Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium is one of Munich

Munich

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's oldest schools. It is situated on Regerplatz in the Munich district Au

Au (Munich)

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Founded in 1899 as a Kreisrealschule

Realschule

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, it became a Kreisoberrealschule in 1940 and a state-run Gymnasium in 1965. It currently holds around 750 students mainly in a natural scientific-mathematical, but as of late also a modern language branch.

In 1998, a gifted student class was started. In a partnership with Ludwig Maximilian University gifted students receive socalled „Enrichment“ classes, during which they can carry out experiments themselves at the biology and physics departments under supervision by known professors.

The school is host to student exchanges with France

France

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, Sweden

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 and Poland

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A new building with cafeteria and several new specialist rooms was recently built, made necessary by the adoption of the 8-year Gymnasium in many German states.

Famous students

• Anselm Bilgri, former Prior of Andechs Abbey
• Corbinian Böhm
  Corbinian Böhm
  Corbinian Böhm is a German painter, installation artist and sculptor.-Biography:Böhm has grown up with five siblings in Harlaching, a borough of Munich. One of his brothers is the ski mountaineer Benedikt Böhm. After finishing his secondary education with the abitur he studied art history at the...
  
  , artist, student from 1980 to 1984
• Heinz Rühmann
  Heinz Rühmann
  Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a popular German film actor.-Life and work:Rühmann was born in Essen, Westphalia. His role in the 1930 movie Die Drei von der Tankstelle led him to film stardom. He remained highly popular as a comedic actor throughout the 1930s and early 1940s...
  
  , actor
• Karl Seebach
  Karl Seebach
  Karl Seebach was a German mathematician.Seebach earned his doctorate at the University of Munich under Heinrich Tietze and Arnold Sommerfeld, in 1938. From 1977 to 1981, he held the Chair for Didactics of Mathematics at the University of Munich...
  
  , mathematician

External links

• Website of Maria-Theresia-Gymnasium (German)