The Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium (''KFG,'' until 1979 ''Erzbischöfliches Gymnasium Beuel'') is a private catholic secondary school of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cologne in

Beuel Beuel ( Ripuarian: ''Büel'') is a city borough ('' Stadtbezirk'') of Bonn, Germany. It has a population of 67,827 (2020). Subdivisions Beuel is composed of the sub-districts Beuel-Mitte, Beuel-Ost, Geislar, Hoholz, Holtorf, Holzlar, Küdinghove ...

, a borough of the former German capital Bonn in North Rhine-Westphalia.

History

The school was founded in 1964 as ''Erzbischöfliches Gymnasium Beuel'' ''(EBG)'' by the

Archbishop of Cologne The Archbishop of Cologne is an archbishop governing the Archdiocese of Cologne of the Catholic Church in western North Rhine-Westphalia and is also a historical state in the Rhine holding the birthplace of Beethoven and northern Rhineland-Palati ...

, Josef Kardinal Frings. It was a boys´ school. The school building in the south of Beuel, which includes an assembly hall, a sports field, three sports halls, a cafeteria and a nuclear bunker was planned by the famous architect Joachim Schürmann. After Frings' death in 1978, the school decided to assume the name of its founder and was officially named as ''Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium'' on December 8, 1979. In 1988, the school was opened for girls.

Headmasters

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English and Latin are compulsory languages at the school. Moreover, the students can decide to learn

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from class 8 and Spanish from class 10.There's also a voluntary Italian-course for students in grade 9. In the advanced level, there exist corporations with the Liebfrauenschule Bonn and the Sankt-Adelheid-Gymnasium. The school is known for its ''brass orchestra''. The popular German brass band Querbeat, which is active in the Cologne Carnival, was founded in 2001 as a school band of the Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium.
In 2001, the school initiated the ''Social Project Armenia''. At an annual run the students collect money, which is used for an

exchange program A student exchange program is a program in which students from a secondary school (high school) or university study abroad at one of their institution's partner institutions. A student exchange program may involve international travel, but d ...

, the support of German lessons at two partner schools in Gyumri and the renovating of village schools in the north- Armenian Region

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. The donation volume in the last 15 years is more than 250.000 Euros (December 2017). On July 3, 2018, the KFG hosted a ten-minute live switch to the German ESA-

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Alexander Gerst Alexander Gerst (born 3 May 1976 in Künzelsau, Baden-Württemberg) is a German European Space Agency astronaut and geophysicist, who was selected in 2009 to take part in space training. He was part of the International Space Station Expeditio ...

, who answered the students' questions from the International Space Station ISS via

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. The contact was part of the

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project and was carried out by the German Amateur Radio Club and the German Aerospace Center. Guests included the former

Reinhold Ewald.

Partner schools

* Tscharenzschool ( Gjumri, Armenia) Building in Gyumri 2015 sep pic 26

* Tumanyanschool ( Gjumri, Armenia) * King's School (

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) *

Central Coast Grammar School , motto_translation = Life and Knowledge , location = Erina Heights, Central Coast, New South Wales , country = Australia , coordinates = , pushpin_map = Australia New Sout ...

( Erina,

) * Colegio Alemán ( Santiago de Chile, Chile) * Liceo Linguistico of the Collegio Vescovile Pio X ( Treviso, Italy) * CEU Sanchinarro ( Madrid, Spain) * Colegio Santa Maria Magdalena Sofia (

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, Spain) * The school is participating in the Erasmus+-programm of the European Commission

Notable alumni

Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker Jan-Ingwer Callsen-Bracker (born 23 September 1984) is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Career Callsen-Bracker joined TSV Bollingstedt and SV Beuel 06 before joining Bayer Leverkusen in 1998. In 2011, Callse ...

, German footballer at FC Augsburg * Sven-Ole Frahm, German artist * Bruno Kahl, president of the German Federal Intelligence Service * Markus Kurth, politician in the German parliament for

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* Deborah Schöneborn, long-distance runner * Rabea Schöneborn, long-distance runner *

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, former German Basketballer at Telekom Baskets Bonn

Notable teachers

* Peter Kohlgraf, chaplain and catechist at the KFG 1999–2003, Bishop of Mainz

References

External links

*
Official website of the Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium
(in German)
Film "Das KFG"
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