Corps Franconia Karlsruhe

Corps Franconia
Basic data
University / s:	Karlsruher Institute for Technology
Founding:	November 15, 1839
Corporation association :	WSC since 1863
Color status :	colored
Type of Confederation:	Men's association
Position to the scale :	mandatory
Motto:	In virtute honos!
Gun motto:	Gladius ultor noster
Total members:	191 (winter semester 2017-18)
Website:	www.franconia-karlsruhe.de

The Corps Franconia Karlsruhe is a Karlsruhe student association in the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention . The corps is colored and obligatory , its members are called Karlsruhe Franks . It brings together students and graduates from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and other Karlsruhe universities. Together with the Weinheimer Corps Saxonia , Alemannia and Friso-Cheruskia, it forms the Karlsruhe Senior Citizens' Convention .

Franconia is the oldest still existing student association in Karlsruhe. She is also one of the oldest corps in the WSC, of which she is a founding member.

Color

Franconia leads the colors green-white-red with silver percussion . The fox colors are green-white-green . A green cap is worn for this.

history

On November 15, 1839, the Corps Franconia was donated by 14 founding boys, including five students from the corps ( Guestphalia Heidelberg , Suevia Heidelberg , Hassia Gießen ). The colors chosen were green-yellow-black with golden percussion. In today's coat of arms, the fourteen stars, which are distributed around the lion in the lower right corner, stand for the founding boys.

With the Corps Rhenania Karlsruhe founded in 1840, Franconia formed the first Karlsruhe Seniors' Convent , to which other corps joined a little later. In order to strengthen its position in the event of differences within the SC, Franconia founded the daughter corps Suevia on January 8, 1843 with the colors green-white-red. When Suevia rose again in Franconia on March 1, 1843, the Corps Franconia took over the colors and continues to use them today.

Franconia entered into a cartel in 1863 with the Corps Rhenania Zurich (now based in Braunschweig). These two corps, together with Stauffia Stuttgart and Slesvico-Holsatia Hanover, founded the Alliance of Four in 1874 . Three of the corps represented in the Alliance of Four were founding members of today's umbrella organization WSC. In 1897 the four-league with the Corps Saxonia-Berlin in Aachen was expanded to form a five-league. This was dissolved in 1930 due to discrepancies, but brought back to life in 1980. Since then it has existed without interruption until today.

After the WSC dissolved on October 20, 1935, Franconia decided to suspend it in November 1935, but the old gentlemen's association continued. After a house search with the confiscation of books and documents, the Gestapo dissolved the AHV according to an announcement dated March 30, 1939.

The "Kameradschaft" established by the National Socialists on the Corphaus , which finally bore the name " Walter Borbet ", has been looked after by Franconia since 1942. The corp house at Ettlinger Strasse 11/13 was destroyed by bombs during World War II.

After its end, the AHV was reactivated on September 5, 1948, and the "Franconia Student Club" was founded on December 5, 1948 as the traditional institution of the Corps. The corps was restituted by its members at the Foundation Festival on May 28, 1949. The Weinheimer Verband Alter Corpsstudenten restituted in the same year, the Karlsruhe Senior Citizens' Convention one year later.

Since the old corp house had been destroyed, active, inactive and old men were largely responsible for expanding an adjacent house into a "provisional corp house". At least active operations could thus be resumed. However, since this solution could not last in the long term, Franconia finally acquired today's corp house in Karlstrasse 6 in 1955.

Known members

Ernst Blankenhorn (1853–1917), politician
Walter Borbet (1881–1942), general director of the Bochumer Verein, chairman of the board of Ruhrstahl AG
Theodor Brune (1854–1932), German-American architect
Carl Clemm (1836–1899), entrepreneur, co-founder of BASF
Gustav Daverio (1839–1899), founder of the tool factory Daverio & Cie., Later the machine factory Oerlikon, and the Zurich design office for milling machines Daverio-Henrici & Cie.
Oswald Dietz (1823–1898), founder of the Republican Society and the Wiesbaden Workers' Association, secretary and archivist of the central authority of the League of Communists in London, engineer and politician in the USA
Theodor Ehrhardt (1875–1952), industrialist, chairman of the Ehrhardt & Sehmer machine works

