Evangelical Ratsgymnasium Erfurt
| Evangelical Ratsgymnasium Erfurt | |
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| type of school | Humanistic high school |
| founding | 1561 |
| address |
Meister-Eckehart-Strasse 1 |
| place | Erfurt |
| country | Thuringia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 '33 " N , 11 ° 1' 44" E |
| carrier | Evangelical School Foundation for Central Germany |
| student | about 600 |
| Teachers | approx. 50 |
| management | Michael Friese |
| Website | www.evrg-erfurt.de |
The Evangelical Ratsgymnasium is one of the two church-sponsored grammar schools in Erfurt , alongside the Edith Stein School . The school consists of two buildings, the "Casino School" and the "Haus am Breitstrom".
history
Founded in 1561
The Ratsgymnasium was founded on December 9th, 1561 by a resolution of the city council of Erfurt as gymnasium evangelicum and opened on January 13th, 1562 against archbishop's objection. Paul Dummrich , a student of Philipp Melanchthon , was appointed the first rector . Its seat was initially the Augustinian monastery , which was finally secularized in 1559 . That is why it was also called the schola or paedagogium in Coenobio Augustiniano . Until a Jesuit school was founded in 1611, it took in children from Protestant parents as well as children from Catholic parents. When the city of Erfurt lost its autonomy to the Electoral Mainz prince-bishop's rule in 1664 , the city council nevertheless retained its competence for the now called gymnasium senatorium or Ratsgymnasium , which is still evangelical.
Royal high school from 1820
In 1820 the Prussian government decreed the abolition of the Ratsgymnasium and at the same time announced the establishment of a new humanist grammar school with six grade levels on the basis of the Humboldtian educational concept . The Royal High School was first opened in a house in Eichengasse in 1820 and moved into the building of the former Jesuit college in Schlösserstraße in 1822 . The city of Erfurt remained the school body, with the royal government acting as the superior authority.
From 1844 physical education also took place, which was initially conducted outdoors in front of the Schmidtstedter Tor and after the start of the railway construction in front of the Andreas-Tor outdoors. In 1854 the property to the west of the gymnasium courtyard was purchased and in 1868 it was converted into a proper gymnasium. In 1867 Prima and Tertia were split into two years each, a year later the secondary school was also split, so that there were now nine grade levels. At the same time - starting in the fourth quarter - parallel classes will be introduced to cope with the growing number of students. The language sequence was 1. Latin, 2. French, 3. Ancient Greek and 4. (for the theology students) Hebrew. School life was published with explanatory statistics in an annual report.
In 1894, the city of Erfurt had a new school building built on Schillerstrasse for the significantly increased number of students, which was inaugurated on July 3, 1896. At that time, in addition to the director, there were twelve senior teachers, two assistant teachers and one elementary, drawing, singing and Catholic religion teacher as well as other voluntary assistant teachers. Of the 396 students, around 70% professed to be Protestant, 20% Catholic and 10% Jewish.
State high school from 1918 until it was closed in 1950
In August 1914, the entire upper class volunteered to go to war, and a secondary school diploma was introduced. 180 students and five teachers died in the First World War . After the war the school was renamed State Humanistic Gymnasium Erfurt . In 1938 it took the name Staatliches Langemarck -Gymnasium . During the Second World War , from 1943 to 1945, the students were deployed as air force helpers, which led to significantly shortened lessons.
After 1945, under Soviet administration , it was renamed the State Thomas Müntzer High School . The old Latin grade designations were abandoned and replaced by the simple designations grades 5 to 12. Since the primary schools were building upper levels at the same time, the number of pupils decreased, so that in 1950 it was finally merged with the Heinrich Mann Gymnasium under its school management. The building on Schillerstrasse was then converted into a pioneer house and opened as such in 1953 by Otto Grotewohl .
