Heidelberg Wingolf
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Heidelberg Wingolf (HgW) |
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| coat of arms | Circle |
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| Basic data | |
| University / s: | University of Heidelberg |
| Founding: | 17./18.6.1851 |
| Place of foundation: | Heidelberg |
| Foundation date: | 17./18.6.1851 |
| Corporation association : | Wingolfsbund |
| Colours: | blue-white-gold Fuxenband: blue-gold Konkneipanten: blue-white |
| Type of Confederation: | Men's association |
| Position to the scale : | not striking |
| Motto: |
Δι 'ἕνος πάντα Di henos panta! (Greek: through one (Jesus Christ) everything!) |
| Field shout ( Panier ): |
Δι 'ἕνος πάντα Di henos panta! |
| Total members: | 260 |
| Active: | 30th |
| Website: | www.wingolf.org/heidelberg |
The Heidelberg Wingolf is the oldest non-beating and the oldest Christian student association in Heidelberg . It is the association with the largest number of members within the Wingolfsbund . The Heidelberg Wingolf was founded on June 17, 1851. Its colors are blue-white-gold. The house of the Heidelberg Wingolf is the first house in Heidelberg on the vineyard on the north side of the Neckar in what is now the Neuenheim district .
history
Prehistory (1844-1851)
In the middle of the 19th century, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars of Liberation and the first Wartburg Festival of the fraternities in 1817, student groups of friends also emerged, which were initially not student associations and which focused intensively on reading German poets and interpreting the Bible. Such a circuit was in 1828 in Leipzig based on Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock 's Ode to Joy the name Wingolf (Hall of Friends).
From 1844, the Heidelberg pastor and dean Johann Philipp Sabel organized a weekly Bible study for vicars, theology students and lay people interested in theology in his parsonage - the parsonage of St. Peter's Church . A solid circle quickly formed - the Sabel wreath . While all Heidelberg student associations were dissolved in the revolution of 1848, the Biblical Circle could continue to exist, as no corporate form had been chosen up to this point.
When the Heidelberger Corps could be re-established in 1850, the fraternities were not allowed to do so. This led to the establishment of the Progressburschenschaft Germania , which was banned by the university senate in the summer semester of 1850, but still existed in secret. When two Wingolfites from Berlin came to Heidelberg in the winter semester of 1850/51 , they were able to persuade parts of Germania to join the Sabelchen Kränzchen. The influence of this circle of friends in the Sabelschen Kränzchen led to the establishment of the Heidelberg Wingolf in 1851.
Foundation and prohibition (1851-1856)
On June 17, 1851, 15 members of the Sabelschen Kränzchen met in the Gasthaus Zum Rosenbusch and decided on a basic order. The first sentence read: The Wingolf is a Christian student association. On January 16, 1852, the student union was approved by the Senate of Heidelberg University. After a visit to the Marburger Wingolf , the decision was made to wear ribbons and the predominant colors in the existing Wingolf Association were black, white and gold. This drew tension with the Baden authorities and the Heidelberg Corps. While the government adopted fraternity-democratic tendencies, the corps, which had existed alone since 1849, feared strong competition. The existence of a non-fencing connection in Heidelberg for the first time, but also the similarity of the Wingolf colors to those of the Corps Suevia (black-yellow-white from below) caused conflicts.
In 1852 the Heidelberger Wingolf rose to become the Heidelberg corporation with the largest number of members. There were then several attacks by the Corps on the Wingolf. Due to its principles, it was not possible for the wingolf to meet the provocations of the corps with duel demands. Instead, he threatened to file a lawsuit before the university senate, whereupon the Suevia stormed a pub of the Heidelberg Wingolf on November 10, 1852. The then Wingolf President Heinrich Julius Holtzmann was advised on June 5, 1853, after the unsuccessful attempt to protect the Heidelberg Wingolf with pedals, to discard the colors. The negative of the proposal was followed by the ban on the connection by a Senate resolution on June 6th. A submission to the Baden Interior Minister v. Wechmar did not change anything.
