Academic Association Motive Berlin

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The Academic Association motif (also Academic Association motive is, AV motive) one on June 5, 1847 by students of the General Building School, later Berlin Academy of Architecture , founded fraternity . The founding father was Wilhelm Stier .

General

Technical University of Charlottenburg , around 1880

The purpose and aim of the AV Motiv is to provide technical, intellectual and economic support to students and also to promote student life, the exchange of ideas between students from all departments and the cultivation of the fine arts .

In 1897 the association had 1,570 members, many of whom studied at the Technical University of Charlottenburg . Today there are 24 student members and over 100 old men / women .

history

Bull syringe

Wilhelm bull

A group of newly enrolled students from the Allgemeine Bauschule (later: Königliche Bauakademie zu Berlin) around the student Hugo Natus were impressed by the person and the lectures of their professor Wilhelm Stier . Together with older students who shared their enthusiasm, they performed a serenade on the occasion of his birthday on May 8, 1847 with a three-man quartet and after the performance with bull they organized a trip to Tegel .

From then on, Taurus' birthdays were also celebrated through serenades and excursions; this tradition continued even after his early death and is continued to this day with an annual gathering at his grave on Ascension Day.

Foundation of an association

In the following period the students met regularly for singing exercises and on June 5, 1847 founded an association for the training and maintenance of male singing, which was later named "the motif" after a favorite term bull.

Soon, however, the circle also allowed a “third bass”, whose members were not suitable for singing in a male quartet (first and second tenor, first and second bass), but all the more preferred to take part in the social events of the young club. The social evenings, drinking festivals and excursions thus moved into the foreground of the club's activities early on.

Following the February Revolution in Paris in 1848, clashes between the military and civilians took place in Berlin in March 1848. Many of the members joined the general vigilante group and were part of the artist corps under the secret senior building officer Gotthilf Hagen . In November 1848 the state of siege was imposed by General Friedrich von Wrangel , who entered Berlin with his troops. The vigilante surrendered to the general by arrangement. The building school was closed. The situation in Berlin relaxed again over the next few months.

growth

Despite the times, the motif received considerable popularity and grew to 161 names in the directory in the first five years of its existence.

In addition to quartet singing, theatrical performances appeared from 1852 onwards, which were referred to as "facial expressions" and were an early form of cabaret or sketch . Texts, posters and stage decorations had to be produced for this, so that the large circle of budding architects had a wide range of activities.

Invitation to the Winter Festival, 1896

It was characterized early on by a lightness and irony that set itself apart from the more serious conduct of other connections. So the chairman was and is called "song father", while the acting organization was incumbent on a "Thespiskärrner". A spin-off in Stettin that took place in 1859 and existed only for a short time was called "Hohlkehle" and was managed by a "Larynx". An "order chapter" installed since 1863, consisting of "Komthur", "Marschall" and "Herald", appears with solemn sounds and imaginative costumes, distributes tin medals and - of course with a tear bar - accolades and speaks in Knittel verse almost like the one created at the same time Cologne triumvirate of the carnival.

In 1865 around half of the 105 newly enrolled students at the Bauakademie joined the motif. In 1869 a student council was created from the motif.

In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871, around 300 members of the motif were recruited by King Wilhelm I's army . Some of them died in the field, others held a branch meeting while they were still on duty in Tonnerre , at which quartets were sung in the old tradition between the thunder of the guns. The war had left no major gaps in membership. 60 of the members were honored with the Iron Cross on their return . More than 600 members and guests gathered for the welcome party in 1871.

Poster for the holiday pub

The motive on the part of the building academy and the similarly strongly positioned " hut " at the trade academy drove the merger of the two institutes into the Technical University of Charlottenburg, which was finally successful in 1879 .

On this, the motif remained an essential voice of the students, but now also opened up to other - technical - subjects. The number of new admissions had already plummeted at the time of the Bauakademie due to a shortening of studies (1876: 150 new admissions, 1878: 58 new admissions). At the technical university, the number of new members leveled off at 20 to 30 a year. Although the absolute number of members continued to rise due to the age structure, one felt competitive pressure, perhaps also the zeitgeist. The motif then adapted temporarily to the other - striking and colored - connections in its club life. In 1882, the Motive Association was converted into a student association called the Academic Motive Association .

The Motivhaus Aktien-Gesellschaft

Renaissance theater , former club house ▼

In 1897 the association had a membership of 1570 members (including almost 100 active members, the rest were old men). As with other associations, club life also took place in changing pubs, in which, however, individual side rooms were permanently rented for the extensive props, etc. Larger festivals were u. a. celebrated in the Kroll Opera House. In the years 1901/1902 the first club house (architect: Konrad Reimer ) was built in the legal form of a stock corporation in Hardenbergstrasse 6, directly opposite the Technical University of Charlottenburg. In addition to the club rooms on the top floor, the commercially operated property included public catering and ballrooms intended for rent.

It was calculated that Hardenbergstrasse would gain considerable importance as a connection between the emerging, then independent cities of Schöneberg and Charlottenburg and as a natural continuation of the general train .