Carl d'Ester (1838–1879), music director in Frankfurt / Main and Wiesbaden

Hermann Franz (1928–2016), engineer, former chairman of the supervisory board of Siemens AG (1993–1999)

Victor Fredenhagen (1876–1934), Offenbach machine manufacturer

Claus-Dieter Freymann (* 1938), professor of educational sciences, chairman of the board of trustees of the Diakonisches Werk in the church district An der Ruhr, jazz musician

Fritz Gliem (1934–2020), electrical engineer, pioneer of space electronics in Germany

Adolf Helbling (1824–1897), civil engineer and architect, head of the building department of the Baden State Railways' general directorate

Artur Adolf Konradi (1880–1951), commercial attaché of the German legation in Romania, general secretary of the Romanian-German Chamber of Commerce, regional group leader of the NSDAP's foreign organization in Romania

Günter Lipphardt (1927–2017), process engineer at Hoechst AG, honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart

Gustav Martin (1862–1947), chemist, board member and general director of the silicate and chamotte factories Martin & Pagelstecher AG

Emil Rudolf Mewes (1885–1949), architect

Emil Möhrlin (1883–1952), Baden-Württemberg manufacturer of heating and ventilation systems, member of the state constituent assembly and the state parliament of Württemberg-Baden, member of the state constitutional assembly of Baden-Württemberg

Antônio Francisco de Paula Souza (1843–1917), pioneer of the Brazilian railway system, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1892–1893) and Minister of Transport (1893) of Brazil, initiator and first rector of the Polytechnic of the University of Sao Paulo

Carl Rudolf Poensgen (1863–1946), industrialist, councilor of commerce

Emil Riebeck (1853–1885), chemist, ethnologist and explorer

Kurt Erdmann Rosenthal (1871–1946), General Director of Brandenburgische Electricitäts-, Gas- und Wasserwerke AG, pioneer of the carbide and acetylene industry

Michael Rotert (* 1950), engineer, chairman of the board of the Association of the German Internet Industry

Carl Roth (1846–1929), Royal Councilor of Commerce, Saarland industrialist

Emil Schenck (1868–1957), manufacturer, managing partner of Carl Schenck AG

Adolf von Schübler (1829–1904), railway engineer

Konrad von Steiger (1862–1944), Swiss architect, Bernese canton master builder

Emil Striebeck († 1900), process engineer, inventor and developer of the ammonia-soda process according to Striebeck-Honigmann

Edward Uhl (1843–1906), President and co-owner of the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung

Friedrich von Werdt (1831–1893), Swiss railway engineer and landowner, Bernese Grand Council, Swiss National Council

August von Würthenau (1827–1892), railway construction engineer

literature

Hans Schüler: Weinheimer SC-Chronik , Darmstadt 1927
Michael Doeberl u. a. (Ed.): Das akademische Deutschland , Volume 2: The German universities and their academic citizens , Berlin 1931, p. 881
The Corps of the WSC and the local SC. According to the records of the historical commission , Weinheimer Verband Alter Corpsstudenten e. V., 1980
Paulgerhard Gladen : History of the student corporation associations , Volume 1, pp. 49-63, Würzburg 1981
Bernd-Alfred Kahe: Corps Franconia: 1839–1989; a chronicle . 1989
Paulgergard Gladen: The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps: [their representation in individual chronicles] . 1st edition. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2007, ISBN 978-3-933892-24-9 , pp. 221-222 .

Individual evidence

^ Karlsruhe Corps. Retrieved January 8, 2020 (German).
^ Horst-Ulrich Textor: The polytechnic schools and the founding years of the Weinheim senior citizens' convent . In: The lectures of the 73rd German Student History Conference Hannover 2013 . Edited by Sebastian Sigler . Munich 2014, p. 22.
^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 141.

Web links

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[1] Karlsruhe Corps. Retrieved January 8, 2020 (German).

[2] Horst-Ulrich Textor: The polytechnic schools and the founding years of the Weinheim senior citizens' convent . In: The lectures of the 73rd German Student History Conference Hannover 2013 . Edited by Sebastian Sigler . Munich 2014, p. 22.

[3] EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 141.