Bonn fraternity Germania

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Basic data
University location: Bonn , Germany
Founding: May 5, 1883 in Berlin
Association: association-free
Colours: Black red Gold
Cap: black
Motto: “Freedom, honor, fatherland. The chest of the friend, the forehead of the enemy. "
Website: http://www.germania-bonn.de/home/

The Bonn Burschenschaft Germania is an optional striking fraternity in Bonn . It continues the tradition of eight fraternities of the General German Burschenbund (ADB).

Principles

The ADB, founded in 1883 as an association of reform fraternities, based on the original fraternity, advocated the national idea without party-political aspirations, the cultivation of student, especially fraternity, history, science, moral life, a modest life adapted to the circumstances, the abolition of the fox status, athletic training and rejection racial discrimination.

As an association-free fraternity, the Bonn fraternity Germania stands in its self-image with its motto "Freedom, honor, fatherland. The friend's chest, the enemy the forehead." in the tradition of the original fraternity, whose ideals of freedom were groundbreaking at the beginning of the 19th century. Due to their democratic and liberal tradition, their members are interested in the historical development of Germany and are committed to the ideas and goals of the ADB to this day.

Color

The members of the Bonn fraternity, Germania, wear the colors black-red-gold with silver percussion and a black cap .

history

The Bonn fraternity Germania was created in the summer of 1995 from the merger of the fraternities Neogermania Bonn (free of association), Sugambria Bonn (DB) and Cheruscia Jena (free of association, only old gentlemen's association). All three fraternities can look back on more than 100 years of tradition and were formerly members of the ADB. Therefore, the ADB was used as the liaison circle. The old motto of the ADB was added to that of Sugambria Bonn. In addition, the colors of the ADB have been adopted.

Membership of the new federation in the German Burschenschaft (DB) should be ensured. But since only Sugambria belonged to the umbrella organization, she officially formed the tribe opposite him. It now called itself "Germania", and the Neo-Germans were then able to join it as individual members. However, the date of foundation is May 5, 1883. On December 14, 2002, Germania left the DB because it did not like the political development in the umbrella organization to the right.

Traditional associations

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In addition to the Neogermania, the oldest reform fraternity, the Bonn fraternity Germania continues the tradition of seven other ADB fraternities:

Fraternity Neogermania Berlin

The fraternity Neogermania Berlin was on May 5, 1883 in Berlin with the colors gold-black-red-gold , first with a black, then later with a red cap on their heads, and the motto "Freedom, Honor, Country" in Berlin founded. * She was in the ADB from November 11, 1883 to January 1, 1934, in the German Burschenschaft from January 1, 1934 to October 18, 1935. In 1995 she merged to become the Bonn Burschenschaft Germania.

History of the Neogermania Berlin fraternity

The reform fraternities

On July 20, 1881, the "General Deputy Convent" (ADC) was founded as an amalgamation of the colored fraternities with unconditional satisfaction at the German universities. Since 1902 this has been called the Deutsche Burschenschaft (DB).

The establishment of the German Reich (1871) had given rise to the opinion among the fraternity that the fraternity's old goal, German unity, had now been achieved; that as a fraternity one no longer has any real task and must primarily devote oneself to the corporate side of federal life. Individual fraternities had drawn the logical conclusion for them from this view and transformed themselves into corps .

The self-confidence of the corps, increased to the point of arrogance, impressed the fraternities as well. Since the material foundations did not allow a similar appearance in public, the attempt was made to compensate for this by a very extreme duel principle and at the same time hoped to gain public reputation through participation in anti-Semitism , regardless of the fact that this would create bridges to the own historical past broke off.

On the other hand, from the opposition to the advancing development of the “arms connection”, a number of “reform fraternities ” emerged in 1883, which in the same year merged to form the “ General German Burschenbund ” (ADB).

In the Tivoli speech "On the reform of the fraternities" Konrad Küster essentially made three demands:

  1. Gradual abolition of the saber and pistol duels, instead introduction of compulsory arbitration courts, abolition of determination and appointment maneuvers.
  2. Exercise tolerance as a sign of high education and self-confident strength.
  3. Non-partisan national activity of the fraternities with the celebration of January 18th as a national holiday as the most visible expression of the national German activity of the fraternities.

