Corps Bremensia

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Corps Bremensia

coat of arms Circle
Bremen coat of arms 100th Foundation Festival 1912.JPG Circle Corps Bremensia Göttingen.jpg
Basic data
University / s: Georg August University
Founding: June 20, 1812
Place of foundation: Goettingen
Foundation date: 1811
Corporation association : formerly KSCV , left 1971
Colours: Red-Green-Black
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : not striking
Motto: virtute duce, comite fortuna
Website: www.bremensia.de
Scale length Bremensia (left) versus Nassovia, Göttingen 1837

The Corps Bremensia Göttingen is a student union that was founded in its current constitution in 1812. The corps is color-bearing and, unlike most other corps, has not had a scale length since 1971 . It unites students and former students of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . The corps members are called "Bremen".

Color

Bremensia wears the colors red-green-black with golden percussion , with a green cap. The foxes carry as the Corps of Göttingen SC, the Bremensia belonged to 1971, no band.

In addition to the colors, the corps coat of arms shows the crossed keys of the Archdiocese of Bremen , the pointed nail cross of the Diocese of Verden and the bear paws of the County of Hoya . These territories are the ancestral lands of the Bremensia, so they denote the area of ​​origin of the Bremens at the time when this was still a country team, i.e. H. before foundation of the corps.

Red and green go back to the uniforms of the Bremen knighthood , black was added when the Frisia became part of the Bremensia.

history

House of the Corps Bremensia in Reinhäuser Landstr. 23 (drawing from around 1910), architect Heinrich Gerber
Bremensia House today (photo from 2012)

The students at the University of Göttingen, who lived in the duchies of Bremen and Verden, were assigned to the canton of Guestphalia until 1811. On February 25, 1811, the people of Bremen separated from the Westphalians and formed their own club , which was initially not recognized as a full member by the Göttingen Senior Citizens' Convention (which, according to a comment from 1809, could not consist of more than five country teams). Only after a comment change took place on June 20, 1812, the admission into the SC.

In 1932 Bremensia was presiding suburban corps in the KSCV . It was counted to the Green Circle in the KSCV before 1971 .

Göttingen scale process

A member of the Bremensia was involved in the Göttingen scaling process in 1951 . The complaint and indictment of the member and the resulting process, which went as far as the Federal Court of Justice , resulted in the legal question of the criminality of so-called "academic fencing" being resolved by the highest court: the accused was acquitted at the time.

The fencing debate

At the end of the 1960s, against the background of a changed university landscape , the CC of Bremensia, together with the active convents of other corps in the KSCV , pursued the goal of reassessing the hitting of lengths as an obligation. The main idea of ​​the compulsory graduation had probably been the idea that the student would be prepared for the responsibility in prominent positions in work and society through the "probation in the graduation".

The events of the two world wars and the behavior of corps students in the Third Reich were, from the perspective of many - including active and inactive corps students - suitable for questioning the connection between probation in the course and in later life. The discussion about the pros and cons of maintaining compulsory censorship began in student associations, however, as early as the Weimar Republic.

In addition, there were far-reaching changes in active operations compared to the pre-war conditions, when fencing was still in its prime, was practiced at a high technical level and the individual had to pass a much higher number of lengths. Finally, the fencing debate in a broader sense is also related to the upheavals caused by the 1968 movement .

At the Kösener Congress in 1970, three corps applied in February 1970 to abandon the scale as an association principle:

“The previous requirement for the reception or for the award of a corps band, to have fought at least one measure on bare corps weapons, is not upheld as a mandatory association principle. ... It is left to each corps to determine the requirements for the reception of its members or for the award of its ribbon itself. Admission to the narrow corps generally requires an active period of at least three months. ... "

- Bremensia, Rhenania Strasbourg and Suevia Tübingen (1970)

Could not be reached as a general debate on the Mensurfrage in this sense at the association level, the Bremensia resigned in 1971 after a thorough corp internal discussion in the Göttingen Seniorenconvent out, similar to the cartel Corps Suevia Tübingen Vandalo-Guestphalia and friendly, Rhenania Strasbourg from their SC. In the case of the Bremensia, the Suevia and the Vandalo-Guestphalia, this step was followed by the older Corps brothers by leaving the Association of Old Corps Students. They thus corresponded to their tradition, according to which the active convent is the decisive authority for the corps as a whole. Since then, members of these corps have not marked their colors any more.

The friendly connections of the Bremensia that remained in the KSCV then mostly took the position that the relationship was linked to the association membership and the association principles such as adherence to the scale. As a result, they broke off official contact with the non-defeating circumstances as far as possible, the circumstances continue to exist, but are regarded as suspended. Unofficially, there were and still are encounters, especially with the Jenensern and occasionally with the Munich Franks . In 2010 the 150-year-old cartel was celebrated with Suevia Tübingen .

Members

Princes

MPs and ministers

Local officials

Physicians and natural scientists

Industrial

Judge and jurist

State officials and soldiers

Others

  • Carl Manfred Frommel (1884–1938), student union leader, journalist and student historian
  • Georg Hartwig (1840–1927), Lutheran theologian, general superintendent, abbot of Loccum
  • Justus Alexander Saxer (1801–1875), Protestant theologian, general superintendent of Bremen-Verden
  • Bodo Voigts (1844–1920), Consistorial President in Hanover, President of the Upper Church Council in Berlin

swell

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Becker von Sothen: The Göttingen connections and their colors 1800 to 1833 . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 39 (1994), p. 175.
  2. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 50.