Corps Vandalia Rostock

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Vandalia's coat of arms

The Corps Vandalia Rostock was the state corps of the Mecklenburgers . As the oldest student association at the University of Rostock , Vandalia has survived two long suspensions . She is a member of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association and has always stood for the scale and color .

Colors and motto

The ribbon of the Rostock vandals is gold-dark blue-blood red-gold, the fox ribbon is dark blue-gold. A dark blue cap in the (large) Biedermeier format with two gold stripes, which border blue and red stripes, is worn. The motto is Concordia firmat vires! . The gun motto is Gladius ultor noster!

Surname

Name-giving title

With the name Vandalia , the founders of the corps referred to the tribe of the Wends , the indigenous people of Mecklenburg. Already in the Middle Ages and also in the early modern period they were equated with the ancient people of the Vandals . Other Mecklenburg corps and the Mecklenburg-Strelitz regional song also bore the name Vandalia. In diplomatic Latin, the turns were even generally called "Vandali" . The Grand Dukes of Mecklenburg therefore used the official name Princeps Vandalorum under their numerous titles . As Duke of Mecklenburg, Wallenstein had coins struck with the same legend.

Vandalia I-II

The prehistory of the Rostock Vandals goes back to the first half of the 18th century and is closely connected with the Constantist Order. In Rostock and probably also in Jena, this student order lasted until after 1800. At the other universities he had already been ousted by the constituted compatriots.

On May 14, 1808 in Rostock studying Göttingen Vandals and Heidelberg Vandals founded the first Vandalia with the colors blood red and gold and the motto: Our flag, so blood red, admonishes us to never shy away from death! It was in the closest cartel relationship with the Göttingen Vandalia. Two thirds of the Göttingen vandals were also Rostock vandals. In addition, Rostock-based Vandalia maintained good contacts with Vandalia Heidelberg and Vandalia Jena, with whom it shared many common members, and with Vandalia Berlin. Vandalia Rostock expanded on November 5, 1812, while retaining the colors, to become the Rostochia country boys' convention and merged with it. This general and identical Rostock fraternity - not to be confused with a fraternity  - had the comment for the students of the University of Rostock, decided in 1809, revised. It was adopted on December 2, 1812. It regulated the internal affairs of the student body and their relations with Philistines and contained detailed provisions on the procedure in honor disputes. Since Rostochia ultimately also included the foreign students, Göttingen vandals tried to establish a Vandalia as a closer circle of the Mecklenburgers (Vandalia II, donated on May 1, 1822) in conjunction with members of the Rostochia who were friendly towards the country. However, the attempt failed on November 16 of the same year: There were efforts within Rostochia to transform itself into a Jena-style fraternity. To counter this, the Vandals rejoined Rostochia as individual members.

Vandalia III

Federal Sign of Rostochia

On October 18, 1824, today's Vandalia was established on the basis of these traditions. Göttingen Vandals and some members of the Rostock Vandalia II, who helped to convert Rostochia into a Corpsland Team Vandalia, were again involved.

All vandal connections at German universities were colored red and gold. These colors go back to the red and gold uniform of the Mecklenburg state estates. This can be explained by the relatively high proportion of nobility among Mecklenburg students and members of the closely interwoven vandal corps. Due to the close still existing relationships with the Göttingen Vandals, the Corps chose the colors red-gold-red a short time later in order to differentiate itself from the Göttingen Vandals (later narrow gold-wide red-narrow gold with red percussion). In Rostock, the blue of the Order of Constantists was added in 1831 . Fritz Reuter alludes to this connection between the Order and the Landsmannschaft (Corps) . The fraternity member Reuter was originally a member of the Vandalia Rostock, but was excluded "because of fraternity activities". In his Gisbert von Vincke dedicated rice to Constantinople Opel , he writes: "Wi lös'ten de grote sociale Ask 'un stift'ten ne general thinner us, de de ßackermentschen Constantisten un Vandals shameful Wis' de meanness deden näumen."