This reform movement within the fraternities was directed on the one hand against the alignment of the fraternities with the corps, but on the other hand against the increasing fragmentation of the German student body into numerous differently oriented and often hostile corporations and umbrella organizations. The fraternities, rejecting determination censorship and commentary exaggeration, should reflect more strongly on moral goals, show tolerance and promote a reunification of the student body in a general fraternity. The response in the existing ADC fraternities to this speech turned out to be unexpectedly low for Küster. Even those who sympathized with the idea of ​​reform held back. They admitted that there were grievances. But it was emphatically emphasized that even today the aim of all fraternities would be the development of a consciously German-national sentiment. The most important thing was that the Küsters standpoint was rejected. So the circle of the older fraternities remained firmly closed and none fell away from the ADC.

After the ADC had finally closed itself to the reform idea, Konrad Küster and Eugen Wolff drafted the program for a reform fraternity to be established following the older principles of 1818 with the "individual front shifts and expansions caused by the changed times and changed situation". Motto: "Let's check everything and keep the best!"

The Neo-Germania fraternity was founded on May 5, 1883, as the first reform fraternity. The name “Neo” -Germania was deliberately chosen in memory of the dispute over the direction of the early fraternity between Armines and Germanic peoples . The first speaker was the later literary scholar Eugen Wolff .

Fraternity Neogermania Berlin

The Neogermania Berlin fraternity had the colors gold-black-red-gold and a black (later red) cap as headgear. Their motto was: "Freedom, honor, fatherland!"

In 1884, 1892, 1898, 1902, 1907, 1908 and 1933 Neogermania presided over the ADB.

Imperial times

On May 5, 1883, the founding meeting of Neo-Germania took place, at which 24 fellow students committed themselves to the statutes. This meeting was prompted by the so-called Tivoli speech that Konrad Küster had given on the occasion of the first old fraternity committee to found the Reich and in which he called for a reform of student life in the sense of the original fraternity. The new connection was black-white-red.

The principles were established as follows:

  1. Care of the German national sense without party politics.
  2. Care of student and especially fraternity history.
  3. Science.
  4. Morally serious way of life.
  5. Prohibition to live beyond the means and incur debts against pledging of the word of honor.
  6. Principle of equal rights for all members.
  7. Principle of physical training through fencing, gymnastics, swimming, hiking.
  8. Rejection of the duel in principle and striving to ban it completely.

On the resolution of the 1st Bundestag of the ADB to use the fraternity colors as generally as possible, the gold-black-red-gold ribbon and the black cap were adopted on October 18, 1884. Since June 11, 1886, the Bund was no longer called the Reform Burschenschaft, but rather, with a change in spelling, the Berlin Burschenschaft Neogermania . In 1890 the light red cloth cap was introduced.

In the summer semester of 1900, the university judge imposed a suspension on the fraternity because they had accepted members of foreign universities in Berlin into their ranks. However, she continued to perform at the Technical University of Charlottenburg under the old name. Until she was admitted to the university again at the beginning of the winter semester of 1901/1902, the Charlottenburg fraternity gave its name and its university students back to Berlin. It continued to exist under the name of Sigambria Charlottenburg .

Fighting began with the aim of introducing qualifications and excluding Jews. The dissolution of the fraternity failed because of the old men and 7 inactive people who became active again and upheld the old liberal ADB ethos.

In 1913 the ADB consisted of 29 fraternities and around 1900 members. At that time Neogermania had 134 members, including 76 old men. In August 1914, Aktivitas registered for military service, but the fraternity was secured during the First World War with the help of the old gentlemen's association. 103 friars took part in the First World War, 19 of whom fell.

Subsidiary connection: Fraternity Markomannia Munich

On June 7, 1890, the MARKOMANNIA was founded in Munich as a subsidiary with the colors red-black-gold as a fraternity and with the principles of the ADB. The admission into the ADB took place at its 7th Bundestag in 1890. In the years 1893 to 1903 Markomannia had to adjourn. In 1903 the company was reopened under the colors gold-white-blue-gold. At the end of the winter semester 1927/28, after merging with the old gentlemen's association of the former ADB fraternity Askania Munich (founded November 9, 1906, colors: blue-gold-green, blue cap), the color changed to blue-gold-green. In 1929 Markomannia took over the adjourned ADB-Burschenschaft Rhein-Elsaß (founded March 27, 1922; colors: black-white-black on a red background, red cloth cap) and remained in the ADB until its end in October 1933 May 5, 1934 joined the Neogermania Berlin with Cheruskia Königsberg and Askano-Silesia Marburg.

