Corps Guestphalia Hall

coat of arms
Basic data
State :	Saxony-Anhalt
University :	Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Founding:	September 8, 1789 in Halle
Association:	KSCV
Motto:	Neminem time, neminem laede!
Gun motto:	Gloria virtutis comes!
Colours:
Circle:
Address:	Burgstrasse 40, 06114 Halle / Saale
Website:	www.guestphalia-halle.de

The Corps Guestphalia Halle is a student association in the Kösener Seniors Convents Association (KSCV), in which it is the oldest association. The corps has always stood by the scale and color . It is (again) based in Halle (Saale) and belongs to the green circle . The corps members are called Halle Westphalians.

Color

The colors of the corps were black and white until 1799, in contrast to the green and white badges of the Jena Westphalia. The origin of the black and green badges has not been proven. At the Kartellag of 1799 in Halle, the representatives decided to introduce uniform colors and created the tricolor green-black-white from the previous ones, which has been worn in the order green-white-black since 1821/22. To this day, these colors have been adopted by all other Westfalen corps at German universities (Bonn, Berlin, Erlangen, Greifswald, Tübingen, Heidelberg); some of them can also be found in other corporation associations.

The public opinion soon prevailed that these were the official colors of the province , and so they were adopted by shooting clubs and other societies and flagged accordingly at festivals. The great commemorative festivals of the Westphalian muses' sons , which took place between 1819 and 1830 under the direction of the district judge Friedrich Wilhelm Rautert (Erlanger Westphalian) in various places in Westphalia, the first time in Hattingen in 1819 , also contributed to the spread of this conviction . At these meetings the green-white-black colors were emphasized. The error was not cleared up until 1880 by the Münster archives director Roger Wilmans , who was commissioned by Berlin to research the historical basis for the alleged provincial colors green-white-black as part of the intended new regulation of the Prussian provincial colors. Based on the archival records, he determined that the colors were not based on any state award act or any other official orders, but had gradually developed as originally student colors into the national color.

Today Guestphalia Halle wears the colors "pea green-white-black" with silver percussion, and a pea green cap. The foxes of the Westphalians in Halle wear a band of foxes in the colors "may green-white-may-green", also with silver percussion. In the winter semester, a winter barrel is worn in addition to the may-green student hat. Inactive and old men wear a barrel. Compared to the normal barrel, the winter barrel consists of a lime-green lid with a felt compass and a border made of ermine.

The slogans of the corps are: "Neminem time, neminem laede" ("Fear no one, do not hurt anyone!") And "Gloria virtutis comes" ("Fame is the companion of bravery.")

The following weapons sayings can be found in his coat of arms: "Amico pectus hosti cuspidem" (aphc) ("To the friend's heart - to the enemy the bat!"); “Vivant fratres intimo foedere iuncti! (vfifi) ”(“ Long live the brothers who are deeply united to us! ”); as well as "Gladius ulter Noster" (GUN) ("The sword is our avenger.")

history

The older Westphalian country team

Friedrich Consbruch as Halle Westphalian (1806)

Associations of students from the Westphalian parts of the Kingdom of Prussia ( Grafschaft Mark and Grafschaft Ravensberg ) can already be identified at the University of Halle at the beginning of the 18th century. A Landsmannschaft of the Westphalians was abolished and banned by royal rescript at the university of November 22, 1717 together with the other Landsmannschaft. But it seems to have persisted regardless. 1765 is a stud. Crüsemann from Soest as a senior of the Westphalian Landsmannschaft. On October 21, 1786, the members of the Silesian, Magdeburg, Westphalia, Märker, East Frisian, Prussian, Halberstadt and Pomeranian student body took part in a celebration of the student body in homage to King Friedrich Wilhelm II.

From the Westphalian wreath to the Corps Guestphalia

In the second half of the 18th century, the old country teams were increasingly displaced by the student orders influenced by Freemasonry . The order of the Constantists was founded in the middle of the year 1777 from the Westphalian Landsmannschaft ; In competition with the medals, however, the country teams also regained strength in the 1790s, calling themselves wreaths to circumvent the official ban .

