The Gregor-Mendel-Gymnasium (GMG, Gregor Mendel High School) is a national, public gymnasium

Gymnasium (school)

A gymnasium is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English grammar schools or sixth form colleges and U.S. college preparatory high schools. The word γυμνάσιον was used in Ancient Greece, meaning a locality for both physical and intellectual...

 in Amberg

Amberg

Amberg is a town in Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the Upper Palatinate, roughly halfway between Regensburg and Bayreuth. Population: 44,756 .- History :...

, Bavaria

Bavaria

Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...

. It is named after scientist Gregor Mendel

Gregor Mendel

Gregor Johann Mendel was an Austrian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance...

. As of 2006 it has some 950 students, of whom 35% are from the city of Amberg, and 65% from the surrounding district. There are some 60 instructors.

The school was founded in 1833 as the Königliche Landwirtschafts- und Gewerbeschule.

Alumni

Noteworth alumni include:

• Eugen Oker (1919–2006), writer
• H. E. Erwin Walther (1920–1995), composer
• Johann Baptist Metz
  Johann Baptist Metz
  Johann Baptist Metz is a Catholic theologian. He is Ordinary Professor of Fundamental Theology, Emeritus, at Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, Germany....
  
   (*1928), professor of theology
• Eckhard Henscheid (*1941), writer