Graf-Engelbert-Schule

High school in Bochum, Germany

Graf-Engelbert School

Location

Bochum, Germany
Information
Type	High school
Established	1910

Graf-Engelbert School is an urban high school for boys and girls in Bochum, Germany. Near the center of the city and the tree-lined Königsallee, it is located on Else-Hirsch-Straße. Else Hirsch was a teacher in Bochum during the Nazi era and organized ten children's transports, saving many lives, though she herself was murdered in the Holocaust.^[1]^[2]

Graf-Engelbert School is only a few hundred meters from the Schiller School (also a high school). Due to that proximity, there are common courses (also including the Albert-Einstein-Schule) in all subjects in the upper classes.

At one point, Graf-Engelbert was a boys-only high school, but was combined with a girls' high school which was then located near the Schiller School. Currently, 67 teachers teach approximately 930 students at Graf-Engelbert.

Notable alumni

Wolfgang Clement, politician
Gerhard Charles Rump, author on art history and the theory of contemporary art, art history teacher, curator, gallerist and photo artist
Otto Schily, politician

References

^ Biography of Else Hirsch Archived 2018-08-23 at the Wayback Machine. City of Bochum official website. Retrieved April 24, 2010 (in German)
^ Karin Finkbohner, Betti Helbing, Carola Horn, Anita Krämer, Astrid Schmidt-Ritter, Kathy Vowe. Wider das Vergessen — Widerstand und Verfolgung Bochumer Frauen und Zwangsarbeiterinnen 1933–1945 pp. 62-63. Europäischer Universitätsverlag, ISBN 978-3-932329-62-3 (in German)