Fraternity of Dresdensia-Rugia in Giessen

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coat of arms
Logo Burschenschaft Dresdensia-Rugia zu Gießen.png
Circle
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Basic data
University location: Giessen , Germany
Founding: May 5, 1951 in Frankfurt am Main
Association: German fraternity (DB)
Colours: violet-white-red and red-white-green
Address: Great Steinweg 21
Website: www.dresdensia-rugia.de/

The fraternity Dresdensia-Rugia zu Gießen is a striking student union at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen . It brings together students and former students from the universities of Frankfurt / Main and Gießen as well as from the University of Applied Sciences Gießen-Friedberg. As a merger fraternity, Dresdensia-Rugia continues the traditions of the Leipzig fraternity Dresdensia and the Greifswald fraternity Rugia . She is a member of the Association of German Burschenschaft (DB). Through her contacts with the NPD , she was in several reports on the protection of the constitution and is considered controversial within the DB.

Color

Dresdensia-Rugia has the colors purple - white - red and red-white- green (read from above) with silver percussion . The foxes wear a fox ribbon in red and white with silver percussion. The motto is honor, freedom, fatherland . The fraternity Dresdensia-Rugia is striking .

Inner structure

The Dresdensia-Rugia is a men's association and a life association of German academics, in which students after graduation become members of the old rulers of the fraternity, which supports the young students ( Aktivitas ) financially and ideally (reverse generation contract). It is also organized according to the Convention principle , i. H. Decisions are made in democratic votes and elections, with the majority deciding.

history

Dresdensia-Rugia zu Gießen is a merger of the two fraternities Dresdensia Leipzig and Rugia Greifswald.

History of Dresdensia Leipzig

Coat of arms Dresdensia Leipzig

On May 12, 1853, three pupils from the St. Afra convent school from Dresden and five former Kreuzschulen from Dresden, who frequented the innkeeper Schneemann in Leipzig, founded the Dresdensia association with the motto: friendship - happiness - unity. In the winter semester of 1853/54 the statutes of the Dresdensia were approved by the university.

In November 1856, the Dresdensia was converted into a Landsmannschaft with the colors purple-white-orange. A circle was introduced with the meaning: vivat circulus dresdensiae.

In 1857 Dresdensia joined the CC of the connections after they had promised to become all country teams, and took on the colors purple-white-red.

Cartel relations existed with Gothia Königsberg , Teutonia Jena and Torgovia Halle. In the year of Schiller, the university's 450th anniversary celebrations took place in Leipzig with a royal reception and a Kommers, and the Goths present received the Dresden ribbon as a token of friendship. Negotiations about the entry of the B! Rugia Greifswald in the cartel broke up.

From 1861 there were fraternity endeavors, and the black, red and gold ribbon was also worn. The new motto was: "Honor, freedom, fatherland".

In 1862, the Dresdensia Landsmannschaft changed into a fraternity.

In the SS 1864 Dresdensia participated in the founding of the Eisenacher Burschenbund, in the WS 1874 the Eisenach Deputy Convent (EDC) and in the SS 1881 the General Deputy Convent (ADC) - the later German Burschenschaft (DB).

In July 1919, Dresdensia was involved in the establishment of the White Circle in the DB, with which the White Working Group was founded in the DB in May 1922. On June 27, 1925, Dresdensia played a key role in founding the Old White Cartel. During the time of National Socialism, Dresdensia resisted the synchronization of student associations, left the DB in November 1934 and took part in the founding of the old fraternity , which was in opposition to the then National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB). In 1936 the Dresdensia was banned and dissolved.

History of Rugia Greifswald

Rugia Greifswald coat of arms

In the winter semester of 1854 a French wreath was founded in Greifswald, which was renamed the Scientific Association in the summer of 1855. On April 5, 1856, nine members of the Scientific Association founded the Rugia student union with the colors red-white-green. On June 5, 1856, the Rugia was converted into a fraternity.

In the winter semester of 1858 the colors were changed to black, red and gold and from the winter semester of 1871 they were only worn in red, white and green. On January 24, 1862, the fraternity Germania Greifswald split off from the Rugia. In the SS 1864 Rugia participated in the establishment of the Eisenacher Burschenbund, in the WS 1874 the Eisenach Deputy Convent (EDC) and SS 1881 the General Deputy Convent (ADC) - the later German Burschenschaft (DB). In November 1908 a house at Salinenstrasse 47 was acquired. In 1913/14 Rugia presided as chairwoman of the German fraternity.

In July 1919 Rugia was involved in founding the White Circle in the DB, with which the White Working Group in the DB was founded in May 1922. On June 27, 1925, Rugia played a key role in founding the Old White Cartel. During the time of National Socialism, Rugia fought against the synchronization of student associations, resigned from the DB in November 1934 and participated in the founding of the old fraternity , which was in opposition to the then NSDStB (National Socialist German Student Union). In 1936 the Rugia was banned and dissolved.