In fact, however, the Kurfürstendamm , which turned at an obtuse angle from the general train, developed into a shopping street, while Hardenbergstrasse remained predominantly residential. Additional competing facilities, in particular the Landwehr casino , further impaired development. Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War , the motive house was sold in an emergency after a last attempt by the association to continue business operations on its own had failed.

The motif house on Hardenbergstrasse became a military hospital and after the war a cinema. The Renaissance theater has been in this building since 1922 . The upper floor of the house served as the seat of the Reichsschrifttumskammer from 1937 to 1945 .

Second motif house in Leibnizstrasse 12

A new clubhouse for sole use at Leibnizstrasse 12 at the corner of Bismarckstrasse was then acquired from member donations , which was already available on March 4, 1916 - in the middle of the First World War. There the club was bombed out in World War II .

After the war, the AV motif was housed in the roof of the former Army Weapons Office .

Harmonization: The Comradeship Wilhelm Stier

With a command bridge: Provisional in Jebensstrasse

The National Socialist " seizure of power " led to changes very quickly . In March 1933, the motif warmly congratulated the Jewish member Julius Abraham, who had heard from Wilhelm Stier himself, on his 100th birthday. A year later, the entire management of the club was subject to the leader principle; however, the "leader of the motive", Reichsbahnoberrat Ludwig Frorath, exercised his sole decision-making power to assist the members of the previous association bodies as "advisers in important matters".

According to contemporary witnesses, the few Jewish members left voluntarily and tacitly in order to avert damage to the association. The motif was able to continue the previous club life largely unchanged as " Kameradschaft Wilhelm Stier". However, the active did "voluntarily" military exercises in a military sports camp. The weekly meeting, which had taken place on Thursday for decades, was moved to Monday because Aktivitas was on SA duty on Thursday evenings.

Schematics: The Invention of the Computer

In 1935, the young old Mr. Konrad Zuse began his career as an inventor. Zuse was artistically gifted in many ways, had broken off his studies in mechanical engineering and architecture as well as an interim activity as an advertising draftsman, completed his studies in civil engineering, but quickly gave up a subsequent activity as a structural engineer at Henschel Flugzeugwerke . Now he built a mechanical calculating machine based on his own ideas and without funding, which was supposed to automate static calculations.

Since Zuse's universal genius included dealing with people, he not only convinced his family members and childhood friends, but also around a dozen student members of the AV Motiv of his idea. Over the course of many months, they saw out sheet metal and did similar work and organized donations.

The young old man, Mr. Helmut Schreyer , who is well versed in the field of telecommunications technology, joined in the work of his brothers and gave the decisive suggestion to build future computers based on tubes ; this idea was pursued parallel to the work on the mechanical calculating machine.

Replica of the Z1 (with Horst Zuse )

The result was the mechanical computer Z1 , which was the first computer to work with binary numbers , had an input / output unit , an arithmetic unit and a memory unit and could be programmed with perforated film strips. After the Z1 had proven the principle despite mechanical problems, Zuse received little public research funding, with which he was able to build the Z3 , the world's first functional universal computer , in 1941 with the collaboration of Schreyer .

Many later members of the Motiv spent one station of their working life at Zuse KG (1949–1971).

Conditions

The AV Motiv was a member of the Corporations Association Schwarzer Ring (SR) since 1929 , from May 23, 1954 in its successor organization Wernigeroder Schwarzer Verband (WSV) and became a member of Miltenberg-Wernigeroder on June 23, 1973 when it merged with the old Miltenberger Ring Ring (MWR), which he no longer belongs to today.

Today in red styrofoam and almost crushed by the surroundings: Motivhaus Leibnizstraße 14 (right)

In 1968 AV Motiv moved into a new club house at Leibnizstrasse 14, which had been designed by the architect and Motivational member Otto Risse . The AV Motiv has the colors blue and gold , which are not worn. The chairman in 2019 is Karim Mansour.

