Max Planck High School (Dortmund)

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Max Planck Gymnasium Dortmund
Max-Planck-Gymnasium Dortmund-2.JPG
type of school high school
School number 169304
founding 1858
address

Ardeystr. 70-72

place Dortmund
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 29 '24 "  N , 7 ° 27' 37"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 29 '24 "  N , 7 ° 27' 37"  E
carrier City of Dortmund - School Administration Office
student 1131
Teachers 94
management Ute Tometten
Website www.mpg-dortmund.de

The Max-Planck-Gymnasium ( MPG ) is a municipal high school in Dortmund . It is the second oldest grammar school in the city after the Dortmund City High School, and with 1131 students and 94 teachers (as of 8/2012) one of the largest in the entire city area.

The school is particularly known for its two Portuguese and French language branches. It is the only grammar school in Germany with Portuguese as an Abitur subject. Since 1991 it has also been possible to acquire the German-French Abitur AbiBac here . The MPG is one of the 166 (as of 2015) certified European schools in North Rhine-Westphalia .

His commitment to rowing , which he began in 1899, should also be mentioned.

The MPG has joined the network School without Racism - School with Courage ,

In 2018 the MPG was honored as a 'MINT-friendly school'.

history

1858 to 1943

At Easter 1858 the six-stage school was founded under the name "Realgymnasium". After the expansion to a nine-class full institution, it was recognized as a "Realschule 1st order" on January 18, 1862. After 1890 the name was changed to "Bismarck Realgymnasium" as a tribute to the Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , the main founder of the German Empire in 1871.

The middle-class students of the Realgymnasium began to play football regularly in the school yard in 1890. They were the pioneers of football in the city. In addition, with the rowing team founded in 1899, the cooperation with the rowing club Hansa from 1898 , the oldest still existing rowing team in Dortmund, began.

Under the Nazi regime , the school was renamed “Bismarck Oberschule” in 1937, as the city high school, which had meanwhile been renamed “Adolf Hitler Gymnasium”, was to carry the name of the Gymnasium alone.

Since 1943

During the Second World War , the school building was largely destroyed in 1943 and finally completely destroyed in 1944. In June 1943 the school community had already been relocated to Baden-Baden , where schoolchildren were assigned to construction work to reactivate the West Wall in 1944 . In December 1944 the Bismarck-Oberschule was moved from the advancing front to Enzklösterle and in the spring of 1945 to the Allgäu . In the turmoil after the capitulation in May 1945, many of the students and teachers came together again in Dortmund and began improvised school operations. After Easter 1946, classes were officially resumed in the rooms of the Helmholtz grammar school in Dortmund , initially under the name Humboldt Oberschule.

The destroyed school building in downtown Luisenstrasse was no longer rebuilt, and the Humboldt Oberschule remained a guest at the Helmholtz Gymnasium. On July 19, 1949, the name was changed to Max-Planck-Gymnasium. The name is reminiscent of the physicist Max Planck, who was born in the year the school was founded (1858) . In July 1958, the City Council of Dortmund decided to build a new MPG from 1960. Since 1961, the MPG has been located on Ardeystrasse on the southern outskirts of the city center.

In 1980 the nationwide unique Portuguese project began at the school, after a French language branch had already been established at the school.

The Portuguese project

Board about his language branches at the main entrance of the MPG

Hans-Georg Becker came from the German School in Lisbon , founded in 1848 , when he became director of the MPG in 1979. In 1980 he introduced the teaching of Portuguese here in a pilot project . Initially, the project started with Portuguese as the first foreign language, the target group initially being children of Portuguese immigrants. Maria do Carmo Kuparinen, who was married to a Finn, became the first teacher. Portuguese was later offered as a third foreign language for all students, and in 1985 another teacher, Margarida de Lima Werner, was added. The school pioneered this project. So far (2015) around 300 students have chosen Portuguese as their Abitur subject at the MPG. Today, the MPG is the only school in Germany that offers Portuguese up to and including the Abitur.

In addition to the teaching offer, the project also includes an exchange project with a partner school in Portugal, school trips to Portugal and occasional cultural events.

In 2011, the MPG was awarded the Portuguese Order of Merit in the rank of commander by the Republic of Portugal for its commitment .

School partnerships

Sports

rowing

The cooperation with the rowing team of the MPG, founded in 1899 and one of the largest of its kind in North Rhine-Westphalia, is still important for the search for talent at the Federal Rowing Center in Dortmund . The school won the German student championship in the C-Gig double quad in 1971 and the German student championship in the C-gig double quad and in the figure eight in 1972. In 2013, she won the first Dortmund city championship on Lake Phoenix .

