Corps Masovia Königsberg in Potsdam

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Corps Masovia
coat of arms
country
University
Foundation, endowment
Constitution
SC to Koenigsberg
Joined the KSCV
oKC 1865
suspension
1. Reconstitution
2. Reconstitution
June 14, 1997 in Kiel
SC to Kiel
Active operation
SC to Potsdam
oKC 2002
CSC
Berlin
tape
Circle
   Masurian Circle.JPG
Motto
Virtus contemnit mortem!
Corporation association
address
Kurfürstenstr. 17
14467 Potsdam

The Corps Masovia Königsberg zu Potsdam is a student union in the Kösener SC Association. At the Albertus University she was the Masurian State Corps for over a hundred years. It was the only Königsberg corps to survive and was the first to be accredited at the University of Potsdam.

history

Masovia emerged from the “great schism” of the General Burschenschaft (AB) at the Albertus University in Königsberg . In 1827 the people of Pappenheim - who saw themselves as a bloom or Jeunesse dorée of the Albertina - sued the general fraternity against two Masurians and checked against comments during the semester break. The fact that the Senate approved this “injustice by aristocrats” led to massive protests and public attention. Friedrich Dewischeit , August Ballnus , Theophil Herbst and Friedrich Julius Richelot stood up for the corps brother concerned. When the Pappenheimers moved to the Galtgarben on June 14, 1827 to commemorate the annual battle at Belle Alliance , “everything that called itself Masuria” celebrated a festival in the distant Bladiau in protest . In memory of this, today's Masovia was founded three years later.

Kränzchen and country team

From Easter 1823 to Easter 1829 there are 53 members. 31 came from Masuria, three from New East Prussia , 16 from Königsberg and the rest of East Prussia, three from Lithuania, Posen and Silesia. Seven of them founded a country mannschaftliches in July 1829 wreath . Before Easter 1830, “the rumor suddenly surfaced that an investigation should be initiated against all country teams (including Masovia) with the greatest determination.” After Easter 1830, the Masurians therefore wore the harmless colors of black, red and white of the general fraternity. Seven members of this association and four other students of the Albertina founded today's Masovia on June 14, 1830, to which 69 members of "Masovia I" joined. The founders include Orlando Gortzitza , Friedrich Wilhelm Kalau von dem Hofe , Ludwig Schadebrodt and Julius Czwalina . Among the first 97 Masurians up to the summer semester of 1830 were 54 theologians, 18 philologists, 12 judges, 7 administrative officials, 7 estate owners and a doctor.

Under the leadership of Senior August Müller, the Masurians left AB on February 19, 1831. They adopted the corps constitution with a probationary period and a scale length and called themselves the corps country team. Masovia had gained autonomy . For a long time the constitution- giving was thought of with an annual Kommers on a smaller scale. As decided in 1831, the foundation festivals on June 14th were to be celebrated “grandly”. The backdating of the foundation day to the Bladiau "Galtgarbenfest" in June 1827 was rejected in 1855 and 1870.

Colors, compasses and motto

Louis sour herring with tricolor (1836)

With a conscious reference to the flag of France , the Masurians opted for the blue-white-red ribbon in 1829. The colors stand for freedom, equality, brotherhood . At Wilhelm Schmiedeberg , the Masurians wear the deep blue of the tricolor . In the Albertina songbook , which Ludwig Clericus dedicated to his corps brothers in 1850, all six stanzas of the Marseillaise are reproduced in French . Friedrich Rübsamen (1808–1883), the senior from 1829, explained the choice of colors at the 50th foundation festival in 1880: "The blue of the loyalty of conviction, the white of the purity of honor and character, the red of the love of justice and truth." Krzysztof Kieślowski filmed the spiritual and political sense of “blue-white-red” in 1993/94 in the three-color trilogy . With the adoption of the Corps constitution on February 19, 1831, the “holy tricolor” was reintroduced and June 14, 1830 was set as the foundation day. That constitution was remembered for a long time with an annual comms on February 19 . In 1881, Konrad Kob was the focus of the 50th festival.

The Masurian motto is Virtus contemnit mortem! The letters V, C and M form the circle and represent the wish “Vivat Corona Masoviae”. That they can also be read as “Vivant Clemens Müller” was only noticed at the 2nd foundation festival. (Ferdinand) Clemens and (August) Müller were the first two seniors.

The light blue student hat has been worn since the summer semester of 1857. Until then, white, red or blue hats in various formats were common, and because of the liberal fanatics of Poland , the Konfederatka as well . At the request of Oskar Mielitz and for unexplained reasons, the (heraldically correct) dark blue of the ribbon became the famous but heraldically incorrect "sky blue" in the winter semester of 1881/82. With the help of Brillux , Helmut Niedorf clarified the Lab color space in 1999 . It confirms the optical impression of a turquoise shimmer : HKS S 50 N 70%.

The corps loop was introduced in the winter semester of 1874/75. Originally it was only intended for foxes that had been there. Later they also received connoisseurs . The Masurians who became active while standing offside to the SC (1876-1880), according to the Kösener resolution in 1880, had to deliver a scale length in the SC in order to be able to keep their tape. Members who were unable to do so were given their ribbon back by a congressional resolution in 1895.

Baltia

Old Masurian coat of arms and Masurian song in the Albertina songbook (Clericus)

The Baltia Corpsland team lacked young talent, the "invigorating element of the fox world". Therefore she asked Masovia on November 23, 1840 to take over her 48 Philistines and 5 assets. Masovia complied with the request and took over the Hanseatic cog from Baltia's coat of arms (perhaps also the light blue of its colors). Wilhelm Schmiedeberg drew 77 Balts and Masurians; 55 pictures have been preserved.

progress

The Progress continued Masovia initially barely; At the height of the German Revolution in 1848/49 , however, it was facing a split, as had happened to the Corps Littuania . Louis Schellong averted the disaster on June 2, 1848. A few days later the “particularly happy” 18th Foundation Festival was celebrated in Cadinen and - after many years once again by the entire student body - the Galtgarben Festival.

to honor

Circle of Honor

Between 1830 and 1857 nine Masurians were given a Comitat : Fritz Bergenroth , Sigismund Bujack, Gustav Dullo, Ferdinand Gregorovius , Otto Hilbert, Eduard Pilchowski, Oskar Saemann, Wilhelm Schimmelpfennig and Theodor Stern.

