Mercator High School

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Mercator High School
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type of school high school
School number 164604
founding 1901
address

Musfeldstrasse 152

place Duisburg
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 25 '21 "  N , 6 ° 45' 30"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '21 "  N , 6 ° 45' 30"  E
carrier City of Duisburg
student about 900
Teachers 72
management Wibke harness maker
Website www.mercator-gymnasium.de

The Mercator-Gymnasium (also known as “MG” or “MCGD” for short) is an urban modern-language high school for girls and boys with a mathematical and natural science profile and a musical and artistic focus in the city center of Duisburg in North Rhine-Westphalia . A specialty of the school is the student exchange program with Russia that has existed since 1991.

The school's namesake is the well-known cosmographer and cartographer Gerhard Mercator , who worked at the academic grammar school in Duisburg (today's Landfermann grammar school , also the forerunner of the old university ).

history

Today's Mercator-Gymnasium was founded by resolution of the city council of Duisburg on July 31, 1900 as a secondary school without Latin . Teaching began at the beginning of the school year on April 24, 1905, the first headmaster was Quintin Steinbart , who was previously the headmaster at the first Duisburg secondary school , today's Steinbart-Gymnasium .

On May 2, 1905, they moved into the new school building on Musfeldstrasse, where the school is still housed today (with interruptions due to the war).

With the establishment of an 11th grade, the school became an upper secondary school in the new school year 1910 . The renaming of the previously simply called “municipal high school for boys” to “Mercator School” took place on November 5, 1926.

The Maxhan school camp was inaugurated on October 27, 1927 and reopened on July 23, 1949 after the Second World War .

In a devastating air raid on Duisburg on May 13, 1943, the school building was also destroyed. The old main building will be completed by September 22, 1952, the new building on Musfeldstrasse will follow on May 30, 1957.

The headmaster Heinrich Creutzberg, who was deposed by the Nazis in 1938 for "political unreliability", took over the management of the secondary schools in downtown Duisburg, which had now been merged to form the "Municipal High School for Boys, Duisburg-Mitte". Today's Steinbart-Gymnasium was separated from the Mercator-Gymnasium on April 1, 1949, before it moved to its current school building on Realschulstrasse on April 15, 1954.

The adoption of the sponsorship for the former castle school in Königsberg , today's Kaliningrad , was decided on November 25, 1957 at a "general conference" and sealed on September 27, 1958 by the then headmaster Anton Pape. He died of a heart attack on August 9, 1965, during the summer vacation of the last school year, which then ran from Easter to Easter.

The provisional headmaster Fritz Enderling and the headmaster Heinz Oberwinder, who was appointed in 1966, were therefore responsible for organizing the two short school years , while a so-called F-branch was attached to the Mercator-Gymnasium as a school experiment for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia to obtain the subject-specific higher education entrance qualification . As there were 15 girls among the 80 who registered, the grammar school also became a de facto coeducational school .

On August 1, 1980, a branch was finally set up at Mercator-Gymnasium for grades 7 to 10. In June 2000, the last pupils of the discontinued advanced branch passed the Abitur examination.

In the mid-1980s, the city of Duisburg considered converting the grammar school into a comprehensive school, but on March 20, 1986, the city council of Duisburg voted against the planned closure and conversion.

On August 1, 1999, Gabriele Boden took over the management of the school. Thomas Herden was director from the 2015/2016 school year. From February to August the Mercator-Gymnasium was provisionally headed by Raimund Hermes. Wibke Harnischmacher has been the headmaster since the beginning of the 2019/2020 school year.

Special features of the school

Language offer

  • English from grade 5
  • Latin and French from grade 6 or 10
  • Spanish from grade 10

Student exchange

Since 1967 there has been a student exchange program with Rochefort (together with Steinbart-Gymnasium ). On April 5, 1989, students drove to Rochefort for the first time. In November 1991 the first group of students from Kaliningrad came to Duisburg.

Exchange programs exist with the following schools:

Flag of France.svg Collège Pierre Loti, Rochefort , France
Flag of France.svg Lycée Merleau Ponty, Rochefort , France
Flag of Russia.svg Gymnasium No. 1, Kaliningrad , Russia

Talent school

From the 2019/2020 school year, the Mercator-Gymnasium will be one of 35 schools in North Rhine-Westphalia taking part in the talent schools trial. The school trial runs for six years at all talent schools and is scientifically monitored and evaluated.

School without racism - school with courage

On February 14, 2020, the Mercator-Gymnasium received the award School without Racism - School with Courage as part of a ceremony in the auditorium and was accepted into the nationwide school network of the same name.

Sponsorship

On May 28, 1955, the Duisburg Landfermann-Gymnasium sponsored the former Königsberg Collegium Fridericianum .

On September 27, 1958, the Mercator-Gymnasium took over the sponsorship of the Königsberg Castle School on the occasion of the upcoming 300th anniversary.

Personalities

Former students:

Principal:

  • 1901–1905: Quintin Steinbart
  • 1905–1922: Ernst Haas
  • 1922–1938: Heinrich Creutzberg
  • 1938–1945: Karl Kiefer
  • 1945–1949: Heinrich Creutzberg
  • 1950–1957: August Tewes
  • 1957–1958: Hans Schmidthuis (provisional)
  • 1958–1965: Anton Pape
  • 1965–1966: Fritz Enderling (provisional)
  • 1966–1977: Heinz Oberwinder
  • 1978–1993: Friedrich Wilhelm Krücken
  • 1993–1994: Erhard Neuhoff (provisional)
  • 1994–1998: Werner Fuchs
  • 1998–1999: Erhard Neuhoff (provisional)
  • 1999–2015: Gabriele Boden
  • 2015–2019: Thomas Herden
  • 2019: Raimund Hermes (acting)
  • since 2019: Wibke Harnischmacher

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.mercator-gymnasium.de : School profile
  2. ↑ www.mercator-gymnasium.de : Teacher
  3. ↑ school management. In: mercator-gym.de. Retrieved March 4, 2020 .
  4. ↑ www.mercator-gymnasium.de : School program (PDF; 258 kB; accessed on February 19, 2009)
  5. ↑ www.mercator-gymnasium.de : Kaliningrad
  6. ^ Site du collège Pierre Loti de Rochefort (17) - Pédagogie - Académie de Poitiers. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Lycée Merleau Ponty
  8. ^ MSB: School experiment talent schools. Retrieved May 15, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Niklas Bessenbach: Duisburg: Mercator-Gymnasium is now a "school without racism". In: www.waz.de. February 14, 2020, accessed March 4, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Mercator times one hundred : Festschrift, 2001 (PDF; 4.14 MB; accessed on February 19, 2011)