Old Strasbourg fraternity Germania
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| founding | June 30, 1880 in Strasbourg | |||||
| University | Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen | |||||
| Motto | Honor, freedom, fatherland! | |||||
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Neckarhalde 47 72070 Tuebingen |
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| website | www.germania-strassburg.de | |||||
The Old Strasbourg Burschenschaft Germania was founded on June 30, 1880 in Strasbourg as the Germania Burschenschaft . Today it is active as a striking student union at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen .
Color, motto and coat of arms
The boy band wears the colors black-silver-red with golden percussion (fox band: black-silver-black with golden percussion). The hat color is white. The motto is honor, freedom, fatherland .
coat of arms
The heraldic shield is divided into four by a black cross with a gold border with an additional heart shield . The top right field shows the colors of the fraternity black-silver-red, the top left field on a black background two hands reaching out in front of two crossed scaling clubs , surrounded by a snake biting its tail and the date of foundation. At the bottom right is the Strasbourg cathedral in front of a rising sun, on the left a golden oak tree in front of a red background. The heart shield is outlined in gold and shows the colors and the circle of the fraternity.
history
The founding years in Strasbourg 1880-1919
The Germania fraternity was founded in 1880. In the first few years it was dissolved and re-established several times. Only after 1890 did they succeed in being permanently constituted. She tried to re-establish a committee of the Strasbourg student body, a predecessor of today's AStA , as the fraternities at other universities had already enforced. The founding of a house building association in 1910 could no longer be implemented, because in 1914 all the active volunteers volunteered for the First World War . During the war years an attempt was made to maintain a rudimentary connection life with strong support from the old rulers and in fact the federal brothers met at regular intervals in Strasbourg, whereby the regular "war reports of the Strasbourg fraternity Germania" intensified communication significantly. In 1918/19 Strasbourg fell to France and the university was converted to French. The fraternity fled the city.
Germania Strasbourg in Frankfurt 1919 to 1937
As early as Christmas 1918, Karl Hoppmann tried to give the fraternity a new home and voted for the reopening in Frankfurt am Main as the Old Strasbourg fraternity Germania . The situation of the members was tense, about a quarter of them had been deprived of their livelihoods by the Treaty of Versailles , and the fraternity had had to leave almost everything behind in Strasbourg. Nevertheless, the majority reacted promptly and voted for Frankfurt, where the Germania fraternity was re-established on January 12, 1919. Especially in the time of the crisis after 1918 the traditions of the German fraternity were seen as necessary as never before and wanted to help rebuild the country through self-education in a sense of duty, political judgment and purposeful thinking. In Strasbourg, however, cash books, fencing and pub inventory remained that could not be brought to Frankfurt because of the border barrier. Despite all adversities, the establishment succeeded and Germania soon had far more members than ever before in Strasbourg.
After Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor in 1933, which was also longed for by many fraternities, bad times arose for the fraternities that were based on their tradition. With the recognition of the Führer principle , the German fraternity disenfranchised itself, so that the departure of the old Strasbourg fraternity Germania in 1934 was only logical. As late as 1935, when the pressure to harmonize became more and more oppressive, the Germania under Karl Hoppmann founded the Old Burschenschaft together with 22 other fraternities , which, however, was forced to dissolve in the same year under massive threats against Hoppmann. Despite further attempts at intimidation, the old rulers remained after the dissolution of Aktivitas, sold the fraternity house in Frankfurt in 1937 and once again faced an uncertain future.
The second time in Strasbourg from 1941 to 1944
Even after 1937, the Lebensbund Germaniae held together, although the outer shape was broken. While most fraternities continued to exist informally as Nazi comradeships, the Germanic peoples initially rejected such an organizational form until the Reich University of Strasbourg was founded in the winter semester of 1941/42 after the campaign in the west . A return to the old homeland was made possible by an unofficial regulars' table, which moved into the old local pub "Zur dicken Marie" in November 1941. It was quickly decided to integrate an Aktivitas again, which was founded as "Kameradschaft Großdeutschland". The brief return to Strasbourg culminated in the summer of 1942 with the purchase of a new house, before Strasbourg was occupied by the French army in November 1944 and the fraternity's fate seemed sealed again.