Handball

Indoor handball has long been one of the main sports at the MPG. The national handball player Heiner Möller Sport taught here until 2012 , and there were good contacts with the former Bundesliga club OSC Dortmund and TSC Eintracht Dortmund , in whose rooms the alumni meetings still take place on Boxing Day. The school was one of the most successful field handball teams in the city, until the sport's rapidly declining popularity since the 1960s. In the team of TuS Wellinghofen , which won the German field handball championship in 1964 , there were some former MPG students.

additional

In golf and tennis won MPG teams many regional and several nationwide titles. Athletics, badminton, basketball, chess and swimming titles should also be mentioned. The MPG student Giannina B. was the first German to win the Junior Master Woman Overall Champion at the US Masters 2011, the most important title in water skiing alongside the World Cup.

Skiing in the form of school trips has also had a tradition at the MPG since the first trips to the Sauerland were organized in the 1960s . After the South Tyrolean towns of La Villa, St. Kassian and Pedraces in the Italian Dolomites had been their destination since 1973 , the students have been traveling to Piesendorf in Austria since 1988 .

In 1890 it was pupils from what was then the secondary school who established football in Dortmund.

Personalities

Some well-known personalities were among the former MPG students. The following is a selection sorted chronologically:

The actor Wolfram Grandezka attended school for some time after his family left the GDR in the mid-1980s, before he became known as an actor and as the husband of model Nadja Auermann .

The national handball player and successful photographer Heiner Möller taught here until 2012.

The well-known manager and author Daniel Goeudevert was a 14-year-old exchange student at the MPG. In 1997 he returned to the school for a reading, where he read from his first book Wie ein Vogel im Aquarium . In the book, the grammar school plays a role on page 46 of the first edition.

  • Alexander Menne (right) with Chancellor Kiesinger (1967)

  • Bishop Paul Nordhues

  • Jost Vacano with his wife (2011)

  • Manfred Zöllmer

  • Christoph Butterwegge

  • Wolfram Grandezka

literature

  • Becker, Hans-Georg: On the way to a German-Portuguese encounter school . Klemmerberg-Verlag, Bammental 1982 ISBN 978-3-922265-04-7
  • Festschrift 125 Years of the Max Planck Gymnasium Dortmund - formerly Bismarck Realgymnasium , self-published in 1983
  • 100 years of rowing from 1899 at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium Dortmund , self-published in 1999

Web links

Commons : Max-Planck-Gymnasium  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of certified European schools in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2015 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. , Ministry website, accessed March 20, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.europaschulen.nrw.de
  2. ↑ website MPGs to his participation in the Network School without Racism - School with Courage ( Memento of the original dated 2 April 2015, Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 20, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mpg-dortmund.de
  3. ↑ We are a “MINT-friendly school” | Max Planck Gymnasium Dortmund. Accessed December 9, 2018 (German).
  4. ↑ a b c Article from February 19, 2015 on the regional news portal Der Westen , accessed on March 14, 2015
  5. ↑ The history of the rowing team from 1899 at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium on the rowing team's website, accessed on March 14, 2015
  6. ^ Article in the alumni issue of the newsletter no. 42 / December 1999, p. 29f.
  7. ↑ Article on school history in the alumni issue, in the news sheet No. 43 / December 2000, p. 27.
  8. ^ History of the Max Planck Gymnasium Dortmund on the website of its alumni association, accessed on March 14, 2015
  9. ↑ Article in the alumni issue of the Newsletter No. 50 / December 2007, p. 34.
  10. ↑ Unique in Germany: Portuguese lessons at Dortmund high school , article from May 8, 2007 in PT magazine , accessed on March 14, 2015
  11. ↑ Website for Portuguese lessons at the MPG ( Memento of the original from April 1, 2015 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. on the school website, accessed March 14, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mpg-dortmund.de
  12. ↑ Article and photo of the award ceremony on the school website ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 14, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mpg-dortmund.de
  13. ↑ Collection of press articles on winning the city championship ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. , school website, accessed March 14, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mpg-dortmund.de
  14. ↑ Overview page on sporting successes of the MPG ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 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. on the school website, accessed March 14, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mpg-dortmund.de
  15. ↑ Current news of the MPG with sporting successes ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the school website, accessed March 14, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mpg-dortmund.de
  16. ↑ Website about skiing at the MPG ( memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the school website, accessed March 14, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mpg-dortmund.de
  17. ↑ Article in the alumni issue of the Nachrichtenblatt No. 40 / December 1997, p. 32 (with photo and newspaper clipping from the Ruhr Nachrichten )