Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule

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Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule

The Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule in Dillenburg in central Hesse is a grammar school in the Lahn-Dill district with secondary levels I and II, the history of which goes back to 1537, when it was founded as a Latin school .

School history

The exact founding date of the Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule is not known, but it can be safely set between 1535 and 1538 - in general, 1537 is assumed. At that time the school was run as a Latin school , teaching only Latin, religion and music. The money for the establishment of such a "public" school came from Count Wilhelm the Rich of Nassau .

The school experienced a certain boom in the 16th century, but had to struggle to assert itself in the 17th century. The devastating plague and the Thirty Years' War had negative effects when the school became a “city school” .

It experienced an upswing in the 18th century when it was elevated to a grammar school by Prince Wilhelm V. Over time, more and more subjects were added, but the ancient languages ​​still dominated.

During the Napoleonic era there were financial bottlenecks, and the school was downgraded in 1817 to a "lower scholarly school". The first school library was opened in 1821. After Nassau had become part of the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau in 1866 , the school was expanded to a Progymnasium in 1867 and finally to a Gymnasium again in 1874, so that in 1876 pupils could take the Abitur at the school for the first time .

The First World War and its aftermath also had an impact on teaching. Girls were admitted to school for the first time in 1922. With the school reform of 1937, the school was converted into a "State High School for Boys".

After the Second World War it was reopened on December 10, 1945 as the “Staatliches Realgymnasium ”. On November 21, 1957, due to the lack of space, the move to today's school building in Jahnstrasse took place. The official name was "Gymnasium und Altsprachliches Gymnasium". In 1958, the grammar school was named Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule, named after Wilhelm I of Orange , who was born in Dillenburg in 1533 and later became the liberator of the Netherlands. The Dutch still revere him today as the "father of the fatherland".

The school today

The school is currently attended by approx. 1300 students and has approx. 120 teachers.

Under the school motto “Learning in Diversity - Living Responsibly”, the school is positioning itself in a large, rather rural catchment area as a technically broad-based grammar school that leads to the Abitur in nine school years ( G9 ) . The Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule works as an all-day school in profile 2.

Since 2014, the Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule has had the status of an independent general education school (SES).

Martin Hinterlang has been Head of Studies since 2012.

Cooperations

The Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule cooperates with various external partners in both regular lessons and all-day courses:

International student exchange

Support association

As early as the 1930s there was an “Association of Former Members of the Gymnasium zu Dillenburg”, but the Friends' Association was re-established on May 14, 1991 by the then headmaster Dieter Scholz together with representatives of the teaching staff, the parents and alumni under the name “Verein of the alumni and friends of the Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule eV ”.

In 2015, the association was renamed "Wilhelms Freunde - Förderverein der Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule eV".

The association supports school work, is the provider of the all-day program and publisher of the school's yearbook and organizes the maintenance of contacts with former students and teachers.

Personalities

Well-known former teachers

  • Jost Hoen (around 1500–1569), 1537–1538 high school master
  • Johannes Bidencap (around 1512–1596), 1540–1551 junior schoolmaster, 1551–1576 high schoolmaster
  • Anton Stöver (around 1513–1556), 1538–1551 high school master
  • Wilhelm Hoen (1539–1602), 1562–1566 sub-schoolmaster
  • Jodocus Naum (around 1551–1597); 1582–1584 high school master
  • Johann Bernhard Gottsleben (around 1595–1635), 1619–1626 high school master
  • Johannes Thomae (around 1604–1672), 1632–1633 high school master
  • Konrad Post (1613–1669), 1633–1634 high school master
  • Georg Wilhelm Lorsbach (1752–1816), orientalist and theologian; 1786–1791 rector
  • Johann Jakob Wisseler (1753–1821), theologian; 1776–1779 vice rector, 1779–1785 rector
  • Johann Jakob Roemer (1759–1825), botanist; 1791–1817 rector
  • Justus Heinrich Dresler (1775–1839), mathematician; 1827–1839 rector
  • Johann Philipp Sandberger (1782–1844), theologian and natural scientist; 1820–1827 rector
  • Johann Hermann Steubing (1750–1827), theologian and historian; 1775–1780 rector
  • Joseph Muth (1788–1866), historian and poet; 1813-1817 vice rector
  • Friedrich Jakob Schmitthenner (1796–1850), constitutional lawyer and Germanist; 1819–1827 Vice Rector
  • Adolph Schenck (1803-1878), entomologist; 1835–1841 Vice Rector, 1841–1845 Vice Rector
  • Johann Bellinger (1809–1882), politician; 1835–1839 vice rector, 1858–1862 rector
  • Johann Heinrich Karl Rossel (1815–1872), historian and politician; 1846–1848 Vice Rector, 1848–1850 Vice Rector
  • August Christian Friedrich Spieß (1815–1893), local history researcher; 1841–1848 vice principal, 1862–1886 headmaster
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll (1819–1890), classical philologist and teacher; 1842–1846 teacher
  • Peter Presber (1824–1909), drawing teacher and local history researcher, 1858–1900 teacher
  • Paul Moses Schott (1882–1936), senior teacher from 1914, "dismissed" as a teacher in 1933 at the instigation of the National Socialists
  • Emil Becker (1884–1967), local history researcher; 1921–1937 grammar school director
  • Walter Bauer (1907–1978); Art historian, archaeologist and local researcher, teacher 1945–1968
  • Wolfgang Fricke (1932–2016), teacher from 1960, later director of studies until 1994
  • Wolfgang Schult (* 1942), musician; 1971–1981 teacher
  • Peter Kuhlmann (* 1965), classical philologist; 1993–1995 trainee lawyer
  • Harry Kullmann (* 1973), educator; 2001–2003 trainee lawyer

