Corps Thuringia Heidelberg

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Corps Thuringia

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Basic data
University location: Heidelberg
University / s: Heidelberg University
Founding: June 17, 1908
Foundation date: October 9, 1976
Corporation association : Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention since 1995, German singers until 1976
Color status : colored
Colours:
Fox colors:
Cap: crimson flat caps
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : mandatory
Motto: United, fearless and faithful!
Website: corps-thuringia.de

The Corps Thuringia Heidelberg is a corps ( student union ) in Heidelberg that belongs to the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention (WSC). The corps is obligatory and colored . It brings together students and former students of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the other Heidelberg universities. The corps members are called "Heidelberg Thuringians". The corps is based in the Corpshaus in Hauptstrasse 244 on the edge of Heidelberg's old town , which has been used as a corporation house since 1931.

Involvement

Within the WSC, the Corps Thuringia is assigned to the Darmstädter SC , together with the Corps Rheno-Nicaria Mannheim , the Corps Hermunduria Leipzig in Mannheim and the Corps Franconia-Berlin in Kaiserslautern. It mainly covers its scales in the Heidelberg Interest Group (HIG) , a weapon ring of Heidelberg and Mannheim student associations. It maintains a friendship relationship with the Corps Alemannia Karlsruhe .

Color

The boy band is black-crimson-white, the fox band crimson-white, each with silver percussion . The main color is crimson flat caps .

history

The Corps Thuringia has two roots in its history:

  1. Tradition of the Thuringia singers (colors, circles, date of foundation)
  2. Tradition of the Corps Rheno-Nicaria Mannheim-Heidelberg (statutes, umbrella organization, structure)

History of the Thuringia singers

In SS 1908, the two singers Kurt Gerlach and Johannes Uderstadt (both Wittelsbach Munich singers), who were studying in Munich at the time, decided to found a colored singers in Heidelberg. In Heidelberg they meet with Dr. Henry Bußmann (Guilelmia Greifswald singers) who have the same goal. Other students join this group, and a delegation formed from them goes to the Weimar Chargierten-Convent, the central organ of the German singers . On June 9, 1908, the decision was made at the Weimar CC to found an association corporation in Heidelberg:

Name: "Thuringia" - reference to Weimar, the meeting place of the association
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Motto : "German sword and German song" Colors: black-crimson-red-white with crimson-red cloth caps

Originally the imperial colors black-white-red should be created, but this failed because of the objection of the fraternity Allemannia . On June 17, 1908, the official establishment took place in the restaurant "Prinz Friedrich". As soon as the foundation was founded, the meeting marks were introduced and in the SS 1909 the first pounding relationship was concluded with ATV Hasso-Rhenania Heidelberg and the Ascania Darmstadt singers. In the SS 1912, the Thuringian newspaper, which still exists today, is founded as a newsletter. In the turmoil of the First World War , 11 out of 55 Thuringians lost their lives. The Thüringer-Zeitung, published in 49 issues, proves to be an essential link.

After the end of the First World War, AH Dr. Otto Schmidt to win 24 new foxes for Thuringia between March and May 1919 and to revive the 10 year old association. Between 1924 and 1933 the federal government experienced a heyday, characterized by a high number of active members and strong commitment on the Paukboden and in university politics. The singing community is also flourishing in the musical field, winter and summer concerts often take place in the sold-out music hall of the new Kollegienhaus and receive excellent reviews in the local press. In 1933 the 25th foundation festival was still celebrated euphorically, but the active federation was dissolved in 1935 in the course of the Gleichschaltung and transferred to the "Friedrich Friesen" comradeship together with Hubertia-Rhenonicaria, the Saxo-Frisia Mannheim and Ghibellinia members .

After the Second World War , 28 of 177 Thuringians died and 11 are missing, many live in the GDR and cannot visit Heidelberg. In 1951, after the merger negotiations with the gymnastics club Ghibellinia failed, with the help of 39 displaced members of the Barden Prague Thuringia singers, a new foundation was established. After the reintroduction of the initially optional scale length, the Prague bards resigned, but the "Akad. Connection Cheruskia ”. This already resigned in the winter semester 1954/55 due to the introduction of compulsory cleaning and compulsory censorship. After one floor on the Fischmarkt had been used as a home for many years, a house at Wilhelmstrasse 5 was acquired in January 1965, but this turned out to be a failure because the neighbors showed no understanding for the academic youth and the house was too decentralized. In 1970 the federal government suspended and the house was sold. Further attempts to start active operation again fail.

Heidelberg Aspects of the History of the Corps Rheno-Nicaria

In 1907 the commercial college was founded in Mannheim, where on January 22, 1909 a gymnastics club Rheno-Nicaria was founded, which in 1922 was converted into a corps and in 1924 joined the Rudolstadt Senior Citizens' Convention . When the Mannheim Commercial College was dissolved in 1933, Rheno-Nicaria moved to Heidelberg, where it merged with the Westmark fraternity (fr. Alemannia Mannheim) and the Hubertia Gießen fraternity to form the Hubertia-Rhenonicaria fraternity. The house at Hauptstrasse 244 was acquired by the suspended Jewish association Bavaria . In 1936 this fraternity dissolved and formed the "Friedrich Friesen" comradeship with Thuringia and the gymnastics club Ghibellinia (see above).

