Corps Frisia Göttingen

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Oldest known illustration of a "Göttinger Friesen" (1817)

The Corps Frisia Göttingen (since 2005 officially: "Frisia - Corps of the Frisians and Lüneburgers") is a compulsory and color-bearing corps at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . The student union was founded in 1811 as an association of East Frisian students in Göttingen, but its origins go back to 1807. This makes Frisia one of the oldest associations in Germany.

The beginnings of Frisia

Entry in the guest book of Hanstein Castle: "Vivat Ostfrisia!" (1807)

In the 18th century, the Georg August University , founded in 1737, played no particular role in the Frisian region. This changed in 1806 when Napoleon marched into Halle after his victory in the battle of Jena and Auerstedt and, in view of the openly displayed anti-French attitude of the students there, ordered the closure of the University of Halle and expelled all foreign students from the city let. An entry in the guest book of Hanstein Castle on the Werra proves that East Frisian students have moved to Göttingen in the following year and that there is an increasing feeling of togetherness. In 1811 the East Frisians studying in Göttingen finally merged to form the Corps Landsmannschaft Frisia, but due to a lack of members they could not exist alone at first and in 1812 they allied themselves with students from Bremen. When the Georg-August University became a state university after the Prussian cession of East Frisia to Hanover in 1815 and more and more East Frisians came to Göttingen to study, a new beginning was achieved in 1817 as an independent Corps Frisia.

Existed in different forms

Corphaus of the Frisia Göttingen
Lid cup Corps Frisia Göttingen. One of two mugs ever made showing an ermine coat around the coat of arms. The jug was made on the occasion of the resumption of the Frisian tradition as a corps. Manufactory Hans Otto Arnold, Göttingen (2002)

By the middle of the 1830s, as a result of official persecution, she changed the names Landsmannschaft , Corps , Kneipe (from 1833) or Clubb several times . When the student youth in Göttingen was seized from about 1835 by the progress movement known as " Progreß ", the Frisia began to turn away from the corps under the impression of this bourgeois-liberal current of the times. The next twenty years, in which Frisia continued to exist in various forms, were mainly determined by the discussion about its own principles.

This internal war of direction escalated in 1854 in the so-called "Corpskrach", as a result of which the Frisia split. The opponents of the corps prevailed, abolished the wearing of caps and ribbons and continued to exist as a black association . This state of affairs lasted into the first decade of the 20th century. Frisia was a founding member of the Gotha First Convent in 1881 , from which she left in 1884. Between 1881 and 1897 there was also a cartel with Derendingia Tübingen . On June 18, 1885, Frisia entered into a cartel relationship with the connection between Leonensia and Heidelberg to promote mutual friendship. After it had already been shown in 1875 and 1881 that a significant number of the members wanted to return to wearing colors, the traditional colors of the Frisian coat of arms "blue-red-black" were reintroduced in 1909. In the same year, the black association Leonensia terminated the cartel relationship with Frisia. In 1915 Frisia was accepted into the German fraternity .

During the Nazi era, there was the “Friesland” comradeship, whose members dissolved the union on April 6, 1945, only to renew the Frisia fraternity a few days later. After reporting to the US military government and the rectorate, the usual confiscation of the fraternity house was abandoned. In 1945 Frisia was one of the founders of the Intercorporative Convent in Göttingen. After the administration was taken over by the British armed forces, Frisia dissolved in October 1945 and, after the British university inspector refused to accept it, formed a "student living and table community ", which received preliminary approval in September 1946. With the discontinuation of supervision by the control officer (1950), the federal government was again able to operate officially under the name Fraternity Frisia.

The Frisia caused a sensation in the German fraternity when its members - after decades of increasingly clear differences with the association had become apparent - almost unanimously decided in April 2003 to resign from the German fraternity and reassume the old name Corps Frisia . The Corps Frisia has been a member of the Weinheim Seniors' Convent since May 21, 2004 .

Ernst Seitz founds the first general student council

In order not to leave the public representation of the student body to the colored fraternity students alone, the so-called " Wildenschaft " was founded in the summer semester of 1859 as an association of all non-fraternity members at Göttingen's Georg-August University . The Frisian Ernst Seitz , known as “Citizen Seitz”, was elected chairman of the so-called “Wilde Committee” . Frisia was thus at the forefront of the student progress movement of that new era. In order to achieve a uniform organization for all students, a “General Committee of the Student Union” - a forerunner of today's AStA - was founded in July 1863, again under the leadership of Ernst Seitz .

Reunification with Friso-Luneburgia

Friso-Luneburgia (1920)

In the course of the so-called “Corps row” of 1854, some of the members split off and founded their own corps under the name “Friso-Luneburgia”. After the establishment of Friso-Luneburgia in 1854, the incorporation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia in 1866 led to a greater turn of North German students to other universities, as Göttingen was no longer a Hanover State University. The resulting shortage of young talent forced the Corps Friso-Luneburgia to dissolve in 1868 and in the following years it was not possible to re-establish the Corps in Göttingen. Therefore, the corps moved to the University of Cologne in 1920 , where it continued to exist successfully until the 1960s. However, the social upheavals in the course of the 1968 movement led to a shortage of young talent, so that active operations had to be stopped in 1971. At the beginning of 2003 there was contact between the old men of Cologne and the active members of the Göttingen Frisians. After a short rapprochement, the Göttingen Corps Frisia decided unanimously on February 12, 2005 to reunite with the Cologne Corps Friso-Luneburgia and to bear the official name "Frisia - Corps of the Frisians and Lüneburgers". Such a reunification after 150 years of separation is so far unique in the history of German student associations.

