Alemannia Leipzig fraternity

Alemannia fraternity
Basic data
University location:	Leipzig / Bamberg
University / s:	Leipzig universities / ; University of Bamberg
Founding:	November 30, 1860
Place of foundation:	Leipzig
Foundation date:	February 3, 1861
Corporation association :	currently free of association, previously: ; Association of German Boys (1920–1957) ; Deutscher Burschen-Ring (1957–1960) ; German Scientific Association (1964–1977) ; Schwarzburgbund; (Bamberg: 1990–2013)
Cartel / District / AG:	Cartell Christian Fraternities (CCB)
Color status :	colored
Colours:	Black red Gold
Type of Confederation:	Men's association
Religion / Denomination:	Christian
Position to the scale :	not striking
Motto:	God, freedom, fatherland!
Website:	www.alemannia-bamberg.de ; www.alemannia-leipzig.de

E. Wagner in Color of Alemannia, 1863

The Leipzig fraternity Alemannia zu Bamberg and the fraternity Alemannia Leipzig are two independent, color-bearing student associations with a Christian fraternity orientation at the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg as well as at the University of Leipzig and the Leipzig universities . Both connections have their origin in the Alemannia fraternity founded in Leipzig in 1861. Due to the political and historical development in Central Germany , the tradition of the Alemannia fraternity was continued after 1945, first at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen and later at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. It was not until 2009 that the Alemannia fraternity, which still exists in Bamberg, was re-established in Leipzig. Since then, there have been two independent fraternities at the universities of Bamberg and Leipzig based on the same tradition and linked by a fraternal relationship.

Special historical role

Shortly after it was founded in Leipzig on February 3, 1861, Alemannia was the first association in the Kingdom of Saxony to receive official approval from the Ministry of Culture to wear the colors black, red and gold , which had been banned since the Karlsbad resolutions of 1819, and to use the term fraternity.

In contrast to many other fraternities, the Alemannia fraternity has rejected duel and mensur since it was founded due to its Christian principle and with reference to original fraternity goals . What is also practiced today in not a few fraternities, meant that at the time the Alemannia was founded, it represented a highly unpopular position. This was also the reason for the break with the two other Leipzig fraternities that existed at the time, with which a good relationship had initially existed. The break came when Alemannia unanimously passed the resolution on July 25, 1861, to reject the duel as contrary to the principle of Christian-German convictions, while the other two fraternities professed to be unconditionally satisfied . For this reason, the Alemannia sought contact with other, similarly-minded fraternities very early on and in 1862 closed a cartel with the fraternity Germania in Göttingen. Soon afterwards, she also came into closer contact with the fraternity Germania zu Bonn, which was also aligned in the same direction (today the Rheno-Germania fraternity in Bonn). Together these fraternities laid the foundation for the development of the so-called Christian fraternity , whose representatives emphasize the Christian orientation and, in contrast to the beating fraternities, reject duel and mensur.

After it was not possible in the 1860s and thereafter to bring the Christian fraternities together in a permanent association, Alemannia made another attempt in the years before the First World War. However, the outbreak of war initially prevented the establishment, so that it only succeeded in 1920. In that year, the Alemannia Leipzig fraternity, together with the Adelphia Gießen fraternity and the Marcomannia Academic and Scientific Association in Frankfurt am Main, founded the Association of German Boys (VDB), which they owned until the association was forced to dissolve in 1935 and again after it was re-established in In 1950. However, the association disbanded for good just one year after Alemannia was re-established in 1957.

Goals and principles

Alemannia unites its members in a friendship association for life. This bond of life is specially shaped by the four principles of Alemannia:

Christian-German sentiment , to be striven for in purification and consolidation of religious convictions and in undivided love for the fatherland.
Morality , d. H. Maintaining purity of character in word and deed as the basis and goal of the bond of friendship.
Scientific character , achieved in fulfillment of the academic profession.

The wording of these three principles has not changed since 1861. A fourth principle was added after the experience of World War II:

Tolerance , d. H. respect for those of different faiths and those who think differently is assumed.

The fraternity strives for the free intellectual development of its members to become responsible citizens . For this purpose, a program is organized by the active participants every semester , in which special emphasis is placed on dealing with current topics from politics, science and culture. The Alemannia fraternity does not represent any particular dogmatic or denominational standpoint and does not pursue any party political goals. However, it expects its members to stand up for its principles as well as for freedom and democracy at all times.