On May 5, 1948, the old rulers reconstituted and took over the "Gutenberg" association as an active member of the Corps Rheno-Nicaria Mannheim. Former sons of the Corps Silvania Gießen, which has now merged with Rheno-Nicaria, also opened an active business in Heidelberg on Hauptstrasse 244, which was completely taken over by Rheno-Nicaria Heidelberg, which led to a dual operation in Mannheim and Heidelberg. Due to various disputes, Rheno-Nicaria completely relocated the active business to Mannheim in 1975.

Corps Thuringia Heidelberg

Current house of the Corps Thuringia as a comradeship house in 1938

As early as 1974, the Heidelberg active members of the Rheno-Nicaria had made contact with the AHV of various suspended corps, because they wanted to stay in Heidelberg and, if necessary, continue on their own. Negotiations with the suspended Corps Ostfalia Hannover and Franconia Berlin failed because the WSC did not want to settle a conflict with the KSCV , to which the SC of the old Heidelberg Corps belongs, and therefore did not want to establish a new Weinheim Corps. However, a chance conversation between some of the Rheno-Nicars at the Thuringia Foundation Festival soon led to concrete negotiations. The following points were manifested (simplified and summarized):

  1. The Corps Rheno-Nicaria Heidelberg dissolves, the active and inactive become active in the newly established Corps Thuringia.
  2. The Corps Thuringia takes over the colors, tradition and old rule of the previous Thuringia singers, this dissolves.
  3. Any member of the Rheno-Nicaria who studied in Heidelberg can join the Corps Thuringia with an informal application.
  4. The previous Heidelberg house of the Rheno-Nicaria is to be acquired, renovated and made available to the Corps Thuringia as quickly as possible.

The Corps Thuringia Heidelberg was founded on October 9, 1976 at a festive publication festival, although the connection to an umbrella organization was initially excluded, since the merging of a singing and a corps student tradition with originally different umbrella organizations was a novelty. A little later, the house at Hauptstrasse 244 was taken over by the Rhein-Neckarländer and extensively renovated. After a long internal debate, on October 16, 1993, Aydin Karaduman, the then local spokesman for the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention, was presented with the application for admission to the WSC. At the 1995 Weinheim Conference, Thuringia, including the still living AH of the original singers, was accepted as a full member of the WSC after the necessary renoncation games were fought at Darmstädter SC. Just one week later, on the occasion of the 87th Foundation Festival, an introductory relationship was concluded with the Corps Alemannia Karlsruhe , with which there had been contacts for a long time , which was expanded to a friendship relationship on December 11, 1999 .

Corp house

The Corps Thuringia Heidelberg owns and uses the listed building at Hauptstrasse 244 as a corp house. It was built in 1835, and according to the land register, the first owner was the wine owner Johann Georg Weber. Numerous other owners take turns, such as a lawyer, a pharmacist and a master painter. In 1931 the AHV of the Jewish connection Bavaria acquired it and converted it into a corporation house with the help of its cartel brother, the Jewish architect Richard Stich (AH of the Viadrina Darmstadt). As far as we know today, it is the only surviving house of a Jewish student association which has hardly been changed structurally and is still used as a corporation house.

In 1933 it was acquired by the Alemannia fraternity, which had moved from Mannheim under the name "Westmark" and shortly thereafter merged with the Corps Hubertia Gießen and Rheno-Nicaria Mannheim, from Bavaria, which was banned in the SS 1933. The owner is now the "House Association of the Burschenschaft Hubertia-Rhenonicaria Heidelberg". After the corporations were banned in 1936, the latter handed it over to the Nazi comradeship "Friedrich Friesen" for use, which ran it as a so-called comradeship house until at least 1944 and presented it to the public at the time in the newsreel.

After the end of the Second World War, the house was initially used by the Ghibellinia gymnastics club until it returned to the sole ownership of the Rheno-Nicaria. They finally sold it in 1978 to the old owners of Thuringia, who completely renovated it for approx. 300,000 DM and left it to the active corps for use to this day. The house is built in the late baroque style and consists of a basement and two upper floors separated by sandstone bands. The upper and attic floors have been expanded and are used as student dormitories. The garden extends to the so-called Carmelite grove on the Schloßberg and shows as the center a stone sundial from 1559, which was found during renovation work in 1980. She receives special appreciation from the active .

particularities

General

As one of the few student associations, the Corps Thuringia occasionally opens up tours for interested tourists to give them an insight into classic student life. Registered groups of interested foreigners currently have the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of a student union away from the old Heidelberg romanticism on three dates in the semester . Members of the corps are also increasingly taking part in other public relations activities such as radio appearances.

