Otto Hahn High School (Geesthacht)

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Otto Hahn High School
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type of school high school
founding 1940
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place Geesthacht
country Schleswig-Holstein
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 26 '22 "  N , 10 ° 21' 41"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '22 "  N , 10 ° 21' 41"  E
carrier City of Geesthacht
student about 900
Teachers about 70
management Kirsa Siegemund
Website www.ohg-geesthacht.de

The Otto Hahn Gymnasium (short: OHG) is the only gymnasium in Geesthacht . Around 70 teachers teach around 900 students from the larger area of ​​Geesthacht and Lauenburg from the fifth grade to the Abitur . As a European school, it is strongly committed to international exchange.

history

The OHG started school operations in 1940 as a feeder school for the Hansa Oberschule in Hamburg-Bergedorf . It was Geesthacht's first secondary school. This was particularly necessary due to the expansion of the city on October 1, 1939. It was actually only designated for boys, but the student body consisted of 22 boys and 11 girls.

In 1963 the grammar school got its first gym. The scientific wing was inaugurated in 1968. The new name was celebrated in conjunction with the inauguration of the wing. From July 30, 1968 the school was called Otto Hahn Gymnasium (OHG) after the Nobel Prize winner Otto Hahn .

In the 1970s, the OHG also had problems with the effects of the 1968 movement, as well as with a lack of teachers and space. On the other hand, the school made some important purchases, e.g. B. the first computer (1970), a language laboratory (1974) and a photocopier (1975). In 1977 eight more classrooms were built. For this it was necessary to move the sports field by 90 degrees. At the end of the 1970s, the reconstruction of the school was decided and carried out. During this time the lessons were held in different rooms. Only a tower remained of the old building, which was previously on the roof of the school. This tower has found a new place in today's schoolyard. Construction was completed in 1981.

In 1984 the new large sports hall was completed. School-free Saturday was introduced in the mid-1980s. Nowadays the school has several partnerships with schools abroad and in 1996 it was awarded the title “European School”. The student body shows social commitment. B. the income from the annual Christmas bazaar of social aid organizations; In addition, in 1997 pupils took part in a “pupils help life” campaign, during which they worked a day at school and donated the money they had earned.

Since 2011 the Otto-Hahn-Gymnasium has its own school newspaper, the "Euforum".

Donitz affair

Uwe Barschel , the then student representative of the grammar school and later Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, invited the Grand Admiral and last President of the Reich, Karl Dönitz , who was appointed as Hitler's successor, on January 22, 1963 at the suggestion of his history teacher and CDU state politician Heinrich Kock, who was sympathetic to National Socialism 9 students of classes to 13 on the theme of the 30 January 1933 and its consequences to lecture. Dönitz was sentenced as a war criminal in the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals to ten years in prison . The only journalist present, the Geesthacht local editor Karl Mührl, who was also an acquaintance of Dönitz and Kock, reported on a special page of the “Bergedorfer Zeitung” about the “lesson”: “We felt it: Karl Dönitz was delighted with this youth . She had a clear set of questions to hand. And the Grand Admiral owed her nothing. His answers were clear and factual. This event lasted exactly one hour and 30 minutes, which was certainly a special experience for the teachers present at the grammar school, but for the students it should definitely have been a history lesson of the highest order. " This process caused a tangible scandal: national and international Media such as Die Zeit , Der Spiegel and Le Monde reported. Dönitz's militaristic statements that glorified National Socialism led to a political scandal. The headmaster of the grammar school Georg Rühsen (* 1906) committed suicide after unhappy handling of the scandal.

Personalities

student

Teacher

  • Heinrich Kock (* 1913), CDU politician and first lieutenant a. D. (teacher)
  • Alfred Schulz (1928–2011), SPD politician, Vice President of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament

literature

  • The Dönitz affair in 1963 from 13a of the Otto Hahn Gymnasium (Geesthacht). In: Sönke Zankel (Ed.): Scandals in Schleswig Holstein. Contributions to the history competition of the Federal President . Schmitt & Klauding, Kiel 2012 ISBN 978-388312-4193 , pp. 13-70.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dönitz affair
  2. ↑ Uwe Barschel and the Geesthacht Dönitz affair
  3. ^ Story An Affair That Still Divides Today , February 6, 2011
  4. ^ History memories of the "Dönitz Affair" , February 12, 2011
  5. ^ Completion of the 13a history project on the “Dönitz Affair” , February 27, 2011; there the pdf document: The Dönitz Affair. The Grand Admiral and the Small Town , 2010/11; Retrieved on: May 3, 2017
  6. ↑ Historical work: Morals painting about false heroes , November 17, 2011
  7. ↑ Affair about Hitler's successor Dönitz tells of the war , Der Spiegel Einestages November 18, 2011
  8. ↑ As Barschel, Hitler's successor was invited by Hamburger Abendblatt on December 31, 2011
  9. ↑ History lessons: Dönitz, Barschel and the Direx "History lessons in the highest perfection": Students research a Nazi affair at their school, Die Zeit November 17, 2011
  10. ↑ Three comrades, DER SPIEGEL 8/1963