Thomas School in Leipzig

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Thomas School
Logo of the Thomas School
type of school High school with boarding school
founding 1212
address

Hillerstraße 7

place Leipzig
country Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 51 ° 20 '11 "  N , 12 ° 21' 34"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '11 "  N , 12 ° 21' 34"  E
carrier City of Leipzig
student 684 (school year 2012/13)
Teachers 63 (school year 2012/13)
management Kathleen-Christina Kormann
Website www.thomasschule.de
Thomas School in Hillerstraße

The Thomas School ( Latin Schola Thomana ) is a humanistic - ancient language and musically influenced grammar school in Leipzig's Bachviertel . It is considered the oldest public school in Germany.

It was founded in 1212, making it one of the oldest schools in the German-speaking area . Initially it was run as a collegiate school for the Augustinian Canons and became the sponsorship of the city of Leipzig in the course of the Reformation . From then on she was under Protestant influence. She gained international fame through the work of Johann Sebastian Bach as Thomas Cantor . Among her graduates are many well-known personalities, including the composer Richard Wagner .

The school is one of the most efficient and traditional educational institutions in Central Germany . Together with the St. Thomas Church and the St. Thomas Boys Choir , the St. Thomas School, together with the international education center is Forum Thomanum 800 years of unity.

history

Collegiate school

Augustinian Canons

The founding document of the Augustinian Canons of St. Thomas, also valid as the founding document of the Thomas School, was sealed on March 20, 1212
Apostle Thomas , incised drawing by Theoderich Reinhard, 1477

In 1212, on the initiative of Margrave Dietrich von Meißen, the St. Thomas Monastery of the Catholic Augustinian Canons ' Monastery was founded in Leipzig. The name is derived from the apostle Thomas . Emperor Otto IV confirmed this in a row at the Reichstag in Frankfurt . In 1218 Pope Honorius III. the pen under the protection of St. Peter . Further papal edicts followed. The construction of the monastery was completed in 1222. The canons lived according to the so-called Augustine Rule . They were headed by a provost who was appointed by the Merseburg bishop . The St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas Church belonged to the property . At the same time they had a school for the poor (schola pauperum) . St. Thomas is the oldest continuously operated school in Saxony.

It initially served as a collegiate school in which boys were trained for choral service. In addition to religion, they learned languages ​​and the fine arts . There was no training on the trivium of a trivial school . The first written mention comes from the year 1254, when it was characterized as an outer monastery school (schola exterior) . At this time it was already open to the children of Leipzig citizens, with wealthy boys paying school fees. Thidericus from Leipzig was mentioned as the oldest rector in 1295 . He was followed in 1443 by the lawyer Petrus Seehausen from Leipzig and in 1482 by the clergyman Gregor Weßenigk from Kirchhain, both later rectors of the University of Leipzig .

reformation

The Leipzig disputation with Eck 1519, steel etching by Gustav König , 1847

In the summer of 1519 the well-known disputation between the reformer Martin Luther and the Catholic theology professor Johannes Eck was held in Leipzig . The opening speech was given by the Thomas School teacher Petrus Mosellanus . The protocol was drawn up by the then rector Johann Gramann , known as Poliander. During the disputation, the Thomaskantor Georg Rhau organized a twelve-part mass composed by him. Gramann supported Lutheranism and introduced humanistic teaching at the school . In 1517 Mosellanus wrote his Paedologia Petri Mosellani Protegensis in puerorum usum conscripta . Poliander's successor became his companion Caspar Borner in 1522 . He, too, wrote scriptures for teaching and learning. a. Declinandi coniugandi formulas in ludo ad divi Thomam pueris destinatae . He also tried to find energetic teachers such as Wolfgang Meurer , Johann Scheffel and Georg Fabricius . During his time as rector, the later reformer Caspar Cruciger the elder and the later Electorate Chancellor David Peifer were his students. Later the office of the Conrector was created. Important pedagogues such as Friedrich Rappolt , Johann Christian Hebenstreit and Johann Friedrich Fischer served in this position in the following years.

Latin school

scholasticism

After the monastery, which became the property of the City of Leipzig in 1543, was demolished, a new school building was built in 1553 under the rector Andreas Jahn . The number of students at that time was 172, including 22 members of the Thomanerchor (Thomaner) . The following inscription was located above the entrance to the school:

Non hic Pierides, non vanum numen Apollo,
Non de mentiti vertice nata Iovis,
Ipse sed aeterni Christ sapientia patris
Praesidet, est soli cui locus iste sacer.

The German translation is:

The Muses are not here, not Apollo, the vain will,
Not those who sprang from the false head of Jupiter,
but Christ himself, the wisdom of the Eternal Father,
rules here, to whom this holy place belongs alone.

The oldest surviving lesson plans date from 1574. The curriculum included the Rudimenta grammatica by Caspar Borner and the Grammatica latina by the humanist Philipp Melanchthon . The latter was considered a teacher in Germany. In his spirit, mathematical subjects and music lessons (the so-called quadrivium ) were introduced. In addition, the students had to read Roman writers such as Cicero , Ovid , Terenz and Virgil as well as the Greek Samosata and the reformer Martin Luther. In 1634 revised school regulations were introduced. It decisively strengthened the position of the rector of the Thomas School. From then on, applying students had to take an exam. Students at this time were the representatives of the Baroque era, Thomas Selle , Martin Rinckart and Paul Fleming . The teachers were hired for life and received a salary from 1553.

Already in 1609 the rector Ambrosius Bardenstein complained about the need of the boys, which could hardly be eliminated. During the Thirty Years' War the material conditions and health of the pupils deteriorated further. Many fathers were soldiers and, due to the turmoil of the war, could no longer feed their children. Wealthy citizens preferred to send their offspring to the newly founded Nikolaischule or the state high school Sankt Afra . During Abraham Teller's rectorate (from 1637) many Leipzig citizens donated to the school. The city administration finally increased their donations after Georg Cramer took office (from 1640). In his thirty-six year rectorate he represented a scholastic way of thinking.