Known members

See also

literature

  • The twenty-fifth foundation festival of the motif. In: Deutsche Bauzeitung of June 13, 1872, pp. 194–196, 198–199 ( opus4.kobv.de PDF; 1558 kB)
  • Our motif , commemorative publication for the 50th anniversary of the academic association Motiv, Commissionsverlag, Berlin 1897.
  • Commemorative publication for the 75th Foundation Festival of the Akad. Verein Motiv, Berlin 1922.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ferdinand Ascherson (Ed.): German university calendar for the winter semester 1913/14. Leipzig 1913, p. 38.
  2. ^ Klaus-Dieter Wille: Walks in Schöneberg. (=  Berliner Kaleidoskop. Volume 28) Berlin 1981, p. 42, ISBN 3-7759-0244-9 .
  3. ^ The later building officer Natus was port construction inspector in Pillau for many years ; his personal files [1] have been preserved under Polish administration. One for the port construction inspection in 1879 at the Elbing-Schichau shipyard , construction no. 147, built barge was named Motiv , a government steamer built in 1896 at the same shipyard (building no. 584) was named Natus . [2] The Natus fled in the last days of the Second World War with the remains of the 5th Panzer Division across the Baltic Sea to Flensburg ( Ostpreußenblatt dated November 5, 1955, p. 12) [3] .
  4. ↑ Carl-Peter Steinmann: The bull syringe - happy drink at the grave , in: ders., Because of last rest! Berliner Ausgrabungen , Berlin 2001, p. 103 ff., ISBN 3-88747-166-0 ; Kurt Pomplun : Birthday serenade at Stiers grave , in: Pomplun's Großes Berlin-Buch , Verlag Haude u. Spener Berlin 1985, p. 59 ff.
  5. ↑ which could also expand considerably, in the operatic tragedy Mahababa the Forger , performed with 60 mimes for Christmas 1873, to two and a half hours, cf. Steffi Recknagel: Das Renaissance-Theater , Berlin 2002, p. 12, ISBN 3-89487-443-0 .
  6. ^ A b Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Berlin and its buildings . Volume 8: Buildings for trade and commerce. Hospitality. Berlin 1980, p. 130 u. 131, ISBN 3-433-00825-6 .
  7. ↑ a wine and beer restaurant, a billiard room, a café, a pastry shop, a small wine bar and two bowling alleys in the cellar, cf. Recknagel 2002, p. 12
  8. ↑ At the same time, the main line of the Berlin subway from the zoo to the knee and thus to the door of the club house was extended in Hardenbergstrasse , as well as the new building for the Prussian Higher Administrative Court , the University of Music and Fine Arts , the official residence of the commanding general of the III. Army Corps and the Military Technical Academy newly established, there were also plans for a college for church music and an architecture museum, cf. Recknagel 2002, p. 12.
  9. ↑ Whose architects Julius Boethke , Heino Schmieden and his son Heinrich Schmieden all also belonged to the AV motif.
  10. ↑ The motive and shareholder Max Contag paid off the substantial remaining liabilities of 40,000 marks according to the currency parity  at that time out of his own pocket, in accordance with the terms of honor of the time
  11. ↑ Blue sheets of the AV motif, born 1933, p. 3
  12. ↑ Frorath, born on July 6, 1885, was soon President of the Reich Railway Directorate in Ludwigshafen (1936/1937), Halle (1937–1940), Saarbrücken - with responsibility also for Lorraine and Luxembourg - (1940–1944) and Breslau (from 1 June 1944). With the expansion to Fortress Breslau , he left the city with his command, in which he died on March 9, 1945 in Reichenbach near Görlitz of a heart attack. See: The RBD Saarbrücken and the Nazi crimes in the Saar-Lor-Lux region.
  13. ↑ Blaue Blätter , year 1934, p. 6
  14. ↑ Konrad Zuse : The Computer - My Life's Work , Springer-Verlag 1984, p. 29
  15. ↑ cf. Zuse 1984, p. 28
  16. ↑ cf. Zuse 1984, p. 27
  17. ↑ Blaue Blätter , year 1934, p. 7
  18. ↑ u. a. Herbert Weber, Rolf Pollems, Günter Buttmann, Walther Buttmann, Andreas Grohmann, Roland Grohmann, Herbert Müller, Hans Müller, Kurt Mittrenga, Hans-Martin Löchel, Eckstein, cf. Zuse 1984, p. 31
  19. ↑ cf. the experience reports from Buttmann, Grohmann and Pollems in: Karl-Heinz Czauderna: Konrad Zuse, the way to his computer Z3 , Oldenbourg-Verlag Munich / Vienna 1979, p. 85 ff.
  20. ↑ cf. Zuse 1984, p. 35
  21. ↑ and the motives, also from communications technology, Alfred Eckhard (later co-founder of Zuse KG) and Karl-Ernst Hoestermann, cf. Zuse 1984, p. 59
  22. ^ A b Ernst-Günter Glienke: Civis Academicus . Handbook of the German, Austrian and Swiss corporations and student associations at universities and higher schools. Vol. 1996, Lahr 1996, p. 35, newer edition ISBN 3-89498-149-0 .
  23. ^ Ernst-Günter Glienke: Civis Academicus . Handbook of the German, Austrian and Swiss corporations and other student associations at universities, colleges and engineering schools. Born in 1963, Sindelfingen 1963, p. 19.
  24. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : The German corporation associations . 4th edition. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2013, ISBN 978-3-933892-28-7 (p. 231 and 256 in volume 2 of the 1985 edition ).
  25. ↑ Bernhard Grün, Christoph Vogel: The Fuxenstunde . Manual of Corporation Studentism. Bad Buchau 2014, p. 173, ISBN 978-3-925171-92-5 .
  26. ^ Architects and Engineers Association (ed.): Berlin and its buildings , Volume 8: Buildings for trade and commerce. Hospitality. Berlin 1980, p. 131, ISBN 3-433-00825-6 .
  27. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 122.
  28. ↑ Blue sheets of the AV Motiv 2018, inside cover
  29. ↑ See: Berlin Bibliography. As Volume 15 of the publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute of the Free University of Berlin. Bibliographies Volume 1. Berlin 1965, p. 372, ISSN  0341-9347 , ISBN 3-11-011348-1 .

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