Wilhelm High School (Hamburg)

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Wilhelm High School
Entrance area of ​​the Wilhelm-Gymnasium.jpg
Entrance area of ​​the Wilhelm-Gymnasium
type of school Humanistic high school
founding 1881
address

Klosterstieg 17, 20149 Hamburg

place Hamburg
country Hamburg
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 34 '27 "  N , 9 ° 59' 49"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '27 "  N , 9 ° 59' 49"  E
student about 700
Teachers approx. 60
management Martin Richter
Website www.wilhelm-gymnasium.de

The Wilhelm-Gymnasium is a traditional humanistic high school with a musical branch in Hamburg - Harvestehude .

History and buildings

Old main building of the Wilhelm Gymnasium of CJCZimmermann today to SUB Hamburg duly
Administration wing with entrance (left)
Class house

The grammar school was founded in 1881 as a new school for scholars . This made the grammar school the third higher education institution and the second classic grammar school in the city of Hamburg - after Johanneum and the modern language Realgymnasium (today Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium). In 1883 the Senate renamed the school in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm I in Wilhelm-Gymnasium . From 1883 to 1885, a new building for the grammar school was built on the then northwest corner of the Moorweide according to plans by the Hamburg architect Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann . The two-winged building at Moorweidenstrasse 40 originally had three floors, later the attic was expanded.

During the Second World War, the Hamburg State and University Library was bombed out on the night of July 24th to 25th, 1943 as part of " Operation Gomorrah ", and most of the books were burned. The rescued holdings were housed in the Wilhelm-Gymnasium building. Schools were only run to a very limited extent in 1943 in view of the “ Kinderlandverschickung ” of younger age groups and the use of high school students as air force helpers. The Wilhelm Gymnasium initially found shelter as an additional "guest school" in the Albrecht Thaer School on Holstenglacis.

The library did not return the school building after the end of the war; after it was made available by the cultural administration, public traffic began there in November 1945. Today the building is referred to as the old building of the State and University Library and is a listed building . The former school yard at the rear of the building is built over as an atrium .

In 1952, the Wilhelm-Gymnasium school moved to the Eimsbüttel Oberschule building on Kaiser-Friedrich-Ufer, also there as a "guest school". In 1953 the first girls were accepted into the shared flat.

In 1956, planning began for a new school building at Klosterstieg 17 in Hamburg-Harvestehude . The designs for the new school came from Paul Seitz , First Building Director and Head of the Hamburg Building Department. Construction began in 1961 and the inauguration took place in 1964. The first buildings include the two-storey administration wing at the entrance and the class house (now the lower and middle level building), a three-story building with three cobblestone-type wings , a total of 18 classrooms. The compartment had a shed roof construction. School operations on the newly built campus on Klosterstieg began at the beginning of the 1964/65 school year.

In 1973 the school was expanded to include a music room and a break hall, and in the same year the gymnasium was built in series. In 1980 pavilions were set up. In 1990/91 the auditorium was added, which was financed by donations. In 1999 a new building for information technology and biology was built, today the upper level building.

In 2017/18 the renovation-ready sports hall and the specialist wing were demolished to make way for a new building. The new building was planned by the architects “Hentschel & Oestreich” and combines the gymnasium in the basement with rooms for specialist teaching on the first and second floors. The new building should be completed in 2020.

School profile

Today's mission statement of the Wilhelm Gymnasium is: "We are an old-language gymnasium with a musical branch."

The school has been one of eighteen certified Club of Rome schools across Germany since 2009 and participates in the Hamburg pilot project for a self-reliant school .

Ancient language

The Wilhelm-Gymnasium is one of the old-language grammar schools in Hamburg - Latin is taught in addition to English from the fifth grade. From the 8th grade onwards, a third foreign language has to be chosen, either French or ancient Greek .

A specialty of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium, which results from the old language, is the class trip to Rome , which the 9th year takes. The Wilhelm-Gymnasium is, together with the Christianeum , Johanneum , Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium and the Catholic Sankt-Ansgar-Schule, a member of the working group of parents' councils and friends of the humanistic high schools in Hamburg, and organizes the "Römertag" every two years with these schools .

Branch of music

In 1983 the music branch was established at Wilhelm-Gymnasium, since then the gymnasium has been one of the Hamburg schools with a special musical profile. There is one music class per year for which learning to play an orchestral instrument is compulsory. The individual lessons on the instrument are private. In the lower grades, the music class plays as a class orchestra, after which the students switch to the large orchestra, the Junior Big Band or one of the choirs, depending on the instrument and inclination . If you are particularly suitable, you will be transferred to the chamber orchestra, the big big band or one of the upper level choirs after the 9th or 10th grade. These ensembles are also open to students outside of the music class. In the upper level, the Wilhelm-Gymnasium offers an artistic profile in which music (or art) is the profile-giving subject. Thus, music can be chosen as a high school graduation subject.