From 1838 to 1858 Masovia had seven honorary corps boys who were not "honorary members" but had the rights of a corps boy (soon limited to six semesters) . Since “all Masurians are the same” (white), the corps never had the statute of honorary membership.

At the suggestion of Carl Böttcher , the silver circle of honor was introduced in the winter semester of 1888/89 . It is given to those old men who have completed their 100th semester in the corps. The first went to Ferdinand Gregorovius in Munich with a letter of congratulations.

Study Fund

In 1932, the CC set up a study fund to support financially weak Corps brothers. Old gentlemen helped with donations.

SC to Koenigsberg

After Litthuania, Masovia and Baltia were also accepted into the Kösener Seniors Convents Association at the oKC 1865 . After the Silber-Litthauer had suspended because of the German War, Masovia and Baltia were left with a peaceful two-man SC. From 1868 onwards it was no longer supplied by Masovia because Baltia had unilaterally terminated the rented SC fencing floor. The subsequent decision of the oKC in 1868 that the Königsberger SC had to be formed again within four weeks could not be implemented. Therefore, from the suburb of Gießen to the re-establishment of the SC from the KSCV, Masovia turned to the suburb of Göttingen in 1869. She was admitted to the KSCV again; the conflict with Baltia dragged on for years. Baltia refused to re-establish the SC. Masovia therefore discredited Baltia at the beginning of 1870, which was not lifted until the winter semester 1871/72 - and did not change anything about Baltia's rejection of SC. It was not until Pentecost Saturday (May 31st) 1873 that the two corps agreed on the restoration of the Königsberg SC. They agreed to establish a third corps by giving up members.

Normannia II

When Normannia was founded on July 4, 1873 and accepted into the SC as the third corps, Masovia provided five and Baltia four corps boys . Rather Wilhelmine as East Prussian oriented urged Normannia the SC to adapt to the Corps "in the kingdom." In 1875 the Königsberger Corps gave up Albertus by the hat. In 1876 there was a serious rift in the SC: cand. Med. Isaak Latte had become Masuria in the winter semester of 1873/74. After serving as a one-year volunteer in 1874/75 , he fought against a Baltic in the SS in 1876. After Baltia and Normannia submitted a scaling request , the (Jewish) timpanist had to be dimitted , although the part had "definitely sufficed" for the Mazurian scaling convention . This was repeated in the first and second cleaning graduation. Normannia justified her judgment with "bad attitude". After the SC comment, the latte now had to be dimensioned perpetually. In order not to drop the corps brother, Masovia left the SC on July 15, 1876 and with it the KSCV. After Latte had left voluntarily four years later as an old man , Masovia returned to the SC on July 18, 1880, “cleansed and strengthened” with 60 active and inactive Corpsbrothers.

Pushed by Normannia as early as 1875, Masovia introduced a fox band in the summer semester of 1880 after years of disputes . Until the founding of the Corps Albertina Hamburg (1950) it was the only one in the KSCV with upside down Corpsboy colors . After the Corps Hansea Königsberg was added in December 1878 and Masovia returned in 1880, the SC dominated the Königsberg student body. At the same time he was the strongest in the KSCV after active players. The elders' rights that fell to Baltia in 1876 were only restored to Masovia in 1885. The success at the oKC was thanks to the help of the Corps Onoldia and the Corps Borussia Halle . Wilhelm von Meinel from Ansbach headed the congress. The telegram to Königsberg has long been considered a "prime example of Masurian conciseness":

"The Balts have slipped away, the question of age remains the same."

- Reinhold Schmidt 4

defeat

Normannia kept asking questions about mensuration . When Masovia, Baltia and Hansea rejected it several times, Normannia felt that it was a majority. The situation came to a head with provocations , SC lawsuits, saber demands and disreputations. Normannia complied with the ruling of the Berlin-Breslau arbitration tribunal, but in 1882 she called the Kösener Congress. Masovia, Baltia and Hansea suffered defeat; they had to resign and suspend the SC. When Masovia and Hansea resigned from Normannia and were accepted back into the "SC" on December 3, 1882, Normannia's hostile relationship with Masovia suddenly turned into a lasting friendship. After the Kosen resolutions of 1882, the Corps Guestphalia Berlin dissolved the friendship relationship with Masovia, which had just been two years old. The inevitable PP suite began in Berlin in February 1883 , with an inglorious outcome for Guestphalia. The "second round" in Königsberg only came about in the summer semester of 1886 - "with such success for Masovia that Guestphalia had to suspend".

