Max Planck High School (Göttingen)

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Max Planck Gymnasium Göttingen
Max-Planck-Gymnasium Göttingen main building1.JPG
Main building (2016)
type of school high school
founding 1586
address

Theaterplatz 10

place Goettingen
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 32 '12 "  N , 9 ° 56' 28"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 32 '12 "  N , 9 ° 56' 28"  E
carrier City of Göttingen
student 900
Teachers 90
management Wolfgang Schimpf
Website www.mpgg.de
Transition from old to new building (2016)
Building at the Albanikirchhof (2016)

The Max Planck Gymnasium is the oldest gymnasium in the city of Göttingen . For students in grades 5 to 10, it is run as an open all-day high school from Monday to Friday . It is the only one of the five Göttingen grammar schools to offer Latin classes from grade 5, ancient Greek and Russian classes. Almost 900 students are taught at it, making it the smallest grammar school in Göttingen.

history

The school looks back on 430 years of history in 2016. The pedagogy in the Pauline monastery was founded in 1586. The current main building of the school on Theaterplatz was built in 1881 by the Berlin architects Paul Emanuel Spieker and Max Spitta and the school moved in on February 1, 1884. It has been called Max Planck , who worked for a while in Göttingen, since the scientist's death on October 4, 1947 . Previously it had the titles "Royal High School" and "State High School". Since 2005, the Max-Planck-Gymnasium (MPG) has also consisted of the former orientation level (OS) Luther School and since then has again accommodated grades 5 to 12 (from 2020: 13).

building

With the main building, the new building, the gymnasium and the Luther School (also called Mini-Max ) at the Albanikirchhof , the school comprises four buildings. Years 8-10 and the upper grades are housed in the building on Theaterplatz, which includes the main building from the 19th century and the extension from the 20th century. Years 5–7 have their classrooms in the former Luther School building. Both buildings are equipped with specialist rooms for the natural sciences, music, Latin, art, geography and computer science.

This school building development resulted from the expansion of the secondary schools to include the former orientation level. Before that, the Max-Planck-Gymnasium owned an upper-level villa, in which grades 11–13 were last accommodated in the 2005/06 school year.

Foreign language teaching

In the 5th grade, students continue the English from primary school.

In the 6th grade, the students choose French, Latin or Spanish as their second foreign language, unless they chose Latin in grade 5, which they are continuing.

As part of the compulsory elective lessons, French, Greek , Latin or Spanish can be chosen as the third foreign language in class 7 . The third foreign language is not a compulsory foreign language. There are other offers from the fields of media technology, natural sciences and social sciences.

Classes in ancient languages ​​have always been a special focus and unique selling point of the Max Planck Gymnasium. He was represented in particular by Dieter Motzkus and the former director Rainer Nickel and is embodied or lived today by Martin Biastoch , who describes the high school as a “stronghold of humanistic education”. Not only is Greek offered as part of compulsory elective lessons, but the school is the only one in southern Lower Saxony that offers the option of choosing Latin in the ancient language profile from the fifth grade onwards. There are regular upper-level courses in both subjects. Study trips to Hellas take place at regular intervals (usually two years) in order to gain authentic insights into the ancient world . Biastoch also maintains contacts to Greece, such as Mikis Theodorakis and Asteris Koutoulas , which result in cultural events in the school that have a permanent place in the school community.

From grade 10 onwards, Russian and Latin can be chosen.

Working groups and projects

In the afternoon, you can choose between 35 working groups, including ancient fantasy role-playing games, jazz band, chess, homepage, electrical engineering, parkour, robotics, soccer (also independent for girls) and speedball.

An astrophysical project in cooperation with the University of Göttingen won the € 50,000 main prize from “School meets Science”. Jens This , the supervisor of this project, specialist teacher for physics and chemistry and specialist chairman for physics at the Max-Planck-Gymnasium, was awarded the Lower SaxonyMetall 2011 prize for this project, among other things, but also for his other special commitment. He also oversaw other school projects aimed at introducing students to science and technology, such as working groups, and went to great lengths to get students to participate in competitions. According to the opinion of the jury, his specialist knowledge and his self-image as a teacher with the resulting teaching structure is of particular quality.

In addition, students from the Max Planck Gymnasium regularly and successfully take part in competitions such as the Mathematics Olympiad , Jugend musiziert , and various scientific competitions.

Talented students are motivated to take part in sporting events such as the Great Barrier Run or youth trained for the Olympics .

List of pedagogical archives and directors

1586-1591 Henricus Petreus
1591-1599 Christopherus Seliger
1599-1603 Georg Buscher
1603-1605 Alexander Lycaula
1605-1611 Hippolytus Hubmeier
1612-1626 Georg Andreas Fabricius
1626-1633 Fridericus Wacker (Vice Rector)
1633-1645 Georg Andreas Fabricius
1645-1650 Julius Hartwig Reich
1650-1652 Hermann Gokenhold
1654-1676 Heinrich Tollen
1676-1714 Justus von Dransfeld
1717-1734 Christoph August Heumann
1754-1773 Rudolf Wedekind
1773-1803 Jeremias Nicolaus Eyring
1803-1830 Johann Friedrich Adolph Kirsten
1831-1836 Friedrich August Grotefend
1837-1842 Karl Ferdinand Ranke
1842-1863 August Geffers
1863-1880 Julius Schöning
1880-1889 Hermann Hampke
1889-1912 Anton quarter
1912 Heinrich Bünsow (acting)
1913-1916 Otto Miller
1916-1924 Felix Schreiber
1924-1934 Eduard Lisco
April 7 to June 5, 1934 Otto alarm clock
June 6 to December 31, 1934 Heinze
January 1 to March 1, 1935 Otto alarm clock
1935-1945 Walther John
1945-1947 Kurt Hubert
1947-1954 Ernst Lamla
1954-1969 Hermann Körner
1970-1977 Achim Block
1977-1988 Lothar Scheithauer (interim)
1978-1983 Bodo Schumann
1983-1985 Lothar Scheithauer (interim)
1985-2005 Rainer Nickel
since 2005 Wolfgang Schimpf

Well-known teachers and alumni

Teacher

student

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Info folder for parents , December 2015, accessed on May 5, 2016
  2. ↑ Our school | Max Planck Gymnasium Göttingen. In: www.mpgg.de. Retrieved June 19, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Martin Biastoch: Latin and Greek at the MPG in 2011. In: Schulhomepage. Retrieved October 22, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Hellas 2012 - Athens and the Cyclades Paros, Naxos, Santorini. Martin Biastoch, September 12, 2012, accessed October 22, 2018 .
  5. ↑ THEODORAKIS evening in the MPG: RECYCLING MEDEA - 90 years of Mikis Theodorakis. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Working groups | Max Planck Gymnasium Göttingen. In: www.mpgg.de. Retrieved June 20, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Jens Dies - Prize Winner 2011. NiedersachsenMetall Foundation, accessed on October 18, 2018 .