Friedberg State High School
| Friedberg State High School | |
|---|---|
| type of school | Gymnasium with a scientific , technological , linguistic and social science branch |
| founding | 1970 |
| address |
Rothenbergstrasse 3 |
| place | Friedberg |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 21 '41 " N , 10 ° 59' 22" E |
| carrier | Free State of Bavaria |
| student | 772 (school year 2017/18) |
| Teachers | 64 full-time employees (school year 2017/18) |
| management | Ute Multrus |
| Website | www.gym-friedberg.de |
The Staatliche Gymnasium Friedberg (until January 31, 2014: Wernher-von-Braun-Gymnasium ) in Friedberg (Bavaria) is a scientific , technological , linguistic and social science high school with English as the first foreign language . The grammar school is a seminar school for the subjects German, English, geography, history, Catholic religion, Latin and male sports.
history
The high school was officially inaugurated on July 5, 1974. Already in September 1970 it started teaching under its founding rector Martin Hillar - in the rooms of the neighboring secondary school. The high school was already so busy in its early years that in September 1976 individual classes had to be outsourced to the special elementary school. In the spring of 1978 the school for eight trainee teachers became a seminar school for English and social studies. In 1979 the school was named Wernher-von-Braun-Gymnasium , which it carried until 2014. In 1989, Dolf Schwarz succeeded Hillar, who had been retired. In the 25th year of school history, 1994/1995, 1179 pupils were taught by 89 teachers; at the same time, 91 students passed their school-leaving exams. On August 1, 2003, Dolf Schwarz was retired; he was succeeded by Bernhard Gruber. Ute Multrus has been heading the grammar school and trainee training as a seminar director since August 2017.
On July 8, 2004, the musical Love on Clocks , which became famous throughout the district, was premiered. On July 17th and 18th, 2005 a tour to Fiè allo Sciliar , Friedberg's twin town, took place.
The school offers ski courses in the 7th grade, and Italian can be chosen from grade 10 . There is a student exchange with the ITC Blaise Pascal in Giaveno , west of Turin , and with the Lycée de La Plaie de L'Ain in Ambérieu-en-Bugey in France.
In addition, there is a regular America exchange with Logan High School in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Since 2013, a one-week language trip to Broadstairs, England, has been offered every year for the 9th grade.
In November 2018, the grammar school received the MINT-friendly school award.
An annual internship of one week has been introduced for the ninth grades.
Naming
From 1979 the namesake of the Friedberger Gymnasium was the engineer and physicist Wernher von Braun . A working group later dealt with the problematic importance of Wernher von Braun. Among other things, he was significantly involved in the development and production of the Retaliation Weapon 2 (V2) during the National Socialist era , which was mass-produced in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp . Von Braun himself requested workers and selected prisoners during a visit to the Buchenwald concentration camp . The name was initially retained anyway, as his contribution to the development of the space rocket and the advance into space represented an outstanding scientific and technical achievement.
The naming was again a topic for Wernher von Braun's 100th birthday on March 23, 2012: In particular, the address given by concentration camp survivor David Salz on March 20 in Friedberg Castle with the explicit request "Do everything to make this name disappear from the grammar school!" met with a wide response. For example, the mayor of Friedberg, Peter Bergmair , spoke out in favor of a renaming: "This name is no longer acceptable to students and teachers."
On December 20, 2013, the school management declared that they wanted to apply "to reverse the naming ceremony made by the Bavarian State Ministry in 1979 as soon as possible." The reason for this was a report in the television magazine Kontraste . Education Minister Ludwig Spaenle announced that the name would be renamed after the Christmas holidays at the latest. On February 1, 2014, the grammar school was renamed Staatliches Gymnasium Friedberg .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Staatliches Gymnasium Friedberg in the school database of the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture , accessed on April 7, 2019.
- ↑ Benjamin Gesing: Award "MINT-friendly school" and "digital school" in Bavaria 2018 (with photos). November 23, 2018, accessed April 8, 2019 (German).
- ^ Rainer Eisfeld : Moonstruck. Wernher von Braun and the birth of space travel from the spirit of barbarism. Paperback, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86674-167-6 .
- ↑ Marcel Rother: A place that makes the heart tremble . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed April 4, 2018]).
- ^ Controversy about the Wernher-von-Braun-Gymnasium "Do everything to make this name disappear" Article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 23, 2012.
- ↑ "No longer reasonable" . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed April 4, 2018]).
- ^ Press release on the school name "Wernher-von-Braun-Gymnasium" December 20, 2013.
- ↑ Stefan Mayr: Wernher-von-Braun-Gymnasium: School puts names down , sueddeutsche.de, December 17, 2013, accessed on December 20, 2013.