State Corps

Under the Masurian flag - 99th foundation festival in Angerburg

The corps brothers born in Masuria were called Steinmasuren and were the “hard core” of the corps. The Royal High School in Lyck and the Herzog-Albrechts-Schule in Rastenburg each provided the corps with 240 members. In 1859, 25 Masurians took part in the Masovianum scholarship "for poor and excellent students" at Lycker Gymnasium. The corps and some members got involved in the association for customers of Masuria . The Corps provided four members to the Prussian National Assembly and 26 members to the Prussian House of Representatives . In Prussian mansion two, in sitting Reichstag (German Empire) and in the Reichstag (Weimar Republic) five Mazury. As a student, Prince Wilhelm was a frequent guest of the Corps. As early as 1880, Carl Heinrich pointed out that Masovia was the only connection that had given a historical landscape the national colors . Hans Lippold writes:

“For decades, the population experienced joint meetings with the Königsberg Masurians in almost all Masurian cities, and since 1874 also large foundation festivals. So the custom arose to decorate the cities and villages visited with the blue-white-red colors on these occasions and later at all local festivities. A habit that was also used when the population got together to celebrate. At the big referendum in July 1920, all of Mazury was under these colors. "

- Hans Lippold

The Masurians combined Protestant faith, the Polish language and loyalty to the Crown of Prussia in a unique way . From Masovia they not only adopted the national colors, but also the national anthem . When Andreas Kossert states:

“The Masurian self-confidence was not only evident in the Polish majority milieu, but also encompassed the local elite, who were influenced by German through school and studies and who communicated with each other in German. The student association Masovia, which was established at the Albertina in the 1940s [sic!], Was a visible expression of their home pride. With their blue-white-red colors, many Masurians later identified regionally with their homeland. A member of the Königsberg Masovia, the grammar school teacher Friedrich August Dewischeit (1805-1884), composed the Masurian song "Wild flutet der See" in 1855, which became the national anthem of Masuria. The Reichsender Königsberg used the melody as a pause sign from 1930. "

- Andreas Kossert

Recent research underscores the importance of Masovia's colors for the people of Masuria. They were used by the Masurians to separate themselves from the (Catholic) Poles . At the same time they preferred the blue-white-red not only to the imperial colors black-white-red , but also to the black-red-gold of the Weimar Republic . A Hamburg shipping company and two ships were named after the corps.

Wars

Winkel's war newspaper

In the German war fought four Mazury; one fell.

In the Franco-German War , 28 out of 42 corps boys and inactive took part; two fell.

In the First World War fell 42 Mazury. Six Masurians received the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern : Arthur Behrendt, Max Bombe, Ernst Mann, Ernst Neumann, Günther Schierholt and Erich Skrodzki. The suspension was only prevented by the fact that some old men became active again in 1917. The passenger Gustav Gotthilf Winkel Franconiae Würzburg put together a lithographed war newspaper twice a month , which he sent to all Masuria. There were 100 numbers by the end of the war. For this he was honored with the corps bow in 1915 .

In World War II, 73 Mazury perished. Three received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross , one the Knight's Cross of the War Merit Cross . Eleven corps brothers committed suicide in 1945.

Bars and corp houses

Beer mug in Duisburg

In the early years kneipten the Mazury in "schun ended" resources . On the other hand, Brunner on the Hintertragheim, the Rendez-vous (later the Woriener Halle), the Schloßberghalle (1857), the Ratskeller (1859), Hirsch (1861) and the Phönixhalle (1862/63) were popular. The Röhlsche Garden in Münzstrasse became the first separate meeting place in 1862. The last “open pub” was celebrated by the Masurians on April 27, 1860 in the Kneiphöfischen Remter . In 1865 the local pub was relocated to Blöß in I. Fließstraße, and in 1866 to Nowopolski (later Domscheit) on the Schloßteichbrücke. After a short interlude in Blieske's restaurant on Koggenstraße, the upper rooms of the Bellevue on Königsberg Castle Pond were rented in 1877 . The last corps pub was at Domscheit from 1891.

In 1898 the old gentlemen bought the former scholarship house of the East Prussian Groeben in the Fleischbänkenstrasse opposite the small cathedral square. It was Königsberg's first corporation house . Karl Böttcher and Ottomar Cludius provided the financing. Reinhold Unterberger raised most of the funds. He owes “immortal thanks to all generations of Masovia” (Carl Heinrich, 1900). Richard Jepsen Dethlefsen describes the house in detail in the commemorative publication for the 75th Foundation Festival.

When a promenade was to be built on the Pregel and the garden was to be separated from the bank, Erich Haslinger brokered an exchange deal with the city of Königsberg in 1929. The house was bought on the Lomse next to the Germania rowing club on Weidendamm on a wide part of the Pregel. A mortgage of 10,000 gold marks was registered at the Königsberg district court . Designed by Friedrich Lahrs , the house belonged to Konrad Gaedeke and most recently to George Marx . It was rebuilt and moved into on February 16, 1929. The old gentleman's room was a foundation of the Gumbinnen district under Otto Rosencrantz . After the suspension, the corp house was never sold, but was rented to the GmbH Benzol-Vertrieb Ostprussia from April 1936 . The rent was borne by the Corpsheim, a private apartment with six rooms on the 2nd floor of the house at Königstrasse 51/52, at the corner of Roßgärter Markt.

The first corp house on the Pregel sank in the night of August 26th to 27th, 1944 with the whole of Kneiphof during the first air raid on Königsberg . Three nights later, the corps home with library, banners and souvenirs from 114 years burned in the second bombing of the Royal Air Force . The corps servants Pohnke were able to save themselves. The corp house on Weidendamm was only destroyed at the beginning of April 1945 in the battle for Königsberg .

Masovia's corpdogs were the Newfoundland dog “Roland”, the Saint Bernard “Caesar” and the pug “Schnurr”.

Corp houses in Koenigsberg

  • Fleischbänkenstr. 35
    (1898)

  • Pregelseite

  • Weidendamm 22
    (1929)

  • Königstrasse 51/52
    (1936–1944)

suspension

During the time of National Socialism , Max Blunck, as the “leader of the corps students”, ordered on September 5, 1935, that the Aryan paragraph “also be carried out strictly and immediately in the old rulers of the individual corps”. In an extension of earlier conditions, war participants whose grandparents were not purely Aryan voting had to retire. When Blunck resigned on September 10, his successor Werner Heringhaus confirmed the order. He set the deadline for notification of completion on October 15, then November 1, 1935. In order to save the corps from suspension, four old men then laid the Masurian ribbon. After Ernst Schlange had decreed on October 24, 1935 that “all Reich German corps are suspended,” Masovia suspended on October 28, 1935. The powers of the Corps Boys Convent were transferred to the trust commission that had been tried and tested for decades.

