Remembrance festival for the Westphalian sons of the muses

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The commemorative festivals of the Westphalian sons of the muses were meetings of Westphalian academics similar to the Wartburg Festival and the Hambach Festival , only not as radical and epoch-making as these, but rather with an aesthetic character . Unlike these, the commemorative celebrations were not a one-off event, but an established organization: a discussion and discussion group of high-ranking politicians, lawyers, officials, artists, theologians, scientists, military, industrialists, merchants, landowners and technicians of their time; a total of 450 academic participants. They were moderate in their demands and sought a peaceful evolution instead of a violent revolutionon. In the pre-March period from 1819 to 1830 they took place in various locations in Westphalia .

history

Attendees

The initiator of the commemorative celebrations was the judge Friedrich Wilhelm Rautert , who studied law at the University of Erlangen from 1800 to 1802 and was active there with the Westphalian Landsmannschaft . Until his transfer to Büren in 1826, he remained the President of the Events. More than half of the 450 visitors came from Westphalia: of these over ⅔ from the Grafschaft Mark , 8% from the rest of Prussia and Cologne, 4% from the former Hochstift Münster , Principality of Paderborn and Hochstift Osnabrück and a further 4% from Dortmund and Berg Eating and becoming. ⅔ were lawyers, ⅛ theologians, 10% physicians and pharmacists, another 10% philologists, engineers and military personnel; the proportion of students was low, around 5%. The celebrations had a bourgeois character, only 16% of the participants were of aristocratic origin, half of which could be attributed to the nobility of officials. Among the educational institutions visited, the University of Halle ranks first with ⅓ of the participants, then the University of Göttingen and the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Bonn, Erlangen, Duisburg, Jena, Gießen, Marburg and others. More than ½ of the total number of participants only appeared once, ¼ three times and more often; In 1822 the number of participants reached 191 Sons of the Muses, at the last meeting in 1830 only 36 came.

Events

A total of ten commemorative celebrations were usually held annually over a period of twelve years; where the years: 1827 and 1829 fell out: 1. Hattingen (June 1, 1819), 2. Schwelm (May 25, 1820), 3. Luisenbad (Unna) (June 14, 1821), 4. Luisenbad (Unna) (30 May 18, 1822), 5. Luisenbad (Unna) (May 22, 1823), 6. Dortmund (June 18, 1824) 7. Luisenbad (Unna) (August 19, 1825), 8. Luisenbad (Unna) (May 17, 1824) 1826), 9. Luisenbad (Unna) (July 10, 1828), 10. Luisenbad (Unna) (May 16, 1830).

Occasion and character of the commemorative festival

The official occasion of the festival, in which both liberals and conservatives took part, was a patriotic one: at the end of the wars of liberation , the resurrection of the fatherland was commemorated . Such commemorative festivals were also celebrated in other places (Königsberg, Danzig). But the Westphalian commemorations also had a clear local chlorite. At these meetings the green-white-black colors of the corps boys of Westphalia at the universities: ( Corps Marko-Guestphalia Aachen , Corps Guestphalia Bonn , Corps Guestphalia Berlin , Corps Guestphalia Erlangen, Corps Guestfalia Greifswald , Corps Guestphalia Göttingen , Corps Guestphalia Halle , Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg , Corps Guestphalia Jena , Corps Guestphalia Würzburg ) so that the public awareness soon dominated the opinion that it was the province's official Westphalia flag. Therefore, the colors were also transferred to other Westphalian associations and corporations. At other festivals and official occasions flags were used accordingly. Roger Wilmans cleared up the mistake in 1880 . With increasing duration, the joy of what had been achieved was also mixed with criticism of the existing. Demands for democracy and constitutionally guaranteed rights were voiced. Unlike the fraternities , the demand for national statehood was not overemphasized. Because of the opinion-sniffing of the Carlsbad resolutions of 1819, these demands were embellished in harmless poems by the sons of the Muses, such as Friedrich Wilhelm Rautert in the song for the third commemorative festival on June 14, 1821 in Unna:

Enjoy the charm of life,
the hours run quickly,
the stomach rolls, in vain
do you stop the food!

