Germania Tübingen fraternity

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Fraternity house
Liaison house of the Germania fraternity
Basic data
University location: Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , Germany
Founding: December 12, 1816 in Tübingen
Cartel: South German cartel
Weapon ring : Tübinger Waffenring (TWR)
Colours: black-gold-red from below
Motto: Honor - freedom - fatherland
Website: www.bixier.de

The fraternity Germania Tübingen (B! Germania) is a striking and colorful student union at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . It is the oldest fraternity in Tübingen and one of the oldest fraternities at all. Its members are often referred to as Bixiers or Eckgermanen .

history

Teutons in front of the Eifertei in Tübingen (Photo by Louis Aickelin 1855)

In Tübingen there were several associations whose members would later participate in the founding of Germania. Balder names the connections Romantica (January 17, 1813, blue-white-black), Teutonia (November 19, 1814, green-blue-white) and Concordia (December 8, 1816, black-blue). Teutonia, in particular, was already pursuing pre-fraternity goals, which is why the later radical fraternity member Karl Ludwig Sand joined it when he began his studies in 1814.

On December 12, 1816, 57 Tübingen students founded the Arminia fraternity with the colors black and blue. Jacob Friedrich Habermaas was the founding chairman. After the Wartburg Festival in 1817, she joined the General German Burschenschaft. The Arminia was dissolved in November 1817, but reopened in April 1818. The change to the name Germania and the colors black and red with golden percussion dates back to this time . In autumn 1819, Germania was dissolved by the authorities. 1824 they changed to refer to custom connection or Comment fraternity . This connection resulted in the Corps Suevia Tübingen in 1831 . As early as 1828, the Tübingen fire riders (colors black-blue) split off from the Commentburschenschaft . A Concordia followed (1829 to 1831, blue-red-gold). This resulted in another Germania with the colors black-gold-red, which existed from 1831 to 1833. In 1832, a Society of Patriots - a forerunner of the later Normannia Tübingen association - split off from this .

Then a Giovannia (1835 to 1836). They were followed in 1837 by the Eiferteigesellschaft , which later called itself Germania and then in 1839 the Society of Sword Brothers . Germania reopened in 1840 and lived until 1853 when it was banned. It continued to exist as Normannia (black-white-blue) and Tubingia (blue-white-gold). In 1862 the colors black-gold-red were reintroduced and in 1865 the name was finally renamed Germania .

From 1896 onwards, Germania stopped accepting Jews. In 1904 there was a resolution by the Tübingen Association not to give members of Jewish corporations any more satisfaction. In 1919 the Tübingen Germania came forward with the motion to prevent "Jews and descendants of Jews" from being accepted into the German fraternity .

In the 1930/31 winter semester, Germania had 430 old men, 60 inactive and 24 active.

After the NSDAP came to power, Germania joined the old fraternity in 1935 . Later, the Ludwig Uhland comradeship was founded together with the Roigel royal society in Tübingen . 79 Germanic tribes were killed in World War II.

After the war the comradeship was continued under the name Tubingia until 1949, when Germania and Roigel separated again. Germania was involved in the re-establishment of the German Burschenschaft , and in 1973 it resigned.

Color

Boys and foxes wear a ribbon in the colors black-gold-red (from below) with golden percussion . The order in which the colors are named “from below” is unusual for university cities with the exception of Jena, Halle and Leipzig. A red floppy hat is worn as the head color. The charged people wear black pekeschen.

Fraternity house

Germanic tribes in 1909 on the Neckar Bridge in Tübingen; Photo by Julius Wilhelm Hornung

The first corporation house of Germania, inaugurated in 1896 for the 80th foundation festival , was called the Bierkirchle . It was replaced by a larger house from 1930 to 1931 by Paul Schmitthenner .

The house of Germania is located at the foot of the Österberg on the Neckar bridge. The designation as Eckgermanen comes from the location of the house on the corner of Gartenstrasse / Mühlstrasse and serves to distinguish it from the street Germans , the old Strasbourg fraternity Germania in Tübingen.

Conditions

Tübingen Germania is part of the South German Cartel , the oldest fraternity cartel. There is also a friendship with the Prague fraternity Arminia zu Bochum.

Known members

Portrait of an Unknown Germanic by Louis Aickelin (1855)

The members of Germania include and were numerous people from politics, business and culture. At least 21 members of the Paulskirche parliament belonged to Tübingen Germania and its predecessor associations.

Membership directory :

  • Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. pp. 1095–1096.

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 381-382.
  • J. Wilhelm Camerer: History of the fraternity Germania zu Tübingen 1816-1906. Urach 1909.
  • Wilhelm Lang: The Tübingen Fire Riders 1828–1833. In: Sources and representations on the history of the fraternity and the German unity movement. Volume 3, 1912, pp. 84-187.
  • Georg Schmidgall: The old Tübingen fraternity 1816–1828 . In: Sources and presentations on the history of the fraternity and the German unity movement, 1940, Volume 17, pp. 1–187.
  • The liaison system in Tübingen. Documentation in the year of the university anniversary in 1977. Tübingen 1977, pp. 42–43.
  • Karl Philipp: Fraternity of Germania Tübingen. Complete list of members since the foundation December 12, 1816. Tübingen 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. The nickname comes from a pub, the Tübinger Büchsenkneipe . After Theodor Heuss : Aufbruch im Kaiserreich: Briefe 1892-1917, p. 104 (footnote).
  2. ^ A b c Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles.
  3. Carl Ernst Jarcke: Carl Ludwig Sand and his to the Imperial Russian Council of State v. Kotzebue committed murder . Berlin 1831, p. 18 .
  4. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 110.
  5. ^ Sonja Levsen: Elite, masculinity and war: Tübingen and Cambridge students 1900–1929. Critical Studies in History, Vol. 170; Diss. Univ. Tübingen 2004/05; Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-35151-2 , p. 166, note 200
  6. ^ Sonja Levsen: Elite, masculinity and war: Tübingen and Cambridge students 1900–1929. Critical Studies in History, Vol. 170; Diss. Univ. Tübingen 2004/05; Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-35151-2 , p. 167
  7. ^ Sonja Levsen: Elite, masculinity and war: Tübingen and Cambridge students 1900–1929. Critical Studies in History, Vol. 170; Diss. Univ. Tübingen 2004/05; Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 978-3-525-35151-2 , p. 343

Web links

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