Corps Teutonia Giessen

Basic data
Coat of arms :
State :	Hesse
University :	Justus-Liebig university of Giessen
Founding:	June 1, 1839 in Giessen
Association:	KSCV
Motto:	In virtute honos!
Gun motto:	Gladius ultor noster
Colours:
Circle:
Address:	Hessenstrasse 3, 35394 Giessen
Website:	http://www.teutonia-giessen.de/

Corps Teutonia Gießen in front of the silhouette of the city of Gießen, lithograph, 1858

Drumming on the Schiffenberg , Seyd (Teutonia) ./. Vix (Starkenburgia), winter semester 1855/56

Hill 2 as Büdinger Pennal-Teutone (1856)

The Corps Teutonia Gießen is a corps ( student union ) at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen . It is obligatory and colored. Its colors are green-red-gold (fox colors: green-red-green), the hat color is green. The motto is: In virtute honos! Teutonia is a member of the Gießen Seniors 'Convent (SC zu Gießen) and the Kösener Seniors' Convents Association (KSCV).

history

From the beginning to the First World War

Founded on June 1, 1839 with the colors and constitution of the Corps Palatia , which was suspended in 1834 , Teutonia is considered to be the oldest student union in Giessen that still exists today. Its members were mainly recruited from the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt , especially from Rheinhessen and the residential city of Darmstadt .

During the time of the so-called " demagogue persecution " after the Hambach Festival and the Frankfurt Wachensturm , corporate life at the Ludoviciana was largely suppressed by the academic and state authorities. Only the increasing tolerance from 1840 onwards made it possible for the corps to appear in public. The double student grave in the old cemetery in Gießen still reminds of the death of one of the founders of the corps .

In 1842 some Upper Hessian members split off and founded the Corps Marcomannia, which was merged with Hassia a year later. In July 1846, after disputes between a student and a police sergeant at a ball in the Busch'schen Garten in Giessen, the corps took part in the move of the student body to the Staufenberg . New internal differences arose in the course of the increasing politicization of the Vormärz. The corps called for reforms, turned against the so-called "contracting bars" and campaigned for a fundamental revision of the commentary and for the formation of a general student committee, which also met in the summer of 1848. On the other hand, Teutonia spoke out against the efforts of the Heidelberger SC to merge the corps at the German universities and refused to participate in the trend-setting assembly in Jena, also in the summer of 1848, which was the basis for the foundation of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association educated. In the 1850s, the corps found itself in calmer waters and, measured by the number of active members, experienced its first heyday. In 1866 the last major rift resulted in the formation of a short-lived Corps Franconia.

Although the Teutone formally resigned from the Corps, as was common at the time, with the end of his studies, there was close cohesion between active and former members, which not only resulted from the lively participation of the "old men" in the events in Gießen , but also in particular in the great Kommersen, which has been held every five years in Bingen for the foundation festival since 1850 . The “Association of Old Giessen Teutons” (VaGT) was only formed in 1892 in connection with the construction of its own corp house.

The temporary suspension of the entire Gießener SC in the winter semester of 1898/99 was a revealing, if ultimately inconsequential, episode. In connection with an event in Darmstadt, there was an open confrontation between the corps, which claimed leadership within the student body, and the other corporations. After the SC had also openly opposed resolutions by the university management, the Senate issued a temporary suspension. The three corps Teutonia, Starkenburgia and Hassia formally dissolved. Its members founded three new corps, the previous Teutons named themselves after the old Palatia and used the colors green-white-red. After the intervention of the Hessian State Ministry, the suspension decision was lifted after a few weeks. Nevertheless, this event is significant for the self-image of the SC and the corps in general at the end of the 19th century.

Overall, the corps was of great importance during this time due to the membership of a large number of representatives of the Hessian higher civil service, especially the Darmstadt ministerial bureaucracy, and the exposed position of individual personalities such as the Berlin mayor and former Reichstag president Max von Forckenbeck . In 1899, four of the twelve members of the Grand Ducal State Ministry were Giessen Teutons. Members of the corps ( Friedrich Schenck , Wilhelm Haas , Otto Gennes ) also held leading positions in the agricultural cooperative sector for many years. The same applies to the heads of the provincial authorities and the district councils. Teutonia thus forms a typical example of the corps student networking of the civil service elite of a German medium-sized state in the 19th century and based on this its exclusive position within the Giessen student body. On the other hand, executives from the economy and university lecturers were underrepresented, apart from medical professionals such as Hermann Welcker (University of Halle), Adolf Geßner (University of Erlangen) and Max Stickel (University of Berlin) or the ancient historian Ernst Kornemann from Wroclaw .

