Øregård Gymnasium is an upper secondary school in the

Hellerup Hellerup () is a very affluent district of Gentofte Municipality in the suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. The most urban part of the district is centred on Strandvejen and is bordered by Østerbro to the south and the Øresund to the east. It compri ...

district of

Gentofte Municipality Gentofte Kommune is a municipality (Danish, '' kommune'') in the Capital Region of Denmark (''Region Hovedstaden'') on the east coast of the island of Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark. It covers an area of , and has a total population of ...

in the northern suburbs of

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

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. The Neoclassical main building from 1924 is listed.

History

Øregård Gymnasium was founded in 1903 by V. Plockross under navnet Plockross' Skole. The building was located at Duntzfelts Allé 8. It received its current name when Gentofte Municipality took over the school in 1919. The current main building on Gersonsvej was inaugurated in 1924. It was designed by G. B. Hagen og Edvard Thomsen. Gehrdt Bornebusch undertook a renovation of the building in 1977–80. The building was listed in 1995.

Principals

* 1903-1910: V. Plockross * 1910-1912: Paul Branth * 1912-1927: Jens M. Krarup * 1927-1950: Herluf Møller * 1950-1972: Paul Rubinstein * 1972-1986: Tage Bülow-Hansen * 1986-2000: Lis Holck * 2001- : Pia Nyring

Notable students

* 1924:

Aksel Schiøtz Aksel Schiøtz (1 September 190619 April 1975) was a Danish tenor and later baritone, who was considered one of Europe's leading lieder singers of the post-World War II period.Alan Blyth"Review: The Singer and His Art by Aksel Schiøtz" ''The Mus ...

, tenor * 1930:

Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Arnold Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller (; 13 July 1913 – 16 April 2012) was a Danish shipping magnate. He was a longtime figure at A.P. Moller–Maersk Group, which was founded by his father. Personal life Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller was born in Hell ...

, businessman * 1958:

Gregers Algreen-Ussing Gregers Algreen-Ussing (born 30 November 1938 in Tehran) is a Danish architect and professor emeritus at the Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole (School of Architecture). He is the son of an engineer Helge Algreen-Ussing and teacher Gudrun Benthin. H ...

, architect * 1985:

Thomas Rathsack Thomas Rathsack is a lecturer and former member of the Danish Jaeger Corps. He served with the Royal Life Guards as a sergeant before getting accepted into the Jaeger Corps in 1990. After retiring from the army he worked as a photographer and I ...

, former member of

jægerkorpset The Jaeger Corps also known as the Huntsmen Corps ( da, Jægerkorpset) is an elite special operations force of the Danish Defence part of Special Operations Command, formerly of the Royal Danish Army, based at Aalborg Air Base. History The Jaeg ...

and author * 1986:

Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, Count of Monpezat, (Frederik André Henrik Christian; born 26 May 1968) is the heir apparent to the Danish throne. He is the elder son of Queen Margrethe II and Prince Henrik. Early life Crown Prince Freder ...

* 1986:

Prince Joachim of Denmark , father = Henri de Laborde de Monpezat , mother = Margrethe II of Denmark , house = Glücksburg (official) Monpezat (agnatic) , religion = Church of Denmark , occupation = Military Attaché, Royal Danish Embassy in ...

* 1987:

Lykke Friis Lykke Friis (born 27 October 1969) is Prorector for Education at the University of Copenhagen and is a former Denmark, Danish politician for the party Venstre (Denmark), Venstre and former Minister for Climate and Energy (Denmark), Minister for Cli ...

, politician

References

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Gymnasiums in Copenhagen Secondary schools in Gentofte Municipality Listed educational buildings in Copenhagen Listed buildings and structures in Gentofte Municipality Neoclassical architecture in Copenhagen School buildings completed in 1924 1904 establishments in Denmark {{Denmark-school-stub