Austria Cologne

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University : Cologne
Founding: 11/15 1933 in Cologne
Association: CV
Compulsory formation in the CV: 1933
Abbreviation: AK!
Motto: In Veritate Libertas!
Boy colors: AKBand.jpg
Coat of arms:
Circle: AKZirkel.jpg

The Academic Association Austria Cologne was a student association in Cologne from 1933 to 1935 . It served as a collecting basin for the Austrian members of the Cartel Association , who had to leave the Austrian Cartel Association (ÖCV) because of a negative attitude towards the Austrian " fatherland front " or their (official) commitment to National Socialist principles .

history

The Austrian CV connections left the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) on July 15, 1933 because they did not accept the CV association leader Edmund Forschbach ( KDStV Ripuaria Freiburg im Breisgau ) appointed by the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) wanted to confess to the required “Greater German Thought” and refused entry into the German student body . Thereupon Forschbach ordered that CVers, who were band owners of an Austrian connection, had to put back their band.

CVers from the Reich , whose original connection was accredited at one of the Austrian universities, had to leave the university. As early as July 14th, Karl Hauke, chairman of the West German Australian Circle , Chancellor and legal advisor of the Archdiocese of Cologne , wrote to his original association Austria Innsbruck that “we have to maintain the Greater German tradition of association, ourselves as Reich German Austria with our own activities and our own Reich Germans Open the Philistine at the University of Cologne and separate it from the Austrian part with the aim of relocating our headquarters to Innsbruck again when conditions in Austria have changed there and the Greater German idea and the national German movement have been successful. "

Despite all efforts of the old gentlemen's committee of Austria Innsbruck to find a compromise for their members in the Reich, Hauke ​​stuck to his rigid stance. He made it clear: “According to the express order of the CV leader, all Reich German CVers who belong to an Austrian connection must immediately declare their withdrawal from this connection, otherwise they will be excluded from the CV. Violations result in disadvantages of a state and academic-civil nature. "

In order to forestall an expulsion, the aim was to form an academic association within the CV at the University of Cologne. As an outward sign of the continuing connection to the Austrian homeland, this connection should bear the name "Austria Köln" and take over the old tradition of Austria-Innsbruck as well as its principles and rights in the CV. In order to be officially approved, a claim was made - a requirement that all existing Reich German corporations had been confronted with since 1933 - in the statutes of certain National Socialist principles, such as the "ethnic German idea" , the national German state of Adolf Hitler and the leader principle .

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The old gentlemen's committee of Austria Innsbruck then decided on August 8, 1933 to release all Reich German Austrians from their boyish oath and to remove them from the membership lists in order to save them inconvenience in the Reich.

Coat of arms of Austria Innsbruck

Austria-Cologne was listed in the CV as the legal successor to Austria Innsbruck, which was founded in 1864. For this reason, Austria-Cologne also adopted coats of arms , colors , circles , the motto In Veritate Libertas , boys and fox strophes and the federal song of Austria Innsbruck. Karl Hauke ​​was appointed liaison leader. On November 15, 1933, Austria was established as the eighth Cologne CV association. Formal recognition by the CV association management and the University of Cologne took place in the same month. The publication ceremony took place on January 21, 1934. The threatened exclusion from the CV meant that Austria-Cologne became a reservoir for all Reich German CVers who belonged to an Austrian connection. With over 450 (mainly active) members, it quickly became the largest association in Cologne.

Even before the NSDStB was able to completely withdraw the recognition of the connections, at the end of October 1935 at an association conference in Würzburg (at the house of the KDStV Markomannia Würzburg ), the dissolution of the CV was decided. Austria-Cologne thus shared the fate of all CV connections on October 27, 1935, and it was dissolved. It was not reactivated after the war.

literature

  • Michael Gehler : Students and Politics. The struggle for supremacy at the University of Innsbruck 1918-1938 (= Innsbruck research on contemporary history. Volume 6). Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 1990 (see Innsbruck, Univ., Diss., 1988), ISBN 3-85218-079-1 .
  • Hans Jürgen Rösgen: The dissolution of the Catholic student associations in the Third Reich (= Dortmund historical studies. Volume 15). Universitätsverlag Brockmeyer, Bochum 1995 (see Dortmund, Univ., Diss., 1995), ISBN 3-8196-0393-X .
  • Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk: Lexicon of CV and ÖCV connections. The corporations and associations of the Cartell Association of the Catholic German Student Associations (CV) and the Cartell Association of the Catholic Austrian Student Associations (ÖCV) in historical briefs. (Association for German Student History) SH-Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-89498-040-0 .
  • Michael Grüttner : The Corporations and National Socialism. In: Harm-Hinrich Brandt, Matthias Stickler (Hrsg.): Der Burschen Herrlichkeit. History and present of student corporations (= publications of the Würzburg City Archives. Volume 8). Würzburg 1998, ISBN 3-87717-781-6 , pp. 125-143.
  • Friedrich J. Ortwein: Austria (Innsbruck to) Cologne. The eighth Cologne CV connection, a Nazi birth. In: ders. (Ed.): Rappoltstein. 1905-2005. Locher, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-930054-50-7 , pp. 200–202 ( PDF ; 283 kB).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Gehler : Students and Politics. The struggle for supremacy at the University of Innsbruck 1918-1938 . Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 1990, p. 353 ff.
  2. ↑ Letter from Dr. Karl Hauke ​​to the AV Austria Innsbruck, quoted. from: Austrier-Blätter , No. 10, Innsbruck 1933; shortened
  3. ↑ Cf. to the plans of the NSDStB cited here under Oskar Stäbel regarding a transformation of all Reich German corporation associations into a "National Socialist educational community": Michael Grüttner: Die Korporationen und der Nationalozialismus . In: Harm-Hinrich Brandt , Matthias Stickler (Hrsg.): Der Burschen Herrlichkeit. The history and present of student corporations (publications by the Würzburg City Archives, Volume 8), Würzburg 1998, pp. 125–143, here pp. 130ff., ISBN 3-87717-781-6 .
  4. ↑ See on this Michael Grüttner: The Corporations and National Socialism . In: Harm-Hinrich Brandt, Matthias Stickler (Hrsg.): Der Burschen Herrlichkeit. The past and present of student corporations (publications by the Würzburg City Archives, Volume 8), Würzburg 1998, pp. 125–143, here pp. 131f.
  5. ^ Excerpts from a circular from Hauke ​​"To the Reich German members of the former CV connections in Austria" of July 31, 1933, quoted in from: Austrier-Blätter , No. 10, Innsbruck 1933, p. 8; shortened; also read at: Michael Gehler: Studenten und Politik. The struggle for supremacy at the University of Innsbruck 1918-1938 . Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 1990, p. 353; Marlen Hauser: Corporated Cooperation - To compare fraternities and cartel associations . In: Austrian Student Union (ed.): Conservatism. Elitism. Man bundling. The Austrian Cartell Association, Umbrella Association of Catholic Student Associations , Vienna 2nd edition 2013, pp. 125–158, here: pp. 136f.
  6. ↑ Peter Krause : O old lad glory. The students and their customs. 5th edition. Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1997, p. 198.
  7. ↑ Cf. on these dates the historical outline in Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk: Lexicon of CV and ÖCV connections. The corporations and associations of the Cartell Association of the Catholic German Student Associations (CV) and the Cartell Association of the Catholic Austrian Student Associations (ÖCV) in historical briefs . (Association for German Student History), SH-Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-89498-040-0