Giessen fraternity Germania

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Giessen fraternity Germania

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Basic data
University location: to water
Founding: August 14, 1851
Corporation association : General German fraternity
Cartel / District / AG: KRB , IBZ , street cartel
Color status : colored
Colours:
Cap: brick-red little flat cap
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : striking, 2 compulsory grades
Motto: God, freedom, honor, fatherland! Life and striving for the fatherland!
Website: burschenschaft-germania.de

The Giessener Burschenschaft Germania is a striking and colorful student union in Giessen . The oldest fraternity in the area was founded in 1851 and was a co-founder of the North German Cartel , the Giessen President's Convent , the Giessen Deputy Convent , the General Deputy Convent , the Red Direction , the Mainzer Burschenschaft Saravia and the General German Burschenschaft . It unites students and alumni of German universities in a bond of friendship and life .

history

Founding phase and association

The Germania fraternity was founded on August 14, 1851 as a Germania association in Giessen. It included many members of former Giessen connections, in particular successors of the old Giessen fraternity , which at that time no longer existed, mainly members of Germania from 1850 and the Nassauer Hof founded in 1848 and renamed Gesellschaft Germania in 1850 . In the summer semester of 1852, the Treubund student association founded in 1850 was absorbed into it. In 1853, Couleur was recorded in the colors black-red-green (the old colors of the Treubund ) and a black cap and the motto God, freedom, honor, fatherland! set.

Germania looked for fraternities in other university cities early on, so in 1854 it met with the Germania Jena fraternity , with which a cartel was formed in 1855 , which was also joined by the Arminia Breslau fraternity . Efforts by Germania to expand the cartel to all fraternities, however, failed in 1856. In 1858 the color of the hat was changed to brick red , after official approval on March 9, 1861, the fraternity's colors black, red and gold were adopted. After numerous failed attempts to unite fraternities in one association , the North German Cartel (NK) was founded on August 14, 1858 with the assistance of Germania , to which it belonged until 1869. As a counterweight to the Gießen Seniors' Convent , the Gießen President's Convent (PC) was founded in the winter semester of 1861/62 together with the Alemannia fraternity and the Gießener Wingolf , which only existed until the winter semester of 1863/64. It was recognized as a fraternity by the university authorities on June 18, 1863. A little later, there was also a brief relationship with the Alemannia Stuttgart fraternity . From 1864 to 1866, Germania belonged to the Eisenacher Burschenbund . On February 17, 1869, together with the Alemannia fraternity , she founded the Giessen Deputy Convent (DC). From January 15, 1873 to May 25, 1876, the Germania had to suspend due to a lack of members, unofficially one continued to meet as a pub society. Between June 1878 and February 1880, Germania belonged to the Eisenach Deputy Convent (EDC) and on July 20, 1881 was involved in the founding of the General Deputy Convent (ADC). But in 1885 there was another suspension due to a lack of members.

The time up to the Second World War

After the Germania was reopened by the Alemannia Gießen fraternity in 1888, it strengthened again so that a separate corporation house could be built. In 1897 the old owners founded a house building association for this purpose, one year later the building site on Wetzlarer Weg was bought, in 1900 the foundation stone was laid so that the Germanenhaus could be inaugurated for the 50th anniversary of the foundation in 1901. In the summer semester of 1896, a crap relationship was set up with the Darmstadtia Gießen Landsmannschaft , which later became a cartel , the only one between a fraternity and a Landsmannschaft . The originally derisive term “street cartel” was used for the cartel relationship in the fraternity student environment, since the Darmstadtia corporation has been only about 80 meters away on the same street since 1907. The friendship with the Arminia Leipzig fraternity (today the Frankfurt-Leipzig fraternity Arminia and the Arminia fraternity in Leipzig ) dates back to 1902 . In addition, there is now a friendship relationship with the old Darmstadt fraternity Germania . After the ADC had renamed itself to Deutsche Burschenschaft (DB), Germania took over the chairmanship for one year in 1903. On July 12, 1919, a preliminary meeting took place at the Germanenhaus for the establishment of the Red Direction (RR), which Germania was involved in establishing in 1920 and of which it was a member until 1930. The German fraternity they belonged to until its dissolution, and was the so-called. "Ceremony", the laying down of flags on the Wartburg on 18 October 1935 there. After the Germania was banned by the National Socialists on February 2, 1936, the active business in the Kameradschaft I , which was later renamed Kameradschaft Brockwitz , was continued. 45 members of Germania died during the Second World War ; after already 31 members in the First World War .

