Academic Club in Hamburg
The Academic Club zu Hamburg is a gentlemen's club founded in 1859 by academics in Hamburg . Only Kösener Corps students can become members.
history
The Hamburg Corps students from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg met regularly for the Quodlibet at Betz on the Rathausmarkt . Soon other corps students joined. Since almost all of them were lawyers , the idea of a closer community with its own statutes was obvious. Three Heidelberg vandals , three Heidelberg Westphalians , two Hanoverians , a “brakeman” , a Bonn Palatinate and a Bonn Hanseate pushed the project forward.
The lawyers Georg Ferdinand Kunhardt , Ludwig Carl Friedrich Otto Meier (1825–1906), Friedrich Wilhelm Stockfleth (1826–1889), Heinrich Föhring , Edmund (von) Parish, Martin Söhle , Johannes Friedrich Hudtwalcker, Hieronymus Carl Richard Sillem and Heinrich Donnenberg, The doctor Jacob Ferdinand Arning and the administrative officer Johann Friedrich Voigt based the founding of the AC on the Heidelberg Club , which Heidelberg Corps students had founded in Hamburg in the 1840s. It was realized on December 15, 1859 in the Erlanger Bierhaus , a restaurant on Marienstraße in St. Pauli . In Danish and from 1867 on Prussian territory, the members met there every week at first. The AC partially organized larger events with the AHSC in Kiel and Lübeck , including the 1895 celebrations in honor of Otto von Bismarck ; 5000 participants brought the founder of the empire a torchlight procession . The “general corps commers” soon took place alternately in Hamburg, Kiel and Lübeck and three times on Heligoland .
During the Nazi era , the Secret State Police ordered the AC to be dissolved at the end of 1938. The AC decided on December 30, 1938 and appointed the board members Niemeyer and Reusch as liquidators . On the last evening on January 13, 1939, at the suggestion of Schön and Rittmeyer , it was decided to continue as a non-registered association. Deleted in the register of associations on January 19, 1939 , the AC did not have to interrupt the 14-day rhythm of meetings even during the war.
Quirk
The AC is not an old-man-senior convention and therefore not a member of the Association of Old Corps Students . The paragraphs and resolutions passed when the AC was founded are still valid today, with a few minor exceptions. This includes that only Kösener Corps students can become members and their acceptance requires unanimity. Honorary membership was introduced by resolution of January 8, 1886.
The AC rejected the role of Hamburg AHSC which the Association of Old Corps Students had intended for him in the 1890s "with all against 1 vote". So in 1905 the AHSC Hamburg was founded in Altona . It still exists today and has around 180 members. The chairman of the AHSC has always been a fox major of the AC.
With the small-format Perkeo , the AC has always had its own songbook. Many of the hundreds of old drinking songs have long ceased to be sung elsewhere. No. 1, the AC song "What are these cheerful sounds ..."
Members
By 1955, the vast majority of members came from the green circle . The number of members has fluctuated around 130 for decades. According to the statutes, the AC is headed by the Dominus praeses . Dominus tertius helps him with administrative work . “Foxes” are all those members who are younger than the fox major ; with the length of his term of office there are more and more.
The long terms of office of its board members are characteristic of the AC. As Dominus praeses Heinrich Föhring came to 25, Arthur Thost to 31 and Wilhelm Röhl to 33 years. Friedrich Voigt, the first Dominus tertius , remained in office for 61 years "until death redeemed him" (1920). Klaus Figge was “third” for 40 years. Ernst Riechert has been fox major of the AC and chairman of the AHSC Hamburg for decades.
Domini praesides
- 1859: Heinrich Föhring Hannovera
- 1885: Heinrich Donnenberg Palatia Bonn
- 1899: Heinrich Matthias Burchard Palatia Bonn
- 1901: Alexander Schön Guestphalia Heidelberg
- 1906: Arthur Thost Rhenania Würzburg
- 1938: Louis Niemeyer Guestphalia Leipzig, Guestphalia Berlin
- 1939: Gustav Rittmeyer Franconia Munich
- 1969: Wilhelm Röhl Suevia Strasbourg
- 2002: Dirk Bernhard Lohmann Hildeso-Guestphalia, Borussia Tübingen, Vandalia Rostock (EM)
- 2005: Dietrich Branzka Brunsviga Göttingen
- 2018: Volker Römer Jens Rheno-Guestphalia, Albertina
Honorary members
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- Heinrich Föhring (1885)
- Heinrich Donnenberg (1899)
- Johann Friedrich Voigt (1905) Hansea Bonn, Hannovera
- Philipp Moller (1909) Vandalia Heidelberg
- Charles Bottler (1909) Saxonia Bonn, Starkenburgia
- Arthur Thost (1926)
- Louis Niemeyer (1926)
- Gustav Rittmeyer (1954)
- Otto Bothe (1959) Suevo-Borussia EM
- Alexander Koob (1959) Rhenania Erlangen
- Wilhelm Röhl (1989)
- Klaus Figge (1996) Hannovera
- Ernst Riechert (1996) Saxonia Jena, Saxonia Bonn
- Gert Henning (2013) Hasso-Nassovia
- Dietrich Branzka (2018) Brunsviga Göttingen
Events
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The AC met every Friday at the pubs in the Erlangen beer house in St. Pauli , which was destroyed in Operation Gomorrah in 1943 . After the Second World War , the AC met in the remter of the Hamburg Chamber of Crafts until the 1970s , then in the corp houses of Thuringia Jena and Albertina. At that time it was switched to Thursday. In the marriage contract , some members stipulated the AC evening. Annual events (anchored in the statutes) are the general assembly after the New Year , the spring snowmaker and suckling pig meal in the Nordheide , the summer spritzer on the Elbe and the foundation festival in December.
Friends
Klaus-Peter Schlünsen has been in charge of the AC evenings since 1984 . His wife Renate Schlünsen was a housekeeper at Thuringia Jena from 1983 to 1990. With both daughters and son, she helped her husband at major AC (and AHSC) events. With a lung disease since childhood, Schlünsen handed over AC care to his wife in 2009. When he died in February 2014 at the age of 70 and was buried in the Ohlsdorf cemetery, the AC and Thuringia paid him their last respects.
literature
- Otto Bothe: The AC zu Hamburg from 1859 . Deutsche Corpszeitung 2/1956, pp. 40–43.
- Friedrich Voigt: The AC in Hamburg 1859-1909 , Langhoffsche Buchdruckerei, Hamburg 1909.
- Arthur Thost: The AC in Hamburg 1859-1929 , Hamburg 1929.
- Gustav Rittmeyer: The AC in Hamburg 1859-1954 , Hermann Kampen, Hamburg 1954.
- Gustav Rittmeyer: The AC in Hamburg 1859-1959, addendum 1954-1959 , Hermann Kampen, Hamburg 1959.
- Gustav Rittmeyer: The AC in Hamburg 1859–1964, addendum 1959–1964 , Hermann Kampen, Hamburg 1964.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Old men of the four resigned corps can remain (or become) members after they have fought.
- ↑ In the first decade of the 20th century, some Hamburg corps students founded the “black evening” in opposition to this “coloring”. It didn't last long.
- ↑ When the fox major asked the “foxes” at the foundation festival in 1955 to rub a pint-sized salamander on the Domini praesidis , more than half of the 120 participants rose.