Hannoversche Burschenschaft Alt-Germania

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Hannoversche Burschenschaft Alt-Germania

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Basic data
University location: Hanover
University / s: University of Veterinary Medicine,
Hannover
Medical School
Founding: October 15, 1874
Corporation association : Association-free
Color status : colored
Colours:
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : optional
Motto: "If I rest, I rust!"
Website: www.alt-germania.de

The Hannoversche Burschenschaft Alt-Germania is a color-bearing student union founded in Hanover . Today, the fraternity , which is free of any association, was one of eight co-founders of the New German Burschenschaft (NeueDB).

history

The Alt-Germania was originally founded on October 15, 1874 as an open connection at the Royal Hanoverian Horse Medical School, today's Hanover University of Veterinary Medicine . Her five founding boys were the only non-affiliated students at the college at the time. Since they did not want to submit to the conventions and customs of the existing associations, they quickly formed an independent association.

In view of the general enthusiasm of the time for the newly founded German Empire in 1871, they chose the imperial colors black, white and red as the federal colors.

In the mid-1990s, the question of accepting conscientious objectors broke with the traditional fraternity association, the German fraternity (DB). The old Teutons wanted to accept a DB member association, contrary to a - now no longer existing - regulation of the DB that a conscientious objector could not become a member of a DB member association. The DB's view at the time that conscientious objection contradicted the defensive tradition of fraternities, the old Germanic peoples opposed the principles of freedom of conscience and individual responsibility, which in their opinion should be valued more highly in a modern fraternity understanding. After the Old Teutons had repeatedly campaigned for reforms within the DB, the New German Burschenschaft was founded in 1996 at the Alt-Germania house in Hanover. With the resolution of December 17, 2016, the Alt-Germania leaves the New German Burschenschaft and is the first founding union to leave the association after 20 years .

Fencing and scale length

The Burschenschaft Alt-Germania cultivates the facultative principle, which means that all members have to learn the technique of academic fencing up to the so-called scale maturity. Each individual is free to strike a sharp length .

Known members

  • Jürgen Probst (1927–2016), trauma surgeon and university professor
  • Diedrich Smidt (1931–2018), veterinarian and agricultural scientist

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 206-207.
  • Michael Doeberl , Alfred Bienengräber (Ed.): The academic Germany. Volume 2: The German universities and their academic citizens . CA Weller, Berlin 1931. p. 838.
  • EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 151.

Membership directory :

  • Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. pp. 1044-1045.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
  2. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 151.
  3. ↑ Old Germania. In: Alt-Germania. Hannoversche Burschenschaft Alt-Germania, accessed on December 21, 2016 .

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