German Christian Student Association

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The German Christian Student Association (DCSV) was a Christian student organization that existed from 1895 until it was banned in 1938.

history

In 1895 the Christian Student Union (CSV) was founded in Großalmerode under the influence of the American John R. Mott (1865–1955) and under the direction of Count Eduard Pückler (1853–1924). In the same year the Christian Student World Federation was founded in Sweden. From there, the DCSV was reorganized two years later with the Dinglinger Statute . Until 1912 the DCSV was headed by the founder Eduard Graf Pückler.

When it was founded in 1897, the DCSV consisted of eleven university groups with around 300 members.

In the 1910s, the honorary chairman of the DCSV, the short-term Chancellor and Prussian Prime Minister Georg Michaelis , built a training center for students at his summer residence in Bad Saarow in Brandenburg . The temporary buildings consisted of a wooden meeting house for 800 listeners and a former prisoner-of-war barracks. In 1921 Michaelis had the Einkehrhaus Hospiz zur Furche built and donated it to the student association for recreation and spiritual edification . To ensure the supply, the DCSV had, probably around 1918, acquired the Marienhöhe Vorwerk of the Saarow estate, where food production started in 1920. A third of the wasteland was below the cultivation point and the DCSV was unable to operate the production economically. The Marienhöhe was therefore sold to Erhard Bartsch in 1927 as an experimental farm for testing biodynamic agriculture .

In 1938 the DCSV was banned by the National Socialists as a free student organization with full-time travel secretaries . As a result, its members moved into the area of ​​responsibility of the Evangelical Church, which resulted in the Evangelical Student Congregations (ESG) with full-time student pastors after the war .

Many DCSV alumni made contact with the student mission in Germany after the war . They viewed the newly formed SMD groups as the actual spiritual continuation of their movement. This was also expressed by the theology professor Karl Heim (1874–1958) in a greeting to the SMD in 1953. He himself was one of the first travel secretaries for the DCSV at the beginning of the 20th century. Institutionally, however, the establishment of the SMD was not directly related to the DCSV.

Known employees

See also

literature

  • Haejung Hong: The German Christian Student Association (DCSV) 1897-1938: a contribution to the history of the Protestant educated middle class , Tectum Verlag, 2001, ISBN 978-3-82888-229-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ During the 6th Conference of Christian Biblical Meetings from August 8th to 11th, 1895. Cf. Heinz-Werner Kubitza: History of the Evangelical Student Community Marburg (Marburg Scientific Contributions, Volume 1), Tectum Verlag, Marburg 1992, ISBN 9783929019001 , p. 24.
  2. ↑ Haejung Hong: The German Student Christian Federation (DCSV) 1897-1938. A contribution to the history of the Protestant educated middle class, Tectum Verlag, Marburg 2001, ISBN 978-3-82888-229-4 , pp. 33f.
  3. ↑ Hong, p. 77.
  4. ↑ Evangelical student community in the Federal Republic of Germany: Einkehrhaus "Hospiz zur Furche". ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundes-esg.de
  5. ↑ Joachim Schölzel (edit.): Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg , part IX: Beeskow - Storkow (publications of the Potsdam State Archives , volume 25), Verlag Klaus-D. Becker, Potsdam 2011, ISBN 978-3-941919-86-0 , p. 224 (reprint of the edition: Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachhaben, Weimar 1989, ISBN 3-7400-0104-6 ).
  6. ↑ Die Ortschronisten Amt Scharmützelsee: Chronicle of the community Bad Saarow am Scharmützelsee (draft), Fürstenwalde / Spree, Bad Saarow, as of December 8, 2013, chapter The area and the country house colony (1905 to 1922) , pp. 14-18. ( Memento of April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF).
  7. ^ Herbert H. Koepf: Erhard Bartsch. Research Center for Culture Impulse, Biographies Documentation.
  8. ↑ G. Michaelis: For state and people. A life story , Furche, Berlin 1922, p. 411.