Corp dog

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Domestic and hunting dogs are designated as corp dogs or couleur dogs, which student corps kept as pets, especially in the Wilhelmine Empire.

background

Dogs have always been an integral part of rural life. For the many corps students from the manors it was a matter of course to take their dog with them to study. As most engravings and drawings from the 18th and 19th centuries show, dogs were regular "guests" in hospices and pubs . The term corps dog denotes both the dogs that belonged to a corps as a whole and the dogs that belonged to individual corps members. Already in the 18th century there were around 3,000 dogs with 8,000 inhabitants in Göttingen, not least because of the hunting by the student body in the surrounding area. They became a nuisance in the colleges and lectures - often in the professors' apartments - and were banned by the universities, for example in Ingolstadt in 1796 and in Bonn in the winter semester of 1822/23. Thereupon the Seniors' Convent "put in trouble " ( vulgo on strike), the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität gave in after a year and lifted the ban. In 1878 the Oberamtmann asked the rector of the university to renew the now forgotten dog ban:

“It has been a bad habit among students for years to keep dogs of extraordinary size and strength. The student societies in particular try to outdo each other in owning the largest animals. A special kind of sport are dog fights, which are often ruthlessly performed in the midst of the public. The dogs of the various associations are chased against each other, and the dog chasing gains a particularly wild character when the students are hostile to themselves. "

Dogs were not only kept for hunting and for the protection of house and yard, but also served to represent social status . The dogs of Frederick the Great , which had to be "sealed", are known. Otto von Bismarck kept Great Danes as a student , which became famous as Reich Dogs after the establishment of the German Empire . In the social structure of the prosperous German Empire , corp dogs with the color on the collar were used not least for " renomisterey ".

“Before the backdrop of the empire with its homage to aristocratic-military ideals of masculinity, the new dog breeds bred since the mid-19th century - the mastiffs, Newfoundlands, sheepdogs, St. Bernard and Leonberger - were ideal companions for a student body, the guts and courageousness had raised lifelong friendship and loyalty to male student guiding virtues. In this respect, the preference of the corporately organized students was probably also due to the fact that the animals were symbolic of core virtues of corps student. "

- Barbara Krug-Richter

Leonberger in particular had a reputation for magically attracting women on the so-called renown strolls. The stuffed head of Leonberger Marko der Arminia Aschaffenburg († 1877) served as a pub decoration for some time after his death. Cared for by the corps servants and foxes , the dogs in the corps houses also had a very tangible purpose: They were supposed to keep the numerous believers, the so-called treadmills, from visiting. In addition to the large corp dogs, there were many small private dogs. When the corps went out together at the Göttingen Senior Citizens' Convention , the corps dogs decorated in color had their place in the last car with the fox major and the renonces . The corp dogs also caused a lot of confusion : around 1880 a Munich Franconian negotiated a more stringent racket contract because his dog was too intimate with the bitch of an Isar . Keeping dogs and other excessive "representation duties" triggered the Zander reform movement in the KSCV at the end of the 1870s .

Famous corp dogs

The last Königsberg Balts with "Firks" (January 30, 1934)

The giant dog was famous at Vandalia Heidelberg . She regularly drank the beer from the cup under the barrel, so that the pubs did not end any differently for her than for the vandals. In 1882 she still had ten companions in the “dog college” of the Corps.

Franconia Tübingen had seven dogs: Wotan (a huge mastiff), Lotte (an equally large Leonberger ), Sadrach , Mesach and Abednego (three black poodles ), the greyhound Zilligaz and the small Schnauzer Auunz . When Sadrach had to be shot because of mange , a funeral notice from Mesach and Abednego appeared in the Tübingen Chronicle - which did not amuse everyone in Tübingen.

The Munich Franks kept Futschi , a huge mastiff . During a sleigh ride in the English Garden, she shone with a green-white-red “costume”.

