑ SJB LMG 1936/37 , p. 19. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 73
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  16. ↑ SJB LMG 1945/46, p. 3ff. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 91ff.
  17. ^ Robert Ulshöfer: The history of the high school since 1945 . Heidelberg 1967, p. 29. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 108
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  24. ↑ Numbers compiled from the school chronicle by Rainer Urban (see above), who wrote down i. d. Usually refers to the school's annual report
  25. ↑ SJB LMG 1976/77, p. 1. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 142
  26. ↑ SJB LMG 1985/86, p. 1. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 156
  27. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung (hereinafter: NWZ ), September 18, 1996. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 174
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  31. ↑ SJB LMG 1984/85, p 3. In: R. Urban: Chronicle LMG , S. 155f.
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  41. ^ NWZ , May 17, 1984. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 154
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  47. ↑ Günter Schwanicke: From the Life of chemist Julius Lothar Meyer . Vareler Heimathefte 6, Varel 1995, p. 9f. In: R. Urban: Chronik LMG , p. 23
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