Max Planck School (Kiel)
| Max Planck School | |
|---|---|
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1907 |
| address |
Winterbeker Weg 1 |
| place | Kiel |
| country | Schleswig-Holstein |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 18 '42 " N , 10 ° 7' 8" E |
| carrier | State capital Kiel |
| student | about 1000 |
| Teachers | about 85 |
| management | Jens-Peter Meissner |
| Website | www.max-planck-schule-kiel.de |
The Max Planck School, a grammar school in the state capital of Kiel , was founded in 1907.
history
prehistory
In 1861 a school reform took place, as part of which a new type of school was founded: the higher citizens' school for boys and girls. The higher boys 'school moved to the Buchwaldtschen Hof , the girls' school was in the Jahnschen Hof on the Kleiner Kiel, today between Jensendamm and Martensdamm. In 1870 the boys' school was recognized as a secondary school and in 1873 as a secondary school. The school moved into a new school building in Knooper Weg in 1877. In 1882 the first Abitur exams were taken and the Oberrealschule school. In 1897 4 real classes and 3 pre-school classes were separated from the secondary school and the affiliation of Realgymnasial classes began. From March 1903, after the first high school diploma, the resulting “double institution” was named “Reform Realgymnasium mit Realschule”. In 1904 the school became a reform high school.
In the years that followed, the school experienced such a rapid increase in the number of pupils that in 1906 it was decided to separate the secondary school branch. Today's Humboldt School in Kiel developed from the Reform Realgymnasium , and the Realschule was to be expanded into an upper secondary school. The first conference of the college on April 9, 1907 under the direction of the first director Fritz Heyer can be seen as the birth of the new school, today's Max Planck School.
Foundation of the school
The school was founded in 1907 as "Oberrealschule II am Königs-Weg", whereby the buildings of the Buchwaldtschen Hof had to be used temporarily before the new school building on Königsweg was ready for occupancy in 1908. With 10 classes and 4 preliminary classes, the upper secondary school had 556 students and 17 teachers when it opened.
The 19th century “Real and higher middle schools” were conceived as an alternative to the humanistic grammar school with its primacy of ancient languages . Since they also led up to the highest school level, they were comparable in rank to grammar schools and secondary schools. In contrast to the grammar school, there were no classes in Latin and Greek. Instead, greater emphasis was placed on foreign languages such as English and French, and extensive training in mathematics and the natural sciences was sought. The “Oberrealschule II am Königs-Weg” was also built according to this model of the “secondary and higher middle schools”. Special emphasis was placed on the subjects of physics and chemistry, which were given specialist rooms with considerable equipment in the new school building. The Max Planck School is still in this scientific tradition today.
The school at the time of National Socialism
In the course of the National Socialist school reform, the school was renamed in 1937/38 as "Oberschule für Jungs am Königswege". So far there is no meaningful evidence of the influence of National Socialism on school activity at the secondary school. Nevertheless, it can be assumed that here too the National Socialist indoctrination had a significant influence on everyday school life. Here is the statement of a student at the time:
- “With the seizure of power by National Socialism, new standards were soon set for the school: in 1935, fewer than 100 of the almost 500 students were unorganized. Flag parades, the Hitler salute before and after class, school events in uniform, State Youth Day - Saturday free for the events of the Hitler Youth - that was the usual image here too; Incidentally, the OR II was largely able to maintain its independence in the internal school area. " (from the Festschrift of the Max Planck School on the 75th anniversary, 1982 in)
In the last years of the war, everyday school life was increasingly determined by the air raids on Kiel . The school building on Königsweg was almost completely destroyed by Anglo-American bombs.
New start as the Max Planck School
After the turning point of the Second World War, the “Main Committee for School and Culture of the City of Kiel” decided in 1947 to rename the educational institution, which was now run as a grammar school, to “Max Planck School”. The city wanted to honor the physicist Max Planck . Max Planck, who was born in Kiel on April 23, 1858, also received honorary citizenship of the state capital in 1947.
In a letter dated May 19, 1947, Max Planck gave his consent to the naming:
- "[..] I feel very honored by the intention of the Main Committee for School and Culture to rename the secondary school the Max Planck School and I am happy to declare my consent. I wish the school every success with its new name. "
This naming ceremony was celebrated on October 10, 1947, just a few days after Max Planck's death, as part of the festivities for the school's 40th anniversary.
The post-war period was also a time of shortage for the Max Planck School and lessons took place in poorly prepared classrooms until the school was able to move into the new building on Winterbeker Weg in 1955.
School reforms in the 1970s
At the beginning of the 1970s began a period of intensified educational reforms. Among other things, the orientation level and the study level were introduced, and the school was converted to co-education . At the beginning of the 1971 school year, the Max Planck School also accepted female sextans for the first time: 47 girls and 100 boys started school at that time.
