Corps Baltia Koenigsberg

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The only picture of Baltia's corp house

The Corps Baltia was a student union at the Albertus University of Königsberg . With the Corpsland Team Baltia (1834-1840) it had nothing in common except the name.

history

Baltia was donated in 1851 by four Silber-Litthauer and other Königsberg students.

“The political situation at the Albertina in 1851 required the establishment of a third corps. Silver Litthuania needed an ally in the dispute with Masovia, which inhibited cooperation in the SC and diminished its influence. In addition, the advance of the Progress was slowed down in Prussia and the conservative camp had rallied. The loyalty to the chosen ruling house was emphasized. "

- Siegfried Schindelmeiser
August Wittich (1854)

The silver Litthauer August Wittich was the driving force behind the new foundation in 1851. The eighteen founders of Baltia also included Hermann Elgnowski and Otto Oehlschläger . May 17th, the birthday of Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach (1490), was chosen as the founding day . White-light-blue-black-white was chosen as the corps boy band because they were the colors of Prussia and Bavaria. The Bavarian Princess Elisabeth Ludovika was Queen of Prussia. The fraternities felt this choice of colors to be "reactionary".

Baltia strengthened the liaison system at Albertus University vis-à-vis the general student body and its judicial committee. It was already in the process of dissolving; for Masovia had renounced her on February 19, 1851. In the winter semester of 1851/52, Littuania and the Germania Königsberg fraternity also broke off relations with the general student body. Baltia stayed away from her from the start. Masovia, Silber-Litthuania and Baltia formed a cartel on June 30, 1851, and formed a senior citizens' convention . In 1874, Baltia was the first Königsberg Corps to chair the Kösener Congress .

Far-reaching conflicts with the Corps Normannia Königsberg forced Baltia, Masovia and the Hansea founded in 1876 to suspend in 1882 (the Silber-Litthauer suspended in 1866). On June 7, 1882, Baltia founded as a temporary replacement corps Pomerano-Borussia with the colors white-light-blue-black. Returning as Baltia in May 1883, the Corps flourished.

Baltia's corp houses were located in Nachtigallensteig 14 and from 1911 in Tragheimer Pulverstraße 31.

Synchronization

The Last Balts (1934)

Baltia came into the sights of the National Socialists in 1933 as the first Königsberg connection . It was regarded as the "nucleus of resistance against the national community and National Socialist thinking". The clashes between Conservative and National Socialist old men came to a head. According to Littuania's AHV leader Alfred Funk , the opponents of the National Socialist penetration of the corps had triggered a “serious crisis” among Baltias Alten Herren and “shook” the corps boys' convention ; However, the latter stood firmly behind the senior Hans-Wolfram Knaak , who resolutely rejected any "synchronization". Since the apparitions “evidently had a political character”, the leader of the Kosener Max Blunck believed that he could not remain inactive. In his estimation, there was a risk that the corps would be banned. If it came to that, the Königsberger SC and the entire corps student body would be “seriously endangered”.

In a letter dated March 1, 1934, the Königsberger SC and the "leaders" of the old manors of Masovia, Hansea and Littuania Blunck as "leaders of the KSCV and VAC" asked for his intervention. He used Funk in 1933 as a “special commissioner for the final settlement of the situation in the corps”. The telegram to Funk said: “Dr. Funk, Bismarckstrasse. 7, Elblag. Please, as my special representative, who is fully empowered, to take over the reorganization of Baltia-Koenigsberg in the general interest of corps students. Authorize you to take all measures that appear expedient to you to achieve the desired goal, in particular to appoint sub-agents. Consideration of paragraphs cannot prevent necessary measures in the interest of achieving the desired goal. - signed Blunck. "

When the conservative Balts in the corps had clearly prevailed against the supporters of National Socialist conformity, "[Funk] clearly acted as a political commissioner". Funk suspended the corps on March 6, 1934 and appointed the Baltic Eugen Dorsch as "the leader's confidante in the Kösener for the temporarily suspended corps and its AH association".

Legal historical aftermath

Dorsch, police chief and leader of Brigade 5 in Elbing , had withdrawn the Baltic Belt from some opponents. One of those affected, Walter Döhring, lawyer and notary in Berlin, took this as an opportunity to bring a declaratory action against Dorsch at the Koenigsberg Regional Court . In its judgment of October 19, 1934, the 5th Civil Chamber, chaired by the District Court Director Hans Waldmann Dorsch, denied this right. She informed the National Socialist German Student Union “that according to the legal provisions enacted during the Nazi seizure of power, only criminal acts and behavior contrary to the police should be grounds for action against an association under sovereign law”. Blunck's power of attorney to Dr. Funk is a legal impossibility.

