Ludwig Cauer Primary School

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Ludwig Cauer Primary School
Ludwig Cauer Elementary School, Cauerstraße 36
type of school primary school
School number 04G07
founding 1825
address

Cauerstrasse 36-38
10587 Berlin

place Berlin-Charlottenburg
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 30 '58 "  N , 13 ° 18' 57"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '58 "  N , 13 ° 18' 57"  E
carrier State of Berlin
student 399 (2019/2020)
Teachers 30 + 1 trainee lawyer + 15 teachers (2019/2020)
management Elisabeth Wedeu-Kolhoff
Website www.cauerschule.de

The Ludwig-Cauer-Grundschule is a primary school in Berlin-Charlottenburg (Cauerstraße 36, entrance Loschmidtstraße 8-10). In the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium was located there .

One focus in school theater (there are theater-working groups), dance, media and music, as well as social learning and sports, especially football, as well as a London working group in English -classes that goes once a year to London. Due to the 80% share of students whose language of origin is not German, there are also Turkish lessons. It currently (2019) has around 400 pupils working all day. A day care center (in the former director's building) is connected. There is a cafeteria , a student café, a computer room and a children's house for additional care.

History and Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium

The primary school is by Ludwig Cauer named, a student of Johann Gottlieb Fichte , who with his 1818 in the Münzstraße founded boarding (Cauersche Institute) according to the teachings of Fichte and the progressive education of Pestalozzi in 1825 moved there. Before that there was a restaurant founded in 1820. In 1829 there were 65 boarding school students. The boarding school was very respected back then. Shortly before his death in 1834, he sold the property and the building to the city, which opened a new school there that same year. It was only partially boarding school and from 1840 was called the Pedagogy of Charlottenburg near Berlin .

In 1858 it became a public higher education institution with around 90 students. In 1866 it became a Progymnasium (with the authorization to issue certificates for one year of voluntary military service ) and in 1869 a Gymnasium, which since 1874 has been fully supported by the state. In 1876 it was named Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium after the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm I Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach . This was closely connected to the grammar school, attended it every year and spoke personally to each of the high school graduates (who mostly switched directly to the university). The school was a humanistic grammar school and counted an evangelical and national education among its basic principles. It was the high school for the educated middle class in affluent Charlottenburg. In 1903 (construction began in 1901, but lessons had already been held in rented rooms) the humanistic Mommsen-Gymnasium was added, which was on Wormser Strasse (later also Waldschulallee).

school-building

The main building was initially on Berliner Straße (today Otto-Suhr-Allee ), but it became too small, which is why a new building was built in the rear part (Cauer-Straße) in 1899. The school is still there today. The three-storey building with a north wing in the historicism style was designed by Landbauinspektor Poetsch and government master builder Haubach. There were porticoes and groin vaults and an auditorium on the second floor. In 1922 a secondary school department was added and the gymnasium was built in 1927.

During the Second World War , the school was badly damaged by a bomb attack on November 22, 1943 (and the old school building on Berliner Strasse was completely destroyed) and was rebuilt from 1952 onwards. During the first post-war period and the reconstruction phase, the school was merged with the Mommsen-Gymnasium nearby. In 1945 the grammar school was merged with the Mommsen grammar school to form the Charlottenburg grammar school , which initially became the Erich Hoepner grammar school (1956) and is now the Heinz Berggruen grammar school . An elementary school (23rd elementary school) had been in the old town since 1925 and the 8th elementary school from 1951 (from 1954 Ludwig Cauer School). In 2003 she became 7th elementary school (Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf).

In the school there were wall paintings by Georg Barlösius and a glass window, first with Kaiser Wilhelm I, then with an imperial eagle.

The school building is a listed building.

Known students

For the well-known students of the Cauer Institute see Ludwig Cauer .

Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium:

Directors and teachers

Directors at the Kaiserin-Augusta-Gymnasium:

  • Conrad Rethwisch (1845–1921), from 1901 professor and director there, author of history tables for secondary schools (with E. Schmiele, Berlin 1883 and more often)
  • Otto Schröder (1851–1937), classical philologist, 1912–1921
  • Oskar Viedebantt (1883–1945), ancient historian, 1927 to 1930, teacher there for a long time before that

Well-known teacher at Augusta-Gymnasium

  • Heinrich Anz (1870–1944), classical philologist
  • Alfons Kurfess (1889–1965), classical philologist
  • Viktor Menzel (1865 – after 1921), historian
  • Heinrich Müller (1855–1915), mathematics teacher, author of a widely used textbook ( arithmetic book for the lower grades of higher education )
  • Eduard Lisco (1879–1941) was a seminarian at the grammar school
  • Ernst Wiechert (1887–1950), writer

Directors of the Ludwig Cauer School after the war:

  • From 1949 Karl Schorlies
  • From 1955 Helmut Reichel
  • From 1963 Hubert Eckervogt
  • From 1972 Otto Steinberg
  • From 1993 Manfred Kammerer
  • From 2008 Manfred Streich
  • From 2019 Elisabeth Wedeu-Kolhoff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ludwig-Cauer-Grundschule. In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family, September 19, 2008, accessed on December 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dirk Kaesler: Max Weber, Preuße, Denker, Muttersohn, CH Beck Verlag, 2014, p. 178
  3. ↑ Dirk Kaesler, Max Weber: Preuße, Denker, Muttersohn, CH Beck Verlag, 2014, p. 179
  4. ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List