The most well-known color dog can be seen as the nameless giant Newfoundland dog, who together with the `semester and beer belly laden stud. viel 'Fritz Degenfeld from Karl May 1892 in the blue-red Methuselah even came to China and whose special ability was to happily carry his master's two-liter stem glass in his otherwise grim mouth. In his satirical novel Die Saxoborussen , Gregor Samarow reported in detail in 1910 about the small (!) Corpdog "Moses". In the 1970s "Kuddel" and "Ewald" lived on the Riesenstein, the house of the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . Kuddel was a mixture of Münsterländer and boxer . Ewald was a Dalmatian mountain goat that the Göttingen Saxons had given the Saxon-Prussians for the 150th foundation festival. Kuddel and Ewald left the giant stone in 1978 with the veteran caretaker couple Czarnecki, because the following caretakers did not want to take over the maintenance.

Some corps dogs were unusually docile and recognized color : members of friendly corps were greeted with wagging tails, others ignored or growled at. A Bonner corp dog was able to distinguish the white strikers from Borussia Bonn and a fraternity . The Jenenser Thuringian dog growled when he saw the fraternity colors black, red and gold. There are even said to have been corp dogs who drank beer boys together on command and barked at the counterpaws at the licked beer bowl (instead of the password Sch .... e).

See also

literature

  • Paul Grabein : Der Couleurhund , in: O old lad glory . Pictures from German student life . Stuttgart 1890, pp. 106-122
  • Geert Seelig : A Heidelberg boy fifty years ago . Heidelberg 1933. Reprinted by WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2004, ISBN 3-933892-58-9
  • Wolfgang Wippermann : The Germans and their dogs , btb Munich 1999
  • Stan Schneider: Student and Dog , annual calendar of the German Society for Higher Education Würzburg 2005
  • Barbara Krug-Richter: Dog and Student - An Academic Mentality Story (18th – 20th Century) . Munster 2007
  • Wolfgang Wippermann: Biche and Blondi, Tyras and Timmy. Representation by dogs , in: Huth, Lutz; Krzeminski, Michael (ed.): Representation in Politics, Media and Society, Würzburg 2007, pp. 183–202
  • Peter Hauser : The Couleur or Corpse Dog . Studentica Helvetica, journal of the Swiss Association for Student History SVSt, 25 (2009), issue 49, pp. 13-20
  • Christina Ludwig: Couleur dogs in Jena in the 19th and 20th centuries , master's thesis, Jena 2011

Web links

Commons : Corpshund  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav Gotthilf Winkel , Arved Baron von Hahn: Corps history of the Bonn Borussia . Bonn 1938, p. 17
  2. ^ A b Friedrich Kluge, Werner Rust: German Student Language, Vol. 1, in: Historia Academica, series of publications by the Student History Association of the CC, Issue 23/1984, p. 173
  3. ↑ a b c Paul Grabein : O old lad glory . Stuttgart Berlin Leipzig 1910, p. 106
  4. ^ Eduard Schrag: History of the Corps Arminia zu Aschaffenburg 1845-1895 . o. O. 1903, p. 115.
  5. ↑ Stadtmüller, p. 198
  6. ^ Karl Goebel: Franconia Munich from 1836 to 1896. A corps history . Munich 1985, p. 215
  7. ↑ Manfred Studier: The corps student as an ideal image of the Wilhelmine era . Schernfeld 1990, p. 75
  8. ^ WH Schneider-Horn: The Tübingen Franconia. History of the Corps Franconia in Tübingen . Tübingen 1969, p. 218
  9. ↑ The Saxons have their house on Göttingen Ewaldstrasse
  10. ↑ Robert von Lucius (Ed.): White-Green-Black-White. Contributions to the history of the Corps Saxo-Borussia in Heidelberg. Volume 2: 1934-2008. Heidelberg 2008, p. 92
  11. ↑ Dieter Brinks: The image of Borussia Bonn between the founding of an empire and the First World War , in: Contributions to the history of the Corps Borussia Bonn . Bonn 2007, p. 48, footnote 45