At the end of 1789, the Westphalian Landsmannschaft was the first to be reorganized. The foundation date, which Guestphalia has been running since the 1920s, refers to this. It was followed by the Märker and Pommern (1791) and Schlesier (1791/92). The wreaths were initially tolerated by the authorities and recognized to such an extent that they were accepted as negotiating partners for holding university celebrations. In 1794, Westphalia from Halle took part in the Erlanger Westphalia foundation (1794–1809) . In the same year, both of them established cartel relationships, to which a cartel with the Jenenser Westphalia entered in 1795. This laid the foundation stone for the so-called "Westphalian Cartel", which was officially founded in 1799 and extended to the universities of Würzburg, Göttingen, Bonn, Berlin, Heidelberg and Marburg by 1820. In 1806 the Guestphalia I zu Marburg was donated with the participation of Halle-Westphalia, from which the Corps Guestphalia Marburg later emerged. In 1808 a common constitution was decided , in 1812 common basic principles.

In 1796 a rescript ordered the dissolution of the wreaths, but to no avail. In 1800 the Kränzchen in Halle joined together to form a senior citizens' convent (university) and agreed norms of relationships with one another and behavior towards the orders, known as "cartel points". They were signed by the senior citizens of the Pomeranian, Brandenburg, Halberstadt, Magdeburg, Silesian and Westphalian Kränzchen.

In addition to the legal texts, the early sources for the history of Guestphalia include the diary entries of Joseph von Eichendorff , who studied at the Friedrichs University in Halle in 1805/06 and in his notes, among other things, described the Comitat for the Westphalia Baron von Himm .

Another sharp pursuit of the Kränzchen began when the senior of the Westphalian Kränzchen, Wiedenhoff, died in the post horn near Reideburg from a wound he had suffered in a duel against a Leipzig student. But the population was not endangered. Westphalia are documented as a representative at the senior citizens' conventions and in student records from 1803 to 1805. Even with the abolition of the Pietist Friedrichs University by Napoleon Bonaparte in October 1806, operations only experienced a brief interruption. Immediately after the university reopened on May 16, 1808, the Saxons and Westphalia already existed, against which an investigation was initiated in July 1810 after a dispute with students who had moved from Helmstedt.

More serious was the formation of the fraternity- oriented association Teutonia as a result of the unity of the wars of liberation (1814). She took in the members of the previous country teams for the most part, but decided to dissolve itself after five years (February 1819). The former compatriots Marchia, Pomerania and Guestphalia formed anew. During this time, the term "corps" began to be used as a term for the country teams or Kränzchen.

In the 1830s, at the time of the Restorative German Confederation , the fraternity took a temporary decline. Guestphalia was temporarily suspended and was reconstituted on July 18, 1840. This date was celebrated as a foundation festival until 1926. After the old Westphalian cartel collapsed, official relations were concluded with Saxonia Leipzig in 1838 and with Thuringia Jena in 1839 . In July 1848, Guestphalia, represented by the medical student Eduard Graf for the Hallenser SC, took part in the assembly of the German corps in Jena, which is now considered the founding act of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association.

Empire, Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism

With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War , in which all active soldiers participated as soldiers, a new period of suspension began . Four members of the Corps of the Black Circle (Thuringia Jena and Brunsviga Göttingen) reconstituted the Corps on April 29, 1874 after the PP games that were still outstanding due to the breakup of the Guestphalia with the Corps of the Black Circle had been canceled. At the end of the 1870s, the black circle finally turned to the green circle. In the winter semester of 1877/78, there were relationships with the Corps Pomerania Greifswald (resumed in 1874), Hansea Bonn , Suevia Tübingen , Saxonia Leipzig , Thuringia Jena , Silesia Breslau and Guestphalia Berlin .

During the First World War , active operations were suspended from 1916 to 1918. The Halle Corps students - and with them the active members of the Corps Guestphalia - joined the student volunteer associations on March 13, 1920 during the Kapp Putsch .