The Rostochia Boys' Convention was banned under pressure from the Mainz Central Investigation Commission . The rector Gustav Friedrich Wiggers , however, needed a corporation as a "student representative" that upheld the Comment as a student order. The wood comment threatened . In order to be able to report to the sovereign that the university was “politically correct”, ie free of revolutionary fraternities, only a politically neutral country team came into question. As a student, Wiggers had been Senior of the Order of Constantists at Georg August University . With this step he hoped to secure the continued existence of the Rostock Constantists. So that the newly acquired Vandalia could be the legal successor and thus the legitimate bearer of the comment, it was of the utmost importance to preserve the identity of the Rostochia with the Vandalia; because only in this way could the corps receive the competences established in the comment. An otherwise necessary resolution by the Rostock student body on a generally binding comment would not have been feasible due to the tense student political situation and the watchful eyes of the Central Investigation Commission. In accordance with the statutes, the boys' convention decided to rename it Corps Vandalia.

Vandalia III included many members of the Mecklenburg noble families Bassewitz , Blücher , Bülow , Laffert , Langermann and Erlencamp , Levetzow and Maltzan . Almost all of the vandals had been active in another corps, mostly with Vandalia Göttingen, Guestphalia Heidelberg , Vandalia Heidelberg or Borussia Bonn . Because of a new fraternity movement that began in the summer of 1834, there were investigations in 1836 and corporations were banned. As a result, Vandalia III had to suspend again in 1836 . Since a reconstitution of the Vandalia seemed too dangerous, some Vandals founded the Corps Hanseatia in January 1837 and supported the foundation of a Corps Obotritia in May 1840. A little later in May 1842 Vandalia reconstituted itself with the help of the other two corps. Since there were no suitable offspring at the declining university, Vandalia III had to suspend them after 1845.

Reconstitution 1907

Then as now - SC zu Rostock

On May 1, 1907, the Corps Vandalia was reconstituted by six vandals still alive, the honorary members Bassewitz and Röse as well as Harder, Dankert, Schmidt and Boldt. According to today's statutes, a CC may not be suspended for longer than 50 years if it is to be resurrected using the old foundation date and the old insignia (colors, circles, coats of arms, motto). However, due to personal continuity and the procedure at that time, the foundation date, coat of arms, colors and circles could be retained. Vandalia is undisputedly the oldest student union in Rostock today . In addition, it is the only connection with the Heidelberg Corps Vandalo-Guestphalia that is in the tradition of the old vandal connections around 1800.

The old rulers of the Rostocker Corps Borussia (1882-1886) and Hansea (1882-1883) as well as the Corps Baltia Greifswald (1878-1889) went up in Vandalia. From then on, Vandalia was shaped by mostly middle-class country children and firmly anchored in the social life of the Hanseatic city. In 1922 it was the presiding suburban corps and, along with Fritz Weber, was the chairman of the oKC. Under pressure from the National Socialists, active operations were stopped in October 1935 and the Corps officially dissolved, internally the dissolution was converted into a suspension in order not to rule out a later reconstitution. The vandals refused to allow themselves to be brought into line and to convert their corps into a comradeship , as this contradicted the essential corps principles.

Goettingen exile

The ban on student connections in the GDR initially prevented active operations in Rostock from resuming after the Second World War . The tradition of the Vandalia was therefore continued from 1954 by the Göttingen Cartel Corps Hildeso-Guestphalia . In order to interrupt the suspension period according to § 8 of the Kosen statutes, 14 old vandals volunteered for the game of the inactive von Briskorn and the subsequent FCC on June 10, 1961. In order to keep the option of a return to Rostock open in due course, the old gentlemen's association of Rostock Vandals retained its independence and the right to award corps students the ribbon or the corps ribbon.