New beginning in Tübingen
To continue their studies, which had been interrupted due to the war, some federal brothers met in Tübingen in 1948 , where the federal government initially revived as the "Academic Association Amicitia", before the old Strasbourg fraternity Germania zu Tübingen for the 70th foundation festival in 1950 ; was born again. Years of integration and growth followed in Tübingen, which were mainly characterized by the acquisition of Neckarhalde 47 in December 1952. It was not until the 1960s, when the mood changed to the disadvantage of the corporations, that the situation for Germania changed, especially since recruiting young people was difficult in the 68s . Successful infiltration by left-wing socialist students followed by the theft of valuable couleur objects finally led to the abolition of Aktivitas by the old gentlemen's association in 1970.
After years of stagnation , the federal government was reconstituted in 1976/77 , and by 1989 it was increasingly on the defensive. Since the final reconstitution in 1990, the fraternity in Tübingen has been active again without interruption.
Fraternity orientation
The Germania fraternity had been a member of the Eisenach Deputy Convent (EDC) since 1880 . She has been a member of the General Deputy Convent (ADC), from which the Deutsche Burschenschaft (DB) emerged in 1902 , since it was founded in 1881.
As a white fraternity, Germania had been a member of the White Circle since 1919 (adjourned since 1961) and of the Old White Cartel (AWK) founded in 1925 , consisting of the fraternities Frankonia Bonn , Alemannia Gießen , Rugia Greifswald , Germania Königsberg and Dresdensia Leipzig (most recently after a long adjournment only still Dredensia-Rugia Gießen and Germania Strasbourg).
In 1934/35, the chairman of the old rulers, Karl Hoppmann, tried in vain to escape the growing pressure to bring the NSDStB into line by leaving the DB and forming the old fraternity . In 1950, Strasbourg Teutons were involved in the reconstruction of the German fraternity, of which Germania is a re-founding member.
The old Strasbourg fraternity Germania maintains friendly relations today with the fraternity Germania Königsberg and the Bonn fraternity Frankonia as well as traditionally since the early Strasbourg time with the fraternity Alemannia Gießen. There has also been close contact with the Hilaritas Stuttgart fraternity since the 1990s .
In August 2012, the Burschenschaft became a member of the Burschenschaftliche Zukunft (IBZ) initiative and left the German Burschenschaft in February 2013. Strasbourg Germania has been a member of the IBZ-grown corporation association Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenschaft (ADB) since it was founded in October 2016. It left the association in July 2019.
Since May 2014 the fraternity has been a founding member of the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft deutscher Burschenschaften” (AdB).
Fraternity house
During its time in Strasbourg until 1918, the fraternity of Germania Strasbourg was unable to call its own fraternity house despite the establishment of a house building association. Only in Frankfurt am Main in 1921 at Varrentrappstrasse 47 and then in 1928 at Kettenhofweg 55 was a separate fraternity house acquired, which was sold in 1937 after the self-liquidation. In Tübingen, Neckarhalde 47 , a former professor's house, was successfully acquired as a new liaison house in December 1952. It was used in 1904 as the residence of the Tübingen university professor Dr. Hermann Vierordt and was sold to the fraternity by his unmarried daughters. Both lived in their parents' house for a few years and received a lifelong annuity from the fraternity. The house Neckarhalde 47 itself is located directly on the Neckar opposite the western end of the Tübingen Neckar Island and is the only connecting house in Tübingen that has its own pier for punting .
Known members
- Friedrich Brenner (1877–1969): 1910 first civilian government doctor in Swakopmund, various scientific works, a. a. detailed description of the Brenner tumor named after him .
- Heinrich Doehle (1883–1963): State civil servant in the Reich President's Office and SS-Oberführer, chairman of the Federation of Displaced Officials in the German Association of Officials.
