Federal student ring

The Deutsche Bundesstudentenring (DBStR) was a loose working group of student associations founded in 1952 in what was then the Federal Republic of Germany to represent common interests across all types of university, especially in the social field. The following associations were founding members:

• Association of German Student Associations (VDS), which, as the association with the largest number of members and financially, was also the managing director,
• Student Association of German Engineering Schools eV (SVI)
• Federal representation of students at universities of teacher education (BSPH) and
• Deutscher Kunststudentenverband (DKV, later Werkkunststudentenverband, WKSV as a representative of the arts and crafts schools ).

Later came the

• Working group of students at vocational universities (ASBH, since 1953),
• Student Association of German Social Schools (SVS, since 1963), and the
• Association of Students at Higher Business Schools (VSW)

added.

The Bundesstudentenring maintained a joint foreign office for arranging student trips abroad (later: German Student Travel Service , DSR) as well as a social welfare office for the integration of refugee students from the GDR and Eastern Europe, from which today's Otto Benecke Foundation (OBS) emerged. Theo Tupetz was the managing director of the social welfare office and the OBS until 1969 , who also played a key role in the development and implementation of student funding based on the Honnef model (from 1957, for the scientific universities) and the Rhöndorf model (from 1958, for the technical schools) .

In the course of the integration of most of the teacher training colleges into the universities in the 1960s and the upgrading of the technical colleges to technical colleges , the member associations gradually became part of the VDS. The Federal Student Association therefore lost its former importance and stopped working in the mid-1970s.

literature

• Theo Tupetz : German Federal Student Association . in: Deutscher Hochschulführer 1964/65, p. 394 ff.