Otto Hahn High School (Gifhorn)
| Otto Hahn High School | |
|---|---|
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1950 |
| address |
Dannenbütteler Weg 2 |
| place | Gifhorn |
| country | Lower Saxony |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 28 '51 " N , 10 ° 33' 18" E |
| carrier | Gifhorn district |
| student | 873 (school year 2016/17) |
| Teachers | 84 (school year 2016/17) |
| management | Susanne Pilarski |
| Website | www.ohg-gf.de |
The European School Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium is a high school in Gifhorn , Lower Saxony .
history
The Otto Hahn Gymnasium was founded in 1950 as the “Höhere Privatschule Gifhorn” and was the first Gifhorn Gymnasium. In 1954 the school was converted into a public school and named in 1969 after the German chemist and Nobel Prize winner Otto Hahn .
Due to the high number of pupils, the school was divided in 1979: the Humboldt Gymnasium was re-established in Gifhorn for half of the pupils .
The first school year in 1950 consisted of two fifth and one sixth grades with a total of 70 students and three teachers. In 2005, 1512 students attended the school and were taught by around 110 teachers and trainee teachers. In the 2016/2017 school year there were 873 students and 84 teachers and trainees.
particularities
Because of the European orientation of its educational work, the Otto Hahn Gymnasium has been allowed to use the name “European School” since 1997. The European activities include, for example, a student exchange with partner schools in France that began in 1978, initially for decades in Lens and now in Rioz.
To support special interests, the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium offers its students the option of specialization classes: In the mathematical-scientific focus, mathematics and natural science subjects are deepened and subject-related learning, experimentation and learning outside of school are promoted. In the bilingual focus, subjects such as history, geography and politics are taught in English.
The school is a member of the Gifhorn Schools cooperative for the promotion of highly talented pupils and awards individual pupils the Certilingua excellence label for multilingual, European and international skills.
In 2003 and 2005 the school became an “Environmental School in Europe”. In 2010, Federal President Horst Köhler presented the Environment and Solar Working Group with the Allianz Environmental Foundation's German Climate Prize for their “Solar for One World” project at Bellevue Palace in Berlin. This recognized the commitment to climate protection and resource conservation, the construction of the school's own solar systems and the initiation of solar projects in Uganda and Tanzania.
The diverse range of working groups includes, for example, Chinese and Russian, business English, DELF (Diplôme d'Etudes en langue française), Model United Nations (MUN) and a school medical service.
The school is open all day school.
Prominent teachers
- Kurt Oskar Buchner (1912–1994), German writer
Prominent students
- Bernward Vesper (1938-1971), German writer
- Bodo Lecke (1939 - 2018), Germanist
- Elke Lehrenkrauss (* 1979), German filmmaker and visual artist
- Volker Ratzmann (* 1960), lawyer and politician from Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen
- Sabrina Janesch (* 1985), German writer
- Imke Byl , politician from Alliance 90 / The Greens