Brunsviga fraternity

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The Brunsviga fraternity is a color-bearing , facultative student union at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and a member of the New German Burschenschaft corporation . With 228 old men (as of 2009) it is one of the largest and oldest fraternities in Göttingen .

Basic data
coat of arms
coat of arms
founding July 2, 1848 in Göttingen
University Georg-August-University Goettingen
cartel Red bandage
Association New German fraternity
Motto Honor freedom fatherland!
tape
Circle Circle of fraternity Brunsviga.JPG
address Schildweg 40
37085 Göttingen
website http://www.brunsviga.net/

Color

Brunsviga has the colors "black-crimson-gold" with golden percussion. Old men also wear the old Brunswick colors "blue-white-gold" with silver percussion. The foxes at Brunsviga do not wear a special fox ribbon, but the same ribbon as the boys. The motto is " honor, freedom, fatherland " and " per aspera ad astra " (through the rough to the stars! ").

Brunsvigen House

The seat of Brunsviga is established in July 1913 Brunsvigenhaus at the city park.

Garden and house of the Brunsviga fraternity
Entrance hall of the Brunsvigen House

history

The Brunsviga Göttingen fraternity was founded on July 2, 1848, initially as a liberal "progress association" by students at the Göttingen University of Georgia Augusta . The progression was in those Napoleonic times a flow, which sought an adjustment to civilian life. They therefore rejected the duel- nonsense as well as special student positions that z. B. expressed through academic jurisdiction . The Progress connections pursued clear, freedom-oriented reform goals such as freedom of teaching and learning, the expansion of teaching subjects and the participation of students in the election of academic authorities.

Since most of the founding members came from Braunschweig , the name "Brunsviga" was chosen. The Brunsviga has been a fraternity since January 1st, 1862. Until 1996 she belonged to the Association of German Burschenschaft . In the years after the First World War until the National Socialists came to power on January 30, 1933, the Brunsviga was very popular with the Göttingen students and consequently had a large number of active members.

After 1933, the fraternity's situation worsened when the representatives of the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB), who were keen to bring them into line, pushed the fraternities out of the student representations, the university bodies and committees. The attempt to harmonize and the strict implementation of the "Führer principle" but hit hard with the understanding of democracy in the individual connections. Through various measures, in particular through the two-year conscription introduced by law in 1935 and through the preceding compulsory labor service, their livelihoods (offspring) were withdrawn from them. The Aktivitas or young fraternity of the Brunsviga was initially postponed. H. the official life of the association was set and on March 16, 1936 the association was dissolved. The old gentlemen's association of the Brunsviga tried to rebuild a business similar to the previous corporate existence on their house in Schildweg. Since the National Socialists allowed so-called student “comradeships” from 1936 , the old Brunsvigen rulers established contact with the comradeship “Hanstein”. In fact, the "Hansteiner" (later renamed "Kameradschaft Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig") was accommodated in Schildweg. An attempt was now made to bring the forms of life prescribed by the NSDStB into agreement with the basic democratic understanding of the Brunsviga, which was undesirable by the National Socialists. Many members of the old rulers could not go this way and, like those affected by the Aryan regulations, left the Brunsviga.

After 1945

In the post-war years, the "Göttinger Kreis" was founded on Georgia-Augusta in 1947/48, a group of young students who tried to revive the tradition of the Brunsviga fraternity. As early as 1950, its members were accepted into the community of the Brunsviga fraternity, which had been formed again through the initiative of old men from the pre-war Brunsviga. Federal life at this time took place in Göttingen inns because the Brunsvigen House was not accessible to its owners, as it had been confiscated by the British occupying forces for their own purposes. The re-entry took place on May 8, 1954. The Brunsviga fraternity has two fraternities in its ranks:

  • 1956 the forest fraternity Saxonia from Hannoversch-Münden and
  • 1986 the Wroclaw fraternity Saxonia zu Göttingen.

In the period of reconstruction after the Second World War , we began to come to terms with the recent past, taking into account the lines of tradition from 1848 and before. The Brunsviga sees the legacy of this epoch as the fact that the traditional path of freedom, equality, tolerance and democracy must never be deviated from. Neglecting the enlightening, humanistically shaped worldview inevitably leads to catastrophe - according to recent experiences. Following this insight, the Brunsviga always stuck to the unity of the nation during the Cold War, for example , and stuck to its critical view of the regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Close contact was maintained with the members (federal brothers) living in the GDR.

Because of fundamental differences of opinion, the Brunsviga left the German fraternity on June 30, 1995. On January 13, 1996, 8 fraternities founded the “New German Burschenschaft” (New DB) under the decisive leadership of the Brunsviga. Brunsviga became its first chairman. This corporation federation, the Neue DB, currently still includes eight liberal-minded fraternities, all of which are resolutely against and delimit politically extreme tendencies in confederations within the German fraternity.

Active life

The active life of the student members of the Brunsviga remains committed to the Arminist principle , which aims to ensure that every member is empowered to participate in political and social engagement in their personal opinion and attitude. The Brunsviga claims that its members behave fairly and honorably in private and public life. Brunsviga cultivates the principle of the alliance of life, i. In other words, the older generations support the active students like in a large family. The members wear the colors black-red-gold, the colors of the democracy movement of 1848; the old men also wear the colors blue-white-gold, under which the Brunsviga was founded. The Brunsviga also maintains close contacts with fraternities in the “Red Association” (after the color of the hats, which are mostly red), an arminist friendship association consisting of 6 fraternities.

aims

In the beginning, the mainspring of fraternities was to overcome small states in Germany. Today it is about deepening cooperation in Europe on supranational tasks that are increasing in the context of globalization, such as integration, education in an international context, nature conservation, climate protection and securing global peace.

Known members

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 163-165.
  • Heinrich Bünsow: History and directory of the members of the Brunsviga fraternity in Göttingen 1848–1933 , Göttingen 1933.
  • Werner Grube: History and directory of the members of the Brunsviga fraternity in Göttingen 1933 - 1958 , Stade 1958.
  • Hans-Joachim Hermes: History and directory of the members of the Brunsviga fraternity in Göttingen, 1958 - 1984 , Göttingen 1984.
  • Günther Stucken: Brunsviga Lebensbilder - Festschrift for the 150th Foundation Festival of the Fraternity of Brunsviga , Aachen 1998.
  • Günther Stucken: Göttingen Brunsvigen since 1848 - Festschrift for the 160th Foundation Festival of the Fraternity of Brunsviga , Aachen 2008.
  • Wolfgang Neugebauer (+), Bernhard Grün : Göttingen silhouettes. The student portrait collection Georg Haacke, Burschenschaft Brunsviga Göttingen (Small writings of the GDS, 20). Essen 2019, 134 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 50.

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