Wilhelm Raabe School (Bremerhaven)

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Wilhelm Raabe School
Wilhelm Raabe School
type of school High school
founding April 29, 1878
address

Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 10
27570 Bremerhaven

place Bremerhaven - Geestemünde
country Bremen
Country Germany
Coordinates 53 ° 32 '20 "  N , 8 ° 35' 33"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 32 '20 "  N , 8 ° 35' 33"  E
management Stefanie Mueller
Website raabeschule.bremerhaven.de

The Wilhelm Raabe School in Bremerhaven - Geestemünde is a school center for secondary level I (grades 5–10). It has a high school branch and a secondary school branch, in which the students can either achieve the secondary school leaving certificate or the vocational qualification. The Wilhelm Raabe School has been a secondary school since the 2011/12 school year . The school was named after Wilhelm Raabe , one of the most important representatives of literary realism, in post-war Germany .

Building history

In the old Bremerhaven there was only one higher school with the Realschule from 1858. The port towns hoped in vain for a joint high school. So Geestemünde, with its then only 4,000 inhabitants, decided to set up its own Progymnasium . On April 29, 1878, it was opened in the former building of the district court in Bülowstrasse. Hugo Holstein was rector until 1885 . In the first few years, the influx exceeded all expectations. When Bremerhaven converted its secondary school into a full grammar school in 1882, the number of students at the Geestemünder school fell. That is why it was converted into a secondary school without Latin in 1885.

In 1887 the "Geestemünder Lehrplan" came into force, which envisaged English as the first foreign language, for the first time at a public school in Germany. Since the rooms were too small and too dark, the school moved to Schulstrasse in 1889. In 1904 a Reform Realgymnasium was affiliated. Soon too small again, a new building had to be built.

New building from 1908

On September 22, 1906, construction began on the new school building on Hohenzollern-Ring (today Friedrich-Ebert-Straße ), which was planned by the city ​​master builder Karl von Zobel and carried out by the site manager Niemeyer. The multi-wing, stately and picturesque building in the reform style of the time received elements of historicism and contemporary Art Nouveau .

Exposed brickwork alternates with brightly plastered surfaces; here a neo-Gothic stylistic device . The gentle forms of the structure reveal the influence of Art Nouveau. Overall, due to its different style elements, the building can be viewed as an eclectic structure that represents the prosperity as well as the artistic awakening of the time. The school was inaugurated on April 23, 1908, and the first high school graduates were able to leave the school in 1910.

In 1939 a drawing room was set up in the attic. The gymnasium was rebuilt as a makeshift movie theater in March 1945. The operator of the cinema was the owner of the modern theater in Geestemünde. In 1961 there was an extension for the school. In 1969 the “dilapidated” tower was demolished because the city felt the high cost of repair work was unreasonable.

The three medallions above the main entrance with anchor and rod of mercury / herald's rod (left), owl (in the middle) and cogwheel and compass (right) symbolize the areas of shipping and trade, science as well as technology and craft. The Art Nouveau sun motif on the gable of the west wing is striking. Above the entrance to the auditorium was (or is) the school's motto: “Litteris, patriae, deo!” (Science, Fatherland, God). The weather vane with the chastising teacher had to be changed at the protest of the parents. Inside the building, the large, richly designed staircase, whose figures and decorations are set off in color, is particularly impressive.

In 2010 the Wilhelm Raabe School was placed under monument protection.

School use

Buildings (1915)

In 1904 a reform grammar school (grammar schools without Latin as the first foreign language) was founded in Geestemünde and spatially attached to the grammar school from 1882 on Schulstrasse. In 1908 the reform grammar school moved into its own school building on Hohenzollern-Ring.

In the 1920s, the six-class preschool was dismantled. With the Prussian school reform, Latin lessons were reduced. The Realgymnasium, which was added in 1926, was given up after two years in favor of the Bremerhaven grammar school.

In 1937, by decree of the Reich Minister for Science, Education and National Education, the grammar schools in the Reich were given the uniform name of Oberschule . In 1939 the Bremen city of Bremerhaven was incorporated into the Prussian city of Wesermünde . In 1941 the school building had to be abandoned and given to the NSDAP district leadership as an office building. It was also used for air protection and the accommodation of the security service.

After the Second World War , school operations were resumed on October 23, 1945. Participants in the war were able to obtain full university entrance qualifications in courses. On December 12, 1945, the school was reopened as a high school with a humanistic branch. This grammar school branch took over the tradition of the old Bremerhaven grammar school, the Bürgermeister-Smidt-Schule .

