Hufen-Oberlyzeum

The Hufen-Oberlyzeum was a girls' gymnasium in Königsberg, Germany.

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Hufen-Oberlyzeum ca. 1923

History

Elvira Szittnick founded a girls' secondary school on Bahnstraße, later Hindenburgstraße, in Mittelhufen in 1902.[1] Three years later it moved to a new building on the same street.[2] It was acquired by the Prussian state and converted into a gymnasium in 1921,[1] taking on the tradition of the former Königliche Luisenschule of Posen (Poznań).[3] Alfred Walsdorff was its only director. It closed in January 1945 during World War II. The building is now used as a school in Kaliningrad, Russia.[4] Amongst its better known pupils was Hannah Arendt, who enrolled there in August 1913.

Notes
  1. Albinus, p. 135
  2. Gause II, p. 720
  3. Gause III, p. 77
  4. Blochplan

References
  • Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.
  • Stadtplan Königsberg 1931 / Kaliningrad heute (Map) (2010 ed.) (in German). Berlin: Blochplan. ISBN 978-3000307621.
  • Gause, Fritz (1968). Die Geschichte der Stadt Königsberg. Band II: Von der Königskrönung bis zum Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs (in German). Köln: Böhlau Verlag. p. 761.
  • Gause, Fritz (1971). Die Geschichte der Stadt Königsberg. Band III: Vom Ersten Weltkrieg biz zum Untergang Königsbergs (in German). Köln: Böhlau Verlag. p. 327. ISBN 3-412-38871-8.

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