Freiburg Wingolf

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Color card with coat of arms from the founding commander January 18, 1912
College building of the University of Freiburg: "The truth will set you free"

The Freiburg Wingolf is a Christian , interdenominational student association and, as a member of the Wingolfsbund, wears the colors black-white-gold. Like all Wingolf connections, the Freiburg Wingolf rejects the scale length . It was founded on November 7, 1911 at the Albert Ludwig University (Alberto Ludoviciana) in Freiburg im Breisgau . The place of foundation was the Gasthaus Zum Storchen . The foundation had been prepared beforehand by the “Wingolfsverein” founded on April 25, 1911 with the support of the Wingolfsbund. The association adopted the motto “True and Free” based on the Bible phrase “ the truth will make you free” ( Jn 8:32  LUT ), which is attached in gold letters to the university building (today's college building I) that was built in 1911.

history

From the foundation to the First World War

The establishment was carried out with substantial support from the Upper Baden Philistine Association of Wingolf - a regional association of old gentlemen from various Wingolf associations founded in 1876 . Outside of southern Baden , it was initially heavily controversial because there were considerable doubts that a non-denominational Wingolf connection could exist in the Catholic Freiburg environment and without an evangelical-theological faculty. In addition, the Wingolfe in Heidelberg and Strasbourg feared emerging competition in Freiburg. But the Upper Baden Philistine Association finally wanted to have a local connection and was not confused by the criticism that came from outside. The connection was first presented to the public on January 18, 1912, on the occasion of the university's anniversary celebrations on the day of the establishment of the German Empire.

No sooner had the Freiburg Wingolf founded and on December 2, 1911 submitted its application for admission to the Wingolfsbund, than a dispute broke out over its principle with other Wingolf associations, namely with the Bonn , Greifswald and Halle Wingolf . Because the Freiburg Wingolf had given itself a theologically liberal principle. In keeping with the ideas of liberal Protestant theology of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as shaped by Friedrich Schleiermacher , Albrecht Ritschl and Adolf von Harnack , he did not want his members to recognize Christ's sonship as a formula of faith. He just expected them to put their lives under the guidance of Jesus Christ. Thus the crucial second sentence of the principle read: Members seek to base their lives on faith in Christ. In the opinion of the founders, it was by no means necessary to formulate a church dogma, but rather to set the framework for a Christian life of communion. One federal proposal soon followed another. Julius Mezger , who was first charged at the time, felt compelled almost every day to reply to attacks. But the connection proved to be intransigent and when it indicated to the other connections that they would be prepared to forego admission to the Wingolfsbund if necessary, the principle was finally recognized on November 28, 1912. The final recording took place on December 12, 1913.

The time between the wars

Active operations were suspended during the First World War , but it was resumed immediately after the end of the war. In 1920 there was a major conflict with the Schwizerhüsli Basel association (formerly a member of the Wingolf Association, then the Falkenstein Association ) at the 9th Foundation Commissioner of the Freiburg Wingolf . The background was that an old man ( Philistine (student union) ) gave a speech at the Kommers and ended with the exclamation “We want revenge!”. The representatives of the Schwizerhüsli from Basel stayed seated at the following Deutschlandlied , which angered the also present presiding association of the Wingolfsbund, the Hamburg Wingolf, who subsequently demanded an apology from Schwizerhüsli. When this did not take place, there were considerable further entanglements and finally the termination of the friendship relationship between the Wingolfsbund and the Falkensteinerbund in Switzerland. The Freiburg Wingolf, which had been in close, friendly contacts with the Schwizerhüsli since its foundation and was therefore particularly affected by the matter, and other southern German connections sided with the Schwizerhüsli, which is why the matter also led to strong tensions within the Wingolfsbund.

Wingolfshütte 2008

In 1922 the foundation stone was laid for the Rinkenhütte am Feldberg , which was completed by the end of 1923 despite the inflationary period. Already in the mid-20s it became more and more difficult to recruit new members, after the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists it became almost impossible for a Christian connection. While the association still had eight members in the winter semester of 1933/34, the number decreased to six in the summer semester of 1934. In the winter semester 1934/35, Gerhard Pfefferkorn , who was first charged at the time, tried to cope with the hopeless situation again by calling the Wingolfsblatt newspaper, but could not prevent the number of active participants from falling to two in the summer semester 1935. In the winter semester of 1935/36, the last active member was Hermann Müller , who, despite the hopeless situation, did not capitulate but tried desperately to save the corporation, until on January 26, 1936, Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess , gave a keynote address on the corporations that were up to still exist on January 30, 1936, designated as enemies of the state and thus ultimately called for self-dissolution. Müller, for example, was the last active member of the association to go to a representative convention of the Wingolf Association in Marburg and decided on February 23, 1936, with the remaining Wingolf associations, to dissolve the Wingolf Association itself. The Rinkenhütte was sold by the old gentlemen's association in 1941 to the Olbricht construction company as a “workers' rest home” and could thus be withdrawn from the access of the SA .