Politicization, conformity and dissolution

The experience of the First World War at the front, the economic and social upheavals, the increasing politicization of broad sections of the population and, in particular, the radicalization of the workers, who hated the corps, which were ostracized as a relic of the old Reich, exerted a lasting influence on the political and university-political positioning of the after the First World War Members out. Especially the years 1919 to 1924 brought the Corps increasingly into a right-wing conservative channel. In the years 1920/23, active and inactive individuals took part in the Kapp Putsch , the Küstriner Putsch and the Hitler putsch as free corps fighters or members of the Black Reichswehr . Contacts also existed with the local group of the Consul organization . After the Kösener Congress had already introduced an Aryan paragraph in 1921 , the Gießener Teutonia passed its own, internally controversial, CC resolution with the same content in the summer semester of 1922 to reject so-called "non-Aryans". However, the application for anchoring in the constitution of the Corps was rejected.

From 1925 onwards, with the increasing depoliticization of the student body, the situation generally calmed down. The takeover of the office for culture and political education of the Giessener AStA by a Teuton in 1928, who in this function organized rallies on the “war guilt lie” and the “Versailles dictate” was of relevance to university politics. In 1934 the Gießener SC decided to join one of the three military associations (Stahlhelm, SA, SS).

After 1933 there were increasing dissonances with the local NS university structures and the Hitler Youth . Two conflicts between the Teutons and the local leadership of the German student body resulted in the recall of the Giessen student body leaders Bernhard Edler von Graeve and Karl-Hans Adam. After the Corps had already bowed to the implementation of the "Aryan Regulations" of the General German Arms Ring under massive pressure from the association's leadership in the spring of 1934 , active operations were suspended on October 12, 1935. The late attempt by the then chairman of the Alter Gießener Teutonen Association, Otto Gennes , to form a comradeship with the Corps Starkenburgia and Hassia (Comradeship VIII "Hilrich van Geöns") was no longer successful because of the outbreak of war. The position of the board of directors towards the NS-Altherrenbund and the question of comradeship, however, caused a profound division of the old rulers. In 1943, the Alter Gießener Teutonen Association was formally dissolved.

Reconstitution

Nevertheless, after the Second World War, the opposing groups were re-established and merged relatively quickly. The 1934 forced resignation of the "non-Aryan" and "non-Aryan tainted" members was declared null and void. In 1947, the first major meeting after the collapse took place in Friedberg .

As a result of the closure of the University of Gießen, resumption of active operations was initially obsolete. After negotiations with Hassia and Starkenburgia about a joint project as well as the announced joint support of the newly founded student community Die Dioskuren by Teutonia and the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg zu Marburg , the independent reconstitution in Mainz and membership of the Mainzer SC took place. Only after the reconstruction of the Giessen University of Applied Sciences was the corps moved back to Giessen in the winter semester of 1954/55 and has since resumed its traditional position in Giessen SC.

In 2019, the Corps - as in 1993, 1868 and 1887 - provided the local speaker in Kosen .

Pennale Corps in Giessen, Darmstadt and Büdingen

From Gießen, the ideas and customs of the students of the corps spread to several Hessian high schools in the 1840s, where so-called Pennal Corps were established based on the Gießen corps , which carried the student comments there and continued into the second half of the 19th century, sharp scales challenged. Teutonia offshoots can be found at the grammar schools in Gießen ( Landgraf-Ludwigs-Gymnasium ), Darmstadt ( Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium ) and Büdingen ( Wolfgang-Ernst-Gymnasium ). A large part of the active corps members were recruited from these three schools and from the grammar school in Worms up to the First World War.

Corp houses

The first own house on Grünberger Straße (Kaiserallee), built according to plans by the architect Ludwig Hofmann , was inaugurated in 1894 on the occasion of the 55th Foundation Festival. When it no longer met the changed needs after the First World War, it was sold in 1929 to the Corps Silvania, which had moved from the Eisenach Forestry Academy to Gießen. In its place, the Corps acquired the former Gail'sche Villa at Wilhelmstrasse 25, which was sold to the city of Giessen after the suspension in 1938. During the short period in Mainz, the events took place in changing restaurants. With the acquisition of the former Hessenhaus (house of the Hassia Gießen corps that had migrated to Mainz in Hessenstrasse), Teutonia moved into its third, today's corps house after returning to Gießen in autumn 1954.

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  Kommersheft with a picture of the inn "Russischer Hof" in Gießen, 1841

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  Corps Teutonia, Haus Kaiserallee 77

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  Corps Teutonia, House Hessenstrasse 3

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  Corps Teutonia, house Hessenstrasse 3, entrance portal

External relations

Teutonia is a member of the green circle and is in the cartel with the Corps Hansea Bonn and Franconia-Jena as well as in official relations with Rhenania Würzburg , Hasso-Borussia , Guestphalia Halle and Tigurinia .