In 1657 the Saxon Elector introduced the title Rector. Cantor and Baccalaureus stood by his side. In 1676 the Aristotelian Jakob Thomasius , who was also professor of moral philosophy at the University of Leipzig, became headmaster. His most famous student was Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz . During his tenure, Thomasius wrote the textbook Erotemata logica, rhetorica, metaphysica for the St. Thomas School. He also enforced the treatment of the New Testament in Greek. In old age he turned against the classical languages. He was influenced by the Pietists August Hermann Francke and Joachim Lange . 1680 was the year of the plague in Leipzig . School also suffered from the disease. The institution was particularly successful in teaching church music; the baroque composers Reinhard Keizer , Christoph Graupner and Johann Friedrich Fasch were alumni of the school.

Bach as Thomas Cantor

St. Thomas Church and St. Thomas School in 1723, copper engraving by Johann Gottfried Krügner the Elder

After Georg Philipp Telemann and Christoph Graupner refused to work as Thomaskantor, Johann Sebastian Bach was appointed to the office in 1723. He was also a teacher of Latin and catechism at the Orthodox Lutheran St. Thomas School (the St. Thomas Cantors were teachers at the St. Thomas School until the 20th century; the Rector of the St. Thomas School was also the head of the St. Thomas Choir until the 1970s) and maintained an apartment inside the building. His work should have a decisive influence on the international reputation of the school. Boys from Denmark, Prussia, Poland, Sweden and Hungary came to St. Thomas School. When Bach started, Johann Heinrich Ernesti was rector. In 1723 the grammar school passed new school regulations, which also provided for disciplinary measures against students.

From 1730 to 1734 , the new humanist Johann Matthias Gesner was in office, appointed by the mayor Christian Ludwig Stieglitz . His teaching staff included: Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantor, Johann August Ernesti , Vice-Rector, Karl Friedrich Petzold , Tertius, Christoph Schmied, Quartus, Johann Döhnert, Quintus, Johann Friedrich Brensicke, Sextus and Christian Dittman, Septimus. He reformed the school from the ground up and was considered a pioneer of new humanism . From 1751 the vice-principal Johann Friedrich Fischer taught Hebrew at the school and advocated Greek lessons . The teachings of Johann Amos Comenius spread.

In 1732, George Werner's school , which was renewed in the Baroque era, was inaugurated by Bach with the cantata “ Happy Day, Requested Hours ” ( BWV Anh. 18, libretto: Johann Heinrich Winckler ). On November 4, 1734, the alumni solemnly bid farewell to Gesner with “Where are my miracles” and introduced the new rector Johann August Ernesti on November 21, 1734 with the cantata “ Thomana sat annoch sad ” (libretto: Johann August Landvoigt ). In 1734 the school rules were renewed again. The Bach sons attended the Thomas School without exception, as did the later viol virtuoso Carl Friedrich Abel and the later music writer Johann Friedrich Rochlitz . In 1789 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited the Thomas School to copy Bach's motets. But the relationship between cantor and rector was not always as homogeneous as in Bach's time. In 1804 the headmaster Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried Rost turned to the Leipzig city council with his criticism of the dominance of music over science. The disputes were settled with a settlement.

Humanistic high school

New humanism

Seal of the seal of the Thomas School in Leipzig

The Thomas School escaped being used as a hospital during the Battle of Leipzig only because of the commitment of the Rectorate's College . The Thomaskantor Johann Gottfriedschicht thanked the Russian general Nikolai Repnin-Wolkonski as "Salvatori scholae Thomanae" with a cantata. Rector Rost experienced a total of five cantors. The music pedagogue Friedrich Wieck , who was influential in old age, and the composers of the Romantic period Richard Wagner and Franz Abt were among his students. Rost solidified the school's program and in 1817 produced the text: What did Leipzig St. Thomas School do for the Reformation? In 1822 he described the school ideal in the following words:

"The fundamental difficulties of our time lie in the unification of the three great goals of the Thomas School: the public education of incapable, talented young people to humanly possible perfection and usefulness in the world, learning the learned languages ​​and sciences, education and exercise of musical skills"

In 1835 the philologist Johann Gottfried Stallbaum became principal of the school. He campaigned for the imparting of humanistic education . Stallbaum himself was a Plato recipient. It is not surprising that the linguistically gifted Rudolf Hildebrand von Stallbaum took lessons. In 1843 the Bach monument donated by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was inaugurated in front of the Thomas School. The Thomas School owes a student library to the rector Friedrich Kraner , who was only in office for a short time. It consisted of an extensive scientific, geographical, historical and art history collection. Part of the holdings was taken over by the Leipzig University Library in 1985 . Many alumni were as students korporiert . In 1848 the Academic Choral Society Arion was founded at the Thomas Gymnasium , which existed until 1936.

Under Friedrich August Eckstein , the school developed into one of the most famous humanistic grammar schools in Germany. He averted the closure of the Thomaner Alumnate and inaugurated the new St. Thomas School in Schreberstraße in 1877 due to lack of space. A Goethe -Bronzebüste of Christian Friedrich Tieck was henceforth in the building. The teachers felt drawn to the national author at the time. In 1881 the Alumnat in the immediate vicinity was completed. His motto was Thomani pietate et doctrina conspicui .

Ferdinand Braun, who later won the Nobel Prize in Physics, taught at the Thomas School from 1873 to 1876 . It was here in 1874 that he discovered the rectifying effect of semiconductors using crystals from the collection of the Thomas School . Today's semiconductor electronics are based on this . During this time he wrote his only book, Secrets of Numbers and Wonders of Arithmetic .

