Wilhelmsgymnasium Kassel
| Wilhelmsgymnasium Kassel Bad Wilhelmshöhe | |
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| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1886 |
| address |
Kunoldstrasse 51 |
| place | kassel |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '36 " N , 9 ° 26' 24" E |
| carrier | state |
| student | about 1200 |
| Teachers | approx. 70 |
| management | Uwe Petersen |
| Website | wgkassel.de |
The Wilhelmsgymnasium Kassel (formerly "Wilhelmschule", "WG" for short ) is a public high school in Kassel - Wilhelmshöhe .
history
On May 4, 1886, the Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium was inaugurated in Kassel at Hanauschen Park above the vineyard. The school was named after the Prussian King and German Emperor Wilhelm I. Due to the increased number of pupils who could no longer be accepted by the Friedrichsgymnasium , the construction was initiated and financed by the Prussian state. Some of the teachers and students at the Friedrichsgymnasium moved into the newly opened school in 1886. This was destroyed in the Second World War. After various provisional solutions, including a temporary relocation from 1947 to 1950 to Neukirchen (Knüll) , the first construction phase at the current location could only be moved into in 1959, and the entire complex three years later - on time for the 75th anniversary celebration of the school for this reason it took place a year late in 1962. From the building that was destroyed in the war, only an owl bust could be rescued, which is now a landmark in the entrance area of the school. The owl is - as a symbol of knowledge and wisdom in Greek mythology - also the heraldic animal of the school.
On August 1, 1968, co-education was introduced at the Wilhelmschule, as the Wilhelmsgymnasium was temporarily called . In 1985 the school was considerably enlarged with another building. In 2007, space was created in the new building for an educational lunch table, and in February 2009 construction of a new three-field gym with an integrated cafeteria began next to the school. The project was completed in early 2010. Currently about 1200 students attend the Wilhelmsgymnasium. From 2002 to 2013, Hans-Jürgen Ziegler , a formerly successful pole vaulter, was the headmaster of the Wilhelmsgymnasium.
In November 2016, the boys' choir performed at the Kassel State Theater with the piece Cool Composers (conductor: Xin Tan, moderation: Constanze Betzl) .
school
The school building is divided into the old and the new building. The four-storey old building houses the biology and Latin student councils and the in-house teaching pool in the basement , the physics rooms (a former lecture hall ) and a cafeteria on the ground floor , as well as the sports hall, the SEK (dispute settlement) room, the caretaker's room and the toilets. In addition to the administration with secretariat, the offices of the headmasters, the chemistry rooms and the teachers' room are on the 1st floor . The art and music rooms and the IT room are on the second floor .
The new building consists largely of classrooms, in the basement there is the teaching material library, a photo laboratory , another music room and a band room. Until the summer of 2010 there were two dining rooms, which were replaced by a new cafeteria in the new sports hall since the 2010/11 school year . The space freed up as a result serves as a replacement for an aging pavilion that was demolished in the course of the new construction of the sports hall.
Right next to the school is the new Bad Wilhelmshöhe sports hall, which officially belongs to the city of Kassel and is used by several schools. A new boathouse was built on the Fuldaufer to replace the old one. It has been available as a multifunctional "flat share house" since 2011, and the rowing boats of the rowing club of the Wilhelmsgymnasium Kassel (RVWG) are also housed here.
The school offers various working groups and activities:
- orchestra
- School choir
- Boys' choir
- rowing
- hockey
- Performing game
- Robot group "Kabotz"
- Physics club
- Italian
- do gymnastics
- Homework assistance
The Wilhelmsgymnasium offers students the opportunity to participate in exchange programs, namely with schools in Brownsburg , Preston and Seattle (all United States ), the canton of Vaud ( Romandie in Switzerland ) and Cape Town ( South Africa ). Traditionally, a Christmas concert, a summer concert and an alumni festival take place every year.
classes
Lessons take place from the fifth to the ninth grade in a class group, in the E and Q phases in courses. From the fifth grade onwards, students take English as their first foreign language, and from the sixth grade onwards either French or Latin is added. From the upper level, Latin as a third foreign language (in addition to French), Spanish and computer science can also be taken. In addition, swimming is also offered in the 5th and 8th grade.
Focus
The Wilhelmsgymnasium has set the following priorities within its organization
- Promotion of the gifted
- Study and professional orientation
- Musical focus (choirs, boys' choir, orchestra, singing class, voice training)
- Support measures
- Health promoting school
- MINT- friendly school
Known teachers
- Eduard Schick (1906–2000), Bishop of Fulda, worked as a trainee lawyer at the Wilhelmsgymnasium from 1934 to 1935 and was dismissed from school service in 1935 by the National Socialist rulers.