The re-establishment after the Second World War

The re-establishment after the Second World War was initially very difficult. The French occupying power was far more critical of the corporations than was the case in the American and British occupation zones . Starting in 1947, regular monthly Philistine get-togethers were held again. In 1949, three students who had come into contact with the Wingolf idea through their own father or through acquaintances finally met in the house of Pastor Eugen Kammerer. This triple quorum slowly expanded to include more members. In view of the anti-corporate course at Freiburg University, however, they initially held back and waited. However, from the summer semester of 1950, regular weekly institutes began to be held. The formal re-establishment then took place on July 23, 1950, when Pastor Eugen Kammerer presented the six new donors at the 39th foundation festival in place of the sick founding senior Uhrig. The first charged at the re-establishment, Gerhard Altena, writes in the commemorative publication for the 50th Foundation Festival in 1961 about the goals: “Our connection should not be an end in itself, but rather its first task should be to educate its members to become Christian academics who are bound by their bond with God and the freedom they gained in this way represented a personality that corresponded to our ideal. ” From the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s, the Freiburg Wingolf had the strongest connection on site with over 120 active and inactive at times, which ultimately led to the acquisition of the spacious Art Nouveau villa in Freiburg - Herdern made it possible.

Wingolfshaus (2008) ( 48 ° 0 ′ 13.4 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 36.6 ″  E )

The years until reunification

In 1962/63, the connection from the community of heirs to Paul Gerhard Hosemann acquired his house in Weiherhofstrasse in Freiburg-Herdern, which is still used today as a connection house. In 1964 there was a serious dispute after the Fuxmajor had demanded recognition of the Oder-Neisse border in a speech on behalf of Aktivitas . Various local corporations and some old men demanded an apology. The speaker then put his point of view into perspective, but did not withdraw the demand. In the same year, the managing director of the Wingolfsbund, Gerhard Mähner , whose proximity to the Nazi regime had become known, resigned after a discussion event to which the Freiburg Wingolf had invited him.

In 1967 the Freiburg Wingolf adopted a new principle that has remained valid to this day. The decisive second and third sentences read: “Its members strive for a community on a Christian basis. They want to deal with the intellectual and social issues of their time and cultivate contemporary forms of corporate studentism. ”This new principle was initially very controversial, especially in the Phil Championship. The Freiburg Dean Otto Katz defended it with the words: “Each principle bears the date of birth of its time in its content. So I see the proposed draft as an emergency solution in a time of transition. That corresponds to the intellectual and historical situation of our people. ”Soon afterwards, however, the Wingolfsbund was to adopt an even more liberal principle. It only said: "The members of Wingolf deal with the questions and demands of the Christian faith."

After the break in 1920, between 1926 and 1928 there was renewed cooperation between the Wingolfsbund and the connections of the Falkensteinerbund, but this was completely broken off by the Second World War. Even after the war there were occasional contacts and even occasional recordings of members of the other association, which was formally even contrary to the statutes, but they were reserved towards each other. Two old gentlemen of the Heidelberg Wingolf , both pastors of the Badische Landeskirche , in 1967 thought the time was ripe for a reconnection with bygone days and invited Schwizerhüsli Basel and Freiburg Wingolf to a joint wine bar. These meetings in Kleinkems were repeated. Old gentlemen from Argentina Strasbourg also attended the meetings. Over time, a lively contact developed. In addition to the meetings in Kleinkems, there were regular mutual visits to foundation festivals and ski weekends in the mountain hut of the Freiburg Wingolf. In 1969 the friendship relationship between the Wingolfs and Falkensteiners was finally reissued. In gratitude for her services, Pastor Albin Beck from Kleinkems received the ribbon from the Freiburg Wingolf and later from the Schwizerhüsli Basel. The close contact between the two connections has not been broken since then. Since the summer semester of 1988, the senior citizens of the two connections have been giving each other the ribbon.

Recent developments

Supremu Ordo Estensii Bareii visits the Freiburg Wingolf

In 1992 there was a renewed clarification of the principles of the Wingolf Association with significant participation of the Giessener , Bonn and Freiburg Wingolf. Since then, these have again determined a clear Christian creed. At the same time, however, it was also made clear that - what was already taken for granted - membership in Wingolf is possible for every Christian regardless of their national identity. This clarification was nevertheless very important to the Freiburg Wingolf in view of the high proportion of foreigners in its own activities. The decisive sentences of the new version read: “The members of the individual Wingolf associations profess themselves to Jesus Christ regardless of their denomination and find themselves together in a community based on this confession. (…) Membership in the individual Wingolf associations is independent of political, national and ethnic aspects ”.

At the beginning of the 1990s, new or re-established connections in East Germany (Jena, Magdeburg, Berlin ) showed German national tendencies. These tendencies caused considerable resistance, especially from the Freiburg Wingolf and Giessen Wingolf, who considered them to be incompatible with the Wingolf idea and were not prepared to support it. Since the German national connections in the federal executive committee of the old gentry (Philistine Council of the VAW ) definitely found support, a sharp dispute developed, which at times threatened to lead to a new dispute of principles and which finally resulted in a three-quarters majority of the Wingolfsbund with the final exclusion of Ottonia Magdeburg the Wingolfsbund ended.