- Karl Konrad Düssel (1872–1940): journalist (Bonner Generalanzeiger and Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt), 1919 founder of the Stuttgart New Theater on Heusteigstrasse.
- Erwin Feller (1911–1991): politician and member of the German Bundestag for the GB / BHE, whose parliamentary group was Feller from 1956/57.
- Karl Glässing (1866–1952): politician and 1913–19 mayor of Wiesbaden, 1914–18 member of the Prussian mansion, 1917–18 member of the Hessian state parliament, 1923 president of the state tax office in Darmstadt.
- Otto Hohls (1862–1899): South African general physician.
- Friedrich Krebs (1894–1961): local politician (initially NSDAP, after 1945 German party) and Lord Mayor of Frankfurt am Main.
- Ernst Kromayer (1862–1933): dermatologist and professor at Halle University.
- Johannes Kromayer (1859–1934): historian, professor of ancient history in Leipzig.
- Volkmar W. Kübler (1941–2009): Director of Dresdner Bank AG, recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit.
- Franz Künzer (1864–1947): Mayor of the city of Posen (1892–1919), member of the Prussian House of Representatives between 1913 and 1918, managing director of the German Savings Banks Association (1920–1924).
- Otto Loewi (1873–1961): Pharmacologist and Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine 1936.
- Karl-Heinz Mattern (1919–1996), administrative lawyer, President of the Federal Academy for Public Administration in Bonn, President of the East Academy and the North German Cultural Association, President of the Council of Danzig, professor at the universities in Saarbrücken and Munich
- Otto Meissner (1880–1953): State Secretary in the Office of the Reich President and head of the Office of the Reich President under Friedrich Ebert, Paul von Hindenburg and Adolf Hitler.
- Hans Murawski (1915–1994): Professor of Geology and Paleontology in Frankfurt, Director of the Geological-Paleontological Institute and editor of the geological dictionary, which has been published in numerous editions.
- Joachim Kurd Niedlich (1884–1928): writer and educator
- Erich Preiser (1900–1967): Professor of economics and social sciences in Jena, Heidelberg and Munich, leading economic theorist and political advisor to the Federal Republic in the 1950s and 60s.
- Alfred Schiff (1863–1939): archaeologist, professor in Berlin, 1904 co-founder of the "German Reich Committee for the Olympic Games", a forerunner of the National Olympic Committee, member of the International Olympic Committee.
- Otto Zerries (1914–1999): ethnologist with a research focus on the Indians of South America, 1956 head of the America department of the State Ethnological Museum in Munich, 1967–1979 professor of American studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
See also
literature
- Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 137-138, 365, 380.
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft, Volume I: Politicians, Teilbd. 1-6. Heidelberg 1996-2005.
- Bernhard Gaster: The Strasbourg fraternity Germania 1880-1930. Heckners Verlag, Wolfenbüttel 1930.
- Paulgerhard Gladen / Kurt U. Bertrams: The student corporation system in Strasbourg , Hilden 2012.
- Karl Hoppmann: Contributions to the history of the old white cartel . In: Strasbourg German newspaper . Without location information 1961/1962.
- Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. pp. 1028-1029.
- Paul Wentzcke: Fraternity lists. History and lists of members of fraternities in Greater Germany 1815-1936, Volume 2: Strasbourg - Gießen - Greifswald. Goerlitz 1942.
- Working group Tübingen connections (ed.): Small castles, large villas, Tübingen connection houses in portrait , self-published by AKTV, Tübingen 2009, pp. 98-105.
- The liaison system in Tübingen. Documentation in the year of the university anniversary in 1977. pp. 43–44.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
- ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 38.
- ^ Handbook of the German Burschenschaft, 2005 edition, page 128.
- ↑ The IBZ is growing ( memento from September 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), article at burschenschaftliche-Zukunft.de
- ^ Members. Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenschaft, accessed on October 14, 2016 .