Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium Aachen

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Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium
Upper entrance area
Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium Aachen 2011
type of school High school , European school
founding 1835
address

Rhein-Maas-Strasse 2

place Aachen
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 45 '29 "  N , 6 ° 5' 12"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 45 '29 "  N , 6 ° 5' 12"  E
carrier City Aachen
student around 1000 (as of December 11, 2008)
Teachers about 70 (as of August 11, 2008)
management Jochen Geradts
Website www.rmg-aachen.de

The Europaschule Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium is a municipal high school in Aachen with currently (as of 2019) approx. 610 students and 75 teachers. A special focus is the promotion of multilingualism. Therefore, Dutch is also offered. The school has offered a bilingual course with French as the first foreign language since 1970 . About a third of the students attend the bilingual train, at the end of which there is an attestation that facilitates studying in France and other francophone countries and represents an important additional professional qualification. In addition to French, English is offered as the first and Latin as the third foreign language. From grade 10 onwards, Dutch can be chosen as the new language.

The school participates in a number of projects in other Euregional and European countries.

Another focus is the artistic and musical area, in which the range of lessons is supplemented by choir , orchestra and student theater groups .

In order to enable the students to work more independently, a media center with a library and several computers has been set up, which is largely supervised by teachers, parents and students. However, this is still in great need of expansion, as the student use is not to be classified as particularly large. In the meantime, there has been increasing criticism that the specialist reading on offer is out of date and that the ratio of (little) scientific books to fiction books is too unbalanced.

Through the Association of Friends and Patrons, the school had its own school camp in Urft in the Eifel , which the classes regularly visited. In 2009 the school camp was given up and a new association was founded.

School history

As the plaque in the entrance area of ​​the school shows, today's Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium can look back on a long and eventful history. With the help of the Aachen Association for the Promotion of Labor , the school was founded in 1835, at the time of industrialization , as a high school for boys with the aim of being a school for practical professions in business , technology and trade , but also one to provide general education. Special emphasis was placed on foreign languages: for example, English and French were used as the language of instruction in the Prima - almost a forerunner of today's bilingual system. The former dean of the Aachen coronation monastery on Klosterplatz served as the school building . In the year it was founded, 62 students attended the school; In 1859 there were already 287. In the student lists of the first years there are names such as Adolph von Hansemann and Robert Hasenclever .

One aim of the school was to achieve equality with the humanistic grammar school; In connection with the restructuring of the Prussian school system around the middle of the 19th century, the higher citizen school in 1859 and 1861 initially became a secondary school of the first and second level, and finally in 1882 a secondary school . A ministerial decree of 1901 granted the graduates of the Realgymnasium the right to study at the universities; thus equality with the humanistic grammar school was achieved, albeit with its own focus.

In 1891 they moved into the new school building on the corner of Jesuitenstrasse and Prinzenhofstrasse, designed by Joseph Laurent . In 1910, 526 students attended this school. At the beginning of the First World War in 1914, the central office of the German Red Cross was set up in the Realgymnasium building ; For the high school graduates of this year this meant a shortened, only oral Abitur examination; Both inside and outside of the classroom, school life was influenced by the events of the war (class dissolution and merging of classes, harvest aid assignments, etc.). a. also founder of the Aachen football club, the forerunner of Alemannia Aachen .

The political events at the end of the war also made themselves felt in schools and led, for example, to attempts to form student councils; Parents' councils elected in March 1920, politically irrelevant, were supposed to influence the relationship between home and school in a more positive way. Out of the economic hardship of the inflation year 1923, on the initiative of the director, the Association of Friends of the Realgymnasium in Aachen was created, which was supposed to purchase necessary teaching materials through donations and membership fees and to support needy students. It was entered in the register of associations in 1934 as the Association of Friends of the Aachen Realgymnasium eV and handed over to the school for the 100th anniversary in October 1935 the country home in Urft, where classes from the RMG and other schools from the city and district still regularly take several days Stays with educational projects and excursions can be carried out. The tasks of the Association of Friends today are the maintenance of the country home, financial support for various activities for the students, grants for school trips and for the acquisition of teaching materials and books for the student library, for example.

The National Socialist rule also had a lasting effect on school life at the Realgymnasium. As early as September 1933, the headmaster, who had only been appointed in January 1932, was dismissed from his post - a victim of Section 4 of the Law on the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of April 7, 1933, according to which civil servants who cannot guarantee that they will be unreservedly for the enter the national state, the discharge from office has been threatened. After the secondary schools were restricted to three forms through a legal restructuring in 1936, the Realgymnasium became a high school for boys in 1937, which at the request of Mayor Quirin Jansen was given the name General-Litzmann -Schule, after an early and open-minded approach to National Socialism avowed general of the infantry. An earlier application by the new headmaster Peter Kill (1935) to be given the name Adolf-Hitler-Gymnasium had not been forwarded by the city, and the proposed name Barbarossa- School was withdrawn. The reports on the war years show that classes suffered more and more from the consequences of the war, for example due to the drafting of teachers, early Abitur exams and the drafting of students as air force helpers , missed classes due to a lack of coal or bomb damage. During the air raid on Aachen- Burtscheid on April 11, 1944, the school building was partially destroyed; the lessons were initially continued in the state building school on Blücherplatz before the school, as the last school in Aachen, was evacuated to Benetzko / Riesengebirge in the Sudetenland, later to Karlsbad , from where pupils and teachers in small groups, completely disorganized, in May 1945, returned to Aachen.