Colors and badges

The colors of the Alemannia fraternity are black, red and gold , read from above in Bamberg and from below in Leipzig. As is customary with color-bearing associations, members wear a chest band in the colors of the association. For historical reasons, however, the Alemanni ribbon shows a different arrangement of the connecting colors, namely black-red on gold, and thus differs from classic three-colored connecting ribbons. The band is 27 mm wide in Bamberg and 32 mm in Leipzig. The latter corresponds to the so-called Leipzig tape measure. As a fraternity, the Alemannia knows no fundamental difference between foxes and boys and therefore no fuxen band. Foxes and boys wear the same ribbon. In addition to the ribbon, the Alemanni wear a crimson cloth hat with black, red and gold stripes. Other important badges are compasses and coats of arms (see images above right).

history

Founded in Leipzig in 1861

On February 3, 1861, the ten founders (= founding members) sign the statutes of Alemannia. With this, the Alemannia is officially constituted as an association, having existed as a scientific association since November 1860. In 1862, on the occasion of the first foundation festival, a cartel was concluded with the Germania fraternity in Göttingen. Although the cartel was dissolved again in 1866, it forms the basis for the friendship relationship between Alemannia and Germania that still exists today. After just seven years - at the end of the winter semester of 1867/68 - Alemannia had to adjourn due to a lack of new members.

Re-establishment in Leipzig in 1898

Confuxia in WS 1903/04

Only thirty years later, in 1898, the Göttingen German Heinrich Asmus, who therefore moved to the University of Leipzig, succeeded in re-establishing Alemannia. The still living members of the old Alemannia join the re-establishment with a few exceptions.

In 1904, the academic senate of the University of Leipzig passed the statutes of the General Student Committee (AStA), in whose founding the Alemanne Gustav Melzer played a leading role.

On October 15, 1910, with the support of Alemannia and adopting its principles, the Cheruskia fraternity was founded in Halle. The founding spokesman is a member of Alemannia who is studying in Halle. The Cheruskia tradition has been continued by the Mainfranken Würzburg fraternity since 1921.

During and between the world wars

During the First World War (1914 to 1918) all active members, i.e. H. student members of the Alemannia War Service fraternity. The fraternity must therefore adjourn. After the end of the war, a new Aktivitas was set up in early 1919.

In 1926, members of the Alemannia operating at the University of Leipzig founded an association with the same principles at the Leipzig Graduate School : the Tuisconia fraternity. Nine years later, in February 1935, the Leipzig Tuisconia had to decide under external pressure to transfer it to the Alemannia. In December of the same year, the Alemannia had to dissolve itself as part of the early 75th foundation festival, as its plans to establish an obligatory living companion were rejected due to insufficient membership compared to many other Leipzig connections.

Re-establishment in 1956 in Erlangen

Since even after the end of the reign of terror of the National Socialists and the end of the Second World War, student associations in the Soviet occupation zone and then in the German Democratic Republic remain banned, a new re-establishment of the Alemannia in Leipzig is excluded. That is why the old men in West Germany are preparing a re-establishment at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen , which succeeds in 1956.

The Alemannia fraternity is immediately accepted back into the Association of German Boys (VDB), which was re-established in 1950 . After the disintegration of the VDB, Alemannia took part in the founding of the Deutscher Burschen-Ring in 1957 , but resigned in 1960 because of disputes over the admission of foreigners. After a long period of orientation, the Alemannia fraternity joined the German Science Association (DWV) in 1964 . Despite some concerns that this association misses the fraternity element, the majority of the members are convinced that the Alemannia with its scientific principle will develop positively in the DWV. As a result of the student unrest of 1968 , Alemannia had to adjourn in 1968 and after a short-lived re-establishment in 1976 due to a lack of active members. At the end of 1977 the fraternity left the DWV.

Re-establishment in 1990 in Bamberg / membership in the Schwarzburgbund

In 1983, after seven years of no active operation, the decision was made to try a re-establishment at the young Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg and the preparations for it began. With the support of the Schwarzburgbund (SB), the company was re-established in Bamberg in 1990 and joined the SB at the same time.

Together with the fraternities Ostmark-Breslau zu Regensburg, Kurmark-Brandenburg, Bayreuth (treaty not ratified by the Kurmark) and Teutonia Nuremberg, Alemannia founded the Convent Bavarian fraternities (CBB) in 1995 as a joint within the SB to return to the original fraternity roots and strengthened care student traditions. In order to have an impact on the SB beyond the borders of Bavaria, the CBB was renamed Cartell Christian Fraternities (CCB) in 1999 . In 2000, Rheno-Germania Bonn was accepted as the first non-Bavarian fraternity.

Re-establishment in 2009 in Leipzig / continuation in Bamberg

In 2009 the re-establishment in Leipzig takes place through the merger of the members of the fraternity Akkadia zu Leipzig with members of the Leipzig fraternity Alemannia zu Bamberg to a new fraternity Alemannia zu Leipzig. The Akkadia fraternity ceased its active operations on that day. The fraternity of Alemannia zu Bamberg will be continued and is linked to the fraternity of Alemannia in Leipzig through a fraternal relationship. The Alemannia fraternity is one of the last student associations from the area of the former GDR, which has returned to the place where it was founded after reunification .

Alemannia Leipzig was admitted to the Schwarzburgbund for two years as a provisional member in 2010 . However, the application for full membership was rejected at the 2012 Annual General Meeting. The fraternity Alemannia Leipzig sees itself as an association-free student union that joined the Cartell Christian Fraternities (CCB) in the Schwarzburgbund in October 2012. Its sister association, the Leipzig fraternity Alemannia zu Bamberg, decided to leave the Schwarzburgbund on December 31, 2013 at their foundation festival in 2013.

