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Friderico-Francisceum
The Friderico-Francisceum (FFG) is a gymnasium in Bad Doberan, Germany. History In 1879, Frederick Francis II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin decided to establish a gymnasium in Doberan, a city of 4000 inhabitants which had been granted town rights in the same year. The school was officially opened by its first principal Wilhelm Kraner on April 21, 1879. It was located at ''Dammstraße'', today’s ''Beethovenstraße''. Students at the age of 10 to 14 attended the school in the first year. They were educated by four teachers. Initially a '' Progymnasium'' with only lower grades, the school was granted expansion to a full gymnasium by the grand duke in 1883. After Frederick Francis II died in 1883, his successor Frederick Francis III named the school ''Friderico-Francisceum'' in honour of the founder. In 1889, the gymnasium moved into its present-day building at ''Alexandrinenplatz''. The schoolhouse had been constructed by Doberan-based architect Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Doberan
Bad Doberan () is a town in the district of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It was the capital of the former district of Bad Doberan. In 2012, its population was 11,427. Geography Bad Doberan is situated just west of Rostock's city centre and is therefore part of one of the most developed regions in the north-eastern part of Germany. The town nestles between beautiful beech tree forests just 6 km from the Baltic Sea and is one of the earliest German settlements in Mecklenburg. Today the town is a very popular bathing resort, thanks to Heiligendamm, a district of Bad Doberan situated directly at the cliff line of the Baltic. Historically, Doberan used to be the summer residence for the Mecklenburg Dukes who resided in Schwerin, and for their entourage. Name The name Doberan, originally ''Dobran'', is a place name that probably derives from a Slavic Old Polabian personal name, meaning "good" (''dobry''). According to legend, the name Doberan originated when the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doberan
Bad Doberan () is a town in the district of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It was the capital of the former district of Bad Doberan. In 2012, its population was 11,427. Geography Bad Doberan is situated just west of Rostock's city centre and is therefore part of one of the most developed regions in the north-eastern part of Germany. The town nestles between beautiful beech tree forests just 6 km from the Baltic Sea and is one of the earliest German settlements in Mecklenburg. Today the town is a very popular bathing resort, thanks to Heiligendamm, a district of Bad Doberan situated directly at the cliff line of the Baltic. Historically, Doberan used to be the summer residence for the Mecklenburg Dukes who resided in Schwerin, and for their entourage. Name The name Doberan, originally ''Dobran'', is a place name that probably derives from a Slavic Old Polabian personal name, meaning "good" (''dobry''). According to legend, the name Doberan originated when the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Claus Of The Netherlands
Prince Claus of the Netherlands, Jonkheer van Amsberg (born Klaus-Georg Wilhelm Otto Friedrich Gerd von Amsberg; 6 September 1926 – 6 October 2002) was Prince consort of the Netherlands from 30 April 1980 until his death in 2002 as the husband of Queen Beatrix. Biography Klaus-Georg Wilhelm Otto Friedrich Gerd von Amsberg was born on his family's estate, Castle Dötzingen, Hitzacker, Germany, on 6 September 1926. His parents were Claus Felix von Amsberg and Baroness Gösta von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen. His father, by birth member of House of Amsberg which belonged to the untitled German nobility, operated a large farm in Tanganyika (formerly German East Africa) from 1928 until World War II. From 1938, Claus and his six sisters grew up on their maternal grandparents' estate in Lower Saxony; he attended the Friderico-Francisceum-Gymnasium in Bad Doberan from 1933 to 1936 and a boarding school in Tanganyika from 1936 to 1938. Claus was a member of such Nazi youth organisations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel
Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel or Ludwig Möckel (22 July 1838 in Zwickau – 26 October 1915 in Doberan) was a German architect Möckel is notable for his design of Neo Gothic churches. These include the Johanneskirche and Erlöserkirche in Dresden, the Erlöserkirche and the in Berlin and St John's Church in Smyrna (then in the Ottoman Empire). General information Family Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel was the first child of the Zwickau coppersmith Gotthilf Heinrich Möckel (1786-1847) and his second wife Caroline Rosine Möckel. Möckel married on June 25, 1866, in Zwickau Emilie (Emmy) Amalie Christiane Schlegel (1844-1926), a daughter of the bricklayer of Göttingen and Senator Carl Schlegel (1819-1890). The couple had five sons and two daughters: Erwin (1867-1929), Johannes (1868-1936), Elsa (1870-1926), Erich (1871-1926), Hermann (1874-1948), Käthe (1878- 1954) and Ludwig (1881-1934). Education and work Möckel attended a public school from 1844 to 1852 in Zwickau. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extended Secondary School (East Germany)
