Corps Gothia Innsbruck

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Corps Gothia

coat of arms Circle
Gothia Coat of Arms.JPG Free and Faithful!
Basic data
University location: innsbruck
University / s: LFU , MUI , MCI , UMIT
Founding: WS 1870/71
Foundation date: October 20, 1870
Corporation association : KSCV
Colours: Gentian blue – white – alpine rose red
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : mandatory
Motto: Free and Faithful!
Gun motto: Gladius ultor noster
Total members: 108 (April 2014)
Active: 9 (April 2014)
Website: www.gothia-innsbruck.at

The Corps Gothia is a Tyrolean student association in the Kösener Seniors Convents Association (KSCV). It is the first corps from Austria to be accepted into the KSCV. It gained particular prominence through the Max Ghezze case .

The corps is obligatory and colored . The members are recruited from students and former students of the Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck , the Medical University Innsbruck and the Management Center Innsbruck .

Color

The members of the Corps Gothia wear the colors gentian blue – white – alpine rose red with silver percussion . In addition, a blue student hat and a blue Kneip jacket are worn by the active corps members . The foxes wear the gentian blue-alpine rose red fox ribbon.

The motto of the corps is Free and Faithful! The gun motto is Gladius ultor noster .

The coat of arms of the akad. Corps Gothia shows in the lower left field the coat of arms of the city of Merano , which refers to the South Tyrolean homeland of the corps founders.

history

Time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy

At the beginning of the winter semester of 1870, a group of young Merano students with similar interests and ideas decided to give themselves a solid foundation and establish a connection. The donors from South Tyrol were the lawyer Atz, the doctor Prünster and the five philosophers Sandbichler, Wimmer, Tanzer, Kohl and Pupp.

So on October 20, 1870 a new academic connection was established in Wilten , which was initially called Walhalla . The new connection soon found acceptance in student circles; in the winter semester of 1870/71 another seven foxes were added. Most of the active people visited the Paukboden of the Corps Athesia Innsbruck . In the summer semester of 1871 the first scale between Walhalla and Rhaetia rose.

In the winter semester of 1871/72, the life of connections took on more pronounced forms. On November 16, 1871, new statutes, consisting of 24 paragraphs, were adopted. The connecting colors were set to violet-silver-black, with brown caps, the motto was Free and Treu . According to the statutes, the purpose of the association was "(...) to protect student interests, to promote progress and to cultivate intimate camaraderie." The association as such did not yet accept the obligation to strike scales, but obliged each member to preserve his honor and to ensure that the honor of the association is not damaged.

On December 15, 1871, the association adopted the colors gentian blue – white – red and gentian blue caps. On January 11, 1872, unconditional satisfaction was introduced. On March 8, 1872, the Walhalla was finally constituted as a corps .

The first Austrian SC in the KSCV

In order to create a closer relationship with the two older Innsbruck corps, an SC relationship was entered into and the SC comment was mutually guaranteed. On May 16, 1872, the corps adopted the name "Gothia". New statutes were drawn up and finally adopted on October 15, 1873. All of the changes that the corps declaration had made necessary had been made in these. "The association bears the name Gothia and is an academic corps to which political and religious aspirations as such are alien."

In 1875, after a clash between members of the Senior Citizens' Convention and the Voralbergia Association, the forerunner of the Suevia fraternity , which had also led to acts of violence, Gothia and the Corps Athesia were dissolved by the Lieutenancy .

Melker Congress 1881

Gothia continued to exist in secret until the reconstitution on August 2, 1876. Towards the end of the 1880s, the situation became more difficult for Gothia, as for the corps in Austria in general. The Melker SC Association , the association of the Austrian corps under the Goth Theodor Christomannos , had dissolved again. The student body of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy was gripped by the ideas and currents of the fraternity . At the same time, the contrasts with the Catholic connections of the CV increased. These manifested themselves u. a by scouting out and denouncing every racket game in the corps, which at times threatened to thwart regular mensur operations.

