Association of Old Corps Students

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VAC board 2016–2019 Nuremberg II in Erlangen at the New Year's reception (2016)

In the Association of Alter Corps Students e. V. (VAC) the old men of the Kösener Corps are organized. The association has 14,000 members. The headquarters of the association and the office are in Bad Kösen . The first chairman of the board of the VAC has been the lawyer and notary Ernst Brenning since January 1, 2020.

history

Philistines and old gentlemen from different corps joined forces at the local level around 1860 to organize common commerses and events. In 1859 the AHSC Detmold and the Academische Club zu Hamburg were founded as the oldest old gentlemen's associations in Germany.

Since 1894, the VAC Congress of Representatives has met annually in the week before Pentecost in front of the KSCV's oKC .

Zander reform movement

In 1880, the Breslau directorate Leonhard Zander initiated a renewal of the life of the association. First and foremost, it was aimed at eliminating excessive expenses for corps visits and the restriction of (expensive) external PP suites; but it also led to greater interest among the old men in the concerns of the active corps that had hitherto been completely independent. Zander's memorandum "Against luxury and pretentiousness" submitted to the KSCV was signed by Bismarck and Crown Prince Wilhelm , among others .

"All luxury is unpleasant and therefore uncorps student table."

Zander's initiative not only eliminated grievances in the association, but also ensured that the former students, as "old men", became more and more committed to the active corps, which was not previously common. The Zander movement is considered to be the pioneer for the development of the old rulers, not only in the corps, but also in all other forms of student associations today. As a result of this development, the structure of student associations, which is felt to be typical today, arose with the division into an organization for active students on the one hand and an old lordship for members who are working or retired on the other. Today, among student historians, Zander is considered to be an important figure in the development of student associations in Central Europe. In October 2011, the VAC and members of 19 Corps honored Zander at his grave in Schleswig.

Foundation of the VAC

Paul Salvisberg , who founded the Academic Monthly Bulletin (AM) in 1884 as an initially independent organ for a predominantly corps student readership, proposed a “General Association of Old Corps Students” in Munich in November 1887. After the founding plan had been approved and an organizing committee had been named, the “Central Committee” was constituted on April 21, 1888, based in Munich. The later Bavarian Minister of Justice Ferdinand Ritter von Miltner became its first chairman .

In 1894 the first Congress of Representatives (AT) was convened in Kosen. The Central Committee was renamed the “General Committee” (GA). His board, elected for three (later five) years, took over the management and moved from Munich to Berlin. Hans Hopfen was elected the first chairman . In 1898 the VAC was granted legal entity rights.

From 1905 to 1909, Jean Louis Sponsel was first chairman. He was particularly committed to improving the conference conditions in Kösen and building a congress hall. Wilhelm Kreis already had drafts for them ; However, foreseeable profitability problems and the First World War prevented its realization.

Including the multi-band men, the VAC counted 20,126 old men from 116 corps on January 1, 1920.

1933-1938

According to the requirements of the German student body , the VAC introduced the leader principle in 1933 and appointed the lawyer Max Blunck as the "leader of the KSCV and VAC". After a dispute with the leadership of the German student body, he resigned. Ernst Schlange followed him .

After the Reichsstudentenführung had demanded the dissolution of the former academic associations in 1938, an extraordinary parliamentary meeting in Berlin in November 1938 decided to liquidate the VAC. The financial maintenance of the association's own monuments at the Rudelsburg and the safekeeping of the student history collection, the library and the archive in the Institute for University Studies had previously been guaranteed.

After 1945

The reconstitution of the VAC was initiated in 1947 by the "Ruhr working group" chaired by Gerd Schaefer-Rolffs with Walter Ballas . October 1950 in Altena .

As guests of the WSC , the VAC delegates met in 1952 at the Wachenburg for the first regular parliamentary day after the Second World War . From 1953 to 1993 the VAC met together with the KSCV in Würzburg . In 1991 the VAC held its first working conference after German reunification in the Brave Knight in Bad Kösen. Since 1994, the parliamentary days have again taken place at the association's headquarters in Bad Kösen.

