Fraternity Germania Koenigsberg

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coat of arms
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Basic data
University location: Hamburg , Germany
Founding: September 8, 1843 in Koenigsberg
Association: Association-free (until 2014 German fraternity )
Colours: black-white-wine red (from below)
Address: Heimhuder Strasse 34
Website: www.germania-Königsberg.de

The fraternity Germania Königsberg zu Hamburg (before 1950: Königsberger Burschenschaft Germania ) is a mandatory student union . Founded in 1843, it is both the oldest fraternity in Königsberg and the oldest fraternity of the “white direction”, and since 1950 the oldest student union in Hamburg . She is a member of the ring of white fraternities and the working group of German fraternities.

Colors, coat of arms and motto

  • Color : black-white-wine-red (reading direction from bottom to top) in a silver frame. Black and white are the colors of Prussia , the red comes from the Königsberg city coat of arms.
  • Student hat: wine-red velvet hat with wine-red-white-black bonnet and silver percussion . A silver Albertus has been worn on the left since the reconstitution in Hamburg in 1950 .
  • Student coat of arms: The coat of arms is divided into four and also contains a heart shield . The upper left field shows a silver Albertus on a red background , the upper right field on a white background a shield in the federal colors, which is surrounded by a laurel wreath . At the bottom right there are two crossed bell strikers on a black background , underneath two hands reaching out in a wreath of oak leaves ; lower left a ruin in front of a rising sun. The heart shield is outlined in silver and shows the circle of connection in black on a red background.
  • Circle : CvG! as an abbreviation of "Corona vivat Germania" ( Long live the wreath Germania ).

  • Coat of arms and motto

  • Circle

  • Albertus needle

Special

Due to the peripheral location of Königsberg within Germany and the great distance to other German university cities - the closest were Breslau and Greifswald - a number of special features have developed and maintained at Germania Königsberg that still distinguish it from the vast majority of student associations today:

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Eduard Ebel : Festival song for the 50th Foundation Festival (1893).
  • Unlike most of the other student associations, Germania Königsberg has no fox band. The foxes wear the same color as boys and old men .
  • There is also no office of fox major . The so-called Fuchskranzchenführer is responsible for training the youngest members.
  • The general meetings called Convente by most of the other student associations are simply called “assemblies” at Germania.
  • The circle of Germania (CvG!), Unlike almost all other student associations, does not consist of an intricate combination of letters based on the initial letters EFV ( Ehre, Freiheit, Vaterland ) or VCF ( Vivat, Crescat, Floreat ). The three letters C , v and G are instead arranged one behind the other. Many Königsberg corporations, for example the Corps Masovia or the fraternities Hochhemia and Palmburgia , knew or were familiar with a similar design of the circle .

Orientation as a fraternity

65th Foundation Festival (1908)

The fraternity Germania Königsberg was a member of the Deutsche Burschenschaft (DB) (or its predecessor General Deputy Convent ) from 1885 to 2014 with two interruptions : in 1934, shortly before the DB was completely harmonized and dissolved under National Socialism, it left the DB and the old fraternity and took part in the re-establishment of the DB in 1950. From 1981 to 1983 she was also excluded from the DB for a short time because of the admission of conscientious objectors.

Germania is compulsory with five compulsory grades . As the oldest fraternity of the “white direction”, it pays special attention to their corporate coexistence and social manners.

Germania is a member of the Ring Weißer Burschenschaften (RWB), which also includes the fraternities Frankonia Bonn , Obotritia Rostock, Normannia Leipzig and Normannia Leipzig zu Marburg. Since 2006 there has been an official friendship relationship between the fraternities Frankonia Bonn and Germania Königsberg zu Hamburg .

history

Albertina around 1850

The fraternity Germania Königsberg was founded on September 8, 1843 in Königsberg by eight students as a fraternity wreath Germania within the general boys' association Albertina . Germania's motto and circle have remained unchanged to this day.

On February 9, 1845, Germania left the Albertina , adopted its own statutes on February 23, and constituted itself as an independent fraternity.

In the period between spring 1848 and summer 1851, the original colors black, red and gold were used in solidarity with the German Revolution . In the 1850s, the number of active members increased sharply, which is why eight Germanic tribes who had resigned on November 22, 1854, founded the Gothia fraternity (today in Göttingen) as a subsidiary. In the summer semester of 1858, 35 of the 393 students at Königsberg University were members of Germania. The principle of life introduced that year was abandoned in 1897.

