The DFG / LFA Freiburg (; ) is a DFG/LFA, a public French-German secondary school in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. It offers free education from grades 5 through 12.

The DFG Freiburg was established in . Final year students take the French-German Baccalaureate, a diploma recognised by France as equivalent to the , and by Germany as equivalent to the . For the final three years, students choose between literary, social, and natural science branches (L, ES and S) as is usual in French .

Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium Freiburg im Breisgau

In 2017, on the occasion of the Treaty of Rome's 60th anniversary, the school's student representatives published a pro-European opinion piece saying "don't mess with the European Union".

Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium Freiburg im Breisgau

Amenities

The campus consists of an old building with an annex and a gym, a new building, a sports field, and a pavilion.:53 The old building was designed by Konrad Kuhn:68 and built in 1976. It stands on the former site of the municipal plant nursery, which moved to the Mundenhof in the west of Freiburg in the early 1970s.

Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium Freiburg im Breisgau

The roofs of the old and new building are equipped with photovoltaic solar panels with a combined nominal power of 55 kWp. The panels were erected by students and teachers, and belong to a registered association (e.V.) incorporated in 2002. The association also installed a small wind turbine on the new building.

The school offers rooms in its boarding school in Günterstal, which had 64 residents in 2017.:47 Around 100 students live across the French border in Alsace and attend school using a bus organised by parents.

Notable alums

Franziska Brantner, former Member of the European Parliament and member of the German Bundestag since 2013 Isabelle Joschke, sailor David Afkham

See also

Deutsch-Französisches Gymnasium (about the school form) German international schools in France: DFG / LFA Buc DFG / LFA Strasbourg Internationale Deutsche Schule Paris Deutsche Schule Toulouse

References

External links

DFG / LFA Freiburg

French international schools in Germany

Schools in Freiburg im Breisgau

France–Germany relations

1972 establishments in Germany

Educational institutions established in 1972