As a result, the Christian Student Association was founded without any reference to Wingolf by name and officially without colors . When the members were found in a pub at Easter 1855 in full color, the Vice-Rector threatened to dissolve the association in case of repetition.
Re-establishment as Arminia Heidelberg (1856–1868)
The Heidelberg Corps were banned in January 1856 after some tumult. All connections had to resubmit their statutes to the university senate for the winter semester 1856/57 and obtain permission to wear colors. The Christian Student Association took the opportunity to submit an application to found a wingolf with the old colors. This was refused because they feared renewed disputes with the corps.
Instead of the application for the re-establishment of the Wingolf, the application for approval of the Arminia with the colors dark blue-white-gold was made in November 1856 . The Senate tied this to the condition that she was not allowed to join the overall wingolf. As a result, Arminia only had a seat in the Wingolfsbund, but no voting rights. In addition, Wingolfites from other university cities did not automatically become members of Arminia when they moved to Heidelberg, but they did have the opportunity to do so.
The dispute on principles of the following years - the topic was the interpretation of the Christianum - as well as the German-German war of 1866 and the immigration from North German, Prussian universities that was prevented by it, led to the postponement of Arminia in 1869 due to a lack of members.
Reactivation (1881) up to the First World War
For more than a decade there was no active Wingolf in Heidelberg. As the 500th anniversary of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg approached, the wish arose among the former members (old men) to have a Wingolf at the university again for the 1886 anniversary. With the influx of Wingolfites from the Wingolfsbund, the Fraternitas student association was formed on November 11, 1882 . After it turned out that the university administration no longer had any objection to the name "Wingolf", the connection was renamed Wingolf on November 13, 1882, but kept the amine colors blue-white-gold. In 1884 colors were created for the first time, and in 1885 they joined the Wingolfsbund.
Within a very short time the number of members of the Heidelberg Wingolf increased so strongly that in 1889 the chairmanship ( suburb ) could be taken over for the first time . On July 19 of the same year, the foundation stone was laid for a connection house in the Neuenheim district directly opposite the historic old town. When it was inaugurated on November 27, 1889, the Heidelberg Wingolf's house was the first on the vineyard on the north side of the Neckar in what is now the Neuenheim district. For the 50th Foundation Festival in 1901, the Heidelberg Wingolf was again a suburb of the Wingolfsbund and hosted the 25th Wartburg Festival . Large numbers of activities and many liaison events shaped the time up to 1914. This also led to an application to the city to enlarge the house, which was refused with reference to the number of activities of the largest association in the area.
The time between the world wars
30 Heidelberg Wingolfites died in World War I. A memorial stone was attached to the house in her memory. The economic hardship of the first post-war semester also caused a crisis of meaning in Wingolf. Several resignations followed. With the students in the early 20s, the connection business revived. Wingolf was shaped by new forms of life. The Nature played a greater role. So many trips were made. Even physical exercises were more pronounced. This included swimming, athletics, and fencing for practice purposes. The 75th Foundation Festival in 1926 was a lavish celebration. A large parade of five riders, over 30 active members and 330 Wingolfites from the Bund went through the old town.
Due to the global economic crisis in 1929, political and social issues were increasingly brought into the Wingolf in the following years. However, the Wingolf as such remained on the position of not taking a political position. When the National Socialists came to power on January 30, 1933, the clashes with the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB), which claimed sole representation of the students, began. Initially, the wingolf asked for fencing to be introduced, but the wingolf still refused. Furthermore, all connections had to introduce the leader principle , whereby the democratic decision-making bodies (convents) had to be abolished. In addition, the introduction of the Aryan paragraph was demanded. The subsequent debates in Wingolf as to whether this should be complied with drew many resignations from indignant old men. When the introduction of fencing continued to be insisted on, the Heidelberg Wingolf was forced to break the active connection on November 5, 1935.
