Fraternity of Thessalia Prague

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Basic data
University location: Bayreuth , Germany
Founding: December 7, 1864 in Prague
Association: German fraternity (DB)
Colours: black White Red
Motto: Unus pro omnibus - omnes pro uno!
Website: www.thessalia.de

The fraternity of Thessalia in Prague in Bayreuth is a student union in the corporation association of the German fraternity (DB). The fraternity is compulsory , colored and unites students from the University of Bayreuth and former students from the universities of Prague , Munich , Regensburg and Bayreuth . The members of the fraternity are called "Thessalen".

Color

Thessalia has the colors " black-white-red " with silver percussion . A black wreath hat with a burgundy velvet ring is worn as a student hat, which is embroidered with silver oak leaves and sequins . The foxes of the Thessals do not wear their own fox ribbon, but also the black-white-red boys' ribbon , the connoisseurs only the hat. The motto is Unus pro omnibus - omnes pro uno ! (German: "One for all - all for one!").

history

The founding boys of the Thessalia fraternity in Prague in 1865

Members of the student table society “Tesseralia” founded the “Academisch Pharmaceutische Burschenschaft Thessalia” in Prague on December 7, 1864 at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University in Prague at the suggestion of a member of the Austrian Academic Association, today's Corps Austria . In 1869, Thessalia adopted the "conservative principle" and became mandatory, at that time still using the so-called Prague plempe . 1880 was their weapons, the first Burschenschaft basket bat - Mensur held in Prague. On the occasion of the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, the Thessals changed the colors of their ribbon from black-red-silver to black-white-red in the same year.

In 1938 the fraternity Thessalia was under the direct circuit through the National Socialist German Students' League dissolved. From 1938 to 1945 she continued in the "Deutschherrenritter" comradeship .

In the winter semester of 1949/50, the federal government was able to reopen at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . The Askania fraternity founded in 1949, Munich's first post-war association, was merged with the Thessalia in 1961. In the 1970 summer semester, Thessalia moved to Regensburg before finally finding a new home in Bayreuth in the 1990/91 winter semester .

Fraternity orientation

The fraternity of Thessalia in Prague is linked to the two academic fraternities of Moldavia Vienna and Germania Graz in the Black-Blue Cartel. The cartel was founded on June 21, 1921 by contract and is called "black-blue" after the colors of the caps of the member associations. Under the cartel motto "A federation at three university locations" they understand a "close, fraternal relationship". In addition, she maintains a friendship relationship with the academic fraternity Markomannia Wien zu Deggendorf.

She is a founding member of the “ Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft in DB und DBÖ ”. In the summer semester of 2008 she took over the chairmanship of the fraternity for the 2008/2009 financial year.

Any male student at the University of Bayreuth who is "of German descent, regardless of which passport he carries" can become a member.

Controversy

According to the anti-fascist information sheet, the fraternity of Thessalia is "on the far right of the corporation spectrum" . The personnel overlap with the neo-Nazi milieu show who consider that some former members Jürgen Schwab , chief editor of the NPD -Organs German voice , Andreas Wölfel, NPD scene lawyer Axel Kassegger , Austrian Freedom Party - National Council , and Mario B., suspected supporters of the National Socialist Underground and Vice-Chief of the Thuringian Homeland Security . The factual overlap shows the admission debate of the German fraternity (so-called "Ariernachweis") 2011. According to the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution , activities by individuals in the right-wing extremist area could not be attributed to the Thessalia fraternity.

Alleged connection to a suspected supporter of the NSU

In October 2014 it was reported by several media that Mario B., a senior member of the Thuringian Homeland Security when he was a student, had reported his secondary residence at the fraternity of Thessalia from 1997 to 2008. B. was a member of the fraternity. B's residence was of media interest, as in a special vote on the NSU by the members of the parliamentary group DIE LINKE König and Hausold he was described as a supporter of the National Socialist Underground . B. was summoned as a witness at the Munich NSU trial.

In response to the press release about alleged contacts between Mario B. and the NSU, the City Council of Bayreuth decided, at the request of the Green parliamentary group , to exclude the fraternity from participating in the city's memorial day ceremony .

According to the answer of the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Transport on December 4, 2014 to the written request from MdL Christoph Rabenstein ( SPD ), the Thessalia confirmed Mario B's former membership, but clearly rejected the accusation of being “a terrorist organization support to be close to it or even to approve of it. "She rejects" all forms of politically motivated violence and terrorism. "

Even before the incident became known, the university administration tried to exclude the Thessalia fraternity from university events.