Student historical classification

Thuringia Heidelberg is the only corps that traces its tradition back to a singing body.
The Thuringia singers were already distinguished by the fact that they were the last dutiful singers in Germany. Other dutiful singers were associated with her in the "Esslinger Kartell" founded in 1956, namely Rhenania Frankfurt, Baltia Kiel and Saxo-Thuringia Würzburg. This was named after a singers' day in Esslingen , on which a singers who rejected the Mensur were admitted as rehearsing members of the DS. The "Esslinger Kartell" was founded to stop this tendency and fell asleep at the end of the 1960s. Even before the war, Thuringia was one of the so-called “progressive singers” among the German singers. H. the scale in favor of counting. It was founded in an expansion phase of the German singers, which can be classified from the turn of the 20th century to the beginning of the First World War. Many of the newly founded singers' societies, which were young at the time and still had few members, made a name for themselves by emphasizing the scale and corporate life at their university locations, as they could not match the musical achievements of the old and very member-strong singers in Central Germany such as Fridericiana Halle , Paulus Jena or St. Pauli Leipzig . For example, Thuringia, as the spokeswoman for the singers' associations that approved the mensur, could only be prevented from making a motion that would have led to the breakup of the German singers with great difficulty.

Known members

  • Rudolf Desch , composer, Bundeschormeister (resigned later)
  • Richard Herbst , City Director in Erfurt, pioneer of city marketing
  • Georg Hörmann, Prof. Dr., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Kiel and Berlin
  • Robert Jelke, Prof. Dr., theologian, professor for systematic theology in Rostock and Heidelberg, 1933–1935 dean of theol. Faculty of Heidelberg University
  • Walther Kühn , District Administrator in West Prussia, co-founder of the FDP , Member of the Bundestag
  • Ernst Lewek , pastor, victim of Nazi persecution, member of the People's Chamber of the GDR
  • Arthur Mämel , Dr. phil., cultural advisor in Wanne-Eickel, chief dramaturge at the Dortmund city theaters
  • Frank Sürmann , Lawyer, Lecturer, 2009–2013 Member of the German State Parliament (Hessen)
  • Friedemann Quaß , Prof. Dr., Academic Councilor and Professor of History in Göttingen
  • Adalbert Wolpert , Mayor of Lohr am Main and Bad Kissingen

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. ISBN 978-3-920431-63-5 . Pp. 212-217.
  • Dr. Gerhard Mahlbeck: Thuringian History 1908–1983. The history of the Corps Thuringia zu Heidelberg . Düsseldorf 1985.
  • Harald Lönnecker : The German Singers' Association (Weim. CC) and their predecessor associations. Former and current singers in the German Singers Association (Weim. CC) . Wilhelmshaven 1995.
  • Klaus Eichhorn, Bernhard Klingmann: Festschrift on the occasion of the 100th Foundation Day (January 22, 1909 - January 22, 2009); 100 years of Corps Rheno-Nicaria . Mannheim 2009.
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : The German-speaking corporation associations . WJK, Hilden 2014. ISBN 3-933892-28-7 . P. 61, p. 189, p. 197.
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps . WJK, Hilden 2007. ISBN 3-933892-24-4 . P. 296.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Invitation to the inauguration in: KC-Blätter, monthly of the corporations united in the Kartell-Convent, ed. v. Kartell-Convent of the Associations of German Students of Jewish Faith, Issue 8–9, August 1931.
  2. ↑ Michael Doeberl (Ed.): Das akademische Deutschland , Vol. 2: The German universities and their academic citizens , Berlin 1931, p. 853.
  3. ↑ Latest news from Heidelberg on July 9, 1928: Concert success for the Heidelberg "Thuringia" .
  4. ^ Badische Latest News (BNN) June 28, 1993, No. 145, p. 4: Turk is Corps chief .
  5. ^ Association news of Bavaria in: KC-Blätter, monthly of the corporations united in the Kartell-Convent, ed. v. Kartell-Convent of the Associations of German Students of Jewish Faith, Issue 11, November 1931.
  6. ↑ Deutsche Wochenschau 718 - June 7, 1944, “Beginning of the summer semester at the University of Heidelberg” , Youtube, accessed on June 22, 2017.
  7. ↑ Von Paukböden und Mensuren , Mannheimer Morgen from May 14, 2012, accessed on May 20, 2017.
  8. ↑ Why student associations are popular again , SWR 2 Forum from February 1, 2011.
  9. ↑ Harald Lönnecker : "... to the limit of self-destruction". The scale of academic singers between cultural trademarks, social criteria and national symbols (1918–1926) , in: Einst und Jetzt. Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 50 (2005), ISSN  0420-8870 , pp. 281-340.
  10. ^ Entry by Georg Hörmann in the Kiel List of Scholars , accessed on May 1, 2017.
  11. ^ Entry by Robert Jelke in the Catalogus Professorum Rostochiensium , accessed on May 1, 2017.