Falkenstein Association

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Falkenstein Association

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Basic data
Surname: Falkenstein Association
Represented in: SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Foundation on: 1891
Links: 4 connections at 4 university locations
Type of members: Mixed and male societies
Religious orientation: non-denominationally Christian
Position to the scale : not striking
Color status : colored
Head / Chair: Valdesia Lausanne
Old Masters Association: Alt-Falkensteinerbund
Total members: approx. 100 Active and 800 Philistines
Association body: Falkenstein (four issues per year)
Website: www.falkensteiner.ch
Neu-Falkenstein ruins

The Falkensteinerbund is a Swiss, originally Christian-Protestant oriented corporation association with currently four (all active) student associations , founded (as the Swiss Federation) in 1891. It is one of the few bilingual umbrella organizations ( German and French ).

The name of the federal government now used refers to the Neu-Falkenstein castle ruins near Balsthal in the canton of Solothurn . His unofficial motto is "God - Friendship - Fatherland" or "Devoir - Amitié - Patrie". Its legal seat is at the place of residence of the respective Federal President.

purpose

The purpose of the Falkensteiner Association is to promote the common interests and ideas of the associations involved and to represent them externally, to maintain friendship among their members and to promote relationships with the old Falkenstein Association (Art. 3 Statutes).

history

In 1847 the Schwizerhüsli Basel was founded as one of the first non-striking and Christian student associations (alongside Zähringia Freiburg / Ue. 1843 in the SchwStV) and joined the Wingolf association in 1853 , albeit without voting rights. After several attempts to establish contact with Christian-oriented students in other Swiss cities, the Zähringia Bernensis was founded in Bern in 1888. In 1891 Schwizerhüsli and Zähringia founded the Swiss Confederation as a cartel of both connections. Instead, the Basler broke their close ties to the German Wingolf. The "Carolingia Turicensis" was founded in 1893 as the third association of the Swiss Confederation and was accepted into it the following year. In 1915, the "Valdésia" in Lausanne followed as the only French-speaking association. The goal of the federal government to establish a permanent member association in Geneva failed after the "Philadelphia", which was accepted into the Falkensteiner League in 1922, was dissolved the following year.

For a long time, the federal government managed without its own suitable name. After the Federal Festival took place in Balsthal for the first time in 1909 , the Bund was renamed the Falkensteinerbund in 1919 (1921 according to other sources) . In 1937 a traveling song book was published for the Bund. In 1938, the association took part in a resolution by the Coleur associations against the activities of students influenced by National Socialism in Switzerland.

Until then it was purely male associations, but in the 1970s the question of membership of women came up for the first time in the Falkenstein associations. The Valdésia decided in 1982 to become a mixed association; In 1994 the first female student was accepted. Two years later, the Schwizerhüsli accepted a Valdésier as a member for the first time and has been a mixed association since a change in the statutes in 1999 . Zähringia and Carolingia have remained male associations to this day.

Structure and structure

Member connections

Although the federal bodies perform overarching tasks, the individual links remain independent in their constitution. The individual Falkensteiner is therefore initially a member of his individual association. There is compulsory activity between the connections, unless the statutes of the individual connections provide for any other regulation (Art. 4 b statutes). Schwizerhüsli and Valdésia are mixed combinations; Zähringia and Carolingia only accept men.

The following four student associations are members of the Falkensteiner Association:

Name of the connection place founding Colours coat of arms Circle Fraternity house
Schwizerhüsli Basilensis Basel 1847
green-gold-black 		Coat of arms Schwizerhüsli Basel.jpg Circle Schwizerhüsli Basiliensis.svg “Crocodil”, Socinstrasse 8, Basel
Zähringia bernensis Bern 1888
red-gold-blue 		Circle Zähringia Bernensis.svg Postgasse 4, Bern
Carolingia turicensis Zurich 1893
blue-gold-black 		Carolingia Turicensis Coat of Arms.jpg Circle Carolingia Turicensis.png
Valdésia Lausannensis Lausanne 1915
crimson-gold-black

organization

According to Art. 5 statutes, the organs of the Falkenstein Association are:

  • the federal armies ( executive )
    • Federal President (BX)
    • Federal Actuary (B-XX)
    • Federal Treasurer (B-XXX)
  • the assembly of delegates
  • the auditors
  • the connections
  • the entirety of the individual members in the ballot

Each association sends three members to the assembly of delegates. The central board is also composed of three members who belong to the presiding association. They have no voting rights at the DV (exception: the Federal President's casting vote).

In each case one connection leads in the order of their establishment every four semesters of the chairmanship of the federal government ("management"). The executive association organizes the federal festival once a year, during which the regular assembly of delegates and the handover of the chairmanship take place every two years.