Known members

Gerhard Fink (1934–2013), classical philologist and specialist didactic specialist
Ernst August Gries (1879–1944), secondary school professor, director of the German secondary school in Windhoek (1921–1924), Africa researcher and student historian
Adalbert Hudak (1911–1986), member of the German Bundestag (honorary member)
Axel Bernd Kunze (* 1972), educational scientist and Catholic social ethicist
Ralph H. Major (1884-1970), Doctor of Medicine and Professor at the University of Kansas School of Medicine
Helmut-Eberhard Paulus (* 1951), administrative lawyer, art historian and preservationist, director of the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation
Paul Wilhelm Ritterbusch (1900–1945), full professor of constitutional, administrative and international law in Kiel, ministerial director, 1937–1945 rector of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, resigned in SS 1932 for political reasons
Gustav Hermann Siebeck (1842–1920), philosophy professor and rector of the University of Giessen

Sources and literature

Individual evidence

^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 90.
^ [1] Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 315 (Morgenblatt), June 23, 1861, p. 3.
↑ Georg Heer: History of the German Burschenschaft. Volume Two: The Demagogue Time - From the Karlsbad Decisions to the Frankfurt Wachensturm (1820–1833). Heidelberg 1927, p. 196.
↑ This refers to the Wartburg founded in 1859 (today Leipzig Burschenschaft Germania ) and the Arminia , Georg Heer founded in 1860 : History of the German Burschenschaft. Fourth volume: The fraternity during the preparation of the Second Reich, in the Second Reich and in the World War, from 1859 to 1919 . Heidelberg 1939, p. 10.
↑ Hans Waitz: History of the Wingolfsbund - communicated and presented from the sources. 2nd Edition. Darmstadt 1904, p. 81 ff.
↑ Marcus F. Bosse: Handbüchlein der Ostmark 2008. Philisterverein der B! Ostmark-Breslau i. SB zu Regensburg e. V .., Pentling 2008, p. 12 f.
^ Helge Kleifeld: Prof. Ernst August Gries, student historian and association archivist - education functionary and natural scientist in German South West Africa. In: Studentenkurier, magazine for student history, college and corporations. No. 3/2009, pp. 16-24.
↑ Major's Undertakings. May 29, 2018, accessed June 5, 2019 .

literature

Gunnar Auth, Axel Bernd Kunze (eds.): 150 years of the Leipzig Burschenschaft Alemannia, commemorative publication for the anniversary foundation festival 2011. Monsenstein and Vannerdat, Bamberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-95645-023-5 .

Gunnar Auth (Ed.): Alemannia be it Panier! Old Leipzig Alemanni remember their fraternity (1861–1935). BoD, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 3-8334-5068-1 .

Gunnar Auth: On the history of the VDB. In: Golücke et al. (Ed.): GDS archive for university and student history. Volume 8, SH-Verlag, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-89498-167-9 .

Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, p. 268.

Georg Heer : History of the German fraternity. Fourth volume: The fraternity during the preparation of the Second Reich, in the Second Reich and in the World War, from 1859 to 1919. Heidelberg 1939. (2nd, unchanged. Edition 1977, ISBN 3-533-01348-0 )

Günter W. Zwanzig, Ernst WM Sievers: History of the Schwarzburgbund. Volume I: From the foundation to 1933. akadpress, Schwarzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-17-2 .

Hans Waitz: History of the Wingolfsbund - communicated and presented from the sources. 2nd Edition. Darmstadt 1904.

Web links

[1] EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 90.

[2] [1] Süddeutsche Zeitung, No. 315 (Morgenblatt), June 23, 1861, p. 3.

[3] Georg Heer: History of the German Burschenschaft. Volume Two: The Demagogue Time - From the Karlsbad Decisions to the Frankfurt Wachensturm (1820–1833). Heidelberg 1927, p. 196.

[4] This refers to the Wartburg founded in 1859 (today Leipzig Burschenschaft Germania ) and the Arminia , Georg Heer founded in 1860 : History of the German Burschenschaft. Fourth volume: The fraternity during the preparation of the Second Reich, in the Second Reich and in the World War, from 1859 to 1919 . Heidelberg 1939, p. 10.

[5] Hans Waitz: History of the Wingolfsbund - communicated and presented from the sources. 2nd Edition. Darmstadt 1904, p. 81 ff.

[6] Marcus F. Bosse: Handbüchlein der Ostmark 2008. Philisterverein der B! Ostmark-Breslau i. SB zu Regensburg e. V .., Pentling 2008, p. 12 f.

[7] Helge Kleifeld: Prof. Ernst August Gries, student historian and association archivist - education functionary and natural scientist in German South West Africa. In: Studentenkurier, magazine for student history, college and corporations. No. 3/2009, pp. 16-24.

[8] Major's Undertakings. May 29, 2018, accessed June 5, 2019 .