Matthias Claudius High School (Hamburg)

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Matthias Claudius High School
The Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium
type of school high school
founding 1872
address

Witthöfftstrasse 8

place Hamburg
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 34 '22 "  N , 10 ° 4' 23"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '22 "  N , 10 ° 4' 23"  E
student about 1000
Teachers around 80
management Rotraud Nesemeyer
Website www.matthias-claudius-gymnasium.de

The Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium ( MCG for short ) is a high school in Hamburg-Wandsbek with the address Witthöfftstraße 8. It is named after the poet Matthias Claudius (1740-1815). In 2017, the MCG had around 1000 students and around 80 teachers. It is expanded to four to five classes and is one of the seven old-language high schools in Hamburg, but today also focuses on a. in the natural sciences and modern foreign languages ​​(English, also bilingual, French, Spanish).

History until 1945

Bronze relief by Matthias Claudius

The Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium is located on the place where the Wandsbeker market was held in the second half of the 19th century, east of the Christ Church . At that time Witthöfftstrasse was still called Marktstrasse. On October 15, 1872, the "Higher Citizens School with Gymnasium Classes in Wandsbek" was founded, the first school building was in the curve road. On October 17, 1888, the school building, now known as the "old building", was inaugurated on Witthöftstrasse and on August 15, 1890, the 150th birthday of the poet Matthias Claudius, the school was given its current name. At the same time, the Claudius portrait was also given its bronze relief affixed to the facade by Aloys Denoth .

In the 1930s the school building was extended to Schloßstraße and received a. a. central heating and student toilets. In July 1943 the building was almost completely destroyed in a bomb attack. In autumn 1945, classes began again in five rooms in the extension that had been preserved.

History after 1945

Memorial plaque

In 1950 the old building was restored. The main entrance to the school was now oriented towards Witthöfftstrasse. In the auditorium (which no longer exists) the work of art “Flying Swans” by the Hamburg artist Kurt Bauer adorned the wall; today it is on the east facade of the extension. In 1954, the old language branch was opened with a new fifth grade. During the years 1959 to 1964 the school was expanded with additional buildings and the main entrance to the new break hall was relocated.

Until 1974, the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium was a purely boys' high school, after which a close cooperation between the upper level and the neighboring Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium began . From 2000 to 2002, the pre-school classes at the Charlotte-Paulsen-Gymnasium were relocated to the rooms at the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium. In 2004 the MCG became an open all-day school , starting with the seventh grade. The construction of the new cafeteria was completed in 2007.

With 183 and 175 registrations for the school years 2011/12 and 2012/13, the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium took first place twice in a row at the Hamburg high schools.

Picture gallery

  • The old building"

  • Main entrance

  • Kurt Bauer's swans

  • New buildings from the 1960s

  • The southern cultivation

The student rowing club

Touring rowing on the Bay of Lübeck in the summer of 1961

The MCG's student rowing club ( SRV ) has existed since 1925. After an interruption in the war and post-war period, rowing was brought back to life in 1955 by Günter Schulz-Kriebel. He was the club's protector until 1982. He managed to train and motivate the SRV in such a way that many victories were achieved at the Hamburg championships and the German school championships.

Former MCG rowers have also done well internationally. At the 1996 World Cup in Glasgow, Germany eighth won with former MCG rower Teja Töpfer and in 2006 Annika Müller also won a world championship. Former MCG students and members of the SRV at the MCG founded the rowing club Wandsbek eV (RVW) in 1972 . The MCG student rowing club forms the youth department of the RVW. Since 1977 the MCG school rowing club and the rowing club Wandsbek eV have had their own boathouse on the upper reaches of the Alster in Hamburg-Alsterdorf .

Headmaster of the MCG

  1. Hermann Klapp (1872-1894)
  2. Rudolf Franz (1894–1903)
  3. Gustav Sorof (1903-1908)
  4. Emil Petersen (1909–1928)
  5. Hans Preibisch (1928–1932)
  6. Peter Zylmann (1932–1933)
  7. Otto Kruschka (1934–1945), 1939–1945 provisional Karl Jäger
  8. Peter Zylmann (1945–1949)
  9. Johann Helbig (1949–1955)
  10. Werner Rockel (1955–1973)
  11. Jens Plass (1973–1975)
  12. Gunther Otto (1975–1986)
  13. Reinhard Sattelberg (1987–1999)
  14. Gerd Neumann (1999-2004)
  15. Rotraud Nesemeyer (since 2004)

Former MCG students

literature

  • MCG 125 years, MCG anniversary publication, 1997
  • Wandsbek in words and pictures, Mühlenbek-Verlag, 2000

Web links

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