In 1921, with the consent of the SC zu Halle Guestphalias, the date was set back from 1840 to September 8, 1789 and confirmed by the Kösener Congress in 1930. After years of dispute about the anciennity , Guestphalia has since been considered the oldest still existing corps . Its oldest surviving statute dates from 1919. The original version from 1840 has been lost since the backdate negotiations 1926–1930.

The time of National Socialism brought restrictions on corps life and increasing tensions between the corporations and the leadership of the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB). A decision by the Reichsstudentenführer that all students must be members of the NSDStB or a comradeship led to another suspension on October 11, 1935. In order to forestall a seizure, the corp house in Burgstrasse was sold. A traditional room was set up in the Hotel Stadt Hamburg with the inventory . In 1938 some old men of the Corps took part in the founding of the SC comradeship "Gustav Nachtigal", which existed until the end of the war.

Reconstitution in Münster and return to Halle

In 1950 Guestphalia participated with other former Halle corps in the foundation of the Corps Saxonia Frankfurt . After this bond was broken (1956), the independent reconstitution took place in Münster in 1958 and membership of the Münster weapon ring. The Corps celebrated the 175th foundation festival in 1964 with a ceremony in the Zwei-Löwen-Club in Münster. In the disputes within the KSCV about the abandonment or retention of the designation gauge as a federation principle at the beginning of the 1970s, Guestphalia took the side of the mensur supporters and initiated a special meeting of the Corps of the Green Circle in the run-up to the Kosen Congress in 1970. 1979/80 Guestphalia Halle was presiding suburb corps of the KSCV for the second time after 1891.

In the 2006 summer semester, the headquarters were moved back to Halle. Since then, Guestphalia has been part of the Halle Seniors' Convent again .

Pubs and houses

In 1810 a Westphalian pub in the “Kühlen Brunnen” in Halle is occupied. Fixed pubs in Guestphalia can only be identified from 1840. The reconstitution of the corps probably took place in the “Zur Schleuse” inn on Mansfelder Strasse, where the corps used to hang out at the time. Then the pub was located in the “Zur Stadt Berlin” inn until 1847, in the “Goldenen Egge” from 1847–1870, interrupted only from 1857 to 1860 by a brief period in the “Stadt Köln” inn. After the reconstitution of 1874, people first pubs in the “Zum Fürstental” restaurant (until 1887, with a short interruption), then until 1888 in the “Marktschloß”.

The first own house was handed over to the active on January 21, 1888 at Georgstrasse 1. In 1910/11, the master builder Otto Grote from Halle built a new building at Burgstrasse 40 according to plans by Leipzig architect Curt Einert (1863–1928), which remained the Corps' domicile until its suspension in October 1935.

In Münster, Guestphalia first moved into the former patrician house Königstrasse 39 (Kleines Senden-Palais) after provisional accommodation on Münsteraner Burgstrasse, which was replaced in July 1969 by the house Mozartstrasse (later Nottebohmstrasse) 5. With the repurchase of the house at Burgstrasse 40 in Halle in 2006, the Corps returned to its former home.

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  Old corp house in Halle (1888/90)

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  Corphaus in Münster

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  New corp house in Halle

External relations

Guestphalia is a member of the green circle . She was friends with Baltia , from whom she took in four relatives who had been expelled from Albertus University in 1934 . Today Guestphalia Halle is in a cartel with Saxonia Leipzig and is friends with Holsatia , Albertina, Borussia Breslau , Teutonia Gießen and Pomerania . Since the summer semester of 2019 she has had an official interview with the Corps Rhenania Würzburg (oVV).

