Special classes for chemistry

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The special classes for chemistry were founded in 1964 at the Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg as one of the first special class facilities at a university in the GDR and closed in 1992 by decision of the Ministry of Culture of Saxony-Anhalt . After an entrance examination, highly gifted students from all over the GDR were enrolled. The two-year training (11th and 12th grade) concluded with the Abitur . The special school students were already involved in the university education at this time. The lessons were partly carried out in the form of lectures and seminars at the university and were given by university teachers. For example, the special school students were integrated into university research in internships. The material taught went far beyond the Abitur material and included topics that were normally only taught during studies. For this reason, it was also common at times for students in the special classes to be integrated into the second year of study immediately after graduating from high school, i.e. practically starting their chemistry studies in the third semester.

Former school building for the special classes on the campus of today's Merseburg University of Applied Sciences

Unlike the extended secondary schools, the special classes were not subordinate to the Ministry of Education , but to the Ministry of Higher and Technical Schools of the GDR . The specialty students were trained partly by their own teachers, partly by university teachers and scientists from the TH.

Hans Zimmermann was the director for many years. In the 1980s the chemist Joachim Brunn held this position, which was last held by Joachim Eick, also a chemist, until the special classes were dissolved in 1992.

The special classes were an extremely successful model of promoting talented students in the GDR. The students in the special classes in Merseburg have won several gold, silver and bronze medals at international chemistry, mathematics and physics Olympics. Many graduates of the special classes in Merseburg are now internationally renowned natural scientists. Graduates from the special classes in Merseburg are also successful in areas such as culture and politics. Examples are Michael Schindhelm and Roland Claus .

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  1. ↑ H. Frank, W. Ziemann: Information on special classes at sections for mathematics and natural sciences at universities and colleges, version from January 1979, Humboldt University of Berlin, sheet 1 , sheet 2
  2. ↑ Andreas Koch: The special classes for mathematics and physics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . Martin Luther Univ. Halle-Wittenberg, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2000, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Instruction No. 9/1964 of the State Secretariat for Higher Education and Technical Education for the establishment of special classes at the mathematical and natural science faculties of universities and colleges. In: Communications from the State Secretariat for Higher and Technical Education 1/1964