Reconstitution in Rostock

Reconstitution (2009)

Since the end of 2008 Vandalia's reconstitution has been prepared in Rostock. It took place on March 1, 2009 and was reported to the KSCV suburb on March 12, 2009. The first games were played on March 27, 2009 with the Corps Concordia Rigensis and the Hamburg Corps Albertina in the North German Waffenring . With the Corps Visigothia, Vandalia forms the Senior Citizens' Convention in Rostock, just like a hundred years ago .

Corp houses

In 1928, instead of the previous home at St.-Georg-Straße 75, which was unsuitable for social representation, the Corps acquired the house at St.-Georg-Straße 103 on St.-Georg-Platz, which was built in 1913. The corp house was sold in 1937. After the reconstitution, the CC first moved into a demolished building near Rostock main station . Since the winter semester 2009/10, the house at Rostock's city harbor (above a medieval vaulted cellar) has been offering accommodation to vandals. The fourth Rostock vandal house bears the name of John Brinckman and is located next to the house where the local poet was born.

  • Prinz-Friedrich-Karlstrasse 4

  • Carrier road

Conditions

With the Corps Hildeso-Guestphalia, Saxonia Jena (Kartell 2013), Borussia Tübingen , Saxonia Bonn and Marcomannia-Breslau , Vandalia forms the red circle in the KSCV. As the first corps, Vandalia entered into an introductory relationship with Selonia in Riga in 2016 .

Members

Benefactor

Important vandals for Mecklenburg

Others

See also

literature

  • Adolph Hofmeister : Rostock student life from the 15th to the 19th century . Archiv für Kulturgeschichte 4 (1906), pp. 1–50, 171–196, 310–348.
  • Directory of members of the Corps Vandalia in Rostock 1808–1909 . Rostock 1909. WorldCat
  • Berthold Venzmer: Centenary of Vandalia Rostock . Deutsche Corpszeitung, Volume 41, No. 8, 1924.
  • Franz Stadtmüller : The development of the Landsmannschaften (Corps) in Rostock at the beginning of the 19th century (Vandalia I, Saxonia I, Rostochia) . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 9 (1964), pp. 52–82.
  • Erich Bauer : Critical to the existence of the Vandalia and Saxonia to Rostock from 1808-1812 . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 14 (1969), pp. 149-159.
  • Gunther Tilse (ed.): History of the Corps Vandalia in Rostock . Mettcker, Jever 1975. WorldCat
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps. Their representation in individual chronicles . WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2007, ISBN 978-3-933892-24-9 , p. 183 f.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Unity makes you strong!"
  2. ↑ "The sword is our avenger!"
  3. ^ Albert Krantz : Wandalia . Cologne 1519
  4. ↑ Ernst Hans Eberhard : Studies on color symbolism. IV. Vandalia - name and colors . Academische Monatshefte 21 (1904/05), pp. 373-378
  5. ↑ Erich Bauer , FA Pietzsch: Critical to the early history of the Göttingen and Heidelberg Vandalia. Once and Now 10 (1965), p. 108
  6. ^ Walter Richter: The Order of Constantists in the course of the zeitgeist . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 24 (1979), pp. 116-165, here pp. 162 f.
  7. ^ Walter Richter: The Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft in the 18th century . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 20 (1975), pp. 7-32
  8. ↑ a b c Walter Richter: The vandal connection to Rostock 1750-1824 . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 21 (1976), pp. 15-55
  9. ↑ Franz Stadtmüller: The Göttingen Vandalia and their subsidiary connections as well as some remarks on the origin of the vandal colors . In: Once and Now (1959) . tape 4 (1959) , pp. 111 .
  10. ↑ Printed in: Erich Bauer: 14 of the oldest SC-Komments before 1820 . Once and Now, special issue 1967, p. 167 ff.
  11. ↑ The commission referred to the investigation of the law firm Carl Friedrich von Both .
  12. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 119 , 195, 211, 317, 348, 412 and 413
  13. ^ Franz Meyer: The new vandal house in Rostock . Deutsche Corpszeitung 45 (1928/29), p. 248 f.
  14. ↑ Germany's oldest corps student (VfcG)