Re-established in church sponsorship in 1992
After reunification , the association of former students and friends of the humanistic grammar school in Erfurt , led by Werner Seydlitz , initially campaigned for the city of Erfurt to re-establish their school in the old building on Schillerstraße. However, after the city saw no need for a traditional humanistic grammar school, the Evangelical Church District Erfurt was able to be won over as a sponsor for such a school. It also played a role that with the Edith Stein School , a Catholic high school was to be founded in Erfurt. On May 30, 1991, the synod of the church district decided to establish “a grammar school with a Protestant character, taking up the tradition of the Erfurt Ratsgymnasium”. The city of Erfurt provided a former regular school next to the Predigerkirche in Erfurt's old town. In 1998 the state re-recognition as a grammar school by the minister of education of the Free State of Thuringia. In 1999, a new sports hall was opened, which is located at the Cathedral and therefore Cathedral Port Hall was called. Since 2003, the school also uses a modernized building (former Casino and later House of DSF ), located in the immediate vicinity of the main building on Breitstrom located.
School profile
The Evangelical Ratsgymnasium has a Christian-humanistic profile. The students regularly take part in devotions and church services. Participation in religious education is compulsory. There is no ethics class . Participation in a social-diaconal internship in grade 10 is planned for all students.
All students learn the two foreign languages Latin and English from the 5th grade. You can choose which language is learned more intensively; The first foreign language is taught four hours a week and the second foreign language three hours a week. From the 9th grade onwards, students can choose between French and Ancient Greek when choosing their third foreign language . In addition, you can choose between three different profiles: mathematical-natural science, musical-artistic or economic-social. Various working groups (e.g. sport; additional languages and advanced courses) complement the range of courses.
Since there are more applicants than places for the new 5th grades every year, the interested pupil and parents have an admissions interview with the school management, in which the suitability of the pupil for the school profile is checked. Membership in the Church is not required. The Evangelical Ratsgymnasium charges school fees as a free school sponsored by the Evangelical School Foundation in Central Germany.
In the school year 2011/12 there were three classes from the 5th to the 10th grade in each year, including two "L-classes" specializing in Latin and one "E-class" with the main focus on English.
From the 2012/13 school year there will now be so-called “four-tier grades”, each with three L and one E classes.
Partner schools
- Deak Teri Evangelikus Gimnazium, Budapest
Friends and sponsors
- Friends of the Evangelical Ratsgymnasium Erfurt e. V.
- Lions club
principal
- 1562–1571 Paul Dummrich
- 1571–1575 Basil Faber
- 1575–1583 Paul Dummrich
- 1583–1602 Anton Möcker
- 1601–1612 Henning Rennemann
- 1612-1616 Johann Retsch
- 1616–1643 David Zinckernagel
- 1643-1654 Liborius Capsius
- 1654–1655 Justus Herbert Boetticher
- 1655–1676 Zacharias Hogel the Elder Ä.
- 1676–1714 Zacharias Hogel the Elder J.