“With its suspension, the Corps is temporarily leaving student life. If, after the rich and immaculate past of our corps, this departure is already felt by the university to be difficult to bear, we Masurians are completely overwhelmed with deep sorrow at the loss of our beloved Masovia. We do not understand that we have to part with her. We are not to blame. ... We want old and young to shake hands in the oath to preserve the idea of ​​corps students and to raise them higher in mutual care and friendship, in perpetual, indestructible cohesion. We should be accompanied by the hope that it may be reserved for a later time to learn to appreciate the values ​​of an upbringing in closer circles and in our spirit again. "

- Franz Boy, Hermann Petersen (October 29, 1935)

Comradeship Liebenberg

The suspension was done in the hope that the active corps operations could perhaps be resumed in the foreseeable future. It turned out to be deceptive, but at first it helped to avoid joining one of the comradeships that gradually emerged in Königsberg according to the guidelines of the National Socialist German Student Union from 1936. When the situation came to a head in 1938, the old gentlemen's association changed its position in the interests of its continued existence. About two thirds of the members joined the NS-Altherrenbund under the leader Gerhard Loch. In doing so, they created the prerequisites for negotiating with the NSDStB about taking on comradeship. The fulfillment of further conditions dragged on, so that Masovia did not contact a comradeship until the fall of 1938. The "allocation of comradeship to the exclusion of foreign Philistines" with the name Hermann von Salzas would have been certain if a Philistine from the Gothia fraternity (an SA standard leader with good connections) had not secured this name for his union. After the university comradeships Portschweit (Hans Alsen), Tannenberg (Karl-Friedrich Balzer), Masuren (Werner Lange), Hermann von Salza (G. Sareyko) and Hermann Balk (Walter Jakob) had already suspended, the following options were available: Headquarters East Prussia (Hermann Schulze), Yorck (Hans Reinhard), Braunau (Gerd Spangenmacher), Honigfelde ( Walter Koschorreck ) and Liebenberg (Schwirblat). If you wanted to get into the boat alone and not with other corps or corporations, only Liebenberg could be considered for joining an old men’s association. Masovia took it over in October 1938.

Stämler, Salamon and Sielaff were among the founders of the comradeship. Sergeant Jürgen Sielaff prevailed with the name Liebenberg. He was referring to a box village in the Masurian parish Friedrichshof , where the founders of the comradeship had done their land service with the Hitler Youth and "primarily set themselves the task of folk work in the ethnic endangered border areas of the province [East Prussia]". The Sielaff group became the Liebenberg comradeship. Their internal organization corresponded to the regulations of the NSDStB and not to those of the CC or AHV. An organizational adjustment of AHV and comradeship through corresponding amendments to the statutes was only prepared in the summer of 1944; like the decided renaming to "German Order", they were no longer realized. Despite periodic meetings between both sides in the Corpsheim at Roßgärter Markt, relations always remained very loose; because there was not a year before the attack on Poland and the war changed the life of comradeship profoundly. Eitel-Friedrich Rissmann published the first joint communications from the Corpshaus Masovia association and the Liebenberg comradeship . In the post-war period in Germany - especially after the (supposed) reconstitution in January 1950 - a few Liebenbergers tried to reconnect with Masovia; but they did not want to meet the requirements of the corps student.

“Even during the war, the Liebenbergers issued circulars in which individual corps brothers participated. They even made the Masurian song known to all recipients as the 'traditional song of our traditional association'. The comradeship was peaceably strong even in war; because, in contrast to the First World War, the lecture halls were overcrowded with students from military faculties. She has never beaten determination marks. Neither did Masurian sons join her. The comradeship never formally dissolved, it ended with Königsberg. We didn’t give any Liebenberger any corps badges, and even after the war they didn’t take any serious corps student interest in us. The Liebenberg case remained a time-related episode. "

- Hans Lippold

archive

The “old, extensive and very valuable archive” was last housed in the basement of the State and University Library in Königsberg and went down with it. What has been preserved or replaced has been collated for decades.

Stronghold Berlin

Wilhelm Kuhr's memory of Masuria and Masovia

True to the New Year's slogan of the Prussian army "Königsberg - Berlin!", Many Masurians came to the capital , always about 13% of the old rulers. Since 1870 they have met every week (first on Saturdays, then on Thursdays) in different locations. From 1886 they came together in the Siechen beer house on Behrenstrasse . The “sickness evenings” in the “bathroom” and then in the larger “artist's room” were known throughout Kösener and were attended by many guests from other corps. Regular visitors included Rolf Grabower , Friedrich August Heyer , Erich Hossenfelder , Hans Pfundtner , Alfred Prang , Paul Treibe , Franz Willuhn and Arthur Zimmermann . In 1928, according to the Berlin address book of old Kösener Corps students (the "cookbook" by John Koch ), 52 Masurians were in Berlin; after the suspension in 1935 there were 80. The CC was naturally represented at larger events such as the 40th Foundation Festival in 1926. At the annual AHSC-Kommers for Green Week , Masovia had a special table for 100 people decorated with blue-white-red flags. For 1929, 54 meetings with 665 participants are noted in the guest book. The most consistent visitor every year (including Hossenfelder and Romeyke) received an engraved lid that remained in the sick . Christmas, excursions and foundation festivals were celebrated with the corps sisters. Oscar Nebelsieck (AEG) and Richard von Schaewen were chairmen for decades . Herbert Neumann was the "uncrowned king" of Berlin's Masuria . When the Allied air raids began on Berlin , people met from 1940 in the Fürstenhof restaurant on Knesebeckstrasse, and sometimes also in the Vaterland house .

Foundation festivals in East Prussia

Festschrifts have been preserved for the 40th (1870), 50th (1880), 65th (1895), 75th (1905) and 100th Foundation Festival (1930).

Königsberg and Samland

Ludwig Clericus : 18th Foundation Festival in Cadinen (1848)
Field gray Masuria (1918)

In the first few years, the foundation festivals were celebrated in the Königsberg area, since 1838 mostly in Arnau , which was easy to reach on foot and by car. Other festival locations were Friedrichstein (1840), Fuchshöfen (1842, 1844), Holstein (1846) and from 1848 onwards again and again Cadinen . In 1851 and 1852 people moved to the Galtgarben because the general Galtgarben festivals did not take place. In 1857 it went to the mushroom forest , the following year to Julienhöhe. The festivals in Rosenthal , Kahlberg , Panklau , Waldkrug (city of Tilsit), Mehlsack and Walschthal will be remembered for a long time. In 1864 the Masurians met for the first time on the northern Samland coast in Rauschen , soon also in Warnicken and Georgenswalde . At Masovia's 50th foundation festival, August Wittich had decorated the prison in the Albertinum with a large sign for Masovia, three small ones for the Corpsland teams Borussia, Baltia and Scotia and three for the Corps Littuania, Normannia and Baltia - “as the colors of the old Königsberg country teams whose members once found the leisure up there to reflect on the complaints of studying, the fencing floor and the pub. ”In 1900 the 70th foundation festival was first celebrated in the company's own corp house on Cathedral Island. Excursions to Neuhäuser , Cranz and Metgethen were part of most of the Königsberg festivals. The trip with 200 horses to Juditten at the 50th foundation festival was for the Hartungsche Zeitung the “greatest that Königsberg has ever seen”. 173 old gentlemen came in 1919 to the "first peacemaking festival". At the 95th Foundation Festival (1925) Fritz Litten - son of the head of the Jewish community in Königsberg and rector of the Albertus University - praised the "highly respectable corps". The “2000 liter festival” was remembered for a long time.

Masuria

As early as 1845 consideration was given to celebrating foundation festivals in their native Masuria ; but only after the opening of the East Prussian Southern Railway (1874) could the plans in Lötzen and Angerburg be implemented. Some festivals were celebrated at the invitation of the towns in Kellermühle , Nikolaiken , Rudczanny and Ortelsburg . The two foundation festivals in Masuria's capital, Lyck (1881, 1896) , had a special echo . The famous 66th Foundation Festival in Lyck (1896) was "solely the merit and grateful sacrifice" of Arthur Gramberg . During the Weimar Republic , three foundation festivals were celebrated in Masuria: 1924 in Lyck , 1927 in Ortelsburg and 1929 in Angerburg.

100 years

State father at the 100th foundation festival

Masovia remained closely connected to the remote Masuria . A compilation of old Masurian pictures was published for the 100th foundation festival. The 30 Masurian cities donated a library cabinet with the coats of arms of their cities to the corps. The old men donated 400 books. 1000 guests came to the Kommers in the Gebauhr-Saal of the town hall (Königsberg) , among them the Oberpräsident Ernst Siehr , the district president Max von Bahrfeldt , the commander of the military district 1 Werner von Blomberg , the lord mayor Hans Lohmeyer and the rector Karl Erich Andrée . The Masurian flag was waving on the main building of the university. The Reich President telegraphed congratulations from his Gut Neudeck :

"I would like to thank the old and young corps students gathered for the centenary of the Corps Masovia and their guests for their friendly greetings, which I warmly return with my best wishes for the continued prosperity of the well-established corps."

- Paul von Hindenburg

All Königsberg newspapers reported on the festival. In 1930 a report appeared on "Königsberg's biggest festival since the Kant celebration in 1924 ".

“In an age that believes it can shed tradition, that regards male honor and male discipline as low and prefers external gain for one's own person to service to the general public and thus to the fatherland, the fraternity student has a difficult time ... Despite all hostile efforts , which are taking on particularly sharp forms again today, the Corps Masovia can celebrate its centenary these days to the cheers of the Königsberg population. "

- Ostpreussische Zeitung

“In sheer joy at the beginning of the festive season ... the sun sends its rays on our good old city, which sees hundreds of women and old men associated with Masovia from near and far within its walls. Everywhere on Paradeplatz and in the streets, blue-white-red flags flutter out of the windows and, in the bright glint of the June sun, give a promisingly funny picture of the coming happy days ... So over Königsberg there is that whiff of the joy of everyone at the rare anniversary of a student union, which through the succession of times from generation to generation is not only closely linked to us externally. Hundreds of houses have stories to tell about Masuria! Today ... the official series of festivities will begin with a memorial ceremony in the cathedral. It is the serious prelude, which also puts what apparently only serves a cheerful fellowship and comradely loyalty in the series of the overall event, from which it only gets its deeper meaning and its true meaning, as a piece of German life. "

- Konigsberger Allgemeine Zeitung

“Especially since the jubilant corps showed a popularity that can only be explained by the special conditions in which Masovia began and ended her first secularism ... colors and song gave that circle of friends ... the popular character, which was now ... visibly expressed. Again and again you come across ... the light blue, white and red flags that greet you from the roof and the window and show that the celebration of a student corporation can be more than just an internal matter for this student group. "

- Hartungsche Zeitung , June 14, 1930

War and post-war period

After the suspension and leasing of the corps house, the Masurians celebrated the foundation festivals in the corps home until 1942. In 1943 and 1944 they met at the Hotel Continental. To date, 1945 was the only year they did not meet on June 14th. The 186th Foundation Festival (2016) was celebrated in Ełk , the 188th in Kadyny.

