Goettingen Seniors' Convention

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Göttingen Corps at the 100th anniversary (1837)
Göttinger SC (1881)
Alte Fink - pub of the Göttinger SC until the First World War

The Göttinger Senioren-Convent (SC) is the Senioren-Convent (university) at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . He is a founding member of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV) founded in 1848 .

history

Foundation and first comment

The first surviving Göttingen SC-Comment was signed by four Corpsland teams in the spring of 1809 with the title “General Comment of the Göttingen Burschenschaft”. The signatories were the Guestphalia , the Hannovera united with the Rhenania , the (Baltic) Ruthenia and the Vandalia united with the Pomerania. The comment limited the number of corpsland teams at Göttingen University to a maximum of five. East Frisia became the fifth corps country team in the summer of 1809. After the acceptance of this SC-Comment from 1809, Karl Gustav Fabricius from Stralsund of the Ruthenians became the first general secretary of the Göttingen Senior Citizens' Convention; he was consulted as such by the university at the beginning of July 1809 .

On March 15, 1809, SC reports on the number of staff were created for the first time; they reflect the membership of the individual corps, as far as they have been preserved. This Göttingen SC also created a Paukcomment in 1809 . As a result of the gendarme affair and the accompanying investigations by Vice Rector Gustav von Hugo and the General Director of Public Education at the Government of the Kingdom of Westphalia in Kassel Justus Christoph Leist , the activities of the corps in Göttingen largely came to a standstill. They were only resumed in the winter semester of 1810/11 under Vice-Rector Thomas Christian Tychsen .

In November 1811, the academic authorities re-investigated the corps after a pipe bowl with the names of 33 members of the Vandalia had been confiscated. On the basis of these investigations, the corps united in the Göttinger SC repeatedly disguised themselves to the university as harmless clubbs of students of the same national origin. On April 2, 1813, the SC Comment was redrafted by the seven Göttingen Corpsland teams.

In the book of the Göttingen corps student Daniel Ludwig Wallis , who was matriculated in 1811, from the year 1813 about life at the Göttingen University you will find the following explanations about the Comment , the student code:

“We are all brothers and equal to each other!” This is the motto of the students, the motto of academic freedom. Even if in more recent times people believed they had to restrict the old freedom for several reasons, the remaining remnants are still significant enough to form and permit a republic on a small scale. Republics, as they are known in the history of the peoples, could never come so close to the ideal as it does in the case of the free, independent world of boys. - The Comment is the basic law which determines the relationships between the students. Whoever is right in the comment knows what to do and what not to do as a student; Whoever acts contrary to this is rebuked and, if he does not improve, is despised. The fact that it still has some exaggerated concepts of honor, etc., has to be excused to some extent with the military zeitgeist. The future is reserved for further enlightenment! All means to work by force failed to achieve the hoped-for purpose.

Heinrich Heine , who joined the Corps Guestphalia and thus the SC during his studies in Göttingen, described the appearance of the country-based students in Göttingen in 1824 as follows:

“Some even claim that the city was built at the time of the Great Migration, that every German tribe left an unbound copy of its members in it at that time, and from this came all the Vandals, Frisians, Swabians, Teutons, Saxons, Thuringians, etc. that still exist today in Göttingen, hordes of people, and divorced by the colors of the hats and the pipe torches, move across Weenderstraße, ... "

- Heinrich Heine , Die Harzreise 1824

A good representation of the Göttingen SC around 1825/26 is contained in the travel description of Northern Germany by Henry Edwin Dwight , published in New York in 1829 .

Many corps in the 1820s

In the 1820s, many corps were reconstituted and there were also many new ones. An SC comment from 1825 lists 17 corps in the order in which they were founded:

Goettinger Clubbs - NUNC - 1827.jpg
Goettinger Clubbs - OLIM - 1827.jpg


Register sheets: Göttingen Couleurmützen in 1827 ("NUNC") and earlier ("OLIM")
  • Curonia (green-blue-white)
  • Vandalia (red-gold)
  • Bremania (white-red)
  • Teutonia (light blue-red)
  • Holsatia (red-white-red)
  • Hassia (green-red-white)
  • Guestphalia (green-black-white)
  • Hamburgia (white-red-white)
  • Bado-Württembergia (light blue-red-white)
  • Borussia (white-black)
  • Helvetia (green-red-yellow)
  • Hildesia (red-yellow)
  • Thuringia (red-black-white)
  • Brunsviga (black-blue-white)
  • East Frisia (blue-black-red-gold)
  • Lunaburgia (red-blue-white)
  • Bremensia (green-black-red)

An SC comment from the winter semester 1828/29 even mentions 19 corps. The Teutons and hamburgers listed above are missing from this list. The following are also listed:

  • Nassovia (orange-blue-white)
  • Hannovera (red-blue-gold)
  • Hercynia (black-blue-yellow)
  • Oldenburgia (blue-red-gold)

This is an extremely high number of member connections in the SC that was not reached again before and after. Such a high number of SC corps is also not known from other universities in Germany. At that time, Göttingen was a comparatively large university in Europe in terms of the number of students, but at that time it only had around 500 to 1,000 students.