- Horst Müller (1929–2020), amateur play - director and author.
- Hans Eichel (* 1941), Lord Mayor of Kassel (1975–1991), Prime Minister of the State of Hesse (1991–1999), Federal Minister of Finance (1999–2005), was a teacher at the Wilhelmsgymnasium from 1970 to 1975.
- Hans-Jürgen Ziegler (born May 12, 1951), German pole vault champion in 1971 , was the headmaster of the Wilhelmsgymnasium from 2002 to 2013.
Known students
- Franz von Roques (1877–1967), German officer, most recently general of the infantry in World War II.
- Fritz Luckhard (1878–1965), director of studies and local researcher
- Fritz Hartung (1884–1973), Reich judge and after 1945 well-known commentator on criminal law and criminal procedure law. He passed the Abitur in March 1903.
- Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957), Field Marshal General in World War II and Commander-in-Chief of the 6th Army, which was destroyed in the Stalingrad pocket. Paulus passed his Abitur in 1909 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium.
- Ludolf von Wedel-Parlow (1890-1970), German literary scholar, passed his Abitur in 1911 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium.
- Roland Freisler (1893–1945), President of the National Socialist People's Court, passed his Abitur in 1912 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium.
- Rudolf Vaupel (1894–1945), director of the State Archives in Marburg, passed his Abitur in 1912 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium
- Josias zu Waldeck and Pyrmont (1896-1967), SS-Obergruppenführer, General of the Police and Waffen-SS, passed his Abitur in 1914 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium.
- Waldemar Klingelhöfer (1900–1977), SS-Sturmbannführer in Einsatzgruppe B, sentenced to death in 1948 as a war criminal. Klingelhöfer received his Abitur at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in 1919.
- Ernst August Lassen (1905–1985), Colonel in the Wehrmacht and General in the German Armed Forces, passed his Abitur here in 1925.
- Karl Brethauer (1906–1992), Abitur 1925, German teacher, staff operations leader in the operations staff Reichsleiter Rosenberg , local home nurse in Hann. Münden (1982 ring of honor of the city of Hann. Münden, revoked in 2012)
- Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909–1944), lawyer, diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Reimar Lüst (1923–2020), President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science and Director General of the European Space Agency ESA
- Peter Scholl-Latour (1924-2014), German journalist and publicist, passed his Abitur in 1943 at the Wilhelmsgymnasium.
- Hermann Heussner (1926–1996), former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. D.
- Herbert Günther (1929–2013), multiple Hessian minister. Graduated from school here until he graduated from high school.
- Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930–2019), constitutional and administrative lawyer and legal philosopher, former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. D.
- Günter Wojaczek (1932-1997), classical scholar and specialist didactics of classical languages, visited in the course of fleeing his family from Upper Silesia from Easter 1946 to March 1947 this school.
- Dieter Grimm (* 1937), former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court. D. graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in 1957.
- Hans Eichel (* 1941), Lord Mayor of Kassel (1975–1991), Prime Minister of the State of Hesse (1991–1999), Federal Minister of Finance (1999–2005) graduated from high school in 1961.
- Ulf Eysel (* 1944), neurophysiologist, high school graduation from WG 1964.
- Sabine Rossbach (* 1959), journalist and radio presenter, director of the NDR Landesfunkhaus Hamburg (since 2010)
- Hartmut El Kurdi (* 1964), writer and theater director, graduated from high school in 1985.
- Tim Staffel (* 1965), writer, graduated from high school in 1985.
- Christian Geselle (* 1976), Lord Mayor of Kassel (since 2017), Abitur in 1995.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Provincial School Board Dr. Lahmeyer on the inauguration of the "Royal Wilhelms-Gymnasium" on May 4, 1886. In: Wilhelmsgymnasium - Wilhelmschule. 1886-1986. Festschrift. Self-published, Kassel, 1986, p. 40.
- ^ Günter Schäfer-Hartmann: 125 years of Wilhelmsgymnasium Kassel. In: 125 years of Wilhelmsgymnasium. Festschrift 2011 . Pp. 52-57.
- ↑ Michael Müller: SCHICK, Eduard. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 22, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-133-2 , Sp. 1215-1220.
- ^ Hilary Earl: The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945-1958: Atrocity, Law, and History . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-45608-1 , pp. 108-109.
- ↑ http://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/Ernst+August+Lassen/0/8147.html
- ↑ http://www.hugv-denn-ditt.de/vergangenes_landraete1945_guenther2.htm
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