Kiel

Reconstitution in the Masurian Room in Kiel (1997)

In the post-war period in Germany , Masovia was looking for future prospects. In 1946, 25 Masurians and Sisters of the Corps met in the apartment of a Hamburg Masurian. The AHV was reactivated on June 5, 1948. Baltia, Hansea, Littuania and, willy-nilly, Masovia considered establishing a new corps with the colors blue-white-red-green in Munich, Göttingen or Hamburg. Thuringia Jena and Suevo-Borussia (and soon Franconia Hamburg ) already existed in Hamburg . East German students founded the Hansea-Albertina water sports association in Munich . The Heimatbund, licensed by the Office of Military Government for Germany (US) , was also licensed for sport fencing. He was interested in the old gentlemen tribe of an old connection in order to create a new corps-like one. In August 1949 Masovia "dropped the plan as impracticable".

Masovia reconstituted for one day on January 13, 1950; because a joint convention was to be founded with the befriended Corps Palaiomarchia Halle , which had been reconstituted in Kiel since December 10, 1949 . So on January 14, 1950, the CC of Palaiomarchia-Masovia was created. It was impossible to overlook “whether this will remain the final solution or whether each partner will one day return to a life of their own”. To make the journey easier for the Corps brothers, Masovia celebrated their 120th foundation festival on 9/10. September 1950 in Treysa, Hesse . The old rulers of Masovia and Palaiomarchia remained unaffected in the following decades, but decreased due to age. In 1960 there were 186 Masurians, 133 Altmärker and 119 Altmärker-Masurians. With a few exceptions, the old gentlemen of Palaiomarchia and Masovia awarded each other the ribbons on October 15, 1960 in Hanover.

In 1980 Ernst-Werner Weiß organized the widely acclaimed exhibition 150 Years of Masovia Königsberg in the Rant Zauberau of Kiel Castle . Oswald Hauser spoke about Spiritual Prussia . The old Königsberg Masurians celebrated their last big foundation festival in 1990 in Kiel. The keynote speakers were Michael Müller-Wille as rector of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität , Ulrich Matthée and Rüdiger Döhler .

After German reunification , Palaiomarchia-Masovia decided in January 1991 to support Palaiomarchia - one of the two parent corps - with the reconstruction in Halle (Saale) ; in Kiel, however, “everything should stay as it is”. Masovia's status remained unclear. Invited by Döhler, Boris Meissner spoke in November 1993 at an overcrowded (and hushed up) “Königsberg bar” about the prospects for East Central Europe after the turn of the century. His big speech was probably the impetus for the return to Masovia's legacy and identity. When, after many meetings of the Kosen commissions, it turned out that January 1950 was not a reconstitution and the suspension from 1935 continued, the last 19 Königsberg Masurians decided unanimously to (renew) reconstitution of the corps. When it was carried out on June 14, 1997 by 12 old Masurians, some of the younger Altmark Masurians received the Masurian ribbon. Elected chairman of the old men’s association, Klaus Balduhn led the corps through the three critical transition years.

On February 8, 2000, the SC took on Kiel Masovia as the fourth corps. Masovia thus escaped the fate of the other three Königsberg corps to go out at the oKC in 2001. On the contrary, the Kösener Congress of that year confirmed the Kiel SC decision and declared Palaiomarchia-Masovia as a new foundation from 1950, which makes no claim to Masovia's tradition and legacy. In July 2000, Masovia decided in Hanover to leave Kiel and to ask the relational corps for help. Only “Prussian” Potsdam came into question.

Potsdam

Valery Ivanovich at the Masurian House (2010)

According to an Altmärker , three Berlin Märker and a Vandale-Teutone agreed in autumn 2000 to take action when moving to Potsdam . In October 2000 Masovia decided to move the headquarters from Kiel to Potsdam at the Altmärkerhaus in Halle. After 66 years of suspension , the Cecilienhof opened its doors on January 20, 2001 - exactly 300 years after Prussia became a kingdom. During the inaugural visit of the senior and the old man's chairman in May 2001, Wolfgang Loschelder , the rector of the University of Potsdam, welcomed the corps "with joy and relief". At the 171st foundation festival, Gerd Heinrich spoke about East Prussia during the First World War.

When the old cartel with the Corps Marchia Berlin broke up in the winter of 2004, a six-part PP suite was fought out. A Berlin Norman and a Silvane had therefore become Masuria. Masovia's second was the Berlin Westphalian and Holsteiner Georg Pliska. In April 2004, the active had to leave the Böttcherberg because the lease had been terminated. The house had become too small anyway, and there was no room or room. In the Dutch Quarter , the old gentlemen's association bought the third (or fourth) corp house, which the active members moved into in April. Like the two houses in Königsberg earlier, "K 17" is a listed building .

According to the alphabetical order in the SC and in the KSCV, Masovia should have appointed the oKC chairman in 1941. Due to the war and the Kiel interim, it was only in 2005/06 for the first time at the KSCV suburb . When she took over the official business from the suburb of Passau in August 2005, the old dean of the Philosophical Faculty brought the rector's greetings. For the KSCV as the first corporation association , Masovia initiated the purchase of all 110 volumes of the library of burned books . They were bought from the suburb of Trier and given to the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies .

Since 2001, Masovia has been to Kaliningrad five times . The Masuria ribbon was awarded to two cartel brothers in Königsberg Cathedral . In March 2009, a Masurian fox was admitted for the first time in the former university church. Invited by the Dean of the Faculty of History, the Corps introduced itself to the Baltic Federal University of Immanuel Kant . The Masurians were accompanied by two Hessen-Nassauers and the Oldermann of the Fraternitas Arctica .

The new edition of the corps history was published for the 175th foundation festival. At the 180th Foundation Festival in June 2010, Valery Ivanovich Galzow returned the visit of the Corps. For the first time in Germany, he campaigned for deepening relationships. For the East Prussian Landsmannschaft , Wolfgang Thüne assigned the Corps a special responsibility in preserving its legacy. For the 182nd foundation festival, the Marburg Teutone and later Masure Claus Dreessen dedicated the “Königsberg Potsdam Song” to the corps.

