Forerunner of the Austrian Cartel Association

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The Austrian Cartel Association (ÖCV) had two historical forerunners that tried to unite the Catholic student associations in Austria (at that time the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrat or Cisleithanien , i.e. the Austrian half of Austria-Hungary ) analogously to the German Cartell Association . Accordingly, they are historically called 1st ÖCV and 2nd ÖCV , the current one in this context is called 3rd ÖCV .

background

Until 1899, the so-called singularity principle applied in the Cartell Association (CV) , according to which there should only be one connection per university in the CV to underline the claim as a cartel. The large number of Catholic students meant that further Catholic associations were founded at the university locations. The color-bearing associations had no opportunity to join the non-color-bearing associations of the Cartel Association (KV) and Unitas Association (UV). Therefore, various parallel umbrella associations with similar principles for the "surplus" connections were founded, for example the Catholic German Association of Colored Student Corporations (KDV).

1. ÖCV

Austria Wien , the oldest Catholic university association in Vienna , was founded in 1876 as an academic reading circle . Some of the members split off in 1883 and instead founded the colored association Norica . This soon joined the CV. When Austria had transformed itself into a color-bearing association by 1889, it was denied this by the singularity principle. Therefore she strove to unite the connections in the area of ​​the then Danube Monarchy in an “Austrian solution”. Norica and Austria Innsbruck (founded in 1864) could not be won over because they wanted to stay in the CV.

Analogous to the establishment of the CV, which began with the Cartel relationship between Aenania Munich and Winfridia Breslau in 1856 , Austria Wien entered into a similar agreement with the KDStV Ferdinandea Prague in 1889 and thus established the Austrian Cartel Association (ÖCV) , which entered later history as the 1st ÖCV . Attempts to win Carolina Graz failed - the Carolina preferred to join the CV. In 1891 Unitas Chernivtsi joined the 1st ÖCV.

The 1st ÖCV was not granted a long existence, because Unitas suspended in 1895, and Ferdinandea also joined the CV. With that, the attempts to found a Catholic-Austrian association were not stopped.

2. ÖCV

Austria Wien initially stuck to the line of wanting to found an Austrian association and underpinned this by establishing subsidiary associations. On December 9th, 1898 the decision was made to found the 2nd ÖCV on the basis of the statutes of the first with the daughter KÖStV Rudolfina Wien, founded in the same year, and Tirolia Innsbruck . A year later, on December 2, 1899, the foundation of the association was announced at the "Kaiserkommers" convened for this purpose. However, due to delays, the official approval was only granted exactly one year later, which is why the subsidiaries Austria , Nordgau Vienna and Kürnberg Vienna , founded in 1900 , were now immediate members of the 2nd ÖCV.

However, in the meantime (1899) the singularity principle had been abolished, which led to the "parallel umbrella associations", such as the KDV, joining the "big" CV . This reduced the attractiveness of the 2nd ÖCV for newly established connections. The Leopoldina Innsbruck , which had just been founded, joined in 1901 , but it also joined the CV in 1903 instead.

The increasing tightening with the nationally-minded student body ( Academic Kulturkampf ) made the desire for a stronger cohesion of the Catholic connections, which is why Austria Wien gave up the desire for an independent path. In 1906, the collective membership of the second ACA was decided in the CV, with the exception of Tirolia whose way instead into the KV led. In April 1907 the union was sealed in a celebration lasting several days, amid sometimes violent protests by German national students. That was the temporary end of an independent Austrian path.

3. ÖCV

Main article : Austrian Cartel Association

In 1933 Hitler's takeover and the synchronization of the CV made it necessary to separate from German connections. On July 10, 1933, all Austrian connections withdrew from the CV and founded the 3rd ÖCV , which still exists today . This time the initiative came from members of Norica Wien; this also provided the first association board (suburb).

For the same reason, the ÖKV split off from the KV; further stepped Vindelicia Innsbruck from the ring Catholic German Burschenschaften (RKDB) and entered as the first compound in the new ACA.

literature

  • Peter Stitz: The CV 1919–1938: the higher education policy path of the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) from the end of World War I to its destruction by National Socialism. Society for CV History, Munich 1970.
  • Gerhard Popp: CV in Austria 1864–1938. Hermann Böhlaus, Vienna 1984, ISBN 3-205-08831-X .
  • Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk: Lexicon of CV and ÖCV connections. Association for German Student History, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-89498-040-0 .
  • Gerhard Hartmann: The CV in Austria - Its origin, history and meaning. Lahn-Verlag, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7840-3229-X .