Well-known members

Surname	Life dates	activity	image
Bernhard Averbeck	1874-1930	Industrial and association functionary in the cement industry
Friedrich Martin von Bechtold	1866-1924	District director (district administrator) of the Offenbach district
Hermann von Bechtold	1836-1902	Provincial Director and District Council in Giessen
Richard Boeninger	1874-1944	Administrative lawyer, district administrator of the Grafschaft Bentheim district
Sigwald Bommer	1893-1963	Dermatologist, ord. Professor at the University of Greifswald
August Bramm	1829-1889	First Lord Mayor of Giessen
Otto Rudolf von Brentano	1855-1927	MdL, MdR, Hessian Minister of the Interior and Justice, member of the Weimar National Assembly
Hans-Jürgen Bruns	1908-1994	SS officer and legal scholar
Alexander Classen	1843-1934	Professor of chemistry in Aachen, founder of analytical electrolysis
Peter Dettweiler I.	1837-1904	Head of the Falkenstein im Taunus lung sanatorium, founder of the sanatorium system in Germany
Peter Dettweiler III	1856-1907	Classical philologist, high school councilor and lecturer in the Ministry of the Interior
Georg Christian Dieffenbach	1822-1901	Luth. Theologian and author of books for children and young people
Fritz Eckerle	1877-1925	writer
Ferdinand Emmerling	1831-1912	Lawyer in the financial administration, chairman of the Hessian state insurance office
Maximilian Franz August von Forckenbeck	1821-1892	Lord Mayor of Breslau and Berlin, President of the Prussian House of Representatives, President of the Reichstag, co-founder of the National Liberal Party
Eugene Franck	1832-1893	Lawyer and politician, member of the Second Chamber of the Hessian Estates (Center Party)
Georg Fritz	1865-1944	Colonial official and publicist
Heinrich Gennes	1871-1916	District council of the Offenbach district
Otto Gennes	1874-1943	Advocate General and board member of the Reich Association of German Agricultural Cooperatives, member of the provisional Reich Economic Council
Adolf Geßner	1864-1903	Physician, professor of gynecology and director of the university women's clinic in Erlangen
Josef Giessen	1858-1944	Politician, member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies
Franz Gros	1833-1905	District council of the Oppenheim, Worms and Bensheim districts, go. Government Council
Gustav Güngerich	1872-1945	Reich judge
Wilhelm Haas	1839-1913	Politician and social reformer, founder and first advocate general of the Reich Association of German Agricultural Cooperatives
Wilhelm von Hamm	1820-1880	Politician and industrialist, member of the Second Saxon Chamber
Ernst Herbig	1876-1943	Member of the board of the Rheinisch-Westphalian coal syndicate
Theodor Hergenhahn	1833-1893	Legal scholar
Johannes Kessel	1839-1907	ENT doctor
Karl von Kleinsorgen	1829-1889	Politician, member of the Prussian House of Representatives, the Customs Parliament and the Reichstag
Karl Koehler	1799-1847	Senior Consistorial Councilor and Member of Parliament in the Grand Duchy of Hesse.
Ernst Kornemann	1868-1946	Ancient historian (University of Wroclaw)
Gustav Krug by Nidda	1836-1918	Hessian State Council and Deputy Plenipotentiary to the Federal Council
Friedrich Küchler	1822-1898	Provincial director in Mainz, honorary citizen of the city of Mainz
Wilhelm Küchler	1846-1900	Lord Mayor and Honorary Citizen of Worms , GhGL. Hess. Finance Minister and Deputy Authorized Representative to the Federal Council
Karl Lahr	1899-1974	Agricultural functionary and politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag (FDP, FVP, DP)
Rolf Lahr	1908-1985	Diplomat, State Secretary in the Foreign Office, German Ambassador in Rome
August Laubenheimer	1848-1904	Industrialist, director and board member of Farbwerke Hoechst
Gustav Lorenz	1846-1927	Veterinary, discoverer of the serum against the red rash disease in pigs ( erysipeloid )
Friedrich Mosler	1831-1911	Internist and neuropathologist, professor in Giessen and Greifswald
Karl Muller	1845-1905	Naturalist and writer
Carl-Hermann Müller-Graaf	1903-1963	Diplomat, German ambassador in Vienna and to the OECD
Hellmuth Mueller-Leutert	1892-1973	Painter, graphic artist and sculptor
Karl von Neidhardt	1831-1909	Size Hessian Real Privy Council, envoy and extraordinary representative to the Federal Council for Hesse-Darmstadt, Lippe and Lippe-Detmold
Alexander Pagenstecher	1828-1879	Ophthalmologist, founder of the ophthalmic institute in Wiesbaden
Julius Rinck Baron von Starck	1825-1910	Grh Hessian Minister of State, Minister of the Interior and Justice
Otto Sartorius	1842-1911	Winegrower, MdR
Friedrich Schenck	1827-1900	Politician and cooperative functionary, member of the Reichstag and the Prussian House of Representatives
Reinhard Schober	1906-1998	Forest scientist
Karl Silbereisen	1901-1974	Chemist, ord. Professor at the TU Berlin
Hermann Spamer	1830-1905	Industrial, technical director and board member of Ilseder Hütte
Max Stickel	1875-1952	Physician, professor of gynecology at the University of Berlin
Julius Stinde	1841-1905	writer
Elmar Stocker	1929-1984	Pathologist and cell biologist
Adolph Strecker	1822-1871	Chemist
Ernst von Stubenrauch	1853-1909	District administrator, builder of the Teltow Canal, police chief of Berlin
Heinrich Stüber	1819-1887	Lawyer and politician, member of the Second Chamber of the Hessian Estates
Ernst Süffert	1863-1933	President of the Chamber of Accounts, President of the hess. Administrative Court
Franz Umbscheiden	1825-1874	Revolutionary and journalist
Walter Wagner	1901-1991	Federal Prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice, Deputy Federal Prosecutor General
Ottomar Weber	1860-1928	District director in Altkirch and Rappoltsweiler
Ernst-Rulo Welcker	1904-1971	Surgeon in Cottbus
Hermann Welcker	1822-1897	Physician, professor of anatomy in Halle
Wilfried Werner	* 1930	Agronomist
Bruno Wolf	1878-1971	Provincial Council
Hans Wolff	1863-1942	District director in Oppenheim and Worms
Friedrich Wilhelm Prince of Ysenburg and Büdingen	1850-1933	Landlord in Wächtersbach, member of the First Chamber of the Hessian Estates, member of the Prussian manor house

