The Hufen-Oberlyzeum was a girls' gymnasium in

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History

Elvira Szittnick founded a girls' secondary school on Bahnstraße, later Hindenburgstraße, in

Mittelhufen Baltic Fleet headquarters in Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg's postal headquarters FSB office, formerly Königsberg's police headquarters Mittelhufen was a suburban quarter of northwestern Königsberg, Germany. Its territory is now part of the ...

in 1902.Albinus, p. 135 Three years later it moved to a new building on the same street. It was acquired by the Prussian state and converted into a gymnasium in 1921, taking on the tradition of the former Königliche Luisenschule of Posen (Poznań). Alfred Walsdorff was its only

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. It closed in January 1945 during

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. The building is now used as a school in

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.Blochplan Amongst its better known pupils was Hannah Arendt, who enrolled there in August 1913.

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