Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Braunschweig)

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Wilhelm-Gymnasium, Braunschweig
Main building at Wilhelm-Gymnasium
type of school high school
founding 1885
place Braunschweig
country Lower Saxony
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 35 '48 "  N , 10 ° 32' 2"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 35 '48 "  N , 10 ° 32' 2"  E
carrier State of Lower Saxony
student around 1100
Teachers about 110
management Volker Ovelgönne
Website wilhelm-gym.de

The Wilhelm-Gymnasium (WG) in Braunschweig is a grammar school with a linguistic and mathematical-scientific focus. It was founded on October 26, 1885 as the Ducal New Gymnasium and renamed the Herzogliches Wilhelm-Gymnasium on April 25, 1906 in honor of Duke Wilhelm of Braunschweig and Lüneburg . Around 1000 students visit the shared apartment today.

The Wilhelm-Gymnasium today

Lessons offered

The foreign languages ancient Greek , Latin , English , French and Spanish are taught at Wilhelm-Gymnasium . As a special feature, Latin can be taken in the fifth year in addition to English. In the intermediate level , in addition to the language profile (with three foreign languages), there is a choice of a mathematical-scientific profile, in which in-depth skills and knowledge in the fields of mathematics, natural sciences (including astronomy, interdisciplinary scientific internships) and technology are imparted. Philosophy can be taken from the 10th year and continued in the upper level. There are four different profiles to choose from in the upper level. Numerous external training providers are actively involved. Cooperations exist z. B. with the Technical University of Braunschweig , the German Aerospace Center at the Braunschweig Research Airport , the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences , the Braunschweig State Theater , the Cologne Institute for Economic Research and, in the field of winter sports, with Eintracht Braunschweig .
The WG has been a certified MINT Excellence School in the National Excellence Network MINT-EC since 2015 .

Sports

For many years, students from the Wilhelm-Gymnasium have regularly represented the state of Lower Saxony in the national competitions for youth trained for the Olympics in cross-country skiing .
Other focal points are indoor hockey and canoeing, and there is a separate boat facility with a canoe magazine on the Oker .

Partner schools

Wilhelm-Gymnasium maintains partnerships with grammar schools and high schools in Megara (Attica / Greece), in Williamston (Williamston High School, Michigan, USA), in Lussac-Les-Châteaux, L'Isle-Jourdain and Charroux in the Vienne department ( France), in Nidzica (Warmia-Masuria / Poland), in Kiryat Tivon (Israel) and in Shanghai (Shanghai Wuai Senior High School). Student exchange programs with these schools are carried out annually. The school also cooperates with the John Abbott College in Montreal (Canada).

public relation

The school's own homepage contains current and basic information. Since August 2008, as part of the offer of a school newspaper working group for grades 5 to 12, the school newspaper WGtarian has been published, which has been published as a print medium until summer 2011 and since then online in the form of a blog. The WG alumni association also operates a website.

Famous pepole

principal

The list of school principals since 1885:

  • 1885–1893: School councilor Alfred Eberhard
  • 1893–1916: High school supervisor Karl Dauber
  • 1916–1923: Ferdinand Beckurts secondary school supervisor
  • 1924–1950: Head of Studies Karl Gronau
  • 1950–1958: Head of Studies Karl Lange
  • 1959–1978: Head of Studies Dietrich Mack
  • 1978–2000: Senior Studies Director Bodo Gatz
  • 2000–2017: Senior Director of Studies Gerhard Thamm van Balen
  • 2017-: Director of Studies Volker Ovelgönne

Teacher (without headmaster)

Former students

Axel Hacke, reading 2009
Wolfgang Joop

literature

  • Franz lattice man: the construction of the new ducal high school in Braunschweig. Braunschweig 1891.
  • Richard Moderhack (Hrsg.): Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte at a glance. in chap. Schools and colleges. Pp. 259 ff. Braunschweigischer Geschichtsverein, Braunschweig 1976.
  • School management of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Ed.): Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium Verlag Hans Oeding, Braunschweig 1985.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Braunschweig)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Richard Moderhack: Braunschweiger Stadtgeschichte. Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 3-87884-050-0 , p. 187.
  2. ↑ Manfred Gruner: From the Ducal New High School to the Wilhelm High School - between tradition and innovation: 1885 - 1906 - 2006 (lecture to celebrate the 100th anniversary on April 25, 2006) , on wilhelm-gym.de, accessed on 19. July 2015
  3. ↑ Jürgen Krieghoff (* 1943 in Braunschweig) is a German diplomat and was Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Naples from August 2004 to summer 2006 and German ambassador to Saudi Arabia from summer 2006 to August 2008