The VAC is a corporate member of the Humboldt Society .

structure

When it was founded, the VAC was only formed by the district associations or AHSC, which elected the overall committee as the governing body from among their number. It was not until 1928 that the AH clubs of the individual corps were included in the structures by allowing them to join the VAC. Today almost all AH clubs in the Kösener Corps are members of the VAC as a registered club. The statutes of the association and the member organizations belonging to it exclude a general political mandate , so that the association usually does not comment on such questions in contrast to the fraternities .

When the statutes were revised after the Second World War, a distinction was made between the executive board and the general committee. The organs of the VAC today are therefore the Congress of Representatives (AT), the board of directors elected for five years, the general committee (GA) and the commissions sent together with the Kösener Seniors Convents Association.

The full committee is an advisory body of the VAC with twelve members. He sees himself as "the memory of Kosener" and a kind of supervisory board of the VAC board. Ten main and secondary representatives are elected by the AHSC and AHV in ten regions (major districts):

  1. Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  2. Lower Saxony, Hanseatic City of Bremen
  3. Berlin, Brandenburg
  4. North Rhine-Westphalia excluding Cologne district
  5. District of Cologne, Rhineland-Palatinate (excluding the Palatinate), Hesse
  6. Thuringia, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt
  7. Saarland, Palatinate, Baden-Wuerttemberg
  8. Northern Bavaria
  9. Southern Bavaria
  10. Austria

They are confirmed by the Congress of Representatives. The term of office is four years and begins in the middle of a VAC board term. The AH clubs in the incumbent and designated suburbs each provide one representative for one year.

Honors

Rudelsburg badge

The Rudelsburg plaque is an award, donated by the VAC in 1965, for services to corps student historical research.

According to the VAC statutes, only those persons are eligible for the award who have made outstanding contributions to corporate history research through particularly successful work or through outstanding individual deals. The award decision requires the unanimity of the VAC board and the entire committee. It is only awarded in one stage, in gold. The obverse shows the Rudelsburg with the edge engraving FOR MERIT IN CORPORATE STUDENT HISTORY RESEARCH . The lapel bears the Latin motto MENS AGITAT MOLEM .

Previous carriers
1965 Erich Bauer Rhenaniae Tübingen EM, Lusatiae Leipzig EM, Borussiae Halle
1966 Oskar Scheunemann Guestphaliae Marburg EM, Frankoniae Prague EM
1968 Robert Paschke Bavariae Erlangen
1980 Gerhard Neuenhoff Franconiae Jena EM
1981 Herbert Kater Makariae Würzburg, Makaria-Guestphaliae, Budissae, Neoborussiae Berlin
1982 Walter Brod Moenaniae
1984 Ernst Meyer-Camberg Onoldiae
1992 Wolfgang Gottwald Sueviae Munich
1999 Rolf-Joachim Baum Bavariae Würzburg
1999 Hermann Kruse Vandalia-Teutoniae
2016 Hans Peter Hümmer Onoldiae

Silver bowl

Voluntary commitment is honored with the VAC silver bowl . The Rudelsburg, the lion monument and the dedication are engraved. Entrusted are

