Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg
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Foundation, endowment |
December 16, 1820
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Joined the KSCV |
Assembly of Deputies in Jena, May 28, 1855
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suspension |
May 31, 1935
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Reconstitution |
September 2, 1952 in Heidelberg
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Motto |
Virtus sola bonorum corona!
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address |
Riesenstein
69117 Heidelberg |
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Official address |
Friedrich-Ebert -Anlage 44
D-69117 Heidelberg |
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The Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg is an obligatory and colored student union in the Heidelberg Senior Citizens' Convention . The Kösener Corps brings together students and alumni of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . The corps members are called Saxony-Prussia .
Color and coat of arms
The Saxon-Prussians wear the colors white-green-black-white with silver percussion . A white striker is also worn. Like all Heidelberg SC Corps, Saxo-Borussia does not have a fox ribbon. The foxes only carry the striker. Occasionally it is customary at Saxo-Borussia to wear little barrels with fur trimmings as headgear .
The motto is Virtus sola bonorum corona!
The student coat of arms is quartered and covered with a central shield. It shows (heraldic) right above the Saxon coat of arms with a diamond ring, top left the Prussian eagle , crossed the bottom right basket bat in the laurel wreath and the first letter of the GUN weapons award Gladius ultor Noster . In addition, the 11 founding members (XI) and the date of foundation are given. At the bottom left in the field divided into three parts, the colors of the corps. The middle shield shows the compass .
history
The Corps Saxo-Borussia was donated on December 16, 1820 by students from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . It was suspended from the winter semester of 1827/28 to August 25, 1828 and from August 17, 1833 to February 4, 1840 . Saxo-Borussia took part in the Jenenser Seniors Convent Deputy Assembly and on May 28, 1855, together with the other Heidelberg Corps, in the founding of the Kösener Seniors Convent Association . From July 12, 1856 to November 1, 1856 she was suspended by the university.
During the Nazi era , Saxo-Borussia was suspended by the SC on May 31, 1935 and the University on July 3, 1935 because of the Heidelberg asparagus meal . The senior Henning von Quast was arrested. On July 3, 1935, the Corps ceased active operations. The SC's suspension was overturned on February 9, 1936 by an arbitration tribunal.
After the Second World War , Saxo-Borussia was able to reconstitute itself on September 2, 1952 after some difficulties. As in 1910, she was the presiding suburban corps in 1998 ; she provided the chairman of the oKC. At the Kommers on the 150th anniversary of the KSCV in Bad Kösen , Hans Christoph von Rohr gave the widely noticed speech on German reunification .
meaning
The Corps Saxo-Borussia is characterized by the high proportion of members from German and international aristocratic families. So were Constantine I , King of Greece , the Princes Wilhelm and Oskar of Prussia and the last Imperial Chancellor, Prince Max of Baden, Saxe-Prussia. Nevertheless, important personalities from cultural and political life were also among the members, such as the liberal politician Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar or the composer Robert Schumann . During the imperial era and in the Weimar Republic, Saxo-Borussia was considered the “most distinguished corps in Christendom”. Many members achieved high positions in the Prussian administration and in the foreign service of the German Reich .
Mark Twain spent several months in Heidelberg in the summer of 1878 and paid great attention to the corps there. For a while he frequented a fraternity he called white cap corps or Prussian corps . This clearly points to the Saxon-Prussians with their white "strikers".
The prominent social position of Saxo-Borussia meant that the Corps was often used as a target for ridicule and satire in literature. In this spirit, the writer Wilhelm Meyer-Förster also wrote a literary debut in 1885, a satire entitled Die Saxo-Saxonen , which played in the "University town of H.". Harry Domela , who posed as the "Prince of Liven", was a guest of the Corps for several weeks in the autumn of 1926. He described his experiences with the Saxon-Prussians very negatively in his bestseller The False Prince. Life and Adventure of Harry Domela . Kurt Tucholsky dedicated the poem Saxo-Borussen to the Corps , in which he referred to Domela.
resistance
In 1944 Albrecht von Hagen was sentenced to death as a conspirator on July 20, 1944 by the People's Court and executed. He had procured the explosives for the Hitler assassination attempt. Former corps member Nikolaus Christoph von Halem , who had planned an assassination attempt on Hitler in 1942, was also executed in 1944. Halem had already been expelled from the corps during his studies for causing public nuisance through drunkenness. The diplomat Rudolf von Scheliha, executed in Berlin-Plötzensee in 1942, was later recognized as a resister. Because of his alleged activities for the Red Orchestra , he was still considered a “traitor” in post-war Germany . It was not until 1995 that the Foreign Office honored him with a plaque .
"Apart from the Saxen-Prussians, probably no other corps [like Baltia] experienced such persecution by the 3rd Reich."