Members

In alphabetic order

Surname	Life dates	activity	image
Hans Bodo Count of Alvensleben-Neugattersleben	1882-1961	Landowner and President of the German Men's Club
Robert von Bartsch	† 1919	Undersecretary of State
Karl von Basse	1781-1868	District administrator in Borken, manor owner
Gustav Behrendt	† 1912	President of the Berlin Railway Directorate
Gustav Bertog	1825-1888	Estate and factory owner, head of the city council in Halberstadt, MdHdA
Richard Wilhelm Bertram	† 1881	First Mayor of Halle (Saale)
Peter Christian Wilhelm Beuth	1781-1853	Founder of the Prussian trade institute and (with Schinkel) of the Berlin Museum of Applied Arts
Georg Moritz von Blomberg	1770-1818	District administrator in Tecklenburg, poet
Ludwig Freiherr von Blomberg	† 1850	Go Higher Government Council, Prussian Chamberlain
Gisbert von Bonin-Brettin	1841-1913	Sachsen-Coburg and Gothaischer Real Secret Council and Minister of State, member of the Prussian manor house
Emil Braemer	1859-1939	District Administrator of the Oletzko District, member of the Provincial Parliament of East Prussia, MdHdA
Albert von Breitenbauch	1776-1852	Royal Prussian District Administrator of the district of Ziegenrück, owner of the manors Ranis, Brandenstein and Petzkendorf
Georg von Dehn-Schmidt	1876-1937	Envoy
Daniel Heinrich Delius	1773-1832	District president of the administrative districts of Trier and Cologne, owner of the monastery property of the Laach Abbey
Wilhelm Delius	† 1860	President of the General Commission for the Province of Westphalia
Rudolf Doehn	1821-1894	Writers and politicians
Carl Heinrich Ebmeier	1793-1850	Member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
Konrad Engelhardt	1861-1917	District Administrator of the Lüneburg district
Wolf Freiherr von Engelhardt	1910-2008	Geologist and mineralogist, professor at the University of Tübingen
Rulemann Friedrich Eylert	1770-1852	Bishop of Berlin, spiritual advisor to Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia
Claus-Dieter Freymann	* 1938	Professor of Education, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Diakonisches Werk in the church district An der Ruhr, jazz musician
Heinrich Fritsch	1844-1915	Professor of Gynecology at the Universities of Breslau and Bonn
Franz Galli	1839-1917	Judge at the Imperial Court
Joachim Rudolph Gerdes	around 1775–1857	Oberamtmann in Stickhausen
Wolf von Gottberg	1865-1938	District Administrator of the District of Crossen (Oder)
Eduard Graf	1829-1895	Medic, MdHdA
Justus von Gruner	1777-1820	Police President of Berlin, Governor General of the Middle Rhine and the Grand Duchy of Berg, 1815 Police Director of occupied Paris
Robert Eduard von Hagemeister	1827-1902	Upper President of Westphalia
Erwin Hasbach	1875-1970	Member of the Sejm, Senator of the Polish Senate, Leader of Germanism in Poland
August Franz von Haxthausen	1792-1866	Agronomist, economist, lawyer, farmer, writer and folk song collector
Werner Graf von Haxthausen	1780-1822	Civil servant and philologist, friend and colleague of the Brothers Grimm
Georg Friedrich Heilmann	1785-1862	Biel politician, officer and landscape painter
Franz Hugo Hesse	1804-1861	Prussian civil servant and diplomat, member of the Erfurt Union Parliament, the Prussian National Assembly and the First Chamber of the Prussian Landtag, MdHdA
Eberhard von Hymmen	1784-1854	District Administrator of the Siegkreis and the District of Bonn
Hans von Jacobs	1868-1915	Diplomat, General Director of the German Levante Line
Theodor Karbe	1829-1886	Manor owner, MdHdA
