German engineering fraternity

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The German Engineering Burschenschaft (DIB) (later: Deutsche Hochschul-Burschenschaft (DHB)) was a corporation association for student fraternities  at German engineering schools (later universities of applied sciences ), which existed from 1964 to 1999 , but was also open to fraternities at colleges and universities .

founding

The German Engineer Burschenschaft (DIB) was founded on May 1, 1964 in Coburg by like-minded fraternities with reference to the original fraternity and with the support of the German fraternity . The proclamation was made in front of the historic riding hall at the Marstall in Coburg .

Founding fraternities were:

  • Old Brno fraternity Suevia zu Coburg and Regensburg
  • Free fraternity Cimbria location
  • Friedberger Burschenschaft Alemannia
  • Germania Regensburg fraternity
  • Fraternity of Ascania Friedberg

The colors of the German Engineer Fraternity were black, red, and gold ; Band: black wine red gold with double-sided advance . The motto was: Honor Freedom - Fatherland .

In 1959, fraternities at the higher technical institutes in Austria, together with befriended fraternities at the engineering schools of the Federal Republic of Germany, decided to set up a fraternity umbrella organization for Austria and Germany with the name "Salzburg Delegate Convent of German Engineering Fraternities". With regard to the definition of the law for the protection of the engineering title, however, the planned naming was ultimately abandoned and the Salzburg Delegate Convent (SDC) was founded by the Austrian fraternities and its sphere of activity was limited to Austria. Some of the participating German fraternities got involved in founding an independent association for fraternities at engineering schools in Germany. From this initiative, the German Engineering Fraternity was created in 1964.

In the call for the establishment of the DIB it says (excerpt): "... It is regrettable to note that until today there has been no specific fraternity association at the engineering schools ... So it is about time that the Engineering schools the DIB is created and fraternity work unfolds here ... "

In 1966 the member associations had 110 student members and 603 old men .

Development, renaming and dissolution

In 1967, the German Engineers' Burschenschaft concluded a work and friendship agreement with the Salzburg Delegate Convent and in 1972 with the German Burschenschaft (DB). In 1977 the German Burschenschaft decided to grant the fraternities of the German Engineer Burschenschaft a seat and speaking right at the Burschentage of the German Burschenschaft.

The German Engineer Burschenschaft / German University Burschenschaft was a member of the Convent of German Academic Associations (CDA) and the Convent of German Corporations Associations (CDK) and participant in various cross-association CDA / CDK events. The old men were united in the Federation of Old Engineers Fraternity (BAIB). The association published in the Burschenschaftliche Blätter .

At the end of the 1980s, ten fraternities at eight university locations in the Federal Republic of Germany with a total of around 900 members (active students and old men) belonged to the German Engineer Burschenschaft.

At the beginning of the 1970s the engineering schools in the Federal Republic of Germany were changed to technical colleges. Since it was no longer just engineering students who belonged to the member fraternities , after a long, controversial discussion, it was decided on May 29, 1988 at the Boys' Day in Landau (Palatinate) to rename the association to Deutsche Hochschul-Burschenschaft (DHB). The official name change was originally supposed to take place in 1989 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the association at the Burschentag in Coburg. Due to a renewed internal debate, the name change did not finally come into effect until the Boys' Day in Lemgo in 1990 .

The ongoing internal discussion was not just about the purely formal renaming of the association. On the contrary, there were different views regarding the long-term orientation established by the university reforms. While some of the member federations switched to the German Burschenschaft or were aiming to join the German Burschenschaft in the medium term, there were also suggestions and ideas to expand the German University Burschenschaft as a parallel fraternity association across universities of applied sciences.

With a Burschentag resolution in 1998, the German Burschenschaft opened up to students and fraternities at universities of applied sciences and the remaining member associations of the German University Burschenschaft switched to the German Burschenschaft in 1999. The German University Burschenschaft then dissolved itself on May 29, 1999 at the Burschentag in Eisenach .

Former member associations of DIB / DHB

Surname Seat Colours accession exit Hints
Fraternity Normannia-Nibelungen Bielefeld
green-white-gold 		1976 1988
Old Brno fraternity, Suevia Coburg
black red Gold 		1964 1999
Fraternity Gothia Dusseldorf
dark blue-white-red 		1978 Postponed in 1983, reactivated in 2011, sister connection of the B! Teutonia Düsseldorf
Teutonia fraternity Dusseldorf
black-white-gold 		1974 1983 adjourned, branch of the fraternity of Teutonia Innsbruck
Teuto-Borussia fraternity Frankfurt a. M.
green-gold-light red 		1965 adjourned
Alemannia fraternity Friedberg
green-white-purple 		1964 1999
Ascania fraternity Friedberg
black-white-green 		1964 1999
Bayuvaria fraternity Constancy
black-silver-light blue 		1964 1967
Free fraternity of Cimbria location
black-gold-light blue 		1964 1999 later Lemgo
Electra Teplitz fraternity Munich
gold-white-blue 		1997 1999
Fraternity Danubia Nuremberg
green-silver-red 		1965 1970
Fraternity of Pythagoras Nuremberg
red-gold-blue 		1968 1968
Arkadia-Mittweida fraternity Osnabrück
gold-blue-black 		1982 1992
Germania fraternity regensburg
black red Gold 		1964 1975
Old Brno fraternity, Suevia regensburg
black red Gold 		1964 1999
Fraternity Thuringia Bad Frankenhausen Wins
green-gold-red 		1987 1999

nb = not known

Current status and association membership of the former DIB / DHB fraternities, see list of fraternities .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Georg Balder : The German fraternities. Their representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, p. 22.
  2. ^ Ernst-Günter Glienke: Civis Academicus . Handbook of the German, Austrian and Swiss corporations and student associations at universities and higher schools. Born in 1996, Lahr 1996, p. 269.
  3. ↑ Michael Feistl: Ownership of corp houses of the green circle of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association since 1933 and restitution and compensation claims of the green corps. A legal historical investigation. Dissertation University of Regensburg 2010, p. 25.
  4. ↑ a b c Max Heymann: Memories of a Century of Student Life in a Small Town, Volume 1 + 2 . Ed .: Student Association Hasso-Borussia Friedberg. 1st edition. MediVision, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-932686-72-1 , p. 156 .
  5. ^ A b c German engineering fraternity (ed.): German engineering fraternity . 1st edition. Own publication, situation October 1984, p. 16 (printed by: Druckerei Brinkmann, Lage).
  6. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : Gaudeamus igitur. The student connections then and now. Munich 1986, p. 56.
  7. ↑ a b c Handbook of the Kösener Corps Student. Volume I. 6th edition, Würzburg 1985, p. 300.
  8. ↑ a b Date information based on the minutes of the Burschentag meetings of the DIB or DHB (in the archive of the DIB / DHB).
  9. ^ German engineering fraternity . In: Association for German Student History (Ed.): Student Courier . No. 5 , 1988, DNB  1212200-2 , 21 .
  10. ↑ Bernhard Grün, Christoph Vogel: The Fuxenstunde . Manual of Corporation Studentism. Bad Buchau 2014, p. 190, ISBN 978-3-925171-92-5 .