In addition, the Alt-Falkensteinerbund also exists as an organization of the old gentlemen of the four associations that is independent in terms of association law, but is de facto closely linked to the Active Association .

Relationships

Since 1969 there has been a friendship relationship between the Falkensteinerbund and the Wingolfsbund represented in Germany, Austria and Estonia , which is also non-striking and Christian-oriented. This is shown by mutual visits to the respective national festivals, mutual band awards for the active senior citizens and the opportunity to become a member of both umbrella organizations.

Personalities

See also category: Corporates in the Falkensteiner League

  • Hans Bietenhard (1916–2008), Prof. Dr. theol. / Reformed theologian - Zähringia
  • Erwin Bischof (1940–2015), management consultant, politician - Zähringia
  • Friedrich von Bodelschwingh (1877–1946), German Protestant theologian and head of the von Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel - Schwizerhüsli
  • Melchior Buchs , politician - Zähringia
  • Fritz de Quervain (1868–1940), surgeon and director of Inselspital - Zähringia (founding member)
  • Lukas Engelberger (* 1975), Swiss lawyer and politician (CVP), member of the BS - Schwizerhüsli government since 2014
  • Friedrich Eymann (1887–1954), reformed theologian and educator - Zähringia
  • Markus Feldmann (1897–1958), politician, Federal President 1956 - Zähringia
  • Karl Edmund "Charles" von Graffenried (1925–2012), entrepreneur - Zähringia
  • Wilhelm Hadorn (1869–1929), Reformed theologian - Schwizerhüsli, Zähringia
  • Heinrich Huttenlocher (1890–1954), mineralogist and petrographer - Zähringia
  • Walther Köhler (1870–1946), professor for theologians in Giessen, Zurich and Heidelberg - Carolingia (honorary philistine)
  • Urs Küry (1901–1976), Bishop of the Christian Catholic Church in Switzerland 1955–1972 - Schwizerhüsli, Carolingia
  • Zeki Kuneralp (1914–1998), Turkish diplomat and ambassador - Zähringia
  • Emil Landolt (1895–1995), Mayor of Zurich 1949–1966 - Carolingia
  • Elias Landolt (1926–2013), Prof. Dr. sc. nat. / Geobotanist at ETH Zurich - Carolingia
  • Hans-Dieter Leuenberger (1931–2007), pastor, psychotherapist and esotericist - Zähringia
  • Maurice Müller (1918–2009), pioneer of orthopedic surgery; Art patron - Valdesia, Zähringia
  • Henri Rieben (1921–2006), “Swiss European” and pioneer for European integration - Valdesia
  • Adolf Schlatter (1852–1938), professor of theology in Bern and Tübingen - Schwizerhüsli
  • Johannes Stroux (1886–1954), Professor of Classical Philology and President of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) - Schwizerhüsli
  • Bernard Vittoz , President of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) 1978–1992 - Valdesia

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Falkensteiner League: the Swiss Federation
  2. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : Gaudeamus igitur: The student societies past and present. Callwey, Munich 1986, p. 240.
  3. ↑ falkensteiner.ch
  4. ↑ falkensteiner.ch
  5. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : Gaudeamus igitur: The student societies past and present. Callwey, Munich 1986, p. 240. [1]
  6. ↑ falkensteiner.ch
  7. ↑ Michael Doeberl, Alfred Bienengräber, CA Weller, Das akademische Deutschland, Volume 2 , 1931, pp. 207 ff.
  8. ↑ Lecturers at the Bern University of Applied Sciences Pietro Scandola, Franziska Rogger, Commission for Bern University History, Stephan Schmidlin, Die Universität, 1984, p. 455.
  9. ↑ falkensteiner.ch
  10. ↑ Wanderliederbuch des Falkensteinerbund: Schwizerhüsli , Basel; Zähringia, Bern; Carolingia, Zurich; Valdésia, Lausanne, Grunau, 1937.
  11. ↑ Raimund Lang: Ergo Cantemus !: texts and materials for student song , SH-Verlag., 2001
  12. ↑ Alt-Turicia Zurich (ed.): Proud banner on the Limmatstrand: The history of the Academic Association Turicia 1860–2013. vdf Hochschulverlag, Zurich 2014, p. 123 ff. ( ISBN 3728136190 ).
  13. ^ Paul Ehinger: Student Associations. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . Access: 2015-08-12
  14. ↑ falkensteiner.ch
  15. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen: The German corporation associations. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2014, ISBN 978-3-933892-28-7 , p. 337.
  16. ↑ falkensteiner.ch
  17. ↑ 100 years of Freiburg Wingolf. Festschrift Verein Alter Freiburger Wingolfiten 2013, p. 96.

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