Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium

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The Rabanus Maurus -Gymnasium ( short: Rama or RMG) is a state, altsprachliches Gymnasium in Mainz- Neustadt.

Pedagogical principles

The Rabanus Maurus -Gymnasium is a classical language educational institution, this means that Latin is taught at the same time as the first foreign language with English as a second language. From the secondary level three languages ​​are required. The school sets the priorities in the linguistic, musical, mathematical and natural sciences in his training. The linguistic focus is not limited to the ancient languages ​​- there is for example long-term exchange contacts in France, Italy, Netherlands, England, China and Poland.

History

On December 9, 1561 today Rabanus Maurus -Gymnasium was founded under the name of the Electoral College of the Society of Jesus in Mainz. Between 1618 and 1782, the school was located, together with the university in the Domus Universitatis. In the years 1773/1774 the Jesuit school is reformed under Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach to Bürresheim in the spirit of the Enlightenment and was named Electoral Main Zisches Emmerizianisches school. In the following nearly two centuries, the school changed hands several times their location and name. 1859 Henry Bone was director of the high school to the efforts of the Mainz Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler. In the course of the Kulturkampf he was prematurely removed from his position.

1945 burned down the school building. In the next few years teaching in today's Willigis High School took place. The director was Dr. August Mayer (1945 - 1958). On 14 June 1953, the reconstructed school building was inaugurated on the Imperial Road and got its present name by Rabanus Maurus. In his long tenure as director from 1958 to 1977 ( in the 400 - year anniversary in 1962, building expansions, the introduction of the Mainz study level fell ) sat Dr. Peter incorrect with his impressive personality against the stream of time to the promotion of ancient languages ​​and the preservation of a Altgriechischunterrichtes. Ten years later, the reported classical scholar Kurt Röske, who was director from 1986 to 1997, the then -threatening decline in pupil numbers eg by Advancement of Science, the advancing of English teaching, increased reverse musical activities.

Known students

Year of the baccalaureate in parentheses

  • Markus Antonietti (1978 ), Chemist
  • Fritz Arens (1931 ), art historian
  • David Nicholas Becker, Episcopal Zeremoniar at Mainz Cathedral
  • Werner Best (1921 ), a leading National Socialist
  • Axel Börsch -Supan (1973 ), economists
  • Gerold of Braunmühl (1955 ), diplomat, victims of the RAF
  • Christoph Buchheim, (1973 ), economic historian
  • Thomas Buchheim ( 1976), philosopher
  • Erhard Cellius, originally Ehrhard Horn ( High School in Dusseldorf to 1564), German historian and editor
  • Francis Dumont (1964 ), historian
  • Susanne Gelhard (1976 ), journalist ( ZDF)
  • Johannes Gerster (1962 ), former Member of Parliament, President of the German -Israeli Society
  • Romano Guardini (1903), Catholic philosopher of religion and theologian
  • Walter Hallstein (1920), conservative Germany and European politician ( 1950s to 1970s)
  • Adam Karrillon (1873 ), writer
  • Klaus Mayer ( 1942), priest and founder of the Chagall windows
  • Anton Maria Keim (1948 ), longtime Mainz Cultural Affairs, Author
  • Karl Külb (1888), Mayor of Mainz 1919-1931
  • Dorothea van der Koelen (1979) gallery
  • Harald Stein Mart (1972 ), columnist
  • Ferdy Mayne ( emigration in the 1930s ), film actor
  • Eckhart Pick ( 1960), lawyer, former Member of Parliament and Secretary of State
  • Hanns -Josef Ortheil (1970), writer
  • Richard Ott ( 1947), Catholic pastors and teachers
  • Jochen Riebel (1964 ), German politician (CDU ), former Minister for Federal and European Affairs in the Hessian State Chancellery
  • Jürgen Rodeland (1979 ), organ expert
  • Dorothea Schäfer ( 1981 Dorothea Dittrich ), Member of Parliament in Rhineland -Palatinate
  • Jürgen Schölmerich (1967 ), internist, university teachers, DFG Vice President, CEO and Medical Director at the University Hospital Frankfurt am Main
  • Gerd Schreiner (1989 ), Member of Parliament in Rhineland -Palatinate
  • Nanette Scriba (1978), chanteuse
  • Ulrike Syha (1995), playwright
  • Ulrich VolP (1990 ), theologian
  • Stephan Wagner ( 1987), Film Director
  • Carl Zuck Mayer (1914), writer
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