  • Adolf Lohmann Teutoniae Marburg, Moenaniae
  • Wolfgang Tiffert Rhaetiae, Austriae
  • Hans-Reinhard Koch Hassiae, Rhenaniae Bonn
  • Bernhard Behrendt Littuaniae EM, Suevo-Borussiae
  • Walter Hagenbauer Onoldiae
  • Adolf Kraetzer Guestphaliae Bonn EM, Guestfaliae Greifswald
  • Erich Bauer Rhenaniae Tübingen EM, Lusatiae Leipzig EM, Borussiae Halle
  • 1965: Oskar Scheunemann Guestphaliae Marburg EM, Frankoniae Prague EM
  • Gerd Schaefer-Rolffs Silesiae, Saxoniae Frankfurt, Neoborussiae Berlin
  • Friedrich Hielscher Normanniae Berlin
  • Albin Angerer Moenaniae, Teutoniae Marburg
  • Helmut Herzog Sueviae Munich, Vandaliae Graz
  • Hans Graßmann Arminiae EM
  • Herbert Viermann Littuaniae, Albertinae, Frankoniae Brünn
  • Werner Barthold Neoborussiae Berlin EM, Silesiae
  • Rolf Müller Isariae
  • Ludwig Bernheim Starkenburgiae, Austriae EM, Saxo-Borussiae IdC, Sueviae Heidelberg IdC
  • Walter Rabe Alemanniae, Montaniae, Vandaliae Graz, Frankoniae Brünn
  • Richard Eder Montaniae, Gothiae, Frankoniae Brno
  • Kurt Wiechert Saxoniae Jena EM, Saxoniae Bonn
  • Herbert Neupert Transrhenaniae EM
  • Joachim Schmidt-Klewitz Borussiae Berlin, Littuaniae, Albertinae
  • 1972: Horst Reger Arminiae, Saxoniae Jena et Bonn
  • Hans-Reinhard Koch (2)
  • 1973: Herbert Kater Makariae Würzburg, Makaria-Guestphaliae, Budissae, Neoborussiae Berlin
  • Robert Paschke Bavariae Erlangen
  • Philipp W. Fabry Hassiae, Thuringiae Jena
  • Christian Helfer Misniae IV, Lusatiae Leipzig, Rhenaniae Bonn, Thuringiae Leipzig
  • Hubertus Rolshoven Saxoniae Bonn EM, Saxoniae Jena
  • Werner Rupprath Frankoniae Prague, Franconiae Tübingen
  • Karl Waltzinger Moenaniae, Lusatiae Breslau
  • Heinz Martin Hildeso-Guestphaliae
  • 1978: Werner Hartwig Neoborussiae Halle EM, Saxoniae Frankfurt / Konstanz EM, Ratisboniae, Thuringiae Jena
  • Hans Reissermayer Frankoniae-Brünn in Salzburg
  • Gerhard Neuenhoff Franconiae Jena EM
  • Carl-Hubert Schwennicke Marchiae Berlin EM, Austriae
  • Fritz Köster Borussiae Tübingen
  • Kurt Fürer Borussiae Breslau
  • Karl Merkel Barutiae EM
  • Gottfried Balzer Bavariae Erlangen, Athesiae
  • Helmut Herzog (2)
  • Fritz Fulda Joanneae, des Symposion, Frankoniae Prague
  • Erich Hackl Vandaliae Graz
  • Wolfgang Kindler Rheno-Guestphaliae Münster, Friso-Luneburgiae, Palaiomarchiae, Masoviae
  • Gottfried Werneburg Lusatiae Breslau
  • Edgar Fölsche Marcomanniae
  • Günther Steckhan Hasso-Nassoviae
  • Hermann Sternagel-Haase Borussiae Breslau ECB, Holsatiae
  • Egon Schmitz Brunsvigae Munich, Frankoniae Prague, Rhenania-Brunsvigae
  • Kurt Donalies Franconiae Tübingen
  • 2004: resigned board member Halle / Salzmarkt (Gerhard Daniel, Class Plesch, Reinhard Mohr, Jörg Siegfried Waniek, Arnold Muhl)
  • 2006: Eckhart Dietrich Neoborussiae Halle, Normanniae Berlin, Saxoniae Konstanz
  • 2007: Philipp W. Fabry (2)
  • 2011: Christian Kahlenberg Franconiae-Jena
  • 2012: Resigned board member Bonn ( Hermann Rink , Friedhelm Dömges, Klaus Lilienthal, Christian Lohner, Karl Johanny), Gert Felsenstein Saxoniae Vienna, Teutoniae Graz
  • 2013: Jürgen Herrlein Austriae, Borussia-Poloniae, Silesiae, Masoviae, Tiguriniae , Gerhard Kaller der Hellas, Nassoviae Würzburg , Ernst Hohenstein Saxoniae Kiel EM, Franconiae Tübingen , Thomas Seeger Starkenburgiae, Guestphaliae Bonn IdC, Guestfaliae, Palaiomarchiae , Sebastian Sigler Bavariae Munich
  • 2015: Bernhard Edler from Lapp Danubiae, Nassoviae Würzburg
  • 2016: Resigned board member Hamburg II (Alexander Hartung, Florian Hoffmann, Thilo Lambracht, Christian Thieme )
  • 2018: Wolfgang von der Groeben Saxoniae Göttingen, Pomeraniae

Foundation Association of Old Corps Students

Fabry near Frankonia-Prague (2012)

The Stifterverein Alter Corpsstudenten e. V. is a non-profit association based in Würzburg. It was founded in 1986 by Alten Herren Kösener Corps . The Weinheimer Verband Alter Corpsstudenten joined him in 1991. The aim of the association is “to promote young graduates from secondary schools, universities and colleges who have achieved exceptional study results and have demonstrated above-average social commitment. He awards them publicly and supports them in their further scientific work ”. After the selection of the advisory board, the donors' association awards the Klinggräff medal every year . In addition, he advertises project-related funding for a scientific qualification in postgraduate studies at irregular intervals .

