Corps Silingia Breslau in Cologne

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Coat of arms of the Corps Silingia

The Corps Silingia Breslau zu Cologne is a mandatory student union at the university town of Cologne. It is a member of the Weinheim Senior Citizens 'Convention (WSC) and, together with the Corps Franco-Guestphalia, forms the Senior Citizens' Convention in Cologne and Bonn. The members of the corps are called " Silingen ".

Color

The corps boy band has the colors “blue-gold-white” with black percussion , the fox band the colors “blue-gold” with black percussion. A blue hat in the size of a student hat is worn.

history

The origins of the Corps Silingia Breslau zu Cologne lie in Silesia . On June 13, 1877, the Silingia Breslau reform fraternity was established in the Silingian capital , the name of which was derived from the Silingian vandal tribe, who were formerly resident in this area and often described as very defensive .

For various reasons, the reform fraternity was soon forced to give up its independence and join a strong “partner”. She found this in 1899 in the Silingia Breslau country team. The origin of this connection was the "Opole Evening", which students from the University of Wroclaw founded on June 18, 1888 in the small town of Opole , south of Wroclaw . Initially just a loose regulars' table of like-minded people, he later gave himself the permanent student union form of a country team, which the core of the former reform fraternity joined.

Circle of the Corps Silingia

Even the free country team was unable to maintain its autonomy and independence in the long term and in 1912, after a year of renunciation, it joined the Rudolstadt Seniors' Convent (RSC) as a corps . It had its roots in the veterinary universities, but expanded increasingly to other universities - against the opposition of the already established senior citizens' convents of the Kösener and Weinheimer Corps . The corps flourished and built a reputation to speak of.

After the First World War , in which all active participants took part, the survivors reunited and tried to survive the aftermath of the great war. For example, many of the students in Breslau were involved in the ranks of the Freikorps in the post-war years. The period of inflation was particularly difficult for the connections, as many corporations could not survive on their own through idealism and optimism without an old rulership that made financial sacrifices.

These circumstances contributed to the fact that, especially during this time, many connections ceased to exist. The Silingia was able to fight off this fate, but in 1930 merged with the Corps Lugia Breslau, which was founded on October 22, 1892.

Corps Montania Wroclaw

This merger was followed by the merger with the Corps Montania Breslau in the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convent (WSC) on November 4, 1933 to form the Corps Montania-Silingia Breslau and thus acceptance into the WSC. On June 17, 1934, Montania-Silingia took the name Corps Silingia Breslau.

Montania was founded on February 2nd, 1900 at the Technical University of Charlottenburg as an academic association "Eisenhütte" and was relocated to Breslau in the winter semester of 1911/12. On July 19, 1925, she declared herself a free corps with gold-silver-black colors, black cap and the motto “Glückauf allewege!”. In 1926, the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention “to strengthen Germanness” at the Technical University of Breslau decided to set up a third corps alongside the existing Frisia and Neo-Franconia. A committee still set up at the Weinheim Conference began negotiations with Montania, who on July 1, 1926 was accepted as a renoncierendes Corps in the SC of the Technical University and on November 6, 1926 became a full member of the WSC. Two members each of the Corps Franconia Karlsruhe and Borussia Danzig as well as a Stuttgart Stauffe at Montania were active as support.

Second World War

Under pressure from the National Socialist regime, the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention dissolved in 1935. The "Comradeship Siling" attempted to continue the tradition of the Silingia during the war. The Comradeship Siling was the only comradeship in Germany that carried on the name of the corporation from which the old rulers had emerged. The Corps Frisia and Neofranconia later joined this comradeship, but the old Silingen made up a little over fifty percent of the old rulers, which then numbered around two hundred people. The Breslau corp house was completely destroyed when Wroclaw was stormed by the Red Army .

After the end of the Second World War , the Silingen reunited around mid-1948. At that time the hub was Frankfurt am Main . But the Silingia was still severely weakened and now homeless, without anchoring in the form of house, property and university. In this situation, there was a short-term merger with the Corps Normannia-Marburg, which, however, was soon resolved by mutual agreement due to unforeseen problems.