Musical highlights of the school year are the Christmas concerts in St. Johannis-Harvestehude , the orchestra and big band trips and rehearsal weekends, the talent shed as a workshop for trying out music, the concert and the singing festival. The school's big band is called Willie's Groove , and was founded in 1990 by Lutz Kannenberg. The big band also performs outside of school and takes part in competitions such as Jugend jazzt .

Sports

On June 1, 1888, sub-secondary students at Wilhelm-Gymnasium founded the Hamburg Football Club (HFC), one of the predecessors of the Hamburg sports club .

The school rowing club Gymnasial Ruderverein Hamburg (GRV "H") was founded in 1909 by primary school students. It was banned in 1937, and the association revived after the end of the war. The association is open to middle and lower school students . The association currently has over 50 members from the 6th grade. Rowing takes place from the jetty of the Hamburger und Germania Ruder Club (DHuGRC) on the banks of the Alster. The GRV "H" has been on friendly terms with the DHuGRC since it was founded, and has also been contractually linked since 1970. Boys and girls who want to take part in higher-ranking regattas are looked after by the club trainer.

Weekend free time, training camps and occasionally hiking trips are offered by the trainers, supervisors and protectors. In the past 25 years, teams from the shared flat have almost always participated in the national finals of the youth rowers trained for the Olympics in Berlin and have achieved medals thirteen times.

Well-known teachers and former students

Since it was founded in 1881, the Wilhelm-Gymnasium had more than 15 headmasters . The known teachers were predominantly classical philologists or historians with a doctorate.

The most famous former students of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium include u. a. the physics Nobel Prize laureate James Franck (Abitur 1902), the bank manager Jürgen Ponto who was murdered by the RAF (Abitur 1942), and the culture and music critic Joachim Kaiser (Abitur 1948).

A number of well-known students in the flat share were persecuted as Jewish during the Nazi era and forced to emigrate, including the graphic artist HA Rey (Abitur 1916), creator of the children's book series " Curious George ". The physicist James Franck also emigrated. The flat share students Reinhold Meyer and Albert Suhr (both Abitur 1940) were members of the White Rose Hamburg , and paid for it with imprisonment or their life. By contrast, Karl Retzlaff (Abitur 1910) was the commander of the Ordnungspolizei in Hamburg, most recently in the rank of SS group leader . The lawyer Curt Rothenberger (Abitur 1914) was u. a. State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice , and was found guilty in the Nuremberg legal process in 1947.

literature

  • Festschrift for the inauguration of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hamburg on May 21, 1885 . Otto Meißner, Hamburg 1885
  • School regulations for the Wilhelm-Gymnasium . Lütcke & Wulff, Hamburg 1895
  • Edmund Kelter: Hamburg and the nation fifty years ago. Ceremonial address given in the auditorium of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium on Jan. 27, 1898 . Hamburg 1898
  • 50th anniversary of the Wilhelmgymnasium in Hamburg. 1881-1931 . Christians, Hamburg 1931
  • Franz Böhmer (Ed.): Wilhelm-Gymnasium Hamburg 1881–1956 . Christians, Hamburg 1956
  • Joist Grolle : 100 years of Wilhelm-Gymnasium. Address by Senator Grolle on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium . State Press Office Hamburg, Hamburg 1981
  • Wilhelm-Gymnasium Hamburg 1881-2006. Festschrift for the 125th anniversary in 2006 on behalf of the school conference, the school association and the alumni association . Hower, Hamburg 2006

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martina G. Lüke: Between tradition and departure: German lessons and reading books in the German Empire . Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-56408-0 , p. 307.
  2. ↑ Reconstruction 1943-45 in the online exhibition Operation Gomorrha of the SUB Hamburg.
  3. ↑ Hamburg cultural authority: monument no. 19301 Moorweidenstrasse 40: Wilhelm-Gymnasium, formerly (State and University Library, old building) . In: https://www.hamburg.de/contentblob/3947936/4e42460335c12a006a19da009ee64a09/data/denkmalliste-eimsbuettel.pdf
  4. ↑ a b c d school history on the website of the Wilhelm-Gymnasium
  5. ↑ a b c d Boris Meyn : The history of the development of the Hamburg school building . Kovač, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-86064-707-5 , p. 463. (inventory number 40)
  6. ^ New building for the Wilhelm Gymnasium at Klosterstieg 17, Hamburg. Public announcement
  7. ↑ Presentation of the new building project in March 2017 on the school website
  8. ^ Mission statement on the Wilhelm-Gymnasium website.
  9. ↑ Working group of parents' councils and friends of the humanistic high schools in Hamburg
  10. ↑ a b Music at the Wilhelm-Gymnasium on the school website.
  11. ↑ Günter Fink: Swinging with the professionals . In: Die WELT from April 9, 2006.
  12. ↑ Review 2015 on the website of the Landesmusikrat Hamburg.