Wolfgang Herr is the CEO. Hermann Butzer heads the advisory board . Honorary members are Philipp W. Fabry and Jürgen Michels Alemanniae Munich.

Head of the VAC

Central Committee (Munich)

1888 Ferdinand Miltner Sueviae Munich
1889 Friedrich von Schauß Franconiae Munich
1893 Emil von Schauß Bavariae Munich
- Carl Schlösser , 2nd chairman Isariae, Hannoverae
- Wilhelm Fabricius , managing director Starkenburgiae EM, Guestphaliae Jena, Teutoniae Marburg, Guestphaliae Marburg

Full committee

Complete committee 1895–1905
Full committee 1919–1924
1895–1904 Charlottenburg (Berlin)
Hans Ritter von Hopfen Franconiae Munich
John Koch Baltiae , Hugo von Lerchenfeld-Köfering Borussiae Bonn Karl von Buchka Bremensia Göttingen, Pomerania Greifswald , Gustav Janke († 1901) Teutonia Marburg, Hannovera Göttingen
1905–1909 Dresden
Jean Louis Sponsel Normanniae Berlin, Sueviae Munich, Rhenaniae Bonn
1910–1914 Nuremberg
Max Urlich's Bavariae Würzburg
1915-1919 Kiel
Georg Kautz Thuringiae Leipzig, Palaio-Alsatiae
Werner Wedemeyer Hasso-Nassoviae, Hildeso-Guestphaliae
Gerhard Bockelmann Bremensiae
1920–1924 Berlin
Ernst Koehler Vandaliae Heidelberg
Paul from Koerner Saxoniae Leipzig
Hermann Kreth Teutoniae Göttingen EM, Teutoniae Berlin EM
1925–1933 Frankfurt am Main (2)
Werner Meißner Rhenaniae Freiburg, Rheno-Guestphaliae
Erich tho Rahde Rhenaniae Strasbourg, Palaio-Alsatiae , W. Haßlauer Bavariae Würzburg , E. Windelband Guestphaliae Berlin , Fritz Nachreiner Rhenaniae Würzburg, Hasso-Borussiae , Werner Heringhaus Austriae

During the National Socialism

1933–1935 Max Blunck Franconiae Jena
1936–1938 Ernst Schlange Pomeraniae

reconstruction

1947 Ruhr working group: Gerd Schaefer-Rolffs Silesiae, Saxoniae Frankfurt a. M., Neoborussiae Berlin
1949 GA near the Ostruhr district (Essen-Bochum-Dortmund)

