Austrian Pennäler Ring
The Österreichischer Pennäler Ring (ÖPR) is the umbrella organization of around 190 student associations throughout Austria , 54 of which are currently active. Each member association has a high degree of independence within the association. The term Pennäler is derived from the term Pennal and refers to a former school form.
Principles
The commonality of the connections of the ÖPR essentially consists of three areas: national-liberal principles , common student traditions and a uniform appearance (all connections have similar badges and organizational forms) as well as the commitment to the pennal scale , which is viewed as an expansion of the mental and physical horizon becomes.
history
First Pennalien mergers in Austria
The oldest known pennal fraternity is the pB Teutonia , which was recorded in Teschen (Austrian Silesia) in 1817/19 . Further foundings followed. The pB Allemannia et Nibelungia in Graz (founded October 24, 1860) is the oldest still existing pennale fraternity in Austria. Regional alliances of Pennalien initially formed in Bohemia . So around 1900 in the region around Leitmeritz and Aussig the Lobositz Delegate Convent (LoDC), named after its meeting place, with a fraternity tendency, was later joined by Pennalien in Linz, Prague, Reichenberg and Trautenau. But it dissolved again in autumn 1906.
Already in February 1906 the Riesengebirgs Delegate Convent (RgDC) opened up with Bündern in Trautenau , Arnau and Braunau , which existed until after the First World War. Since the 1890s there was also a local cartel in Reichenberg , the Reichenberg Delegate Convention (RDC), which in 1901 was changed to the Reichenberger Chargierter Convent (RCC). Local associations of different orientations ( Prague fraternity delegates convention , Landsmannschaftlicher delegate convention, etc.) also existed in Prague.
The General Delegate Convent
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The first permanent supra-regional merger of Pennal corporations in Austria came about in 1906 with the establishment of the General Delegate Convent (ADC) by eighteen high school associations at the general boys' day convened by Karl Ansorge (pB Arminia Trautenau) for August 4, 1906 in Reichenberg . The ADC saw itself as a "national and economic organization of the defensive, honorable middle school connections of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy". According to its statutes, its purpose was the “systematic organization” of “national educational work and mutual economic assistance of all kinds”.
At the second General Boys' Day of the ADC in July 1908 in Vienna, 53 Pennalia took part. By the First World War, the total number of member corporations rose to 249, including 132 in Bohemia, Moravia and Austrian Silesia, five in Bucovina and one in Bosnia. From 1913 onwards, regional organizations were set up in Upper Austria, West Bohemia, Moravia (in Olmütz and Mährisch-Ostrau ), North West Bohemia, Styria, Carinthia and Tyrol / Vorarlberg, which were responsible for advertising work and supporting the management with applications for admission.
The First World War effectively brought the association to a standstill. The association organ "Lehr und Wehr" was closed in July 1914. For Pentecost 1919, the 5th General Boys' Day of the ADC was convened in Vienna and the association was re-established with the election of a new board and the adoption of new statutes with around 250 member associations.
Pennale fraternity of the Ostmark and Deutscher Pennäler Ring
On June 9, 1919, under the leadership of Karl Wollak (pB Germania Vienna), the pennale fraternity of the Ostmark (pBdO) was established, which gained increasing influence. In order to promote the merger of the pennal movement beyond the previous association boundaries and at the same time to win the hitherto unbound pennies for the cooperation, the dissolution of the ADC and the .Pennal Day in Waidhofen an der Ybbs (April 30 and May 1, 1922) was held It was decided to create a new organization called the Deutscher Pennäler Ring (DPR), and a preparatory committee was set up to shape it. An important issue was the role of the principles (fraternities, corps) within the new association structures. In the end it was decided against a centralistic structure and in favor of retaining the previous "associations of principles". The Deutsche Pennäler Ring thus formed an umbrella association for the Pennale Burschenschaft der Ostmark, the Ostmark Seniors Convents Association (OSCV) and the Representative Convent of the Associations and Associations of the Ostmark (VCdO, founded on May 1, 1922 in Waidhofen as the successor to the Viennese defensive cartel ). The chairmanship should change annually among the member associations. The pBdO took over the chairmanship in 1923. The OSCV, which at that time had twelve member alliances, resigned from the DPR before taking over the association business, which, after some VCdO corporations had also transferred to pBdO, decided to dissolve it in 1927.
The pBdO was dissolved in August 1933 by the Vienna Police Department. On April 24, 1938, she officially dropped her colors at the final commers in Vienna.