Heavy persecutions in the 1830s

Due to the political unrest at the beginning of the 1830s and especially the "Göttinger Revolte" (also "Göttinger Revolution") of January 8, 1831 under the leadership of Privatdozent von Rauschenplatt , a member of the Corps Hildesia, the pressure of the authorities against the Corps increased massive in these years. In the log books of 1837, only four active corps of the Göttingen SC are named: Brunsviga, Nassovia, Bremensia and Hildesia. This information is supported by a scale diagram of the Göttingen SC from 1837, which shows a scale length Bremensia against Nassovia, whereby only the representatives of these four corps can be seen among the spectators .

In 1830, the Ketteler – Lohmann duel took place in the Göttingen SC , a duel on basketball between the then Göttingen students Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler and Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Lohmann. It was the only duel with arms in which a (later) Roman Catholic bishop was involved with Ketteler . Ketteler received an injury to his nose, the consequences of which remained visible for life. Although von Ketteler was convicted of the duel and served his sentence in the dungeon, this had no detrimental effects on his career as a priest and politician. He later commented on this time with the words: "I was certainly a brisk student, but God saved me from things that I should be ashamed of in the world." An event that was considered important for the Göttingen SC was Otto's student days von Bismarcks , who stayed in Göttingen from May 1832 to September 1833. During this time he was a member of the Corps Hannovera and thus the Göttinger SC. Numerous anecdotes are spun around this time to this day.

Foundation of the KSCV

The SC zu Göttingen played a leading role in founding the Kösener Seniors Convents Association (KSCV) in 1848.

During the National Socialist era , the seven Göttingen Corps Hannovera , Brunsviga , Teutonia and Hercynia still had some time in the 1935/36 winter semester to enable the corps boys to complete the remaining courses . An attempt by the Hanoverians and Braunschweig residents to open up again by joining the ring of colored corporations failed because the university now demanded at least 12 active members for a corporation. Karl Weißleder from the Göttingen Nassauern was for many years a pulp doctor at the Göttingen Senior Citizens' Convention.

After the Second World War

On November 4, 1950, the two Göttingen corps Teutonia and Hercynia merged to form the new Teutonia-Hercynia, which combined the cap colors of both original corps on white to form a new color band (red-green over a wide white background). The new corps moved into the Hercynia corp house on Nikolausberger Weg and is a member of the Magdeburg district.

On August 1, 1959, 210 old gentlemen (Philistines) from eleven German-Baltic student associations from Dorpat, Riga, Moscow and St. Petersburg founded the Curonia Goettingensis in Göttingen, referring to the earlier presence of various Kurland corps in the Göttingen SC. The new corps became a member of the SC and thus also of the KSCV. The Curonia Goettingensis maintains the special Baltic student traditions in Göttinger SC to this day . The Curonia bears the colors green-blue-white, which were worn by all corps with the name Curonia at all German universities of the 19th century.

Scale images from the Göttingen SC

  • 1808

  • "The Abfuhr" 1818

  • 1823

  • 1837

  • 1847

  • 1862

Corp. houses of the Göttingen SC from 1910

  • Old corp house of Saxonia at Theaterplatz 5, 1910

  • Drawing of the corp house of Hannovera (before 1910)

  • Postcard of the Braunschweigerhaus from 1900 with personal greetings from the architect

  • House of the Corps Bremensia Göttingen , Reinhäuser Landstr. 23 (architect Heinrich Gerber )

  • Corphaus of Hildeso-Guestphalia around 1910

  • Old house of the Corps Hercynia, today the corps house of the Teutonia-Hercynia

  • Former house of the Corps Teutonia Göttingen, Reinhäuser Landstrasse 26

Today's SC

According to anciency

The Corps Agronomia Hallensis zu Göttingen has a seat and vote in the SC, but as a Corps does not vote in the WSC on applications for the oKC.

Student fencing weapon : basket. Batch characters xxx, xx, x.

