I surrendered

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I give myself a 1820 by Hans Ferdinand Maßmann sealed and under the title vow posted patriotic folk and student song .

Melody of the song

In the period after the Second World War, in the Federal Republic of Germany, in the absence of a German national anthem, until the commitment to the German song, I have surrendered on festive occasions , for example when the Basic Law was promulgated on May 23, 1949, as well at the constituent session of the first Bundestag on September 7, 1949. Deutschlandfunk used the fifth melody line ? / i as a pause sign . Audio file / audio sample

The national anthem of the Federated States of Micronesia Patriots of Micronesia uses the same melody. Your English text is closely based on that of I have surrendered .

melody

The song uses the melody of the fraternity song, written in 1819, We had built a stately house by August Daniel von Binzer . It was also used by Johannes Brahms as a leitmotif in his Academic Festival Overture .

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text

I surrendered , print version 1823

The third stanza is often left out, as is the case in the Allgemeine Deutsche Kommersbuch . The reason may be the denominational confession of Martin Luther , but also the third line, where the word Volkstum is broken down into the components of "your Volkes Tume", which have not been independent since the Middle High German period, also in the dative form instead of the accusative required by the preposition .


1. I have surrendered to you
with heart and hand
, land full of love and life,
my German fatherland!

2. My heart has blown out,
loyally turned towards you,
you land of the free and pious,
you wonderful Hermannsland !

3. You land, rich in glory,
where Luther rose up, I give my heart and hand
for your people's dreams
!

4. Will keep and believe
in God pious and free,
will, fatherland, remain
firm and loyal to you forever.

5. Oh God, raise
my young
blood to a fresh, joyful life,
to free pious courage!

6. Let me acquire strength
in heart and in hand
to live and die
for the holy fatherland!

literature

  • Joachim Burkhard Richter: Hans Ferdinand Maßmann: Old German patriotism in the 19th century . Walter de Gruyter, 1992, ISBN 3-11-012910-8 , in particular pp. 111-121.

Web links

Commons : I surrendered  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: General German Kommersbuch: I have surrendered  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Agency for Civic Education : The Parliamentary Council , accessed on May 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ I surrendered to the General German Kommersbuch
  3. ↑ Middle High German: an introduction
  4. ↑ This stanza for the first time (?) In the Deutsches Turn-Liederbuch 1868, p. 79 . Since Maßmann wrote the foreword, he should have completed it himself.