"The judgment is a rarity insofar as it had to deal with student law, in particular with the new version of the Kosen statutes, and made this as well as the CC comment and essays in the Deutsche Corpszeitung the subject of its decision."

- Siegfried Schindelmeiser

The End

The active Baltic had to leave the Albertus University. Some "were allowed" to change to the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and became members of the friendly Corps Guestphalia Halle ; others broke off their studies and joined the armed forces . In World War II, fell 21 Balts. The survivors quickly reunited after the war. Eight of them founded the Corps Albertina Hamburg on March 12, 1950 with five Hanseatic and nine Lithuanians. Baltia went out in 2001.

The Balte Hans Lüdecke wrote on April 23, 1950 about the transfer of Baltia's NS files to the Kösener archive:

"Apart from the Saxon-Prussians, no other corps has experienced such persecution by the 3rd Reich."

- Hans Lüdecke

Relative Corps

In 1886 Baltia tended to join Corps Normannia Berlin, Borussia Greifswald, Nassovia, Silesia, Brunsviga, Thuringia Jena and Suevia Munich. However, Hansea moved the access to the Black Circle, so that Baltia oriented itself green. She recently had two friends ( Tigurinia , Guestphalia Halle ) and four relationships ( Franconia Jena , Holsatia , Guestphalia Berlin and Franconia Munich ). Baltia maintained "loose connections" to the green circle .

Multiband men
Borussia Greifswald : Migge, purpose
Franconia Jena : Brostowski II, Lebius, Hundrieser called Wosilat
Guestphalia Berlin : Kneisler, John Koch
Guestphalia Halle : Albrecht, Bowien, v. Bremen, Dieck IdC, Kirschstein-Freund, Lüdecke, Obuch III, Ruhnau, Schütte, Skorka, Tolkmitt II, Tummescheit I, Wilm, Winkelmann
Hansea Bonn : v. Graeve, toe
Lusatia Breslau : Leo, Menzel II
Normannia Berlin : Krause III
Normannia Halle : Bieler II, Königsmann, Mussigbrod-Saberski, v. Schmiedeberg
Pomerania : Morning star
Saxonia Leipzig : Jacobson
Silver Litthuania : farmer, v. Of bees , Elgnowski , Baron. v. Gamp-Massaunen , Kammer, Menzel II, Nereschko, Nitschmann, Reinicke, Sperling, Staecker, Stellmacher, Sczepanski I , Wendland, Wittich
Silesia : rooster
Thuringia Jena : Ziesmer
Thuringia Leipzig : Hacker
Tigurinia : Bohlius III, EM Kern, v. Peistel .

Members

Baltencouleur

In alphabetic order

literature

  • John Koch : The History of the Corps Baltia . Koenigsberg 1906.
  • Siegfried Schindelmeiser: Baltia Königsberg c / a NSDAP (1933/34) . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 11 (1966), pp. 69-90.
  • 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 annotated new edition in two volumes with an appendix, two registers and a foreword by Franz-Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, ed. by Rüdiger Döhler and Georg von Klitzing, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6 .

Web links

Commons : Corps Baltia Königsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Koch 1906
  2. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 82.
  3. ↑ a b c d Schindelmeiser, Vol. 2, pp. 452 f., 458
  4. ↑ Hans Waldmann was a member of the Corps Silesia and Hansea Königsberg. He died in 1940 (Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 83/585; 85/154)
  5. ^ The Königsberg judgment , vol. 2, p. 477 ff.
  6. ^ Fritz Milenz: To the beginnings of the Corps Albertina in Hamburg . Unpublished manuscript from June 1993
  7. ^ Siegfried Schindelmeiser (corpsarchive.de)
  8. ↑ Siegfried Schindelmeiser (VfcG)
  9. ↑ Reviews: Wolfgang von der Groeben , in: CORPS - Das Magazin , Issue 3/2010, pp. 17 f .. - Sebastian Sigler , in: Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 56 (2011), pp. 372-375. - Christian Tilitzki , in: Yearbook for the History of Central and Eastern Germany , Vol. 57 (2011), pp. 446–448