Ernst Knebel	1892-1945	Major General, bearer of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
Günther Knecht	1909-1995	Administrative lawyer, most recently police director in Neuss from 1964 to 1974
Johann Friedrich Christoph Kortüm	1788-1858	Professor of History in Bern and Heidelberg
Leonhard Lehfeldt	1834-1876	City judge, MdHdA
Ludwig von Liebenstein	1781-1824	Oberamtmann of the Baden Oberämter Hornberg and Lahr, member of the Second Chamber of the Baden Assembly of Estates
August von Liebermann	† 1847	prussia. Minister and Envoy
Heinrich Eugen Marcard	1806-1883	MdHdA, MdR
Adalbert Matthaei	1859-1924	Art historian, university professor in Kiel and Danzig
Albrecht Meckel von Hembsbach	1790-1829	Professor of Surgery
Hermann von Mohrenschild	1860-1928	Majorate, Estonian District Administrator
Christian Friedrich Freiherr von der Mosel	1779-1858	District Administrator in Kleve
Richard Münter	† 1938	Major general
Friedrich Wilhelm Müser	1812-1874	Industrialist, founder of Harpener Bergbau-AG
Bernhard Christoph Ludwig Natorp	1774-1846	Pedagogue and theologian, Vice General Superintendent of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia
Konrad Niemeyer	1829-1903	Classical philologist, director of the Kiel School of Academics
Arnold Paulssen	1864-1942	first Thuringian Minister of State
Viktor Pfannschmidt	† 1878	Mayor of Coswig (Anhalt), Mayor of Lauenburg
Walter Rehfeld	1859-1933	District Administrator of the Dannenberg district
Paul Riebeck	1859-1889	Namesake of the Paul Riebeck Foundation in Halle
Heinrich Robolski	1858-1939	President of the Reich Patent Office
Max Roepell	1841-1903	President of the Royal Railway Directorates in Katowice and Poznan
Georg Rumler	† 1940	President of the Senate in the Reich Insurance Office, Director of the Central Pension Office for Central Germany
August Sartori	1827-1908	Pedagogue
Franz Saxer	1864-1903	pathologist
Georg Schleusner	1841-1911	Superintendent in Cochstedt
Georg Julius von Schlechtendahl	1770-1833	Bergischer Staatsrat, President of the Government Commission in Paderborn, Government Vice-President and Special President of the Münster District
Karl August Sigismund Schultze	1795-1877	anatomist
Waldemar Schultze	around 1835–1877	Bailiff in Dillenburg, district director in Mulhouse
Christoph Wilhelm Heinrich Sethe	1767-1855	Lawyer, Chief President of the Rhenish Auditing and Cassation Court
Paul von Spaeth	1859-1936	Majorate, member of the Provincial Parliament of East Prussia, MdHdA
Richard von Spalding	1871-1913	Go Oberregierungsrat, lecturer in the Reichskolonialamt, Deputy Governor of German East Africa
Richard Spendelin	1859-1898	District Administrator of the Schrimm District
Otto Steinmann	1831-1894	District President in Gumbinnen, MdHdA, MdR
Friedrich Strauss	1786-1863	Oberhofprediger and professor for practical theology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin
Johann Wilhelm Süvern	1775-1829	Teacher and politician, reformer of the Prussian school legislation, member of the Academy of Sciences.
Heinrich Ferdinand Philipp von Sybel	1781-1870	Jurist, MdHdA, father of the historian Heinrich von Sybel
Karl Tettenborn	1858-1938	Lord Mayor of Altona, member of the manor house
Walter of Trebra	1869-1924	District administrator in Ragnit and Hagen
David Wiethaus	1768-1854	Mayor of Hamm, sub-prefect of the arrondissement of Hamm, district administrator of the district of Hamm
Wilhelm Freiherr von Zedlitz and Neukirch	1848-1923	District Administrator of the Schönau district, manor owner, member of the Prussian manor house

