Corps Franconia Jena

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Franconia Jena

The Corps Franconia-Jena zu Regensburg is an obligatory and colored student union in the Kösener SC association. It brings together students and alumni from the University of Regensburg , the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main . The members of the corps are called Jenenser Franconia or, as they have always been known, Jenschfranken.

Color

Franconia-Jena has the colors green-red-gold (from below) with golden percussion in the band. A green student cap is also worn. The Renoncen of the Jenenser Franconia wear a fox ribbon in green-red (vu) also with golden percussion.

The motto is honor, freedom, unity! The emblem is Gladius sit vindex noster!

history

Franconia's coat of arms (1844)

prehistory

Already from 1800 to 1815 there was a Franconia with the colors green-red-gold in Jena. At that time the corps were still called compatriots at most universities. This Franconia formed with the Vandalia, the Thuringia, the Saxonia and the Curonia a senior citizens' convent, which regulated the community life of the students at the university in the SC-Comment . In the context of the national enthusiasm of the students who had returned from the wars of freedom , the idea arose in Jena to dissolve the national associations at the university and thus the SC and to found a community of all students, who were then called boys . The first Franconia in Jena was thus one of the founding connections of the original fraternity , whose idea was to spread throughout Germany and beyond.

The original fraternity existed from 1815 to 1819 and comprised around 60 percent of all students enrolled in Jena in those years. However, this community soon broke up again - also under the pressure of the demagogue persecution in the context of the Karlsbad resolutions . In the following years, on the one hand, the fraternity movement in Jena split up; on the other hand, the old country team associations - now under the later commonly used name "Corps" - were re-established.

Formation and development of the corps

Jenaer SC-Ball (1881)

One of the various fraternities that had been founded after the dissolution of the original fraternity was the Germania fraternity . 21 students soon left it and founded the Corps Franconia on January 20, 1821, continuing the old tradition of Franconia in Jena.

The founders of the Corps chose "honor-freedom-unity" as the motto , a modification of the fraternity's motto "honor-freedom-fatherland". They chose "green-red-gold" as the colors (in Jena the colors are read from below). The uniforms of the hussar field guard from the Würzburg monastery were green and red and were considered the national colors of Franconia at that time . The gold complemented the colors to the tricolor according to the taste of the time . The adoption of the color gold in the Couleur colors is reminiscent of the colors of the fraternity black-red-gold , which later became the German national flag. Above all, however, the donors consciously followed up on the tradition of the old Franconia from Jena by adopting its colors. The coat of arms saying "Gladius sit vindex noster" also comes from the old Franconia.

The original country team principle of only accepting students from Franconian regions of origin no longer existed at that time. According to the corps student idea, which is based on German idealism , more attention was paid to character and personality. To this day, the corps is open to all male students regardless of their regional origin, nationality, skin color, religion or political orientation.

As early as March 1821 Franconia was involved with its founder and first senior Otto Erhard Ludwig Bartsch in the merger of the Seniors 'Convents in Halle , Leipzig and Jena to form a General Seniors' Convention . With the Halle Marchia II , Franconia Jena is said to have founded the oldest corps cartel. The Kösener cartel with Bremensia , closed in 1823 and finally the oldest, was with Franconia Munich from 1858 the core of the green circle . Its name probably arose from the fact that the first corps of this district had green in their color and many members came from the land-owning and hunting nobility.

After unrest and riots among the students, the Saxon-Weimar government issued stricter disciplinary regulations for the University of Jena in April 1835. In view of the increasing persecution, Franconia formally dissolved on December 15, 1835. Its members, however, maintained relationships with one another in the beer villages, some of which were in Saxony-Meining, and continued their corps life there.

In 1848, the state's persecution of the corps as secret societies largely ceased. As a result, the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV) was founded, whose task it is to maintain the connections between the corps in the various university cities in Germany and Austria and to regulate the affairs of all corps. To this end, the Kösener Congress meets every year in Bad Kösen , Saxony-Anhalt . Like all Jenenser Corps, Franconia is a founding member of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association (KSCV). In 1873, Franconia appointed the chairman of the oKC for the SC zu Jena.

In 1935 the KSCV and the Corps Franconia were dissolved under the rule of the National Socialists. Until then, just were the green Corps to be quite elitist "Feudalcorps" and were in addition to Jews and Freemasons as another enemy of the Nazis towards the conformist - "finally stands free" - national community predestined.

