Otto Hahn High School (Marktredwitz)

Otto Hahn Gymnasium Marktredwitz
type of school	high school
founding	1919
address	Schulstrasse 10, 95615 Marktredwitz
place	Marktredwitz
country	Bavaria
Country	Germany
Coordinates	50 ° 0 '26 "  N , 12 ° 5' 30"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 0 '26 "  N , 12 ° 5' 30"  E
student	about 800
Teachers	approx. 70
management	Stefan Niedermeier
Website	www.ohg-marktredwitz.de

The Otto Hahn Gymnasium , named after the German Nobel Prize laureate for chemistry Otto Hahn (1879–1968), is a scientific, technological, linguistic and musical gymnasium in Marktredwitz . Along with the Luisenburg Gymnasium in Wunsiedel and the Walter Gropius Gymnasium in Selb, it is one of three high schools in the Wunsiedel district . Around 800 students are taught by around 70 teachers at the school.

School history

In 1919, the current Otto Hahn Grammar School in Marktredwitz was founded as a four-class private secondary school on the initiative of the mayor at the time and with the approval of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior . At that time, 76 of the 107 registered students were enrolled. In 1922 the school was expanded into a six-class secondary school. A year later they moved to a new school building. In 1930, the parents and the city successfully opposed the decision of the Ministry of Education to prohibit girls from taking the entrance examination. The ministerial approval for the expansion of the state secondary school into an eight-class German high school was given in 1938 and a year later the school was converted into a state high school for boys. In 1940 he took a school leaving examination for the first time . In 1944 the school building served as a reserve hospital. On April 1, 1946, classes were resumed.

In 1947 a scientific and a linguistic train were established; the school now operated as an upper secondary school with a grammar school in Marktredwitz. The linguistic high school train was converted into a realgymnasiale train in 1950 and the name of the school changed to Oberrealschule with Realgymnasium Marktredwitz. In 1961, the then new buildings, now known as components I and II, were put into operation. Two years later, the auditorium , which is also referred to as component III, went into operation . In 1965, the name was changed to a mathematical, scientific and modern-language grammar school. In 1969, the Ministry of Education gave the school its current name, Otto Hahn Gymnasium, for its 50th anniversary.

Part 3, the auditorium

In 1974 the number of pupils reached the highest level of 1303 in 43 classes. In addition, the college level rooms in building II and the library were opened. In 1976, Federal President Walter Scheel attended school. A year later, component IV, the specialist wing for biology , physics , chemistry and plants, was completed. In 1984 the administrative district of Wunsiedel also became the school’s material expense manager. This year Federal President Karl Carstens was a guest. The partnership with the grammar school in Bassano del Grappa began in 1986. Heinz Maier-Leibnitz , a confidante of Otto Hahn, gave a lecture at the anniversary event for the 75th anniversary of the school in 1994 . In 1998 the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize laureate , Bishop Carlos Belo of East Timor , attended the school.

Part 4, specialist wing for biology, physics, chemistry and factories

From 2005 to 2006 the basement and the auditorium were completely expanded with the help of funds. From 2006 to 2007 the lunchtime catering house, the “Essenshaisl” was built and the cafeteria was inaugurated. A choir class was set up as a pilot project for the Bavarian Ministry of Culture. In addition, after a ministerial approval, the musical gymnasium training course was added, starting with grade five.

Component 5

At the turn of the year 2010/2011 the new glass corridor, the connecting building between the long corridor (components I and II) and the auditorium (component III), was opened.

Glass corridor from the outside

The interior of the connection structure

Since the beginning of the 2011/2012 school year, the upper floor of component I has been extensively renovated, which since its completion has served as a musical wing with two large halls for ensembles and 10 small practice cells for the instrumental lessons.

A chemistry hall was renovated in 2015.

Partnerships

The school maintains a network of school partnerships consisting of the Lycée de La Matheysine in La Mure (since 1961), with the grammar school in Bassano del Grappa (since 1986), the Christian Doppler grammar school (since 2006) in Prague and the grammar school of public relations (since 2006), also in Prague. There is a lively exchange with all schools.

principal

from 1919 Hermann Hacker from 1933 Hans Buck from 1934 Dr. Christian Ponader from 1945 Walter Dorn from 1949 Gustav Mehringer

from 1959 Albin Sauer from 1964 Alfred Schönnamsgruber from 1964 Fritz Ludwig from 1978 Horst Hippe (replacement due to illness) from 1979 Fritz Ludwig returns

from 1982 Leo Sailer from 1987 Dr. Edmund Neubauer from 2006 Gertraud Nickl from 2016 Stefan Niedermeier

additional

In the afternoon there is an offer for lunch and homework supervision as well as sporting, musical and artistic work groups. There is a support association and a parents' council at the school .

Overview of the school grounds

In April 2010, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Iron Curtain, the musical Grenzgeflüster , which is about the love between a Czech woman and a German, and in January 2012 the musical Claudia Procula and the Nazarenes , which is about the wife of the governor Pontius Pilate and whose search for faith among the women who were closest to Jesus goes on, premiered by students. The text and idea for both musicals come from the renowned author Irma Krauss .

A musical composed by the students themselves based on the novel The Hundred Years Old Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared was premiered in 2017 after it had been developed in several interdisciplinary P seminars over a year and a half .

Awards

In 2002 the school received the certificate of honor from the Robert Bosch Foundation for civic engagement in German-French city and community partnerships.

Since 2012, the grammar school has been awarded annually as the "Environment School in Europe - International Agenda 21 School" by the Bavarian State Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection .

The OHG has been a member of the national MINT-EC excellence school network since 2014 .

Personalities

• Karl Kiesswetter (1930–2019), professor of educational science with special emphasis on mathematics at the University of Hamburg, inventor of the Kiesswetter function, founder of the "William Stern Society for Talent Research and Promotion of Talented Students"
• Berthold Kohler (* 1961), editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Web links

• Homepage of the grammar school

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Numbers and facts on the OHG homepage ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2015 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. 
2. ^ Environmental School in Europe - International Agenda 21 School. Retrieved May 7, 2015 . 
3. ↑ MINT-EC. In: ohg-marktredwitz.de. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .