Torchlight procession

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Student torchlight procession in front of Erlangen Castle (1743/44)

Torchlight procession in Halle (Saale) on the day of Potsdam (1933)

Torchlight procession of the FDJ for the 40th anniversary of the GDR in 1989

A torchlight procession is a nightly procession of many people with burning torches .

history

The torchlight procession is an old academic custom. With him, students honor well-deserved and well-respected professors, for example on retirement .

For a long time, torchlight procession has been organized primarily by young people - for entertainment or as a design element for holiday camps , for example for scouts, the young crowd, the hawks, for night exercises or to close bonfires , also for religious purposes or political demonstrations . In the time of National Socialism , torchlight procession demonstrated the rule in public space.

Significant torchlight procession took place in East Berlin in 1989 for the 40th day of the Republic (GDR) .

See also

• Student customs
• Tattoo

Web links

Wiktionary: Torchlight procession  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Commons : Torchlight procession  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Wiener Zeitung : Sun and torchlight procession in the interwar period ( Memento from February 15, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Tagesspiegel : Hitler came to power in January 1933: Propaganda and Reality , accessed April 1, 2015
• Torchlight procession of young pioneers (1989)