Wettin high school

Wettin high school
Wettiner Gymnasium building
type of school	high school
founding	1879
closure	1944
address	Wettiner Platz 13
place	Dresden
country	Saxony
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 3 '14 "  N , 13 ° 43' 29"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '14 "  N , 13 ° 43' 29"  E

The Wettiner Gymnasium in Dresden was founded in 1879 as a second urban gymnasium to relieve the Kreuzschule . Initially it was housed in the building of the old orphanage on Georgplatz . In 1884, the new school building built on the site of the plague and poor cemetery , which was dissolved in 1823 and which had been designed and accompanied by the architect, City Planning Officer Theodor Friedrich (1829-1891), took place. On October 7, 1944, between noon and 1 p.m., the left wing of the building was badly damaged by the first bombing raid on Dresden . After that the students moved to the Vitzthumsche Gymnasium . This destroyed wing was rebuilt in 1974.

The Kreuzschule used the building at Wettiner Platz 13 until 1961 , after which the 9th Polytechnic High School (also Fritz Heckert High School) was housed there until 1981 . After restoration and renovation, the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music in Dresden is now located there .

Known teachers

• Otto Meltzer (1846–1909), historian, rector 1880–1909
• Franz Poland (1857–1945), classical philologist, teacher 1884–1910, rector 1910–1923
• Johannes Wilhelm Kunze (1865–1927), Protestant theologian, 1889–1892
• Woldemar Lippert (1861–1937), German archivist, 1887–1891
• Kurt Schumann (1885–1970), Saxon homeland researcher and reform pedagogue, 1918–1921
• Ernst Boehm (1877–1945), historian, director 1923–1928

Known students

• Paul Rieger (1870–1939), rabbi (most recently in Stuttgart) and historian
• Erich Uhmann (1881–1968), entomologist
• Paul Aron (1886–1955), composer, pianist and concert organizer
• Willibald Wiercinski-Keizer (1888–?), Senator of the Free City of Danzig
• Otto Basler (1892–1975), Germanist, folklorist and librarian
• Carl Raswan (1893–1966), author and author of specialist articles on horse breeding
• Paul Richter (1894–1942), Protestant pastor and Christian martyr
• Otto Josef Schlein (1895–1944), doctor and communist of the Jewish faith
• Rudolf Kaffka (1923–1985), theologian and politician (SPD), Member of the Bundestag
• Wolfgang Ullrich (zoologist) (1923–1973), zoologist, zoo director in Dresden

literature

• Program of the Wettiner Gymnasium in Dresden. Dresden, 1880–1893 ( digitized version )
• Annual report of the Wettiner Gymnasium in Dresden . Dresden, 1894–1937 ( digitized version )
• Otto Meltzer : The Wettiner Gymnasium in Dresden in the first twenty-five years of its existence. Güntz, Dresden 1904 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Wettiner Gymnasium Dresden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Daniel Böhme: National Socialist School Policy 1933-1945: From Hitler's educational maxims to practical-political implementation and with an excursus on Dresden . GRIN Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-94507-3 , p. 66 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ^ Daniel Böhme: National Socialist School Policy 1933-1945: From Hitler's educational maxims to practical-political implementation and with an excursus on Dresden . GRIN Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-638-94507-3 , p. 67 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
3. ↑ Inventory overview 2004 (PDF; 107 kB) - Dresden City Archives
4. ↑ Winfried Gensch: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ullrich on his 65th birthday. In: Messages from the Dresden Zoological Garden. New episode. No. 3, 1989, pp. 2-5.