Establishment

Main building of the Albertina around 1900

On November 12, 1874, Germania took part in the founding of the Eisenach Deputy Convent , but resigned as early as June 1880 due to the constant internal disputes within the association. In the summer semester of 1885, Germania joined the General Deputy Convent founded four years earlier (from 1902: Deutsche Burschenschaft ) as a full member without a trial period. She represented a strictly corporate, conservative position in the association. In 1908 Germania co-founded the “White Direction” in the DB, from which the White Circle emerged in 1919 .

In April 1909 Germania acquired its first fraternity house in III. Fließstrasse 32. On July 2, 1928, Germania moved to the second connecting house at Herzog-Albrecht-Allee 15 in the Königsberg district of Maraunenhof .

On March 2, 1929, the company was accepted into the Old White Cartel (AWK); In addition to Germania Königsberg, members were the fraternities Frankonia Bonn, Dresdensia Leipzig , Rugia Greifswald , Alemannia Gießen and later Germania Strasbourg (then in Frankfurt, now in Tübingen).

Nazi era

In the winter semester of 1934/35, Germania resigned from the German fraternity and joined the old fraternity , which had to be dissolved on October 15, 1935 under pressure from the political situation in protest against the association policy adopted by the National Socialists . On October 30, 1936, Germania suspended due to political circumstances. Germania had always refused to transform itself into a comradeship of the NS student union or to support such a comradeship. In October 1938, the fraternity house in Maraunenhof was also sold to avoid expropriation on the initiative of the NSDStB. The existing old gentlemen's association rented an apartment at Münzstrasse 10, where the Germanic tribes met regularly until the house was destroyed in August 1944 by British air raids . In this bomb attack, the furniture and the archive of Germania were lost. The old fraternity house survived the war largely undamaged and is now home to a kindergarten.

New start in Hamburg

Main building of the University of Hamburg

After the destruction of Königsberg, Germania Königsberg was reconstituted on March 8, 1950 in Hamburg and joined the Hamburger Waffenring (HWR). On June 15, she participated in the re-establishment of the German fraternity and on November 4 took over the old rulership of the adjourned fraternity Askania Hamburg (founded in 1920 as a military ). The former Askanen wore their ribbon in addition to the Germanic color. In February 1954 acquired its present Germania fraternity house in the Heimhuderstraße 34 in the district of Rotherbaum .

At the Burschentag 1959, Germania submitted the motion that “the Burschentag should express the expectation that all fraternities demand at least two sufficient compulsory grades from their active members”, which caused considerable tension in the association.

In 1961 the White Circle disintegrated over the question of the admission of Austrian fraternities into the German fraternity. On February 15, 1963, the old-white cartel disbanded due to differences of opinion on scale issues. The AWK was re-established at the Burschentag in 1963 without Germania participating, but dissolved again a short time later.

In June 1965, Germania was a founding member of the “Ring of White Burschenschaften” (RWB). The RWB was created on the Burschentag in Berlin by eight former member associations of the White Circle: Germania Königsberg zu Hamburg, Germania Berlin, Cimbria Berlin (both later merged to Brandenburgia Dortmund), Frankonia Bonn , Alemannia Göttingen, Cimbria Würzburg, Alemannia Marburg and Franconia Freiburg. Today (2013) the RWB consists of the fraternities Frankonia Bonn, Normannia Leipzig (since 1994), Normannia Leipzig zu Marburg (since 1973) and Obotritia Rostock (since 2004) in addition to Germania.

On September 9, 1972, the Aktivitas was postponed due to a lack of suitable offspring as a result of the change in values in the student body in the 1960s , but was able to reopen as early as the 1978/79 winter semester. Since the reopening of Aktivitas, students from the University of Hamburg and students from the Technical University of Harburg , which has since been founded, and the University of the Federal Armed Forces have been accepted as members.

In October 1981 Germania was due to the inclusion of conscientious objectors excluded from the database, already the Burschentag but added again in 1983 after the Federal brothers affected revoke its refusal or fraternity had left.

In 2006 a friendship contract was signed with the Frankonia fraternity in Bonn.

In May 2014, the Working Group of German Burschenschaften (AdB) was founded at the House of Germania. In the same month, he left the DB.

