title: Hansagymnasium Köln
text: # Hansagymnasium Köln
  
  Hansagymnasium Köln is a Gymnasium in Cologne, Germany and has about 800 pupils.
  
  The school was founded in 1899 as a business school. Until 1941 its name was Oberrealschule am Hansaring.
  
  ## Notable former pupils and staff
  
  ### Pupils
  
  * Norbert Burger (1932 - 2012) - Mayor of Cologne 1980 - 1999
  * Henryk M. Broder (born 1946) - author and journalist
  * Hans Wilhelm Schlegel (born 1951) - astronaut
  * Tillmann Otto (born 1974) - musician
  
  ### Staff
  
  * Martin Brand (born 1975) - visual artist
  * Kurt Holl (born 1938) - civil rights activist
  * Henner Huhle (born 1937) - gymnast
  
  ### Headmasters
  
  * 1897–1899 Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé
  * 1899–1903 Dr. Johannes Vogels
  * 1903–1922 Dr. Konrad Cüppers
  * 1923–1931 Dr. Paul Holzapfel
  * 1931–1933 Wilhelm Steinforth
  * 1935–1945 Dr. Johannes Becker (provisionally since 1934)
  * 1961-1974 Adolf Kagel
  * 1975-1992 Dr. Gisbert Gemein
  * 1992–2002 Eckhard Wieberneit
  * 2003–2012 Horst Kahl
  * 2012-2015 Norbert Subroweit
  * 2015-2016 Ulrike Thiede (provisionally)
  * 2016-2017 Niels Menge (provisionally)
  * since 2017 Erika Nausester-Hahn
  