Alemannia Marburg fraternity

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coat of arms
Coat of arms of the Alemannia Marburg fraternity
Basic data
Founding: March 2, 1874 in Marburg
Association: (no umbrella association)
Abbreviation: Al!
Color: violet-silver-red (violet-silver-violet)
Motto: Honor, freedom, fatherland
Total members: > 200
Homepage: www.alemannia-marburg.de

The Alemannia Marburg fraternity is a colored , facultative student union at the Philipps University of Marburg .

history

founding

The Marburg fraternity Alemannia was founded on March 2nd, 1874. Crucial to start for the decision, another fraternity on Marburg university town, was the need for a fixed Paukverhältnis by the fraternity Arminia . Alemannia held a prestigious position in the city and student body from the start and welcomed 18 new members in the first semester. In this way she was able to play a decisive role in the founding of the Eisenach Deputy Convent .

cartel

On January 10, 1879, the Alemannia fraternity merged with the Franconia fraternity , after Alemanne Hansberg had co-founded Franconia in 1877. The violet-green cartel that emerged is today the oldest unchanged and uninterrupted cartel of German fraternities, alongside the South German cartel . The cartel is a life cartel for both groups.

Old rule

In 1884 a permanent elders committee was set up, and in 1888 a firmly organized association of the elders of Alemannia was brought into being.

The Alemannic House
Alemannic House

After a plot of land on Hainweg was acquired in 1896, the house built according to plans by the architect Cuno ( Germania Berlin and honorary member Alemanniae) was inaugurated in the summer semester of 1899 . In 1912 an extensive extension was completed.

First World War

43 active people and a total of 305 federal brothers took part in the First World War . Many were no longer conscripted. Federal life could only be maintained with great difficulty during the war. After the war, many took part, as part of a student corps set up in Marburg, in the wars of liberation in Upper Silesia, the Kapp Putsch and in the fight against workers' uprisings in Thuringia. Among other things, they were involved in the murder of 15 unarmed workers from Thal , which was also known as the Mechterstädt murders .

National Socialism and World War II

With the founding of the National Socialist German Student Union under Baldur von Schirach in the winter semester 1929/30, however, the general political dispute found its way into the fraternities and the Alemannia. In 1933 the dispute in the federal government culminated in a court of honor after some National Socialist federal brothers burned Stahlmann's picture in the convent room in the fireplace because they disagreed with the direction of the university's political commitment. The result was the exclusion of the National Socialist parliamentary group from the federal government. In the mid-1930s, the umbrella association split into the German Burschenschaft and the Old Burschenschaft , mainly because the white fraternities, whose principle it was always as a group to have no party-political mandate, no longer wanted to endure the Nazi foreign infiltration in the DB . The Alemannia then, together with their cartel association, left the German fraternity in 1934 , which introduced the undemocratic leader principle and demanded it from its member associations. The connection to the opposing old fraternity followed. In 1936, like any other fraternity, the Alemannia was transformed into a comradeship . This was the only way to continue the tradition of the corporate covenant through the old rulers and some new friars.

Between the end of the war and a new establishment

The last active participants from the war semesters met secretly in Marburg after the war in 1945/46 and agreed to revive the Alemannia. Since corporations in the traditional sense were forbidden, an attempt was made to establish a connection with the groups abroad through the General Student Committee (AStA) . A follow-up association for Alemannia was set up as the “Switzerland Abroad”. Alemannia was the first corporation in Marburg to wear color in public again. The occasion was the murder of Alemanni Greiffenhagen, who was stabbed to death by a US soldier on February 6, 1950 when he wanted to help a woman who was being harassed by the soldier. At the funeral service in Weilburg, the federal brothers appeared despite the rector and the military in color, which led to house searches. In addition, those charged should be expelled from the university for disciplinary purposes. There was a risk that Alemannia would be forcibly dissolved. In the following years it happened that the Alemanni were ambushed by other students, took off their hats, which were still forbidden in public, and then reported them to the rector. At the 1951 Brunnenfest, however, all Marburg connections were again demonstratively colored.

Cap from the Alemannia Marburg fraternity

Start-up

In the winter semester of 1949/50, the German Burschenschaft was re-established in Marburg, with the Alemannia heavily involved. From this point on they called themselves again "Marburger Burschenschaft Alemannia". From the winter semester 1950/51 on, cramming took place again in Marburg. In the summer semester, despite the prohibition, a game was played again in Dammühle. Initially, only the old Königsberg fraternities Teutonia and the Giessen fraternities were crammed, since the other Marburg connections did not dare to strike again. In the summer semester of 1952 there was a denunciation of the drum business by members of the SDS, which led to the arrest of a German with subsequent disciplinary proceedings and a general student assembly. Fencing in Marburg was then stopped until the determination of the censorship (BGHSt 4, 24, 32) was exempt from punishment in 1953.

