Corps Palatia Giessen

The Corps Palatia Gießen was a student union at the Hessian Ludwig University .

history

Palatia walked out of after the Frankfurter Wachensturm resolved Giessen fraternity out and was against assurance of discontinuance of mutual disrepute statements on May 31, 1833 in the Giessen Senior Convent recorded (SC) of the order of four Corps Hassia , Starkenburgia , Rhenania and palatia duration.

The colors of the palatia were green-red-gold , which took the place of the forbidden fraternity colors black-red-gold . The name chosen was not a national one - most of the members came from Darmstadt - but a reminiscence of the Hambach Festival and the freedom movement in the Palatinate. The name and statutes are said to have been borrowed from the Corps Palatia (II) in Heidelberg, founded in November 1831.

While a minority within the Corps, to which the later Paulskirche MP Carl Vogt belonged, turned away from revolutionary goals, around two thirds stuck to the political demands. In the old fraternity tradition, they presented themselves as emphatically political and thus came into conflict with the old country team Corps Hassia and Rhenania. Violent disputes after the wood comment between the two parties on February 21, 1834 led to the dissolution of the corps in order to avoid an official investigation. Nevertheless, the Grand Ducal University Court initiated proceedings on the basis of the new disciplinary statutes issued by Chancellor Linde in early 1834. 80 fraternity members, strong citizens and Palatine were acquitted on December 9, 1836, against seven defendants it was found that the investigation would continue. It was not until 1837 that the trials for participating in the Palatia were finally stopped.

The corps acquired particular importance through the relationships between several of its members and Georg Büchner , who was matriculated at Giessen University during the same period. With the exception of August Becker and Büchner's school friend Hermann Wiener, all student members of the two sections of the Society for Human Rights founded by Bücher were also members of the Corps Palatia, including Franz Josef Amand Appiano, Hermann Trapp and Ludwig Christian Becker. Gustav Clemm and Karl Minnigerode from Palatinate helped distribute the Hessian Landbote , and Clemm was the one who later made Büchner's agitation public through his statements in court.

Despite its short existence, Palatia played an important role in the history of the University of Gießen in the period of Vormärz and was of lasting importance for the later development of the Gießener SC. The successor is the Corps Teutonia , founded in 1839 , which adopted the colors and constitution of the Palatia and, with its progressive orientation, was entirely in the tradition of the Palatia until 1849.

Known members

Surname	Life dates	activity	image
Gustav Baur	1816-1889	Ev. theologian
Ludwig Christian Becker	1808-1861	Revolutionary and co-conspirator of Georg Büchner
Christian Gustav Clemm	1814-1866	Chemist
Georg Geilfus	1815-1891	German-Swiss pedagogue
Johann Baptist Müller-Melchors	1815-1872	Member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
Karl Minnigerode	1814-1894	Co-conspirator Georg Büchner, preacher of the Episcopal Church in Richmond (Virginia)
Ernst Elias Niebergall	1815-1843	writer
Ludwig Rosenstiel	1806-1863	revolutionary
Carl Vogt	1817-1895	German-Swiss natural scientist and democrat, professor of zoology in Giessen, member of the Frankfurt National Assembly
Ludwig Franz Alexander Winther	1812-1871	Professor of Pathology in Giessen

Member directories :

• Kösener corps lists 1910, 55.
• Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, K. Palatia.

literature

• Hans-Georg Balder : The German fraternities. Their representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, p. 159.
• Georg Fritz: Corps Teutonia to Gießen 1839–1935 . Giessen 1939.
• Florian Hoffmann: Corps or fraternity? To locate the Giessen Palatia (1833–1834) . In: Contributions to the 67th German Student History Conference 2007 in Gießen, o. O., o. J., pp. 11–20.
• Hans-Reinhard Koch : The Gießener SC between Urburschenschaft and Progress . In: then and now . Vol. 15 (1970), pp. 97-103.
• Ernst Kornemann : History of the Corps Teutonia. Established until 1850 . Giessen 1914.
• Carl Vogt: From my life. Memories and retrospectives (= Studia Giessenia 7). Giessen 1997.

Web links

Commons : Corps Palatia Gießen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Georg Lehnert, Herman Haupt : Chronicle of the University of Giessen, 1607 to 1907. Giessen 1907, p. 30.
2. ^ Steffen Haßlauer: Polemics and argumentation in the science of the 19th century. A pragmalinguistic investigation of the dispute between Carl Vogt and Rudolph Wagner about the "soul". Series German Linguistics Volume 291, Berlin, New York 2010, p. 61.
3. ^ Notices from the Upper Hessian History Association. Giessen 1961, p. 108.
4. ^ Ernst Kornemann: History of the Corps Teutonia. Established until 1850 . Giessen 1914, p. 8
5. ↑ Erich Zimmermann: For freedom and justice !. The struggle of the Darmstadt democrats in Vormärz (1815–1848) . Edited by the Hessian Historical Commission. Darmstadt 1987, p. 139
6. ^ Jan-Christoph Hauschild: Georg Büchner. Biography . Stuttgart, Weimar 1993, p. 243
7. ^ Jan-Christoph Hauschild: Georg Büchner. Biography . Stuttgart, Weimar 1993, p. 244
8. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - Die Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, p. 34.
9. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - Die Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, p. 35.
10. ↑ Jürgen Seidel: Georg Büchner dtv, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-31001-4 , p. 70
11. ^ Thomas Michael Mayer: Georg Büchner. Life, work and time . Marburg. 2nd Edition. 1986, p. 109
12. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 47.
13. ^ Ernst Kornemann: History of the Corps Teutonia. Established until 1850 . Giessen 1914, p. 15
14. ↑ Fritz Deppert: "Well roared, lion!" . 2007, p. 116
15. ^ Steffen Haßlauer: Polemics and argumentation in the science of the 19th century. A pragmalinguistic investigation of the dispute between Carl Vogt and Rudolph Wagner about the "soul" . Berlin, New York 2010, p. 61