post war period

The Gießen Germanenhaus in 2011

After the end of the Second World War, the fraternity house was confiscated by the Americans ; Plans by the American military authorities to accommodate a children's clinic in the Germanenhaus were ultimately rejected. In the summer semester 1946, founded Student connection Universia , which takes its name in the following semester in Ludoviciana changed and soon after contacts adjourned Germania recorded, so it's May 9, 1948 for the reconstitution of Germania by the Ludoviciana came. In the following year, Germania launched an initiative to reestablish the German Burschenschaft : On May 28, 1949, under the leadership of Germania, 19 connections to the Little Boys' Day in Gießen were established, on which the foundation stone for the re-establishment of the German Burschenschaft was laid in 1950 and in which Germania was also involved, as well as in 1951 in the re-establishment of the Red Direction . In the same year, with the support of Germania, the Alemannia Gießen fraternity was reactivated. In 1952 she founded the Saravia Mainz Burschenschaft together with the old men’s association of the Berlin Burschenschaft Saravia . In the 1950s, Germania appointed the AStA chairman at the University of Giessen three times , and from 1951 to 1965 each year provided AStA speakers or student representatives. In 1969 Germania left the Red Direction and in 1975 joined the Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft (BG), which it left again in the 1989/90 winter semester and in 1990 took part in the founding of the Burschenschaftliche Initiative (BI). After leaving the German Burschenschaft in 2008, Germania made contact with the newly founded Kartell Roter Burschenschaften (KRB), which it joined on April 28, 2013. She has been a member of the Burschenschaftliche Zukunft (IBZ) initiative since 2013 . In 2014, a workshop on the topic of 200 years of fraternity movement in Giessen took place at the Germania House . In autumn 2016 she founded the Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenschaft (ADB) as one of 27 fraternities , to which she has been a member since then.

Color and motto

The Germania ribbon has the colors black-crimson-gold with golden percussion . In addition, the traditional colors are black, red and green with golden percussion (colors from the start-up phase) and black, red and silver with silver percussion (colors of the connection Ludoviciana from the time of the re-establishment after the Second World War) of boys and old men set out to Worn on occasions as an honor band in addition to the black, red and gold chest band. A brick-red flat cap is worn as headgear .

The motto of the Germania is: God, freedom, honor, fatherland! Life and striving for the fatherland!

Known members

  • Christoph Arnold (1839–1893), politician (NLP), member of the 2nd Chamber of the Land estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • Robert Barth (1900–1942), member of the Landtag of the People's State of Hesse (NSDAP), Police Director of Worms and Mainz, Lord Mayor of Mainz
  • Ludwig Bergér (1887–1972), Mayor of Idar-Oberstein
  • Otto Böckel (1859–1923), member of the Reichstag (DRP), founder of the AVP, librarian, folk song researcher
  • Eduard Bork (1833-1893), lawyer, member of the Prussian House of Representatives (NLP)
  • Philipp Brand (1833–1914), Director of the Süddeutsche Immobiliengesellschaft and Member of the Reichstag (NLP)
  • Karl Bubenzer (1900–1975), District Administrator of the Moers district, member of the Reichstag (NSDAP) and deputy Reich veterinarian leader
  • Wilhelm Cahn (1839–1920), co-founder of the Arminia Würzburg fraternity, Imperial Privy Legation Councilor
  • Adolf Calmberg (1837–1887), teacher and poet
  • Emil Dittmar (1842–1906), Minister of State of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • Gustav Dittmar (1836–1919), forester and politician, member of the Hessian state parliament
  • Wilhelm Dornseiff (1843–1933), Secret Chief Finance Councilor, Deputy Authorized Representative to the Federal Council
  • Peter Geibel (1841–1901), Hessian dialect poet
  • Wilhelm Glässing (1865–1929), lawyer and Lord Mayor of Darmstadt, member of the Hessian state parliament (NLP)
  • Sigmund Gundelfinger (1846–1910), mathematician
  • Richard Habermehl (1890–1980), meteorologist, President of the "Reich Weather Service"
  • Philipp Hangen (1848–1920), member of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • Albrecht Haupt (1852–1932), architect and university professor
  • Herman Haupt (1854–1935), historian (honorary member)
  • Richard Haupt (1846–1940), art historian and curator
  • August Heidenreich (1846-1913), member of the Hessian state parliament (NLP)
  • Max Herchenröder (1904–1987), art historian and monument conservator
  • Ernst Hild (1902–1973), administrative officer, district administrator in Thorn
  • Gustav Adolf Körbel (1902–1969), Acting Lord Mayor of Worms
  • Adolf Korell (1872–1941), pastor, member of the Reichstag (DDP), member of the state parliament and Minister for Labor and Economics of the People's State of Hesse
  • Hugo Lotz (1893–1978), Lord Mayor of Giessen
  • Theo Morell (1886–1948), physician and personal physician to Adolf Hitler
  • Hermann Müller (1881–1946), teacher and politician, mayor of Rüsselsheim
  • Diedrich Osterhoff (1925–2014), animal breeding scientist and university lecturer in South Africa
  • Otto Rahn (1904–1939), writer and Grail researcher
  • Wilhelm Schäfer (1912–1981), paleontologist and zoologist
  • Jakob Schlenger (1831–1917), politician (center), member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • Rolf Schlierer (* 1955), doctor and lawyer, 1992–2001 member of the Baden-Württemberg State Parliament (REP), 1994–2014 Federal Chairman of the Republicans
  • Ernst Schmeel (1845–1913), politician (NLP), member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
  • Otto Schwebel (1903–1976), Lord Mayor of Worms, District Administrator in the Worms district, member of the Reichstag (NSDAP)
  • Hugo Seydel (1840–1932), member of the Prussian House of Representatives (NLP), founder of the Riesengebirgsmuseum and the library of the Riesengebirgsverein
  • Wilhelm Soldan (1842–1905), archaeologist and monument protector
  • Gerd Voss (1907–1934), lawyer and SA leader, victim of the so-called "Röhm Putsch"
  • Hermann Voss (1878–1957), lawyer and association official
  • Wilhelm Georg Weber (1883–1952), member of the Schwarzburg-Sondershäuser Landtag, Lord Mayor of Sondershausen, Finance President at the regional finance office in Münster
  • Eberhard Weller (1845–1911), Reich judge