Weimar Republic

Even before 1914, the federal government consisted for the most part of members whose origins were not the so-called wealthy upper classes. But now the student worker type became a common phenomenon. After 1918 the internal struggles flared up again. Contrary to earlier decisions, it was now decided to introduce censorship and the refusal to accept Jews. It was assured that they would remain loyal to “the very few old men of Jewish descent who remained with us”. The ADB saw itself as "asemitic", not as "anti-Semitic".

From the SPD to the DVP : Neo-Germans in the top management

The Weimar Republic marked the height of the political influence of Neo-Germania:

  • Eduard David , who drafted the ADB constitution in 1887, became the first president of the Weimar National Assembly as an SPD politician and later became Minister of the Interior.
  • Otto Fischbeck was chairman of the board of the left-liberal DDP and Prussian Minister of State for Trade and Industry.
  • Gustav Stresemann , who in the summer semester of 1898 was the spokesman for Neogermania as well as the president (head of the association) of the ADB, was party chairman of the national liberal DVP, Reich Chancellor, Foreign Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
  • Hermann Dietrich , ADB fraternity member and body fox of ex-neo-German Paul Lensch (Reichstag member for the SPD), was Reich Minister, Vice Chancellor and party leader of the left-wing liberal German State Party.

These outstanding politicians from the political parties of the Weimar Republic were federal brothers and as such they had a special relationship of trust to one another, which certainly had an impact on their political cooperation. Even as old men they regularly took part in fraternity and appeared there as speakers.

At the Bundestag in 1927 the principles of the ADB were laid down. In the winter semester 1930/31 the fraternity comprised 94 old men, 95 inactive and active. The ADB had 41 fraternities with 4,642 friars.

Stresemann as Neogermane

Stresemann was a member of the ADB fraternities Neogermania Berlin (mother association), Suevia Leipzig, Normannia zu Heidelberg and Palatia Tübingen as well as an honorary member of the fraternity Cheruscia Königsberg. During his active time as a fraternity member, he acknowledged the liberal ideas of 1848. Stresemann: "During this time I found my first friendship and my first training in the field of cooperation, perhaps also in the field of leadership." He competed no less than five times on a heavy saber, the last game earning him the familiar blow of the lip.

Under Stresemann's leadership, Neogermania celebrated its 15th foundation day in 1898 and the ADB its first Bundestag in Bad Frankenhausen. At the Bundestag in Jena in 1899, at one of the most critical times of the association, when there were only 3 active fraternities in it, he gave the encouraging and saving speech in response to the introduction of a motion to dissolve. In this, his first major programmatic political speech, he strongly emphasized the opposition between the traditional liberalism of the fraternities and the social democracy of that time and presented it above all in the motto of the fraternities "Freedom, Honor, Fatherland!". The motion for dissolution was withdrawn Pessimism was overcome.

In 1903 Stresemann married Käte Kleefeld , the sister of a fraternity of Neo-Germania. The marriage resulted in Wolfgang Stresemann (since 1956 honorary member of Neogermania-Berlin).

Despite his time-consuming offices and dignities, Stresemann remained a fraternity through and through until the last minute. He regularly paid visits to the ADB fraternities, especially his Neogermania, intensively cultivated contacts with his federal brothers and gave an encouraging speech at the Bundestag in Goslar in 1924.

When Reich Foreign Minister Stresemann died on October 3, 1929, on the day of the state funeral, almost 200 officials of all ADB fraternities followed his coffin in Berlin to the Luisenstadt cemetery. Otto Fischbeck gave the commemorative speech.

Third Reich

Neogermania remained in the ADB until its dissolution. On October 8, 1933, there was a merger with the ADB Burschenschaften Sigambria Charlottenburg , Obotritia Berlin and Gothia Berlin with the colors red-black on white . As Neogermania, the merged federation - after the dissolution of the ADB - joined the Deutsche Burschenschaft (DB) on January 1, 1934 as part of the ordinance of conformity .

On May 5, 1934 he took over the former ADB-Bünder Markomannia Munich , Cheruskia Königsberg and Askano-Silesia Marburg ; the colors red-gold on white were adopted.

Fraternity of the Frankenburger Berlin

The fraternity of the Frankenburger Berlin had the colors red and gold on white and a red cap as headgear. Their motto was: "Freedom, honor, fatherland!"

On September 26, 1934, Neogermania Berlin and Prussia Berlin merged to form the fraternity of the Frankenburger Berlin , which belonged to the ADB and in turn had accepted various members of the ADB. The name should keep the memory of the ADB alive and comes from the town of Bad Frankenhausen in Thuringia , where the association held its Bundestag until its dissolution in October 1933. The connection belonged to the DB from its foundation. It remained in the umbrella organization until it was transferred to the NSDStB on October 18, 1935 . When the agreement on which the transfer was based was canceled in early 1936, the Franconians had to dissolve in 1936.