World War and National Socialism

Teaching staff under Jungmann, 1912

In 1912 the school celebrated its 700th anniversary under Rector Franz Emil Jungmann . In 1917 the philologist Karl Tittel became headmaster. He led the grammar school through the complicated period of the First World War and the German inflation from 1914 to 1923 . During the Kapp Putsch , there were clashes between workers' services and voluntary corps in front of the Thomas School. From 1920 Tittel accompanied the Thomas Cantor Karl Straube on the choir's trips abroad. One of his students was the Adorno opponent Arnold Gehlen . The social structure of the student body in the Weimar Republic consisted mainly of the educated and property classes; Compared to the other secondary schools in Leipzig, it was considered aristocratic and elitist. National-conservative attitudes were predominant among the students and teachers. Tittel noted in 1928 about the self-image of the school:

"As willingly and understandingly as the Thomas School opens up to the views of the present: it always remains true to itself in one point: It clings to the proven heritage of humanistic education as an incomparable tool of education [...]"

Alfred Jentzsch was rector from 1935 to 1945 . Mayor Goerdeler stood up for him. He represented a Christian upbringing and tried to turn away the worldview of the Hitler Youth from the Thomanerchor. He educated u. a. the Latin Carl Becker . Jentzsch stated on the 725th anniversary:

"The musica sacra gives the Schola Thomana its highest consecration"

Nevertheless, from 1936 onwards, sport came to the fore in everyday school life and hiking days were introduced. The school was to be integrated into a musical high school, which promoted the "young leaders". The then Thomas Cantor Günther Ramin was able to prevent the break-up. After minor destruction in the opposite alumni and in the school's gymnasium during the air raid on March 3rd / 4th. December 1943, Ramin pushed through the outsourcing of the St. Thomas Choir to the Saxon State School Sankt Augustin zu Grimma. The school building was temporarily made available to the University of Leipzig , especially since due to the fact that all upper class students were called up to serve as flak helpers and teachers in the Wehrmacht, lessons were only possible to a very limited extent. After the school was completely destroyed on February 20, 1944, classes were held in emergency shelters . Towards the end of the war, rooms in the Max Klinger School were partially used . Interrupted by week-long breaks in class, the Thomas students found themselves in the building of the 41st elementary school and in other assigned buildings and emergency shelters.

After the war it became known that several former students of the Thomas School were close to the conservative-military Goerdeler circle around the resistance fighter Carl Friedrich Goerdeler , including the banker Wilhelm Schomburgk and the defense lawyer Martin Drucker . The military Wilhelm Kunze (planned as commander in Military District IV in Dresden), the diplomat Eduard Brücklmeier (planned as State Secretary in the Foreign Office) and the entrepreneur Walter Cramer (planned as political representative in Military District IV in Dresden) were involved in the plans of the 20th century. Inaugurated July 1944 . The latter took an active part and were executed in Berlin-Plötzensee after the failed Stauffenberg assassination attempt .

Unit school

After the war, all teachers who were members of the NSDAP were retired as part of the denazification process . From 1947 the Thomas School took up quarters in Lessingstrasse .

The law on the democratization of German schools (1946) provided for a single school (from 1965: Polytechnic Oberschule for grades 1 to 10 and Extended Oberschule for grades 11 to 12) and in fact prohibited religious instruction in public schools. The Soviet functionaries tried to transform the Christian character of the St. Thomas Choir into an atheistic worldview and to end the humanistic continuity of the school. Due to political difficulties and ongoing quarrels, the new rector Hellmuth Heinze went to West Germany in 1950. His successor was the classical philologist Heinz Nöbert . He was replaced as rector in 1972 by Helmut Gunter .

The Thomas School changed its premises several times. However, the alumni always stayed at the old location, so that the school and St. Thomas's Choir were initially separate. The successes remained restrained except for the spatial separation and the introduced St. Thomas classes. In 1981 the grammar school was still one of the nine remaining schools in the GDR. H. Latin and Greek, gave.

According to reports from the FDJ district management, the members of the alumnate were mainly recruited from the middle class and among the students there were 70 percent more members of the church youth community than the socialist FDJ. A well-known example in the Christian resistance was the Leipzig theology student and alumne Werner Ihmels , who died in 1949 in the Soviet special camp in Bautzen . Even the Thomas student Ekkehard Schumann , later a law professor and member of the Bavarian Senate, came with his group in the sights of the state security and was sentenced in 1951 to a long prison sentence for alleged " war and boycott agitation ".

Old-language grammar school

After German reunification in 1990, the number of students increased to over 1,000 at times. With the introduction of the structured school system in Saxony in 1992, the school now offered its students a mathematical, scientific, artistic and linguistic profile.

school-building

Historic Buildings

Alumni in Hillerstraße, around 1881, with the New Thomas School in the background
Old Thomas School at the Thomaskirchhof, 1885
New Thomas School in Schreberstrasse, around 1900

In the course of its history, the Thomas School was housed in various school buildings in the Leipzig city area. It was originally located as a collegiate school in the Augustinian Canons' Monastery. When the school became the property of the city of Leipzig in the course of the Reformation in 1543, the monastery was demolished. In 1553 a new school building was built to replace the medieval one . The under Mayor Hieronymus Lotter constructed two story house was located in today's Thomaskirchhof . It was expanded and rebuilt several times. In addition to the classrooms, this building also housed the alumnate , the rector's apartment and the apartment of the Thomaskantor. It was directly adjacent to the Thomaskirche.

Due to a lack of space in the old Thomas School, a new school building was built in 1876/1877 according to plans by August Friedrich Viehweger for 600,000 marks. The new school at Schreberstrasse 9, not far from the Schreberbad , was occupied on July 5, 1877. The old school next to the Thomaskirche was demolished in 1902 and is now replaced by the Thomashaus built in 1903 by Georg Weidenbach and Richard Tschammer .

The alumnate associated with the New Thomas School was completed in 1881 at Hillerstraße 8 adjacent to the school - also according to Viehweger's plans.