In 1994 two Wingolfites from Freiburg made contact with the student association Supremu Ordo Estensii Bareii in Varese . This resulted in a friendly contact, which led to regular mutual visits in Freiburg and Varese. Representatives of both associations were lucky enough to get to know and appreciate completely different student traditions.

100th foundation celebration after the solemn celebration

From May 12th to 15th, 2011, the Freiburg Wingolf celebrated its 100th foundation festival with more than 300 participants. The highlight of the festival was a festival academy with a lecture by Oliver Holtemöller on the subject of “Market, State and Economic Policy in the Light of the Debt Crisis in Europe” and a concert matinee by Hanno Müller-Brachmann and Hendrik Heilmann, with songs by Johannes Brahms “Four serious chants”, Robert Schumann "Kerner Lieder" and Hugo Wolf "Mörike-Lieder"

Known members (selection)

  • Hermann Müller (with Archbishop Schäufele)

literature

  • Friedrich Kaufmann: Wingolf in Freiburg , in: Wingolfsblätter 1912, No. 6, p. 65f
  • Karl Sauer, Wingolfsblätter 1912, No. 10, p. 122ff
  • Theodor Uhrig: History of the Freiburg Wingolf . In: Hans Waitz: History of Wingolfsverbindungen , Verlag alter Wingolfiten: Darmstadt 1914, pp. 265–271
  • Hugo Menze : The Freiburg Wingolf. His story 1911-1961 , Lahr 1961
  • WL Meyer: "Incident in Wingolf", "Festschrift for the centenary of the Schwizerhüsli Basel", special issue of Falkenstein, Münsingen 1947, page 100 ff.
  • Walter Pfister in “Falkenstein”, “Special issue for the 125th anniversary of the Schwizerhüsli Basel (1847-1972)”, 1972
  • Harald Rösch: The Freiburg Wingolf from 1961-1986. In: Festschrift for the 75th Foundation Festival of the Freiburg Wingolf. Lahr (businessman) 1986
  • Remy Suter: The relationship between the Schwizerhüsli and other connections , in: 150 Years of the Schwizerhüsli Student Association, Basel (Danaiden Verlag) 1997, p. 28 ff
  • Hans Peter Watermann: The Freiburg Wingolf from 1961 to 2011 , in: 100 Years of Freiburg Wingolf , 2011
  • CA Blanke, J. v. Wülfing: There where from dark mountains ... , in: Wingolfsblätter 2011, No. 2, p. 93ff
  • Martin Dossmann : Freiburg's beauty laughs at us again ... - The student associations in Freiburg im Breisgau , WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2017, ISBN 978-3-944052-99-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amadeus Mondschein, Be a Student, 2015, 79ff
  2. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 44.
  3. ^ Philistine Day in Lahr founding appeal. “Wingolf in Freiburg”, in Wingolfsblätter 1911, No. 6
  4. ^ Theodor Uhrig "Wingolf in Freiburg", in Wingolfsblätter 1912, No. 6
  5. ↑ Karl Sauer "The Foundation Festival of the Freiburg Wingolf", in Wingolfsblätter 1912, No. 10
  6. ↑ Das akademische Deutschland Volume 2, 1931, 768
  7. ^ Federal Gazette of Student Associations Schwizerhüsli Basel, Zähringia Bern, Carolingia Zürich, Bern 1911 No. 2, page 1 and Federal Gazette No. 8 1912, page 1
  8. ↑ WL Meyer: “Incident in Wingolf”, in: “Festschrift for the centenary of the Schwizerhüsli Basel”, special issue of Falkenstein, Münsingen 1947, p. 100 ff
  9. ^ Academic Germany. Volume 2, 1931, p. 768
  10. ↑ Rémy Suter: "Relations between the Schwizerhüsli Basel and other connections", in: "150 Years of the Schwizerhüsli Basel Student Union", Danaiden Verlag Basel 1997, pp. 28 ff (33)
  11. ↑ Documentation of individual aspects on this in: Eva Chr. Gottschaldt: No escape from lines of argumentation of the Antifa. How the Wingolfsbund deals with right-wing extremist tendencies in its own ranks. Little documentation. In: Project “Conservatism and Science e. V. “(Ed.): Connecting associations. A reader on the political and social functions of student associations (=  Marburg contributions to the past and present of student associations, vol. 5). Marburg 2000, ISBN 978-3980755009 , pp. 28-42 ( PDF ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )).
  12. ↑ Dietrich Heither “something lazy in the Wingolfsbund”, in Forum Wissenschaft I / 1997, page 63 ff
  13. ↑ Ralf Lenz, “A friendship for life”, in 100 Years of Freiburg Wingolf 2011, page 187, ISBN 978-3-8423-3418-2 ff

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