After that, the former members of Neogermania - but without the Munich Marcomanni who went to the Guelfia Munich - formed the Kameradschaft Ruhe , which was later called the Kameradschaft Carl von Clausewitz (until about 1944); the former Prussia supported the Schramm comradeship , which was closed in 1941/42 due to a lack of members.

While the activities of the fraternities were mostly formally dissolved in the years 1934 to 1936, many old gentlemen's associations could continue to exist, in many cases as "old comradeships". The old rulers succeeded in many cases in influencing the members of the comradeships according to their principles and traditions and in creating fraternities, sometimes in silent opposition to the NSDStB.

The Frankenburg-Bauverein (later: Frankenburg-Ehrenmal-Verein ) became a center of tradition for the old members of the ADB in those years and held its meetings regularly at Whitsun in Frankenhausen from 1934 to 1939. After the Second World War, the fraternity Frankenburgia Berlin emerged from these circles .

Fraternity Frankenburgia Berlin

The fraternity Frankenburgia Berlin had the colors black and red on gold and a black velvet cap with a black, red and gold border as headgear. Their motto was: "Freedom, honor, fatherland!"

After the Second World War, the federal brothers of the old ADB-Bünder of Berlin or the fraternity of the Frankenburger were brought together again in June 1945. The aim was to realize the fraternity ideals and to adapt some of the ideas to the times. So, in the old interest, it was initially agreed to found an “Academic-Scientific Association - The Frankenburger”.

The union was re-established as a fraternity in November 1949; Formally, since its founding on September 12, 1949, the old rulers of the fraternities Neogermania Berlin , Gothia Berlin and Prussia Berlin (with Vandalia ) as well as Sigambria Charlottenburg belonged to it. In June 1950, Frankenburgia was also involved in rebuilding the DB.

On May 17, 1952, a friendship agreement was established among 11 former ADB fraternities in Braunschweig in order to give more validity to the ADB ideas, such as the salutation "Federal Brother" and the federal fraternal "You" also among the various fraternities (AHB and Aktivitas). On the basis of the original spirit, the freedom of the individual fraternities to form opinions was guaranteed and the compulsion for uniform voting was rejected. The final constitution took place at the Burschentag of the DB in 1952 in Bingen under the name "The Frankenburger, Friends of the DB" . It existed until June 25, 1966.

However, the Goths resigned from the Frankenburgia Berlin fraternity in July 1950 and founded an independent association. The old rulers of the Neogermania Berlin fraternity resigned in 1953 and reconstituted their own federation in the same year. Frankenburgia had to adjourn on June 4, 1966 due to a lack of members and joined the Ghibellinia-Leipzig fraternity on June 25, 1966 .

Fraternity Neogermania Berlin

The Neogermania Berlin fraternity had the colors gold-black-red-gold and a red cap as headgear. Their motto was: "Freedom, honor, fatherland!"

After the Second World War, the Frankenburger Berlin fraternity was founded in 1949 as a traditional association of the former ADB. The Neo-Germans, who were initially members there, resigned at the beginning of 1953 after they had reconstituted their Altherrenbund Neogermania eV on December 12, 1952. On August 7, 1953, an activitas of its own announced itself and the federation constituted itself as a free fraternity.

At the Burschentag 1954 she submitted an application for membership in the DB, but had to withdraw it before the vote because the other Berlin fraternities refused to support them despite their prior approval. A new application for membership was no longer submitted; on the contrary, in 1956 the federal government even left the Berlin Deputy Convent. The mandatory introduction of the determination gauges in the DB in 1954 also contributed to this development, while Neogermania rejected this unchanged.

In the following years friendly contacts continued to exist among the remaining former ADB fraternities. So there was a close relationship with Sugambria Bonn through many so-called double band members. Neogermania Berlin, still free of associations, was repeatedly encouraged to join the DB, but the fraternity's economic and personal healthy situation at the time, as well as the assumption of the censorship principle necessarily associated with joining the DB, prevented this.

At that time, Neogermania mainly accepted students who came to West Berlin from the GDR and East Berlin . This and the desire to enable active students to continue their studies in the West led to the establishment of a second Aktivitas in Bonn at the end of 1957. Until the suspension of Berliner Aktivitas in 1976, there were two activities with a common old man.