The attacks of the fraternities became more and more violent and energetic , also in Innsbruck. The political situation attracted young academics to the fraternity. The number of activities in the corps decreased from year to year. In the summer semester of 1891, for example, the Senate even applied for the corps to be dissolved, which, however, was rejected by the Lieutenancy. The corps conditions of the other Austrian universities were also bad, so that nothing could be hoped of a merger with the few remaining corps. Accordingly, the idea arose in the corps circles to seek solid support in connection with a powerful association: the Kösener Seniors Convents Association (KSCV). At the 25-year foundation festival on October 19, 1895, the resolution was passed to apply for membership in the KSCV. After overcoming many difficulties, on March 4, 1898, the corps, led by Theodor Christomannos, was accepted into the association. Under the patronage of the SC zu Munich, especially the Corps Suevia Munich , the Goths fought their 12 recognition games before the SC. Already at the next Kösener Congress in 1898 after Gothia was accepted into the KSCV, the Gothia CC was granted seat and voting rights. Gothia was thus the first corps from Austria to be accepted into the Kösener Seniors Convents Association.

This admission into the second oldest umbrella organization of all German student associations represented a new chapter in the history of the Corps. All of a sudden Gothia entered completely new circumstances. For many semesters it was almost impossible to bring together the three corps boys necessary to keep Gothia going. New statutes had to be created, which also happened in 1900. On May 2, 1904, Gothia had to suspend due to a lack of active members. With the support of Corps Franconia Tübingen , Gothia was reconstituted on July 7, 1905 and a number of new foxes were accepted.

After a long examination period, Gothia had made it so far that in 1910 representatives of the Corps Suevia Munich, the Corps Thuringia Jena and the Corps Hassia Gießen , three of the largest corps in the Black Circle , were present at the 40-year foundation festival. On November 11, 1911, an official introductory relationship with Suevia Munich was concluded, while there was still an unofficial introductory relationship with Thuringia Jena.

The First World War brought traditional student life in Innsbruck to a standstill. Members of the Corps Gothia Innsbruck fought on the side of the Central Powers.

Period of the First Republic and National Socialism

Main building of the University of Innsbruck

When the Tyrolean state parliament carried out a referendum in April 1921 in the state of Tyrol , in which a majority of 98.8% voted for the merger of Tyrol with Germany , it was the Gothia activists who spontaneously removed the border posts to Bavaria near Scharnitz and brought them to Innsbruck as a sign of Tyrol's affiliation with Germany, to carry them through the streets and finally to deposit them in the country house.

Misunderstanding the German-Tyrolean patriotism of the Gothia members, student National Socialists sought proximity to the Corps. The National Socialist ideology, however, found little approval in the Corps with its conservative-authoritarian direction and it was declared:

"Do not believe in fraternization with proletariat!"

- Richard Lorenzi, then active in Corps Gothia :

While members of lower social classes were also accepted in most of Innsbruck's corporations, their share in Gothia was only 1.3%. A recent sociological study showed that the members of the Corps Gothia consisted mainly of the upper class (43%) and the upper middle class (55.7%) and that the Corps Gothia is seen as the most elitist association in Tyrol with regard to the social origin of its members could. The recruitment of the offspring only from elitist social classes, combined with the fact that the members of Gothia from South Tyrol were increasingly prevented from studying in Innsbruck by the fascist authorities in Italy, led to personnel problems of the Corps during the time of the First Republic.

While the Nazi regime took action against the student associations north of the Alps , the Austrian student associations were initially not affected by the " Gleichschaltung" . In contrast to the connections in the German Reich, they could continue to exist in the corporate state (Austria) . However , when Austria was annexed to the German Reich in 1938, Gothia's corps operations were also discontinued. The NSDStB presented the Innsbruck corporations with the choice of either ceasing operations entirely or of continuing to operate in the form of a comradeship of the National Socialist German Student Union .

