Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium (Hamburg)

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Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium
Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium in Hamburg, 2019.jpg
Entrance area of ​​the grammar school
type of school Language Lycée
founding 1890
address

Willhöden 74
22587 Hamburg

place Hamburg
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 34 '18 "  N , 9 ° 48' 22"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '18 "  N , 9 ° 48' 22"  E
student 800
management Christian Gefert
Website www.marion-doenhoff-gymnasium.de

The Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium (MDG) is a high school in Hamburg - Blankenese . The school was founded in 1890 and was a girls' school until 1968 . Until 2009 the school was called Gymnasium Willhöden , then it was named after Marion Dönhoff .

history

In 1890, a private school for senior daughters was founded in Blankenese with the participation of the theologian Theodor Paulsen . The school was initially based in rented rooms, first on Norderstrasse, then on Hohen Weg. In 1904 the municipality of Blankenese took part in the sponsorship of the school, which in 1906 moved into the newly built school building of the secondary school at Kirschtenstrasse 3, today Blankenese grammar school . In 1911, the girls' school was completely publicly owned, and in 1914 it achieved the status of a lyceum . In 1916 the school was nationalized and in 1927 it became an upper lyceum . Until 1937, the school was known as the municipal Lyceum Altona-Blankenese, with six levels and expansion into an upper lyceum. In 1959 the school moved to today's school premises and was renamed Willhöden Gymnasium . In 1968 co-education was introduced. In 2009 the Willhöden high school was renamed "Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium".

building

Gym

The school was planned from 1953 and built until 1959, the designs in the pavilion style came from Paul Seitz . At the same time, Seitz developed the Type A pavilion as an assembly pavilion for school construction, with which more than 400 classrooms were built in just a few years. The single-storey buildings open up to the surrounding green areas or include small inner courtyards in the atrium style . In 1966 the gymnastics hall (now the assembly hall ) was built. In the 1990s, parts of the school architecture were demolished due to exposure to asbestos . In 2003 a three-field sports hall was built, which is operated in cooperation with SV Blankenese . In return, the sports club participated in the construction financing.

School profile

The grammar school offers the profiles “Medicine and Technology”, “Society and Language” (bilingual profile), “Earth Man”, “Art and Culture” and “Society on the Move” in the upper level. In 2009, independent workshops were introduced in music for grades 7 and 8. The concept was awarded the European School Music Prize in 2011.

Well-known former students and teachers

  • Waltraut Rubien (1927–2017), teacher (teacher at Willhöden grammar school)
  • Susanne Albrecht (* 1951), former RAF terrorist (student at Willhöden grammar school)
  • Birgit Grundmann (* 1959), lawyer and state secretary (Abitur at Willhöden grammar school)
  • Peter Wenzel (* 1963), politician and councilor (1983 Abitur at Willhöden grammar school)
  • Annette Sabersky (* 1964), journalist (1983 Abitur at Willhöden High School)
  • Luisa Neubauer (* 1996), climate activist (2014 Abitur at the MDG)

literature

  • Hedda Steiner (editor): 75 years of high school for girls in Blankenese . Blankenese 1966. (Festschrift)
  • Axel Behrmann: 100 years of Willhöden Blankenese High School: 1890–1990 . Hamburg 1990. (Festschrift)

Web links

Commons : Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium (Hamburg)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c History of the MDG on the Marion-Dönhoff-Gymnasium website.
  2. ↑ Uwe Schmidt: Hamburg Schools in the "Third Reich" , Volume 2: Appendix. Hamburg University Press, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937816-74-6 , p. 847.
  3. ^ Karl H. Hoffmann: Paul Seitz . In: Architecture archive of the Hamburg Chamber of Architects.
  4. ↑ Genevieve Wood, Karsten Broockmann: New sports halls in four districts . In: Hamburger Abendblatt from January 8, 2003.
  5. ^ Profiles on the MDG on the school website
  6. ^ Winner ESP 2011 on the website of the European School Music Prize.
  7. ↑ Tobias Wunschik: Baader-Meinhofs children: The second generation of the RAF . Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1997, ISBN 978-3-531-13088-0 , p. 211.