Embassy memorial stone
The embassy memorial stone of the associations of German students is a memorial and is located in the Kyffhäuser Mountains near Bad Frankenhausen / Kyffhäuser in ( Thuringia ). It is located at the entrance to the Kyffhäuser Monument (also Barbarossadenkmal or Kaiser Wilhelm National Monument ).
The solution of the social question was one of the most important goals of the Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations (VVDSt) when it was founded on August 8, 1881. Therefore, on November 17, 1881, the associations enthusiastically received the “ social message ” of Kaiser Wilhelm I , whose demand for welfare for the German workers, announced before the Reichstag , laid the foundation for German social policy . The VDSter devoted a large part of their practical work (conducting worker training courses and participating in nursing courses) and theoretical work (internal and public lectures, visits to factories) to the social question. At the end of the 1880s, the VDStern succeeded in drawing attention to this problem within the student body. An outward sign of this commitment was the erection of the so-called “embassy memorial stone”. This showed part of the text of the imperial message on a bronze plaque, which was surrounded by a Romanesque arch. With the embassy memorial stone, the Kyffhäuser Association inaugurated a memorial that was unique in its statement on August 8, 1896. The bronze plaque remained at its destination until June 1960, when it was dismantled and destroyed on behalf of the district council. Instead of the bronze plaque, an overview plan of the hiking trails on the Kyffhäuser was attached to the Romanesque arch of the monument.
After an application by the VDSt in Leoben to renew the embassy memorial stone as a central symbol of the association had been approved by a large majority at the association conference of the VVDSt in 1992, a new sandstone slab was unveiled on the embassy memorial stone at the association conference on June 5, 1993. Today's text on the embassy memorial stone reads:
We consider it our imperial duty to re-recommend to
the Reichstag the positive promotion of the welfare of
the workers and to give the
fatherland new and lasting guarantees of its
inner peace and the needy greater
security and productivity of the assistance
to which they are entitled leave.
Finding the right
ways and means for this care is a difficult, but also
one of the highest tasks of any community
which is based on the moral foundations of a
Christian popular life.
Closer connection to the real forces of
this popular life will, as we hope,
make possible the solution of tasks to
which state authority alone
would not be equal to the same extent .
Wilhelm
literature
- Diethelm Keil and Sebo Koolman (eds.) On behalf of the Association of German Students' Associations: The embassy memorial stone in Kyffhäuser. A commemorative publication on the occasion of the re-inauguration in 1993. Göttingen 1996
- Marc Zirlewagen: 110 years of the embassy memorial stone of the associations of German students. In the S. (Ed.): 1881–2006 - 125 Years of Associations of German Students, Vol. 1: A historical review , Pressburg 2006, ISBN 3-929953-06-4 , pp. 189–190
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Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 49 ″ N , 11 ° 6 ′ 28 ″ E