A brief overview of school history
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In 1944 a report was written for the 15th anniversary of the school, since 1958 there has been a “Gymnasium Rahlstedt”, in 2007 they celebrated 70 years, and now in 2022 the 100+1 anniversary…
Wait a moment, even the inclined non-mathematician notices that something cannot be right mathematically here!
Yes, answers the historian, everything is correct:
On 1.7.1921 the “Mittelschule des Mittelschulzweckverbandes im Amtbezirk Altrahlstedt” was founded.
It was renamed on 8.10.1925 to “Liliencronschule”.
On 5.4.1929 the “Realschule i.E. (in Errichtung) der Gemeinde Rahlstedt”, did come into being, but it took over the students, the teachers, the school buildings, the teacher and student library, the physical-chemical collection, the maps and pictures from the “Liliencronschule”, in short everything except the name and the principal. It was thus a transformation, not a founding anew.
1934 saw another renaming to the “Realschule der Gemeinde Rahlstedt” (the designation “Realschule” is misleading here. It has almost nothing to do with the later school form, but at the time it was a kind of upper school, which yet lacked the upper grades.)
1937 was a year with many changes: Hamburg absorbed the previously independent Rahlstedt after the Greater Hamburg Act of 26 January 1937. The schools moved from Schleswig-Holstein, more precisely the Prussian school supervision, to Hamburg's. At the school the long-desired upper level was finally established. The Realschule der Gemeinde Rahlstedt became the “Oberschule für Jungen in Rahlstedt”. The teachers stayed, the curricula stayed, and the students stayed as well. Only the name changed, and the school now built the previously missing upper level.
Since 1949 the school existed under the name “Wissenschaftliche Oberschule für Jungen in Rahlstedt”.
When 1951 coeducation arrived, it became the “Wissenschaftliche Oberschule für Jungen und Mädchen in Rahlstedt”.
1958 the school, like all previous “Wissenschaftliche Oberschulen”, received the title Gymnasium, the name “Gymnasium Rahlstedt” was born. It was again a renaming, not a new founding.
The riddle of the various anniversaries is now solved.
In light of this history, it is surprising that the name “Gymnasium Rahlstedt” has remained to this day.
As for the location… or the school building… – but that is another story and requires its own chronicle.