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13 unusual facts about abitur


Abitur

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Alfred Delp

Immediately after passing his Abitur – in which he came out on top of his class – he joined the Society of Jesus in 1926.

College entrance exam

Abitur, the academic qualification examination in Germany

Florentine Lahme

After she passed her Abitur (final exam to graduate from high school), Lahme studied Japanology and English for four semesters.

Friedrich Kemnade

After he received his Abitur (diploma) he joined the military services of the Reichsmarine on 1 April 1931 as a Naval Officer candidate.

Georg von Metaxa

After graduating from school with the Abitur, he began to study law at Vienna but broke off soon in order to focus on his tennis career.

Heinrich Eduard Jacob

Jacob attended Gymnasium schools in Berlin and Vienna, obtaining his Abitur school-leaver's qualification from the Ascanian high school in Berlin, under the tutelage of the noted philosopher Otto Friedrich Gruppe.

Karl Smidt

He began his naval career with the Reichsmarine on 31 March 1922 as a member "Crew 1922" (the incoming class of 1922) after graduation from the humanistische Gymnasium (humanities-oriented secondary school) in Hameln with his Abitur (diploma).

Martin Harlinghausen

He received his Abitur (diploma) in 1922 and then studied one semester jurisprudence at the University of Göttingen.

Mirko Lang

After doing his Abitur he started studying music and theatre in Hannover, where he also had his first appearances on stage.

Prince Heinrich of Bavaria

At the age of 17, following his Abitur, Heinrich joined the Bavarian army with the rank of Leutnant.

Udo Beyer

After the youth tournament in 1969, he changed to the youth sports school in Frankfurt (Oder), where he earned his Abitur.

Vratislav Effenberger

In 1944, Effenberger left industrial school with his Abitur.


Carl-Eduard von Bismarck

Following his Abitur in 1982 in Wentorf, he served in the military as an officer cadet, and from 1985 to 1989 he studied economics.

Colegio Alemán Alexander von Humboldt

Lomas Verdes, Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle, and High School (or "Abitur" by German standards).

David McAllister

After his parents moved to the small town of Bad Bederkesa in Lower Saxony in 1982, he went to the Lower Saxon Internatsgymnasium (boarding school) in Bederkesa, where he took his Abitur in 1989.

Erna Barschak

In 1915 Barschak completed the German Abitur which allowed her to go on to university, where she studied Economics, Sociology and Psychology in Berlin and Tübingen.

Ernst Kupfer

When he became unemployed, he returned to school, completed his Abitur in 1925 and then studied five semesters Jurisprudence at the University of Heidelberg.

Ferdinand von Prondzynski

In 1968 the family returned to Germany, and after a short time in a boarding school (Schule Schloss Salem), von Prondzynski attended the Thomas-Morus Gymnasium in Oelde, passing his Abitur examination in 1972.

Günter Rexrodt

After the Abitur in 1960 in Arnstadt, Thuringia and an extra year in West Berlin, he graduated with a Diplom in business studies from the Free University Berlin where he also received his doctorate ("Dr. rer. pol") in 1971.

Gunther Hartmann

In 1986, Hartmann obtained his matriculation (Abitur) from the Salvator College Catholic High School in Bad Wurzach.

Hugo Kükelhaus

In 1919 Hugo Kükelhaus finished his Abitur in Essen, began an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Essen and, as a travelling journeyman (Geselle), travelled through Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltics.

Joseph ibn Abitur

Abitur was from a very prestigious Spanish family from the city of Mérida.

Julius von Mayer

After completing his Abitur, he studied medicine at the University of Tübingen, where he was a member of the Corps Guestphalia, a German Student Corps.

Kai Diekmann

After his Abitur (roughly equivalent to high school graduation) and mandatory military service, which he completed on the editorial staff of a military newspaper, he studied at the University of Münster.

Karl Borsch

Born in Krefeld, he grew up in Kempen, where he also visited the gymnasium Thomaeum, where he graduated with abitur.

Kollegstufe

The regulations for the Kollegstufe and also for the Abitur are different in the different "Länder" (federal states) of Germany.

Kurt Raab

He completed the abitur at Musische Gymnasium Straubing, and studied in Munich.

Michael Buback

Buback was born in Nobitz, Thuringia and due to his father's judicial career he attended school in five different towns and cities before having his Abitur school exam in Karlsruhe.

Rita Grosse-Ruyken

After Abitur, from 1970–72, she studied Romance and English Language and Literature at the LMU in Munich.

Rufus Beck

After his Abitur in 1976 (roughly equivalent to an associates degree) and completing his Zivildienst (alternative to required military service), Beck studied Islamic Studies, Ethnology, and Philosophy at the University of Heidelberg.

Uwe Schünemann

Schünemann attented Gymnasium an der Wilhelmstraße (later Campe-Gymnasium) in Holzminden, where he acquired his Abitur in 1984.

Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven

After his Final Exams (Abitur), Loringhoven joined the Baltic-German Army (Landeswehr) in 1918, and with the formation of independent Latvia he became an officer of the 13th Infantry Regiment of Latvia.

Wilhelm Ebel

He did his Abitur in Reszel in 1927, and studied law, history, and philology at the University of Königsberg and Heidelberg University.