Germania fraternity in Würzburg

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Germania fraternity in Würzburg
Coat of arms of the fraternity Germania zu Würzburg
Universities Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg , University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt
Foundation date June 27, 1818 (July 2, 1842; backdated )
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Motto Honor praemium virtutis
tape Colors of the fraternity Germania zu Würzburg
Circle Circle of the fraternity Germania zu Würzburg

The fraternity Germania zu Würzburg is a colored and compulsory student union . Membership is open to students from all universities in Würzburg .

history

The fraternity Germania zu Würzburg sees itself as the successor to the fraternity of 1818, which was suppressed in 1833.

Germania from 1818

After the formal dissolution of the Landsmannschaft Bavaria the day before, a "new" fraternity or "Germania" was founded on June 27, 1818 by its members and fraternity-minded members of the two other Landsmannschaft ( Franconia , Moenania ).

This stood on the one hand in opposition to the remaining country teams Franconia and Moenania, but on the other hand also to a smaller group of former non-corporates, which from December 1817 appeared as the fraternity "Teutonia". It was only due to the intervention of the Burschentag that Teutonia was dissolved in March 1819 and its members were taken over as Renoncen of Germania.

In December 1819, the fraternity had to be dissolved after the successful assassination attempt by Karl Ludwig Sands against August von Kotzebue . Several loose associations emerged, but they were able to maintain cohesion. The dissolution of the fraternity also led to the resignation of some former members of Bavaria, who re-established their connection with the help of the other country teams in December 1819.

In the summer semester of 1820 the fraternity was renewed and at times comprised two thirds of the approximately 600 students in Würzburg. Robert von Mohl wrote his impressions of the Germania at that time as follows: " In Würzburg we found the fraternity very much in bloom; it was the much more elegant association and the entire Bavarian nobility involved in it ." The membership of 26 Franconian and Bavarian aristocratic families within Germania can be proven. In the summer of 1824 the fraternity had to be dissolved again. On March 13, 1825, it could be opened again, initially taking the code name Concordia, later (summer semester 1826) the code name Amicitia.

After the Würzburg fraternity had initially failed with its application at the Bamberg Burschentag in 1827, at the Burschentag in Dresden in 1831 it succeeded in changing the formulation "Christian-German" within the fraternities' constitution to "German" in order to also formally change the admission by Jews.

During the pre- March period , the Teutons were most vigorous within the General German Burschenschaft for the support of the press association , which had set itself the goal of achieving freedom of the press and the unification of all states of the German-speaking area. They were also the ones who particularly pushed for a boys' day to be held in Stuttgart in 1832, at which it was decided that the aim of the fraternities was to stir up a revolution and that the general German fraternity should join the press association. As a result, some members of the Germania fraternity were significantly involved in the Frankfurt Wachensturm in 1833 in order to trigger a general revolution in Germany by attacking the Hauptwache and Konstablerwache in Frankfurt am Main.

As a result of the Frankfurt Wachensturm, there was a new wave of persecution across Germany from April 1833, which even the Würzburg fraternity did not survive. After the dissolution of the Würzburg fraternity in May 1833, there are no indications that it would continue to exist.

Germania from 1842

On July 2, 1842, students founded a new association called Germania; this was all about progress . At that time, Germania was the only connection in Würzburg besides the Corps. Further foundations of non-corps connections did not take place until March 1848 . For the physical exercise of its members, the association operated its own gymnasium for a time (1845–1852), which was also open to other students. The connection played an active part in the events of 1848/1849; in particular, all members in Würzburg took part in the move of the Würzburg student body to Wertheim (May 20-26, 1849). In May 1848 the 'Studentengesellschaft Germania' received approval from the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior and on August 9, 1848 the now approved colors " black-gold-light blue " were created for the first time .

After the first difficulties in fraternity life arose in 1853 due to the considerable decline in membership, Germania had to suspend in May 1856 due to internal disputes and a lack of members.