Known members

Arnold Sommerfeld in 1889 in the color of Germania Königsberg
  • Wilhelm von Krupka (1823-1893), one of the founders and first speaker; Lawyer, administrative officer, district administrator of Krotoschin and Flensburg
  • Robert Schweichel (1821–1907), active in the winter semester 1844/45; Journalist and writer, President of the German Writers' Association
  • Oskar Meding (1828–1903), active from 1847 to 1849; Lawyer, diplomat and writer (pseudonym "Gregor Samarow")
  • Karl Güterbock (1830–1914), active in the SS 1848; Lawyer, legal historian, prorector of the Albertina, member of the Prussian manor house
  • Theodor Joseph Blell (1827–1902), active in SS 1849; Lawyer, member of the Reichstag
  • Clemens Theodor Reichert (1829–1893), active in SS 1849; Lawyer, Mayor of Görlitz, member of the Prussian manor house
  • Adolf von Gizycki (1834–1891), active in the SS 1854; Mechanical engineer, rector of RWTH Aachen
  • Edwin Klebs (1834–1913), active in SS 1854; Physician, bacteriologist ( Klebsiella )
  • Friedrich Goltz (1834–1902), active in the winter semester 1855/56; Physician, physiologist, rector of the University of Strasbourg
  • Adolf Schimmelpfennig (1834–1896), active 1848, architect
  • Albert Georg Ferdinand Wandersleben (1835–1900), active in the winter semester 1856/57; Reich judge
  • Eduard Ebel (1839–1905), active in SS 1857; Pastor, superintendent, poet ( the snow falls softly )
  • Arthur Kittel (1838–1926), active in the SS 1858; Doctor, Member of the Prussian State Parliament (German Progressive Party)
  • Bernhard Rathke (1840–1923), active in SS 1858; Professor of chemistry in Halle and Marburg
  • Arthur von Hippel (1841–1916), active in the winter semester 1860/61; Ophthalmologist
  • Hugo Braesicke (1843–1898), active in SS 1862; Lawyer, Lord Mayor of Bromberg, member of the Prussian manor house
  • Rudolf Braesicke (1841–1920), active in SS 1862; Landowner and member of the German Reichstag
  • Ewald Hecker (1843–1909), active in the winter semester 1862/63; Medicines, psychiatrists
  • Paul Kunckel (1844–1925), active in the winter semester 1863/64; Prussian judge and municipal official, mayor of Königsberg
  • Heinrich Elditt (1846–1909), active in the SS 1866; Lawyer, Lord Mayor of Elbing, member of the Prussian manor house
  • Leo Feldt (1846–1928), active in SS 1866; Lawyer, major general
  • Franz Falkson (1850–1904), active in SS 1871; Lawyer, local politician (Free Conservative Party), First Mayor of Weißenfels
  • Kurt Schustehrus (1856–1913), active in SS 1874; Lawyer, Lord Mayor of Charlottenburg, member of the Prussian manor house
  • Hugo Falkenheim (1856–1945), active in the winter semester 1874/75; Physician, professor of paediatrics in Königsberg, senior physician, chairman of the Jewish community in Königsberg
  • Max Richter (1856–1921), active in the winter semester 1875/76; Lawyer, Undersecretary of State, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Potash Indicate
  • Oskar Minkowski (1858–1931), active in the winter semester 1875/76; Professor of internal medicine in Strasbourg, Cologne, Greifswald and Breslau
  • Johannes Gerschmann (1858–1928), active in the SS 1876; German philologist
  • Hans Parlow (1856–1928), active from 1876 to 1878; Writer ( dark red-white-rose red )
  • Arnold Sommerfeld (1868–1951), active in SS 1887; Theoretical physicist (Bohr-Sommerfeld atomic model), professor of physics in Clausthal, Aachen and Munich
  • Erhard Roß (1877–1945), active in the winter semester 1898/99; Historian and philologist
  • Franz Unterberger (1882–1945), active in winter semester 1900/01; gynecologist
  • Johannes Felsch (1882–1952), active in winter term 1902/03; Geologist, professor of geology in Santiago de Chile
  • Otto Neumann (1884–1969), active in SS 1903; Jurist, Senate President at the Reich Court Martial
  • Gerhard Bohlmann (1878–1944), active 1909, writer and journalist
  • Reinhart Bezzenberger (1888–1963), Regional Councilor in East Prussia
  • Walter Scheibert (1889–1944), active 1908; Administrative lawyer