In the winter semester 1967/68, under the influence of the student protests , some old men left Neogermania with most of the activitas and founded the Gustav Stresemann fraternity , which, however, had to cease operations after two years.

Fraternity Neogermania-Berlin in Bonn

On November 9, 1957, the new fraternity, Neogermania-Berlin zu Bonn, registered at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. The fraternity moved into its first house in 1958 at Kurfürstenallee 74 and in 1961 moved to their home on Baumschulallee. Until the suspension of Berliner Aktivitas in 1976, Neogermania consisted of two activities and a common old rulership. Due to a lack of members, Neogermania sought a merger with the former ADB fraternity Sugambria Bonn in the early 1990s .

Burschenschaft Sigambria Charlottenburg

The fraternity Sigambria Charlottenburg was on May 5, 1901 in Charlottenburg with the colors -Gold Red White with golden percussion and brick red hat and the slogan: "Freedom, Honor, Country" founded. She was in the ADB from 1902 to 1933. In 1904 and 1921 she chaired the ADB. Sigambria merged on October 8, 1933 with the Neogermania Berlin fraternity.

Fraternity of Cheruscia Koenigsberg

The fraternity Cheruscia Koenigsberg became the traditional successor of the fraternity Hochhemia Koenigsberg (1838-1847) with the colors black-red-gold from below with golden percussion and as headgear a white cap (from the winter semester 1927/28 black-light blue -Gold with silver percussion and light blue flat cap) and the motto "Honor, Freedom, Fatherland!" Was founded in Königsberg. She was a member of the ADB from October 18, 1885 to 1933. In 1889, 1894 and 1909 she chaired the ADB. Cheruskia merged with the Neogermania Berlin fraternity on May 5, 1934.

Askano-Silesia Marburg fraternity

The Askano-Silesia Marburg fraternity was founded as Askania Breslau.

Askania Wroclaw

The Askania Breslau fraternity was founded on February 13, 1908 in Breslau by the Breslauer Saxonen in order to have a second ADB fraternity there. It had the colors black and red on a golden background (from below), a wine-red velvet cap as headgear and the motto: "Freedom, honor, fatherland!" . She was a member of the ADB from 1908/09 to 1933. Of 42 federal brothers who took part in the First World War, 20 fell. Since the summer semester of 1919, the small back of the head was worn instead of the stiff hat. Suspended from 1928 to the winter semester of 1929/30. The fraternity moved to Marburg in the summer semester of 1930, where it changed its name.

Askano-Silesia Marburg

Reopened on May 10, 1930 in Marburg with simultaneous admission of the loyal members of Sigambria-Marburg, who had left the ADB shortly before, and the name was changed to Askano-Silesia. Color change: red-black on a golden background, red back of the head color. It merged on May 5, 1934 with the Neogermania Berlin fraternity.

Fraternity Sugambria Bonn

The fraternity Sugambria Bonn was founded on February 14, 1901 in Bonn. It was purple-white-gold with silver percussion. From the summer semester of 1908, the colors were also worn in public. A light brown, later purple, flat cap was worn as headgear. Their motto was: "your friend's chest, the enemy forehead!" . After she had been a member of the ADB from June 7, 1908 to January 1, 1934, she joined the German fraternity on January 1, 1934. From 1962 until it was sold in 1997, Sugambria had its own house in Bonn's Rathausgasse. It merged in 1995 to form the Bonn fraternity Germania.

History of the fraternity Sugambria Bonn

The fraternity Sugambria Bonn was founded on February 14, 1901 by Franz Jungbluth as a loose association with a scientific character. Any idea of ​​connection was expressly rejected, although several members of different corporations were among the first members. After an initial boom, the association suffered a setback after 3 semesters, as numerous members, including the founder, changed universities. Jungbluth went to Berlin and there he joined the local stenographers' association according to "Stolze Schrey" , which, in contrast to the one in Bonn, had strong corporate features.

The now Academic Stenographers' Association Stolze-Schrey set itself the task of maintaining shorthand and literature and was not yet corporate. There was a lively contact with the Neogermania Berlin fraternity , which left a lasting impression on Jungbluth. This is because - having returned to Bonn - rejected the original anti-corporative idea of ​​the stenographers' association and instead adopted more and more fraternity traditions. In the summer semester of 1903, colors were adopted that were initially only worn in the pub.

In the Academic Stenographers Association

In the winter semester of 1904/05 one joined the Academic Stenographers Association . The name A.St.V. Sugambria was accepted in the winter semester of 1906/07. Finally, in the summer semester of 1907, the Academic Stenographers' Association was resigned to join a larger student association.