See also

• Senior Citizens' Convention (University)
• List of student associations in Halle (Saale)

literature

• Oskar Kraft: Inauguration of the new corp house of the Guestphalia Hall. Academische Monatshefte 28 (1911/12), pp. 338-340.
• Wilhelm Eckhardt : Historical investigations into the existence of a guestphalia in Halle 1832-1840. Erlangen 1929
• 200 years Corps Guestphalia Halle zu Münster , ed. from Westphalenverein e. V. Halle / Saale, Münster 1989.
• Thorsten Lehmann: The Halle Corps in the German Empire. A study of student liaison from 1871 to 1918 . Halle (Saale) 2007

Web links

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

• Website of the Corps Guestphalia Hall

Individual evidence

1. ↑ An afterword by the editor (= Erich Bauer ) to Hans Lippold: The origin of names and colors of the Corps Masovia. In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 6 (1961), p. 127 f.
2. ↑ Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt: Pagvs Neletici Et Nvdzici, Or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the former Primat and Ertz-Stifft, but now secularized by the Westphalian Peace Conclusion, Hertzogthum Magdeburg . Halle 1750, Part II, p. 54; Oskar Dolch: History of the German student body from the founding of the German universities to the German wars of freedom. A historical attempt . Leipzig 1858, p. 239f.
3. ↑ For the Soest family Crüsemann see German Gender Book (Genealogical Handbook of Civil Families) , Volume 130 (1962)
4. ↑ Freydank: The Silesian Landsmannschaft at the Friedrichs University in Halle . 1929, p. 8.
5. ↑ Fritz König: From two centuries. History of the student body and the student corporation at the University of Halle . Halle (Saale) 1894, p. 3
6. ↑ David Gottfried Herzog: Letters for a closer knowledge of Halle. From an impartial observer . 1794, p. 66; Christian Friedrich Bernhard Augustin: Remarks from an academic about Halle . Germanien (ie Quedlinburg) 1795, p. 207; Konrad Glatzer: From the history of the University of Halle. The founding of the Friedrichs University and its history up to the merger with the University of Wittenberg . Leipzig-Reudnitz 1895, p. 86
7. ^ Richard Fick : On Germany's high schools . Berlin, Leipzig 1900, p. 389
8. ↑ Julius Fromm: The basic principles of the old Westphalian country teams In: Archive for student and university history, issue 9 (March 1935), pp. 260-262.
9. ^ Richard Fick : On Germany's high schools . Berlin, Leipzig 1900, p. 389
10. ↑ Fritz König: From two centuries. History of the student body and the student corporation at the University of Halle . Halle (Saale) 1894, p. 233f.
11. ^ Joseph von Eichendorff: Diaries. Text, ed. by Ursula Regner (= Complete Works of Baron Joseph von Eichendorff. Historical-Critical Edition XI / 1), Tübingen 2006, p. 202
12. ↑ See also: Werner Gerorg Stya / Kurt Noack: Freie Musensöhne. Manners and customs of the students in Leipzig from their roots to the fraternity . Norderstedt 2009, p. 70
13. ↑ Erich Bauer: The Jena Corps Assembly (July 15 to 17, 1848), the cradle of the Kösener Seniorenconventsverband . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 3 (1958), p. 29.
14. ↑ Georg Rabe: From ancient times. The reconstitution of the "Guestphalia" in the spring of 1874 . In: Corps report of Guestphalia Halle No. 52 (May 1925), p. 53
15. ↑ From earlier times: From the years 1877-1879 . In: Corps report of Guestphalia Halle No. 25 (May 1901), p. 34.
16. ↑ Immmo Philipp, Gottfried Koch: Guestphalia in the time after the First World War up to the reconstitution in 1958 in Münster . In: 200 years Corps Guestphalia Halle zu Münster . Published by the Westphalenverein e. V. Halle / Saale, Münster 1989, p. 79.
17. ↑ Torsten Lehmann: The Hallenser Corps in the German Empire . Halle (Saale) 2007, p. 178.
18. ↑ Erich Bauer: The comradeships in the area of ​​the Kösener SC in the years 1937-1945 . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 1 (1956), p. 25.
19. ^ Carsten Sluyter: Guestphalia Halle zu Münster . In: 200 years Corps Guestphalia Halle zu Münster . Published by the Westphalenverein e. V. Halle / Saale, Münster 1989, p. 91.
20. ↑ Curt Einert. In: arch INFORM .
21. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 57.
22. ^ Carsten Sluyter: Guestphalia Halle zu Münster . In: 200 years Corps Guestphalia Halle zu Münster . Published by the Westphalenverein e. V. Halle / Saale, Münster 1989, p. 90.