Rückert high school

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Rückert high school
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type of school high school
School number 07Y02
founding 1909
address

Mettestrasse 8, 10825 Berlin

place Berlin-Schöneberg
country Berlin
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 28 ′ 47 "  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 18"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 47 "  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 18"  E
carrier State of Berlin
student 698 (2019/2020)
Teachers 68 (2019/2020)
management Jörg Balke
Website www.rueckert-gymnasium-berlin.de

The Rückert-Gymnasium , until 2012: Rückert-Oberschule (Gymnasium) , is a grammar school in the Berlin district of Schöneberg in the Tempelhof-Schöneberg district near Innsbrucker Platz . The school building is adjacent to the former RIAS broadcasting house on Mettestrasse .

School profile

School view (2016)

The school, named after the German poet, language scholar and translator, Friedrich Rückert , is an AbiBac school with a bilingual German-French course from grade 5. The course offers the possibility of attending the school with the double qualification German Abitur and French Baccalauréat (AbiBac ) to complete. The Rückert-Gymnasium is a partner school chosen by the Institut français and an examination center for the internationally recognized French language test DELF scolaire.

The Rückert-Gymnasium is also MINT- certified with a special emphasis on mathematics , computer science , natural sciences and technology . In November 2019, the school also received the Digital School award. A tablet class has been available since the 2013/14 school year .

The first foreign language from grade 7 on is English or French . In the Abibac classes, French is taught as the first foreign language and English as the second foreign language from class 5. Learning a third foreign language - Latin or Spanish - is voluntary.

In the upper level, students can choose the basic performing game course . There are two big bands. School newspapers appeared several times at the Rückert School .

Since 1993 the non-profit association has been supporting Friends of the Rückert-Gymnasium e. V. the school financially.

history

With the steadily growing population of the then independent town of Schöneberg at the beginning of the 20th century, the need for schools grew. As a result, and aided by the Prussian girls 'school reform of 1908, the city ​​council decided on December 14, 1908 to establish a fourth girls' school ( Lyceum ). After all municipal bodies had given their consent, the 4th Girls' School, which was named Rückert School from 1911 , was launched on April 1, 1909. It was initially housed in the school building of the 13th community school at Hohenstaufenstrasse 49, later in a school building on Wartburgplatz . In June 1912, the city council approved the construction of the 4th secondary girls' school. In August, the municipal surveying office presented a site plan of the 8690 m² site on Sternbergstrasse (today Mettestrasse), Raetherstrasse (today's schoolyard) and Erfurter Strasse.

After the structural calculations were submitted by the engineering office Heinrich Barth in October and the police approval for the construction of the school was granted in January 1913, the actual construction began in March 1913. The architectural designs came from the architects Sasse, Riedel and Hernday, who the management of the City Planning Council Paul Egeling worked. For example, lecture halls for natural sciences as well as baths and a dining room were planned in the room distribution. The school building had light-flooded staircases, a large auditorium and two gyms . It is a four-storey two-wing complex with facades in a moderate horizontal structure through cornices and rows or windows arranged rhythmically offset. The risalitartige central part of the main facade is a pilaster - giant order emphasizes and Attica design with vases. The building has a high, hood-like mansard roof .

Rückert School (1920)

The new building was completed on April 11, 1914, and with the start of the new school year on April 15, 1914, the Rückert School moved to its newly built domicile at Raetherstrasse 1-3. The imposing new building with its simple, classic shapes fit in with the buildings at Schöneberg City Park. The school opening ceremony took place on June 27th. A few weeks later the First World War began .

The twenties were a time of superlatives in school history. In 1920 there were 552 female students in 19 classes. The school year 1920/21 had the largest number of pupils and classes in the history of the school until 1945. Attending school was not free. In the early 1930s, parents had to pay up to 240 marks in school fees for their daughters.

At the beginning of the thirties, the Rückert School achieved a long-awaited goal: the expansion of the lyceum into a full institution ( Oberlyzeum ). In March 1931, the girls in the newly established upper school were able to take the first matriculation examination, which all 20 candidates passed. This gave more and more girls access to higher education.

The school's rowing club was founded in 1921 and between 1937 and 1942 the Rückert students were able to achieve great successes in style rowing (double fours with helmswoman) by becoming German champions three times and taking second place three times.

The takeover of power by the National Socialists in January 1933 meant a serious turning point for the Rückert School. At the beginning of 1934, the Führer principle was enacted for all German schools by ministerial decree. The directors were responsible to their superiors for the National Socialist spirit and the achievements of their students. The curriculum was also geared towards the National Socialist ideology . Some politically unpopular as well as non-Aryan teachers had to leave the school - the first on April 1, 1933, was the long-time Jewish religion teacher Johanna Simon. The basis for this measure was the law to restore the civil service (April 1933). Of the total of 36 teachers at the Rückert School, eleven were organized in the National Socialist Teachers' Association in 1935 . Two thirds of the college members did not allow themselves to be clearly instrumentalized by the National Socialists. One teacher, Elisabeth Abegg , is known to have been tactically clever and successful in resisting the unjust state. She was denounced by individual pupils and their parents and was then forced to retire in 1941 and released from school.