Member directories :

  • 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. 1034-1035.
  • Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, R. Germania.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder : The German fraternities. Their representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 158-159.
  • Hugo Böttger (Ed.): Handbook for the German fraternity. Berlin 1912, pp. 345-347.
  • Herman Haupt (Hrsg.): Handbook for the German fraternity. 6th edition (edited by Max Droßbach and Hans Hauske), Frankfurt am Main 1932, p. 390.
  • Werner Haufka: Educational cultures in Giessen. Primus Verlag, Leipzig: 1988. P. 126ff.
  • Joachim Hönack, Gernot Schäfer (Red.): Vivat Academia! Student associations at the University of Giessen in the past and present. A contribution to the 400th anniversary of the university and to the city's history . Accompanying volume for the exhibition with short chronicles of the corporations involved. Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939413-02-8 , pp. 165-172.
  • Hans Schneider: Festschrift for the fifty-year foundation festival of the Gießen fraternity Germania 1851 to 1901. Mainz 1901.
  • Jürgen Setter: A brief history of the connections in Giessen . Verlag Friesland, Sande 1983, ISBN 3-9800773-0-6 , pp. 167-168.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 47.
  2. ^ Members. Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenschaft, accessed October 10, 2016 .
  3. ^ Ernst-Günter Glienke: Civis Academicus . Handbook of the German, Austrian and Swiss corporations and student associations at universities and higher schools. Born in 1996, Lahr 1996, p. 96.
  4. ^ Germania. Members of the Federation. (No longer available online.) Gießener Burschenschaft Germania, archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on October 13, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
  6. ^ Hermann Oesterwitz (Ed.): Guide through the university town of Giessen and its surroundings. Giessen traffic manual. Giessen 1907, p. 232.
  7. ↑ To this: Christian Scriba: Contributions to the history of the old Gießen fraternity: Burschenschaftliche Lebensbilder from the year of the great relegation in 1828. Gießen 1913.
  8. ^ German university calendar. Winter semester 1913/14. Leipzig 1913, p. 102.
  9. ^ Gustav Heinrich Schneider : The fraternity Germania zu Jena. Jena 1897, p. 344.
  10. ^ Richard Fick (ed.): On Germany's high schools. Berlin, Leipzig 1900, p. 371.
  11. ^ Wilhelm Kalb: The old fraternity. Erlangen 1892, p. 255.
  12. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Yearbook of the German Burschenschaft. 1907. Carl Heymanns Verlag Berlin 1907, p. 241.
  13. ^ Paul Wentzcke : History of the German fraternity. (= Sources and representations on the history of the fraternity and the German unity movement. Volume 8), 2nd edition, Heidelberg 1966, p. 270.
  14. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - Die Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, p. 37.
  15. ^ Friedrich Waas: History of the Giessen Wingolfs. In: Hans Waitz (Hrsg.): History of the Wingolf connections. Darmstadt 1914, pp. 288-289.
  16. ↑ a b Jürgen Setter: A short history of connections in Giessen . Verlag Friesland, Sande 1983, ISBN 3-9800773-0-6 , p. 150.
  17. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Yearbook of the German Burschenschaft. 1903. Carl Heymanns Verlag Berlin 1903, p. 185.
  18. ↑ Frank Grobe: Compass and gear. Engineers in the bourgeois emancipation struggle around 1900. The history of the technical fraternity . (Representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Volume 17, edited by Klaus Oldenhage). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2009, p. 168.
  19. ↑ Allgemeine Academische Zeitung of June 5, 1864. Volume 4, No. 7, Jena 1864, p. 25.
  20. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : history of the student corporation associations. Volume II: The non-beating associations and supplements to Volume I. Würzburg 1985, p. 31.