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Teutonia is quartered and covered with a central shield. It shows the colors of the corps on the upper right in a field divided diagonally to the left, the federal emblem (crossed basket clubs in a wreath of leaves with the abbreviation of the weapon saying GUN = Gladius Ultor Noster! ) On the upper left, a Germanic warrior clad in fur on the lower right, the right raised Sword, in his left hand holding a triangular shield with the compass of the corps and trampling a bundle of lictors with his feet ; lower left in front of a sky-blue background trustee with cloud cuff. The center shield shows the corps' circle in black and white. The warrior in field III is a personification of the corps name ("Ur-Teut"); the pose was borrowed from the design for the Hermannsdenkmal on the Teutberg near Detmold. The trustees in field IV symbolize the corps-fraternal unity that extends beyond death. The design for the coat of arms was probably made by Wilhelm Hamm , who was commissioned to draw it in 1842.

Sources and literature

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• Archives of the Corps Teutonia Giessen
• Kösener archive in the Institute for Higher Education at the University of Würzburg
• Giessen University Archives

literature

• Georg Fritz: Corps Teutonia to Gießen 1839-1935 , Gießen 1939
• Florian Hoffmann: The corp houses of Teutonia Gießen , Gießen 2007
• Ernst Kornemann: History of the Corps Teutonia. Established until 1850 , Gießen 1914

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 47.
2. ↑ Jürgen Setter: Small history of connections in Gießen , Verlag Sande Friesland, 1983, p. 208 ISBN 978-3-9800773-0-9
3. ↑ Florian Hoffmann: "Called to leadership ...?" The Giessener SC between leadership claim and isolationism . In: then and now. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research 49 (2004), pp. 295–309
4. ^ Georg Fritz: Corps Teutonia zu Giessen 1839-1935 , Giessen 1939 p. 138
5. ^ Georg Fritz: Corps Teutonia zu Gießen 1839-1935 , Gießen 1939 p. 130
6. ^ BR Reimann: Avant-garde of fascism - student body and striking connections at the University of Giessen 1918–1937 , Frankfurt / M. 2007 ISBN 978-3-631-55610-8 pp. 162f
7. ^ Walter Hoffmann: About Pennal Corps in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . In: Einst und Jetzt 30 (1985), pp. 129-148

Web links

Commons : Corps Teutonia Gießen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Teutonia Gießen on corpsarchive.de
• Search for Corps Teutonia Gießen in the German Digital Library
• Search for "Corps Teutonia" Gießen in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '50.45 "  N , 8 ° 41' 2.69"  E