The school and alumni survived the Allied air raid on the night of December 3rd to 4th, 1943 almost unscathed. Only the gym and a few other rooms in the alumnate burned out. During another air raid on the night of February 20, 1944, the school building on Schreberstrasse burned down completely. After the war, the school building was not rebuilt and the ruins were finally torn down in 1951. In the same year the move to the building of the 41st elementary school at Hillerstraße 7. The area of ​​the destroyed school was then used as a school sports field.

In 1973, the Extended High School Thomas moved into a prefabricated building at Pestalozzistraße 9 (Telemannstraße since 2000), so that the school and alumni were now about 1.5 km apart. The Polytechnic Oberschule at Hillerstraße 7 continued to bear the name Thomas Oberschule . In September 2000 the grammar school, the Thomas School in Leipzig, moved into it again.

Today's school building

Luther Church , school auditorium and place of worship

Today's St. Thomas School and the Thomaner alumni are located in Hillerstraße, a residential street named after the Thomaskantor Johann Adam Hiller between Sebastian-Bach- and Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße in the Bachviertel , a Wilhelminian-era district in the outer western suburb of Leipzig. In the east, the residential area is bordered by the Johannapark with the Luther Church .

The listed Villa Thomana in the residential area was restored as part of the international artistic education center of the Bach city of Leipzig, the Forum Thomanum . In addition, a private daycare center and elementary school were opened in the immediate vicinity . The Thomas School has been a member of the Forum Thomanum association since 2002.

After the modernization by architects Arthur Numrich and Timo Klumpp, which was completed in August 2000, the Thomas School moved back into the building in which it had already been housed between 1951 and 1973. This building was built in 1878/1879 by the Leipzig architect Lüders as the fourth citizen school in Hillerstraße 7 / Hauptmannstraße 8. Originally designed for 1638 students, the four-storey building with a facade made of sandstone, granite and porphyry had 39 classrooms and was designed in the neo-renaissance style.

During the renovation, a cubic wing was inserted between the two buildings of the school and the sports hall , which connects the two schoolyards. It stands out from the other buildings through its transparency. This is where the Bach foyer (including the Bach bust by Carl Seffner ) with its large staircase, which serves as an event and break room. The Bach portrait by Elias Gottlob Haußmann was incorporated into the door frames of the school on glass. The stairwells and the auditorium have been restored. An acoustic ceiling was taken into account here. The French artist Ivan Lacaze used lighting systems for the entire building. The landscape architects Daniel and Annette Sprenger took on the exterior design. Today the school has 37 classrooms.

School program

As an old-language grammar school, the school specializes in teaching Latin . It is given from the 5th grade and ends for all students with the Latinum in the 9th or 12th grade. In addition, there are English lessons from the 5th grade, which can be chosen as an advanced course in the upper level alongside Latin. It is also possible to acquire the Cambridge First Certificate in English (FCE). Greek lessons are offered optionally from the 9th grade and optionally in the 10th grade. The Graecum can be acquired in the upper level . This makes the school one of the four high schools in Saxony that offer Greek as a regular subject. As further alternative foreign languages ​​for Latin, French , Italian or Polish can be learned after the 9th grade .

The humanistic tradition of the school is maintained socially. This is expressed, for example, in the BLK program “Learn & Live Democracy” and the POL & IS seminar. The Thomas School maintains a Christian-ethical canon of values ​​and offers Protestant or Catholic religious instruction or ethics instruction as an option in the middle school . Special learning achievements (BELL) can be brought in.

As in other Saxon schools, the grammar school branches of the Thomas School had to be redefined with the reform of the profile selection in lower secondary level (2009). Due to the nationwide abolition of the musical profile, the previous canon of ancient language, musical and scientific profiles could not be retained. It was decided to realign to a linguistic profile, an artistic profile and an in- depth musical education within the meaning of Section 4 of the ordinance of the Saxon State Ministry for Culture on general high schools in the Free State of Saxony (school regulations for high schools - SOGY). In the school year 2010/11, 42.6% chose the linguistic, 44.5% the artistic and 16.9% the deeper artistic profile.

The Thomas School is involved in the funding programs for the use of information and communication technologies, the Lions Quest program and the Comenius programs .

Academic Achievements

In the 1940s, the Thomas School received the renowned Ludwig Prandtl Prize (1942, 1943, 1944) endowed with 3000 Reichsmarks several times for the promotion of flight physics in connection with model aircraft construction at German schools.

In the last few years the school has placed 70 participants in 15 competitions in Saxony. These include first and second placements in district, state and / or federal competitions of the German Mathematical Olympiad (DeMO), the Adam Ries competition , in Jugend forscht (Jufo), the student competition for political education of the Federal Agency for Political Education ( bpb), the national competition for foreign languages , at Jugend musiziert , Jugend trains for Olympia (JtfO), the reading competition of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels , First Lego League (FLL), the Initiative Jugend-Schule-Wirtschaft (JSW) of the Deutsche Bank Foundation and the youth art award of the state association for cultural children and youth education in Saxony .

The students at the Thomas School are among the top performers in Saxony. For example, your average grade at the Abitur was 1.9 in the 2009/10 school year. In the same period it was 2.4 in Leipzig. The 2010 Abitur class produced five students with an average grade of 1.0. The Thomas School thus led the statistics in Saxony.