Well-known former students

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h E. Becker: The Dillenburg Latin School in the Nassau period . tape 1 . Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1939.
  2. ^ E. Becker: Castle and City of Dillenburg . 2nd Edition. Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1983, p. 62 f .
  3. ^ Staatliches Gymnasium zu Dillenburg (Ed.): Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of its existence as a full institution on September 8th and 9th, 1924 . Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1924.
  4. ^ W. Bauer, H. Menzel: Festschrift des Gymnasium Dillenburg on the inauguration of the new building on November 21, 1957 . Ed .: School management of the Dillenburg high school. Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1957.
  5. ↑ Horst Sauer: 50 years of WvO in Jahnstrasse. Brief history of the school . Ed .: Head of the Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule. Self-published, Dillenburg 2007.
  6. ^ School management of the Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule (Ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule Dillenburg . Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1987, p. 103 ff .
  7. ^ Anton van der Lem: Opstand! The uprising in the Netherlands. Egmont and Orange's opposition, the founding of the republic and the road to the Peace of Westphalia. From the Dutch by Klaus Jöken. Wagenbach, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-8031-2259-7 .
  8. ^ Olaf Mörke: Wilhelm von Oranien (1533–1584). Prince and "father" of the republic . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-17-017669-0 , pp. 253-268 .
  9. ^ Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
  10. ^ School management of the Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule (Ed.): Festschrift on the occasion of the 475th anniversary of the Wilhelm-von-Oranien-Schule . Weidenbach, Dillenburg 2012, p. 6 .
  11. ↑ All -day offers - Profile 1, 2 and 3 | Hessian Ministry of Culture. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
  12. ↑ WvO is independent. Dill-Post of February 8, 2014, p. 20.
  13. ↑ Independent General Education School (SES) | Hessian Ministry of Culture. Retrieved August 15, 2019 .
  14. ↑ The right choice has been made - returnees Martin Hinterlang succeeds Martin Henrich at the top of the grammar school. Dill-Post of August 11, 2012, p. 21.
  15. ↑ The school sponsors are now called "Wilhelm's friends". In: Dill newspaper . March 24, 2015, p. 20.
  16. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar Renkhoff, Otto: Nassauische Biography. Short biographies from 13 centuries. Ed .: Hist. Commission for Nassau. Self-published, Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 3-922244-68-8 .
  17. ↑ Paul Moses Schott was born on June 22, 1882 as the son of the bank manager and literary critic Sigmund Schott in Frankfurt a. M. born. There he passed the Abitur examination at the Goethegymnasium in 1900 and studied classical philology, German and history in Bonn, Munich and Berlin, completing the state examination in 1906. In 1908 he received his doctorate in Berlin with his scientific work "Posidippi epigrammata collecta et illustrata". As early as 1907, he completed the seminar year at the Wiesbaden high school and the 1908 trial year at the Wöhlerrealgymnasium in Frankfurt a. M. from. In 1912 his publication "Economics in ancient language teaching" appeared. Paul Schott was employed as a scientific assistant teacher at short intervals in Kassel, Frankfurt, Limburg and Hanau and then in 1914 became a senior teacher at the Dillenburg grammar school. During the First World War he was deployed in the medical service and later in the army service (see annual report on the 1914/15 school year of the Königliches Gymnasium Dillenburg 1915, p. 10.Cf. Festschrift of the Staatlichen Gymnasium zu Dillenburg on the 50th anniversary of his Existed as a full institution on September 8 and 9, 1924, p. 47.) In 1933 Paul Moses Schott was dismissed from school due to his Jewish origins. How and where exactly he died in 1936 or fell victim to the Nazi persecution of the Jews has not yet been found out by the school. The chapter "The Dillenburger Gymnasium in the time of National Socialism" by Helmut Menzel in the commemorative publication published in 1987 on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the school does not mention the removal of the teacher Paul Moses Schott from the school service. But a memorial plaque in the old town of Dillenburg reminds of the pedagogue.
  18. ↑ Fricke fled - like almost his entire class - from the GDR in 1956. Dietrich Garstka created a literary monument to this story with The Silent Classroom , which was filmed in 2018 . Teacher Fricke, who fled to the West with me. The film "The Silent Classroom" reports on the life of the later Dillenburger. In: Dill-Zeitung of March 16, 2018, p. 12.
  19. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l E. Becker: The Dillenburg Latin School in the Nassau period . tape 2 : The student register. Weidenbach, Dillenburg 1939.
  20. ↑ Old index cards remind you of your own school days. WvO high school graduates meet again after 70 years. In: Dill-Zeitung of June 16, 2018. P. 21.
  21. ↑ Torn off guys and hipsters. Andreas Nentwich reports on his observations in East London. In: Dill-Zeitung of September 6, 2019. p. 12.