The boy dreamed joys,
which the young man will soon taste;
How to be envied
when the muse wakes him!

His dreams are
fulfilled, his strength awakened;
Science
leads him into immense spaces .

It follows the flag of freedom.
The proud son of the muse:
He builds plans for the future,
And hopes the future will reward.
* * *

Significant participants (selection)

Surname	activity	corporation	date
Carl von Bodelschwingh	Lawyer and politician	Corps Guestphalia Göttingen	1824, 25, 28
Ernst von Bodelschwingh the Elder	Lawyer and politician	Corps Guestphalia II in Göttingen	1824
Gisbert von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg	Farmer and lawyer		1819, 24
Carl Heinrich Ebmeier	Lawyer and politician	Corps Guestphalia Hall	1812, 16
Friedrich Gerstein	jurist	Corps Guestphalia Erlangen	1820, 21, 22, 23, 24
Ludwig Franz Houben	Lawyer and politician	Corps Guestphalia Bonn	1826
Jakob von der Kuhlen	theologian		1823
Bernhard Christoph Ludwig Natorp	Theologian and educator	Corps Guestphalia Hall	1819
Carl Overweg	Lawyer, politician and industrialist	Corps Guestphalia Bonn	1826, 28
Conrad von Rappard	Lawyer, politician and member of the Frankfurt National Assembly	Corps Guestphalia Bonn	1822, 25
Friedrich Wilhelm Rautert	Lawyer and writer	Corps Guestphalia Erlangen	1819, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 28
Christian Carl Theodor Ludwig Sethe	Lawyer and fellow student (1819) of Heinrich Heine	Bonn general public (fraternity)	1823, 24, 28
Adolf Tellkampf	mathematician		1824
Jodocus Temme	Politician, lawyer and writer	Corps Guestphalia Bonn	1821
Ludwig von Vincke	1st President of the Province of Westphalia	Wreath of the unlawful Westphalian Erlangen	1819, 21, 22, 24, 25, 28

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Richtering, Westfalens Musensöhne ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Contributions to Westfälische Familienforschung 21 (1963), pp. 82-104. 
2. ↑ Remembrance book for Westphalian sons of the muses, directory of the participants in the remembrance festivals of the muses' sons in Hattingen on June 1, 1819, in Schwelm on May 25, 1820, in Soolbach near Unna on June 14, 1821, on May 30, 1822, on May 22. May 1823, in Dortmund on June 18, 1824, in Soolbach near Unna on August 19, 1825, on May 17, 1826, on July 10, 1828, on September 16, 1830, Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Westfalen Msc. VII, No. 260
3. ^ Christian Pletzing: From Spring of Nations to National Conflict: German and Polish Nationalism in East and West Prussia 1830-1871, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3447046570 , pp. 120–121
4. ↑ An afterword by the editor (= Erich Bauer ) to Hans Lippold: The origin of names and colors of the Corps Masovia. In: Einst und Jetzt 6 (1961), p. 127 f.
5. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Rautert in Rheinisch-Westfälischer Musenalmanach ›vol. 1822, p. 155, song for the third commemorative festival of the Westphalian muses' sons, celebrated on June 14, 1821 in the Soolbade near Unna, ULB-Münster
6. ^ Fraternity
7. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 40 , 1

literature

• Rainer Assmann : Dey Weiland Studentkes, Kassel 1992
• Julius Fromm: 9 commemorative festivals of old Westphalian muse sons, celebrated in Westphalia in the years 1819/28 . In: Archive for Student and University History, Issue 9 (March 1935), pp. 262–267
• Helmut Richtering : Westfalens "Musensöhne", special print: The participants of the commemorative festivals of the years 1819-1830, contributions to Westphalian family research, vol. 21, Münster 1963