- 1714–1754 Hermann Nicolaus Stieler
- 1754–1759 Eusebius Ernst Stieler
- 1759–1777 Hermann Ernst Rumpel
- 1778–1794 Heinrich August Frank
- 1794–1804 Johann Joachim Bellermann
- 1804–1805 Johann Jakob Friedrich Sinnhold
- 1805 Johann Ernst Möller
- 1805–1807 Johann Christoph Petri
- 1807–1820 Johann Friedrich Müller
- 1820–1843 Johann Gottlieb Friedrich Strass
- 1843–1864 Georg Schöler
- 1864–1867 Johann Adam Hartung
- 1867–1881 Adolf Friedrich Albert Dietrich
- 1882–1887 Albert Hartung
- 1888–1891 Gottlieb Leuchtenberger
- 1892–1893 Georg Friedrich Hess
- 1893–1907 Richard Thiele
- 1908–1924 Johannes Biereye
- 1924–1937 Georg Boesch
- 1937–1939 Herbert Holtdorf
- 1939–1945 Wilhelm Rögels
- 1945–1950 Gottfried Johannes Wolterstorff
- 1950–1951 Hironymus Krause
- 1992-2000 Robert Schilling
- 2001–2020 Michael Friese
Known students
Born 1555 to 1700
- Johannes Cuno (1555–1598), educator, pastor and playwright in Calbe
- Michael Altenburg (1584–1640), rector, cantor and pastor in Erfurt
- Liborius Capsius (1589–1654), musician, professor and rector of the University of Erfurt
- Bartholomäus Elsner (1596–1662), theologian, linguist and orientalist , professor and multiple rector of the University of Erfurt
- Volkmar Limprecht (1615–1663), teacher and councilor in Erfurt, executed for treason
- Job Ludolf (1624–1704), polymath, Reichshofrat, founder of Ethiopian studies
- Kaspar Stieler (1632–1707), poet, linguist, State Secretary of the Duke of Eisenach
- Georg Christoph Petri von Hartenfels (1633–1718), physician, professor and rector of the University of Erfurt, personal physician to the Archbishop of Mainz , multiple senior councilor
- Michael Hertz (1638–1713), historian, professor at the University of Erfurt
- Johann Wilhelm Andrae (1642–1683), theologian, pastor at the Merchant Church in Erfurt
- Friedrich Wilhelm Förster (1643–1707), professor at the University of Erfurt
- Job Ludolf the Younger (1649–1711), mathematician, professor at the University of Erfurt, founder of the lottery in Germany
- Johann Philipp Bendler (1654–1709), music theorist and organist in Quedlinburg, author of Organopoeia
- Heinrich Wilhelm Ludolf (1655–1712), scholar, author of the Grammatica Russica (first grammar of the Russian vernacular)
- Johann Heinrich Buttstedt (1666–1727), musician and composer, council organist in Erfurt
- Sigismund Friese (1673–1754), councilor, city chronicler, co-founder of the art collections of the Protestant orphanage in Erfurt
- Johann Gottfried Walther (1684–1748), organist at the Stadtkirche Weimar , author of a musical lexicon
- Tobias Jakob Reinharth (1684–1743), lawyer, professor, rector of the Universities of Erfurt and Göttingen , royal. Councilor
- Hieronymus Friedrich Schorch (1692–1783), lawyer, professor at the University of Erfurt, President of the Academy of Charitable Sciences , multiple senior councilor
- Heinrich Wilhelm Fratscher (1694–1757), theologian and Bible researcher, professor at the University of Erfurt
- Constantin Bellermann (1696–1758), scholar, musician and poet, rector in Minden
- Christian Papst (1698–1773), goldsmith, chief master of the Baroque era in Erfurt
Born 1700 to 1800
- Andreas Elias Büchner (1701–1769), doctor, professor at the Universities of Erfurt and Halle, President of the Leopoldina
- Johann Justus Perthes (1702–1757), doctor in Rudolstadt, father of the publisher Justus Perthes
- Johann Wilhelm Albrecht (1703–1736), doctor, professor at the Universities of Erfurt and Göttingen
- Johann Hieronymus Kniephoff (1704–1763), botanist and physician, professor and rector of the University of Erfurt
- Johann Rudolph Engau (1708–1755), lawyer, professor at the University of Jena, councilor
- Hieronymus von Ludolph (1708–1764), physician, physicist, chemist and botanist, professor at the University of Erfurt, personal physician to the Archbishop of Mainz
- Johann Jakob Sorber (1714–1797), lawyer, professor at the University of Marburg
- Johann Michael Languth (1718–1788), theologian, co-founder of the Moravian Brethren
