Inactive
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An inactive is an older but still studying member of a fraternity who has passed his active days and met the conditions for inactivation.
Conditions and duties
A certain number of active semesters and dueling fraternities a certain number of are generally required Bestimmungsmensuren . In addition, you can take over a batch , live on the corporation house and donate beer mugs and color pictures (as a reminder of the person concerned). Some compounds also make the preliminary test a condition for inactivation.
Inactive enjoy all the rights of a full student member (sometimes with restrictions on voting rights ), but are largely exempt from obligations. They do not have to take on any organizational or hosting duties at events. They are normally no longer elected to batches or offices. Not infrequently they are fox major . They are not set on the scale and hardly ever have to be present at events.
Especially the inactive people on site are important advisors for the young federal or corps brothers and ensure continuity. They play a major role as seconds and "fencing teachers" in strong connections.
The purpose of the inactive status is to give the advanced student more time to study and to enable a timely exam.
history
While in the first half of the 19th century the student took part in fraternal life throughout his studies and was often only able to take on management tasks in advanced semesters, the demands on active students increased enormously during the imperial era. With often several appointments a day, a visit to the university was almost impossible. Timely inactivation was therefore necessary and often associated with a change of university.
Today almost all connections know the status of the inactive, which can usually be reached after three or four semesters; some inactive remain "active" throughout the course or can be reactivated if there is a lack of young talent or if PP suites are being fought. Even today, many (old) families send their sons to certain corps before their actual studies.
“The most beautiful story of the Königsberg castle pond happened at the beginning of the 1930s: An inactive person got into the boat on a beautiful summer day and went overboard for reasons that were not clear. The Königsberger Allgemeine Zeitung reported on this in the local section and said that it was probably the alcohol that was involved. The inactive wrote to the newspaper that on that day he had not given up his habit of getting drunk until the late afternoon hours and asked for a corresponding correction. The newspaper actually reported. "
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Silke Möller: Between Science and “Burschenherrlichkeit”. Student socialization in the German Empire, 1871–1914 (= Pallas Athene. Contributions to the history of universities and science. Vol. 4). Steiner, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-515-07842-8 , p. 140, (at the same time: Bielefeld, University, dissertation, 2000).
- ^ Friedrich G. Ossig : Contributions to the history of the corps of the Hansea-Königsberg. Bintz-Dohany, Offenbach am Main 196.7