We shape our school together
1912 | All-boys school “Realschule Zuffenhausen” founded. |
1919 | First girls allowed. |
1926 | School consists of six Grades leading to “Mittlere Reife” qualification. School premises consist of the “Rosenschule”, the children's school and two sheds on the “Kelterplatz”. |
1930 | School moves to its own premises on the third and fourth floor of the new “Hohenstein” school building |
1943 | All classes evacuated to Aalen, Wasseralfingen, Esslingen, and Oberkochen. |
October 1945 | Classes resume at Zuffenhausen with roughly 200 students divided into six classes. |
1954/55 | 754 students divided into 20 classes. Extreme lack of rooms. |
Spring 1957 | First graduation exams. |
June 21, 1958 | School becomes full-time establishment under the name of “Gymnasium Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen”. |
February 15, 1960 | Foundation block laid for the new school building in Haldenrainstraße. |
February 15, 1962 | Consecration of the new school building. |
1971/72 | School split resulting in the creation of “Echbach Gymnasium” in Stuttgart Freiberg. |
June 21, 1983 | 25th anniversary of “Gymnasium Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen”. Local council of the state capital Stuttgart calls the school “Ferdinand-Porsche-Gymnasium Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen”. |
1994 | Lounge and cafeteria open. Three lunches a week delivered by the Porsche AG cafeteria have been served to students ever since thanks to their parents' voluntary work. |
July 2008 | The FPGZ joins the largest school network in Germany: school without racism – school with courage. Uwe Hück, company council member and deputy chairman of the Porsche AG board of directors champions this project. |
Fall 2008 | Start of construction work on the science building. The last class of the “G9” system graduates. The long-tenured principal Erhard Hönes retires. |
2012 | 100th anniversary festivities spanning both school grounds and the Porsche subsidiary in Zuffenhausen. |
2013 | The new NwT-Building opens. |
2014 | Introduction of PorscheLab. |
2015 | The international class IFC's first school year. Our school social worker Chris Cuthbertson opens the student café. |
2017 | Remake of the upper school yard. Introduction of the school ambulance. |