of the Bereitschaftspolizei and several regional and state courts and of the Departments of Finance and Labor, as well as a notary public maintain branch locations here. Lahr is also the seat of the Deaconies Lahr of both the Archdiocese Freiburg and the Evangelical Church in Baden. Education There is a private university in Lahr and the hospital is a teaching hospital attached to the University in Freiburg. The City has three college track high schools (Clara-Schumann-, Max-Planck- and Scheffel-Gymnasium), one non-college track high school (Otto-Hahn-Realschule), one school focusing on special education (Gutenbergschule), eight grammar schools (Eichrodt-Grundschule, Geroldseckerschule, Johann-Peter-Hebel-Schule, Luisenschule, Schutterlindenberg-Schule, Grundschule Kuhbach, Grundschule Langenwinkel, Schulhaus Kippenheimweiler and Grundschule Mietersheim), two combined grammar and middle schools (in Reichenbach and in Sulz) and two middle schools (Friedrich-Hauptschule und Theodor-Heuss-Hauptschule Dinglingen). In addition, Ortenau (district) operates several vocational schools, a schools for the speech impaired with attached Kindergarten, and a school for the mentally disabled, also with attached Kindergarten. Additional public schools are the Clara-Schumann-Gymnasium (where students with a degree from non-college track high schools may obtain a degree equivalent to a college-track high school) with room and board, a specialty school for painters, and the nursing school that is attached to the hospital. Numerous private and specialty training schools complete the picture, among them the Abendrealschule and Abendgymnasium where students with middle school and non-college track high school diplomas are able to gain college entrance prerequisites on a part-time basis after work. Notable people Helmut Beinert (1913–2007), biochemist, was born in Lahr Philipp Brucker (1924–2013), journalist, author, mayor of Lahr Ludwig Eichrodt (1827–1892), poet and dramatist, died in Lahr Charles Fingado (1841–1901), member of the Wisconsin State Assembly Hans Furler (1904–1975), politician (CDU), president of the European Parliament (1960–1962) Adolf Hitler (1889–1945), chancellor (removed from the list following a municipal council decision in 1947) Jürgen Leonhardt (born 1957), philologist Tommy Mac (born 1971), musician, electric guitarist Christina Obergföll (born 1981), javelin thrower Sascha Riether (born 1983), footballer Oliver Schäfer (born 1969), football player and coach Dieter Schnebel (1930–2018), composer of experimental music and theologian Philipp Jakob Siebenpfeiffer (1789–1845), instigator and main speaker at the Hambach Festival Ludwig Sütterlin (1865–1917), inventor and creator of the Sütterlinschrift Felix Wankel (1902–1988), mechanical engineer, inventor of the Wankel engine Emil Rudolf Weiß (1875–1942), painter and typographer Tabea Zimmermann (born 1966), violist, professor Twin towns – sister cities Lahr is twinned with: Alajuela, Costa Rica (2006)