Walther-Rathenau-Gymnasium
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| type of school | high school |
| School number | 04Y09 |
| founding | 1903 |
| address |
Herbertstrasse 4 |
| place | Berlin-Grunewald |
| country | Berlin |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 29 '15 " N , 13 ° 16' 52" E |
| carrier | State of Berlin |
| student | 422 (2015/2016) |
| Teachers | 39 + 8 trainee teachers + 1 educator (2015/2016) |
| management | Solveig Knobelsdorf |
| Website | wrs-berlin.de |
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The Walther-Rathenau-Gymnasium is a high school in the Berlin district of Grunewald . It was founded in 1903 as a secondary school in Grunewald near Berlin as a boys' school . From 1919 it was called Grunewald-Gymnasium . It was named in 1946 in memory of Walther Rathenau , who was murdered by anti-Semitic and nationalist perpetrators not far from the school on June 24, 1922 . For almost ten years before 1933 an important liberal Neukölln reform secondary school was called Rathenaus.
history
The school building was built in 1903 by the then independent rural community of Grunewald and has been expanded several times since then. In 1928 the new building was added on Herbertstrasse. The gym and auditorium wing destroyed during the Second World War was replaced by a larger new building in 1960.
In the 1920s, the school was characterized by a wide range of courses that should take greater account of the talents and inclinations of the students. This "freedom of movement" can be seen as a forerunner of today's course phase. During this time around a third of the students were of Jewish faith. Since April 1933, the school has been run by a provisional director appointed by the National Socialists . He insisted that the Jewish teachers, including Richard Samuel , and most of the Jewish students, had to leave the school. Many emigrated to Palestine , Great Britain , France , Switzerland and the USA .
The Rathenau-Gymnasium is a mixed school for girls and boys. The former Lyceum - the Hildegard-Wegscheider-Gymnasium - is the partner school of the Walther-Rathenau-Gymnasium.
profile
As usual in Berlin, the grammar school begins with the seventh grade. The order of languages is as follows: From the seventh grade onwards, either Latin or French can be chosen as a second foreign language alongside English . A third foreign language can be chosen as part of the compulsory elective lessons from the eighth grade. From the ninth grade, there is another project-oriented elective subject. In the qualification phase, thanks to the long-term cooperation with the Hildegard Wegscheider Oberschule, there is a wide range of course combinations to choose from. These options cover the standard subjects with the exception of geography, which is not offered as a major.
Former students
- Reinhard Bendix (sociologist)
- Georg Benjamin (pediatrician and resistance fighter)
- Wolfgang Berg (physicist)
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (resistance fighter of July 20, 1944)
- Klaus Bonhoeffer (resistance fighter of July 20, 1944)
- Ernst Bornemann (sex researcher)
- Roger Cicero (jazz and pop musician)
- Justus Delbrück (resistance fighter of July 20, 1944)
- Christine von Dohnanyi (resistance fighter of July 20, 1944)
- Hans von Dohnanyi (resistance fighter of July 20, 1944)
- Tanja Dückers (writer and journalist)
- Tanja Geke (voice actress )
- Leonore Goldschmidt (pedagogue)
- Klaus Herlitz (entrepreneur)
- Knut Hoffmeister (experimental filmmaker)
- Björn Jotzo (politician and lawyer)
- Friedrich Karl Kaul (lawyer, university professor and writer)
- Michael Kerr (lawyer, student only for a short time due to political emigration )
- Bernhard Klamroth (resistance fighter of July 20, 1944)
- Ulrich Klug (Law Professor)
- Jan Kobow (opera singer)
- Ferdinand Kroh (journalist and non-fiction author)
- Horst Krüger (writer)
- Christoph Meyer (politician and lawyer)
- Werner Milch (lawyer)
- Horst-Eberhard Richter (psychoanalyst)
- Wolf Schneider (journalist, author, language critic)
- Harry C. Schnur (classical philologist)
- Hans Schönfeld (theologian)
- Klaus-Peter Schulz (Member of the Bundestag)
- Cornelia Seibeld (politician and lawyer)
- Joachim Seyppel (literary scholar)
- Nicolaus Sombart (sociologist)
- Konstantin Spies (physician and politician)
- Hasso Spode (sociologist)
- Alexander Stahlberg (resistance fighter of July 20, 1944)
- Sylvia von Stieglitz (politician and entrepreneur)
- Beate Stoffers (politician and political scientist)
- Fritz von Twardowski (diplomat)
- Joachim Wedekind (actor, radio play speaker and screenwriter)
- Peter Weiss (writer)
- Michael Wolffsohn (historian)
- Marion Countess Yorck von Wartenburg (judge and resistance fighter of July 20, 1944)
- Rudolf Zipkes (lawyer and writer)
literature
- Grunewald-Gymnasium (Ed.): 25 years of Grunewald-Gymnasium . Berlin 1928.
- Walther-Rathenau-Schule (Ed.): 50 years of the Walther-Rathenau-Schule (formerly Grunewald-Gymnasium) . Berlin 1953.
- Walther-Rathenau-Schule (Ed.): 75 years of Walther-Rathenau-Oberschule - Gymnasium - (formerly Grunewald-Gymnasium) . Berlin 1978.
- Walther-Rathenau-Schule (Ed.): 100 years of Walther-Rathenau-Oberschule - grammar school . Berlin 2003.
- Ute Kniepen / Marga Quiring: The expulsion of Jewish students from the Grunewald grammar school from 1933: a documentation . Grunewald-Gymnasium Foundation, Berlin 2012.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Walther-Rathenau-Gymnasium. (No longer available online.) In: berlin.de. Senate Department for Education, Science and Research, September 19, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 2, 2016 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Homepage of the Hildegard-Wegscheider-Gymnasium
- ↑ The school's flyer for 2016 ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