Corps Baltia Berlin

On January 1, 1954, Silingia merged with the old gentlemen's association of the Corps Baltia Berlin , which also had a long tradition.

Baltia was founded on February 17, 1877 as the "Gray Monastery Association" at the University of Berlin . (The Berlinisches Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster was the most outstanding elite school in Berlin). Taking into account the important history of the Baltia, its Foundation Day was taken over by Silingia, so that today is celebrated on February 17th and June 13th.

Reconstitution in Cologne

Corpse house of the Silingia

Also in 1954, Silingia was reconstituted at the University of Cologne . She received personal support from the Corps Franco-Guestphalia, Rheno-Nicaria Mannheim and Hermunduria Leipzig. The Corps initially rented an apartment on the Kölner Ringen as its own home. A short time later, a representative villa near the university / university clinic at Lindenburger Allee 36 was acquired, converted into a corp house and student dormitory according to the needs of students in the corps, and named “Silinghaus”. The Corpshaus was added to the list of architectural monuments in the Cologne district of Lindenthal in 1986 and has the largest privately used garden in the entire Lindenthal district. The corps currently consists of around 125 old men and 20 active / inactive from various Cologne universities and faculties.

Conditions

Friendship relationships exist with the following corps:

  • Corps Hermunduria Leipzig to Mannheim-Heidelberg
  • Corps Saxo-Thuringia Munich

Well-known Silingen

  • Karl Drescher (1864–1928), professor of German studies, scientific director of the commission for the publication of Martin Luther's works
  • Abraham Esau (1884–1955), radio pioneer, inventor of the VHF transmitter; Rector of the University of Jena; from 1939 to 1945 president of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin, from 1934 to 1945 commissioner of the Carl Zeiss Foundation
  • Wilhelm Esser (1878–1932), Eisenhüttenmann, board member of the Rheinische Stahlwerke and the United Steelworks
  • Klaus Hänsch (* 1938), MEP; former President of the European Parliament and SPD member
  • Karl Lorenz (1868–1931), President of the Senate at the Imperial Court
  • Lutz Mackensen (1901–1992), German linguist and lexicographer; Author of a German dictionary, often referred to simply as Mackensen, which has sold over 1 million copies to compete with the Duden
  • Kurt Priemel (1880–1959), director of the Frankfurt Zoo
  • Johann Doll (1882 – after 1937), rolling mill technician
  • Otto Ulmer (1890–1946), district administrator in Marienwerder, director of the Berlin transport company
  • Bruno Wehnert (1875 – after 1952), educator, religious scholar and linguist
  • Max Weidner (1859–1933), alternative doctor
  • Hans Zehrer (1899–1966), German journalist, former editor-in-chief of the newspaper Die Welt , holder of the great Federal Cross of Merit and companion of Axel Springer.

Holder of the Klinggräff Medal

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

  • Lothar March (1996)

literature

  • Michael Doeberl (Ed.): Das akademische Deutschland , Vol. 2: The German universities and their academic citizens , Berlin 1931, pp. 622, 692.
  • 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. 281-282 .
  • Georg Bednarski von Liß: Trimmed roots; P. 155 ff.
  • Ebbo Demant : Hans Zehrer as a political publicist. P. 11.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Coat of arms of the Corps Silingia Breslau
  2. History of the Corps Silingia  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.silingia.de  
  3. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 29.
  4. ^ Georg Bednarski von Liß: Trimmed roots . BoD - Books on Demand, 2003, ISBN 978-3-8330-0069-0 ( google.com [accessed May 26, 2016]).
  5. ^ Coat of arms of the Corps Lugia Breslau
  6. Hans Schüler: Weinheimer SC-Chronik . Darmstedt 1927, p. 666
  7. ^ Coat of arms of the Corps Baltia Berlin
  8. Silinghaus (archive version) ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ SPD and fraternities: "Influence of old gentlemen up to the party executive". In: Spiegel Online . January 17, 2006, accessed June 9, 2018 .
  10. ^ Memories of Hans Zehrer ( Memento from June 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ Ebbo Demant: Hans Zehrer as a political publicist . Hase and Koehler, 1971, p. , P. 11 .