Corps Vandalia Heidelberg

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The Corps Vandalia Heidelberg was a student union at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Her senior Friedrich von Klinggräff gave the impetus to found the Kösener SC-Verband , the first corporate association , in 1848 . The corps stood for satisfaction . As with all Mecklenburg Corps, red and gold were in the colors . The hats were red.

Surname

The name Vandalia is derived from the name of the same name for Mecklenburg, which goes back to the Rostock theologian Albert Krantz , who called his book about Mecklenburg and the Wends Wandalia . In diplomatic Latin, the Wends were generally called Vandali . The Grand Dukes of Mecklenburg carried the official name Princeps Vandalorum under their titles . As Duke of Mecklenburg, Wallenstein had coins struck with the same legend.

history

Vandals on the scale ( Georg Mühlberg , around 1900)

Vandalia was founded on March 8, 1842. In the age order of the Heidelberger SC, it took fourth place after Suevia, Guestphalia and Saxo-Borussia. Most of the members came from the Mecklenburg nobility and the Lübeck and Hamburg upper classes. Vandals founded the Academic Club in Hamburg .

In 1934 the Corps refused to implement the Aryan paragraph of the General German Arms Ring . Therefore, Vandalia was expelled from the KSCV in May 1934. All members of the German student body were forbidden to work at Vandalia. Protests and an objection by Vandalia were rejected. The Heidelberg student body refused to help and recommended the suspension. The Heidelberg Senior Citizens' Convention under Hanns Martin Schleyer considered “such reactionary behavior in no way [to be] acceptable” . Only the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg tried (in vain) to get the SC to give in. Vandalia refused the two Jewish Corps brothers the desired exit. The Corps suspended on September 29, 1935.

Afterlife

After the Second World War , Vandalia founded a table company with the neighboring Guestphalia , from which the Corps Vandalo-Guestphalia emerged in 1950, which maintains the tradition of the two patronage corps. In the "Celler Resolution" of March 10, 1951, the Vandalia old gentlemen's association acknowledged the scale as an indispensable part of the corp tradition. He supported the steps taken by the weapons students to tolerate the Mensur, but in agreement with the old gentlemen's associations of the other Heidelberg Corps, left the active ones to decide in which forms they wanted to organize their activity. The Corps Vandalo-Guestphalia finally resigned from the Heidelberger SC and thus also from the KSCV in 1972 because of the abolition of the scale length. Today it exists as an association-free corps and uses the Vandalia house as a corps house.

Corp house

Corpshaus, Neue Schloßstr. 2 (1910)

After changing locations, Vandalia used Café Bolley as a pub from 1862 until moving into his own house. In 1882 the first, western part of the corps house was handed over to the corps on the occasion of the 40th foundation festival.

The listed corp house is characterized by neo-Gothic, as it is u. a. can be seen on the roof structure of the west tower, which is adorned at three corners by pointed corner turrets. Vandalia commissioned the Cologne diocesan master builder Heinrich Wiethase , a well-known admirer of Gothic architecture at the time. This created the construction plans. The Vandal House, which was occupied in 1882, is the oldest newly constructed building in Germany designed as a corporation house. The tower-like northern section followed in 1891/92. The construction was carried out by Johann Remler.

The house into which Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano moved in May 1808 is said to have stood on this property . After the expropriation in 1935, the house could be taken over again after extensive renovations and is now used by the successor corps Vandalo-Guestphalia.

Relative Corps

Vandalia was part of the "golden circle" - which consisted only of her. She was in the cartel with the Corps Bremensia Göttingen and was friends with the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg . The cartel with Bremensia is continued to this day by the successor corps Vandalo-Guestphalia.

Vandals

Rudolf Grisebach

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. 233-236 and pp. 294-296.
  • Michael Doeberl , Otto Scheel , Wilhelm Schlink , Hans Sperl , Eduard Spranger , Hans Bitter and Paul Frank (eds.): Das akademische Deutschland , Vol. 2: The German universities and their academic citizens , Berlin 1931, p. 850.
  • Albert von Gröning: From the youth of the Corps Vandalia 1842-49, due to oral. u. Written notices age gentlemen zsgest. Heidelberg 1892 (also Volume 1 "On the History of the Corps Vandalia")
  • Contribution to the history of the Corps Vandalia in Heidelberg: SS 1877 - SS 1886 . Heidelberg 1922 (also vol. 3 on the history of the Corps Vandalia )

Web links

Commons : Corps Vandalia Heidelberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Bauer , FA Pietzsch: Critical to the early history of the Göttingen and Heidelberg Vandalia. Once and Now 10 (1965), p. 108
  2. ^ Eckhard Oberdörfer: Der Heidelberger Karzer , Cologne 2005, p. 159.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Herrlein : On the "Aryan question" in student associations. The academic corporations and the process of exclusion of the Jews before and during the time of National Socialism as well as the processing of this process after 1945 . Baden-Baden 2015, pp. 206f.
  4. ^ Like the Corps Suevia Munich , Rhenania Strasbourg , Borussia Halle and Suevia Tübingen
  5. ↑ Schleyer and the Heidelberger Corps
  6. ^ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 66.
  7. ↑ Dörflinger, Gabriele: Student Associations in Heidelberg - a city tour , Heidelberg University Library, 2017. (Download as PDF)
  8. ^ Günther Debon: The Heidelberg year of Joseph von Eichendorff . Heidelberg 1992, p. 207