Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium

Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium
Address
Elsa-Brändström-Straße 71–91 Bonn, Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates	50°43′38″N 7°07′36″E / 50.7273°N 7.1268°E / 50.7273; 7.1268Coordinates: 50°43′38″N 7°07′36″E / 50.7273°N 7.1268°E / 50.7273; 7.1268
Information
School type	private Gymnasium
Motto	Pro hominibus constitutus (Sent for the people)
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Opened	1964
Founder	Josef Cardinal Frings
School board	Archdiocese of Cologne
School number	166273
Principal	Bernhard Hillen
Chaplain	Andreas Haermayer
Teaching staff	80
Gender	Coeducational (since 1988)
Enrollment	1000
Classes offered	5-12
Website	www.kfg-bonn.de
Main entrance of Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium

The Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium (KFG, until 1979 Erzbischöfliches Gymnasium Beuel) is a private catholic secondary school in Beuel, a borough of the former German capital Bonn in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The school was founded in 1964 as Erzbischöfliches Gymnasium Beuel (EBG) by the Archbishop of Cologne, Josef Kardinal Frings. It was a boys´ school. The school building in the south of Beuel, which includes an assembly hall, a sports field and a cafeteria was planned by the architect Joachim Schürmann. After Frings death in 1978, the school decided to assume the name of its founder and was officially named as Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium on December 8, 1979. In 1988, the school was opened for girls.

The school is known for its brass orchestra. The popular German brass band Querbeat (), which is active in the Cologne Carnival, was founded in 2001 as a school band of the Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium.
In 2001, the school initiated the Social Project Armenia. At an annual run the students collect money, which is used for an exchange programm, the support of German lessons at two partner schools in Gyumri and the renovating of village schools in the north-Armenian Region Shirak. The donation volume in the last 15 years is more than 225.000 Euros.

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