Municipal high school in Kreuztal

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Municipal high school in Kreuztal
Municipal high school in Kreuztal
type of school high school
School number 170367
founding 1969
address

To the Erbstollen 5

place Kreuztal
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 57 '47 "  N , 7 ° 59' 45"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '47 "  N , 7 ° 59' 45"  E
carrier City of Kreuztal
student 741 (Oct 15, 2015)
Teachers 47 (Oct 15, 2015)
management Herbert Hoß
Website www.gymnasium-kreuztal.de
former logo of the Friedrich-Flick-Gymnasium

The Städtische Gymnasium Kreuztal (until November 6, 2008 Friedrich-Flick-Gymnasium ) is a grammar school in Kreuztal .

history

Building of the grammar school in Roonstrasse 1969–1974

The high school was founded in 1969. Under the catchphrase of the educational catastrophe , there has been intensive advertising for attending grammar school since the mid-1960s.

By means of a foundation (see below), a " modern language - mathematical and natural science high school for boys and girls " was established. Before long, the at that time still young city Kreuztal took over this private foundation school in their ownership and left it "out of gratitude to the founders and honorary citizen by the name of Friedrich Flick School".

The deed of foundation read: “ I am hereby establishing the Dr. Friedrich Flick Foundation, Kreuztal High School. I am transferring an amount of DM 3,000,000 to the foundation - in words: three million German marks. The foundation is earmarked and is intended to serve the establishment, i.e. the construction and establishment of a modern-language-mathematical-natural science high school for boys and girls in the city of Kreuztal. Kreuztal, December 20, 1968, Friedrich Flick "

The first classrooms were housed in today's “House of Fractions” in Kreuztaler Roonstraße. In 1974 the new building was inaugurated at the current location.

Naming

It was named from 1969 to 2008 after the industrialist Friedrich Flick (1883–1972), who was born in Kreuztal and who donated three million DM from his company to the construction of the high school, which cost around 7 million euros, which had to be spent through purchases in his companies. Due to the fact that Friedrich Flick in the " Flick Trial " named after him as part of the Nuremberg Trials on December 22, 1947 for slave labor, deportation for slave labor, plundering of the occupied territories and participation in crimes of the SS as a war criminal to seven years imprisonment was convicted, the name of the school has repeatedly been discussed and criticized nationwide and even abroad over the past few decades. Even after his release from prison, Friedrich Flick refused to pay compensation for the former forced laborers throughout his life .

The original naming resulted in constant criticism on the special biographical background of Friedrich Flick, which at regular intervals grew into very intensive discussions in regional society and politics. In the 1980s they reached special highs several times. There was a response far beyond the city limits. People like Lea Rosh and Bernt Engelmann took part. Most of the teachers teaching at the school were silent or, like the school management, explicitly refused to change their name. A majority in the council made up of CDU, FDP and representatives of the SPD (29:16) also rejected a request from outside parliament and a request from the Greens to rename the school in 1988.

During a visit from Ignatz Bubis in 1994, he said that Flick had tried to use his money to clear his name. It would never be possible for him, Bubis, to send his daughter to a school named after Friedrich Flick.

A report on Flick's role in the cultural life of the city of Kreuztal was awarded the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Business Journalism in the young talent category in 2005. The discussion did not flare up again until 2007/2008. In this context, former schoolchildren brought a new impetus, who founded an initiative “Flick is not a role model” in a critical review .

On November 6, 2008, the City Council of Kreuztal renamed the Gymnasium Kreuztal City Gymnasium with 26 to 12 votes . Until then, the school received around 4,000 euros a year from funds from the Flick Foundation. It is still unclear whether this funding will continue after the renaming. According to the then mayor of Kreuztal, Rudolf Biermann , the heirs of Friedrich Flick do not want to claim any repayment claims for donations already made to the city.

Student exchanges and partnerships

Every two years, there is an exchange with the Lycée Amboise Paré in Laval, Brittany, for grades 10 and 11 . Since 2003 the grammar school has had a school partnership with the German-speaking Lyceum Adam Müller Guttenbrunn in Arad , Romania.

Extracurricular activities

A theater company has existed since 1982, which usually presents a new production every year. There is also a rowing club, which is carried out with three of its own boats on Lake Biggesee . In addition, a ski course is offered every year in South Tyrol for grade 11.

The male handball school team has so far qualified three times for the national finals of the youth trained for the Olympics & Paralympics competition in Berlin .

Every year, on the first working day after Christmas, a school-wide alumni meeting is organized by the school's friends' association.

Former students

Former teachers

Web links

Commons : Städtisches Gymnasium Kreuztal  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ school management. In: www.gymnasium-kreuztal.de. Retrieved March 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Brochure 25 Years Stadt Kreuztal, publisher: Stadt Kreuztal, December 1993
  3. ↑ Brochure Our School Friedrich-Flixck-Gymnasium Kreuztal , published by the Gymnasium in the early 1980s
  4. ^ Application by the Greens to rename the Friedrich-Flick-Gymnasium in 1988
  5. ↑ Excerpt from the council minutes for the rejection of the renaming application in 1988
  6. ↑ Collection of media reports on the name dispute: Students fight against Flick. In Kreuztal, South Westphalia, a high school still bears the name of the war criminal . In: Die Tageszeitung , April 23, 2008. Flick-Gymnasium - honoring a war criminal . Contribution of the ARD program Kontraste , May 29, 2008, on rbb-online.de . Willingness to rename has increased. Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation welcomes the name discussion . In: Westfälische Rundschau , June 13, 2008, on derwesten.de . FFG “is not a school without history” . In: Westfälische Rundschau , June 28, 2008, on derwesten.de . Wrong role model Flick. City of Kreuztal has another vote on the name of the grammar school . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , July 10, 2008. High school signals readiness to rename . In: Westfälische Rundschau , September 11, 2008, on derwesten.de . Nazi criminal Flick. The great forgetting - war criminals as namesake ( memento from September 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: one day , Zeitgeschichten on Spiegel Online , September 13, 2008. Flick-Gymnasium is a thing of the past . In: Westfälische Rundschau , November 7th, 2008, on derwesten.de (report on the council meeting of the city of Kreuztal on November 6th, 2008, in which the renaming was decided). Mayor: restore pacification in school and town . In: Westfälische Rundschau , November 7, 2008, on derwesten.de (speech by Mayor Rudolf Biermann on November 6, 2008 before the vote on the renaming). Homepage of the former student and journalist Thilo Schmidt , thiloschmidt.de , with his contributions to Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur .
  7. ^ Report in the Deutschlandfunk broadcast DLF-Magazin from November 6, 2008.
  8. ↑ Westfälische Rundschau, local edition Kreuztal, April 29, 2009.