Austrian Pennäler Ring
The successor to the previous associations was the Pennale Verbands Convent (PVC), founded in 1950/51, which became the cornerstone of the Austrian Pennäler Ring (ÖPR). The ÖPR itself was founded on October 15, 1952 as an old gentlemen's association. On the 19th Burschentag of the ÖPR in Schärding, Pentecost 1995 the pennale fraternity Saxonia Czernowitz Munich, the PV! Arminia Feldkirch and the pennale fraternity Germania Libera added. In 2007 the association celebrated its 25th Boys' Day in Vöcklabruck.
In April 1990 the North German Pennälertag took place in Berlin, where the creation of a federal German association was discussed with the participation of the ÖPR. It was founded on June 12, 1990 in Jena as the General Pennäler Ring (APR). With the establishment of the SV! Gothia Meran has been represented by an active association in South Tyrol since May 2005.
Chair of the ÖPR
- 1952 Gustav Mitterdorfer, DSV Libertas Vienna
- 1959 Dr. Gustav Axmann, Allemannia-Marburg and Arminia Klagenfurt
- 1960 Viktor Biefel, Heimdall Linz
- 1975 Hermann Löser, JKM Rugia, Krems, first joint chairman of ÖPR and BDC
- 1982 Peter Mussi, Tauriska Klagenfurt
- 1987 Peter Frank, Tauriska Klagenfurt
- 1988 Karl Götschober, Wr. pen.B! Franko Cherusker, Hans Steinacher, Völkermarkt
- 1998 Walter Zell, Ghibellinia in Vienna
- 2002 Udo Guggenbichler , tV! Hollenburg zu Ferlach, acad. B! Albia Vienna , acad. B! Arminia Graz and SV! Gothia to Meran
criticism
Public funding
In the years from 2000 to 2004, the ÖPR was funded by the Federal Ministry for Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection (BMSG), headed by the FPÖ politician Herbert Haupt , with a total of 131,686 euros . The then opposition party SPÖ and various media criticized this comparatively high level of funding and the placement of advertisements by the BMSG in the publications of the ÖPR, as they promoted "questionable ways of thinking". The ÖPR magazine Junge Leben published a plea against democracy in 2005 , which the author concludes with the words "From all of the criticisms mentioned I am a declared opponent of democracy". In addition to greetings such as “ Heil Jul ” and “Dear Brothers in Arms”, the attacks in “New York” are put into perspective (“America reaps what it has sown”). Verses like “that this earth remains German, where our cradle once stood” can be found there as well as photos by Herbert Haupt, Ewald Stadler and Andreas Mölzer .
According to a parliamentary response in 2018, the ÖPR has received around 38,000 euros in funding annually since 2001.
Political orientation
According to the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance, the ÖPR and some of its connections showed links to right-wing extremism and a close relationship with National Socialism . In March 2002, the DÖW referred to the statement "that Austria, just like South Tyrol and most of Switzerland, has always been and continues to be part of the German national and cultural community" from the ÖPR student calendar of 1996/97 , the singing of SA songs by members of the ÖPR fraternity Germania Liberia and the linking of a national information phone on the website of the ÖPR association DcSV! Gothia. In a press release by the ÖPR in 2007, ÖPR chairman Udo Guggenbichler contradicted such allegations and stated that the association was committed to the Republic of Austria and the constitution.
See also
literature
- Bernhard Grün, Christoph Vogel: The Fuxenstunde . Manual of Corporation Studentism. Bad Buchau 2014, pp. 238-239, ISBN 978-3-925171-92-5 .
- Oskar Waas: The Pennalie. A contribution to their history. Graz 1967
Web links
- ÖPR.AT , queried December 8, 2017
Footnotes
- ↑ according to the current event calendar only 54 active see https://www.facebook.com/oepr.at/photos/a.311826632297561.1073741828.273205886159636/511726025640953/?type=1&theater (homepage deactivated)
- ↑ Success factor student connection ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Official website of the ÖPR.
- ↑ quoted from Oskar Waas: Die Pennalie. A contribution to their history. Graz 1967, p. 241.
- ↑ Andreas Koller : "Declared opponent of democracy" ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). In: Salzburger Nachrichten . March 26, 2005.
- ↑ Fraternities receive 38,000 euros in funding this year. In: kurier.at . August 7, 2018, accessed October 22, 2019.
- ^ Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : Funding for fraternities - news from far right , March 2002
- ↑ Österreichischer Pennäler Ring: Unqualified attacks against the Austrian Pennälerring! , May 30, 2007