In 1865 a connection called "Union", founded in the previous year (May 25, 1864), found connection to the Philistine of Germania and initially adopted its name, and in 1866 also its colors. In 1874/1875 it too had to be dissolved due to a lack of offspring.

At the beginning of the 1880s, a loose table party was created, which gave itself the name "Corona". Its members reconstituted the Germania student union on November 30, 1886. The members from the periods 1842 to 1857 and 1865 to 1875 largely joined the reconstituted union; in January 1887 these decided to merge. An official reconstitution commander was celebrated on June 13, 1887.

This Germania was non-colored and, in contrast to its predecessors, practically committed itself to the principle of absolute satisfaction with the weapon. This change of principle in connection with the meanwhile tightened attitude of the Catholic Church to duels and mensur should be the reason for the fact that only a few of the numerous Catholic theologians in the Germania of 1842 joined the reconstituted union. Determination marks were not struck at this time.

In the winter semester of 1895/96, Aktivitas prepared the conversion of the association into a fraternity by questioning the old men and getting in touch with the Arminia fraternity . After an evening pub with colors on February 29, 1896, Germania reintroduced wearing colors in public from March 1, 1896 as a “student association”. At the beginning of the summer semester of 1896, the entrée suite for admission to the fraternity armed forces ring was stabbed off all of the Germanic tribes. On the Burschentag 1896, the admission as a rehearsing fraternity took place, in the following year the final admission to the General Deputy Convent .

In 1914 the Nikolausburg restaurant was purchased, but the beginning of the First World War initially prevented a renovation.

168 members of the Germania fraternity went to war and 34 died in action. Student life reopened in 1919 with a twilight drink from all Würzburg corporations. In 1928 the Nikolausburg, which had been converted into a Germanenheim, was inaugurated.

After the seizure of power , the fraternities were integrated into the National Socialist German Student Union . In 1935 the fraternities were converted into comradeships and the old gentlemen into old comradeships. The Germania, which continues to have a large number of members, was one of the connections that could maintain a comradeship operation without forced association with another corporation. For this purpose the old gentlemen's association supported the comradeship “Gneisenau”. In this, the Germania fraternity was secretly resumed and gauges continued to be fought.

The Germanenhaus was also largely destroyed by the bombing raid on Würzburg on March 16, 1945 . 32 Germanic peoples died during the war, five more were reported missing.

After the war, the Germanenheim e. V. to the American military government . In 1948 the old gentlemen's association of Germania was re-established in Munich, and in 1949 Aktivitas was re-established in Würzburg.

In 1951, the connection began with the reconstruction of the Germanenheim, which had been destroyed by fire bombs. At the same time, the Senate of the University of Würzburg lifted the ban on wearing paint in public. In the summer of 1956, the Teutons were able to celebrate the completion of the construction work on the house that had been destroyed eleven years earlier as part of a foundation festival and move into the newly designed rooms.

In 1951, the German Franz Ringler, on the basis of the knowledge available to him at the time, examined possible connections between the progress association founded in 1842 and the fraternity that had been suppressed nine years earlier. On the basis of memories (partly refuted later) of members of the old Germania from 1842 and a comparison of the symbols, he came to the conclusion that the association founded in 1842 could be viewed as a secret continuation of the fraternity. The fraternity took the research results of its member as an opportunity, the foundation festival in 1953 as 135th/111. Celebrate the foundation festival.

Even after the Second World War, Germania strengthened again and formed one of the strong connections in the German fraternity. This enabled the fraternity to support foreign fraternities in their reconstruction.

Germania adhered to the compulsory censorship for itself during the seventies and eighties and demanded that it be retained or reintroduced as an association principle, without making it dependent on remaining in the Association of German Burschenschaft .

On October 11, 2008, the Germania Burschenschaft resigned from the German Burschenschaft after 112 years of membership.

