Corps Rheno-Palatia Munich

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Rheno Palatias coat of arms

The Rheno-Palatia Munich is a student association in the Munich Senior Citizens' Convention . The obligatory and colored corps is a member of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV). The members of the Rheno-Palatia are called Rheinpfälzer and are known from tradition - untypical for corps - also under the term Rheno-Palaten , which is Germanized from Latin .

General

The Rheno-Palatia brings together students and former students from a wide variety of subjects from the Ludwig Maximilians University, the Technical University, the University of the Federal Armed Forces and the University of Applied Sciences, i.e. all universities in Munich entitled to doctorate. The Corps' internal information sheet, which appears twice a year, is called the “Rheno-Palaten-Zeitung”. The corps does not belong to any of the Kösener circles , so it is "independent". The number of living corps brothers (old men, inactive, active, foxes) is currently around 145. In total, Rheno-Palatia has had around 820 members since the foundation. Political views, nationality and religion do not play a role in membership. The meaning and purpose of a corps community include: a. the lifelong, cross-generational friendship, the social togetherness, the intellectual exchange, the mutual support in studies and work as well as the preparation of the young student for the world of work.

Couleur, motto, circle

The Corps Rheno-Palatia has the color light blue – white – light blue with silver percussion , the foxes wear a two-tone light blue and white ribbon with silver percussion.

In addition, a light blue hat in the so-called “Munich plate format” is worn with the suit.

The motto of the corps is: "Iniuriae ferrum - in perseverantia virtus" and means something like "Iron for injustice - virtue lies in persistence", with "iniuriae" also referring to "insult" - instead of "injustice" - translates.

Another distinguishing feature of the corps are its coat of arms and its circle , which is composed of the initials Rp and some common elements from the corps. The coat of arms shows the Palatinate lion (top right), the Nuremberg virgin eagle (bottom left), colors and compasses (bottom right) and the friendship wreath (top left) with a crossed bat and saber, date of foundation and initials of the motto. There are also elements from heraldry .

history

Nuremberg

The forerunner of the Corps Rheno-Palatia was the Kneipgesellschaft der Rheinpfälzer founded on December 7th, 1857 by six students of the Nuremberg Polytechnic in Wöhrd (today the Georg-Simon-Ohm-Hochschule Nürnberg in Nürnberg) from the then Bavarian Rhine Palatinate . It had set itself the goal in its statutes

"... to raise the reputation of the polytechnicians in general, and now in the special case that of the members of the Kneipgesellschaft der Rheinpfälzer, who are in Nuremberg for their scientific and technical training, while maintaining youthful cheerfulness, peace-loving sociability and to strive for true honor and loyalty. "

- Articles of Association of the Kneipgesellschaft der Nürnberger Rheinpfälzer

The Kneipgesellschaft der Rheinpfälzer is considered to be the very first student association on Nuremberg soil. Since it was ultimately not expected that the future of the young pub society could only be secured by recruiting young people from the ranks of the Rhineland-Palatinate students at the Polytechnic, the originally favored country team principle was quickly abandoned .

Already on May 22, 1858, six months after its founding, the Kneipgesellschaft was elevated to the Corps Rhenopalatia and in the same semester the first measure was fought on weapons of the Corps Baruthia . This development towards the corps was not insignificantly driven by the Munich cisar Sophian Millitzer, who had recently joined the Kneipgesellschaft . The proximity of the Erlanger Corps did the rest.

Munich

The difficult conditions at the Nuremberg Polytechnic, where corporations were banned, the centralized restructuring plans of the Bavarian Polytechnic and the existing relationships with Munich student associations led to the corps being relocated to the Bavarian capital in 1863. There, together with the Corps Cisaria, a delegate convention (DC) was launched, which they wanted to equip with the same skills as the SC of the Munich University Corps (USC). In 1868 the Polytechnisches SC was founded by the Corps Vitruvia, Rheno-Palatia, Cisaria and Germania .

Polytechnic SC

Unpleasant arguments - different conceptions of the scale, duels , disreputations , resignations and missions - changed the composition of the PSC eight times by 1880, at times two SCs exist side by side. Tension and disagreement were also common with the USC Corps at the time. In 1899, Rheno-Palatia moved into its own representative corp house (designed by Hans Grässel ) next to the Hofbräuhaus. The soon-to-be-famous Torggelstube opens on the ground floor in the new Rheinpfälzerhaus, which is also one of the settings in Lion Feuchtwanger's novel " Success ".

Weinheimer SC

In 1912, the Munich PSC joined the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention (WSC) with Rheno-Palatia . Active operations were suspended during the First World War . 25 people from the Rhine Palatinate remain in the field.