On December 8, 2014, the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior stated in the plenary session of the Bavarian State Parliament at the request of MdL Ulrike Gote ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen ) that there was insufficient evidence that “the activities of the Thessalia fraternity in Prague in Bayreuth Activities themselves in an attributable, politically goal-oriented and purposeful manner, wanting to eliminate or invalidate elements of the free democratic basic order. […] The activities of Mario B. cannot be attributed to the Thessalia fraternity in Bayreuth. The BayLfV has no knowledge that Mario B.'s residency or the fraternity itself can be linked to the NSU. […] With regard to the Thessalia fraternity in Prague in Bayreuth, a report in the constitution protection report is still not required due to the lack of an observation mandate. "

On November 23, 2015, the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior, at the request of MdL Katharina Schulze (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen) stated: “Activities of individuals in the right-wing extremist area attributable to the connection have not yet been proven. In this context, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is intensively examining whether such persons - which can be attributed to the connection - emanate from activities (e.g. the organization of extremist lecture series) and thus indications of an overall extremist character of the student association. "

According to the last stop on the right, speakers from the right-wing extremist spectrum appeared regularly at the fraternity of Thessalia, for example the former CDU member of the Bundestag Henry Nitzsche in 2010 (subject: "Honor-Freedom-Fatherland") and in 2011 the editor of Junge Freiheit Felix Krautkrämer (subject: " The left network ")

Admission debate of the German fraternity

During the several years of internal admission debate of the German fraternity, the activitas of the fraternity of Thessalia wrote a position paper in the association journal Burschenschaftliche Blätter in 2010 . In this article the fraternity of Thessalia spoke out in favor of the principle of descent as a criterion for the admission of new members to the individual leagues. The Thessalia closed its demand for members of German descent with the sentence: "It should be clear to every German fraternity that the fatherland of Africans and Asians is not between the Meuse and Memel, or between the Adige and the Belt ."

The old Breslau fraternity of the Raczeks used a section of this point of view at the 2011 Burschentag for an application which the press later referred to as "Aryan proof". This application aimed to admit only students of German origin as members of the German fraternity.

Known members

  • Herbert Cysarz (1896–1985), writer, professor at the Universities of Prague and Munich (honorary member)
  • Karl Wilhelm Fischer (1888–1970), teacher, folklorist and writer
  • Axel Kassegger (* 1966), Austrian politician (FPÖ) and entrepreneur, member of the Austrian National Council
  • Kurt-Ulrich Mayer (* 1950), lawyer and university professor (resigned)
  • Gustav Nowak (1846–1921), member of the Bohemian Reichsrat and Landtag
  • Reinhard Pozorny (1908–1993), author, National Socialist propaganda functionary (honorary member 1959/60)
  • Jürgen Schwab (* 1967), right-wing extremist publicist (excluded from the fraternity in 2002)

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 351-352.
  • Ferdinand Tébensky, Thomas Cantz: The history of the Thessalia fraternity in Prague in Bayreuth 1864-1994 . Salzburg 1994
  • Karl Hans Strobl : The Vaclavbude . Berlin 1902

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 186.
  2. ↑ Thessalia: Black and Blue Cartel In: thessalia.de
  3. ↑ a b Kristian M. Rye: Heil Thessalia! Heil Munichia! , Antifascist information sheet, Internet article from May 19, 2015, accessed on March 1, 2018.
  4. ↑ Neo-Nazi cadre lived for years in the Bayreuth Burschenhaus In: Spiegel Online from October 20, 2014, accessed on March 1, 2018.
  5. ^ A b c Moritz Kircher: Resignations and distance to the Bayreuth Burschenschaft Thessalia In: Nordbayerischer Kurier of November 15, 2014, accessed on March 1, 2018.
  6. ↑ Printed matter 5/8080, investigation report of the Thuringian State Parliament, page 1808 ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: thueringer-landtag.de . (PDF)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thueringer-landtag.de
  7. ↑ Annette Ramelsberger : “Did you work for the Military Counter-Intelligence Service?” In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 14, 2015, accessed on March 1, 2018.
  8. ^ Proximity to NSU: Bayreuth excludes fraternity from the day of national mourning. spiegel.de, October 21, 2014, accessed on October 21, 2014 .
  9. ^ Statement by the Thessalia on their Facebook page ; Answer of the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior to the written question of the MP Christoph Rabenstein (SPD) of November 4, 2014: LT-Drs 17/4799 . (PDF)
  10. ↑ Printed matter 17/4728, Bavarian State Parliament (PDF)
  11. ↑ Printed matter 17/4799, Bavarian State Parliament (PDF)
  12. ↑ Answer to the written question of the member of parliament Katharina Schulze (Bündnis90 / Die Grünen) of October 7, 2015: Right-wing extremist tendencies in Bavarian fraternities, printed matter 17/9235, Bavarian State Parliament (PDF)
  13. ↑ Rüdiger Löster: Bayreuth: The Young Union, the Burschenschaft and the "Young Freedom" In: Endstation Rechts Bayern from February 13, 2011, accessed on March 1, 2018.
  14. ^ Resignations and distance to Thessaly in the North Bavarian Courier from 15./16. November 2014, p. 15.
  15. ^ NSU connection: neo-Nazi cadre lived for years in Bayreuth Burschenhaus In: spiegel.de of October 20, 2014, accessed on November 16, 2014

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