Named after doctor Albert Schweitzer, the school was founded in the 1960s as part of Ohm High School in Erlangen, as an increasing number of families moved from the city's core to the area west of the Regnitz.

[2] The current name was given to the school as its founding date coincidentally matched the anniversary of death of Albert Schweitzer.

The name was changed on 26 November 1965, after the school's parent council voted unanimously for the change and the school was given the last letter Albert Schweitzer had written before his death by university professor Heinrich Franke.

The following years a proprietary building was built for the school and later expanded to offer enough classrooms for the steadily increasing number of students.

At the former, chemistry is introduced directly after the choosing, while at the later Spanish becomes a new subject as the third foreign language.