History of Goethe-School
The history of Goethe-School started in the year 1899, when Goethe-School was founded in in Rüttenscheid, a part of Essen, called "Goetheschule Rüttenscheid".
The other Goethe-School, called "Realgymnasium Bredeney" was founded in Bredeney, an other part of Essen near Rütenscheid, in 1910.
After the hardest bombing-attack, from the 27th April to 28th April of 1944, against Essen in the second world war, the school was completely destroyed, so that it was impossible to teach there. After that a long period of time started, in which the school changed her building for many times.
In 1951 both schools, the "Realgymnasium Rüttenscheid" and the "Realgymnasium Bredeney", were united into one school in Bredeney. This is the school, which since then has been called Goetheschule Gymnasium Essen-Bredeney.
In this long history of Goethe-School many famous people, like Gustav Heinemann, President of the German Federal Republic from 1969 to 1974 , and Alfried Krupp, one important German economics politician, graduated at Goethe-School.