The main victims of the National Socialist tyranny were the schoolgirls. The Rückert School was located in the catchment area of ​​the Bavarian Quarter , also known as Jewish Switzerland, a residential area around Bayerischer Platz in which the proportion of Jewish citizens was particularly high. Jewish schoolgirls have always been the second largest religious community with only a few Catholic schoolgirls, with an average of 25 percent and in some cases even more percent after the Protestant schoolgirls. Pressure was exerted on the Jewish schoolgirls to leave school. In the report on the school year 1935/36, Director Kölle wrote succinctly: “At the end of the school year (March 1936), most of the Jewish schoolgirls left; of around 120, only 8 remain in school. " Some of them are known to have been able to leave Germany in time and thus survived the Nazi era . However, the fate of most of the Jewish schoolgirls remains in the dark.

When the air raids on Berlin intensified in March 1943 and the school was damaged in a bombing, it was to be evacuated like most other schools as part of the KLV . On August 1, 1943, a third of the students - sometimes accompanied by their mothers - began an odyssey to the east.

The school was moved to Ortelsburg in East Prussia and at the end of the war, after a long odyssey, it was in a small town in Bohemia .

On June 1, 1945, after most of the pupils had returned, the Rückert School started again with the actual, initially provisional lessons. From 1950, school operations normalized.

There were two radical changes in the structure of the Rückert-Gymnasium in the following years. The coeducation was soon after the Second World War introduced. The 1956 Abitur class was the last to consist only of girls. Today the Rückert-Gymnasium is of course attended by boys and girls.

In 1995 the Rückert-Gymnasium took part in the AbiBac program as the first school in Berlin and the fourth school nationwide. H. The students can acquire the double degree of the German Abitur and the French Baccalauréat, with which they can study in Germany and in the francophone- speaking area.

Part of the building on Erfurter Straße houses the Sternberg elementary school.

Partnerships

The Rückert-Gymnasium maintains international exchange programs with schools in

There is also an individual exchange with Switzerland. Knowledge of the partner country France can be further deepened via the Sauzay or Voltaire program of the Franco-German Youth Office (DFJW) .

The Rückert-Gymnasium cooperates with the exhibition installation We Were Neighbors in the Berlin-Schöneberg Town Hall .

Known students

Known teachers

  • Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), educator, resistance fighter against National Socialism
  • Willi Bönecke (1914–1998), teacher, German champion in the 200-meter run (1940), German champion in the 4 x 100 meter relay (1941)
  • Harald Lieb (1934–2015), teacher, seven-time Berlin chess master between 1963 and 1981
  • Georg Netzband (1900–1984), painter, art teacher

principal

  • 1909–1921: Johannes Teufer
  • 1921–1945: Conrad Kölle
  • 1945–1951: Fritz Hühne
  • 1951–1954: Maria Efken
  • 1955–1958: Paula de Weldige
  • 1958–1968: Anni Dienwiebel
  • 1968–1969: Hans Tepper
  • 1969–1979: Willi Bönecke
  • 1980–1994: Erich Rinnert
  • 1997–2003: Klaus-Dietrich Fiuczynski
  • Since 2003: Jörg Balke

literature

  • Elsa Döpke u. a .: 75 years of the Rückert School. Research - Memories - Insights. Verlag Rückert-Oberschule, Berlin, 1984.
  • Klemens Rinklake u. a .: 100 years of the Rückert School and the 2008/2009 annual report. Retrospectives - overviews - outlooks. Verlag Rückert-Schule (Gymnasium), Berlin, 2009.
  • Peter Kersten: Between standstill and a new beginning - The development of the Rückert School from 1945 to 1951. In: There was never so much beginning ?! After the end of the war in Berlin in 1945, documentation on the series of events of the Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt eV (publisher), Berlin 2016, pp. 46–52

Web links

Commons : Rückert-Gymnasium  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rückert-Gymnasium. In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Science and Research, September 19, 2008, accessed on January 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Distinction for a MINT-friendly school and digital school in Berlin . Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Sylvia Vogt: Learn smarter in the tablet class. Digital life. Der Tagesspiegel, February 25, 2016, accessed on March 1, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Martin Klesmann: Learning with tablets - digital education is falling short in Berlin. Berliner Zeitung, September 20, 2016, accessed on October 3, 2016 .
  5. ^ Franziska Hoppen: Schools in Berlin: Learning mathematics on the computer. Media education is compulsory in the new curriculum, but the technology is often lacking. An insight. Berliner Morgenpost, September 7, 2017, accessed on September 7, 2017 .
  6. ^ Berlin and its buildings . Part V Volume C Schools. Berlin 1991. p. 403
  7. ↑ Elsa Döpke et al. a .: 75 years of the Rückert School ..., p. 47
  8. ^ German digital library, library for educational history research, report on the school year 1935/36, Rückertschule, municipal high school for girls, linguistic form of Berlin-Schöneberg
  9. ↑ Klemens Rinklake u. a .: 100 years of the Rückert School and the 2008/2009 annual report ..., p. 25
  10. ^ Karen Noetzel: Fleeting Childhood. Berlin: Rückert-Gymnasium. Berliner Woche, January 23, 2017, accessed on January 26, 2017 .