Hansagymnasium Köln Explained

Hansagymnasium Köln
Established:	1899
Type:	Gymnasium
Principal:	Erika Nausester-Hahn
Location:	Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Website:	www.hansa-gymnasium-koeln.de

Hansagymnasium Köln is a Gymnasium in Cologne, Germany and has about 800 pupils.

The school was founded in 1899 as a business school. Until 1941 its name was Oberrealschule am Hansaring.^[1]

Notable former pupils and staff

Pupils

• Norbert Burger (1932 - 2012) - Mayor of Cologne 1980 - 1999
• Henryk M. Broder (born 1946) - author and journalist^[2]
• Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (born 1951) - astronaut
• Tillmann Otto (born 1974) - musician

Staff

• Martin Brand (born 1975) - visual artist
• Kurt Holl (born 1938) - civil rights activist^[3]
• Henner Huhle (born 1937) - gymnast

Headmasters

• 1897–1899 Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé
• 1899–1903 Dr. Johannes Vogels
• 1903–1922 Dr. Konrad Cüppers
• 1923–1931 Dr. Paul Holzapfel
• 1931–1933 Wilhelm Steinforth
• 1935–1945 Dr. Johannes Becker (provisionally since 1934)^[4]
• 1961-1974 Adolf Kagel
• 1975-1992 Dr. Gisbert Gemein
• 1992–2002 Eckhard Wieberneit
• 2003–2012 Horst Kahl
• 2012-2015 Norbert Subroweit
• 2015-2016 Ulrike Thiede (provisionally)
• 2016-2017 Niels Menge (provisionally)
• since 2017 Erika Nausester-Hahn

External links

• official website

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Notes and References

1. http://historischesarchivkoeln.de/de/lesesaal/bestand/1284/Best.+571+Hansa-Gymnasium Historisches Archiv Köln: Hansa-Gymnasium (Best. 571).
2. Web site: "Sport kam nicht infrage" . Henryk M. Broder . Tagesspiegel . 18 December 2007 . 2014-01-22 . German .
3. Web site: "Die Schüler waren prima" : 12 /// Hansa Geschichte(n) /// Ehemalige . Hansagymnasium Köln . 2013 . 2014-01-21 . German . https://web.archive.org/web/20140201200037/http://hansa.digionline.de/wws/bin/246136-246392-2-kurt_holl_referendar_1974.pdf . 2014-02-01 . dead .
4. Web site: Hansa-Gymnasium . Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln . 2014-01-22 . German . 2014-11-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141128222725/http://www.archive.nrw.de/LAV_NRW/jsp/bestand.jsp?archivNr=2&tektId=293&expandId=287 . dead .