• Abitur after twelve years, or Gymnasium in eight years (G8 or Gy8) describes the reduction of the time spent at a university-preparatory high school from...
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    year of age in Berlin and Brandenburg), there are four options for secondary schooling: Gymnasium (Germany) until grade 12 or 13 (with Abitur as exit exam...
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    Berlin (German: Freie Universität Berlin, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin. It was founded in West...
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    The Französisches Gymnasium (French: Lycée français de Berlin) is a francophone gymnasium in Berlin, Germany. Traditionally, it is widely regarded as an...
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    Berlin (CK) is a private, Catholic and coeducational Gymnasium (German type of college-preparatory school) directed by the Society of Jesus in Berlin...
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  • his Abitur in Berlin, he joined the Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in 1888. Following his attendance of the Naval Academy in Kiel he progressed in rank...
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    Bugenhagen-Internat in Timmendorfer Strand, and a boarding school in Plön. She achieved her Abitur in Berlin. She then lived for half a year in London, where...
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    starting in grade 7 in that year or later complete the abitur after twelve years. In 2007 Berlin had 878 schools that taught 340,658 children in 13,727...
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    school in Berlin, Germany offering integrated, bilingual education for both German and American children. The school was originally established in 1960...
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    Hauptschule (category Secondary education in Germany)
    Hauptschulabschluss, Realschulabschluss or Abitur in Germany: Historically, a vast majority in Germany went to Hauptschule; in 2000 54.5% of jobholders had an Hauptschulabschluss...
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    Joseph Goebbels (category Antisemitism in Germany)
    service in World War I because of this deformity. Goebbels was educated at a Gymnasium, where he completed his Abitur (university entrance examination) in 1917...
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    The general requirement for attending university is the Abitur. According to an OECD report in 2014, Germany is the world's third leading destination for...
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    Günter Schabowski (category Berlin Wall)
    born in Anklam, Pomerania (then in the Free State of Prussia, now part of the federal state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern). After completing his Abitur, Schabowski...
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    Liv Lisa Fries (category Actresses from Berlin)
    in Beijing. In addition to native German, she speaks English, French and Mandarin. After receiving her Abitur in 2010, Fries took advanced classes in...
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    Sahra Wagenknecht (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    moved to East Berlin. While in Berlin, she became a member of the Free German Youth (FDJ). She completed her Abitur exams in 1988 and joined the (then ruling)...
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    working in analytic number theory. After the Abitur in Warsaw, Poland, Arnold Walfisz studied (1909−14 and 1918−21) in Germany at Munich, Berlin, Heidelberg...
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    that well. In most cases students attending a Gesamtschule may graduate with the Hauptschulabschluss, the Realschulabschluss or the Abitur depending on...
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  • Thekla Carola Wied (category Articles lacking in-text citations from April 2023)
    actress educated in West Berlin at the Evangelisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster. Her father was a teacher for Latin. After abitur she studied from 1965...
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    Tom Schilling (category Male actors from Berlin)
    at school. He left school with an Abitur certificate. Schilling's screen acting debut was in 1996, when he appeared in the Sat.1 TV series Hallo, Onkel...
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    Gebhard Ludwig Himmler (category Nazis who participated in the Beer Hall Putsch)
    was still working on his Abitur, he was exempted from conscription in the Bavarian Army. In March, 1917 he took his Abitur early and passed. He was a...
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    Striesow could start. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 changed his life plans, so he went back to school to take his Abitur. Initially, he studied jazz guitar...
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    finishing her Abitur at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In 1914, the Mann family obtained a villa on 1 Poschingerstraße in Bogenhausen, which in the family...
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    August Diehl (category Male actors from Berlin)
    of 18, he played Franz Mohr in a school theatre production of Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller. After passing the Abitur exams, Diehl studied acting at...
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  • Manfred Schubert (composer) (category Academic staff of the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler Berlin)
    the son of a lawyer in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In his youth, he received violin and piano lessons; he passed his Abitur in Berlin-Köpenick. From 1955 to...
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    Erwin Planck (category People from Berlin executed at Plötzensee Prison)
    mansions colony. Having obtained his Abitur degree in 1911, Erwin Planck pursued a career as an officer in the German Army. In World War I, he soon found himself...
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    Friedrich Wilhelm Kritzinger (category Humboldt University of Berlin alumni)
    Gniezno), receiving his Abitur in 1908. He then studied law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg, the Humboldt University of Berlin and the University...
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  • Benfica and attended the German School of Lisbon. In 1987, Patrick graduated with a German Abitur high school diploma and then emigrated to the United...
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    Tim Bendzko (category Singers from Berlin)
    songs. After taking his Abitur, he studied Protestant Theology and non-Christian religions at the Free University of Berlin. He ended his studies after...
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    Hedwig Potthast (category Women in Nazi Germany)
    businessman. After her final Abitur exams at secondary school, and attending a finishing school, she trained as a secretary qualified in foreign languages at...
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  • German bilingual Abitur or the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. The Nelson Mandela School was founded in 2000 by the Berlin senate. At this...
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