A Gymnasium is a top school for strongly emphasizes academic learning and comparable to the British grammar school system or with prep schools in the United States. The other secondary schools are the Dr. Jasper-Realschule and the Johannes-Falk-Schule (Hauptschule). There are also a Förderschule, Schule an der Weser and Anne-Frank-Schule. International relations Holzminden is twinned with: Leven, Fife, Scotland Notable people Erwin Böhme (1879–1917), World War I flying ace Ulrich Brinkhoff (born 1940), Photographer and writer Carl Wilhelm Gerberding (1894–1984), industrialist and founder of Dragoco :de:August Hampe (1866–1945), politician, Minister of Justice of the Braunschweig District Adolf Heusinger (1897–1982), German general and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee :de:Eberhard Itzenplitz (1926–2012), film director Leopold Scherman (died 1970), architect Other notable people who have lived in Holzminden Jyhan Artut (born 1976), darts player Jonatan Briel (1942–1988), film director and actor Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), chemist Niels Jannasch (1924–2001), mariner, curator and maritime historian Nicolas Kiefer (born 1977), tennis player Christian Meyer (born 1975), politician for the Alliance '90/The Greens and Minister of Lower Saxony Wilhelm Konrad Hermann Müller (1812–1890), a philologist of Germanic studies Wilhelm Raabe (1831–1910), novelist Annika Roloff (born 1991), athlete who specializes in the pole vault Carola Roloff (born 1959), Buddhist nun, Tibetologist, University Professor Uwe Schünemann (born 1964), CDU politician and Minister of Lower Saxony Meinolf Sellmann, computer scientist Generaloberst Nikolaus von Falkenhorst (1885–1968), Convicted war criminal. Did not follow the Commando Order. Guilty on 8 other charges Prince Wilhelm-Karl of Prussia (1922–2007) Heinz H. Weissenstein (1912–1996), photographer See also Holzminden internment camp Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp Holzminden (district) Metropolitan region Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg References External links Holzminden homepage Holzminden (district) Duchy of Brunswick