A ranking according to average Abitur grades of the grammar schools in Saxony:

school year Rank (Saxony) Rank (Leipzig City)
2008/09 2. (after the Saxon State High School Sankt Afra ) 1. (with the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Gymnasium )
2009/10 2. (after the Saxon State High School Sankt Afra) 1.
... ... ...
2012/13 3. (after the Saxon State High School Sankt Afra
and the Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Gymnasium )
1. (with the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Gymnasium)
2013/14 3. (after the Saxon State High School Sankt Afra
and the Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Gymnasium
as well as the Saxon State High School for Music Carl Maria von Weber )
1. (with the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Gymnasium,
the Gymnasium Engelsdorf
and the Anton-Philipp-Reclam-Schule )
2014/15 3. (after the Saxon State High School Sankt Afra
and the Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Gymnasium)
1. (with the Wilhelm-Ostwald-Gymnasium)

School life

The Trias St. Thomas School, St. Thomas Choir and St. Thomas Church have a shared tradition of 800 years. One appeals to the Reformation and church music as well as faith and education . All members of the St. Thomas Choir are students of the school, but there is also a part of the school where non-choir members study. The members of the Thomanerchor as part of the entire student body live in the associated boarding school, the Thomasalumnat .

The Thomas School is a school with all-day courses . In addition, the extracurricular activities music theater, student orchestra, use of the student library, Greek and school choir are offered.

The school newspaper Thom Times was founded in 2001. Topics were traditionally school, viewpoints, politics and world events, culture and teacher's sayings. The newspaper appeared approximately every three months and had a circulation of between 175 and 300 copies. In 2008, a student received the author's award from the Saxon Youth Journalists' Prize. To mark the 800th anniversary of the school, two special editions were published, one of them in collaboration with Kasten Journal , the student newspaper of the St. Thomas Boys Choir. An issue published at the beginning of 2014 whose leading article dealt with dealing with homosexuality at school won the Saxon Youth Journalist Award 2014 in the category “School newspaper at high schools”. In addition, the editor-in-chief Maximilian Karl Schmidt received an award as best editor for the article itself in his age group. At the same time it was the farewell edition of the editor-in-chief, as he left the newspaper after 3 years as editor-in-chief due to his high school diploma.

Traditional school events are music evenings, art exhibitions, panel discussions, open days, school festivals, high school graduation ball, school year church service, theater and concert visits, festive school year endings in the Luther Church to honor particularly active pupils, St. Thomas' Association meetings, own theater and music performances, carnival, Christmas carols and summer festival.

Cooperations

Alumni network

Logo of the Thomanerbund

The school development association Thomanerbund e. V. is an association of former students from the Thomas School. It was founded in Leipzig in 1921. But as early as 1212 there were associations of former Thomaner. In 1925, the alumnus and philosophy student Arnold Gehlen gave his speech on Hofmannsthal (first publication) to the “Literary Thomanerbund” in Leipzig. The contributions were u. a. written by Erich Ebermayer .

In December 1948, the Thomanerbund was banned in the Soviet occupation zone . The alumni living in the Federal Republic of Germany founded the Thomanerbund Frankfurt am Main in 1954 . It reached about 800 members. In April 1993 he closed his office in Ingelheim am Rhein and opened a new one in Leipzig. Membership meetings take place annually, in which many former Thomas students from Germany and abroad take part. He is responsible for the all-day school offer. It trains teachers in humanistic ideas, promotes specialist work by students, financially supports educational trips and study trips, provides learning and teaching aids, supports cultural programs, awards prizes for competitions and takes care of the school library. Former CEOs included a. the lawyer and auditor Reinhard Goerdeler (son of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler) and the theology professor Christoph Michael Haufe . The doctor Peter Roy has headed the association since 2011 .

Other

The Thomas School has a parent and student council. The second participates in the State School Council of Saxony .

St. Thomas classes 3 and 4 are also taught in the St. Thomas School. They use two rooms and the school's gymnasium, but organizationally belong to the Anna Magdalena Bach School (formerly Édouard Manet School ). From grade 5 onwards, they go to the Thomas School normally. Primary school teachers take part in specialist conferences at the grammar school and there are joint projects for grades 3 to 7.

School partnerships exist with the French College et Lycee Saint-Charles La Providence in Saint-Brieuc . The contact consists of visits, correspondence and student exchanges. The Thomas School also maintains contact with the American Pacific Crest Community School in Portland . Visits, e-mail contacts, programs of the Pedagogical Exchange Service (PAD) and student exchanges take place regularly. Finally, the school has a relationship with the Italian Instituto Magistrale Statale "Alessandro Manzoni" in Caltanissetta .

The association for municipal child and youth welfare in the city of Leipzig provides advice on conflict resolution and family counseling. The general social service of the youth welfare office of the city of Leipzig provides family counseling if necessary. The Landesverband dyslexia Saxony e. V. trains teachers on the subject of reading and writing weaknesses. The Center for Partial Performance Disorders LRS / Dyscalculia of the Leipzig Study Group provides school career counseling and support for students.

The focus of the economic cooperation with the Federal Association of German Banks is on the stock market simulation of the German Savings Banks and Giro Association . The Association of the Saxon Metal and Electrical Industry provides regular information about the economic region. The Stadtwerke Leipzig GmbH supports the project work. The aim of the cooperation with the BMW plant in Leipzig is job information, internships for students in the plant and the support of technical work and special learning achievements.

The University of Leipzig offers special cooperation in the area of ​​special learning performance. Attending lectures, supervising block interns, supporting school working groups and the botany school of the Leipzig School Biology Center in the Botanical Garden of the University of Leipzig is possible. Diploma defenses can be attended at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig and interested students are prepared for the courses offered. The "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig offers in-depth training for particularly talented students.

The grammar school has been a member of the New Leipzig Art Association since 2010 .

Through the support group Thomanerchor e. V. the alumni of the Thomanerchor are trained and teachers of the school work actively on the board. There is also close cooperation between the St. Thomas Choir, St. Thomas School and Forum Thomanum e. V.

