German Association of Abstinent Students

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The German Association of Abstinent Students (DBaSt) was a corporation association of reformed student associations with influence on the early youth movement and part of the life reform movement .

history

In 1902 the student Eduard Edert resigned from the Academic Gymnastics Association (ATV) in Kiel and together with other abstinent students founded the abstinent student association . At that time, the club consisted of around 10 active and 20 old men from the abstinence movement. At the same time , groups of abstinent students were founded elsewhere, for example in Tübingen , Berlin and Heidelberg . Together with these, one joined together in 1902 to form an umbrella organization , which from 1906 was called the German Association of Abstinent Students (DBaSt). Together with other abstinent corporations, the Academic Community - monthly for the German student abstinence movement - was published from 1911 onwards . In 1913 the DBaSt was represented by local groups in sixteen universities. There were ideal and personal overlaps with the abstinent Good Templar order . The DBaSt was one of the founders of the Freideutschen Jugend as well as the initiator and co-host of the First Freideutschen Jugendtag on the Hohe Meissner in October 1913.

In the festschrift for the centenary on the Hohe Meißner, the "inner content" and the ideal of the covenant are described as follows:

“Fight against all unhealthy people in our nation! Liberation of the German people from their most dangerous master, the German drink! "

Known members

literature

  • Sigrid Bias-Engels: Between Wandering Bird and Science - On the History of the Youth Movement and Student Body 1896-1920. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 4. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-8046-8709-1
  • Johannes Jacobs (Ed.): What was that - the Meißnerfest 1913? . Association for the Preservation of the Hohburg eV, Kiel 1987
  • Winfried Mogge, Jürgen Reulecke: Hoher Meißner 1913 - The First Free German Youth Day in Documents, Interpretations and Pictures. Edition archive of the German youth movement. Vol. 5. Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik, Cologne 1988. ISBN 3-8046-8723-7
  • Hermann Martin Popert: Helmut Harringa: A story from our time . Koehler, Dresden 1910