In the GDR, which was founded in 1949, student associations were initially forbidden, which is why the association life of the Rugia in Greifswald could only flourish again after reunification in 1989.

Reconstitution and merging to B! Dresdensia rugia

The two “friendly” connections Dresdensia Leipzig and Rugia Greifswald could no longer be active in their founding locations after the Second World War. Therefore, its members formed an interest group to re-establish a fraternity and on May 5, 1951 the fraternity Dresdensia-Rugia (DR) was founded in Frankfurt am Main , which shortly afterwards also joined the White Circle in the DB.

In July 1963 she was involved in the (re) establishment of the Old White Cartel (AWK) in the DB, to which she still belongs today. After a move to the newly founded university in Bielefeld had already been discussed in 1968, DR adjourned in the winter semester 1969/70 " due to a lack of members ". In December 1971 the fraternity in Gießen was reconstituted by five former members of the Germania fraternity . The Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft , founded in 1961, belonged to DR from 1973 to 1985 and from 1989 to 1996. As a result, DR was postponed again from 1994 to 1996 and from 1999 to 2003.

After the political change in the GDR, the original Rugia fraternity was reconstituted in Greifswald in 1990 and maintains a friendly relationship with Dresdensia-Rugia in Gießen. Dresdensia Leipzig was re-established in 2015.

criticism

Fraternity's liaison house during an anti- fascist demonstration on May 28, 2005

The fraternity belongs to the conservative right wing within the umbrella organization “Deutsche Burschenschaft” (DB) and has been criticized for a long time because of its connections to the revisionist and right-wing extremist scene. In 1987 the "Christian Conservative Working Group Gießen / Central Hesse" was founded with the significant participation of Dresdensia-Rugia, which is assigned an important hinge function between right-wing conservative and right-wing extremist circles. With the support of the working group, the fraternity organized lectures and celebrations at the end of the 1980s / beginning of the 1990s, at which well-known representatives of the right-wing conservative, revisionist and right-wing extremist scene such as Rolf Schlierer , the federal chairman of the party The Republicans and old man of the Giessen fraternity Germania , the right-wing extremist publicist Hans-Dietrich Sander or the CDU right-wing outsider Heinrich Lummer appeared as speakers. But also the education policy spokesman for the CDU parliamentary group in the Hessian state parliament, Hans-Jürgen Irmer , gave a lecture at the association in 1996. After protests by the Antifa , the old men, concerned about the image of the fraternity, put an end to the series of events of the former Aktivitas in 1992 under threat of the end of the financial support.

In 1995, a declaration written by Jürgen Gansel on behalf of the fraternity was published, in which the "liquidation" of "German values" by the "occupiers" on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Second World War was lamented.

Since 1998, u. a. with Klaus Weinschenk (author of the book "The Holocaust of Expulsion"), events are held again in the fraternity house and the tradition of the 1980s is resumed. In 2000, for example, a lecture and discussion event was held with the right-wing extremist publicist Claus Nordbruch .

The fraternity came back into the public eye after 2000, when it became known that three leading members of the NPD and its youth organization Young National Democrats (JN) came from the ranks of the Dresdensia-Rugia. These are the national board member of the NPD Jürgen Gansel , the national chairman of the JN Stefan Rochow , who is no longer a member of the Dresdensia Rugia, as well as his brother Mathias Rochow , who is active in the fraternity of Rugia zu Greifswald , a member of the national board of the JN and a member of the federal board of directors NPD organization National Democratic University Association (NHB) is.

These connections did not attract national attention until after the election to the Saxon state parliament in 2004, after Gansel moved into parliament for the NPD. Two other fraternity members of the Dresdensia-Rugia are in the service of the parliamentary group: Stefan Rochow as a research assistant for youth work and the economist Arne Schimmer as a consultant for the topics of "economy and globalization ". The NPD member of the Lahn-Dill district association, Alfred Zutt, told the press that it was known that the Dresdensia-Rugia was "nationally minded". His district association was also able to benefit from the “pull effect” on right-wing extremist students.

In the Hessian constitution protection report for the year 2005 it is emphasized that there have been attempts by right-wing extremists for years to exert targeted influence on right-wing conservative fraternities, which also include the Dresdensia-Rugia. The membership of three NPD members in the Dresdensia-Rugia, which was expressly confirmed in the VS report, led to an observation of the fraternity by the constitution protection and in 2004 to an assessment "as right-wing extremist". The fraternity has distanced itself from the goals of the NPD, as can be read in the VS report 2005. However, according to its own statements, it does not separate from the NPD members in its own ranks for formal reasons.