After the end of the war, the school was not taken over again and the building was given to the St. Leonhard Gymnasium from 1946 . In the years 1945 to 1958, the majority of students and teachers were housed at the Couven-Gymnasium , at that time on Vinzenzstrasse (today Kármánstrasse). Efforts were made early on, especially on the part of the Friends' Association, to rebuild the old secondary school, which, however, was not crowned with success until Easter 1958: on April 17, 1958, the municipal modern grammar school for boys in the Catholic building was opened with 44 students Gerlachstrasse elementary school opened. The discussion about the school name dragged on for over a year, until on April 30, 1959, the decision of the council in favor of the suggestion of the mayor Hermann Heusch for the name Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium was made. On the one hand, this name shows the political attitude towards the European idea in the post-war period, but also includes the Aachen tradition, which has shaped the history of the city of Aachen in the land without borders between the Rhine and Maas for centuries and at the same time through its proximity to the French-oriented culture and economy being affected. With the subtitle: Former Städtisches Realgymnasium, founded in 1835 , the Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium was expressly confirmed as the successor to the former Realgymnasium.

Before in April 1962 the company moved into the newly constructed building at the Rhine-Meuse Road, learned that since then several more extensions were the three classes (Sexta, Quinta, Quarta) - after deduction of Gerlachstrasse - on the upper floor of the Victoria School of housed in the normal clock. In the 1970/71 school year, the bilingual German-French train was set up, with which the Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium builds on its Francophone past. As the first school in Aachen, the Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium introduced the upper school reform for the 11th grade on August 1, 1972 . Finally, for the 1973/74 school year, co-education was introduced at the RMG , starting with grades 5. If the upper level is designed for four courses, the school has been aiming for three courses in grades 5 to 9 (according to G8) since the 2007/2008 school year. Since the 2009/2010 school year, students in the new fifth grade have been taught major subjects according to Helen Parkhurst's Dalton pedagogy .

The headmasters of the Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium or the former Realgymnasium

  • 1835–1855: Johann Joseph Kribben
  • 1855–1883: Professor Hilgers
  • 1883–1913: Johann Joseph Neuss
  • 1914–1918: Wilhelm Schellberg
  • 1918–1919: Meurer (acting)
  • 1920–1931: Leonhard Buchkremer
  • 1931–1932: Bresler (provisional)
  • 1932–1933: Wilhelm Bohn
  • 1933–1934: Ludwig Viegen (deputy)
  • 1934-1944: Peter Kill
  • 1940–1944: various agencies
  • 1958–1960: Bruno Geisler
  • 1960–1970: Josef Hüpgens
  • 1970–1982: Theodor Blasius
  • 1983–1993: Horst Weynand
  • 1993–1994: Berthold Winterlich (acting)
  • 1994-2008: Ingrid Edeler
  • since 2008: Jochen Geradts

The presentation is based on detailed chapters by Karl-Josef Schipperges, Helmut Doerenkamp, ​​Kurt Michels and Josef Schmitz in the 1985 commemorative publication for the 150th anniversary of the Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium.

European school

In 2008 the Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium was certified as a European school by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . That means: the curriculum is internationally oriented. The school offers an expanded range of foreign languages, some of which are bilingual. In addition, student exchange programs or student internships in other European countries are funded. And the students can acquire the European excellence language certificate CertiLingua or at the same time the Franco-German Abitur ( Abi-Bac ).

The Rhein-Maas-Gymnasium has been a Euregio profile school since 2016.

Anniversaries

In 2010 the RMG celebrated the 175th anniversary and 40 years of Abibac.

Former teachers

Former students

literature

  • Annual report on the higher citizen school in Aachen . 1851/52 - 1855/56 (1856) ( digitized version )
  • Program of the higher citizen school in Aachen . 1856/57 (1857) - 1858/59 (1859) ( digitized )
  • Program of the Realschule in Aachen . 1859/60 (1860) - 1860/61 (1861) ( digitized )
  • Program of the Realschule first order in Aachen . 1861/62 (1862) - 1872/73 (1873) ( digitized version )
  • Program of the Real-Gymnasium in Aachen . 1884/85 (1885) - 1888/89 (1889) ( digitized )
  • Annual report of the municipal high school in Aachen 1889/90 (1890) - 1892/93 (1893) ( digitized version )
  • Annual report of the municipal high school with higher commercial school in Aachen . 1893/94 (1894) - 1905/06 (1906) ( digitized version )
  • Report - Municipal high school with higher commercial school in Aachen . 1906/07 (1907) - 1912/13 (1913) ( digitized )
  • Report - Städtisches Realgymnasium zu Aachen . 1914/15 (1915) ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Euregio profile school