Corps Frankonia-Prague to Saarbrücken

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Corps Frankonia-Prague to Saarbrücken

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Coat of arms of the Corps Frankonia Circle Corps Frankonia Prag.jpg
Basic data
University / s: Saarbrücken University
Place of foundation: Prague
Foundation date: March 1, 1861
Corporation association : KSCV
Colours: Blood red-white-yellow
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : beating
Motto: Honor, freedom, honesty!
Website: www.corps-frankonia.de

The Corps Frankonia Prague zu Saarbrücken has been a mandatory student union in Saarbrücken that has existed since 1861 . The Corps Frankonia is committed to the principle of tolerance and abstains from any political position. There is no entry criterion related to belief, nationality or political opinion. As a student union, the Corps Frankonia Prague is a lifelong academic friendship on a democratic basis.

Color

The corps boys of Frankonia wear the colors blood-red-white-yellow on golden percussion, the foxes a blood-red-yellow ribbon. The student cap is dark red.

The motto of the corps is: honor, freedom, honesty!

history

The Corps Frankonia Prague was founded on March 1, 1861 as the Landsmannschaft Polytechnia at the German Technical University in Prague . The colors were initially blood red-silver-yellow with black caps. The donors were previously members of the black association of the Beer Duchy of Lichtenhain (founded in 1859). This pre-connection was the first officially tolerated student corporation after the 1848 revolution . The later connections Rugia, Moldavia I, Austria (today Corps), Albia and Carolina (both sp. Fraternities ) emerged from the Lichtenhain . This was possible after the Imperial Austrian supervisory authority lifted the ban on student connections in 1860.

On March 3, 1862, the name was changed to Corps Frankonia and the change to the colors that are today blood red-white-yellow on golden percussion with dark red caps. In the summer semester, first dark red and later white strikers were worn. Red and white are the colors of the crown land of Bohemia and Franconia ; red and yellow are the city colors of Prague.

Technical SC

Mensurb of the Frankonia Prague

In the 1860s, Frankonia formed a technical senior citizens' convent , which the Corps Suevia Prague and Constantia had joined. There was also the academic SC with the Corps Austria, Rugia, Cheruscia and Moldavia I. This separation was lifted in 1880, when the technical university took on the same rank as the university . However, only the Corps Austria and Suevia were in existence at the time .

The scale was fought on Prague Comment until 1877, i. H. with a Prague plempe , a saber basket with a straight blade; then the weapon was from the still valid basket rackets replaced. The reporter Egon Erwin Kisch reported on the Prague mensur system ( from Prague streets and nights ).

Austria and Czechoslovakia

The Corps Frankonia influenced the development of Corps students at the universities in Brno, Graz, Innsbruck and Vienna. Thus, at the end of the 1870s, it became possible for the first time to merge all corps of the Danube Monarchy in a common umbrella organization, the Melker Seniors ' Convention. Temporary friendly relations were established primarily with the Vienna Corps Cimbria and Alemannia , with Joannea Graz and Marchia Brünn . There were also relationships with WSC corps in Freiberg , Dresden and Munich . The friendship with Germania Munich (1874–1878) was ended by the longstanding suspension of Frankonia and the re-established corps being joined to the KSCV.

In 1878 Frankonia was suspended due to a lack of young talent because all active members had been called up for the Austrian occupation campaign in Bosnia . A reconstitution succeeded in 1879; but only one year later, active operations had to be stopped again. The SC in Prague lost more and more importance in the following years after some corps had been suspended or the corps principle had been abandoned. In contrast, the German National Movement led to an increase in the fraternities , while the Prague and Austrian corps students lost their importance. Under the pressure of the Bohemian language conflict, German students preferred the nationally oriented connections. In 1897 the opportunity arose to reopen the corps with the help of a round table of Bohemian students in Vienna; this plan was then rejected. However, the old gentlemen supported the short-lived Prague Corps Gothia and Palaio-Austria.

The First World War was followed by the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the establishment of Czechoslovakia . In 1921 it was reconstituted as a free Corps Frankonia and a punk relationship was concluded with the Corps Suevia and the Hercynia Landsmannschaft. Since almost all corps of the former Danube Monarchy (with the exception of the Chernivtsi Corps) had now joined the Kösener Senior Citizens' Convents Association , the aim was to join this umbrella organization. In November 1922, the Corps Frankonia was accepted into the Prager SC and thus into the KSCV. With Suevia Prague she formed the Prager SC. Austria had already moved to Frankfurt am Main via Innsbruck in 1919.

Most of the members of Frankonia came from the Sudetenland , the German-speaking areas in Bohemia , Moravia and Austrian Silesia . Many also came from the German Empire to study at the German Karl Ferdinand University and the German Technical University in Prague . In the first few years, the Corps was supported by the Water Sports Association of Old Corps Students and the Corps Frankonia Brno. A friendship existed with Frankonia until 1970 .

Pub with AH Strobl (1930)

Like the other Prague connections, Frankonia did not have a house of its own; it would have been stormed by the Czechs. She had rented her corps home - the booth - in the “Beim Schmejkal” inn. It was in Weinberge , Kronenstrasse 28. Most of the time, the Golden Cross on Nekazanka ul. Was the home of the Corps. The Czechoslovak police approved the staging of the student courses; however, a gendarme always had to be present. It was seldom possible to wear the color in public.

Even after 1918 the situation in Czechoslovakia was marked by the nationality conflict. The Germans made up 26% of the population in the young state and were disadvantaged by the state. In the autumn of 1918, even before the establishment of Czechoslovakia, there was an insignia dispute on academic soil .

After the Corps with Suevia Prague , Marchia Brno and Frankonia Brno left the KSCV in October 1933, it was one of the four founders of the Prague SC Association in 1934 . All four corps were suspended - three and a half years after the Reich Germans - only in March 1939, when the Wehrmacht occupied the Czecho-Slovak Republic .

New beginning after the Second World War

After the end of the war, the German universities in Prague were dissolved by the Czechoslovak state. This went hand in hand with the expulsion of over three million Germans. In 1954 the corps was reconstituted at the Saarland University . It has existed continuously since then. In 1968, a new corporation house in Saarbrücken was acquired, which in addition to common rooms also offers student apartments. In 1982 Frankonia was the presiding suburban corps of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association and was the chairman of the oKC. The Corps Frankonia Prague currently consists of around 15 corps boys and inactive people as well as 100 old men. Official friendships exist with the Corps Erz and the Corps Marchia Brünn zu Trier. The Corps Frankonia Prague does not consider itself to belong to any of the Kösener circles .

Members

Holder of the Klinggräff Medal

The Klinggräff Medal of the Stifterverein Alter Corpsstudenten was awarded to:

  • Matthias Hentzen (1990)
  • Johannes Thome (1995)
  • Andreas Dymke (2000)
  • Fabian Eckstein (2018)

See also

literature

  • Egon Erwin Kisch : Old Prague Mensur restaurants. In: From Prague streets and nights. (Collected Works in Individual Editions, Volume 2), Berlin, 5th edition 1992, ISBN 3-351-02024-4 , pp. 172–176.
  • Carl-Heinz von Forner: The Prague Franks 1861–1984. Salzburg 1984.

Web links

Commons : Corps Frankonia Prag Saarbrücken  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 186.
  2. ↑ Adolf Siegl
  3. ↑ Scheunemann on corpsarchive.de