Known members

George Turner (2015)
  • Carl Uhlig as a member of the Leonensia Association and the Corps Frisia (around 1892)
    Otto Aichel (1871–1935), embryologist, anatomist and anthropologist
  • Adolf Bargmann (1835–1893), senior court attorney, member of the Oldenburg state parliament
  • Adolf Bethe (1837–1886), District Court Judge, MdHdA
  • Dietrich Christian von Buttel (1801–1878), member of the Frankfurt National Assembly, 1849/50 Oldenburg Prime Minister, President of the Higher Regional Court in Oldenburg
  • The mathematician Enne Heeren Dirksen became a member of Frisia in 1817.
  • Heinrich Georg Ehrentraut (1798–1866), councilor, private scholar, member of the Oldenburg state parliament
  • The theologian and publicist Ludwig Grote (1825–1887), who was born in Husum , campaigned for the reestablishment of the Hanoverian monarchy after 1866 and for this reason was nicknamed “Welfenpastor”. His political work brought him several years' imprisonment - for example in 1875 for insulting Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck - and ultimately his flight into exile.
  • Originally from East Frisia, the philosopher Rudolf Eucken (1846–1926) became a member of the then free association "Frisia" at the beginning of his studies, but later left it again; he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1908 . After studying in Göttingen and successfully completing his doctorate, he was appointed to the University of Basel in 1871 as the successor to his former Göttingen teacher Teichmüller and in competition with Friedrich Nietzsche . The award of the Nobel Prize to Eucken was the second award of the Prize for Literature to a non-poet, after the one to the historian Theodor Mommsen in 1902.
  • Wilhelm von Freeden (1822–1894), mathematician, natural scientist and oceanographer, founder of the North German Seewarte
  • Carl Groß (1800–1873), official assessor in Leer, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
  • Otto Freiherr von Grote (1835-1891), manor owner, MdHdA, MdR
  • Rudolf Hagemann (1837–1906), President of the Evangelical Lutheran Consistory in Hanover
  • Wilhelm Heinroth (1842-1925), pr. Kronsyndikus, President of the Supreme Court, member of the Prussian manor house. Max Liebermann painted his portrait in the Gallery of the Presidents of the Supreme Court .
  • Adolf Wilhelm Hillingh (1807–1878), bailiff, mayor of Leer, MdHdA
  • Edgar Jannott (* 1934), lawyer, CEO of Victoria Versicherungs AG and ERGO Versicherungsgruppe AG
  • Ernst von Koken (1860–1912), paleontologist and rector of the University of Tübingen
  • August Christian Ferdinand Krell (1802–1856), Finance Minister of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg
  • August Metzger (1832–1917), forest zoologist
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Möhring (1797–1875), bailiff in Delmenhorst, senior appeal councilor, member of the Oldenburg state parliament
  • Hugo Mosler (1875–1956), professor of telecommunications and radio technology at the TH Braunschweig, brewery director
  • Dietrich Mülder (1861–1947), classical philologist
  • Gerhard Oncken (1836–1898), landowner, mayor of Wittmund, MdHdA
  • Wilhelm Plagge (1794–1845), professor of pharmacology
  • Hermann Rahe (1913–1998), lawyer, head ministerial advisor, director of the German Judicial Academy in Trier
  • Ernst Ramdohr (1839–1922), high school teacher, Member of the Bundestag
  • Hans Reichenbach (1864–1937), hygienist, rector of the University of Göttingen
  • Otto Scheib (1893–1965), architect and urban planner
  • Rudolph Schepler (1813–1889), lawyer, MdR
  • Curt Schlüter (1881–1944), natural scientist and entrepreneur
  • Bernhard Schweinberg (1828–1902), Lord Mayor of Mühlhausen / Thuringia, MdHH
  • Ferdinand Siegert (1865–1946), pediatrician
  • Herbert Siegmund (1892–1954), pathologist
  • Ludwig Starklof (1789–1850), writer, first director of the Oldenburg State Theater
  • Edmund von Steiger (1836–1908), Swiss pastor and politician
  • Cirk Heinrich Stürenburg (1798–1858), editor of the East Frisian dictionary
  • George Turner (* 1935), President of the West German Rectors' Conference, Senator for Science and Research of the State of Berlin
  • Carl Uhlig (1872–1938), meteorologist and geographer. Also a member of the Heidelberg student union Leonensia
  • Karl August Wietfeldt (1891–1964), Mayor of Peine, Lord Mayor of Iserlohn and Witten

literature

  • Michael Doeberl et al. (Ed.): Das akademische Deutschland , Volume 2: The German universities and their academic citizens , Berlin 1931. S. 787, 896
  • Alfred Wandsleb: Frisia Gottingensis 1811-1931 . Heath 1931
  • Horst Bernhardi: Frisia Gottingensis 1831-1956 . Heath 1956
  • Joachim Ziemann, Heinrich Jürgen Lochmüller: The chronicle of the Corps Friso-Luneburgia . Cologne 2004
  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 165-166
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : Frisia - Corps of the Frisians and Lüneburgers (formerly Frisia) Göttingen , in which: The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps: Their representation in individual chronicles . Hilden 2007, pp. 225-226.
  • George Turner: Frisia Gottingensis 1956–2011 . Heath 2011

See also

Web links

Commons : Corps Frisia Göttingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 51.
  2. ^ Carl Gernandt: History of the connection Leonensia. 1871-1971 . Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, Heidelberg 1971, p. 60-62 .
  3. ^ Horst Bernhardi: New student communities at the University of Göttingen from 1945 to 1950 . In: Göttinger Jahrbuch 1962, pp. 159–172.
  4. Paul Gerhardt Gladen: Friso-Luneburgia (formerly Göttingen) Cologne , in ibid .: The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps: Her performance in individual chronicles . Hilden 2007, p. 58
  5. HRudolf Eucken: Memoirs - A piece of German life . Leipzig 1921, p. 30 f.
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