Reorganization with VAC boards

1950-1952
Walter Ballas Saxoniae Kiel EM
1952–1957 Hamburg I
Werner Ranz Normanniae Berlin EM, Saxoniae Kiel, Frankoniae Prague EM
H. Pinckernelle Sueviae Tübingen , Fr.-K. Barnbrock Brunsvigae Göttingen, Franconiae Hamburg , H. Woppisch Bavariae Würzburg , O. Bothe Suevo-Borussiae EM, Holsatiae , E.-J. Nicolai Silesiae, Thuringiae Jena
1958–1961 Kassel
Kurt Fürer Borussiae Breslau
F. Krommes Hannoverae , H.-H. Schmidt Sueviae Munich , 1959 F. Fechner Borussiae Breslau , O.-T. v. Kalm Teutoniae Marburg, Rheno-Guestphaliae , E. Zschaler Budissae EM, Makaria-Guestphaliae , R. Claussen Franconiae Tübingen , H. Froebel Rhenaniae Strasbourg
1962–1966 Munich I
Helmut Herzog Sueviae Munich, Vandaliae Graz
H. Graßmann Arminiae EM , W. Teichmann Isariae, Rheno-Guestphaliae , H. Viermann Littuaniae, Albertinae , W. Barthold Neoborussiae Berlin EM, Silesiae
1967–1971 Bonn I
Kurt Wiechert Saxoniae Jena, Saxoniae Bonn
H. Neupert Transrhenaniae J. Schmidt-Klewitz Borussiae Berlin, Littuaniae, Albertinae , H.-R. Koch Hassiae, Rhenaniae Bonn , H. Reger Arminiae
1972–1976 Saarbrücken
Philipp W. Fabry Hassiae, Thuringiae Jena
C. Helfer Misniae IV, Lusatiae Leipzig, Rhenaniae Bonn, Thuringiae Leipzig , W. Rupprath Frankoniae Prag, Franconiae Tübingen , K. Waltzinger Moenaniae, Lusatiae Breslau , H. Rolshoven Saxoniae Jena, Saxoniae Bonn , H Martin Hildeso-Guestphaliae
1977–1981 Cologne
Friedrich Ossig Hanseae Königsberg, Albertinae
W. Kindler Rheno-Guestphaliae, Friso-Luneburgiae, Palaiomarchiae, Palaiomarchia-Masoviae, Masoviae , E. Fölsche Marcomanniae , G. Steckhan Hasso-Nassoviae , G. Werneburg Lusatiae Breslau , H. Sternagel-Haase Borussiae ECB, Holsatiae
1982–1986 Trier
Hermann Rahe Friso-Luneburgiae, Silesiae
U. Pfeiffer Thuringiae Leipzig , H.-H. Kocks Makaria-Guestphaliae, Transrhenaniae , J. v. Randow Palaiomarchiae, Masoviae, Thuringiae Leipzig , J.-P. Ernsting Hassiae
1988–1991 Bielefeld
Konstantin Mehring Rhenaniae Bonn
H. Kruse Vandalia-Teutoniae , H. Lüttringhaus Saxoniae Kiel , E. Bergemann Saxoniae Kiel , H. Geller Rhenaniae Würzburg, Rheno-Guestphaliae
1992–1995 Munich II
(BK)
C. Kahlenberg Franconiae Jena , M. Marx Hercyniae , W. Gottwald Sueviae Munich, Brunsvigae , H. Köhnlein Ratisboniae, Rhaetiae, Transrhenaniae
1996–1999 Nuremberg I
(RH)
EU Hellriegel Hasso-Nassoviae , E. Klett Franconiae Würzburg, Athesiae , S. Krüger Onoldiae , H. Eyermann Baruthiae
2000–2003 Halle-Salzmarkt
Gerhard Daniel Palaiomarchia-Masoviae, Palaiomarchiae EM
C. Plesch Moenaniae, Palaiomarchiae , R. Mohr Vandalia-Teutoniae, Transrhenaniae, sp. Guestphaliae Halle , A.-C. Muhl Nassoviae, Normanniae Berlin, sp. Palaiomarchiae, Guestphaliae Halle , J. Waniek Baruthiae
2004–2007 Munich III
Gero Kroll Sueviae Munich
S. Sigler Bavariae Munich , M. Marx Hercyniae Munich, Marcomanniae , C. Kahlenberg Franconiae Jena , B. Rauen Isariae , sp. Frankoniae-Brno
VAC Board Hamburg II (2013)
2008–2011 Bonn II
Hermann Rink Hassiae, Gothiae EM, sp. Rhenaniae Bonn
F. Dömges Nassoviae, Tiguriniae , K. Lilienthal Arminiae , K. Johanny Bavariae Würzburg, Sueviae Munich , C. Lohner Saxoniae Bonn, Silvaniae
2012–2015 Hamburg II
Alexander Hartung Hubertiae Freiburg, II Hasso-Nassoviae, Sueviae Freiburg, Tiguriniae, of the Symposion
F. Hoffmann Rhenaniae Heidelberg, Teutoniae Gießen, Guestphaliae Halle, Tiguriniae , Th. Lambracht Saxoniae Leipzig, Friso-Luneburgiae, Frisiae Göttingen (WSC), Tiguriniae, Guestphaliae Halle , T. Peter Palaiomarchia-Masoviae, Rheno-Guestphaliae , Ch. Thieme Rhenaniae Hamburg (WSC), Borussiae Halle, Franconiae Tübingen, Saxoniae Leipzig, Vandaliae Rostock
2016–2019 Nuremberg II
Richard G. Hückel I Guestphaliae Erlangen
M. Grießhaber II Hasso-Nassoviae, II Nassoviae Würzburg , Th. Lambracht Saxoniae Leipzig, Tiguriniae, Guestphaliae Halle , A. Schurek II Guestphaliae Erlangen, I Franconiae-Jena , A. Theuer Saxoniae Leipzig
2020–2023 Berlin
Ernst Brenning Normanniae Berlin, Rhenaniae Bonn

