Erlangen fraternity Frankonia

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Frankonia fraternity

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Basic data
University location: gain
University / s: University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Founding: June 12, 1884
Corporation association : German fraternity
Cartel / District / AG: Black-White-Red Cartel , BG
Color status : colored
Colours:
Fox colors:
Cap: black flat cap
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : mandatory
Motto: Honor, freedom, fatherland!
Website: frankonia-erlangen.de

The Erlangen fraternity Frankonia is a student union in Erlangen . It brings together students and alumni of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg . The liaison members are called Francs . The fraternity is observed by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

history

The time until 1945

Frankonia was founded on June 12, 1884 by foreign fraternity members as a fraternity and immediately accepted into the General Deputy Convent (ADC), later the German Burschenschaft (DB). In 1885 they chose the castle restaurant in Marloffstein Castle, which had opened two years earlier, as an ex-pub .

At the end of the summer semester of 1908, it was disbanded from the university because of a quarrel with a university assistant. Instead, the active members, together with other fraternity members, re-founded the Markomannia fraternity, which existed from March 28, 1848 to the 1856/57 winter semester, for the winter semester 1908/09 . In the summer semester of 1909, the dissolution of Frankonia was lifted after a successful objection, so that Markomannia was adjourned on July 16, 1909 and finally became part of Frankonia.

At the First World War, 142 members participated, of whom died 21st In 1927 she moved into its current fraternity house in the Loewenichstraße after they had sold their 1914 acquired house.

In the summer semester of 1935 Frankonia took on some of the members of the Franko-Bavaria Erlangen armed forces, before they adjourned as the last Erlangen fraternity at the beginning of the winter semester 1935/36 as a result of the Hess decree and the dissolution of the DB. In the Second World War 28 members died.

The time after 1945

Frankonia was founded again in 1948 as a literary club and one year later resumed active operations as a fraternity. On June 15, 1950 Frankonia took part in the reconstitution of the DB.

Memberships

The Erlanger fraternity Frankonia is the only fraternity in Erlangen member of the corporation Association German fraternity (DB). Within the DB, she is a member of the Black-White-Red Cartel , to which the fraternities Germania Halle zu Mainz and Germania Hamburg also belong, as well as the fraternity community .

Principles

The connection is obligatory and colored (boys' band: white-black-red-white from below, with silver percussion ). A black flat cap is worn as a head color . It is a purely male association , which has the motto " Honor, Freedom, Fatherland !" leads.

Political classification

Political scientists attest the fraternity "little fear of contact with the right wing". Several right-wing extremists such as Pierre Krebs , Horst Mahler and Reinhold Oberlercher have already appeared there as speakers. An event against the "hegemonic politics of the USA" led the publicist Hans-Dietrich Sander , who was convicted of hatred and denigrating the memory of deceased people, as speaker. According to the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution , there were internal battles in 2001 over the orientation of the fraternity.

At the beginning of July 2014, the right-hand trade fair "Zwischenentag" took place in the Frankonia premises. It was a network meeting of different groups, publishers and magazines of the " New Right ", in which the right-wing extremist Karl-Heinz Hoffmann , the founder of the military sports group Hoffmann , which was banned in 1980 , also took part. The plan to host the trade fair in the connection house again in 2016 was canceled after media coverage.

The Frankonia fraternity was observed by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution in 2001. Since September 3, 2015, Frankonia has been an observation object of the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution. In addition, the activitas of the Erlangen fraternity Frankonia was listed in the Bavarian constitutional protection report for the same year due to its proximity to right-wing extremist groups. According to the constitution protection report, events at Frankonia have been repeatedly advertised and attended by right-wing extremists. The Lord Mayor of Erlangen, Florian Janik , found the observation to be "justified". The fraternity was no longer mentioned in the Bavarian constitutional protection report of the following years. The fraternity was mentioned for 2016 and 2018 in the constitution protection report of the Hamburg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution . In the debate on the Bavarian Constitutional Protection Report 2017 in the Interior Committee on, Burkhard Körner, President of the Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, emphasized that Frankonia would continue to be monitored; however, there were no reportable events in the past year. In 2018, the fraternity's complaint against its mention in the 2015 report on the protection of the constitution was dismissed. In its leaked report on the AfD of January 15, 2019, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution described Frankonia Erlangen as a "right-wing extremist [] fraternity []"

In 2015, members of Frankonia sent a couleur card of the connection with abusive slogans to the mayor of Eisenach , Katja Wolf .

The author Akif Pirinçci gave a lecture at Frankonia's invitation, as did Joachim Starbatty .

Known members

  • Ludwig Franz Gengler (1902–1946), National Socialist publicist and politician
  • Wilhelm Hartnack (1893–1963), geographer, university professor and local researcher
  • Otto Hohls (1862–1899), South African general physician
  • Max Pohlenz (1872–1962), classical philologist, professor of classical philology at the University of Göttingen

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Meyers Konversationslexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
  2. ^ Heinrich Wilhelm: Marloffstein Castle. A contribution to Franconian history. Self-published by the old gentlemen's association of the former Frankonia fraternity in Erlangen, 1938
  3. Paul Gerhardt Gladen : The German corporation associations . WJK, Hilden 2014. ISBN 3-933892-28-7 . Pp. 132-146.
  4. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 35.
  5. ^ Gabriele Nandlinger: - Dossier right-wing extremism - focus on youth culture - fraternities. In: bpb.de. April 23, 2007. Retrieved January 25, 2017 .
  6. Steven Heimlich: Historical revisionism as an instrument of the "New Right" using the example of the 1968 movement ( PDF ), Master's thesis, University of Oldenburg, 2008.
  7. a b Press report Augsburger Allgemeine
  8. a b c d press report Nordbayern.de; The Office for the Protection of the Constitution observes "Frankonia" in Erlangen
  9. http://www.verfassungsschutz.bayern.de/mam/anlagen/vsb_2015_druckfassung.pdf Bavarian Constitutional Protection Report 2015
  10. a b Answer of the Ministry of the Interior of April 8, 2016 to the written question of the MP Markus Rinderspacher SPD of December 17, 2015: Fraternity Frankonia under observation of the protection of the constitution, LT-Drs. 17/10166 ( PDF )
  11. ^ Constitutional Protection Report Bavaria 2015. p. 138.
  12. ^ Constitutional Protection Report 2016 of the Hamburg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution , p. 177 ( PDF ); Constitutional Protection Report 2018 of the Hamburg State Office for the Protection of the Constitution, p. 159 .
  13. Bavarian State Parliament, Committee for Local Affairs, Internal Security and Sport, 91st meeting, April 11, 2018, p. 12 ( [1] )
  14. ^ Johann Osel: Burschenschaft Frankonia is subject to Freistaat , Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 20, 2018
  15. " We publish the report on the protection of the constitution on the AfD ", netzpolitik.org from January 28, 2019, accessed on December 7, 2019.
  16. ^ Andreas Hoffmann: Seminar report: The European Union in crisis. In: Burschenschaftliche Blätter . Edition 1/2012.

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