Despite this distance, the then spokesman for this fraternity, Matthias Müller, had to resign from his position as vice-chairman of the Ring of Christian Democratic Students (RCDS) in November 2006 because of his work for Junge Freiheit and contacts to right-wing extremist groups such as the NPD and the Junge Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen. resign in Giessen. As a result, the RCDS Gießen passed an incompatibility clause, according to which there are no longer any parallel memberships in the RCDS and in the Dresdensia-Rugia.

Known members

Dresdensia-Leipzig

  • Gustav William Abendroth (1838–1908), mathematician, physicist, teacher and vice principal of the Kreuzschule in Dresden
  • Heinrich Ludwig Oskar Ackermann (1836–1913), theologian
  • Helmut Bischoff (1908–1993), SS-Obersturmbannführer and senior government councilor, defense officer for the construction of V2 rockets in the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp
  • Hans Alexander von Bosse (1835–1898), member of the Saxon state parliament
  • Hans Carl Federath (1848–1914), Prussian district administrator and owner of several ironworks
  • Otto Fretzdorff (1881–1950), Consistorial President of the Province of Saxony in Magdeburg
  • Leo Fürbringer (1843–1923), Lord Mayor from 1875 to 1913 and initiator of the expansion of the Emden harbor
  • Karl Glässing (1866–1952), Lord Mayor and Honorary Citizen of Wiesbaden
  • Otto Goldmann (1884–1947), lawyer and writer
  • Richard Holz (1873–1945), Lord Mayor of Zwickau in Saxony
  • Hanns Jencke (1843–1910), manager and industrial lobbyist. Chairman of the Central Association of German Industrialists
  • Hermann Jöck (1873–1925), member of the Landtag of the Free State of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach
  • Carl Wilhelm Klawitter (1856–1929), important shipyard owner in Gdansk
  • Willy Knorr (1878–1937), politician (DNVP), Prime Minister of the Free State of Anhalt
  • Otto Loth (1844–1881), University of Leipzig, important orientalist and philologist
  • Franz Mehring (1846–1919), publicist and politician (left as a student)
  • Felix Oberländer (1851–1915), TU Dresden, founder of modern urology
  • Franz Obert (1828–1908), Transylvanian-Saxon Protestant pastor, writer, school reformer and politician
  • Harald Oldag (1899–1972), journalist
  • August Schabbehard (1887–1963), Prussian administrative lawyer and district administrator
  • Friedrich Alwin Schade (1881–1976), important Saxon botanist, teacher at the Kreuzgymnasium in Dresden
  • Karl Schilling (1889–1973), politician (NSDAP), member of the Hessian state parliament, member of the Reichstag
  • Max Schlotte (1877–1952), District Court Director and Lord Mayor of Plauen in Vogtland
  • Friedrich Herman Semmig (1820–1897), writer and teacher
  • Walter Siemianowsky (1891–1947), Mayor of Bunzlau

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. P. 1067.

Rugia Greifswald

  • Rudolf Arndt (1835–1900), director of the psychiatric institute in Greifswald.
  • Paul Bergholz (1845–1909), meteorologist, founder of the Meteorological Observatory in Bremen
  • Ehrenfried Boege (1889–1965), General of the Infantry, bearer of the oak leaves for the Knight's Cross
  • Adolf Brieger (1832–1912), high school professor, poet
  • Gustav Bundt (1867–1949), doctor, medical officer and politician (DNVP)
  • Maximilian Curtze (1837–1903), high school professor in Thorn, mathematics historian, Copernicus researcher, translator and editor of numerous mathematical works
  • Otto Fretzdorff (1881–1950), Consistorial President of the Church Province of Saxony in Magdeburg (honorary member)
  • Karl Glässing (1866–1952), Lord Mayor and Honorary Citizen of Wiesbaden
  • Walter Goehtz (1878–1946), mayor of Plathe and Greifenberg i. Pom.
  • Paul Hagemeister (1868–1941), first mayor in Suhl, district president
  • Rigolf Hennig (* 1935), right-wing extremist publicist and politician
  • Ernst Hilzheimer (1901–1986), co-founder of the LDPD in Mecklenburg, honorary citizen of Rostock
  • Carl William Klawitter (1856–1929), Danzig shipyard entrepreneur (honorary member)
  • Alwin Knapp (1918–1995), dermatologist, head of the University Dermatology Clinic in Greifswald, promoter of PKU screening in the GDR
  • Ferdinand Krüger (1843–1915), Westphalian dialect poet
  • Gustav Kühn (1840–1892), head of the agricultural research station in Möckern, an important agricultural scientist
  • Herbert Lange (1909–1945), SS Sturmbannführer
  • Klaus Lankheit (1913–1992), professor of art history, important Franz Marc expert
  • Hugo Lemcke (1835–1925), high school professor and school director, secret councilor, antiquarian in Stettin, chairman of the Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology
  • Karl Michel (1843–1930), ear, nose and throat specialist, actor and writer
  • Wilhelm Moldenhauer (1845–1898), university professor in Leipzig
  • Felix Oberländer (1851–1915), professor at the TU Dresden, founder of modern urology
  • Carl Pauli (1839–1901), important researcher of the Etruscan language
  • Bernhard Sprickmann Kerkerinck (1837–1915), honorary citizen of the city of Emmerich am Rhein
  • Otto Wenzel (1840–1929), journalist, cooperative director, founding member of the Reich Association of the German Press
  • Richard Werth (1850–1918), professor of gynecology at the University of Kiel, role model of Professor Gervasius in the novel Only Who Knows Longing by Ida Boy-Ed
  • Eduard Wrobel (1851–1931), royal high school director in Rostock and mathematician
  • Wilhelm Zahn (1848–1911), pastor and archaeologist for the Altmark

