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gymnasium , religion =

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, opened = , founder =

Josef Cardinal Frings Josef Richard Frings (6 February 1887 – 17 December 1978), was a German Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Cologne from 1942 to 1969. Considered a significant figure in Catholic resistance to Nazism, he was elevated to th ...

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Archdiocese of Cologne The Archdiocese of Cologne ( la, Archidioecesis Coloniensis; german: Erzbistum Köln) is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in western North Rhine-Westphalia and northern Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. History The Electorate of Cologn ...

, school_number = 166273 , principal = Bernhard Hillen , chaplain = Andreas Haermayer , teaching_staff = 68 (January 2017) , gender = , enrollment = 850 (July 2017) , classes_offered = 5-12 , website = , picture = , picture_caption = The Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium (''KFG,'' until 1979 ''Erzbischöfliches Gymnasium Beuel'') is a private catholic secondary school of the

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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

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capital

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

Profile

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and

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are compulsory languages at the school. Moreover, the students can decide to learn French from class 8 and

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from class 10.There's also a voluntary

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-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 Querbeat are a German pop band formed in Bonn (Germany) in 2001. They tour mainly around Germany but they also perform at festivals across Europe, primarily in Austria, Switzerland, and Spain, the Netherlands, and Belgium. History Querbeat was f ...

, which is active in the

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, was founded in 2001 as a

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of the Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium.
In 2001, the school initiated the ''Social Project

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''. At an annual run the students collect money, which is used for an

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, the support of German lessons at two partner schools in

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and the renovating of village schools in the north-

n Region Shirak. 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

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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

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and the

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. Guests included the former

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Partner schools

* Tscharenzschool (

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)

* Tumanyanschool (

) * 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 (

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) *

Liceo Linguistico Liceo linguistico (; literally "linguistic lyceum") is a type of secondary school in Italy. It is designed to give students the skills to progress to any university or higher educational institution.Decreto del Presidente della Repubblica 89/2010 ...

of the Collegio Vescovile Pio X (

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) * CEU Sanchinarro (

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) * Colegio Santa Maria Magdalena Sofia (

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) * The school is participating in the Erasmus+-programm of the

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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

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* Sven-Ole Frahm, German artist *

Bruno Kahl Bruno Guntram Wilhelm Kahl (born 12 July 1962 in Essen, West Germany) is a German civil servant and administrative lawyer. Since 1 July 2016, he has been President of the Federal Intelligence Service (''Bundesnachrichtendienst''). Early life and ...

, president of the German

Federal Intelligence Service The Federal Intelligence Service (German: ; , BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinate to the Chancellor's Office. The BND headquarters is located in central Berlin and is the world's largest intelligence head ...

* Markus Kurth, politician in the

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for

Alliance 90/The Greens Alliance 90/The Greens (german: Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, ), often simply referred to as the Greens ( ), is a Green politics, green List of political parties in Germany, political party in Germany. It was formed in 1993 as the merger of The Greens ...

Deborah Schöneborn Deborah Schöneborn (born 13 March 1994) is a German long-distance runner. She competed in the women's marathon at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. She competed in the women's half marathon at the 2019 Summer Universiade held in ...

, long-distance runner *

Rabea Schöneborn Rabea Schöneborn (born 13 March 1994) is a German long-distance runner. She competed in the women's half marathon at the 2020 World Athletics Half Marathon Championships held in Gdynia, Poland. In 2019, she competed in the women's half maratho ...

, long-distance runner * Fabian Thülig, former German Basketballer at

Telekom Baskets Bonn Telekom Baskets Bonn, also known as Baskets Bonn, is a German professional basketball club that is based in Bonn, Germany. The club plays in the Basketball Bundesliga, which is German basketball league system, the highest level pro basketball le ...

Notable teachers

Peter Kohlgraf Peter Kohlgraf (born March 21, 1967 in Cologne, West Germany) is a German Roman Catholic bishop. He is the current Bishop of Mainz. Life Kohlgraf was born the son of a mason and a nurse. After his Abitur in 1986 at the Dreikönigsgymnasium ...

, chaplain and catechist at the KFG 1999–2003,

Bishop of Mainz The Diocese of Mainz, historically known in English as ''Mentz'' as well as by its French name ''Mayence'', is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. It was founded in 304, promoted in 780 to Metrop ...

References

External links

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