Coburg Pentecost Congress

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Coburg Whitsun Congress on Whit Monday
Postcard from the Coburg Pentecost Congress 1925
Coburg Whitsun Meeting 1927
Postage stamp from 1993 - Veste Coburg, town hall, students at the Coburg Whitsun Congress and the colored ribbon of the Coburg Convent

The Coburg Whitsun Congress is an annual association meeting of all member associations of the Coburg Convent (CC), the umbrella organization of the German-speaking student country teams and gymnastics associations .

General

The Upper Franconian city ​​of Coburg is the venue for the Coburg Whitsun Congress that takes place every Whitsun . In 2008 the CC celebrated its 140th Coburg Whitsun Congress . This tradition goes back to the founding of a predecessor umbrella organization, the Allgemeine Landsmannschafter-Convent (ALC), which was founded on March 1st, 1868 in Kassel.

event

Memorial of the CC in the Coburg Hofgarten

The Coburg Pentecost Congress begins on the Friday before Pentecost with the entry of the presiding association, which later opens the Pentecost Congress on the market square. Saturday begins with the main event, the so-called Coburg General Convention (CGC), in which only delegates take part. At the same time, the CC day for the active and the AHCC day for the elderly take place for all corporates . In addition, there are numerous sporting events at the "CC Sports Festival" and the CC Festival Ball in the evening . The Pentecost Sunday is marked by the final of the football tournament and numerous events such as the visit of the market Frühschoppen in Seßlach or various cartel -Convente. On Whit Monday , the wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial of the city of Coburg, a commemoration of the dead at the cenotaph of the CC and on the evening of the Festkommers in the festival tent on the Anger with a subsequent torchlight procession through the city. On Tuesday, the early morning pint with the Coburg population on the market square ends the Whitsun Congress.

Coburg General Convention

The Coburg General Convent (CGC) is the supreme body of the general association of the Coburg Convent . It deals with all association questions that do not only concern questions of the old gentlemen of the Coburg Convent (AHCC) or the active Coburg Convent. Most of the functionaries who are important for the entire association are elected and the reports are received. It consists of the CC tag and the AHCC tag.

The voting right is regulated in such a way that the activities of the CC on the one hand and the AHV and VACC of the AHCC on the other hand each receive 50% of voting points. Although only the electoral leaders of the activities, the AHV and the VACC are entitled to vote, every lad and old man of the Coburg Convent has a right to speak.

Historical

The General Landsmannschafter Convent met at different conference locations until 1871, before Coburg was established as the permanent conference location in 1872 and the association was renamed the Coburg Landsmannschafter Convent . There were several interruptions in the history of the Coburg Whitsun Congress . The Coburg Landsmannschafter-Convent was dissolved between 1877 and 1882. There was also an interruption during the First World War . After the self-dissolution decided in 1936, a Coburg Whitsun Congress did not take place again until 1951 when the “Coburg Convent” was founded . In the 1950s, the number of participants was around 5,000.

Memorial in the Coburg Hofgarten

The memorial in the Coburg Hofgarten was inaugurated on May 23, 1926 in memory of the members of the Coburg LC who fell in World War I based on a design by the sculptor Richard Kuöhl . The monument has been damaged and soiled several times. It was destroyed on May 5, 1997. Since then, it has been guarded around the clock before and during the Whitsun meeting of the Coburg Convent.

See also

literature

  • Students / striking associations. Guys out. In: Der Spiegel 24/1953 of June 10, 1953, pp. 26-29. Online version
  • Daniel Junker: The President sets new accents. The Coburg Convent is celebrating its 125th anniversary this year. In: Ostpreußenblatt dated August 7, 1993, volume 32, p. 10.
  • Koburg as the congress city of the German Landsmannschaft. In: Monographs of German Cities: Representation of German cities and their work in the economy, finance, hygiene, social policy and technology. Volume 30: Erwin Stein: Coburg. Berlin 1929, p. 127 ff.

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Individual evidence

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  6. ^ Coburger Zeitung, May 25, 1926
  7. ↑ Neue Presse Coburg, June 3, 2014
  8. ↑ Harald Sandner: Coburg in the 20th century. The chronicle of the city of Coburg and the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha from January 1, 1900 to December 31, 1999 - from the "good old days" to the dawn of the 21st century. Against forgetting. Verlagsanstalt Neue Presse, Coburg 2002, ISBN 3-00-006732-9 , p. 358
  9. ↑ in Swiss francs, June 4, 2014