The Johannesgymnasium or Johanneum Breslau existed from October 14, 1872 to 1933 and was a successful humanistic grammar school in Breslau . It was founded to relieve the overcrowded Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium and was located at Paradiesstraße 3 (today ulica Stanisława Worcella 3). The Breslau magistrate created the grammar school against the will of the Berlin Ministry of Culture in order to provide a denominationally tolerant school that accepted Jews without reservation. A third of the teachers were Protestants, Catholics and Jews ("Breslauer Schulstreit").
The diaries of the teacher and PhD historian Willy Cohn provide insight into the dismissal of the Jewish teachers by the National Socialists . He was given leave of absence as a member of the SPD on June 16, 1933: No right, nowhere: Diary of the fall of Wroclaw Jewry 1933-1941 . [1]
Known students
- Bernhard Schottländer (1895–1920), German USPD politician and journalist
- Hans Bendix (1909–1988), chemist
- Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), philosopher of German-Jewish origin
- Conrad Cohn (1901–1942), lawyer and Jewish association official, victim of the Holocaust
- Norbert Elias (1897–1990), sociologist of German-Jewish origin
- Friedrich Epstein (1882–1943), chemist, victim of the Holocaust
- Georg Epstein (1874–1942), writer, victim of the Holocaust
- Wolfgang Fuchs (mathematician) (1915–1997)
- Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist and Nobel Prize winner
- Martin Hirsch (1913–1992), lawyer, politician and judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- Ernst Honigmann (1892–1954), Byzantinist
- Fritz Karsen (1885–1951), Reformpädagoge
- Wilhelm Kroll (1869–1939), classical philologist
- Walter Laqueur (1921–2018), American historian and journalist of German-Jewish origin
- Siegfried Marck (1889–1957), philosopher and representative of a liberal social democracy
- Carl Meinecke (1873–1949), industrialist in Breslau and Hanover
- Hans Schäffer (1886–1967), administrative lawyer, ministerial official and financial expert
- Carl Schott (1905–1990), Geograph
- Otto Stern (1888–1969), German-American physicist and Nobel Prize winner in 1943
- Charles P. Steinmetz (1865–1923), German-American electrical engineer
- Otto Toeplitz (1881–1940), German-Jewish mathematician
Lehrer
- Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Müller (1830–1903), classical philologist, director 1872–1897
- Bernhard Laudien (1846–?), Educator, director 1901–1917
- Alexis Gabriel (1875–1939), Germanist, director 1918–1933
- Willy Cohn (1888–1941), historian, 1919–1933
school-building
The originally three-storey school building in Paradiesstrasse, which was kept in the form of the neo-renaissance , has a T-shaped floor plan typical of that time, which enabled a high level of utilization of the building site through the formation of two side courtyards and two-in-hand structure of the building wings. It was designed by the Wroclaw City Planning Officer Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann in 1865, and towards the end of the 1860s it was temporarily used as an interim location for the Magdalen High School, for which a larger new building was being built on the old property. [2] In the years from 1911 to 1912 the building was of Fritz Behrendt extended by a rear house. [3]Today the defaced buildings are used by the Maria Dąbrowska Comprehensive School for Economics and Administration ( Zespół Szkół Ekonomiczno-Administracyjnych im. Marii Dąbrowskiej ).
literature
- Til van Rahden: Jews and other Breslauer: the relations between Jews, Protestants and Catholics in a German city 1865 to 1925 , Göttingen 2000.
Footnotes
- ↑ Volume 1, Böhlau, Cologne 2007
- ↑ Daria Dorota Pikulska: Carl Johann Christian Zimmermann. Museum of Architecture in Wrocław, Wrocław 2005, ISBN 83-89262-21-5 .
- ^ Johannesgymnasium. Extension building (rear building), planning documents in the Wroclaw Architecture Museum ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 15 ″ N , 17 ° 2 ′ 35 ″ E