By an ordinance of the British military government of December 31, 1946, the urban district of Wesermünde was incorporated into the city ​​of Bremerhaven, which belongs to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . The first city ​​council meeting took place in the school auditorium. On March 20, 1950, the teaching staff gave her the name of Wilhelm Raabe . A rector stepped in addition to the senior director . The coeducation was introduced.

In 1957 the branches were divided into Hauptschule , Mittelschule (later Realschule) and Gymnasium . The grammar school started with the 5th grade and required an entrance examination in the first few years.

When Bremerhaven entered into a partnership with Elbing in West Prussia in 1961 , the school celebrated the adoption of its sponsorship for all Elbing schools. Since then, the Elbinger has hung next to the Bremerhaven coat of arms at the school entrance.

1962/63 were the old Sextaner - barracks at the Hohenstaufenstraße the schoolyard wall and the pavilion, and later demolished the two characteristic towers.

The changeover to the beginning of the school year on August 1st brought two short school years in 1966. The number of students increased sharply. The grammar school had 23 classes with 659 students, the secondary school five classes with 169 students and the secondary school nine classes with 247 students.

At the beginning of the 1974/75 school year, the upper levels of five of the six Bremerhaven high schools were merged. Only the Wilhelm Raabe School was allowed to pass its 11th grade up to the Abitur. In 1977/1978 the school had 49 classes with 1,465 students, ie an average of 30 students in nine hiking classes. The only old-language grammar school in Bremerhaven until then expired, although the Wilhelm Raabe School continues to offer Latin as a subject. An orientation stage was introduced.

Today's school center

Medallions
Art Nouveau sun

The Wilhelm Raabe School was converted into a school center for secondary level I (grades 5-10) after 1977/78.

Departments
Orientation level, grades 5-6
Gymnasium, grades 7-10
Secondary school, grades 7-10
Realschule, grades 7-10
From the 2004/05 school year
Gymnasium, grades 5–9
Secondary school, grades 5–8
BBR (vocational qualification), grades 9 and 10
MSA (middle school leaving certificate), grades 9 and 10
From the 2011/12 school year
High school, grades 5–10

Students in all departments currently leave school after 10th grade; only the pupils in the grammar school classes, who can acquire the Abitur after 12 years according to the new model, leave school after the 9th grade.

principal

School head in the 19th century
Hugo Holstein
1878–1885: Hugo Holstein, Progymnasium
1885–1910: Georg Eilker, secondary school until 1904
Directors (school principals)
1910–1912: Woldemar Haynel
1912–1928: Ernst Lemcke
1928–1929: Paul Schübeler
1929-1941: Karlaugust Strate
1941–1947: Moritz Waje
1947–1959: Hermann Randermann
1959–1975: Heinz Rogge
1975–1983: Theodor Meyerholz
1983–2003: Werner you
2004–2006: Hans Klaustermeyer
2006–2010: Joachim Schlegel
2010–2014: Dierk Buscher
2014–2016: Matthias Schmuhl
2016–2017 Deputy Headmaster & ZUP Head (transitional)
Current: Stefanie Müller
Deputy Headmasters (Rectors)
1950–1963: Erich Manske
1963–1964: Heinz Diedrich
1964–1973: Adolf-Walter Schmidt
1973–1979: Helmut Klatt
1979–1983: Werner you
1983–2006: Joachim Schlegel
2006–2010: Dierk Buscher
2010–2014: Matthias Schmuhl
Current: Stefan Bechheim

Teacher

  • Karl-Wilhelm Blumberg - Latin, Greek
  • Martin Eisenschmidt - Latin, Greek
  • Wilhelm Feise , philologist
  • Kurt Meyer - German, History
  • Rudolf Roßberg (1910–1982) - philosophy, physics, mathematics
  • Paul Kunze - art
  • Werner Steinmeier and Walter Nordmann were big names in Bremerhaven's musical life. They led the school's choir and orchestra. Many students sang in the city choir, in church choirs, in the Bach choir and in the opera choir of the city theater.
  • Wolfgang Rapp and Alfred Kunst brought many students to the theater through amateur play .
  • Heinz Aulfes , Director of Studies for History and Politics, Member of the Bremen Citizenship (SPD)
  • Gerhard Junge (1922–2016) - French, German
  • Rudolf Korth (1926–1996) was the city's theater and literary critic. The Philosophical Society Bremerhaven honored him with a memorial event.