Internal directional discussion

The second half of the 1960s was a time of intensive structural discussions and reflection on the values ​​of the corporate and fraternity not only for the association, but also for Alemannia. When, in the 1971 summer semester, after a series of crises of splitting , the German Burschenschaft was able to bring itself to the discretion of the individual member associations, the Alemannia, which had previously required three valid compulsory games from its members, decided from the 1971 winter semester / 72 to make fencing optional for the members. Since one of the successor groups of the White Circle , the Ring Weißer Burschenschaften, continued to declare the scale to be binding, the Alemannia withdrew from this subgroup of the German Burschenschaft after the Kartellburschenschaft had been excluded several semesters before because of the abandonment of fencing. At this time the membership increased again and the Alemannia gave itself a constitution for the first time since its foundation, which should encompass the active federation and the association Alter Marburger Alemannen. The Convent of Aktivitas thus transferred a number of competencies to the newly created body, the Federal Assembly, whose competence is regulated in the constitution. In the 1975/76 winter semester, at the instigation of Alemannia, the "Marburger Ring" was founded on the Alemannic House, and Alemannia immediately took over its chairmanship. In the 80s and 90s there was an increasing dominance of the Austrian fraternities within the DB , which led to a significant strengthening of the national and right-wing fraternities. In 1991, when Alemannia was last chaired, it became clear that changing the umbrella organization in a moderate direction from within had become impossible. The desire of Aktivitas to leave the DB grew as a result. After several years of discussion with the old owners, it was possible to decide to leave the DB at a joint cartel symposium with Franconia Freiburg on December 13, 1997 . At the 1999 Cartel Symposium, the Violet-Green Cartel decided to join the New German Burschenschaft . This step was taken on June 24, 2000 at the Boys' Day in Hanover. Due to the bad image of the fraternities and general student associations , especially in the press and the student body of the Philipps-Universität Marburg , the Alemannia, but also many other fraternities, especially in the NeueDB , faced many problems and prejudices. To counteract these prejudices in public, the Alemannia decided together with the fellow fraternity Arminia Marburg , the Marburger Liberal Fraternities (short: MLB) to start. This is intended to enable public relations work, university political commitment and social acceptance again. Alemannia resigned from the umbrella association Neue Deutsche Burschenschaft in the summer semester 2017 and has been free of umbrella associations since then.

Boy band

University political commitment

At the end of the 1920s, Alemanne Stahlmann held the office of chairman of the student body, carried by the weapon ring , alongside which there were only two other political university groups, namely a group of other corporates and a group of non-corporation students. In the winter semester of 1961/62, numerous Alemanni ran for the election of the AStA chairman, Jörg Schmidt, who later resigned, was the managing director, Kamphausen was a financial advisor, Sparberg was a representative of the Marburger Blätter. Some of the essential services of the AStA at that time were: Co-organizing the cafeteria building, planning the milk bar, the beer pool and the other common rooms; Adoption of the new statutes and introduction of the student parliament in order to achieve a real separation of powers and representation of the interests of the students; Extension of the interest-free loan that the AStA granted to surety students. In the second legislative period, Brüggemann was promoted to chairman of the Hessen State Association of the "Association of German Student Associations" (VDS) . In the 2011 summer semester, members of Alemannia played a leading role in founding the University Group Corporated Students (HKS), which won a seat in the student parliament elections. Also in the 2014 elections, the HKS received another mandate under the leadership of Alemannia.

Fuxenband

Association work

In the fraternity field, Alemannia achieved a great deal in the first decades of its existence. It is one of the founders of the EDC and the ADC , preceded the German fraternity significantly improved the unity of the German student. In the following years, Alemannia chaired the respective umbrella organization EDC , ADC or DB : 1874, 1875, 1896, 1914, 1927, 1987, 1990.

In 1912 Alemannia was involved in the establishment of the White Circle within the DB with the participation of the Violet-Green Cartel .

In 1950 the DB was re-established in Marburg. Negotiations took place on this and a. on the Alemannenhaus.

In 2010, the Alemannia fraternity chaired the New German Fraternity for the first time , which it took over again in 2013.

Known members

Membership directory :

  • Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. pp. 1070-1071.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
  2. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 93.
  3. ^ Siegfried Weichlein: Students and Politics in Marburg. The political culture of a university town 1918 - 1920, in: Mechterstädt - 25.3.1920. Scandal and crisis in the early phase of the Weimar Republic, Peter Krüger, Anne C. Nagel (eds.), Lit Verlag, 1997, p. 38 f.
  4. ^ Hans Peter Bleuel, Ernst Klinnert, German Students on the Way to the Third Reich. Ideologies - programs - actions. 1918–1935, Gütersloh 1967, pp. 74f.

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 295-297.

Web links

Commons : Burschenschaft Alemannia Marburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files