Realgymnasium Lichterfelde
The Realgymnasium Lichterfelde ( Weddigenschule since 1938 ) was a Realgymnasium founded in 1903 in the Berlin district of Berlin-Lichterfelde . At last it was at Drakestrasse 72. Today the building houses the Goethe-Gymnasium .
history
In 1865, the entrepreneur Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn acquired the Lichterfelde and Giesensdorf estates near Berlin , with the aim of creating a villa colony for the upper class there. The villages of Lichterfelde and Giesensdorf existed as a unified municipality since 1877 . Both in Lichterfelde and in Giesensdorf there were previously village schools, which, however, in a poor structural condition and did not do justice to the demands of the new residents. In 1881 a higher school for boys was founded. This became a Progymnasium in 1885 and in 1893 the Schiller-Gymnasium , where Latin was taught from then on. After the opening of the secondary school in Groß-Lichterfelde without Latin lessons, the number of students at the grammar school declined. Therefore, the director of the grammar school applied for the approval of a secondary school in addition to the grammar school, at which no Latin was taught, but whose qualifications nevertheless enabled subsequent studies. The establishment of the Realgymnasium was approved by the municipality and from 1903 the Lichterfelder Schillergymnasium and the newly founded Realgymnasium Lichterfelde were under one roof in the now listed school building on the corner of Ostpreußendamm and Königsberger Straße. Both schools were all boys' schools . In the school year 1909/1910 the grammar school consisted of 20 classes and the secondary school eight classes. The construction of a separate school building in Drakestrasse, which was to house the Realgymnasium in the future, began this school year. The building was completed in 1912. The premises of the upper secondary school in Lichterfelde and other schools in Lichterfelde were used as mass accommodation for returning soldiers at the end of the First World War in 1918. Therefore, the students of the Oberrealschule were taught in the classes of the Realgymnasium for a few months. In the 1918 school year, a total of 665 students attended the school. 598 of them were Protestant, 49 Catholic and 13 Jewish. Only boys were still accepted. At the time of National Socialism, many schools were given new names instead of the name consisting of the school type and place name. The secondary school was named Weddigenschule in 1938 , and it was probably named after the naval officer Otto Weddigen , who is also the namesake of the nearby Weddigenweg. The building was slightly damaged in World War II. The building of the nearby Lichterfelder Oberschule for girls (today: Goethe-Gymnasium ) was badly damaged. Therefore, the secondary school for girls moved into the building of the secondary school. The Realgymnasium itself was dissolved and combined with the Lilienthal School .
The building, which is now under monument protection, still houses the Goethe-Gymnasium today.
Personalities
- Otto Dibelius (1880–1967), theologian
- Erich Kuhlbrodt (1891–1972), meteorologist
- Henry Goverts (1892–1988), publisher
- Ernst Fritsch (1892–1965), painter
- Karl Kötschau (1892–1982), doctor
- Wilhelm Fischer (1892–1969), surgeon and university professor
- Hans Kirschstein (1896–1918), fighter pilot in the First World War
- Herbert Spruth (1900–1972), philologist, lawyer, genealogist and Pomeranian researcher
- Georg Dertinger (1902–1968), politician ( DNVP , Eastern CDU )
- Hasso von Boehmer (1904–1945), Lieutenant Colonel, involved in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944
- Harald Freiherr von Uslar-Gleichen (1905–2000), officer
- Jürgen von Schilling (1909–2008), doctor
- Peter Scheibert (1915–1995), Eastern European historian
- Werner Angress (1920–2010), professor of German history
- Herbert Baumann (1925–2020), composer
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Erika Reinhold: Lichterfelde: From the village to the suburb of Berlin. Pp. 32-34.
- ↑ Erika Reinhold: Lichterfelde: From the village to the suburb of Berlin. P. 65.
- ↑ Administrative report of the Berlin-Lichterfelde municipality 1919, pp. 23–26.
- ↑ Erich Wurche: 1896–1956. Lilienthal School. Festschrift. Berlin-Lichterfelde 1956.
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List: Drakestrasse 72-75, Realgymnasium Lichterfelde
- ^ Munzinger: biography of Henry Govert