Corps Brandenburgia-Berlin to Cleveland / Ohio
The Corps Brandenburgia-Berlin zu Cleveland / Ohio was a German-American student union in Cleveland from 1937 to 2001 . It was the only long-term weapons student corporation in the United States .
Color and coat of arms
The colors of the corps were black-white-light blue. In addition, a light blue striker or a light blue barrel was worn.
The coat of arms of the corps was quartered and covered with a heart shield. It showed in I) the Brandenburg eagle red in white, II) the Prussian eagle black in white, III) the federal sign with crossed clubs in a wreath and the foundation date 17. VII. 1937, IV) the colors of the corps. The corps circle was visible on the heart shield.
history
After the German corps life had died out in October 1935 with the dissolution of the traditional corporation associations, a group of German and American exchange students around Siegfried von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1915-1945) and Wilhelm Karl von Uhlenhorst-Ziechmann (1920 –2001) and formed a “Comradeship Circle Sanssouci”, from which the Corps Brandenburgia was constituted on July 17, 1937 in the Vaterland house on Potsdamer Platz, following the tradition of the dissolved Corps Marchia and Borussia Berlin . Since the permanent revival of the corp traditions was not possible under National Socialism, the donors planned from the outset to move to a university in the United States. Cleveland was chosen because some of the donors came from there, including Uhlenhorst-Ziechmann, who had come to Berlin through the Karl Schurz school and student exchange.
Operations in Cleveland began in the winter semester of 1937/38. The members were predominantly German, later also increasingly Hungarian students from the Western Reserve University, the Case Institute of Technology (both merged in 1967 to form the Case Western Reserve University ) and the Fenn College of Engineering (now part of Cleveland State University ). The proportion of aristocratic members was very high in the first few years. The attempt to establish another branch convent in Berlin was prevented by the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 . After several active members of the military had been drafted, operations in Cleveland were also suspended in September 1943. The reconstitution took place by reactivating six inactive members of Brandenburgia on February 1, 1947. There had been contacts with German corps, especially the White Circle, since the early 1950s . They were brokered by the former German Vice Consul in Cleveland, Wilhelm Günter von Heyden, a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn , who frequented Brandenburgia in 1938/39 and was a member of the Corps himself from 1954. In the suburb of Cologne , the Kösener Seniors Convents Association (KSCV) concluded an official interview with Brandenburgia in 1954 . In the following decades Brandenburgia exchanged two-band people with several Kösener corps. In 1973 Brandenburgia initiated the reconstitution of the Corps Teuto-Rugia and with it formed the Seniors' Convent in Cleveland. After Uhlenhorst-Ziechmann's death in July 2001, the corps was suspended.
Fencing operation
In 1947, Brandenburgia accepted the comment from the Swiss Armory Ring . Since the winter semester of 1951/52 there was a nominal crap ratio with the Goto-Rugia connection. The drum comment later varied from Jenenser to Heidelberger. Since the other corporations based in Cleveland were not in a position to provide enough counterparts, for a long time there was also fighting internally, ie among corps brothers. The scales usually took place on the property of the organizer Uhlenhorst-Ziechmann in Shaker Heights .
Known members
- Franz Josef II. Prince von und zu Liechtenstein (1906–1989), ruling Prince von und zu Liechtenstein, owner of the corps loop
- Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896–1978), second son of Prince Heinrich of Prussia, plantation owner in Costa Rica
- Friedrich Ferdinand Prince of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1913–1989), officer, merchant, shipowner and mayor of the city of Glücksburg
literature
- Kösener Corpslisten 1971, Appendix No. 146, pp. 353–356, Saarbrücken 1972.
- Hans-Jürgen Below: The Corps in the USA. Handbuch des Kösener Corpsstudenten, Würzburg 1985, Vol. 2, pp. 109-110.
- Florian Hoffmann: Brandenburgia, Teuto-Rugia and the SC zu Cleveland / Ohio . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 57 (2012), pp. 351–375.
