Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium

The Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium is a classical gymnasium school in the Neustadt district of Mainz.

Subjects
The Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium is a classical school. The first foreign language taught is Latin and the second is English. Later, three foreign languages (including ancient languages) are required.

History
The school was founded as a Jesuit school in Mainz on 9 December 1561 and was originally called the Kurfürstliches Kolleg der Gesellschaft Jesu (Prince-Electoral College of the Society of Jesus). Between 1618 and 1782 the school was co-located with the university in the Domus Universitatis. In 1773/1774, under the aegis of Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim, the school was reformed in line with the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and was given the name Kurfürstlich Mainzisches Emmerizianisches Gymnasium (Prince-Electoral Mayencian Emmerichian Gymnasium). In the following 200 years, the school changed its name and location several times. In 1859 Heinrich Bone was made director of the school, at the behest of the Bishop of Mainz, Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler. In the course of the Kulturkampf, he was prematurely removed from office.

In 1945, the school building was destroyed by fire. In the following years, classes were held in what is now the Willigis Gymnasium. The director was August Mayer (1945–1958). The school moved back to the rebuilt school in the Kaiserstraße on 14 June 1953, and was renamed Rabanus-Maurus-Gymnasium, after Rabanus Maurus.

Notable alumni
Year of graduation in parentheses
 * Peter Paul Weinschenck aka Pablo Tabernero (1926) cinematographer
 * (1978), chemist
 * (1931), art historian
 * Werner Best (1921), leading Nazi
 * Axel Börsch-Supan (1973), economist
 * Gerold von Braunmühl (1955), diplomat, victim of the Red Army Faction
 * , (1973), economic historian
 * (1976), philosopher
 * (1976), journalist (ZDF)
 * (1962), former member of federal parliament, president of the German Israeli Society
 * Romano Guardini (1903), Catholic philosopher of religion and theologist
 * Walter Hallstein (1920), German and European politician (1950s to 1970s)
 * Adam Karrillon (1873), writer
 * Klaus Mayer (1942), priest
 * (1948), local politician and writer
 * (1979), gallery owner and art historian
 * Harald Martenstein (1972), journalist
 * Ferdy Mayne (emigrated in the 1930s), film actor
 * (1960), lawyer, former member of federal parliament and top civil servant
 * (1947), Catholic priest and teacher
 * (1979), organ expert
 * (1981 as Dorothea Dittrich), member of Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament
 * (1967), physician and professor Hochschullehrer, vice president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
 * (1989), member of Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament
 * (1978), chanson singer-songwriter
 * (1995), playwright
 * (1987), film director
 * Carl Zuckmayer (1914), writer