Personalities

Rectors

Teacher

Nobel laureate Ferdinand Braun , math and physics teacher (1873–1876)

The school had a total of 61 full-time teachers in 2010/11. Of these, 45 were female and 16 were male. Many well-known teachers taught at the Thomas School, such as the Nobel laureate in physics Ferdinand Braun and the Thomas Cantors , including Johann Sebastian Bach .

student

In the past and present, numerous public figures were students of the Thomas School, including members of the Saxon family of scholars Carpzov , the Bach sons , the America researcher Eduard Friedrich Poeppig , the composer Richard Wagner , the zoologist Otto zur Strassen , Sebastian Krumbiegel and Tobias Künzel , both front singers of the Pop group The Princes . The painter Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld , the publisher Albert Brockhaus , the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner , the philosopher and sociologist Arnold Gehlen and the Bonhoeffer nephews, the Federal Minister of Education Klaus and the conductor Christoph von Dohnányi also visited the grammar school.

Patrons

The mayor Christian Lorentz von Adlershelm donated a capital of 4,550 thalers in 1668. The councilor Johann Ernst Kregel von Sternbach donated 2,500 thalers, the interest of which was to be used for the procurement of beverages. He later topped up the foundation by 500 thalers. The councilor Johann Franz Born donated 2,000 thalers to feed the schoolchildren. The mayor Heinrich Friedrich Innocentius Apel donated 2,400 thalers to the Thomas School and gave it 1,600 thalers in his will. The rector Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried Rost donated the St. Thomas School of the 1746 Elias Gottlob Haussmann -made oil paintings Bach. The entrepreneur Wigand Freiherr von Salmuth is responsible for the restoration of the St. Thomas Church and the Sauer organ as well as the acquisition of the Villa Thomana .

literature

19th century

  • Albert Brause: Johann Gottfried Stallbaum. A contribution to the history of the Thomas School in the first half of the 19th century . A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1897 ( archive.org ).
  • Oskar Dähnhardt , Rudolf Hildebrand : Folk things from the Kingdom of Saxony, collected at the Thomas School . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1898.
  • Friedrich August Eckstein : Program of the Thomas School in Leipzig . A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1867 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • An honorable high wise council of the city of Leipzig: Order of the St. Thomae school . Immanuel Tietz, Leipzig 1723 ( archive.org ).
  • Johann Friedrich Richard: The Thomaskloster zu Leipzig, with special consideration of the monastery school . Hundertstund & Pries, Leipzig 1877.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried Rost : What did the Leipzig Thomas School do for the Reformation? Leipzig 1817.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried Rost: Contributions to the history of the Thomas School . Staritz, Leipzig 1821.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ehrenfried Rost: The celebration of the 600th anniversary of the Thomas School in Leipzig ... Leipzig 1822.
  • Richard Sachse : Program for the inauguration of the new school building of the Schola Thomana . Hundertsstund & Pries, Leipzig 1877.
  • Richard Sachse: Contributions to the history of the Thomaskloster and the Thomasschule . A. Edelmann, Leipzig 1880.
  • Richard Sachse : Jakob Thomasius, Rector of the Thomas School . Edelmann, Leipzig 1894, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-305446 .
  • Richard Sachse : The Diary of the Rector Jakob Thomasius . Edelmann, Leipzig 1896, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-305426 .
  • Johann Gottfried Stallbaum : The Thomasschule in Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system . Staritz, Leipzig 1839 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  • Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: About the inner connection between the musical education of young people and the general purposes of high school . Nagel, Leipzig 1842.
  • Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Greek and Latin in our grammar schools and their scientific significance for the present a school speech, accompanied by some remarks about the reformatory efforts of our time . Staritz, Leipzig 1846.
  • Gustav Wustmann : A German school comedy at the Thomas School (1660) . Hundertstund & Pries, Leipzig 1877.

20th century

  • Oskar Dähnhardt: Contributions to comparative research on legends and fairy tales. Treatise on the report of the Thomas School in Leipzig on the school year 1907/08 . Edelmann, Leipzig 1908.
  • Reinhart Herz, Richard Sachse: The teachers of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1832-1912. The high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1845–1912 . Teubner, Leipzig 1912.
  • Reinhart Herz: The seven hundredth anniversary of the Thomas School in Leipzig. (September 24-26, 1912); Report . Edelmann, Leipzig 1913.
  • Franz Kemmerling: The Thomas School in Leipzig. A short history from its foundation in 1212 to 1227 . Teubner, Leipzig 1927.
  • Manfred Mezger: St. Thomas in Leipzig. School and choir. Place of work of Johann Sebastian Bach. Pictures and documents on the history of the St. Thomas School and the St. Thomas Choir with their contemporary historical relationships . Ed .: Bernhard Knick. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963.
  • Richard Sachse: The older history of the Thomas School in Leipzig. Depicted according to the sources . Teubner, Leipzig 1912.
  • Hans-Joachim Schulze (Ed.): The Thomasschule Leipzig at the time of Johann Sebastian Bach. Regulations and laws 1634, 1723, 1733. Compiled and with an afterword by Hans Joachim Schulze . Central antiquariat of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-7463-0085-1 .
  • Gottlieb Tesmer, Walther Müller: Honor roll of the Thomas School in Leipzig. The teachers and high school graduates of the Thomas School in Leipzig 1912–1932 . Self-published by Thomasbund e. V., Leipzig 1934.
  • Jakob Thomasius : Acta Nicolaitana et Thomana. Notes by Jakob Thomasius during his rectorate at the Nikolai and Thomas School in Leipzig (1670–1684) . Ed .: Richard Sachse. Wörner, Leipzig 1912.
  • Franz C. Willmann: The Leipzig Thomas School. In: Reclams Universum 28.2 (1912), pp. 1275-1277.
  • Percy Young : The musical tradition of the school and church of St. Thomas . American Choral Foundation, New York 1981.

