Order of Constantists

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The Order of Constantists was a student order between 1777 and 1809.

history

The order was founded on February 23, 1777 in Halle and fought against the Unitist order there from the beginning . He appeared in numerous other university cities, such as Altdorf , Erlangen , Frankfurt an der Oder , Göttingen , Heidelberg , Helmstedt , Leipzig , Marburg , Rostock , Vienna , Wittenberg and Würzburg ; However, its daughter box in Jena was of greatest importance, and it quarreled in particular with the three other local orders, the Amicists , Unitists and the Harmonists . Only in 1792 the four orders were able to come to an agreement, when it came to fighting a traitor named Polizio.

In the years 1800, 1806 and 1809 the individual daughter lodges gradually dissolved.

regional customs

Signs of student orders (Constantists 2nd from above)

The order has the motto : Vivant fratres Constantia conjuncti (VFCC) and, among other things, a circle consisting of the triple letter "f" ( fff ) with an attached or looped C , which stands for floreant fratres fideles or floreat foedus fratrum constantiae .

Known members

literature

  • Ernst Deuerlein : News from the Constantist Order , in: "Wende und Schau" Kösener Jahrbuch, 2nd part 1932, Frankfurt am Main 1932, pp. 98–193
  • Erich Bauer : The Constantist Order in Frankfurt / Oder and its members . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 6 (1961), pp. 150–166.
  • Erich Bauer: The laws of the Rostock Order of Constantists from 1796 . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 19 (1974), pp. 55-72.
  • Karl Hoede: Guys out. As a reminder of the origins of the old boyhood . Frankfurt am Main 1962, pp. 45-46, 55.
  • Ernst Meyer-Camberg : The members of the Constantist Order in Erlangen and Altdorf 1792–1795 . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 21 (1976), pp. 54-59.
  • Walter Richter: Origin and expansion of the Order of Constantists [1777–1805] . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 23 (1978), pp. 48-90.
  • Walter Richter: The Order of Constantists in the course of the zeitgeist . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 24 (1979), pp. 116-165.

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