After leaving the German fraternity, several lads and old men resigned from the Germania and on January 18, 2009 founded the “Würzburger Burschenschaft Libertas”, which merged with the Teutonia Prague fraternity on December 12, 2009 .

In 2016, the Green Youth accused Germania of connections to the Identitarian Movement . However, this is vehemently denied by Germania.

Colors and motto

The colors of the Germania fraternity are " black-gold-light blue "; they are worn by fraternity boys and foxes alike. The choice of color goes back to the application for recognition that was submitted before the beginning of the March Revolution in 1848 . The Germanic hats are made of black velvet; since 1848 they also show the Germanic colors.

In addition to the motto of the German fraternity “ Honor, Freedom, Fatherland ”, the fraternity also uses the motto “ Honor praemium virtutis ”. In 1887 this replaced the motto going back to Germania in 1842: “ Virtute decet, non sanguine niti. "

Germanic house

The Germanenhaus in Würzburg, rebuilt in 1956 after its destruction in World War II

The connecting house is located directly below the Würzburger Käppeles and has its own ballroom , a large foyer , the so-called Palatinate Room , a newly restored Kneipsaal and on the upper floors its own library , computer room and several rooms for the student members.

Conditions

Due to the selection of the fraternities of other universities, with which Germania maintained a special cooperation, it can be assigned to the so-called “blue” fraternities. In the German fraternity of that time, these were in balance between “ red ” and “ white ” fraternities.

The Germania Würzburg fraternity is a member of the Schwarz-Roter Verband cartel founded in Salzburg in 1922 , which in 2016 also included the Old Königsberg fraternity Alemannia in Kiel, the Hansea-Alemannia fraternity in Hamburg, the Redaria Allemannia fraternity in Rostock and the Franco-Bavaria fraternity in Munich includes. There is also a friendship with the Germania Jena fraternity .

Known members

Germania from 1818

  • Gottfried Eisenmann (1795–1867), doctor, politician, political publicist and medical writer
  • Georg Fresenius (1808–1866), doctor and botanist
  • Carl Freiherr von Künsberg-Langenstadt , District President of Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate, honorary citizen of Regensburg
  • Maximilian von Lerchenfeld-Köfering (1799-1859), diplomat, royal. Bavarian envoy
  • Gustav von Lerchenfeld (1806–1866), finance minister and later interior minister after the March unrest in 1848
  • Bernhard Lizius (1812–1870), participant in the Frankfurt Wachensturm
  • Heinrich Heinkelmann (1807–1866), doctor and political activist
  • Wilhelm Hoffbauer (1812–1892), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly and member of the radical democratic parliamentary group
  • Carl Friedrich von Marcus (1802–1862), doctor, psychiatrist and university professor
  • Karl Pfretzschner (1810–1878), Bavarian merchant, banker and member of the German Customs Parliament
  • Carl Richter (1808–1877), Mecklenburg doctor and member of the Mecklenburg Assembly of Representatives
  • Hermann von Rotenhan (1800–1858), Bavarian Royal Chamberlain and President of the Chamber of Deputies in Bavaria
  • Theodor Schwann (1810–1882), physiologist, discoverer of pepsin, the "Schwann's sheath" named after him, and showed that animals and plants consist of cells
  • Friedrich Julius Stahl (1802–1861), professor of constitutional law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, member of the Prussian manor house for life, advisor to King Friedrich Wilhelm IV
  • Franz Ludwig Philipp Schenk von Stauffenberg (1801–1881), Bavarian Imperial Councilor and President of the Chamber of Imperial Councils
  • Friedrich Joseph Stöhr (1802–1875), Mayor of Rückers, member of the Hessian Estates Assembly
  • Nikolaus Titus (1808–1874), lawyer and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
  • Heinrich Aloisiusreiber (1796–1882) physician and philhellene
  • Rudolf Wagner (1805–1864), professor of zoology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, anatomist, physiologist and discoverer of the female egg cell
  • Friedrich Adolph Wislizenus (1810–1889), American doctor and botanist of German descent, participant in the Frankfurt Wachensturm
  • Adolf von Zerzog (1799–1880), landowner and politician, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
  • Joseph Zeyer (1801–1875), lawyer, member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies
  • Theodor von Zwehl (1800–1875), Bavarian State Minister of the Interior and District President of the administrative districts of Upper Bavaria and Upper Franconia