21st century

  • Brigitte Braun: Schola Thomana 1680-1750. About life, learning and singing in the Thomas School; 49th cabinet exhibition in the Johann Sebastian Bach Museum in collaboration with the Thomanerchor Leipzig from May 17 to September 9, 2001; Exhibition brochure . Bach Archive, Leipzig 2001.
  • Judith Krasselt: The Thomasschule in Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism . Ed .: Hans-Jürgen Bersch (=  brochures of the Thomanerbund e.V. Band 2 ). Thomanerbund, Leipzig 2000.
  • Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt of a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 (=  brochures of the Thomanerbund e.V. Band 3 ). Thomanerbund, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-033375-0 .
  • Thomas Seidler (Ed.): 800 years of Thomana. Church, school, choir . Leipziger Medien-Service, Leipzig 2011, ISBN 978-3-942360-06-7 .
  • Michael Maul : "Dero famous choir": The Leipzig Thomas School and its cantors 1212–1804. Lehmstedt, Leipzig 2012, ISBN 978-3-942473-24-8 .

Historical school programs

  • Annual report of the Thomas School in Leipzig . Leipzig 1862; 1886–1892 ( digitized volumes 1886–1892)
  • Program of the Thomas School in Leipzig . Leipzig 1864–1885 ( digitized version 1884–1885)
  • Annual report of the Thomas Gymnasium in Leipzig . Leipzig 1893–1896 ( digitized volumes 1893–1896)
  • Report on the school year ... Leipzig 1897–1928 ( digitized volumes 1897–1911, 1915)

