Comitat

Comitat in Frankfurt (Oder), 1805

The Comitat (from Latin comes , companion) was a student custom with which recognized weapons students (and professors ) were bid farewell from their university town. It ended with the advent of the railroad in the late 1850s.

Honor

The highest honor that a deserving and popular lad could receive was the Comitat when he left the alma mater . Those who stayed behind gave him a solemn escort until a farewell drink was taken at the gates of the city. In some places everyone sat in vehicles, in other places the farewell drove alone while the rest rode.

Comitat in Göttingen, 1765

Professors or high-ranking visitors to the university were honored in a similar manner . The student body organized itself into a pageant, which the "general leader" opened and the "general decision maker" concluded, while the staff of the "general marshals" (marshals, Chapeaux d'honneur) performed the other tasks of the festival management. The funeral ceremonies were held in a similar manner .

Koenigsberg

On days like this, the corps gathered at noon at the Albertinum , sang the farewell song there or at the Stoa Kantiana. Mossy boy I take off, God protect you, Philistine house and then climbed into the equipages provided . The train was opened by the entrepreneur with two body foxes in Wichs in a four-horse extra post ; Then the senior citizens and a number of corps boys followed in their car with the banner , in the middle of the train in six-horse extra mail the Comité with his two honorary boys, behind them the other carriages and, at the end, the presidents of the bar. The colorful festive procession moved around the cathedral through the main streets of the city and through the Brandenburg Gate to Kalgen. A happy farewell party was held there, the comitee was honored with farewell speeches and songs, there was general warmth and brotherhood, and in the late afternoon or late at night everyone returned to the city. Others leaving for Philistine were often accompanied by the brothers to the post office for their final farewell.

On September 24, 1841 Ferdinand Gregorovius was adopted with a comitat.

S. Schindelmeiser reports on a winter comitat: “ Because of an actually insignificant incident, the Masurian Pilchowski was granted the Consilium abeundi by the Albertina Senate. He still had three companions in suffering. The harshness of this decision outraged the activists of all connections. When Pilchowski left the university, the corps organized a comitat for him. In 22 sledges, the participants first made a tour through the city, which ended in front of the old town council cellar. There the farewell bar took place. On this, the consenior of the Baltia Leonhardy paid tribute to the departing's merits and expressed - at the same time for the SC - his regret that such a loyal comrade had to say goodbye to them. In the afternoon everyone accompanied him to the post office, from where he was supposed to drive to his homeland. Now Germans and Goths also joined those gathered there. They all sang the farewell song “Mossy boy I'm pulling out” and had a triple vivat on Pilchowski when the stagecoach started moving. Corps students and fraternity members jointly covered the short way across the Old Town Market to the Ratskeller and stayed together for a long time. In their outrage at the injustice inflicted upon them, they were united . "

literature

Hans Lippold: The Königsberg Comitat . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 19 (1974), pp. 173-175

Individual evidence

↑ This register sheet, described in the literature as a comitat, is actually a solemn solicitation according to riding direction and buildings, the riding stables on Weender Strasse, i.e. the opposite. However, the sequence and formation are essentially the same.
^ E. Loch , H. Lippold, R. Döhler : Corps Masovia. The 175-year history of Königsberg's oldest and Potsdam's first corporation in the 21st century. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-00-016108-2 , p. 83 f.
^ Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970-1985). For the first time complete, illustrated and commented new edition in two volumes with an appendix, two registers and a foreword by Franz-Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, edited by R. Döhler and G. v. Klitzing, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6

[1] This register sheet, described in the literature as a comitat, is actually a solemn solicitation according to riding direction and buildings, the riding stables on Weender Strasse, i.e. the opposite. However, the sequence and formation are essentially the same.

[2] E. Loch , H. Lippold, R. Döhler : Corps Masovia. The 175-year history of Königsberg's oldest and Potsdam's first corporation in the 21st century. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-00-016108-2 , p. 83 f.

[3] Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970-1985). For the first time complete, illustrated and commented new edition in two volumes with an appendix, two registers and a foreword by Franz-Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, edited by R. Döhler and G. v. Klitzing, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6