On April 19, 1936, the representatives of the former students in the Heidelberg Wingolf (Philistine Convention) decided to sell the house. It was not until 1957 that the connection came back into possession of the house as a result of the chaos of war and some legal disputes. However, the most important connection items could be secured. The memorial stone for the fallen of the First World War found its new place in the Heiliggeistkirche .
In the following years there were still meetings of active and old men, which ended with the beginning of the Second World War.
The Heidelberg Wingolf after the Second World War until today
On April 17, 1948, the old gentlemen's association came together again. On May 31st, the rebuilding of Aktivitas began with the first accessions. In 1951 the 100th Foundation Festival was celebrated on a large scale. In 1955 the Heidelberg Wingolf took over the suburb of the Wingolfsbund for the third time.
With the student protests of 1968, membership numbers dwindled in the following years. In the 80s the active business revived. With the end of the GDR looming and the imminent reunification, the preparations for the first federal festival of the Wingolfsbund after 1934, which could take place again at the Wartburg , began. The return to the Wartburg also provided an opportunity to review the history of Wingolf in the Third Reich. As a part of the Heidelberg Wingolf, during the biennial Wartburg Festival, a memorial for Paul Schneider , a Giessen Wingolfite, who preached for fellow prisoners in the Buchenwald concentration camp until he died in his cell in 1939.
In 1995 the house finally came into the possession of Aktivitas. In 1997 the Heidelberg Wingolf took over the suburb of Wingolf for the fourth and last time. The 150th Foundation Festival followed in 2001.
Other special features
In honor of the Heidelberg Wingolf, the German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth named an asteroid discovered in 1942 Wingolfia .
The Heidelberger Wingolf is the only Heidelberg association that has a memorial stone in a church. ( Heiliggeistkirche )
Well-known Heidelberg Wingolfites (selection)
Jacob Volhard
Hans Bluntschli
Gorg Gölter
Jürgen Udolph
Sigfrid Gauch
- Peter Bendixen (1943–2007), politician (CDU), Education Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
- Hans Bluntschli (1877–1962), Swiss anatomist
- Otto Böcher (1935–2020), Protestant theologian and professor for the New Testament in Mainz, author of the Small Lexicon of Student Customs
- Karl Bornhäuser (1868–1947), Protestant theologian, professor for the New Testament in Greifswald, Halle (Saale) and Marburg
- Hans Wilhelm Doerr (* 1945), Director of the Institute for Medical Virology Frankfurt
- Wilhelm Doerr (1914–1996), Director of the Institute of Pathology at Heidelberg University, editor of the Pathology Manual, recipient of the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Sigfrid Gauch (* 1945), writer, 2007–2009 Vice President and Writers in Exile Officer of the PEN Center Germany
- Georg Gölter (* 1938), educator and politician (CDU), a. a. Minister for Social Affairs, Health and Sport, later Minister of Culture of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Hermann Hagena (* 1931), publicist, expert on security policy
- Wolfgang Haubold (* 1937), former President of the University of Hohenheim
- Heinrich Holtzmann (1832–1910), Protestant theologian, professor of theology in Heidelberg and Strasbourg; Main representative of the Protestant Association
- Albert Helbing (1837–1914), prelate and later President of the Upper Church Council of the Evangelical Church in Baden
- Nicolaus C. Heutger (1932–2008), Lutheran theologian, numismatist, Judaist and historian
- Paul Gerhard Hosemann (1879–1958), professor of surgery at the University of Freiburg; Head of the local deaconess hospital
- Lorenz Kähler (* 1973), lawyer and university professor
- Otto Katz (theologian) (1904–1976), Protestant pastor and dean in the Freiburg church district
- Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn (* 1934), Protestant theologian, professor for the New Testament in Heidelberg and Munich
- Friedrich Maurer (1898–1984), Germanist, linguist, co-founder of the Institute for the German Language in Mannheim
- Hans Nevermann (1902–1982), ethnologist and oceanist
- Christian Olearius (* 1942), lawyer, spokesman and personally liable partner of MMWarburg & CO KGaA
- Diethardt Roth (* 1941), Lutheran theologian, bishop em. the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Theodor Schaller (1900–1993), Protestant theologian, church president of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate
- Werner Schramm (1933–2004), Protestant theologian, Church President of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate
- Hermann Sitz (* 1949), lawyer, German diplomat
- Feodor Streit (1820–1904), managing director of the German National Association
- Jürgen Udolph (* 1943), sole professor of onomastics, University of Leipzig
- Uwe Uffelmann (1937–2008), historian and history educator
- Jacob Volhard (1834–1910), chemist, important student and biographer of Justus von Liebigs
Individual evidence
- ^ Eckhard Oberdörfer: Der Heidelberger Karzer , Cologne 2005, p. 161.
- ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 68.
- ↑ see: Rainer Müller : History of the University, page 80.
- ↑ Uli Steiger : The founding of the Heidelberg Wingolf and its prehistory. In: I was a student at Heidelberg
- ↑ Kalchschmidt : history of Heidelberger Wingolfs, pages 493ff.
- ↑ Otto Böcher in: Weiland Bursch, page 115
- ↑ Kurt Kalchschmidt , History of the Heidelberg Wingolf, page 521ff.
- ↑ Kurt Kalchschmidt , History of the Heidelberger Wingolf, page 515ff.
- ↑ Otto Böcher in: Weiland Bursch, page 117
- ↑ Wingolfsblätter , 1882, page 32f. or Udo Wennemuth , Sources on the history of the Heidelberg Wingolf 1881-1904, In: Wennemuth, I was a student at Heidelberg
- ↑ see Kalchschmidt : Geschichte des Heidelberger Wingolfs, page 527ff.
- ↑ see on this: District council vote of 1912, in which u. a. means: "Due to the number of relatives, the connection must be counted among the less quiet ones. An enlargement allows [...] more people [...] to be accommodated and the noise increases." ; to be found in: Kromphardt : 125 Years of Heidelberger Wingolf 1851–1976, page 24.
- ↑ see also: Fritz Goos , Der Heidelberger Wingolf after the First World War, In: Ich war zu Heidelberg Student , pages 159ff.
- ↑ Otto Böcher , in: ... Weiland Bursch ..., page 118
- ^ Fritz Goos , re-establishment of the Heidelberg Wingolf, in: I was a student at Heidelberg
- ↑ Traugott Ulrich Meier : The Heidelberg Wingolf as a suburb of the Wingolfsbund 1955–1957, in: I was a student at Heidelberg
- ↑ Martin Grüsser , Die 4. Vorortzeit des Heidelberger Wingolfs (1997–1999), in: I was a student at Heidelberg
swell
- Academic Monthly Section 25, 31
- Heidelberger Geschichtsverein eV HGV
- K. Kalchschmidt, G. Kappes: History of the Heidelberg Wingolfs . In: Hans Waitz: History of the Wingolf connections . Verlag des Verband alter Wingolfiten, Darmstadt 1914, pp. 491–550
- Udo Wennemuth: "I was a student at Heidelberg": 150 years Heidelberg Wingolf; 1851-2001 . Ed. Piccolo; Heidelberg: Association "Studentenwohnheim Heidelberger Wingolfer eV", Hanover 2001, ISBN 3-931892-04-2
- Karl Kromphardt (Red.): 125 years of Heidelberger Wingolf 1851-1976 , Lahr 1976
- Gerhart Berger and Detlev Aurand: ... Weiland Bursch zu Heidelberg ... - A commemorative publication of the Heidelberg corporations for the 600th anniversary of Ruperto Carola, Heidelberg, 1986, ISBN 3-920431-63-4
- Rainer A. Müller: History of the University: From the medieval Universitas to the German University , 1990, Munich, ISBN 3-7667-0959-3
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Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 59.6 " N , 8 ° 42 ′ 39.1" E