Corp houses in Potsdam

  • Am Böttcherberg
    (2001)

  • Kurfürstenstrasse
    (2004)

Members of the corps

Relative Corps

The second year refers to the completion of the previous friendship or introductory relationship. Masovia is part of the blue circle .

Cartels
Guestphalia Jena (1921/1898) → Corps Palatia-Guestphalia
Guestfalia Greifswald (1922/1885)
Friends
Palaiomarchia (1908/1902)
Austria (1920)
Isaria (1921/1887)
Onoldia (1921/1885)
Teutonia Marburg (1930/1920)
Earlier
Borussia Halle (1870–1872), vv.
Silesia (1880/81), vv.
Marchia Berlin (1920 / 1843-2004)
Lusatia Leipzig (1919 / 1881–2012)
Guestphalia Berlin (1880–1882)
Marcomannia (1902-1919)
Moenania (1894-1900), vv.
Suevia Prague (1919–1938), vv.
Rhaetia (1919-2006), vv.

Self-image

Strongest corps in the KSCV - Masovia's fox major and foxes in SS 1926

"At no time have we indulged the self-conceit of infallibility, never paid homage to arrogance and stupidity ... Courage and firmness, energy and enthusiastic, powerful impetus for everything high and ideal make the true corps student who despises no one more than the creep and geek . "

- Carl Heinrich

“We have undiluted the old, beautiful principle that the active CC is the highest authority in all things and the old gentlemen only have to advise, and I am of the opinion that we should not let this principle be shaken. The greater the responsibility of the active corps boy, the better for his character formation. "

- Richard von Schaewen

"A large number of otherwise able people fell victim to the sharp criticism of the scale [Masovias], but this cannot be avoided if one does not want to suffer a loss of external reputation and internal value of the corps as soon as possible."

- Paul Drift

memory

The (now closed) Museum Stadt Königsberg and the East Prussian State Museum have couleur articles from Masovia in their holdings. In the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe , Peter Pragal paid tribute to the way the Corps handled its legacy.

See also

literature

Silver plate for Carl Heinrich on the 50th foundation festival (1880)
  • Carl Heinrich: History of the Corps Masovia . Königsberg 1870. [1]
  • Eduard Loch , Hans Lippold: History of the Corps Masovia 1830-1930 , 3 parts. Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1930/1933.
  • Alfred Prang: Active semester in Königsberg (SS 1908 to WS 1910/11). Newspaper of the Altmark-Masuria, Kiel. Part I: 31 (1962) pp. 422-428; Part II: 32 (1963), pp. 457-461.
  • Helmut R. Niedorf: The colors of the Masuria . Heimatbote 1999 of the Ortelsburg district community, pp. 144–151.
  • Rüdiger Döhler (Ed.): Corps Masovia. The 175-year history of Königsberg's oldest and Potsdam's first corporation in the 21st century. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-00-016108-2 .
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : Masovia Königsberg (temporarily to Kiel) to Potsdam , in: The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps: Their representation in individual chronicles . WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2007, ISBN 978-3-933892-24-9 , p. 109.

