AV Alania Stuttgart

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AV_Alania_Stuttgart Location of the Stuttgart district in Germany
Basic data
State : Baden-Württemberg
University : University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart universities
Founding: 1870
Association: CV
Entry into CV: 1899
Abbreviation: AlSt
Official Number in CV: 25th
Colours: green-white-red
Motto: Fearless and trew!
Website: www.av-alania.de

The Academic Association Alania zu Stuttgart im CV (AV Alania zu Stuttgart im CV) is a non-striking , color-bearing , Catholic, German student association that belongs to the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV).

The three basic principles that characterize the fraternal union are: "Religion, Science and Friendship". These are also associated with the federal colors green-white-red. Alania does not use the fourth "patriotic principle" in the CV. Its members unite former and current students of the Stuttgart universities and are known as "Stuttgarter Alanen".

history

Founding time

The academic association Alania is one of the oldest Catholic associations in Germany and was founded on July 15, 1870, inspired by the Katholikentag of 1863, as the Catholic Association Constantia with the colors green-white-red , among others by Ulrich Pohlhammer , to help Catholic students in To offer Stuttgart a starting point. The foundation was made more difficult by the outbreak of the Kulturkampf in Germany, so the Constantia was banned as a Catholic association due to agitation by the local corps on May 17, 1877 by the rectorate . On June 7, 1878, it was re-established as the Academic Association Alania, at that time still under the colors yellow-white-green . From 1880 the colors green-white-red were worn again. In 1883 the Alania was the association with the largest number of members in Stuttgart.

CV entry and home purchase

In 1899, the AV Alania was accepted as the first purely technical connection in the Cartell Association of Catholic German student associations . The festive service was celebrated by Father Rupert Mayer SJ, who was later beatified and also a CV member.

Couleur map of Alan house in 1910

In 1910 the AV Alania was able to establish a fraternity house in Wächterstr. 11 in Stuttgart; it is a former boarding school for girls .

1914 to 1945

In 1915 the liaison operation was stopped due to the First World War , in which 13 Alans were killed, and could not be resumed until 1919. In the years after the First World War, the connection enjoyed great popularity, so in 1923 the Fuxenstall consisted of two Fuxmajores and 40 Fuxen . In order to cope with this onslaught, the Catholic German student union Der Hohentwiel was founded in 1924 as a subsidiary of AV Alania. The colors of the Hohentwiel were carmine-violet-gold-green , the motto “Purposeful and timeless!”. The connection was reunited with Alania in 1997 and no longer exists today. After the 63rd Cartell Assembly in Würzburg on October 27, 1935, under the pressure of the circumstances, decided to dissolve the CV student union, AV Alania initially only stopped liaison operations with a resolution of November 3, 1935. On June 13, 1936, however, the active connection broke up. The old gentlemen's association was continued for two years as the "Bund Alter Alanen", but then also dissolved in order to forestall a ban. In World War II, fell 24 Alanen.

1946 until today

In 1946 the old rulers succeeded in re-establishing the AV Alania as the first Catholic connection in Germany after the war. In 1956 it was possible to move into the newly acquired and meanwhile renovated connection house in Wächterstrasse. In 1966/67, the AV Alania, as a suburb under the leadership of suburb president Eberhard Joras, campaigns for the strengthening of the student union as a counterweight to the old gentlemen's union, which resulted in the CV student days. In 1997 the KDStV Der Hohentwiel had to be merged with its parent association Alania due to long-term problems with young talent. As an outward sign of this merger, the active senior of AV Alania has since been wearing the colors of Hohentwiel as a seniority band.

The AV Alania currently consists of over 350 old men and more than 30 active and inactive.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the AV Alania is divided into four fields by a blue cross: at the top right (heraldic, i.e. left from the viewer's point of view) the shield shows the connection colors in a right-hand slant, in the manner in which the connection ribbon is worn. The upper left field shows the three Hohenstaufen lions in black on a gold background. Just like the three Württemberg stag sticks in the lower right field, they are borrowed from the Württemberg royal coat of arms from 1819 . The lower left panel shows three green mountains and about the rising sun. The morning sun illuminates the west, the goal of the Great Migration people of the Alans . The three mountains could represent either the Caucasus or the Eregeni Mountains in the Alan settlement area.

In most of the illustrations, the coat of arms is a stech helmet with a horizontal viewing slit, a helmet shape commonly used for coats of arms of student associations . The crest, bulge and helmet cover are in the connecting colors green, white and red.

Colors and motto

The boy colors are green-white-red , the fox colors green-white . The motto of AV Alania Stuttgart in the CV was taken from the coat of arms of the Württemberg royal family and reads: Fearless and trew! .

Known members

  • Rudolf Bergermann (* 1941), engineer and structural planner
  • Bruno Boxler (1912–1989), engineer, author and inventor
  • Theo Burlage (1894–1971), architect
  • Elmar Degenhart (* 1959), CEO of Continental AG
  • Hermann Gaus (* 1936), chief developer of the Maybach 57 and 62
  • Robert Gerwin (1922–2004), technology and science journalist
  • Peter Heidinger (* 1927), former Chairman of the Management Board of Energie -versorgung Schwaben AG, (today EnBW)
  • Anton Kutter (1903–1985), mechanical engineer, director, optics designer and amateur astronomer
  • Walther Lambert (1908–1987), transport scientist
  • Otto Linder (1891–1976), architect
  • Eugen Orgeldinger (1897–1955), vocational school teacher, member of the state constitutional assembly and the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden
  • Ulrich Pohlhammer (1852–1926), founding member and architect

Well-known honorary members

literature

  • Sepp Hutt: History of the academic connection Alania at the TH Stuttgart from 1870-1930. Ulm 1930, Munich 1931.
  • Herwarth Kaese: 100 years of AV Alania zu Stuttgart in the CV. 1970.
  • Michael Doeberl (Ed.): Das akademische Deutschland , Vol. 2: The German universities and their academic citizens , Berlin 1931, p. 1023

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 148.

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