- Christoph Andreas Mangold (1719–1767), doctor, chemist and philosopher, professor at the University of Erfurt
- Rudolph Augustin Vogel (1724–1774), doctor, professor at the University of Göttingen
- Johann Andreas Wilhelm Büchner (1730–1815), doctor, scholar and poet, director of the Academy of Nonprofit Sciences
- Johann Christian Kittel (1732–1809), organist and composer
- Christian Friedrich Immanuel Schorch (1732–1804), lawyer, professor and rector of the University of Erfurt
- Georg Peter Weimar (1734–1800), music theorist, cantor, music director of the Ratsgymnasium
- Wilhelm Bernhard Trommsdorff doctor, professor at the University of Erfurt, founder of the Erfurt Clinical Institute
- Johann Carl Oettinger (1740–1806), doctor, professor at the University of Erfurt
- Johann Jacob Planer (1743–1789), doctor, botanist, professor at the University of Erfurt
- Johann Hieronymus Schroeter (1745–1816), lawyer and astronomer in Lilienthal near Bremen
- Rudolph Zacharias Becker (1752–1822), educator, writer and publisher in Gotha
- Kaspar Friedrich Lossius (1753–1817), pastor, educator and writer in Erfurt
- Johann Georg Wendel (1754–1834), mathematician, painter and teacher in Erfurt
- Johann Joachim Bellermann (1754–1842), orientalist, educator and musician, professor at Berlin University
- Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt (1760–1833), chemist, professor at Berlin University
- Johann Melchior Möller (1760–1824), pastor in Stotternheim
- Constantin Beyer (1761–1829), lawyer, bookseller, city chronicler and caricaturist in Erfurt
- Christian Martin Gotthilf Hermann (1765–1823), theologian, professor at the University of Erfurt, head of the Protestant Ministry
- Johann Bartholomäus Trommsdorff (1770–1837), pharmacist in Erfurt, founder of scientific pharmacy
- Johann Christoph Weingärtner (1771–1833), mathematician, clergyman and theologian, professor at the University of Erfurt
- Christian Ernst August Schwabe (1774–1843), theologian in London
- Johann Jakob Bernhardi , doctor, botanist, professor at the University of Erfurt, Vice President of the Academy of Non-Profit Science
- Karl von Conta (1778–1850), politician, 1845 President of the Weimar Regional Office
- Sebastian Lucius (1781–1857), entrepreneur
- Carl Ritschl (1783–1858), Protestant theologian and Bishop of Pomerania
- Johann Ludwig Böhner (1787–1860), pianist and composer
- Ludwig Ernst Gebhardi (1787–1862), musician and composer, music director of the preaching community
- Johann Friedrich Keyser (1788–1829), bookseller and publisher in Erfurt
- Johann Friedrich Möller (1789–1861), theologian, general superintendent of the Province of Saxony, member of the Erfurt Union Parliament
- Johann Georg Quehl (1792–1870), theologian, superintendent in Osterwieck
- Karl Rheinthaler (1794–1863), founder and rector of the Erfurt Martin-Stift
- Heinrich August Erhard (1793–1851), historian and archivist, director of the Association for the History and Archeology of Westphalia
- Johann Jakob Leitzmann (1798–1877), theologian, numismatist , pastor in Tunzenhausen
- Nikolaus Andreas Ketschau (1798–1869), composer, conductor and music teacher, co-founder and head of the Erfurt Music Association in 1826
Born 1800 and later
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stolze (1801–1868), organist, composer and music teacher
- Johann Christian Wilhelm August Hopfensack (1801–1874), theologian, pedagogue in Duisburg and Kleve , poet of sacred songs
- Johann Friedrich Cramer (1802–1859), educator and musician, professor at the University of Stralsund
- Gustav Graf von Keller (1805–1897), first director of the Thuringian Railway Company , member of the Erfurt Union Parliament
- Friedrich Ritschl (1806–1876), classical philologist, professor at the Universities of Bonn and Leipzig
- Gustav Adolph von Kayser (1807–1903), Minister of State in Sondershausen
- August Gottfried Ritter (1811–1885 in Magdeburg) composer and cathedral organist in Magdeburg .
