Baltic Corporation Estonia Dorpat
The Baltic Corporation Estonia Dorpat (Estn .: Korporatsioon Estonia ) was a German-Baltic student union at the German-speaking Imperial University of Dorpat .
history
Dorpater students had founded a student union called Estonia as early as 1810 . However, this only existed for one year and merged in 1811 with the Dorpat community, which had existed for a long time . Its members founded the Corporation Estonia on September 7, 1821 . The Baltic Germans from the governorate of Estonia , the northern part of what is now Estonia, gathered here, who mainly studied in Tartu . The Dorptian student associations were determined by Romanticism and never as well organized as the German corps .
Color
The Estonia had the color green-purple-white and wore a moss-green lid . The motto of Estonia was Virtus decus Estonorum!
Fraternity house
In 1883 the corporation decided to build its own house on what was then the outskirts of Tartu. The foundation stone was laid in April 1885. The connecting house, designed by the German Baltic architect Reinhold Guleke (1834–1927), was officially opened in August 1886. During the First World War , the Imperial Russian Army confiscated the house. After the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920), the student union gave up ownership of the building, which was in very poor condition. The student association Rotalia rented the house in the early 1930s and bought the house a short time later.
1887 succeeded in Estonia, in addition the property moat (Estonian 9 Vallikraavi 9 ) to acquire in Tartu and the fraternity house remodel. Today the clinic for hematology and oncology of the university hospital Dorpat is in the building.
resolution
On October 15, 1939, the corporation in Dorpat ceased operations when the Baltic Germans became resettlers as a result of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty .
In the post-war period in Germany, Philistines from Estonia supported the Baltic Corporation Fraternitas Dorpatensis in Munich and took part in the founding of the Corps Curonia Goettingensis in 1959 .
Members
- Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876), natural scientist, professor in Königsberg and St. Petersburg
- Johannes Beermann (1878–1958), Bishop of Danzig and West Prussia
- Alexander Baron Engelhardt (1885–1960), doctor, head of the Behring Archive in Marburg, 1951–1953 first chairman of the Baltic Philistine Association
- Axel von Gernet (1865–1920), historian
- Johannes Haller (1865–1947), historian in Tübingen
- Werner Hasselblatt (1890–1958), lawyer and politician in Estonia
- Leopold Hörschelmann (1836–1908), theologian, general superintendent for the Estonian governorate
- Carl Hunnius (1873–1964), theologian and educator, until 1944 director of the Baltenschule Misdroy and since 1946 in Wyk auf Föhr
- Friedrich Kentmann (1878–1953), pastor, 1936–1945 state superintendent in Güstrow
- Wilhelm Kentmann (1861–1938), pastor and general superintendent
- Woldemar Friedrich Kentmann (1833–1901), Provost
- Philipp Jakob Karell (1806–1886), personal physician to Alexander II (Russia)
- Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803–1882), author of the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg
- Walter von Lingen , theologian, pastor in Hermsdorf (East Prussia) (1934–1945)
- Leo Meyer (1830-1910). Honorary member, Germanist
- Eduard Nikolai von Middendorff (1849–1903), landowner and politician
- Heinz von zur Mühlen (1914–2005), historian
- Konrad von zur Mühlen (1868–1945), pastor and writer
- Arvid von Nottbeck (1903–1981), lawyer and politician
- Berend von Nottbeck (1913–1990), journalist and founder of the Wissenschaft und Politik publishing house
- Georg von Rehekampff (1869–1941), lawyer and local politician
- Wolfgang Schlueter (1848–1919), honorary member, Germanist
- Hermann Adolf Alexander Schmidt (1831–1894), professor of physiology, rector of the University of Dorpat.
- Eduard von Ungern-Sternberg (1836–1904), writer, MdR
- Peter Hermann Stillmark (1860–1923), biochemist (discoverer of ricin)
- Jakob von Uexküll (1864–1944), biologist and philosopher
- Eduard von Ungern-Sternberg (1836–1904), writer
- Andreas von Weiß (1910–1994), cultural scientist, Marxism critic
- Hellmuth Weiss (1900–1992), Estonian minority politician and librarian, since 1959 director of the Herder Institute in Marburg
- Alexander von Weiss (1840–1921), German-Baltic engineer, landowner and politician
- Constantin von Weiß (1877–1959), honorary member, Imperial Russian and Estonian colonel, 1918–1920 commander of the Baltic regiment
literature
- Album Estonorum
- first edition 1888 by Axel von Gernet
- Digitized version of the 3rd edition, 1910
- 4th edition, published by the Philistine Union of Estonia, Tallinn 1939.
- Addendum to the album Estonorum from 1939, ed. on behalf of the Philistine Association of Estonia by Gert Mechmershausen. 1961.
- Kurt U. Bertrams (Ed.): Student in Dorpat . Hilden 2004, WJK-Verlag, Volume I, ISBN 3-933892-67-8 , Volume II, ISBN 3-933892-68-6 .
- Herbert von Blanckenhagen : On the Edge of World History »Memories from Old Livonia 1913–1923« . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1966.
- Erich Donnert : The University of Dorpat-Jur'ev 1802-1918: a contribution to the history of higher education in the Baltic provinces of the Russian Empire : Frankfurt am Main 2007. ISBN 978-3-631-56477-6 .
- Axel von Gernet: History of Estonia , Dorpat 1893.
- Otto von Grünewaldt , Baltisches Burschenleben - memories of the student days in Dorpat , WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2003 ISBN 3-933892-60-0 .
- Dietrich G. Kraus: Baltic Burschentum in Dorpat and Riga , in: Yearbook of Baltic Germanism, Volume XLV (1998).
- E. Kuehn: Jewish students - active in a German-Baltic corporation , Zirkel and Zionsstern, Vol. V, 1996.
- Tiina Metso: German Influence on Estonian and Baltic German Corps Traditions in Tartu . In: Acta Historica Tallinnensia (8/2004), pp. 20-36, Tallinn 2004.
- Johannes von Raison: Memories of the Dorpater boy life . In: Einst und Jetzt, Jahrbuch des Verein für Corpsstudentische Geschichtsforschung , Vol. 33 (1988), pp. 67-91.
- Eduard von Ungern-Sternberg: Memories of an old Estonian , Hilden: WJK-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-933892-83-X .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 199.
- ^ W. Ruhnke: Some about Dorpat and Dorpater student life around 1900 . Einst und Jetzt, Volume 31 (1986), pp. 217-221
- ↑ "Virtue is the ornament of the Estonians!"
- ↑ corp! Rotalia