Corps Saxonia Leipzig

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Saxonia Leipzig coat of arms

The Corps Saxonia Leipzig is a compulsory and high-profile student association in the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV). The corps brings together students and alumni from the University of Leipzig , the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and the University of Augsburg . The corps members are called Leipzig Saxons.

Color

Saxonia has the colors dark blue-light blue-white with white percussion, whereby the band is slightly wider than usual at 36 mm. A dark blue cap (occipital color) is worn for this. The fox colors are dark blue and white. The Conkneipant (CK) wears a fox hat as a badge. Furthermore there is the status of the corps loop bearer . The emblem is Neminem time, neminem laede! The motto is Virtuti semper corona!

history

Cantonal division for the regional teams in the Kingdom of Saxony (1814)

The Corps Saxonia was donated on September 4, 1812 by seven members of the Landsmannschaft Thuringia Leipzig, three members of the Corpslandsmannschaft Saxonia Jena and two members of the Corpslandsmannschaften Austria at the University of Leipzig as Landsmannschaft Saxonia Leipzig. Richard Wagner later also belonged to its members - or rather Renoncen . However, not for long: Wagner himself writes that he left the corps voluntarily: mainly out of disappointment with the apolitical attitude of the Leipzig compatriots (= corps students) to the uprising of the Poles. The compatriots would not have shared Wagner's “painful grief” over the Polish defeat at Ostrolenka (cf. Richard Wagner, Mein Leben, edited by Gregor-Dellin, Taschenbuch Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1983, p. 67). Saxonia has referred to itself as a corps since May 30, 1822.

In 1848, the corps was one of the founding members of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association (KSCV). In 1850, 1860 and 1986 (for Augsburg) Leipzig Saxons were chairmen of the oKC .

In October 1905, the first own house at Elsterstrasse 23 in Leipzig was inaugurated, which was bought by the Corps and slightly rebuilt. Before that, the corps had been based on the first floor of Kleine Fleischergasse No. 8 for twenty years.

During the time of National Socialism , Saxonia had to suspend like all corps on October 27, 1935 . With Budissa , Lusatia and Thuringia, she participated in the founding of the Leipzig SC comradeship "Margrave of Meissen" from 1938 , which in 1942 became Corps Misnia IV . Since after the Second World War, because of the communist regime in Leipzig, no corps student life was possible, Saxonia Leipzig reconstituted on December 20, 1951 in Frankfurt am Main . In 1973 she moved to Augsburg . After the German reunification , the corps returned to Leipzig in 2001.

District politics

Saxonia's Conditions (1912)

The importance of the so-called Kösener district politics before (and after) the turn of the century is most clearly shown in Saxonia Leipzig. At the time of the founding of the German Empire , it was in a "tightly-knit cartel circle" with Thuringia Jena (1836), Brunsviga Göttingen , Silesia and Borussia Greifswald . In contrast to these corps, it also maintained relationships outside of the circle. Relationship agreements were proposed to her on all sides, many of which she entered "willingly". She was in the cartel with Neoborussia Berlin , but the cartel was not continued when Neoborussia was reconstituted in 1922. She was friends with Franconia Munich , Hansea Bonn , Vandalia Heidelberg , Tigurinia and Rhenania Strasbourg .

Munich

When Suevia Munich was no longer a life corps and was looking for allies among the armed forces corps , Thuringia Jena urged her to turn away from the conceptual relationship with Thuringia Leipzig and to approach Saxonia. As in Jena and Göttingen, able Swabians were active at Saxonia. Relations became close and cordial. In contrast, the friendly relationship with Franconia Munich broke up.

Heidelberg

The same thing happened with Vandalia Heidelberg in 1875; because Rhenania Heidelberg - who had achieved a "particularly outstanding position in the KSCV" in the early 1870s - had very close ties to Suevia Munich, which led to the break with Thuringia Leipzig. On the other hand, Rhenania sent several active members to Saxonia, including Alfred Kast . When Kast did not want to retract an ironic interjection to the decision of a referee in Freiburg, Saxonia perpetually diminished him . Since Rhenania did not follow suit, Saxonia overturned a PP suite . When it was held at the Gießen Seniors' Convent , tensions intensified. After a scaling request , Teutonia Gießen and Hassia declared a game in Saxony to be insufficient. Saxonia overthrew both Corps PP. Although she had common corps brothers with all five Heidelberg Corps, she lost her second relationship and all other contacts in the Heidelberg Senior Citizens' Convention .

Between the chairs

The break with Franconia and Vandalia would have brought Saxonia even closer to the black circle if the old cartel with Borussia Greifswald had continued; However, it was broken by Saxonia in January 1876 because Borussia had reciprocated former Göttingen fraternity members without a scale . The Black Circle Cartel Day jumped in on Saxonia, but broke up on their request. As a result of this break, the cartels with Silesia (he was later followed by a friendly relationship), Thuringia Jena and Brunsviga failed.

