Corps Palatia Bonn

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Palatia's coat of arms, Pfalzgrafenstein Castle in the heart shield

The Corps Palatia Bonn is a corps (colored student union ) that is no longer compulsory since it was excluded from the Kösener Seniors Convents Association (KSCV) . It unites students and former students of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . The corps members are called "Bonn Palatinate".

Color

Scale length Hansea I c / a Palatia Bonn (1842)
Former corp house of the Palatia, I. Fährgasse 1 (1910)

Palatia has the colors "violet-white-red" with silver percussion . The foxes wore a fox ribbon in "violet-white-violet" with silver percussion, which was abolished in 1974. The motto of the Palatinate is "Fortis ut palma florebit" (Psalm 92, verse 12; German: "The strong will flourish like a palm"). The motto is sincere et constanter (German: honest and steadfast).

history

The Corps Palatia emerged from the Bonn table society of the "Treveraner" (Trier). Its most prominent member is said to have been the young law student Karl Marx , who experienced a carefree time here as a 17-year-old and also got to know the prison .

On August 10, 1838, the Trier Tischgesellschaft became the Corps Palatia Bonn. The founding members were Franz Carl von Gaertner , Ludwig Simon , Eduard Lintz , Carl Krug von Nidda and Friedrich Schneider. It had been a member of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association (KSCV) since 1856 . In the 19th century, the corps mainly counted members from industrial and business families (e.g. Leverkus , Haniel , Schnitzler , Schoeller , Deichmann ). But there were also numerous politicians in the ranks of the Palatinate. At that time, the Corps Palatia was considered the wealthiest of all corps.

Palatia's honorary member Alexander von Claer supported Leonhard Zander in 1881 with his Kösener reform initiative.

In 1933, under pressure from the Nazi government, the “Aryan Principle” was introduced in the student associations, including the Kösener Seniors Convent Association. In 1934, the Allgemeine Deutsche Waffenring also demanded that its member associations exclude "people of Jewish origin and Jewish people ". As a result, the Corps Palatia disbanded on October 12, 1935 in the Hotel Continental in Berlin because of the "incompatibility of the corporation with National Socialism ".

In 1953 the corps was reconstituted. Five years later, consideration was given to abolishing compulsory censorship. As a test of courage with the weapon - especially against the background of the Second World War - it is not a timely and worthy continuation of old knightly tradition. In addition, the educational value is questionable, but at least low with only one compulsory graduation. The scale length is also not to be assigned any sporting significance.

On May 22, 1958, at the Kösener Congress in Würzburg, these considerations led Palatia to apply to abolish the dutiful beating of lengths as a prerequisite for acquiring a lads' ribbon in the KSCV. However, since none of the members of the Corps Palatia present had fought the minimum length required for reception in a Kösener Corps, the CC of Rhenania Bonn applied to exclude the representatives of the Corps Palatia. This request was accepted. As a result, the previous request of the Palatia was no longer dealt with (so-called "agenda trick"). This led to the expulsion of the Corps Palatia from the KSCV. On July 5, 1958, the people of the Palatinate formally abolished compulsory censorship, making them the first corps to take this step.

External relations

The Corps Palatia is now independent of any association or district, but has (again) been friends with the Corps Bremensia since 1998 , which left the KSCV in 1971 for reasons similar to the Palatia. Before the expulsion from the KSCV, there were several relationships with other corps of the association, including the Corps Hannovera Göttingen and the Corps Palatia Strasbourg , with which the Corps Palatia Bonn formed the so-called " Violet Circle ".

Bonn Palatinate

MPs and ministers

University professor

Entrepreneurs and industrialists

Officers

Local and ministerial officials

Diplomats

Other

See also

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literature

  • Hans Gerhardt : One hundred years of the Bonn Corps. The corporate history of the Bonner SC from 1819 to 1918. With a historical addendum up to the present day as well as 148 contemporary, mostly unpublished pictures in the text and three color illustrations . Publisher of the Deutsche Corpszeitung, Frankfurt am Main 1926.
  • Klara van Eyll : 150 years Corps Palatia Bonn 1838–1988 . Bonn 1988.
  • Georg-Christoph von Unruh : 1913-2009: Palatia zu Bonn , Kalkumer Verlag, Düsseldorf 1984

Web links

Commons : Corps Palatia Bonn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 23.
  2. ↑ That this is true is very unlikely; because the names on the back of the engraving were placed in front of the "White Horse" by Schneider in 1892. This tailor was only registered in Bonn when Karl Marx was already in Berlin. Likewise, other people were no longer in Bonn when he started studying there. See Manfred Schöncke: 'A happy year in Bonn'? Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode, Hamburg 1994, pp. 239-255, here pp. 243-246.
  3. ↑ sbt: Russian followed in the footsteps of Karl Marx. Two stays on record - Dr. Besymenski spoke . Bonner General-Anzeiger from July 26, 1978
  4. ^ 150 years of the Corps Palatia Bonn 1838–1988