  21. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : history of the student corporation associations. Volume II: The non-beating associations and supplements to Volume I. Würzburg 1985, p. 35.
  22. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : history of the student corporation associations. Volume I: The Beating Associations. Würzburg 1981, p. 75.
  23. ↑ Georg Heer : History of the German Burschenschaft .: The Burschenschaft in the preparation of the Second Reich, in the Second Reich and in the World War. From 1859 to 1919. In: Paul Wentzcke (Hrsg.): Sources and representations on the history of the fraternity and the German unity movement, Volume 16. C. Winter, Heidelberg 1939. P. 60.
  24. ^ Illustrated newspaper . Born in 1900, Leipzig 1900, p. 172.
  25. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962. Giessen 1969, p. 45.
  26. ^ History. (No longer available online.) Gießener Burschenschaft Germania, archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on October 13, 2016 .
  27. ↑ Friendly connections. (No longer available online.) Gießener Burschenschaft Germania, archived from the original on October 13, 2016 ; accessed on October 13, 2016 .
  28. ↑ Peter Frömke: Holzminda in the red direction. In: Hansheiner Schumacher (Ed.): Burschenschaft Holzminda Göttingen. Contributions to its history 1860–1985. Göttingen, 1985, p. 125.
  29. ↑ Hans-Georg Balder : History of the German Burschenschaft. Hilden 2006, p. 358.
  30. ↑ Jürgen Setter: A short history of the connections in Giessen . Verlag Friesland, Sande 1983, ISBN 3-9800773-0-6 , p. 62.
  31. ^ Wilhelm Georg Heckmann: Book of honor for the federal brothers of the Giessen fraternity, Germania, who fell in two world wars. Altenkirchen 1964.
  32. ^ Fritz Koch: The development of the children's clinic in Giessen. In: Giessener Universitätsblätter. Gießen 1973, p. 35. (as PDF )
  33. ↑ Hans-Georg Balder : The German fraternities. Their representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, p. 292.
  34. ↑ Joachim Hönack, Gernot Schäfer (Red.): Vivat Academia! Student associations at the University of Giessen in the past and present. A contribution to the 400th anniversary of the university and to the city's history . Accompanying volume for the exhibition with short chronicles of the corporations involved. Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939413-02-8 , p. 171.
  35. ^ History on the website of the Old Darmstädter Burschenschaft Germania. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  36. ↑ Alexandra Kurth: Written statement on the hearing in the interior committee of the Hessian state parliament on the subject of violence and extremism. In: Hessian Landtag: Committee proposal. Committee: INA, 37th meeting on November 10, 2010. Comments on: Drucks. 18/2343 - Violence and extremism in Hessen. 2010, p. 316. (as PDF ( Memento from 23 May 2016 in the Internet Archive ))
  37. ^ Members. (No longer available online.) Initiative Burschenschaftliche Zukunft, archived from the original on April 10, 2016 ; Retrieved April 10, 2016 .
  38. ↑ 200 years of fraternity movement in Giessen. In: Gießener Anzeiger of August 27, 2014.
  39. ↑ PM: New start of the fraternity movement. Press release from the Giessen fraternity Germania. September 26, 2016, accessed on February 18, 2020 (PDF; 152 kB).
  40. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : Gaudeamus igitur: The student societies past and present. Callwey, Munich 1986, p. 216.
  41. ↑ Joachim Hönack, Gernot Schäfer (Red.): Vivat Academia! Student associations at the University of Giessen in the past and present. A contribution to the 400th anniversary of the university and to the city's history . Accompanying volume for the exhibition with short chronicles of the corporations involved. Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939413-02-8 , p. 165.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '40.55 "  N , 8 ° 39' 42.73"  O