The extended secondary school, officially ''twelve-class general educational polytechnic secondary school'', abbreviation EOS, was the standard institution of higher education in the education system of East Germany. It finished with the final examination called ''Reifeprüfung'' /Abitur ( A-Level) at the end of the 12th grade, granting the ''Reifezeugnis'', the certificate of eligibility for university entrance. The school structure was a four-class comprehensive school without any internal or external differentiation. The EOS was established in 1959 to replace the hitherto existing ''Oberschule'' as laid down by the ''Act on Socialistic Development of the School System in the German Democratic Republic'' effective December 2, 1959. The designation Gymnasium was not common in East Germany. History of the EOS School organization Compulsory teaching and school life Tables of lessons The Ministry of Education determined a table of lessons (''Stundentafel'') which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnasiums In Germany
A gymnasium, also known as a gym, is an indoor location for athletics. The word is derived from the ancient Greek term " gymnasium". They are commonly found in athletic and fitness centres, and as activity and learning spaces in educational institutions. "Gym" is also slang for "fitness centre", which is often an area for indoor recreation. A "gym" may include or describe adjacent open air areas as well. In Western countries, "gyms" (or pl: gymnasia") often describe places with indoor or outdoor courts for basketball, hockey, tennis, boxing or wrestling, and with equipment and machines used for physical development training, or to do exercises. In many European countries, ''Gymnasium'' (and variations of the word) also can describe a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university, with or without the presence of athletic courts, fields, or equipment. Overview Gymnasia apparatus like barbells, jumping board, running path, tennis-balls, cricket fie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Von Bismarck
Klaus von Bismarck (6 March 1912 – 22 May 1997) was the Director General of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West German Broadcasting) from 1961 to 1976, and the president of the ARD broadcasting association in 1963-1964. He was also the president of the German Evangelical Church Assembly from 1977 to 1979 and a member of its presidium from 1950 to 1995, as well as president of the Goethe-Institut from 1977 to 1989. During World War II, Bismarck served as an officer in the Wehrmacht. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. According to his memoirs, published in 1992, while serving as an adjutant on the Russian front in 1941 he refused to obey Hitler's Commissar Order to execute all captured Communist political commissars attached to the Soviet Army. He was a great-great nephew of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, and was the son of Gottfried von Bismarck (1881–1928). Klaus von Bismarck was the last owner of the family's estates in formerl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Jürgen Von Der Wense
Hans Jürgen von der Wense (10 November 1894 – 9 November 1966) was a German poet, composer, photographer, aphorist and hiker. Life Wense was born in Ortelsburg, then in East Prussia but today Szczytno in Poland, to a family of military and aristocratic background. In 1914 he began to study philosophy in Berlin. A keen musician, he played some of his own compositions to Arnold Schoenberg in 1915. From 1915 to 1918 he served in the German army. He began publishing his poetry in 1917. He took part in the Spartacist uprising of 1919 in Berlin. In the following years he pursued his music studies with Clara Zetkin, Hermann Scherchen and Ernst Krenek. Hans Heinz Stuckenschmidt ranked Wense in 1921 with Erik Satie, Igor Stravinsky and Béla Bartók. Some of Wense's early music showed traits of Dadaism, for example his 1919 opus "Music for piano, clarinet and suspended metal colander." A wealthy older artist, Hedwig Woermann (1889–1960), began at this period to support him financi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neubukow
Neubukow (literally "New Bukov", where 'Bukov' is a Polabian adjective from "beech tree") is a town in the Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated 18 km southwest of Bad Doberan, and 21 km northeast of Wismar. The archeologist Heinrich Schliemann was born in Neubukow. The "Heinrich Schliemann-Gedenkstätte" is a small museum dedicated to his life and work. Partnerships * Reinfeld, Schleswig-Holstein * Steinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia Natives * Rudolf Goldschmidt (1876-1950), German engineer and inventor * Heinrich Schliemann Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (; 6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and pioneer in the field of archaeology. He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeologi ... (1822-1890), German archaeologist References Cities and towns in Mecklenburg 1430s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire 1435 establishments i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwaan
Schwaan is a municipality in the Rostock district, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is also the seat of the Schwaan Township, serving another six municipalities. The town is famous for being a traditional art colony. Geography The area around Schwaan is part of the vast North European Plain, stretching from western France to Russia. Schwaan lies on the lower Warnow river between the cities of Rostock, 17 km to the north, and Güstrow, 20 km to the south. The higher ground to the east and west of the Warnow barely reaches 50 meters above sea level, and the area north to the Baltic Sea is flat. The nearby villages of Bandow, Dorf Tatschow, Hof Tatschow and Letschow belong to Schwaan. History The area around the Warnow was originally populated by Slavic peoples, which one can still recognize in place and farm names. Schwaan was first mentioned as a town in a record from 1276. In 1765 a great fire destroyed the entire town except for St. Paul’s Church and a mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