Germania from 1842

  • Franz Bäke (1898–1978), dentist and major general in the Wehrmacht
  • Willi Banike (1900–1970), Lord Mayor of Dortmund
  • Hans Cain (1919–1983), chief pathologist at the Katharinenhospital Stuttgart, chairman of the German Society for Pathology
  • Karl Engelhardt (1876–1955), teacher and politician (SPD), member of the Bremen citizenship
  • Adam Flasch (1844–1902), professor at the chair for archeology at the University of Erlangen
  • Wolf Frankenburger (1827–1889), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
  • Hans Gudden (1866-1940), psychiatrist
  • Thomas von Hauck (1823–1905), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
  • Theo Hupfauer (1906–1993), Reich Labor Minister, SS Standartenführer
  • Wilhelm Hübsch (1848–1928), Baden Minister of Culture
  • Karl Hüfner (1864–1949), Reich judge
  • August Luchs (1849–1938), professor at the University of Erlangen
  • Philipp von Michel (1845–1922), Lord Mayor and honorary citizen of the city of Würzburg
  • Lorenz Quaglia (1869–1934), district administrator in Dingolfing and Günzburg
  • Gottfried von Schmitt (1827–1908), President of the Supreme Bavarian Regional Court, "father of German inheritance law"
  • Gottfried Schmitt (1865–1919), Reich judge
  • Heinrich Stadelmann (1865–1948), psychiatrist and author
  • Karl Walther (1878–1948), geologist and paleontologist who worked in Uruguay and was a pioneer in the country's geological exploration there
  • Paul Wentzcke (1879–1960), historian and honorary professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, director of the city archive and the history museum in Düsseldorf
  • Gerhard Westram (1907–1977), lawyer