  • Gerhard Lapp (1891–1977), active in SS 1911; Lawyer, Ministerial Director in the Federal Post Office
  • Erhard Nehring (1892–1982), active in SS 1913; Physician, bacteriologist, head of the Institute for Water, Soil and Air Hygiene
  • Alfred Lublin (1895–1956), active in the winter semester 1913/14; Doctor and diabetologist
  • Hans Heesch (1903–1966), active 1924 (Askania); High School Council, President of the Hamburg Evangelical Lutheran Regional Synod, member of the Hamburg Parliament
  • Erich Domaschk (1908–1974), active in the SS 1928; Officer, co-founder of the Association of German Officers
  • Horst Peters (1910–2000), active in SS 1928; Lawyer, President of the State Social Court of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • Hans-Georg Wormit (1912–1992), active in SS 1930; Lawyer, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
  • Reinhold Heling (1927–2008), active in SS 1950; Lawyer, administrative judge and genealogist
  • Jürgen Borgwardt (1937–2007), active in SS 1957; Lawyer, General Manager of the Union of Executives
  • Rainer Dieterich (* 1943), honorary member in SS 2007; Professor of Psychology
Membership directory
Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 1064.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder : The German (n) Burschenschaft (s) - their representations in individual chronicles . WJK, Hilden 2005, ISBN 978-3-933892-97-3 . P. 203.
  • Hans-Georg Balder: corporation life in Königsberg. Students at the Albertina from 1544 to 1945. WJK, Hilden 2010, ISBN 978-3-940891-33-4 .
  • o. A .: Fraternity of Germania Königsberg i. Pr. In: Michael Doeberl , Alfred Bienengräber (Hrsg.): The academic Germany. Volume 2: The German universities and their academic citizens . CA Weller, Berlin 1931. p. 910.
  • Stefan Baumeister: "I'm interested in well-preserved heraldic albums". The Studentica collector Ewald Lutz (1909–2000) , in: Jan Carstensen, Gefion Apel (Hrsg.): Ready-to-use! Student Associations in the Empire - Reader for a student exhibition project (PDF file; 15.1 MB) , Westfälisches Freilichtmuseum Detmold , Detmold 2006. ISBN 3-926160-39-X .
  • Rainer Dieterich : History of the meaning of the fraternity Germania Königsberg. Interactions between zeitgeist and corporate student mentality. Volume I: Prehistory and Königsberg time , Volume II: The Hamburg time . Eick, Kiel 2018, ISBN 978-3-9815733-8-1 , ISBN 978-3-9815733-9-8 .
  • Klaus Kube: Personal history of the fraternity Germania Königsberg. A biographical collection. Volume I: The Königsberg time . Eick, Kiel 2018, ISBN 978-3-9815733-4-3 .
  • Andreas Mildahn: Student corporations at the Albertus University in Königsberg i. Pr. In lexical overview (E – M) . Once and Now , Vol. 63 (2018). Pp. 269-276.
  • Emil Popp: Memories - From the history of the fraternity Germania Königsberg , Hamburg 1993.
  • Emil Popp: On the history of the Königsberg student body , Holzner, Würzburg 1955 (new edition: WJK, Hilden 2004. ISBN 3-933892-52-X ).
Fiction
Hans Parlow : Dark red-white-rose-red , 1907 (new edition: WJK, Hilden 2011. ISBN 978-3-940891-09-9 ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
  2. ↑ Jürgen Borgwardt (Ed.): Germanenliederbuch. Songbook by and for Königsberg Germanic peoples . Fraternity Germania Königsberg zu Hamburg, Hamburg 2002.
  3. ^ Arthur Kittel: From the Königsberg student life 1858–1863. Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg 1920. p. 1.
  4. ^ Hugo Böttger : Handbook for the German fraternity . Berlin 1912. p. 362.
  5. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 83.
  6. ↑ Sonja Kuhn: The German Burschenschaft - a grouping in the field of tension between traditional formalism and traditional foundations - an analysis for the period 1950 to 1999. Diploma thesis in the degree program in education, philosophy, psychology at the University of Bamberg. Stuttgart 2002. ISBN 3-00-009710-4 . P. 99.
  7. ↑ Hans-Georg Balder: History of the German Burschenschaft. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2005, ISBN 3-933892-25-2 . P. 470.