The Gothia decided on the latter; Since not every corps was granted its own comradeship, they joined forces with the other Tyrolean corps Athesia to form the comradeship Arthur Seeber . It was named after the Goth and National Socialist Arthur Seeber, who was killed in Carinthia in the July coup in 1934. The third Tyrolean Corps Rhaetia refused to join this comradeship because it was not granted any comradeship of its own. The former house of the Catholic student union KÖHV Leopoldina Innsbruck, which was dissolved by the National Socialists, was assigned as a home for the comradeship .

Period of the Second Republic

After the Second World War , thanks to the good contacts between Gothia and Corps in Germany and membership in the Black Circle , the academic corps was finally reconstituted in its old form in the 1950s. In the period that followed, the Corps was able to acquire its own villa directly on the Inn thanks to the commitment and willingness of its members to donate .

In 2010 Gothia celebrated its 140th foundation festival in Innsbruck with all the social corps and guests from all over Europe .

There are currently around 100 members in Corps Gothia with South African, Colombian, Hungarian, Polish, Swiss, Italian, German and Austrian citizenship .

Goth march

The Austro-Czech composer Karl Komzák dedicated an own march to the corps, Op. 7, during his time as Kapellmeister in the kuk Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 7 Baron Maroicic in Innsbruck. 102.

Incident Max Ghezze

Gasthof Breinössl (1900)

In November 1912, members of the corps were involved in a fight in front of the Breinössl inn , the constant of Gothia in Maria-Theresien-Straße, as a result of which the medical student Max Ghezze (member of the AV Raeto Bavaria Innsbruck in the ÖCV ) died of a concussion . According to a report in the Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung , seven members of Corps Gothia are said to have been arrested. During the investigation into the perpetrator responsible for the fatal blow, a total of 14 students were arrested, but all of them had to be released for lack of evidence. At the beginning of 1913 the investigation was discontinued without any result.

Ghezze's death led to protests by representatives of Catholic Austria against the beating liberal student body. Some Catholic student historians establish a connection with the Academic Kulturkampf in this incident .

Conditions

Cartel Corps

  • Bavaria Würzburg (concluded in 1955 from a friendship relationship that had existed since 1920)

Friendly Corps

Known members

In alphabetic order

  • Edwin Albrich (1910–1976), Austrian internist, lecturer in internal medicine at the University of Vienna, member of the NSDAP and the SA, most recently SA-Hauptsturmführer
  • Anton von Avanzini (1890–1969), Mayor of Wörgl, politician (WV, economic association)
  • Rolf Böger (1908–1995), member of the German Bundestag, politician (FDP, Free Democratic Party), member of the NSDAP
  • Theodor Christomannos (1854–1911), judge and lawyer, member of the Tyrolean Parliament, politician (DFP, German Freedom Party), pioneer of tourism in South Tyrol
  • Max Clara (1899–1966), professor of medicine at the Universities of Leipzig, Munich and Istanbul, first person to describe the Clara cell (club cell) formerly named after him (renamed because of activities in the NSDAP)
  • Hermann Foppa (1882–1959), politician (GDVP, Greater German People's Party), Vice President of the Austrian National Council, then NSDAP member of the German Reichstag
  • Josef Froewis (1904–1971), Professor of Gynecology at the University of Vienna
  • Carl Hochstöger (1930–2003), President of the Tyrolean Chamber of Pharmacists
  • Karl Hochstöger (1901–1987), acting district captain of Landeck and SS-Unterscharführer
  • Herbert Hummel (1907–1944), German administrative lawyer and member of the NSDAP and SA, most recently SA-Sturmbannführer.
  • Artur Köllensperger (1884–1946), judge at the Supreme Court in Vienna and at the Imperial Court in Leipzig
  • Fritz Kopatschek († 1943), professor of chemistry at the University of La Plata
  • Ludwig Lantschner (1826–1913), professor of medicine at the University of Innsbruck
  • Sylvio Lazzari (1857–1944), composer
  • Alexander Erwin Merlet (1886–1939), painter and mountaineer
  • Eduard Mirow (1911–1999), German diplomat in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic of Germany, member of the NSDAP, the SA and the SS
  • Alfred Poell (1867–1929), gynecologist and painter
  • Alfred Poell (1900–1968), ENT doctor, chamber singer at the Vienna State Opera
  • Hubert Prachensky (1916–2009), architect
  • Hermann Rink (* 1935), professor of radiation biology at the University of Bonn
  • Julius von Roschmann-Hörburg (1852–1921), Professor of Economics and Rector of the University of Czernowitz, Member of the Reichsrat, politician (DVP, German People's Party)
  • Anton Schöpfer (1879–1960), General Director of the Austrian Federal Railways and regional party chairman in Tyrol, politician (FPÖ, Freedom Party of Austria)
  • Alfons Schuchter († 1934), District Captain of the Lieutenancy of Tyrol
  • Fritz Schuler (* 1944), Vice President of the Vorarlberg State Parliament, politician (FPÖ, Freedom Party of Austria)
  • Wilhelm Daughtermann (1912–1974), doctor, psychotherapist and poet
  • Franz Torggler (1857–1942), professor of gynecology in Klagenfurt
  • Helmut Wachter (1929–2012), professor of medicine at the University of Innsbruck
  • Theodor von der Wense (1904–1977), professor of medicine and rector of the University of Innsbruck