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. 1102.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b for the problem, see Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 5, fn. 5
  2. ^ A b Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), pp. 3–5
  3. ^ A b Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 6
  4. ^ Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 5
  5. ^ Mohl, Robert, in: Lebenserinnerungen, Stuttgart / Leipzig 1902, p. 116 f.
  6. ↑ Haupt, Hermann, in: Festschrift for the 50th anniversary celebration of the Würzburg Burschenschaft Arminia, Gießen 1898, p. 36
  7. ^ Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), pp. 7–8
  8. ^ Schneider, Gustav Heinrich, in: Die Burschenschaft Germania zu Jena - Ein Festschrift, Jena 1897, pp. 143, 166
  9. ^ Schneider, Gustav Heinrich, in: Die Burschenschaft Germania zu Jena - Ein Festschrift, Jena 1897, p. 186.
  10. ^ Schneider, Gustav Heinrich, in: Die Burschenschaft Germania zu Jena - Ein Festschrift, Jena 1897, p. 190; Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 8
  11. ^ Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 8
  12. ^ Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania , Würzburg 1898, p. 52/53; Stickler (Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 10) mentions July 1, 1842.
  13. ↑ The date November 21, 1842, which appears in fraternity literature, refers to the “Kränzchen” association; see. Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 10, there in particular fn. 52
  14. ^ Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania , Würzburg 1898, pp. 8-11
  15. ^ Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania , Würzburg 1898, p. 24 u. 79
  16. ^ Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 13
  17. ^ Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania , Würzburg 1898, p. 2 u. 85/86
  18. ^ Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania , Würzburg 1898, pp. 17–38
  19. ↑ cf. To the excerpt of the Würzburg students also the illustration here: Würzburg Seniors Convent
  20. ^ Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania , Würzburg 1898, p. 35
  21. ^ Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania , Würzburg 1898, pp. 88–95; Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 13
  22. ^ Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 14/15
  23. ^ Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 16
  24. ^ Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), pp. 19/20
  25. ↑ Hans Kittemann: Memories of my German period 1894-1952 ; Typescript Oberstdorf 1952, p. 4
  26. ^ Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania , Würzburg 1898, p. 70/71, in particular p. 71 fn. 1; Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), pp. 19/20
  27. ↑ Hans Kittemann: Memories of my German period 1894-1952 ; Typescript Oberstdorf 1952, p. 9
  28. ↑ Hans Kittemann: Memories of my German period 1894-1952 ; Typescript Oberstdorf 1952, pp. 33-35
  29. ↑ Hans Kittemann: Memories of my German period 1894-1952 ; Typescript Oberstdorf 1952, p. 35
  30. ↑ Hans Kittemann: Memories of my German period 1894-1952 ; Typescript Oberstdorf 1952, pp. 36-38
  31. ↑ Hans Kittemann: Memories of my German period 1894-1952 ; Typescript Oberstdorf 1952, p. 38
  32. ^ Those who died for us - Fallen memorial book of the fraternity Germania zu Würzburg, 2nd edition 1958, p. 153
  33. ↑ Manuel Weskamp and Peter-Philipp Schmitt: In opposition with band and racket. In: FAZ.net . May 29, 2013, accessed December 16, 2014 .
  34. ↑ Those who died for us - Fallen memorial book of the fraternity Germania zu Würzburg, 2nd edition 1958, p. 154
  35. ↑ Hans Kittemann: Memories of my German period 1894-1952 ; Typescript Oberstdorf 1952, pp. 64/65
  36. ^ Franz Ringler: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania from 1818 to 1842 .; Typescript Nuremberg 1951
  37. ↑ in particular the fraternities Alemannia Königsberg and Teutonia Prague ; Hans Kittemann: Memories of my German period 1894-1952 ; Typescript Oberstdorf 1952, pp. 72/73
  38. ↑ Nationalism, Racism and Sexism? - Demo against "Germanenfete". In: Experience Würzburg. October 5, 2016, accessed April 10, 2019 (German).
  39. ^ Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania , Würzburg 1898, p. 13/14 - especially p. 14 fn. 1 - u. P. 21
  40. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 114.
  41. ^ Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania , Würzburg 1898, p. 12 u. P. 21
  42. ↑ Cicero , De claris oratoribus , 281 (there: " Honos est praemium virtutis. ")
  43. ^ Claudian , De quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti , 220
  44. ^ Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania , Würzburg 1898, p. 14 fn. 2; Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 20 fn. 107
  45. ^ Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 20, especially fn. 110
  46. ^ Matthias Stickler: From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), p. 20 fn. 110
  47. ↑ franco-bavaria.de.fc-host29.de ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / franco-bavaria.de.fc-host29.de

literature

  • Matthias Stickler : From the student community to the local deputy convent. The development of the Würzburg fraternity in the 19th century , in: GDS-Archiv 6 (2002), pp. 98–120, digitized version (PDF; 160 kB).
  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 418-420.
  • Rolf-Joachim Baum et al. (Ed.): Student Union and Corporations at the University of Würzburg 1582–1982. , Würzburg 1982, pp. 237-240.
  • Hans Kittemann: Memories of my German period 1894-1952 ; Typescript Oberstdorf 1952
  • Karl Pöhlmann: History of the Würzburger Burschenschaft Germania (Part A: Memories from my student days 1844-1849 .; Part B: History of Germania in the period from 1842 to 1856. ); Wuerzburg 1898
  • Georg Polster: Political student movement and civil society. The Würzburg fraternity in the power field of the state, university and city 1814–1850 (DuQ, 13), Heidelberg 1989.
  • Specimen Corporationum cognitarum

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