- Franz Kuchenbuch (1812–1896), lawyer and artist in Berlin and Müncheberg
- Eduard Lucas (1816–1882), botanist, founder of the "Pomological Institute" in Reutlingen
- Franz Carl Heinemann (1819–1975), horticultural entrepreneur in Erfurt
- Victor Moritz Karl zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1818–1893), Duke of Ratibor and Prince of Corvey, German nobleman and politician
- Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819–1901), lawyer, Prussian Prime Minister and Imperial Chancellor
- Ernst Benary (1819–1893), plant breeder, seed producer and entrepreneur
- Ernst Biltz (1822–1903), pharmacist, researcher of chloroform, owner of the Green Pharmacy in Erfurt
- Friedrich Müller (1822–1897), botanist in Brazil
- Carl Martin Reinthaler (1822–1896), composer, director of the cathedral choir in Bremen
- Gustav von Stiehle (1823–1899), Prussian general of the infantry
- Oskar Schade 1826–1906, Germanist, professor at the University of Königsberg, author a. a. of the old German dictionary
- Hermann Müller (1829–1883), botanist and educator in Lippstadt, correspondent of Charles Darwin , discovered coevolution
- Robert Lucius von Ballhausen (1835–1914), scientist, politician, Prussian Minister of Agriculture
- Alfred Kirchhoff (1838–1907), natural scientist, geographer, professor at the University of Halle
- Joseph Maria von Radowitz (1839–1912) Diplomat, Acting State Secretary in the Foreign Office of the German Reich
- Hippolyt von Vignau (1843–1926), general director of the court theater and the court orchestra in Weimar
- Hermann von Wissmann (1853–1905), Africa explorer, Reich Commissioner and Governor of German East Africa
- Johannes Biereye (1860–1949), historian and educator, president of the Academy of Non-Profit Sciences
- Arthur Moeller van den Bruck (1876–1925), (without degree) art historian and völkisch-nationalist publicist
- Erich von Gilsa (1879–1963), officer, politician and member of the Reichstag for the DVP
- Kurt Pinthus (1886–1975), expressionist writer and dramaturge, lecturer at Columbia University in New York
- Wilhelm Benary (1888–1955), German-American psychologist, publisher and businessman
- Theodor Neubauer (1890–1945), politician (DDP, USPD, KPD) and resistance fighter
- Lorenz Drehmann (1915–1992), librarian, chairman of the association “ Heimattreue Erfurter e. V. “in West Germany, honorary citizen of Erfurt
- Steffen Wilhelm (* 1981), actor
- Paul Schröder (* 1982), actor at the Thalia Theater Hamburg
- Katharina Treutler (* 1985), pianist
- Lea Eisleb (* 1992), actress
- Miriam Schweiger (* 1994), actress
- Carlotta Weide (* 2004), actress
literature
- Barczyk, Volker: Publications on the Erfurt Ratsgymnasium . in: Förderverein des Ev. Ratsgymnasiums Erfurt: Yearbook 1999 , Erfurt 1999, and a brief overview of the history of the Evangelical Ratsgymnasium 1820–1896 in: Förderverein des Ev. Ratsgymnasiums Erfurt: Yearbook 2000 , Erfurt 2000
- Eifler, Gerald: On the history of the Erfurt high school 1911–1950 , ed. from the association of former students and friends of the humanistic grammar school in Erfurt, FS-Druck Bonn 1965
- Friese, Michael, Heinemeyer, Karl and Ludscheidt, Michael (ed.): 450 years of the Ratsgymnasium Erfurt . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2011. ISBN 978-3-374-02867-2
- Royal high school in Erfurt. Annual reports of the Royal High School in Erfurt 1854–1913, Gerhardt & Schreiber, and Bartholomäus, Erfurt, 1854–1914
- Schilling, Robert: Evangelisches Ratsgymnasium Erfurt 1992–1995 . Erfurt 1995
- Weiß, Ulman: The Erfurt Evangelical Ratsgymnasium 1561–1820 Erfurt 1999 and from the history of the Erfurt Ratsgymnasium . in: Thüringer Tageblatt, November 1991
