Schiller-Gymnasium Cologne

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Schiller high School
Schillergymnasium Koeln Nikolausstrasse.jpg
type of school high school
School number 166728
founding 1899
address

Nikolausstrasse 55

place Cologne
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 55 '24 "  N , 6 ° 55' 49"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '24 "  N , 6 ° 55' 49"  E
carrier city ​​Cologne
management Georg Scheferhoff
Website www.schillergymnasium-koeln.de
Schiller-Gymnasium Cologne, view from the justice center

The Schiller-Gymnasium is a high school in the Cologne district of Sülz . It is located on Nikolausstraße right next to the Elisabeth-von-Thüringen-Gymnasium , with which it shares some facilities and courses. It was named after the German poet Friedrich Schiller .

Foundation in Cologne-Ehrenfeld

After Ehrenfeld was incorporated into Cologne in 1888, the citizens applied to the provincial school college in Koblenz in 1890 for their own "grammar school". In 1897 a private school with a grammar school character was founded, which in 1899 became the municipal Progymnasium in Cologne-Ehrenfeld with 165 pupils and in 1905 after the first Abitur exams held in February it became a full grammar school. That same year marked the 100th anniversary of the death of the poet Friedrich Schiller , and so the school was named Städtisches Schiller-Gymnasium zu Köln-Ehrenfeld . Two relics from this time, an old school flag and a stone with the image of a bee have been preserved. The construction of a new building between Piusstrasse and Barthelstrasse had already begun in 1903, in which an apartment for the respective director was also integrated and which was inaugurated on April 26, 1906.

Between the world wars

After the First World War , the school was confiscated by British troops on December 5, 1918 and used as accommodation until April 1919. In 1921, the school , which had previously existed as a purely humanistic grammar school , was expanded to include a secondary school branch that paid more attention to the natural sciences and modern languages. In 1934, Dr. Albert Maier , whose wife was of Jewish descent, was relieved and replaced by the NSDAP party member Leopold Schaeben. In 1936 the Hebrew language examination was abolished. In 1938 the last two Jewish students had to leave school.

Prominent former students of the old Schiller-Gymnasium were Heinz Mohnen , who later became head city director of Cologne, Adolf Süsterhenn , constitutional lawyer and later North Rhine-Westphalian minister of education, as well as Hans Mayer , literary scholar , and Gereon Goldmann , Franciscan priest .

On April 1, 1939, the city's Schiller School was dissolved and the college was distributed to other city high schools. The building was expropriated and took in the 7th and 8th grade students and the college of the Apostle High School, which was also closed and demolished . Director Schaeben stayed in the now state high school for boys . In summer, the school board who approved Rhine province official, "that the previous government high school for boys at the Church of the Apostles in Cologne takes the name of the repealed urban school and is run as a state Schiller school, secondary school for boys in Cologne-Ehrenfeld." The entrance stamp dated 12 July, however, already bears the writing Schillerschule, Staatliche Oberschule für Jungs, Köln-Ehrenfeld . On June 29, 1943, the old school building was destroyed in an air raid. The grammar school used the premises of the Eichendorffschule in Gravenreuthstraße for another year until the school was closed in October 1944. The Apostelgymnasium was re-established in 1945 after the war, the Schillergymnasium initially not.

present

In October 1955, the city council approved the construction of two new municipal schools for the prosperous districts in the west. One of these new foundations was set up at the beginning of the school year, Easter 1956, under the direction of Senior Studies Director Herfs with two sixths . At first one avoided the rooms of various other high schools. After Herfs' retirement, Karl Brambring took over as headmaster. On October 12, 1961, the new building in Nikolausstrasse in Cologne-Sülz was ready to move into. In 1966 the first Abitur exams followed after the war; the grammar school now had about 700 students who were taught by 31 teachers and two teachers.

Headmaster Brambring died in November 1970, followed by Richard Lewald. In 1972 the Schiller-Gymnasium became co-educational . At the end of the 1970s, the “Schiller Forum” was founded, an association of students, teachers and parents to promote cultural school life. In 1991 the headmaster Lewald retired. In 1993, Dr. Gisbert Gemein new headmaster, until then Dr. Hans Haas temporarily took over the school. The school received a three-story extension in 2001. Today it is a medium-sized all-day high school with around 1000 students. Anni Schulz-Krause was the headmistress from 2004 to 2018. Georg Scheferhoff has been running the school since February 20, 2019.

Observatory

The voluntary public observatory in Cologne was installed on the roof of the school in 1962 .

Former students

literature

  • E. Burckhard Schmitz: The history of the Schiller-Gymnasium Cologne 1899-2015 . 2nd Edition. Cologne 2015 ( schillergymnasium-koeln.de [PDF]).

Web links

Commons : Schiller-Gymnasium Köln  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Our new headmaster introduces himself - Schiller-Gymnasium. In: www.schillergymnasium-koeln.de. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  2. ^ Letter from the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne, holdings 569/8, printed in: Otto Geudtner, Hans Hengsbach, Sibille Westerkamp: I am baptized Catholic and Aryans. From the history of a high school in Cologne . Emons, Cologne 1985, p. 201
  3. ^ Standing ovations for Anni Schulz-Krause - Schiller-Gymnasium. In: www.schillergymnasium-koeln.de. Retrieved March 3, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Susanne Esch: Sülzer headmistress retires: "Our parents are very self-confident". In: www.ksta.de. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , January 30, 2018, accessed March 8, 2020 .