Friedrichsgymnasium (Kassel)

Humboldtstraße 5

The Frederick High School is the oldest high school in Kassel. It puts in his school program an emphasis on foreign languages ​​and arts subjects, but also offers other tenders, the Friedrichsgymasium for example, has one of the most successful Schulrudervereie Germany. The catchment area of ​​the Friedrich Gymnasium extends adjacent to the city of Kassel on the Kassel district and the surrounding counties as far as southern Lower Saxony.

History and location

The Frederick High School was founded in 1779 as the Lyceum Fridericianum. In the tradition of it goes back to a medieval Latin school of the Reformation period. Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse -Kassel built the old town's Latin school in a new building as Lyceum Fridericianum. Later, the school was known as the Humanistic Gymnasium. Today it is called Friedrich Gymnasium.

Until the Second World War, the school was housed in the Wolf's Glen, where there is still a plaque on the original site remembers, now it is in the vicinity of the Hessian State Museum in the Humboldt Street. The school consists of two buildings, a 1957 -completed and is now listed building and an extension opened in 1992, including a cafeteria and a library, which is characterized by a very modern style. End of 2009, another new building - the school canteen - are dedicated, the 4 new classrooms ( " building on pillars" ) in 2010 were then opened. Due to the location above the vineyard to the school grounds is directly between small parks.

Foreign languages

Special emphasis is placed on Latin as first foreign language from the 5th grade. English as a second language is started simultaneously in the fifth grade. From the eighth grade also " Integrated Science " and rowing are offered as subjects of the electoral teaching foreign languages ​​in addition to the ancient Greek and French. As more foreign languages ​​Spanish are offered ( as a subject in high school ), and Japanese, Italian, Russian and Hebrew ( activity groups ).

School partnerships

The school has a school partnership with the Italian Liceo Statale Ginnasio Niccolò Machiavelli Gino Capponi in Florence and offers there, but also in other countries, student exchanges at. In construction, there is a school partnership with a school in Prague.

Arts subjects

The Friedrichsgymnasium Kassel has several orchestras and choirs that make up a part of the arts center of gravity. In addition to the preliminary, main and extra chorus and pre-, mid-level and major orchestras additional services incurred by the school band and a chamber music band in recent years.

Other working groups

At school (Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Russian, literature Café) also AGs in the natural sciences (astronomy, computer science ) are offered in addition to several AGs in linguistic and offered the opportunity to participate in the award-winning student newspaper or the school yearbook. It is also possible to participate in the Berlin Model United Nations ( BERMUN ) and the theater heap at Frederick High School. The school is also affiliated to the largest and most successful university rowing club in Hessen, the RVFG ( rowing club Friedrich Gymnasium).

School community

In addition to the Parents Council, the Students' Council and the teaching staff, the Frederick High School is characterized by the integration of various other groups in the school community. In addition, also be provided by the school in the context of so-called FG - Forums exchange opportunities for the different parts of the school community. Various clubs cover together and partially long been responsible for the school:

  • Rowing club Friedrichsgymnasium Kassel eV - the oldest club in the school, which performs the rowing at the school with its own boathouse at the Kassel Fulda,
  • Association of former Friedrichsgymnasiasten eV in Kassel - the former club, who tried to contact the former students with each other and intensify to school and to support the school,
  • Friends of Frederick High School eV - the patrons who attempts by the commitment of parents to support the school,
  • Mensa Mensa club Fridericiana eV - the Mensa club, the cafeteria and canteen operates through the commitment of school and parents and support the learning center of the school.

Known disciple of Friedrich Gymnasium

  • Otto Braun (1824-1900), journalist
  • Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, known as the Brothers Grimm, language and literary critic as well as fairy tales and legends collectors
  • William Schenck to pig mountain (1809-1867), Prime Minister of Hohenzollern- Sigmaringen (1839-1848) and 1848/1849 Board of the Hessian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Heinrich Eisenach (1814-1891), botanist and zoologist North Hessian
  • Salomon Hermann Mosenthal (1821-1877), playwright and librettist
  • Viktor of meibomian (1821-1892), legal scholar
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941) ( High School 1877)
  • William Bacon (1861-1925), writer, poet and pastor
  • Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), historian and philosopher of religion
  • Gerhard Jahn (1927-1998), SPD politician
  • Michael Stürmer ( born 1938 ), German historian
  • Otto Sander (1941-2013), German actor
  • Norbert Trelle ( b. 1942 ), bishop of Hildesheim
  • Gerhard Roth ( born 1942 ), German biologist and neuroscientist
  • Hans- Christian Oeser (* 1950), German / Irish translator and editor
  • Otfried Hans Dittmer ( b. 1952 ), German writer and publisher
  • Hubertus Meyer- Burckhardt ( * 1956 ), German television producer, journalist and manager in the media industry
  • Stephan Balkenhol ( b. 1957 ), German sculptor
  • Eva Kühne -Hörmann ( b. 1962 ), German politician, Hessian Minister for Science and Art
  • Mario Kotaska (* 1973), German television cook
  • Florian Rentsch (* 1975), German politician, Hessian Minister of Economics and Transport
Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel Otto Philipp Braun (journalist)
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