The era of National Socialism , the beginning, as was the case with so many social groups, was also welcomed by parts of the Corpsstudententums initially hopeful, the active corps experienced only by the year 1938, where it eventually to its forced dissolution and Transfer to the comradeship " Paul Ernst " came. As expected, such an imposed constellation would lead to discrepancies between the young members of the comradeship and the old men of the Rheno-Palatia, who were committed to their corps-student traditions. Only slowly does a rapprochement between the still skeptical old rulers and such student members of the "Paul Ernst" begin, who are more and more oriented towards the traditional corps student ideals. Even during the war, covert and restricted active operations were started. Another deep cut came in April 1944 when the corp house was completely destroyed during a night attack by the Allies.

In the post-war period after World War II in Germany , student associations are still banned. An open connection to the old traditions is still out of the question. Many informal and semi-official meetings between the Corps Brothers and with members of other Corps will soon take place. In 1947 the “Academic Club Rheinpfalz” was founded and two years later, on May 6, 1949, the Corps Rheno-Palatia was formally reconstituted.

Kösener SC Association

Rheno-Palatia joined the Munich Senior Citizens' Convention (MSC) in 1954 and became a member of the KSCV. In 1956 they move into the new corp house , also located on Platzl . In 1957, Rheno-Palatia was the presiding suburban corps in the KSCV and appointed Berend-Heiko Behrends as chairman of the oKC. In 2013 an interview was concluded with the Corps Symposion Vienna.

Known members

  • Wilhelm Emil "Elk" Eber (1892–1941), painter and graphic artist
  • August Exter (1858–1933), architect
  • Anton Fasig (1864–1940), industrialist
  • Albert Ganzenmüller (1905–1996), engineer, National Socialist State Secretary and SS-Standartenführer, participant in the Hitler putsch , responsible for deportations at the Reichsbahn
  • Julius Geyer (1876–1945), engineer, councilor, general director of Isaria Meterwerke AG
  • Karl Glaser (1841–1935), Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BASF
  • Hans Grässel (1860–1939), go. Building councilor, professor, town planning director, holder of the Pour le Mérite
  • Rudolf Hämmerle (1904–1984), Austrian textile entrepreneur and member of the National Council
  • Johann-Erasmus von Malsen-Ponickau (1895–1956), SS and NSDAP functionary
  • Benno Martin (1893–1975), resigned, lawyer, police officer and SS general
  • Heinrich Puchner (1865–1938), German soil scientist and agricultural technician
  • Paul Reichard (1854–1938), geographer, African explorer
  • Aribert Rödel (1898–1965), architect
  • Karl-Werner Rüsch , former Vice President of the Austrian National Bank D., General Council a. D., Regional Councilor in Vorarlberg a. D.
  • Edmund von Schumacher (1859–1908), Lucerne Councilor, member of the Federal Council of States, Colonel in the Swiss Army
  • Georg Stauber (1875–1952), professor of metallurgical engineering, inventor of the Stauber gas turbine
  • Ludwig Wagner-Speyer (1882–1939), architect, professor of architecture, director of the Mainz School of Applied Arts

Holder of the Klinggräff Medal

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

  • Rolf Schuh (1990)
  • Rolf Kettner (1997)
  • Omar Fakhr (2011)

literature

  • Hans Schüler: Weinheimer SC-Chronik , pp. 620–657, Darmstadt 1927
  • Michael Doeberl u. a. (Ed.): Das akademische Deutschland , Volume 2: The German universities and their academic citizens , Berlin 1931, p. 959
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : History of the student corporation associations, Volume 1, pp. 35–60, Würzburg 1981
  • Paulgerhard Gladen: The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps: Your representation in individual chronicles . 1st edition. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2007, ISBN 978-3-933892-24-9 , pp. 143-144 .
  • Kösener Corpslisten 1996, p. 939
  • Heinz-Dieter Martin, Gerhard Vieler: Chronicle of the Corps Rheno-Palatia . Part 1. Nuremberg 1990 (covers the period between 1875 and 1945).
  • Heinz-Dieter Martin, Gerhard Vieler: Chronicle of the Corps Rheno-Palatia . Part 2. Nuremberg 1997 (covers the period between 1945 and 1983).
  • Corps list of the Rheno-Palatia . 2008.
  • Dieter Adam: From the pub society to the Corps Rheno-Palatia . In: Rheno-Palaten-Zeitung . No. 78 , April 2008, p. 18th f .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Scherer: The first years of the Polytechnisches SC in Munich (1868-1870) . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 12 (1967), p. 71.
  2. ^ Munich and its buildings . Edited by the Bavarian Architects and Engineers Association. Munich 1912, p. 302f.
  3. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 144.
  4. ^ Elk Emil Eber , Galleria d'Arte Thule.
  5. ↑ administration manual.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de