Holder of the Klinggräff Medal

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

  • Bernhard Holaubek (1993)
  • Johannes Elgeti (2013)

literature

  • Michael Gehler: Students and Politics. The struggle for supremacy at the University of Innsbruck 1918–1938 . Innsbruck 1990.
  • Michael Gehler: Tyrol in the 20th century. From the crown land to the European region . Innsbruck 2009.
  • Andreas Bösche: Between Emperor Franz Joseph I and Schönerer. Innsbruck University and its student associations 1859–1918 . Innsbruck 2008.
  • Hermann Rink : History of the Academic Corps Gothia zu Innsbruck , Part II: 1951–2015 . D. & L. Koch Verlag, Bonn 2016. ISBN 978-3-9815935-0-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dt. Let the sword be our avenger .
  2. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 171.
  3. ^ Statutes of the akad. Corps Gothia, 1871.
  4. ^ Statutes of the akad. Corps Gothia, 1873.
  5. ^ Horst Zimmermann: Switzerland and Austria during the interwar period. P. 77.
  6. ^ Anton Hopfgartner, Kurt Schuschnigg, p. 45.
  7. ^ Michael Gehler: Students and Politics. P. 291.
  8. ^ Michael Gehler: Students and Politics. P. 44 ff and p. 88.
  9. ^ Michael Gehler: Students and Politics. P. 88 ff.
  10. ↑ Sheet music archive of the conductor of the historical regimental band No. 84, Walter Schwanzer, Lower Austria.
  11. ^ The fatality of a student brawl . In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten, November 7, 8 and 9, 1912; The funeral service of the physician Max Ghezze . In: Innsbrucker Nachrichten, November 11, 1912; A Catholic fraternity student killed by German national students . In: Linzer Volksblatt, November 8, 1912; The victim of the Innsbruck student brawl . In: Neue Freie Presse, November 9, 1912.
  12. ↑ A student brawl with a fatal outcome . In: Czernowitzer Allgemeine Zeitung, November 9, 1912 (noon edition).
  13. ↑ Gerhard Hartmann: For God and Fatherland. History and work of the CV in Austria. Lahn, Kevelaer 2006, ISBN 3-7840-3362-8 , p. 168.
  14. ↑ Andreas Bösche: Between Emperor Franz Joseph I and Schönerer. Innsbruck University and its student associations 1859–1918. Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4362-0 .
  15. ↑ Gerhard Hartmann: The CV in Austria - its origin, its history, its meaning. 3. Edition. Lahn-Verlag, Limburg-Kevelaer 2001, ISBN 3-7840-3229-X , p. 51 f.
  16. ↑ Michael Gehler : Tyrol in the 20th century. From the crown land to the European region. 2nd Edition. Tyrolia-Verlag, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7022-2881-1 , p. 21 f.

Web links

Commons : Corps Gothia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '18.4 "  N , 11 ° 23' 34.6"  E