Corps Austria Frankfurt am Main

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The Corps Austria is a corps in the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV), one of the oldest corporation associations . The corps is obligatory and colored . It unites students and alumni of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main . Members of the corps are called Austrians.

Color

Color

Austria has the colors "black-white-yellow" with silver percussion. A black cap is worn for this. A white striker is worn in the summer semester , provided the inaugural CC so decides. Black pub jackets are worn to the pub . The foxes of the Austrians wear a fox ribbon in the colors "black and yellow", also with silver percussion. The motto is “Strong through unity!”.

prehistory

For fear of the enlightenment and liberal ideas of the French Revolution , the Regensburg Reichstag in 1793 banned all student connections. However, this ban was only strictly enforced in the Habsburg monarchy with the help of Metternich's apparatus of repression. Even the exchange of letters with foreign universities was forbidden for the students. After a brief liberal episode in the wake of the March Revolution of 1848, connections were again banned in 1849. It was not until 1859 that the situation had changed to such an extent that it was possible to establish student associations following the example of the other German states. The trigger for this change was the devastating defeat of Austria in the battle of Solferino and a desolate financial situation of the state. For the necessary reforms, Emperor Franz Joseph I needed the support of the bourgeois liberals .

While in the rest of Germany the nationality of the students was not an issue in most of the connections, the question of nationality became problematic due to the nationality dispute in the multi-ethnic Habsburg empire . The Czechs, for example, viewed the forms of liaison introduced into Prague from other German countries as “typically German”, while the German-speaking Austrians increasingly understood liaison as an expression of their national identity. The fraternity students with their bright colors often attracted the aggression of other ethnic groups.

history

Foundation festival 1929 in the old corp house
150th Foundation Festival (2011)

The Corps Austria was founded on February 23, 1861 by students from Karl Ferdinand University in Prague . In the Battle of Kuchelbad on June 28, 1881, a popular excursion destination near Prague, Czech students attacked the participants in the foundation festival . The violence of the clashes between the nationalities in Prague thus reached a new dimension. The nationality conflict within the multi-ethnic state Austria-Hungary , which was never finally resolved , was later intensified by the Baden language ordinance and ultimately led to the break-up of the multi-ethnic state in the First World War .

Because it was no longer possible to continue to exist in Prague after the First World War, the Corps moved via Innsbruck to Frankfurt am Main to the newly founded Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in 1919 . After internal disputes, Austria refused in 1935 to expel "non-Aryan" corps brothers. The reason for this was the overwhelming majority's conviction that all people are the same regardless of race, religion or other characteristics. The active corps had to close in 1936. In February 1939, the Alte Herren Verein was forcibly dissolved by a Gestapo decree because it refused to cooperate with the NS Student Union . The Corps was reconstituted in Frankfurt am Main in 1949 - taking over members of the Corps Hassia Frankfurt.

General

Austria has been a member of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association since 1919 . Austria was the presiding suburb corps in 1929, 1991 and 2015 . In January 1950, Austria was one of the 22 corps that formed the community of interests and prepared the re-establishment of the KSCV on May 19, 1951.

Due to the structure of its relationships with other corps, Corps Austria is included in the blue circle in the KSCV.

Known members

Josef Neuwirth around 1925
Painting by Michael Haubtmann

In the time before 1900 there was still no association of the old men. For this reason, people who had moved from Prague and had no regular contact with Austria were sometimes not included in the membership lists drawn up after 1900, although they never formally left the corps. This includes Julius Kunkler .

Membership in a student association can be lifelong, even if the person concerned has left. Such former Austrians are Eduard Bacher , August Pleschner von Eichstett , Oscar Rex , Hermann Roskoschny and Paul Schwarzkopf .

See also

literature

  • Helma Brunck: Student connections in Frankfurt am Main. Small writings from the Historical Museum. Frankfurt am Main. Volume 29. Kelkheim 1986, pp. 14, 71-76.
  • Jürgen Herrlein: Corps Austria - Corps history 1861-2001 , Frankfurt am Main 2003
  • Jürgen Herrlein: Corps Austria - Corpslist 1861-2001 , Frankfurt am Main 2001
  • Jürgen Herrlein: The Corps Hassia Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main 1999. Digitized version (PDF; 235 kB)
  • Egon Erwin Kisch : Alt-Prager Mensurlokale , in Aus Prager Gassen und Nights (Collected Works in Individual Editions, Volume 2), Aufbau Verlag, Berlin, 5th edition 1992, ISBN 3-351-02024-4 , pp. 172–176
  • Egon Erwin Kisch : Die Kuchelbader Battle , in Prager Pitaval - Späte Reportagen (Collected Works in Individual Editions, Volume 3), Aufbau Verlag, Berlin, 5th edition 1992, ISBN 3-351-02092-9 , pp. 267-271
  • Jürgen Herrlein: Prague Jewish academics as members of the student association “Corps Austria” and the “Speech and Reading Hall for German Students in Prague”. Their ex-libris and club graphics by Emil Orlik (1870–1932) and Georg Jilovsky (1884–1958) ; in: Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Exlibris und Arbeitsgraphik, Vol. 66, 2009–2010, pp. 27–35 ISBN 978-3-9500800-5-6
  • Josef Neuwirth : The acad. Corps Austria to Prague. A chronic experiment , Prague 1881. Digitized version (PDF; 2.9 MB)

  • Charter of incorporation (1861)

  • Certificate of Declaration to the Corps (1873)

  • Certificate for the merger of Austria with Cimbria

  • Share certificate of the former Corpshaus GmbH (1925)

Web links

Commons : Corps Austria  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 37.