Architecture and buildings
From 1949 the city of Kiel began building new schools. The architect Rudolf Schroeder (1897–1965) was responsible for building post-war schools in Kiel as head of the building construction department in Kiel. He designed the school type of the pavilion school , which still characterizes the Kiel cityscape and can be assigned to the Stuttgart school . From 1952 to 1955, the Max Planck School building on Winterbeker Weg was built in the same way. In the years 1956–1958, the Jahn School was built in the immediate vicinity before the gym of the Max Planck School was completed in 1959/1960. Between 1949 and the 1970s, more than 20 schools in Kiel were built according to the “Schroeder School Model”, for example the Kiel Goetheschule, the Hebbelschule and the Friedrich-Junge-Schule.
The school is located in a number of other schools along a terminal moraine slope on Winterbeker Weg that slopes down to the moor pond meadow , from where it is also accessed. The comb system with a north-south administrative block and pavilion class rows branching off from it in the west is closed off in the south by a multi-storey specialist room tower from the south park. On the top floor of the tower there is a room with a wide view of the south of Kiel, which essentially serves as a music room and takes on various functions as a main assembly room on special occasions. The sports hall with an integrated teaching swimming pool in the basement forms the western end of the school complex. The ground floor classes are each assigned a protected green zone for possible outdoor lessons; In front of the southernmost ridge area is the south school courtyard, which continues the end of the school complex to the Moorteichwiesen to the west of the technical room tower.
The entire facility has a second schoolyard in the northeast, which is bordered by the administration wing in the west and the specialist room tower in the south. The outdoor sports facilities are integrated for all schools on Winterbeker Weg in the south-eastern area of the Moorteichwiesen.
School program
The school is designed as a three-level high school.
In the orientation level, conflict resolution strategies are taught within the framework of “ Lions Quest ”. Instead of special courses in religion , philosophy lessons are offered. In the intermediate level, the second and third foreign languages are taught with the same number of hours.
A special feature of the Max Planck School is also the possibility of choosing rowing and sailing as a focus in sports in the upper level .
For the choice of examination subjects in the Abitur, the school offers to choose sport as the fourth examination subject.
The Max Planck School takes part in the EU-funded Comenius program , which promotes cooperation between all European schools. It has been a competence center for gifted children since 2010 and works with the German Society for Gifted Children . It was named “Youth Research School of the Year 2014” for its long-term commitment and successful contributions to the Jugend forscht competition.
Additional offers
A chess AG, the DELF language diploma course , courses for youth research , climate , the Aqua-Terra AG for biology , photo and newspaper AG as well as media and IT-oriented offers are offered.
The range of classical music in the string orchestra , flute and violin AG as well as three choirs is supplemented by two big bands with more modern music. A Spanish language course and other sports activities complement the voluntary area.
Since the school was founded, sports competitions have been held to promote a sense of community in addition to “mostly full-day class trips” and “hikes lasting several days”. At this point, the foundation of the school rowing club "ORRC Wiking" should be mentioned in 1908, which has been closely associated with the school ever since. Even today, rowing is offered in cooperation with the "ORRC Wiking" as a voluntary AG and as a sports course (see school program).
Students and teachers
- Fin Bartels (* 1987), football player
- Hans-Peter Bartels (* 1961), politician (SPD), since May 2015 Defense Commissioner of the German Bundestag .
- Kurt-Walter Hanssen (1903–1945), lawyer and Nazi functionary
- Tobias Homp (* 1963), long-time soccer player with Hamburger SV
- Hans-Gert Kahle (* 1944), Professor of Geodesy and Photogrammetry (ETH Zurich), did research during and after Apollo 17 (seismic and gravimetric measurements; lunar samples).
- Wolfram Knauer (* 1958), musicologist, director of the Darmstadt Jazz Institute since 1990, Louis Armstrong Professor of Jazz Studies, Columbia University in 2008
- Gerd Koll (1938–2013), player and trainer from Holstein Kiel
- Theodor Möller (1873–1953), teacher from 1908 to 1923, was a Kiel writer and local researcher. A primary and secondary school in Elmschenhagen is named after him.
- Karsten Ocker (1945–2015) Inspector of the Medical Service
- Eberhard Oertel (1937–2019), painter and art teacher.
- Frank Schepke (1935–2017) and Kraft Schepke (* 1934) won Olympic gold in rowing in Rome in 1960 in Germany eighth
- Klaus Rehder (1933–2018), Vice Admiral, Deputy NATO Commander
- Wilhelm Sievers (1896–1966), politician (NSDAP, CDU)
- Diether Trede (1932–2008), teacher and director of studies i. R., former striker for Holstein Kiel
- Thomas Walde (* 1963), ZDF political correspondent
- Jürgen Weber (* 1955), politician (SPD), member of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament since 1996
- Ulrich Burdack (* 1982), opera singer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Jürgen Jensen, Peter Wulf (ed.): History of the city of Kiel . Karl Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1991, ISBN 3-529-02718-9 , pp. 257-259 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g Joachim Gomoletz: 1907-2007, 100 years of the Max Planck School . Kiel 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-021247-5 .
- ↑ Page on the history of the school ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2011 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.
- ^ Mehlhorn, Dieter-J: Architectural Guide Kiel . Berlin 1997.
- ↑ Christoph Jürgensen: Max Planck School awarded. On: Kieler Nachrichten Online from September 4, 2014, accessed on September 13, 2018.
