General Landsmannschafts-Convent

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Country team representative when it was founded on March 1, 1868

The General Landsmannschafts-Convent (ALC., Also General Landsmannschafter-Convent) was an association of university compatriots on March 1, 1868. It is considered a predecessor of the Coburg Convent .

history

Since the middle of the 19th century, more and more new country teams have emerged at German universities. The Landsmannschaft Normannia Berlin gave the first suggestion for its own association in 1858 , but this attempt failed.

The second attempt was made by Ghibellinia Tübingen with a letter written by its secretary Eugen Gantter to establish friendly relations with Teutonia Halle (who later left the DL and became a corps) and one day later to Verdensia Göttingen, which started a fratricidal war (war between Prussia and Austria from 1866) sought to overcome. Teutonia Halle was pleased and asked to include Teutonia Bonn in the friendly relationship. Numerous correspondence followed, in which Makaria Würzburg (later merged to form the Alemannia-Makaria Würzburg Landsmannschaft) was also included. After corresponding promises by Teutonia Halle, proposed a meeting in Kassel on March 1, 1868 .

In the restoration of Cimiotti the representatives of the mentioned country teams met and drew up the basic principles, the internal organization and rules of procedure.

"Zum Löwen" inn at the Zwingenberg Festival in 1868

On June 2, 1868, the “General Landsmannschafts-Verband” was launched in the “Zum Löwen” restaurant in Zwingenberg (Bergstrasse) . The Zwingenberg Festival, which has been held one week after Whitsun since 1893, can be traced back to this event.

In the literature this date is often referred to as the "second congress after Kassel".

Before the second meeting the Landsmannschaft Makaria Würzburg announced its final membership. After changing venues for the annual congresses, in 1872 Coburg was set as the permanent venue for the Coburg Whitsun Congress and the association was renamed the Coburg Landsmannschafter Convent (Coburger LC). By 1877, eleven other country teams joined the association, and in 1870 the first Austrian country team, Markomannia Wien. To 1871, the nationalized Bestimmungsmensur one.

In 1877 various internal disputes in the association became so strong that it was prompted to dissolve. In 1882 the Coburg Landsmannschafter Convent in Würzburg could be reconstituted. It initially consisted of eight country teams.

See also

literature

  • History of the Coburg Convent and the corporation student. In: Handbuch des Coburger Convents , Student History Association of the CC, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-930877-40-9 .
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : Gaudeamus igitur. The student connections then and now. Callwey, 1986.