Academic Association Marburg

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The Academic Association Marburg was a student association and reformed student association with an influence on the early youth movement .

history

The Academic Association (AV) was founded on May 13, 1912 under the decisive initiative of Wolfgang Kroug in Marburg. The founding members were made up of migratory birds and members of the free student body . Even if the Wandervogel idea was the focus of the AV, the academic claim was to make something higher out of it. So one endeavored to convert "Wandervogelbubentum in Wandervogelmannestum".

In a self-presentation it says about the AV:

"It wants to represent an educational community which, on the principle of legal coercion by the community, that is, on a democratic basis, educates the student to become a scientifically educated citizen."

In keeping with this requirement, the AV saw itself as a meeting place for different points of view and opinions. As a federation, the AV always behaved neutrally and, when accepting new members, rejected the otherwise common principle of unanimity in order not to endanger this diversity. As a reformed student fraternity , they didn't wear colors and rejected duels and bars . Otherwise, the AV but resembled traditional corporations, which by the terms " foxes ", " Fox Major " and " Convention is clear."

The Academic Association Marburg , together with the Academic Association Jena, co-founded the Free German Youth and co-host of the First Free German Youth Day on the Hoher Meissner in October 1913.

In the festschrift for the centenary on the Hohe Meißner, an ideal of the federal government is described as follows:

"When the Academic Association devotes all its energies to educating people to be proficient and capable in the field in which it is placed, it believes it is doing the greatest service to the fatherland, to which it is called and capable to the best of its ability."

When the First World War broke out, all AV students dropped out and went to the front. During the war, some members published the AV newspaper "Ockershäuser Blätter". Through this the connection life could be maintained. From then on one also dealt critically with the Free German youth and as a result withdrew from active association life. On November 14, 1918, just three days after the armistice was signed , the Academic Association was formally re-established in Marburg under the influence of the theologian Paul Leo . The pedagogue Adolf Reichwein also became active in the newly founded AV during his studies in Marburg.

In 1934 the last "Ockershäuser Blätter" appeared. The Aktivitas was suspended, only the old rule remained. From 1955 onwards, they joined forces with another Marburg corporation to form the Academic Association Sodalitas Philippina .

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 .
  • Gerhard Ziemer and Hans Wolf: Wandervogel and free German youth. Voggenreiter Verlag Bad Godesberg 1961, pp. 451–455.
  • Marlen Berg: Adolf Reichwein - Biographical overview and his work for the adult education system Grin Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-640-45276-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 95.
  2. ↑ 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. 108.
  3. ↑ 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, pp. 110–111.