student

Music on phonograms

  • Children's choir. Youth choir. Orchestra. (Record) Lorby records, 1988
  • Girls' choir and orchestra from the Wilhelm Raabe School in Bremerhaven. (Compact cassette) Landshut, 1996

literature

  • Karl von Zobel: Description of the new building of the reform high school in Geestemünde. In: Easter program of the Reform Realgymnasium in Geestemünde , 1908 12. – 34. Annual report on the higher citizen school, the Progymnasium and the pre-school in Geestemünde. 1890-1912. Printing: Remmler and Vangerow, Geestemünde.
  • Hermann Randermann: Realgymnasium with Gymnasium Bremerhaven-Geestemünde. Report on the school year 1949. Bremerhaven 1950.
  • Hermann Randermann: Presentation for the 75th anniversary of the Wilhelm Raabe School in Bremerhaven-Geestemünde, Easter 1953 . also: Festschrift to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Wilhelm Raabe School in Bremerhaven-G. of the former Realgymnasium Wesermünde-G , Bremerhaven 1953.
  • Helmut Hannemann: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the Wilh.-Raabe-Schule 1878–1978. Bremerhaven 1978.
  • Helmut Hannemann: memories of our school days and reflections on our class WRS annual show 1982 p. 55–62.
  • Herbert Körtge: The Beginnings of the Wilhelm Raabe School WRS Annual Review 2001 pp. 49–53.
  • Wilhelm Raabe School (ed.): 1878 to 2003. Festschrift for the anniversary. 125 years of the Wilhelm Raabe School . Bremerhaven 2003.
  • Harry Gabcke , Renate Gabcke, Herbert Körtge, Manfred Ernst: Bremerhaven in two centuries. 3 volumes, Nordwestdeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Bremerhaven 1989/1991, ISBN 3-927857-00-9 / ISBN 3-927857-37-8 / ISBN 3-927857-22-X .

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monument database of the LfD Bremen
  2. ↑ Helmut Coldewey: A former student's memories of Dr. Karlaugust Strate WRS annual show 1982 p. 45/46 - Helmut Hannemann: We remember Dr. Karlaugust Strate (1891-1969) WRS Annual Review 1988/91 p. 76
  3. ↑ Herbert Körtge / Helmut Hannemann / Hans Alwin Glißmeyer: We remember Moritz Waje * 7.3.1892 † 17.1.1951 WRS-Jahresschau 1983/84 p. 41-43
  4. ↑ In memoriam Hermann Randermann, senior director of studies retired * 9.2.1894 † 14.11.1981 , WRS-Jahresschau 1982 p. 44 - Gisela Welge: Hermann Randermann 125 years WRS p. 31/32
  5. ↑ Dr. Heinz Rogge Senior Director of Studies (retired) * March 13, 1913 † April 24 , 1986, WRS Annual Review 1986 p. 52 - Gisela Welge: Dr. Heinz Rogge 125 years of WRS p. 32/33
  6. ↑ Farewell to Head of Studies Theodor Meyerholz WRS-Jahresschau 1983/84 p. 36-39 - Th. Meyerholz: From my time at the Wilhelm Raabe School (1953-1983) WRS-Rundschau 1987 p. 43-46 - Helmut Hannemann: In memoriam Theodor Meyerholz Senior Director of Studies iR * July 29, 1929 † June 5, 1990 WRS Annual Review 1988/91 pp. 73-75 - Gisela Welge: Theodor Meyerholz 125 years of WRS pp. 33/34
  7. ↑ Helmut Hannemann: Martin Eisenschmidt retired director of studies celebrated his 83rd birthday on March 19, 1991 with contributions by Dieter Weber and Dieter Riemer, WRS-Jahresschau 1988/91 pp. 81-83
  8. ↑ Roßberg was known in the state of Bremen as "the genius of didactics in mathematics" - Helmut Hannemann: In memoriam Dr. Rudolf Roßberg retired director of studies * 7.4.1910 † 28.6.1982 WRS-Jahresschau 1982 p. 43
  9. ↑ picture by Roßberg
  10. ^ Anja Benscheidt / Alfred Kube: Paul Kunze: A North German Expressionist (1892–1977) Bremerhaven 2012
  11. ^ Wilhelm Raabe School in Bremerhaven
  12. ↑ Gerhard Junge (marjorie.wiki)
  13. ^ Philosophical Society Bremerhaven ( Memento from March 6, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ Korth tombstone, Spadener Höhe cemetery
  15. ^ SPD Bremerhaven
  16. ↑ Letter of thanks to Dr. Hannemann WRS annual show 1983/84 p. 17
  17. ↑ Jörg Schulz: Blue letter for the future mayor 125 years of WRS p. 62–64
  18. ↑ Dissertation: Illusion and Disillusion in Thomas Mann's short stories . Hamburg, 1955