On January 21, 1950, the Corps was re-established in Frankfurt am Main , which was not possible in Jena at the time of the equally egalitarian German Democratic Republic . In 1951 the KSCV was reconstituted in Bad Godesberg and then held regular meetings in Würzburg. In 1967 the Corps Franconia moved its headquarters to Regensburg and bought the property at Ludwig-Eckert-Straße 4.

Since the so-called German reunification , the Kosen Congress has taken place in Bad Kösen again. Two corps from Jena have since moved back to their old university town. Nevertheless, in 1991 the assembly of all members of Franconia Jena (Great Festive Corpsboy Convention) decided not to return to Jena for the time being.

SC to Regensburg

When the University of Regensburg opened and the Corps moved to Regensburg, the SC zu Regensburg was founded in the winter semester of 1967/68. At the beginning of 1968 he joined the KSCV. Since then he has been an independent SC with his own comment . The SC zu Regensburg has held the suburb twice since 1968. Games mainly take place in the Munich Seniors' Convent , in individual cases also in Regensburg and Passau.

Corp house

Pub on the Corpshaus Knebelstrasse 3 (1911)

That the public park Oberaue located Corpshaus was inaugurated on the occasion of the 90th Foundation festival in October 1911th Today it is used as a villa in Paradise as a hotel and event center.

Beer state to Henneberg-Wöllnitz

Court of Henneberg-Wöllnitz

The Corps Franconia Jena has been celebrating Court Day since March 3, 1823 , which was celebrated with a parade through Jena. Any honorable man could become a member of the beer state . Some farmers from Wöllnitz were highly regarded knights. The ruler of the beer state zu Henneberg-Wöllnitz is called "Popp". He is the unrestricted ruler of the beer comment and decides on the right interpretation of the constantly changing beer comment in a beer court. As a student from Göttingen, Otto von Bismarck visited Jena and the beer state of Henneberg-Wollnitz in 1833. Arthur Barth reports on Franconia's farm days during his Jena days. The official gazette of the beer state of the prince Count von Henneberg-Wöllnitz is published by the Corps Franconia-Jena as a traditional bearer. Editors are (ap) Anus Praeter [K. Hahnenbruch Franconiae-Jena], (ds) Der Schalk [M. Leuthel, poet of the guest book], (fhe) Friedrich Herschel around the corner [p. Sigler Masoviae] and (lz) leather nose to crosswalk [p. Stender Franconiae-Jena]. Editor-in-chief is (sbt) Sitting Bull of Texas [M. Wilson twin Franconiae Munich, Franconiae-Jena zu Regensburg]

"To please Popp, to approve of the High Church, to move the court marshal to only mild chastisement, to amuse the Truchseß and to brighten the knight's mind - that is the highest and highest aim of the one who is chosen to rise at the table . "

- The court's standard for speakers

Members

Popp LXXXVI

In alphabetic order

See also

literature

  • Board of the Association of Alter Corps Students e. V. (VAC) (ed.), Handbuch des Kösener Corpsstudenten , Volume II, 6th edition, Stamsried 1985

Web links

Commons : Corps Franconia Jena  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Let the sword be our protector!
  2. ^ Conrad, Buttenberg, Hädicke, Geisler (Thuringia); Mehliss, v. Klopmann, v. Heyking, v. Drachenfels, v. der Ropp, v.Lilienstern (Franconia); Engelbrecht, Pomme, Stomps (Saxonia); Nitze, Köhler, Fabricius (Guestphalia)
  3. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 70.
  4. ^ Robert Paschke: The efforts of the German corps to unite until 1848 . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research 3 (1958), p. 13.
  5. ^ GG Winkel : Kösener SC calendar . Leipzig 1920
  6. ^ Gerhard Neuenhoff: The relations between the corps in Jena and Freiberg. A contribution to the history of the WSC and KSCV . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 29 (1975), p. 154.
  7. ↑ Kurt Wagner: The 90th Foundation Festival of Franconia to Jena . Academische Monatshefte 28 (1911/12), pp. 253-261
  8. ↑ Corp report of Franconia to Jena, winter semester 1930/31, pp 22-23
  9. ^ Official Journal of the Beer State from April 5, 2018