Göttingen maypole affair

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The Göttingen maypole affair developed out of a student prank played up by National Socialist propaganda on May 12, 1935 and accelerated the dissolution of the student associations in the National Socialist German Reich .

The event

An actually harmless student prank, in which members of the Holzminda fraternity in Göttingen had carried a maypole from a neighboring property to a pub , with swastika flags attached to this maypole being stained when it was returned, was reported by two articles in the Göttinger Nachrichten , the Göttingen party newspaper of the NSDAP , picked up and hyped up into a scandal, which a report in the West German Observer sharply condemned. Previously, the Holzminda student leadership was already noticed by negative that the fraternity house on Hitler's birthday , April 20, and on May 1 was not flagged was.

The consequences

Because of these incidents, which were not particularly serious, it was prematurely concluded that Holzminda would reject National Socialism , with the result that she was suspended from the University of Göttingen from May 20 to November 20, 1935 and also had to cancel her 75th foundation festival . But the effects were not limited to the Holzminda alone, but were noticeable for all corporations, since ultimately the corporation students were assumed to lack cooperation and prevent them from being absorbed by National Socialism. Out of the context that the National Socialists wanted to bring the student associations into line because they lived individual democratic principles and were not subject to the leader principle , as was the case with the later admitted comradeships , the Göttingen maypole affair led to the Göttingen riots in June 1934 and the Heidelberg riot Asparagus dinner at the end of May 1935 resulted in a ban on membership in corporations for NSDStB members and, ultimately, in the dissolution of the corporations.

literature

  • Hansheiner Schumacher (Ed.): Fraternity Holzminda Göttingen. Contributions to its history 1860–1985. Göttingen 1985, pp. 45-46.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hansheiner Schumacher (ed.): Fraternity Holzminda Göttingen. Contributions to its history 1860–1985. Göttingen 1985, p. 45.
  2. ^ RGS Weber: The German Student Corps in the Third Reich. London 1986, p. 132.
  3. ↑ A youthful deed by members of the "Holzminda" association. In: Göttinger Nachrichten of May 13, 1935.
  4. ↑ To the maypole in Wilhelm-Weber-Strasse ". In: Göttinger Nachrichten of May 15, 1935.
  5. ^ Anselm Faust: The National Socialist German Student Union. Students and National Socialism in the Weimar Republic. Volume 1, Düsseldorf 1973, p. 131.
  6. ↑ German Corps newspaper . July 1935, p. 124.
  7. ^ A b Paul Wentzcke : Representations and sources on the history of the German unity movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , Volume 1, Heidelberg 1995, p. 221.
  8. ^ Horst Bernhardi: Frisia Gottingensis 1931-1956. Heide 1956, p. 46.
  9. ↑ Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, p. 169.
  10. ↑ Harald Lönnecker : The assembly of the "better National Socialists"? The Völkischer Waffenring (VWR) between anti-Semitism and corporate elitism. , Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 33.
  11. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : Gaudeamus igitur, the student societies past and present. Munich 1988, p. 47.
  12. ↑ Konrad Hugo Jarausch : German Students 1800–1970. Frankfurt am Main 1984, p. 172.