Free association on a fraternity basis

Therefore, in the winter semester of 1907/08, the conversion into the Free Association Sugambria took place on a fraternity basis with unconditional satisfaction and the motto "The friend's chest, the enemy the forehead" . The name Sugambria was chosen because the Germanic tribe of the Sugambrians settled on the opposite side of the Rhine between Sieg and Ruhr in ancient times.

For the first time in the summer semester of 1908, the colors and hats were put on publicly. The following principles were considered: Citizenship education of the members, sport, science; As a member of the Bonn armed forces ring, she insisted on absolute satisfaction and allowed her members to make appointments. The old gentlemen's association was in existence on October 16, 1910.

In the ADB

Because of Jungbluth's close contact with the reform fraternities, Sugambria joined the ADB. Sugambria was accepted into the ADB on June 7, 1908, and finally on May 30, 1909. It remained there until its dissolution in October 1933. In 1927 and 1929 it was chairman. At that time the ADB was in fierce competition with DB.

Due to the war, Sugambria was suspended from 1914 to 1919. 12 Sugambrers fell during the First World War . The fraternity suffered a lot during the war and after the war, especially as a result of the longstanding Allied occupation of the Rhineland . She was suspended again in 1926/27 after the active members transferred to the Arminia Gießen fraternity .

In the winter semester 1930/31 Sugambria comprised 45 old men, 26 inactive and 25 active.

In the German fraternity

After merging with the ADB fraternities Strasbourg Burschenschaft Wasgau Cologne , Alemannia Cologne and Vandalia Aachen to form the Burschenschaft Wasgau Cologne , the fraternity - after the dissolution of the ADB - became part of the German fraternity as part of the decreed conformity . The merger was resolved on February 29, 1936. Wasgau dissolved and existed as an unregistered union of old Wasgen .

In the summer semester of 1948, it reopened as the Sugambria Bonn fraternity under the old colors and taking over the old rulers of the Düsseldorf fraternity in Cologne and parts of the Cheruscia Jena fraternity . Sugambria became a founding member of the reconstituted German fraternity on June 15, 1950. In the summer semester of 1951, most of the old men were accepted into the ADB fraternity of Palatia Gießen .

In 1954 Sugambria was excluded from the DB for one year "because of damage to the association". In the opinion of the umbrella organization, Sugambria's efforts to modernize student lifestyles went too far. Sugambria had rejected compulsory censorship and attacked the monopoly of beer as a traditional corporate drink. The real reason, however, was that the Burschentag declared the determination mensorship as binding again from 1955, and so they quickly looked for and found a reason to remove Sugambria from the DB before the scale vote and thus secure a three-quarters majority to amend the statutes. The ADB fraternities were traditionally facultative and decidedly refused the compulsory graduation.

Sugambria achieved nationwide fame through her old gentleman General Günter Kießling , who always openly confessed to the fraternity and very often appeared as a speaker at boys' days.

The preparation for the merger

In 1975/76 there were fruitless merger negotiations with the Neogermania Berlin / Bonn fraternity . For decades there has been a close relationship between the two associations through many so-called double band members due to the common ADB tradition. This project failed due to reservations on the part of DB. In the 1985/86 winter semester, the Sugambria Bonn fraternity took on the responsibility of maintaining the tradition of the Cheruscia Jena fraternity , but the old men’s association remained in place.

particularities

Sugambria is the only known case in which a member association of the Academic Stenographers Association developed into a fraternity over several stations.

Sugambria achieved nationwide fame through her old man General Dr. Günter Kießling, who always openly confessed to the fraternity and very often appeared as a speaker at boys' days.

Fraternity Palatia Giessen

The fraternity Palatia Gießen was founded on February 23, 1927 in Gießen by active and old men of the former ADB fraternity Arminia-Gießen, because this union had left the umbrella organization on February 19, 1927 and changed to the gymnastics body. In the winter semester of 1926/27, Arminia had taken over most of the active members of Sugambria-Bonn who had left Bonn because of the Rhineland occupation.

Palatia had the colors red-silver-black with silver percussion, a black velvet cap and the motto “God, freedom, honor, fatherland!” . She was a member of the ADB from 1928/29 to 1933. In the summer semester of 1951, most of the old men were accepted by the Sugambria Bonn fraternity, which continued the tradition of the Palatia Gießen fraternity.