See also

literature

  • Hans Böhmcker: Brunsviga from 1813-1824. A contribution to the history of the Göttinger SC , in: Deutsche Corps-Zeitung 41 (1924/25), pp. 85-90.
  • From the early days of the Heidelberg, Tübinger and Göttinger SC 1807–1809. Correspondence between the Heidelberg Swabians Georg Kloß Rhenaniae and Hannoverae Göttingen and Alexander Stein. Once and Now, yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, special issue 1963.
  • Berent Schwineköper : On the history of the Göttingen corps and connections around 1848 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 8 (1963), pp. 70–79.
  • Otto Deneke : On the history of the Göttingen corps in 1808/1809. A comment on the correspondence between the two Heidelberg Swabians Georg Kloß Rhenaniae and Hannoverae Göttingen and Alexander Stein . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 9 (1964), pp. 83-90.
  • Goettingen. SC comment from early 1809 . Once and Now, special issue 1967, pp. 121–134.
  • Hans Christhard Mahrenholz : Beginning of intercorporative life after World War II from a Göttingen perspective . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 22 (1977), pp. 209-217.
  • Günter W. Zwanzig : The Göttingen Corporations between 1933 and 1950 . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 47 (2002), pp. 263-279.

Web links

Commons : Göttinger Senioren-Convent  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Printed by Götz von Selle in the Göttingen University Pocket Book 1929
  2. ^ A b Franz Stadtmüller : History of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen 1809-1959 . Goettingen 1963
  3. ^ Wilhelm Schack-Steffenhagen: The Convente of Curonia at the Universities of Germany 1801-1831. In: Festschrift der Curonia. Bonn 1958, p. 139
  4. ↑ Hanna Feesche, Robert Mueller-Stahl: A ride with consequences. The Göttingen Gendarme Affair (1809). In: Franz Walter / Teresa Nentwig (eds.): The offended Gänseliesel - 250 years of scandal stories in Göttingen , V&R Academic, Göttingen 2016, pp. 40–47
  5. ↑ Ludwig Wallis: The Göttingen student or remarks, advice and instructions on Göttingen and student life on the Georgia Augusta . 2. Reprint of the 1913 (and 1813) edition. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1995. pp. 65f. ISBN 3-525-39153-6
  6. ^ Heinrich Heine : Travel pictures: The Harz journey in the Gutenberg-DE project
  7. ^ Travels in the north of Germany: in the years 1825 and 1826, G. & C. & H. Carvill, New York 1829 digitized
  8. ^ Carl Reinbeck: History of the Corps Brunsviga in Göttingen 1813-1924 , Braunschweig: Oeding 1928, p. 28f
  9. ^ Carl Reinbeck: History of the Corps Brunsviga in Göttingen 1813-1924 , Braunschweig: Oeding 1928, p. 29
  10. ^ Carl Reinbeck: History of the Corps Brunsviga in Göttingen 1813-1924 , Braunschweig: Oeding 1928, p. 47
  11. ↑ Otto Pfülf : Bishop of Ketteler (1811–1877) . A historical account. 3 volumes, Kirchheim Verlag, Mainz 1899, p. 35.
  12. ↑ Erich Bauer : The comradeships in the area of ​​the Kösener SC in the years 1937–1945 . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 1 (1956), p. 24
  13. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 114/200
  14. ↑ Teutonia-Hercynia was created in 1950 as a merger corps of the Corps Teutonia Göttingen and Hercynia Göttingen with the foundation date of Teutonia (1854). Notables of the three corps are Hans Adler , Werner von Bargen , Wilhelm Bartsch , Julius Bergmann , Friedrich Boedecker , Karl-August Bushe , Ludwig von Buttlar , Wilhelm Denicke , Georg Diederichs , Rudolf Diederichs , Eduard Dietrich , Oscar Döring , Karl Domizlaff , Emil Ehrich , Max Fesca , Günther Jansen , Hermann Kellermann , Eduard Knüppel , Theodor Kölliker , Hermann Kreth , Werner Kyrieleis , Hermann Langenbeck , Sven-Peter Mannsfeld , Wilhelm Mansfeld , Philipp Meyer , Hermann Meyer-Burgdorff , Wilhelm Mielck , Carl Jasper Oelrichs , Hugo Pernice , Hugo Pfafferott , Peter Pieper , Carl Pietscher , Otto Richter , Gustav Roch , Ernst Roedelius , Berent Schwineköper , Otto Snell , Alexander Sostmann , Oskar Stavenhagen , Josef von Strombeck , Walther Sundermeyer , Wolfgang Sundermeyer , Rudolf Tesmann , Kurt Traenckner , Helmut Umbach , Carl Wehmer , Herbert Weyher , Eckard Wimmer , Julius Winter , Gerrit Winter and Oskar Zeller .