Membership directory :

  • Willy Nolte (ed.): Fraternity members regular role. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 1040.

Dresdensia rugia

  • Jürgen Gansel (* 1974), politician of the NPD, former member of the Saxon state parliament
  • Klaus Lankheit (1913–1992), professor of art history, important Franz Marc expert (left 1952)
  • Mathias Rochow (* 1975), former German politician (NPD) (excluded)
  • Arne Schimmer (* 1973), politician of the NPD, former member of the Saxon state parliament

See also

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  1. ^ To the right for fraternity members , Frankfurter Rundschau of November 23, 2012
  2. ↑ Protection of the Constitution under criticism ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), hr-online from November 24, 2012
  3. ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
  4. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 87.
  5. ^ Chronicle of the Leipzig fraternity Dresdensia by Werner Reusch
  6. ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
  7. ↑ Master role of the Greifswald fraternity Rugia by Jens Carsten Claus 2000
  8. ↑ Richard Erche: AfD employees: When in doubt, right outside. In: Zeit Online. March 30, 2017. Retrieved May 16, 2017 .
  9. ^ Gießener Anzeiger of May 22, 1990, Criticon September / October 1992
  10. ^ Gießener Anzeiger of December 17, 1992, Criticon March / April 1993
  11. ↑ a b WNZ, February 19, 2005
  12. ↑ State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hesse: Report on the Protection of the Constitution 2004 (PDF; 2.7 MB) p. 82
  13. ↑ Printed matter 16/5052 of the Hessian state parliament: Answer of the state government to the major inquiry of the Abg. Faeser, Hartmann, Hofmeyer, Rudolph, Schäfer-Gümbel, Siebel, Waschke (SPD) and parliamentary group on right-wing extremism in Hesse.
  14. ↑ (PDF; 2.6 MB) 2005 report on the protection of the constitution by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Hesse
  15. ↑ UniSPIEGEL of November 22, 2006: "A right-wing extremist on the RCDS board"
  16. ^ Anton Maegerle: "Völkische Männerbünde", look to the right, issue 03/2006
  17. ↑ Gabriele Nandlinger: "Ehre, Freiheit, Vaterland!", Federal Agency for Civic Education, April 23, 2007

Web links

Commons : Burschenschaft Dresdensia-Rugia zu Gießen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • AHV Rugia: Rugia album and regular roll of the Greifswald fraternity Rugia 1856–1936 , Greifswald 2006
  • German Burschenschaft: Handbook of the German Burschenschaft , various years
  • Macdonald, Paul (Ed.): History of the Greifswalder Burschenschaft Rugia , Giessen 1981
  • Möllers, Elmar: Festschrift for the 120th foundation festival of the Greifs-Walder fraternity Rugia , Essen 1976
  • Polikowski, Fritz: Nunquam retrorsum! for the 110th foundation festival of the Greifswald fraternity Rugia , Wuppertal 1966
  • Schmeling, Friedrich: The Greifswalder Burschenschaft Rugia - In: Pommern, ISSN  0032-4167 , Vol. 7 (1969), 3, pp. 6-7
  • War report of the fraternity Dresdensia zu Leipzig (1914-1919)
  • Paukkomment agreed between the Arminia, Dresdensia + Germania, Normannia fraternities belonging to the Leipzig fraternity. Leipzig 1914
  • Karl Römpler: Festival donation for the fiftieth foundation festival of the fraternity of Dresdensia in Leipzig, 1853–1903. Dieterisch, Göttingen 1902
  • Constitution of the fraternity of Dresdensia, Leipzig. University of Leipzig, 1907
  • Weygand, Gerhard: 120 years of the Dresdensia fraternity (1973)
  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 139, 156, 189-191, 271.

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 3.91 "  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 59.99"  E