Web links

Commons : Corps Masovia Potsdam  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Corps Masovia  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ↑ "Male honor despises death!"
  2. ↑ August Müller (1807–1872) was later archdeacon at St. Mary's Church in Danzig.
  3. ↑ diffuse 8 ° geometry in daylight / L coordinate (brightness): 73.5 / red-green coordinate (a *) −16.2 / yellow-blue coordinate (b *) −19.35
  4. ^ Carl Heinrich (1835–1908), director of the Königin-Luise-Schule (Königsberg) and master of the chair of the three-crown box, was Masovia's first archivist and historian.
  5. ↑ Boy 1, Graw, Horn, Kohtz 4, Telemann and later Perkuhn, Pawelcik , Friedrich and Dommasch 1.
  6. ↑ The war newspaper of the Corps Masovia 1914-1919 with 1081 pages in two volumes is in the Masurian Archives and in the German National Library ( DNB 587320591 ).
  7. ↑ According to Masovia's constitution, the band could not be awarded.
  8. ↑ Rolf Grabower took up the tape again in 1945, Hans Widera later.
  9. ↑ Stammler was a lieutenant in the Polish campaign. As a member of the Staff Comp. Ers.Btl.Inf.Rgt. "Jonny" Sielaff had passed the philological state examination on September 28, 1939 3 Mohrungen. He saw "a catastrophic shortage of mentally working people in the German East". Like Salamon, he fell in Russia in 1941.
  10. ↑ Julienhöhe is an extinct village in the Braunsberg district .
  11. ↑ printed in Corps Masovia (2005), pp. 477-532.
  12. ↑ See Albertina's coat of arms in the interest group .
  13. ↑ On the history of the foundation: W. Schrader-Rottmers, Zeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 43 (1968), p. 846 f.
  14. ↑ Matthée spoke about the Spirit of Pietism and Enlightenment at the Prussian Universities of Königsberg and Halle .
  15. ↑ Regardless of this, and contrary to all corps student norms, the Kiel Corps continues to lead the band and the circle of Masovia. Therefore, seven Masurians laid down the Kiel double bond.
  16. ↑ with Marc-Torben Lerch, Fréderic Hivy and Henning Höhne.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Corps Masovia (2005)
  2. ^ H. Lippold: Names on yellowing sheets. An old print tells of Königsberg students 150 years ago . Ostpreußenblatt, November 14, 1970
  3. ↑ a b List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 . Potsdam 2006
  4. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, p. 614 f.
  5. ^ Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Königsberg Senior Citizens' Convention up to 1848 .
  6. ↑ a b H. Lippold: The origin of colors and names of the Corps Masovia zu Königsberg . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 6 (1961), pp. 123-127. Epilogue E. Bauer, pp. 127–129
  7. ↑ H. Lippold (1933)
  8. ^ H. Lippold in a letter to Ludwig Denecke dated December 12, 1967
  9. ↑ E. Loch: For the centenary of Masovia . Deutsche Corpszeitung, Volume 47, No. 3 (June 1930), pp. 77–79
  10. ↑ a b H. R. Niedorf 1999
  11. ↑ Andreas Mildahn: Student fraternities at the University of Königsberg i. Pr. In lexical overview (E – M) . Once and now, vol. 63 (2018)
  12. ↑ Mosich, Supplement to Interim Report, May 1932
  13. ^ Franz Heyer: How did Masovia get into the Kösener SC? Corps Masovia Monthly Report No. 3, January 1, 1920
  14. ↑ Masovia (2005), p. 108 f.
  15. ^ Festschrift for the 10th Normannia Foundation Festival , 1883
  16. ^ H. Lippold: The Königsberger Corps Scotia (1829–1847), Borussia (1829–1847), Normannia I (1833–1847), Normannia II (1873–1889), Baltia I (1834–1840) and Pappenhemia (1824– 1841) . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 13 (1968), pp. 86-89
  17. ↑ Stuttgart State Library, printed in Old Prussian Gender Studies , Issue 1/3, 1979 (H.-W. Weiß, Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 65, Kiel 1979, pp. 1679–1681)
  18. ^ Association for customers of Masuria
  19. ^ C. Heinrich: The fifty-year foundation festival of the Corps Masovia (1880)
  20. ↑ A. Kossert: Masuria. East Prussia's forgotten south . Berlin 2001, p. 156
  21. ↑ Historical Masurian Association
  22. ↑ The Masurian Bee (PDF; 56 kB)
  23. ↑ MS Masovia
  24. ↑ H. Lippold: Fuchs baptism and burial spree . Altmärker-Masuren newspaper 37/38, Kiel 1966, pp. 662–664
  25. ↑ Knight's Cross bearer of the Corps Masovia
  26. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system . Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 82
  27. ^ Decision of the district court of March 31, 1930
  28. ^ Corps "Masovia" in the new home. A contribution to the student history of Alt-Königsberg . Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung, February 18, 1929
  29. ^ Hans Lippold in a letter to Otto Fünfstück (November 29, 1969)
  30. ↑ H. Lippold, circular from the Albertus University 1965
  31. ^ Circular from Masovia (Boy, Lüttmann) of September 23, 1935.
  32. ↑ The student of the Ostmark. Battle sheet of the German students in the east , 1st war number. Koenigsberg, November 15, 1939
  33. ↑ a b c Hermann Stange: The history of the comradeship of the Corps Masovia . Unpublished manuscript of March 24, 1955 (Corps Masovia archive)
  34. ↑ Fragment of a circular, December 1941
  35. ^ Bulletin of the Comradeship and Old Lordship of Liebenberg, No. 6, November 3, 1941
  36. ↑ H.-H. Müller-Dieckert, Altmärker-Masuren newspaper 85 (1989), p. 2672
  37. ↑ H. Lippold, Zeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 42 (1968), p. 793 f.
  38. ↑ Masovia's archive (corpsarchive.de)
  39. ^ H. Lippold, in: Zeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 45 (1969), p. 910.
  40. ↑ Festschrift for Masovia's 50th Foundation Festival, p. 40
  41. ↑ H. Lippold: “The ollen Studentkes would be the best”. Over 200 horses in a Masovia pageant . Ostpreußenblatt, July 31, 1965
  42. ↑ Deutsche Corpszeitung, Volume 42, No. 1, pp. 153–155
  43. ↑ Orisch, Balduhn 2: Arthur Gramberg , in: War newspaper of the Corps Masovia, Vol. 2, pp. 716–718
  44. ↑ F. Boy: Students in Alt-Königsberg - For the 100th anniversary of the Corps Masovia foundation, June 14, 1830–1930 . Gräfe and Unzer , Königsberg (Pr.) 1930
  45. ^ H. Siegmund: Review - memories of a civil servant in turbulent times . Raisdorf 1999, p. 64
  46. ^ Hans Lippold: The centenary of the Corps Masovia zu Königsberg in June 1930 . GoogleBooks
  47. ^ Oskar Bandilla: The first foundation festival after the war . Altmärker-Masuren newspaper 39 (1966), p. 683 f.
  48. ↑ H. Stange, Circular 13/50 (October 2, 1950)
  49. ^ H. Lippold: Talking numbers . Altmärker-Masuren newspaper 40 (1967), p. 717 f.
  50. ↑ H. Löwe , Zeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 28 (1960), pp. 327–329.
  51. ↑ Oswald Hauser: The spiritual Prussia (1980)
  52. ^ R. Döhler: 160 years of Corps Masovia . Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 87 (1991), pp. 2750-2757.
  53. ↑ M.-T. Lark: Phoenix Masovia . Corps newspaper of Masovia 1 (2001)
  54. ^ Corpshaus Kurfürstenstrasse ( Memento from July 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  55. ^ Suburb Potsdam ( Memento from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  56. ↑ The active corps is the focus! ( Memento from October 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) M.-T. Lerch: The active corps is the focus! (Corps 1/2006)
  57. ^ G. Pliska: Committed to the community and Europe - Masovia Königsberg to Potsdam . Corps Magazin (Deutsche Corpszeitung), Volume 111, Issue 2/2009, p. 22
  58. ↑ Corps students build bridges on the Pregel. Masovia returns to its origins . Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 21, May 23, 2009, p. 14 f. ( Memento of March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  59. ↑ How corps and fraternities from Breslau and Königsberg continue their tradition after 1945 (German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, 2017)
  60. ↑ Table of contents (DNB)

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