Gymnasium Icking: When falling in love was a "crime"

Created: 12/19/2021, 6:00 AM

From: Andrea Kästle

In suit and evening dress: Schoolchildren in the 1960s, possibly taken when they were leaving school.

Front center: Director Walter Niklas.

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The Ickinger Gymnasium is celebrating its 100th birthday this year.

Our newspaper is taking this anniversary as an opportunity to take a look at the eventful history of the educational institution, which was founded as a middle school in 1921, at random.

Today: the 68ers under the "tough dog" Walter Niklas.

Icking - In the 1960s, young people, especially students, took to the streets all over Germany to rebel against the encrusted structures in the post-war Federal Republic. At the grammar school in idyllic Icking, however, nothing happened at first.

Two students in love took care of "the" excitement.

Their only “crime” was that the two of them - as their former classmate Michael Kahn-Ackermann later reported in the “Ickinger Nachrichten” - liked each other and “stood together during the breaks”.

They wouldn't even have held hands.

“Nevertheless, it was eagerly imagined what devastating consequences such behavior must have on the psyche of the poor, small, innocent classmates of the lower classes.

When the couple could not be separated, a short process was made with the active help of the parents concerned: He had to go. "

The obligation to wear slippers will be abolished

At some point, however, the students also woke up in rural Icking.

In 1968 she finally got the notoriously strict director of the grammar school, Walter Niklas, to hold a discussion event.

In the round, the school pupils managed to implement their most important reform plans: "The humiliating slipper requirement was abolished, and it was enforced that the second entrance door was opened to reduce the pressure on the students," as the school newspaper announced.

A tough one: School director Walter Niklas headed the grammar school from 1949 to 1974.

The students, who on the one hand adored him and on the other hand feared him, called him "Boss".

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At the same time, the "Ickinger Geist", which is so much invoked today, proved to be quite persistent.

When students from Ickingen were elected to the school district in order to be able to help shape the school, it was quickly dissolved.

The parents simply founded a new association.

Student co-administration resigns as a whole

In January 1970 it finally seems to have been enough for the youngsters.

The Isar-Loisachbote headlined in its local edition: “Schoolchildren are rehearsing the uprising.

Offices in the grammar school resigned. ”In fact, the student council on the left Isar high bank had resigned, the class representatives, demanded those involved, should follow them.

You told the newspaper at the time: “We are fed up with being treated like small children and not like normal people.” Only on the “question of toilet paper in the pupils' toilets” did they have a say, nowhere else.

The parents have no real responsibility either, the headmaster Niklas makes all decisions alone.

But at the time he only said: "No comment, I'll be available when the story is baked."

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Also read: The founder of the Icking grammar school: advocate of a modern spirit

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