Sigmund Freud High School

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Sigmund Freud High School
Sigmund-Freud-Gymnasium 01.jpg
Sigmund-Freud-Gymnasium, 2nd, Wohlmutstraße (during the last renovation)
type of school Bundesgymnasium and Bundesrealgymnasium
founding 1864
place Vienna - Leopoldstadt
state Vienna
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 13 '15 "  N , 16 ° 24' 9"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '15 "  N , 16 ° 24' 9"  E
carrier Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture
student 598 (2019)
Teachers 75
management Theresia Übelhör
Website www.freudgymnasium.at

The Sigmund-Freud-Gymnasium is a general education higher school in the 2nd district of Vienna , Leopoldstadt . It has been named after its most famous graduate, Sigmund Freud , since 1989 .

history

The school was in 1864 by decision of the municipal council of the City of Vienna as "Leopoldstädter secondary school" (1868 "Leopoldstädter Communal-real and Upper School") in the second and third floor of the house Tabor Road , set up 24 of the former Brown-Radislowitzschen Foundation house and by Mayor Andreas Zelinka opened. In the first year of school it was attended by 98 pupils (exclusively male; pupils were admitted from 1971).

Up until 1864 there were only four grammar schools in Vienna, which then had nine districts and 550,000 inhabitants. The 2nd district had 70,000 inhabitants at that time. (At the same time as the decision to build this grammar school, the city administration decided to build another one in the 6th district.) In the next house, Glockengasse 2, a gymnasium was opened for the school in 1865. In 1872 the first school leaving exams took place; at that time the institution was attended by 412 students who suffered from a lack of space. In 1873 Sigmund Freud graduated from the school.

In 1876 the local council approved the construction of the school on Sperlrealität . The name of the area referred to the once very popular “ Zum Sperl ” amusement bar, demolished in 1873 , which was located here. The new building in Kleine Sperlgasse 2c with space for 600 students was opened in 1877. A state high school was set up at the previous school address.

Since 1890, the city administration had tried to get the municipal high schools in Vienna to be taken over by the Imperial and Royal Ministry for Cultus and Education . On September 1, 1897, this effort was successful; the school has now been renamed " kk, second state grammar school in Vienna's second district". From May 7, 1901, the school was called " Erzherzog Rainer -Gymnasium"; the archduke distinguished himself as a promoter of culture and science. Since 1910 people spoke of the Erzherzog-Rainer-Realgymnasium.

In 1914 a commemorative publication was published to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the school, to which Sigmund Freud contributed a contribution on the psychology of high school students. Another contribution came from the later social democratic health reformer Julius Tandler .

In 1928 the school's gas lighting was replaced by electric light.

In 1937, 77.5% of the students belonged to the Jewish religious community . In 1938, many Jewish pupils were forced to move to this school by the Nazi regime : whereas only 26 pupils (not a pupil) graduated here in 1936, the school graduation in 1938 showed 95 due to these measures, five of them girls. In the school year 1938/39, the school, renamed "Oberschule für Jungs" by the National Socialists, no longer had any Jewish students. At the same time, Jewish teachers were fired.

In 1942 and 1943, the lists of high-school graduates had the heading “Engaged from 7th grade”; In 1943 there were no more usual high school graduates. For those who were drafted prematurely, who showed the enormous need for soldiers of the Nazi state, which had been in military retreat since the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942/1943, the school leaving examination was omitted; but the university entrance qualification was guaranteed after the war. In 1944, the school-leaving exams were only taken here by so-called “externists” who had not attended school. In 1945, 1946, 1948 and 1949 there were no final exams at this school.

In November 1946 the Realgymnasium, which at that time had only 96 students, was relocated as the second school to the school building at Vereinsgasse 21 , which had been used by the Bundesrealschule Wien 2 since 1876 ; the school building in Kleine Sperlgasse was taken over by a secondary school for girls and a women's high school. Ludwig Rothansel was the director from 1946 to 1956 . In the late 1950s, due to the large influx of students, a former municipal girls' secondary school at Darwingasse 14, two blocks from the main building, had to be set up as a branch that accommodated up to eleven classes.

In 1960, director Arnold Večer (1908–1983), appointed in 1957, applied to Minister of Education Heinrich Drimmel ( ÖVP ) for a new building; It was fitting that Večer was very active in the conservative faction of the teachers' union. In 1961 546 students were taught in 21 classes, half of them in the dependance. In 1962, through an exchange of land with the City of Vienna (Mayor Franz Jonas , SPÖ ), the federal government acquired 12,250 m² on the area of ​​the former municipal reserve garden in Wohlmutstrasse in the Stuwerviertel for the new building that began in 1964; in the same year the 100th anniversary of the grammar school was celebrated and the name changed to “2. Bundesgymnasium Wien II ”changed. In 1967, under Minister Theodor Piffl-Percevic, the move to today's school building, which at that time had 24 classrooms, two gymnasiums and six classrooms for individual subjects, as well as a day school home.

In 1971, at the beginning of the "Kreisky era" , a period marked by social democracy, girls were accepted into the school for the first time.

In 1989 the school was christened “Sigmund Freud Gymnasium” after its most famous graduate under Minister of Education Hilde Hawlicek , SPÖ. (Freud had attended the grammar school at Taborstrasse 24. It was named 50 years after Freud's death.)

Well-known graduates

Known teachers

organization structure

(As of 2019)

  • 598 pupils (292 boys, 306 girls)
  • 72 teachers (45 teachers, 27 teachers)
  • The non-teaching staff consists of eight people (a secretary, a school doctor and five school attendants).
  • Number of classes: 25
  • The five-day week with lessons from Monday to Friday applies.
  • Day care with a shared lunch that is prepared outside the home is offered for students in the lower grades. The supervision begins immediately after the lesson and ends at 5 p.m.

School types

At the school there is the possibility of choosing between the Gymnasium (with Latin or French from the 3rd grade) and the Realgymnasium (with descriptive geometry from the 7th grade). Regardless of the type of school chosen, students from the 5th grade can choose between French and Italian for their second foreign language.

Rooms and equipment today

  • Special halls with technical equipment for music, biology, chemistry, physics
  • Three ICT halls with 55 workstations and installed teaching software for the individual subjects, 38 additional ICT workstations for students (e.g. in classrooms in the upper level ), Internet access for all student and teacher workstations, digital learning platform Moodle
  • A drawing room, two factory rooms, two gymnasiums
  • Multimedia library
  • State-of-the-art stage and exhibition space
  • 14 projectors, 35 overhead projectors, 18 CD players for language lessons, nine media trolleys (each with a DVD / video recorder and a television set), extensive media collections for the individual subjects (books, maps, DVD, CD, etc.)
  • Movie room, photo laboratory
  • Grass football pitch, two tennis courts, volleyball court, tartan track , athletics facilities
  • Central cloakroom with cloakroom cupboards for each student
  • Own premises for the day school home
  • Work and communication rooms for teachers equipped with 18 computers
  • Buffet

Web links

Commons : Sigmund-Freud-Gymnasium  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • 100 years Leopoldstädter Realgymnasium - 2nd Federal High School. 1864. 1964 , publisher: Parents' Association of the Leopoldstädter Realgymnasium and 2nd Bundesgymnasium Vienna II, Vienna 1965 (80 pages)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review of the Festschrift in the Vienna daily foreign newspaper from November 3, 1914