Academic Association Jena

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The Akademische Vereinigung Jena was a student union and reformed student union that influenced the early youth movement .

history

The establishment took place in November 1912 under the decisive initiative of the Academic Association Marburg in Jena . The founding members consisted of members of the Sera circle around the publisher Eugen Diederichs . After the founder of the AV in Marburg, Wolfgang Kroug , gave a speech to the Jena free students in June 1912 , the common will to found a new corporation grew.

The Dortmund Wandervogel , free student and later co-founder of the Jena Academic Association , Hans Kremers, commented on this as follows:

"The discussion about the necessity of coercion and about the basic idea of ​​the scientific attitude were, so to speak, only obstetricians, but driving the real need for common content, activity, discipline, for a tangible, closed form."

Based on these ideas, the Academic Association Jena was founded at the end of 1912 . The formalities such as the statutes and principles were handled much more loosely in Jena. After the departure of the founding generation, there was a realignment and turn to the German Academic Freischar .

The Jena Academic Association can at least formally be regarded as a co-founder of the Free German Youth and co-host of the First Free German Youth Day on the Hoher Meissner in October 1913. In September 1913, the Jena Academic Association applied to the German Academic Freischar (DAF) for membership. This was granted immediately after the Meißnerfest. From then on, the AV from Jena appeared as Freischar Jena I of the DAF , citing the Jena scholar Fichte and the volunteers from the wars of liberation . Since this change of association, there were more and more close contacts to the students of the reformed fraternity of Vandalia, who were also looking to join the DAF and were active under the name Freischar Jena II until the start of the war.

With the outbreak of the First World War, all active members of the Jena I group moved to the front. Of the 17 active rioters, 10 did not return. An active association life did not take place again. In the winter semester of 1918/19, the Academic Association was founded again.

Known members

literature

  • Sigrid Bias-Engels: Between Wandering Bird and Science - On the History of the Youth Movement and Student Body 1896-1920. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 4. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-8046-8709-1
  • Winfried Mogge, Jürgen Reulecke: Hoher Meißner 1913 - The First Free German Youth Day in Documents, Interpretations and Pictures. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 5. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-8046-8723-7
  • Meike G. Werner: Youth movement as a reform of the student-academic youth culture. Self-education - self-education - the new sociability: The Jenenser free student body and the Serakreis . In: Ulrich Herrmann (editor): “The new time moves with us” - the wandering bird in the German youth movement . Juventa, Weinheim 2006, pp. 171–203. ISBN 3779911337 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sigrid Bias-Engels: Between Wandervogel and Science - On the History of the Youth Movement and Student Body 1896-1920. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 4. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988, p. 122.
  2. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 73.