Corps Guestphalia Berlin

Guestphalias coat of arms

The Corps Guestphalia Berlin is a colored and obligatory student association in the Kösener Seniors Convents Association .

history

→ Main article : Berlin Seniors' Convent (KSCV)

A Guestphalia I with the colors green-black-white with silver percussion is attested in Berlin as early as 1811, shortly after the university was founded. It existed until 1821. One of its most prominent members was Theodor Körner , the poet of the Wars of Liberation, who moved to Berlin after his relegation from the University of Leipzig.

Today's Guestphalia was founded on June 19, 1845 at the Friedrich Wilhelms University . As with almost all Westfalencorps , the colors are green-white-black on a silver percussion. The motto is unity holds power! A few days after her foundation, Guestphalia concluded an "ex-cartel relationship" with the Corps Pomerania against the Seniors' Convent of the Corps Neoborussia and Hansea.

In 1863 and 1882, the corps with Rudolf Windelband I (later an honorary member) and Karl Piest, chaired the Kösener Congress . In 1912, a separate corp house was inaugurated on a corner plot on Bettina and Douglasstrasse in Berlin-Grunewald . During the First World War , it served as a convalescent home for wounded soldiers from 1914.

Under National Socialism Guestphalia had to suspend like all corps on October 30, 1935. It was reconstituted on November 11, 1950 in Mainz and became a member of the newly founded SC. On October 30, 1955, she moved back to Berlin.

Conditions

Guestphalia belongs to the green circle in the KSCV. Friendly relationships existed with Masovia (1880–1882) and Tigurinia I and exist with Franconia Munich (1870), Holsatia , Franconia Jena , Borussia Breslau (1964) and Albertina.

Berlin Westphalia

Federal Sign of Guestphalia I (1819)

Körner's death, from the gazebo, 1863

• Heinrich von Achenbach (1829–1899), mining lawyer, politician
• Gerd Beug (1882–1961), engineer and industrialist
• Karl Friedrich Beug (1883–1965), industrialist
• Joachim Brinkmann (* 1934), Member of the Bundestag
• Max Duderstadt (1861–1918), District Administrator in Westerburg and Diez
• Karl Credé-Hoerder (1878–1952), doctor and writer
• Gustav Fabricius (1880–1960), board member of Stettiner Hafengesellschaft mbH and Flughafen Stettin GmbH
• Horst Gärtner (1911–2001), microbiologist and hygienist
• Julius Goerdeler (1844–1928), judge and parliamentarian in West Prussia
• Harald Gollnick (* 1948), dermatologist
• August Hagen (1834–1910), President of the Naumburg Higher Regional Court, Member of the Parliament
• Carl Bernhard von Ibell (1847–1924), Lord Mayor of Wiesbaden
• John Koch (1850–1934), English and student historian
• Theodor Körner (writer) (1791–1813), founder of Guestphalia I
• Julius Kraaz (1822–1889), lawyer, sugar manufacturer, MdR
• Horst Lahr (1913–2008), theologian
• Rolf Otto Lahr (1908–1985), ambassador
• Joachim Linck (1940–2013), lawyer, publicist and author, first director of the Thuringian state parliament
• Gustav Adolf Meibauer (1821–1897), lawyer, MdHdA
• Max Menny (around 1862–1921), district director in Château-Salins and Colmar
• Wolfgang Müller-Ruchholtz (1928-2019), immunologist
• Louis Niemeyer (1856–1940), lawyer and judge in Hamburg, Member of the Bundestag
• Martin Oldiges (1940–2016), lawyer, university professor in Leipzig
• Otto Polysius (1863–1933), engineer and industrialist
• Joachim Raack (1901–1997), judge at the Federal Social Court
• Albrecht Freiherr von Rechenberg (1861–1935), Governor of German East Africa, MdR
• Urs Rechn (* 1978), director, theater, television and cinema actor
• Adolph from La Valette-St. George (1831-1910), anatomist
• Rudolf Windelband (1869–1909), homeopathic doctor in Berlin; Chairman of the oKC 1863, honorary member
• Johannes Zwick (* 1955), doctor, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Johannesbad Group

literature

• Horst Gärtner , A. Barth: History of the Corps Guestphalia Berlin 1845-1970 . 1970

Web links

Commons : Corps Guestphalia Berlin  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Corps Guestphalia Berlin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Search for Corps Guestphalia Berlin in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• Website of the Corps Guestphalia Berlin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Bauer : On the history and existence of Guestphalia I in Berlin (May 21, 1810 - 1821) . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 9 (1964), pp. 104 ff.
2. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 11.
3. ↑ Walter von Hirschfeld: Obituary for EM Karl Pingel . Corps newspaper of Guestphalia Berlin, April / May 1931