Corp house
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Saxo-Borussia's Corpshaus is located on the northern slope of the Gaisberg (Heidelberg) . It was built in 1802 and has belonged to the Corps since 1874. It was named Riesenstein at the suggestion of the AHV chairman Harald v. Siebert . His predecessor Franz-Adalbert Frhr. v. Rosenberg had the name carved into the red sandstone above the house entrance. Perhaps it goes back to the medieval term "giant" as a synonym for "slide". In the Middle Ages quarry stones were from a quarry in the valley "reamed".
External relations
In cartels with Borussia Bonn and Saxonia Göttingen , Saxo-Borussia belongs to the white circle . The cartel with the Corps Starkenburgia is one of the oldest in the KSCV and proved itself during Saxo-Borussia's reconstitution in the post-war years. From the 1840s there was a cartel with the Königsberger Corpslandmannschaft Lithuania . Four Littauer and six Silber-Litthauer became Saxon-Prussia. The cartel went under in 1866 with the suspension of the Silber-Litthauer. Saxo-Borussia had 18 corps brothers in common with the Corps Marchia Halle .
Known members
salamander
According to Friedrich Lichterfeld (1803–1878) the pint-sized salamander does not have its roots in Greek or Germanic antiquity (Theokrit, Viktor von Scheffel), neither with the Bonn university judge Friedrich von Salomon (1790–1861) nor in old craft or Masonic customs, but with the Saxony-Prussia, namely in the shortening of their wish “Everyone drinks together!”.
The request can also be found in the General Reich Commerical Book of 1875:
- That was once in the tavern
- To the barrel in Heidelberg;
- It sips the god drink
- The giant like a dwarf.
- The praes said: “Selbander
- Shouldn't you drink today
- Everyone drinks together! "
- And so it was done according to duty.
A Swiss source also points to Heidelberg.
literature
- Gerhart Berger, Detlev Aurand: ... Weiland Bursch zu Heidelberg ... A commemorative publication by the Heidelberg corporations for the 600th anniversary of Ruperto Carola . Heidelberg 1986, pp. 102-106.
- Heinz-Adolf von Brand and Maxtheodor Reichmann (ed.): Contributions to the history of the Saxo-Borussia in Heidelberg. Vol. 1: 1820-1935. Heidelberg 1958.
- Robert von Lucius (Ed.): White-Green-Black-White. Contributions to the history of the Corps Saxo-Borussia in Heidelberg. Vol. 2: 1934-2008. Heidelberg 2008.
- ders .: "As if it were a piece of me" - The Corps Saxo-Borussia in literature . Once and Now 55 (2010), pp. 125–142.
Web links
- Search for Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg in the German Digital Library
- Search for Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
- Gregor Samarow: The Saxoborussians in the Gutenberg-DE Stuttgart project, 1885.
Remarks
- ↑ "Virtue alone is the crown of the good."
- ↑ An allusion to the 1st Guards Regiment on foot .
- ↑ In the 1950s the Foreign Office had a nice bon mot about its diplomats: "And when you found them again, where were they - in the resistance."
- ↑ B. Kaeswurm, v. German, Theodor Kaeswurm , v. Bötticher and K. v. Saucken (not listed in the KKL 1910 at Saxo-Borussia), Siegfried, v. Glasow, v. Staegen, v. Sparrowhawk and E. v. Saucken.
- ↑ Review in Einst und Jetzt 55 (2010), pp. 464–466.
Individual evidence
- ^ Corps in Heidelberg
- ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 66.
- ↑ a b c Paul Gerhardt Gladen : Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg , in: The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps. Their representation in individual chronicles . WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2007, ISBN 978-3-933892-24-9 , p. 145.
- ↑ Mark Twain : A Tramp Abroad . First edition London 1880 (German stroll through Europe ).
- ↑ Kurt Tucholsky, Collected Works in Ten Volumes, Vol. 5. Reinbek 1975, pp. 303–304, 323–324 [1] .
- ↑ Klaus von Groeben: Nikolaus Christoph von Halem , p. 17.
- ^ Letter of April 23, 1950 on the transfer of Baltia's NS files to the Kösener archive.
- ^ Eckhard Oberdörfer: Der Heidelberger Karzer , Cologne 2005, p. 159.
- ↑ Eberhardt Kühne, Robert von Lucius: Zur Geschichte des Riesensteins , in: Robert von Lucius (2008), pp. 189–195.
- ^ Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung : Where does the name Riesenstein come from? (1957/58).
- ↑ John Koch : On the history of the Silberlitthauer . Deutsche Corpszeitung, 42nd year, May 1925, pp. 78–84.
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 139/9; 140/233; 120/314; 145/194
- ↑ FA Lichterfeld, in: Westermann's illustrated German monthly books , January 1875 and June 1876.
- ↑ Beer salamander at Saxo-Borussia (PDF; 123 kB).
Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 29.7 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 4.9" E