Jena fraternity Germania

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Jena fraternity Germania

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Basic data
University location: Jena
University / s: Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Founding: June 12, 1815
Foundation date: December 13, 1846
Corporation association : German fraternity (left 2008)
Abbreviation: JB!
Color status : colored
Colours:
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : beating
Motto: Life and striving for the fatherland!
Website: www.jb-germania.de
The Fürstenkeller in Jena (1841)

The Jenaische Burschenschaft Germania is a mandatory student union in Jena . She is a direct successor to the Jena Urburschenschaft founded on June 12, 1815 .

history

The Jena fraternity separated on January 28, 1840 into the fraternity on the Fürstenkeller and the fraternity on the Burgkeller . The former later took the name Germania . The latter added her name to Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar in 1859 . The name Fürstenkeller refers to the old Jena restaurant Fürstenkeller , which the fraternity used as a constant for their pubs .

In the following years there were further membership movements. In the winter semester of 1842/43, some members resigned in order to re-establish a general Jena fraternity, some joined the Burgkeller fraternity, some came from there. Among the Jena fraternities there was mainly disagreement about the orientation of the fraternity, so in 1845 the Teutonia fraternity was founded as the third . In order to end these tensions, the Fürstenkeller fraternity dissolved in 1846 and immediately re-established as Germania on December 13, 1846 . In this way, all the dissatisfied could be kept away and the situation calmed down. In 1851 Germania hid the refugee revolutionary Karl Ludwig Ferdinand Blanckmeister .

In the course of the years the contact with foreign fraternities was intensified, several, partly short-lived cartels emerged , among others in 1855 with the fraternities Germania Giessen and Arminia Breslau . In 1859 Germania became a member of the North German Cartel until it left in 1862 . On May 7, 1869, Germania merged with the Hannovera Göttingen fraternity and the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity to form the green-white-red cartel that still exists today . The Germania belonged to the Eisenacher Burschenbund , the Eisenacher Deputierten-Convent (EDC) and the Allgemeine Deputierten-Convent (ADC), the later German Burschenschaft (DB), all of which arose with the participation and initiative of Germania .

The market square in Jena with the Germanenhaus (around 1900)

Germania moved into its own corporation house in 1887, directly on the market square in Jena . This was one of the first pure corporation houses in Germany to be rebuilt.

In the First World War 72 members fell. In the 1930/31 winter semester, Germania consisted of 75 active, 45 inactive and 438 old men .

During the time of National Socialism , Germania resigned from the German fraternity on April 17, 1935, due to the increasing influence of the National Socialists on the student umbrella organizations, but returned on April 28, 1935 and, under pressure from the National Socialists, was resigned on October 27, 1937 converted into a comradeship , which first bore the name of the respective comradeship leader ( Kameradschaft Theune , Kameradschaft Dietrich ), then from 1939 was called Kameradschaft Wartburg . In the Second World War 95 members died. The liaison house was destroyed during an air raid on Jena on March 19, 1945.

After the war, living together in Jena was no longer possible, so that in 1946 numerous old men met in Oldenburg to promote a reconstruction of Germania in another university town. On August 14, 1948, an old gentlemen's association was founded in Oldenburg, which in the following year supported the active operation of the fraternity fraternity Fürstenkeller Mainz , called fraternity Germania-Jena zu Mainz from the end of 1949 . However, the conditions there were unfavorable, so that Germania went to Göttingen from 1954/55 , where it remained until 1993 under the name Jenaische Burschenschaft Germania zu Göttingen . In 1957 they moved into the new house. In 1965, Germania led the 150th anniversary of the German fraternity in Berlin . After reunification, it was possible to live together in Jena again, which is why Germania went back to its old home. A return of the house expropriated by the GDR in 1949 could not be legally enforced, so a new fraternity house was acquired in Jena.

On February 6, 2020, an arson attack was carried out on cars at the Germania liaison house, and on March 18, the house was attacked by paint.

Color

Ribbon and cap from Germania .

The Germania bears the colors black, red and gold on a white background (bottom reading) with golden percussion in band and white cap .

Known members

Membership directory :

  • Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. pp. 1055–1056.

literature

  • Gustav Heinrich Schneider : The fraternity Germania zu Jena. Jena 1897.
  • Hermann Zeiß: History of the old Jena fraternity and the Burgkeller fraternity, since 1859 Arminia ad B. , Jena 1903.
  • Hans Volquartz: The insignia of the Jena fraternity and their history 1815-1965 , Bochum-Langendreer 1965.
  • Hans-Georg Balder : The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 166-167, 232-235, 290, 292.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Emil Anhalt : The separation of the Jena fraternity in January 1840: memories of an old fraternity. In: Georg Heer : Sources and representations on the history of the fraternity and the German unity movement. Volume 14, Heidelberg 1935, pp. 213-228.
  2. ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
  3. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : history of the student corporation associations. Volume II: The non-beating associations and supplements to Volume I. Würzburg 1985, p. 31.
  4. ^ EH Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 71.
  5. ↑ Katja Dörn: Arson attack carried out at the Jena fraternity. In: Ostthüringer Zeitung from February 6, 2020.
  6. ↑ Politically motivated. Color attack on the Jena fraternity. In: Jenaer Nachrichten of March 19, 2020.
  7. ↑ sprayed graffiti again before Burschenschaft Germania in Jena. In: Thüringer Allgemeine from March 19, 2020.
  8. ↑ Thuringia. Strangers smear the fraternity's house with paint. In: N-tv.de from March 19, 2020.

Web links

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