Thuringia Jena - already in the Kösener space advantage - dominated the black circle . With multi-band men, she had repeatedly saved Brunsviga, Silesia and Borussia from suspension . With Suevia Munich and Hassia she had "extremely solid and mutually cordial relationships". In her pursuit of a closed circle policy under her leadership, she was bothered by Saxonia's independence and her relationships with green corps ; because in Jena they were naturally closer to Franconia than to Thuringia, which ran counter to their unconditional claim to leadership in the Senior Citizens' Convention and indirectly also in the black circle. The 50-year cartel festival was still celebrated in Naumburg (Saale) in 1889 ; after that one parted. After these experiences, Saxonia's corps boys - despite the most urgent warnings from the old men - tended more and more to the green circle, "without - which could be foreseen - on the other hand the desired connection to the actual core of the green circle has succeeded" .

That the “close and firm relationships” with Franconia Tübingen , Suevia Freiburg and Suevia Munich would survive this turnaround turned out to be a false hope. With the suspended Neoborussia Berlin, Saxonia only had one cartel before the First World War . She was still friends with Silesia, Guestphalia Halle (1838), Hansea Bonn (after 1860), Rhenania Strasbourg (1874) and Tigurinia . The friendly relationships with Hasso-Nassovia and Nassovia (1896) broke up. The relationship with Baruthia concluded after 1860 lasted 50 years. In the 20th century, the balance in the black circle shifted from Thuringia Jena to Suevia Munich.

“The relationships with all the other viable, always helpful, formerly friendly corps that belong to the black circle or are close to it have been broken, and apart from Silesia there are now only relationships with a few corps that count towards the green circle which unfortunately almost always suffer from a lack of people, so that extensive support from them in times of need cannot be counted on, as the history of the Misnia also teaches that a corps cannot be established in Leipzig with the help of the green circle alone able to hold up permanently. "

- Georg Heine

Younger time

The oldest friendly relationships have existed with Guestphalia Halle since 1838 (Kartell since 2006). More recently (from 2010) cartel relationships have been concluded with Silesia Breslau, Hasso-Nassovia Marburg and Franconia Tübingen. The old (green) relationships with the Corps Holsatia and the Corps Hansea Bonn broke up in the 1990s. On October 1, 2016, a new friendship was established with Corps Brunsviga Göttingen .

Members

Emil Jacobson ( Baltia Königsberg , Saxonia Leipzig)

literature

  • Georg Heine: The history of the Corps Saxonia Leipzig 1812-1912 . Leipzig 1913 (reprint 1982)
  • Kurt Oehmig: History of the Corps Saxonia in Leipzig 1912–1962 .
  • Hermann Weber : History of the Corps Saxonia in Leipzig 1962–1992 .
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps. Their representation in individual chronicles . WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2007, ISBN 978-3-933892-24-9 , p. 153.

Web links

Commons : Corps Saxonia Leipzig  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eng. "Don't fear anyone, don't hurt anyone!"
  2. ↑ German "The crown of man's honor always!"
  3. ↑ On Wagner's student days: Horst Grimm / Leo Besser-Walzel, Die Corporationen, Frankfurt am Main, 1986; Richard Wagner, Gregor-Dellin (ed.), Mein Leben, Munich 1983, p. 51 ff. On this also Frank Huss, Richard Wagner as a corps student, in: Studenten-Kurier 4/2006, p. 16, with clarification by Weiß, Richard Wagner's unsuccessful contract, in: Studenten-Kurier 1/2007, pp. 3, 4; Mario Todte: The Academic Richard Wagner Association Leipzig (1872–1937), in: GDS Archive 10 (2014), pp. 99–118. Here p. 100 f. -Michael Schlicht: History of the Corps Thuringia in Leipzig 1806-1935. D. & L. Koch Verlag Bonn 2017, pp. 71-75. ISBN 978-3-9815935-5-6
  4. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 86.
  5. ^ The inauguration of the Saxonia corp house in Leipzig. In: Academische Monatshefte 22 (1905/06), p. 262
  6. ↑ 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. 28.
  7. ↑ a b c G. Heine: Changes in the external corps policy , pp. 178-185
  8. ↑ a b c G. Heine: The relationships between our Saxonia and the corps at the other German and Swiss universities , pp. 348–359
  9. ↑ G. Heine: From the district policy in the 80s , pp. 197-200
  10. ↑ G. Heine, p. 306
  11. ^ Franconia Tübingen had 15, Suevia Freiburg 18 and Brunsviga Göttingen 20 two-band men
  12. ↑ G. Heine: The corp policy of the last decade , pp. 304-307

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