Fraternity Dusseldorpia Cologne

The fraternity of Düsseldorpia Köln (also: Duesseldorpia ) was founded in Düsseldorf on December 1, 1914 with the colors red-silver-red and silver percussion, white hats and the motto “Friendship, Freedom, Fatherland!” . It was in the ADB from 1927 to 1933. It was adjourned in 1924 and reconstituted in Cologne in 1927. It dissolved in 1936 and was incorporated into the Sugambria Bonn fraternity in 1949/50.

Cheruscia Jena fraternity

The fraternity Cheruscia Jena was founded on February 9, 1884 in Jena by former members of the Germania Jena fraternity , whose mother fraternity was the first Jena fraternity on June 12, 1815 ( original fraternity ), with the colors black-red-gold with golden percussion as a hat a cherry-red velvet hat, as well as the motto “Honor, freedom, fatherland! Life and death for the fatherland! ” Was founded. She was in the ADB from October 18, 1884 to January 1, 1934, in the German Armed Forces (DW) from May 20, 1934 to September 12, 1935, because the relationship with the other fraternities in Jena was too bad. After the Second World War it was reconstituted as an association-free old gentlemen's association without activism in Detmold . In 1985/86, the Sugambria Bonn fraternity took on the responsibility of maintaining the tradition of the Cheruscia Jena fraternity. In 1995 the merger to form the Bonn fraternity Germania followed.

The root of the primitive fraternity

Founded as a reform fraternity with the name "Jenaische Burschenschaft auf dem Fürstenkeller" by former members of the Germania fraternity (stud. Theol. Wilhelm Bucksath, stud. Theol. Eduard Noll and stud. Med. Karl Schulze), initially a black velvet hat with black worn red and gold ribbon. This was a continuation of the tradition of the old fraternity. A number of old Fürstenkelleraner from the 1840s joined them. Despite strong hostility, the association quickly developed to a population of 30 members.

Fraternity in the ADB

On October 18, 1884, she was accepted into the Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenbund (ADB) on the first Wartburgtag in Eisenach without any renaissance time. Differences of opinion led to a separation in June 1885. The majority stayed in the old pub under the name “Fraternity Cheruscia on the Fürstenkeller”, retained the principles, coat of arms and ribbon, but introduced the red cap. The rest founded the Alemannia. A reunification came about in January 1886, but the separation had damaged the fraternity so much that it never regained its old height. In 1899 she was suspended for lack of members.

On October 18, 1905, Cheruscia was reconstituted as a non-colored fraternity. The old colors were put back on for the 22nd foundation festival. In the summer semester of 1912, a hat in the old fraternity format was introduced. On May 13, 1913, the Vandalia was founded by members of the Cheruscia. This had to be suspended in 1913.

151 members took part in the First World War, 32 died. At Cheruscia, principles were changed after the war, Jews were refused admission, sport came to the fore, and members were allowed to meet. In the winter semester of 1923/24, most of the rest of the Vandalia, who had meanwhile founded the "Academic Scientific Association Wartburg", returned to the Cheruscia. In the winter semester 1930/31 the fraternity comprised 120 old men, 36 inactive and 15 active.

Cheruskia presided over the ADB in 1885, 1893 and 1899.

Member of the German Armed Forces

After the National Socialists came to power, Cheruscia remained in the ADB until its dissolution in October 1933. After that, she formed a military service (because she refused to join the DB; reason: very bad relationship with the local DB fraternities) and joined the DB in early 1935 German armed forces over. In September 1935, the DW disbanded; Cheruscia postponed the activitas.

Association-free senior gentlemen's association without activitites

After World War II, Cheruscia did not reconstitute. Some of the old men went to Sugambria-Bonn in 1949/50, but remained there as a traditional fraternity (independent group of old men) without any activity, and since 1964 they have held a Cheruscan meeting every year at Pentecost in Detmold. Cheruscia was a non-union AHB without activites. 1985/86 Sugambria-Bonn took over the obligation to maintain the tradition of the Cheruscia after their dissolution. The AHB e. V. der Cheruscia-Jena had 32 members in December 1989, including 20 members of the former ADB-B! Cheruscia-Jena, the rest were new additions from Neogermania-Bonn and Sugambria-Bonn.

Together with Sugambria and Neogermania, Cheruscia finally joined the Bonn fraternity of Germania in 1995.