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The association's archive is located in the Institute for Higher Education at the University of Würzburg .

literature

  • Paul Salvisberg : The idea of ​​a “General Association of Old Corps Students” . Academische Monatshefte 4 (1887), pp. 226-232.
  • Rolf-Joachim Baum (Ed.): “We want men, we want action!” German corps students from 1848 to today . Siedler-Verlag, Berlin 1998, page 115 ff. ISBN 3-88680-653-7 .
  • [Walter M.] Brod, [Wolfgang] Gottwald: History of the Kösener associations . Handbuch des Kösener Corpsstudenten, Würzburg 1985, pp. 53-80.
  • Hans-Joachim Kortmann: The establishment of the Association of Old Corps Students from the initiative of the provisional Munich Committee from November 15, 1887 to its constitution on April 21, 1888, with the list of members as of October 26, 1888 . Lemgo 2000.

Web links

Commons : Association of Alter Corps Students  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. Schlösser on corpsarchive.de
  2. Hans Fuhrmann Hasso-Nassoviae and Werner Meißner were chairmen of the oKC . Pictured are Georg von Falkenhayn , Hans Follmann , Georg Kautz , John Koch , Hermann Kreth , Georg Lucas , Paul Lüdicke , Hermann Sabath , Carl Ferdinand Semper and Waldemar Weißermel as well as Paul Bröse Bremensiae; Rainer Fischer-Kautz Normanniae Berlin; Emil Lorenz Guestphaliae Berlin; Erich Windelband Guestphaliae Berlin.
  3. ^ Ranz on corpsarchive.de
  4. Krommes on corpsarchive.de
  5. Zschaler on corpsarchive.de
  6. Edwin Fels reports on the work of the Kassel Executive Board and the Munich Corps : Thoughts and memories of an old Munich Corps student and university professor . Deutsche Corpszeitung 6/1961, pp. 236–240
  7. Mehring on corpsarchive.de

Individual evidence

  1. VfcG
  2. ^ GG Winkel : Kösener SC calendar , 26th edition. Leipzig 1920
  3. ^ Zeittafel des VAC , in: Handbuch des Kösener Corpsstudenten, 5th ed. 1965, p. 70.
  4. Handbuch des Kösener Corpsstudenten, new edition, Vol. II (2005), pp. 2 / 151–2 / 157.
  5. Since January 2000: Register of Associations, Stendal District Court VR 45319
  6. German: “The spirit moves matter!” - Aeneis 6, 727
  7. Walter M. Brod (wuerzburgwiki.de)
  8. GDS archive
  9. a b Der Corpsstudent, 6th vol. 3/99, p. 116
  10. Sternagel-Haase Borussiae Breslau ECB, Holsatiae: The VAC silver bowl , in: Kösener honors . Handbuch des Kösener Corpsstudenten, Vol. I (1985), pp. 245-247.
  11. ^ Adolf Lohmann
  12. ^ Oskar Scheunemann
  13. Walter Rabe
  14. Kurt Wiechert
  15. Horst Reger
  16. Herbert Kater
  17. Werner Hartwig
  18. ^ Gerhard Neuenhoff
  19. a b Wolfgang Kindler
  20. a b Gottfried Werneburg
  21. a b Hermann Sternagel-Haase
  22. Homepage of the Stifterverein
  23. § 2 of the 2001 statutes
  24. Board of Directors and Advisory Board of the Donors' Association
  25. Jürgen Michels. March 24, 1926 (Krüssow / Pomerania) - November 29, 2017 (Starnberg) . Corps Magazin 1/2018, p. 36
  26. Kurt Wiechert on corpsarchive.de
  27. Reinhard Mohr (VfcG)