The mayor of Wiessee remembers his career

The new school year begins this week. Prominent district residents are taking this opportunity to remember their school days. Here: Wiessee Mayor Robert Kühn (SPD).

Bad Wiessee – When Robert Kühn thinks back to his time as a student, he has mixed feelings. “Primary school was really great,” says the mayor of Wiessee looking back. The now 41-year-old entered the school building in his hometown of Bad Wiessee for the first time in 1989 as a first-grader – accompanied by his mother and of course equipped with a large school cone. “I think he made it himself,” says Kühn. He doesn’t have many more memories of his first day at school. After all, he was only six years old. However, he does remember that he was happy that most of his kindergarten friends were in the same class.

Robert Kühn: “Latin was my hated subject”

Later, after moving to Tegernsee High School, Kühn increasingly struggled with everyday school life and the required study load. “I was a bad student,” the current mayor admits frankly. He soon realized that he did not want to study and therefore did not really need the high school diploma. “Maybe that’s why I didn’t try so hard,” he thinks. The young Kühn was still able to cope well with the subjects of history, economics and law – “but Latin was the subject I hated,” the mayor remembers. He remembers the additional offerings at the high school as “really nice”. For example, Kühn played the cello in the orchestra and took part in the politics and contemporary history group. The latter was the foundation for his later career: “That’s where my interest in politics was awakened.”

For his secondary school education, Kühn moved to Miesbach

All in all, his time at school was a bit of a mixed bag. This also applies to social contacts. “I had my friends, but I was never part of the really cool class community,” Kühn recalled. He stayed at the grammar school until the tenth grade – then it was enough. Although he had officially earned his intermediate school leaving certificate by passing the tenth grade, Kühn still transferred to the Miesbach secondary school to get his diploma there. “I really wanted to get this intermediate school leaving certificate,” says Kühn, adding: “Looking back, it wasn’t necessary.”

The new school year began in Bavaria today, Tuesday. To mark the occasion, we asked people in the district what memories they have of starting school and the school years that followed?

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