Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium Explained

Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium
Former Name:Erzbischöfliches Gymnasium Beuel (until 1979)
Nickname:KFG
Motto:Latin: Pro hominibus constitutus
Motto Translation:Sent for the people
Streetaddress:Elsa-Brändström-Straße 71–91
City:Bonn-Beuel
Province:North Rhine-Westphalia
Country:Germany
Coordinates:50.7273°N 7.1268°W
Type:Private gymnasium
Religion:Roman Catholic
Founder:Josef Cardinal Frings
School Board:Archdiocese of Cologne
School Number:166273
Principal:Bernhard Hillen
Chaplain:Andreas Haermayer
Teaching Staff:68 (January 2017)
Enrollment:850 (July 2017)
Classes Offered:5-12

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, 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, 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.[1]

Headmasters

Ordinal Principal Term start Term end Time in office Notes
Aloys Zillien 1964 1980 years
Arnd Zimmermann 1980 1994 years [2]
Rudolf Lenzen 1994 1995 years Provisional
Karl-Ludwig Wimberger 1995 2008 years
Bernhard Hillen 2008 incumbent years [3]

Profile

English and Latin are compulsory languages at the school. Moreover, the students can decide to learn French 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.[4] 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, the support of German lessons at two partner schools in Gyumri and the renovating of village schools in the north-Armenian 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 ESA-astronaut Alexander Gerst, who answered the students' questions from the International Space Station ISS via amateur radio. The contact was part of the ARISS project and was carried out by the German Amateur Radio Club and the German Aerospace Center. Guests included the former astronaut Reinhold Ewald.[5] [6] [7]

Partner schools

Notable alumni

Notable teachers

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Jahrbuch-AG des KFG. 1964-2014 - 50 Jahre Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium Bonn-Beuel. Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium Bonn-Beuel. 2014. Bonn. de. 1964-2014 - 50 years Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium Bonn-Beuel.
  2. 2008-07-04. Archdiocese of Cologne. Stabwechsel im KFG. Kirchenzeitung Köln. de. Cologne.
  3. Web site: Schulleitung. 2017-07-31. de.
  4. Web site: Blasorchester. kfg-bonn.de. de. brass orchestra. 2017-08-10.
  5. News: Willkommen auf der Internationalen Raumstation - Schülerinnen und Schüler aus Bonn funken mit Alexander Gerst. DLR. DLR Portal. 2018-09-01. de-DE.
  6. Web site: Von der Erde zur ISS: Von der Sporthalle ins All – Ferngespräch mit Alexander Gerst. www.handelsblatt.com. de. 2018-09-01.
  7. Web site: ARISS contact planned for school in Bonn, Germany. ariss-eu.org. ARISS Europe. 2018-09-01.
  8. Web site: Armenien: Das Schulprojekt im Schulprofil. kfg-bonn.de. de. Armenia: The project in the school profile. 2017-08-01.
  9. Web site: Australien. kfg-bonn.de. de. Australia. 2017-08-01.
  10. Web site: Chile. kfg-bonn.de. de. 2017-08-01.
  11. Web site: 2017. kfg-bonn.de. de. 2017-08-01.
  12. Web site: Newsletter der Schulleitung II-2015/16. KFG. kfg-bonn.de. de. Newsletter of the principal II-2015/16. 2017-08-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20170401120746/http://kfg-bonn.de/export/sites/kfg-bonn/.content/.galleries/downloads/Newsletter_Dez2015.pdf. 2017-04-01. dead.
  13. Web site: Erasmus+. kfg-bonn.de. de. 2017-08-03.