Known members

  • Eduard David (1863–1930), politician (SPD), member of the Landtag Hessen-Darmstadt, member of the Reichstag, Deputy Foreign Minister (Undersecretary of State), first President of the Weimar National Assembly, Reich Minister without portfolio, Reich Minister of the Interior (Arminia Gießen, Neogermania Berlin)
  • Otto Fischbeck (1865–1939), politician (FVP and DDP), member of the Weimar National Assembly, the Reichstag and the Prussian Landtag, Prussian Minister of State for Trade and Industry. (Neogermania Berlin, Arminia Greifswald, Arminia Kiel, Hansea Hamburg)
  • Ludwig Friedländer (1824–1909), classical philologist and cultural historian (Hochhemia Königsberg, Cheruscia Königsberg (founding boy))
  • Paul Geheeb (1870–1961), reform pedagogue (Neogermania Berlin)
  • Gerd Gies (* 1943), politician (CDU), Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt
  • Armin Graebert (1898–1947), local politician and mayor of Wurzen (Neogermania Berlin)
  • Willy Günther (1905–1976), main shareholder and general director of Deutsche Herold Versicherung AG (Neogermania Berlin)
  • Hans Hinkel (1901–1960), NSDAP, Ministerialdirektor, Vice-President of the Reich Chamber of Culture, Reich Film Director (Sugambria Bonn)
  • Robert von Keudell (1824–1903), member of the Reichstag (Cheruscia Königsberg, founder)
  • Günter Kießling (1925–2009), General of the Bundeswehr, Commander of the NATO Land Forces and Deputy of the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe (Sugambria Bonn, Bonn B! Germania)
  • Alexander von Kluck (1846–1934), Colonel General and Commander-in-Chief of the 1st Army in World War I (Sigambria Charlottenburg, Neogermania)
  • Konrad Küster (1842–1931), doctor and publicist, founder of the ADB (Franconia Bonn, Neogermania Berlin, bearer of the honor band of all ADB fraternities)
  • Paul Lensch (1873–1926), university professor and politician (SPD), member of the Reichstag, Lensch represented the dissolution of the ADB in the ADB Bundestag in 1898, which was prevented by the action of his federal brother Gustav Stresemann (Neogermania Berlin, Arminia Strasbourg)
  • Felix Graf von Luckner (1881–1966), Corvette Captain, "Seeteufel" (Cheruscia Königsberg)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Nolte (1880–1952), politician (DHP), member of the Reichstag (Düsseldorpia Cologne)
  • Günther Scholz (1919–2003), head of “Deutsche Welle” Bonn. Author of biographies about Herbert Wehner , Kurt Schumacher and "The Federal Presidents". (Comradeship "C. v. Clausewitz" / Neogermania Berlin)
  • Johannes Schröder (1905–1982), general representative and later director for finances at Krupp (Neogermania Berlin)
  • Gustav Stresemann (1878–1929), politician (DVP), Chancellor and Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic and winner of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize (Neogermania Berlin, Suevia Leipzig)
  • Wolfgang Stresemann (1904–1998), Artistic Director of the Berlin Philharmonic (honorary member of Neogermania Berlin 1956)
  • Bernhard Weiss (theologian) (1827–1918), Protestant theologian (Hochhemia Königsberg)
  • Max Wiessner (1885–1946), newspaper publisher (Neogermania Berlin)
  • Eugen Wolff (1863–1929), university professor and literary scholar (Neogermania Berlin, Tuiskonia Leipzig)
  • Berno Zeißler (1907–1997), politician (SPD), Lord Mayor of Frankenthal / Pfalz (Neogermania Berlin)

See also

literature

  • 1883-1983. 100 years of the Neogermania fraternity. Festschrift, Bonn 1983.
  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005.
  • Helmut Kraussmüller and Ernst Anger: The history of the Allgemeine Deutscher Burschenbund (ADB) 1883–1933 and the fate of the former ADB fraternities. Giessen 1989 (Historia Academica, issue 28).
  • Student associations and fraternity students in Bonn. Haltern 1989.

Web links

Collection of color cards :

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag Hans-Georg Balder: Die Deutsche (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Ihr Representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Helmut Kraussmüller and Ernst Anger: The history of the General German Burschenbund (ADB) 1883–1933 and the fate of the former ADB fraternities. Giessen 1989, Historia Academica, issue 28.
  3. ↑ Peter Krause : O old lad glory. The students and their customs. 5th edition. Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1997, p. 107.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h i 1883–1983. 100 years of the Neogermania fraternity. Festschrift, Bonn 1983.
  5. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 84.
  6. ↑ Der Spiegel of July 28, 1954, pp. 28f.