Web links

Commons : Thomasschule zu Leipzig  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Number of pupils by profile, in-depth training and grade level ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Saxon school database)
  2. a b Number of teachers ( Memento from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Saxon school database)
  3. Thomas Seidler: 800 years of Thomana. Church, school, choir. P. 22.
  4. a b Sachsen Macht Schule: 88 high school graduates awarded for dream grade . Media information, June 24, 2010.
  5. Reason: 800 years of Thomana - three anniversaries in a triad (PDF; 14 kB)
  6. ^ A b Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 3.
  7. ^ Rudolf Köster: Proper names in the German vocabulary. A lexicon . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-11-017702-1 , p. 175.
  8. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 8.
  9. ^ Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system. Staritz, Leipzig 1839, p. 5.
  10. ^ Kurt A. Heller , Albert Ziegler (ed.): Being gifted in Germany . Lit-Verlag, Münster 2007, ISBN 3-8258-0766-5 , p. 387.
  11. The cathedral school (founded in 1183) or the monastery school in Meißen (founded in 1205) was more likely to be traceable, but could not be run continuously and was re-established several times, most recently in 2001 as the Saxon State High School Sankt Afra .
  12. ^ Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system. Staritz, Leipzig 1839, p. 8.
  13. ^ Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system. Staritz, Leipzig 1839, p. 6.
  14. ^ Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system. Staritz, Leipzig 1839, p. 9.
  15. ^ A b Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 22.
  16. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 59.
  17. ^ Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system. Staritz, Leipzig 1839, p. 17.
  18. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 78.
  19. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 79.
  20. ^ Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system. Staritz, Leipzig 1839, p. 20.
  21. ^ A b c Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 83.
  22. ^ Martin Petzoldt : Bach places. A travel guide to Johann Sebastian Bach . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 978-3-458-34220-5 , p. 142.
  23. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 90.
  24. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 89.
  25. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 93.
  26. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 98.
  27. ^ Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system. Staritz, Leipzig 1839, p. 21.
  28. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 110.
  29. The Nikolaischule , founded in 1512 in competition with the clerical Thomas School, was the second oldest school and first council school in Leipzig.
  30. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 106.
  31. ^ Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system. Staritz, Leipzig 1839, p. 42.
  32. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 120.
  33. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 133.
  34. Davitt Moroney: Bach. An Extraordinary Life . Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London 2000, ISBN 1-86096-190-8 , p. 67.
  35. ^ Klaus Peter Richter: Johann Sebastian Bach. Life and work in data and images . Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-458-32488-7 , p. 145.
  36. ^ Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system. Staritz, Leipzig 1839, p. 64.
  37. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 143.
  38. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 158.
  39. ^ Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system. Staritz, Leipzig 1839, p. 45.
  40. ^ Johann Gottfried Stallbaum: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig after the gradual development of its conditions, especially its teaching system. Staritz, Leipzig 1839, p. 78.
  41. a b Sacred cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach
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  43. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 227.
  44. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 268.
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  54. ^ A b Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 365.
  55. ↑ History of the holdings of the Leipzig University Library, Comenius Library branch
  56. ^ Karl Grosse: History of the City of Leipzig from the oldest to the most recent . Volume 2, CB Polet, Leipzig 1842, p. 587.
  57. The Academic Choral Society Arion 1849-1936 , Sax-Verlag.
  58. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 320.
  59. Kreher, Konrad (1999): Ferdinand Braun - Urvater der Semiconductorphysik ( Memento from January 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive ). Leipzig: Universitäts-Journal , no year, issue 6.
  60. Stephen Games: Pevsner - The early life. Germany and art . Continuum, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4411-4386-0 , p. 67.
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  62. ^ Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch: The Thomas School in Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism , p. 46.
  63. Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism , p. 47.
  64. ^ Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch: The Thomas School in Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism , p. 39.
  65. a b c Thomas Seidler: 800 years of Thomana. Church, school, choir. P. 30.
  66. ^ Christoph Kleßmann: Opposition and Resistance in Two Dictatorships . In: Historische Zeitschrift Vol. 262 (1996), pp. 453–479, here p. 471.
  67. ^ Thomas Schinköth: Leipzig, the city of music in the Nazi state . Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-930550-04-0 , p. 362.
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  70. ^ Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch: The Thomas School in Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism , p. 58.
  71. Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 , p. 19.
  72. ^ Arnd Bauerkämper : The social history of the GDR . Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-486-57637-2 , p. 107.
  73. A number of students from the Thomas School - comparable to the importance of the Roßleben monastery school - participated in the resistance against National Socialism and the attempted coup of July 20, 1944 during the Nazi dictatorship.
  74. Ulrich Heß, Michael Schäfer, Werner Bramke, Petra Listewnik (eds.): Entrepreneurs in Saxony. Rise - Crisis - Fall - New Beginning (= Leipzig Studies for Research into Region-Related Identification Processes , Volume 4). Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-933240-21-2 , p. 258.
  75. Street naming 2/2009 (PDF; 446 kB), Leipzig 2009, p. 4.
  76. ^ Hans Brückl: Between brown and red. The decreed anti-fascism of the GDR and the "case" of Wilhelm Kunze . With a foreword by Peter Maser . Editions La Colombe, Bergisch Gladbach 2001, ISBN 3-929351-14-5 , p. 129.
  77. Detlef Graf von Schwerin: Then it's the best minds you have. The young generation in the German resistance . Piper Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-492-03358-X .
  78. Beatrix Heintze : Walter Cramer (1886-1944) . In: Reiner Gross and Gerald Wiemers (eds.): Saxon life pictures . Volume 4, Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Stuttgart 1999, pp. 63-73.
  79. Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 , p. 36.
  80. Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 , p. 74.
  81. Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 , p. 52.
  82. Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 , p. 117.
  83. Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . An attempt at a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 , p. 71.
  84. Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 , p. 119.
  85. a b Markus Gruber: On the situation in Greek teaching in the Federal Republic of Germany (PDF; 42 kB), 2009/10.
  86. ↑ In 1981 the nine extended secondary schools with ancient language instruction were the Heinrich Schliemann School in Berlin, Humboldt School in Potsdam, Kreuzschule in Dresden, Thomas School in Leipzig, Gerhart Hauptmann School in Zwickau, Ernst Abbe School in Eisenach, Latina August-Hermann-Francke in Halle, Humboldt School in Magdeburg and Herder School in Rostock.
  87. ^ Georg Wilhelm: The dictatorships and the Protestant church. Total claim to power and ecclesiastical response using the example of Leipzig 1933–1958 (= work on contemporary ecclesiastical history. Series B: representations, volume 39). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-525-55739-6 , p. 313.
  88. ^ Georg Wilhelm: The dictatorships and the Protestant church. Total claim to power and ecclesiastical response using the example of Leipzig 1933–1958 (= work on contemporary ecclesiastical history. Series B: representations, volume 39). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 978-3-525-55739-6 , p. 334.
  89. Anna Kaminsky (ed.): Places of remembrance. Memorial signs, memorials and museums on the dictatorship in the Soviet occupation zone and GDR . Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-443-3 , p. 354.
  90. Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972 , p. 143.
  91. Lutz Unbehaun: Hieronymus Lotter. Elector of Saxon builder and mayor of Leipzig. EA Seemann, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-363-00416-8 , p. 147.
  92. ^ The Thomas Gymnasium. In: Leipzig and its buildings. Edited by the Association of Leipzig Architects and Engineers, JM Gebhardt's Verlag, Leipzig 1892, pp. 322–326
  93. ^ Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch: The Thomasschule in Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism. P. 59.
  94. Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972. p. 13.
  95. Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972. p. 107.
  96. Rebecca Ziegs: The Thomas School through the ages . Attempt to create a chronicle between 1945 and 1972. p. 17.
  97. ^ Manfred Mezger, Bernhard Knick: St. Thomas in Leipzig. Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 1963, p. 387.
  98. Baunetz Wissen: Restoration with a "new center"
  99. Thomas Seidler: 800 years of Thomana. Church, school, choir. P. 32.
  100. ^ OE Walter: Elementary Schools . In: The city of Leipzig in a hygienic relationship. Festschrift for the participants of the XVII. Assembly of the German Association for Public Health Care. Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 200-225
  101. Kurt-Rudolf Böttger: New Leipzig pocket dictionary for locals and foreigners . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 978-3-933240-51-4 , p. 201.
  102. Thomas Seidler: 800 years of Thomana. Church, school, choir. P. 33.
  103. A comparable school experiment is the so-called Biberach model in Baden-Württemberg, where the fifth grade also begins with two foreign languages ​​at the same time.
  104. a b School program of the Thomasschule zu Leipzig ( Memento from August 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 61 kB)
  105. ^ Sächsische Zeitung : Dispute over the future direction of the Leipzig Thomas School , May 8, 2007
  106. ^ Judith Krasselt, Hans-Jürgen Bersch: The Thomasschule zu Leipzig between Weimar Republic and National Socialism , pictures and documents.
  107. [http://www-db.sn.schule.de/output/start.php?dc=4440368 Examination results (Abitur examination)] (Link not available)
  108. Second place for the grammar schools with the most 1.0 high school graduates in Saxony in 2010 went to the Dresden-Klotzsche grammar school (with 4), followed by the Léon Foucault grammar school in Hoyerswerda and Christian-Weise grammar school in Zittau (both with 3 ).
  109. According to the Saxon school database, the following Abitur average grade ranking for Saxon grammar schools resulted in the 2008/09 school year: 1. Saxon State High School Sankt Afra zu Meißen (grade 1.7); 2. Thomas School in Leipzig, Wilhelm-Ostwald-Gymnasium Leipzig, Martin-Andersen-Nexö-Gymnasium Dresden (grade 2.1); 3. Anton-Philipp-Reclam-Gymnasium Leipzig (grade 2.2).
  110. In the school year 2009/10, the following high schools were top-ranked: 1. Saxon State High School Sankt Afra zu Meißen (grade 1.8); 2. Thomas School in Leipzig (grade 1.9); 3. Anton-Philipp-Reclam-Gymnasium Leipzig, Schiller-Gymnasium Bautzen (grade 2.1).
  111. Best school newspapers in Saxony awarded ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Leipziger Internet Zeitung, July 6, 2008.
  112. Neue Deutsche Hefte 26 (1979), no. 1, p. 412.
  113. ^ Archive 2010 ( Memento from February 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) of the New Leipzig Art Association
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