Baltic Philistine Association

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The Baltic Philistine Association (B! Ph! V!) Was founded in 1951 as a corporation association by members of the Baltic corporations from Tartu (Dorpat) and Riga. When it was founded, the association still had around 1,600 members. The B! Ph! V! Today the Philistines of the Baltic corporations in Germany belong to the group, who maintain contact with the active German-Baltic student associations and the corporations in Estonia, Latvia and Poland.

Members

The Philistines (already working members) of the following student associations belong to the Baltic Philistine Association:

history

Most corporations were dissolved around 1939, when the Baltic Germans had to leave the states of Estonia and Latvia according to the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty . Few corporations, such as the Corps Concordia Rigensis founded in 1869, survived the years of war without suspension.

The Baltic Philistine Association was founded on September 21, 1951 in Lüneburg. Goal of the B! Ph! V! It was to keep alive, to promote and support the aims, traditions and ideas of the Baltic boyhood, also because it differed in many ways from the student union ideas of the " Reichsdeutsche ": On the one hand, the activity in the Baltic States was rather a kind of youth movement, determined by Romanticism and not nearly as "militarily" organized as that of the German corps of the 19th century. On the other hand, the corporations in the Baltic States had a strong social unifying function; shaped by an idea of ​​equality, which broke through the society of the Russian Baltic provinces of Livonia , Estonia and Courland, which until the 1920s was completely classed .

In the first years of the B! Ph! V! the old Philistines supported the young convents of the German-Baltic corporations in establishing them and offered a platform for Baltic, Estonian and Latvian connections in exile .

The declaration of independence of Estonia (1990) and the restoration of Latvia's independence (1991) brought new dynamism and new tasks to the association, which was therefore reconstituted in Darmstadt in 1998 .

Chairperson

  • 1951–1953: Alexander Baron Engelhardt , Estonia
  • 1953–1954: Ernst Baron Mirbach, Curonia
  • 1958–1959: Wilibald Heldt , Fraternitas Academica
  • 1959–1962: Woldemar Helb, Rubonia
  • 1962–1964: Ernst von Mühlendahl, Estonia
  • 1964–1986: Gert Klein, Concordia Rigensis
  • 1986–1990: Eberhard von Goldacker, Curonia Goettingensis
  • 1991–1995: Hans-Dieter Handrack , Curonia Goettingensis
  • 1996–1997: Jürgen Arndt, Concordia Rigensis
  • 1998-2001: Gero Kraus, Curonia Goettingensis
  • 2002–2005: Johann-Wilhelm von Krause, Fraternitas Dorpatensis
  • 2006–2008: Dieter Kraus, Curonia Goettingensis
  • 2008–2012: Rainer Gerthner, Fraternitas Dorpatensis
  • 2014–2018: Ulrich Leukefeld, Concordia Rigensis
  • since 2018: Klaus Bockslaff, Curonia Goettingensis

present

Today the B! Ph! V! Its primary task is to give impulses for international understanding and friendship, especially between young students from Estonia , Latvia , Poland and Germany .

With Estonian and Latvian corporations, the B! Ph! V! the entire Baltic Völkerkommerse, a festival lasting several days with a ball, ceremony and parade. In a Baltic tradition of the 19th century, this Kommers was celebrated for the first time on April 10, 1959 in the rooms of the Corps Hercynia Munich , then every year since 1964 in Heidelberg . Up to 300 Estonian, Latvian and Baltic exiles from around the world took part. With the revolutions of 1989 in Estonia and Latvia, student associations emerged again, which also carry the idea of ​​unifying people,

The entire Baltic people commissions have been celebrated every three years in Hamburg , Göttingen and Munich since 1994 and in the years in between in Tartu (Dorpat), Tallinn (Reval) and Riga. In the meantime, four Polish corporations with Baltic roots have joined them. Since then there has been a four-year cycle, which also includes Warsaw and Gdańsk (Danzig). In 2020 the Völkerkommers will take place in Heidelberg again. At the Völkerkommersen, personal and institutional contacts between academics are to be established. The student exchange and the award of scholarships can be initiated and assistance in student matters of all kinds can be provided for the Baltic students.

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