Königsberg Senior Citizens' Convention

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Königsberg Senior Citizens' Convention (1894–1935)

The Königsberg Senior Citizens' Convention was the amalgamation of the corps at Albertus University. The composition changed and remained unchanged until 1894. The Corpsland teams left the general fraternity in the 1820s . They adopted a corps constitution and became "country teams with corps". From 1855 the Masurians called themselves only "Corps". The Silberlitthauer and the Baltic did the same from the winter semester 1861/62. The Königsberger SC remained the main representative of the Königsberg student body in the German Empire and in the Free State of Prussia until 1935.

Composition of the Senior Citizens' Convention

  1. 1835–1840: Littuania, Masovia, Baltia I, Borussia, Normannia I and Scotia. Borussia retired on February 26, 1839. On January 15th, 1840 the SC was blown up due to a dispute between Masovia and Littuania.
  2. 1841-1847: Littuania, Masovia, Normannia I and Scotia. In February 1846 SC split into Masovia / Scotia and Normannia I. Littuania leaves. In the winter semester 1846/47 reunification with Masovia, Normannia and Scotia. After the dissolution of Normannia and Scotia in the winter semester 1847/48, the SC no longer exists.
  3. 1848–1850: Masovia and Silber-Litthuania
  4. 1851–1853: Masovia, Silber-Litthuania and Baltia II. Dissolution due to a dispute between Masuria and Litthauern.
  5. 1855–1868: Masovia, Silber-Litthuania and Baltia II. WS 1861/62 Split of the SC into Litthuania / Baltia and Masovia. 1865 reunification of the SC. Dissolution in SS 1868. Masovia 1868/69 dimitted by the oKC.
  6. 1873: Masovia, Baltia II and Normannia II
  7. 1876: Baltia II, Normannia II and Hansea
  8. 1880: Baltia II, Normannia II, Hansea and Masovia
  9. 1882: Normannia II temporarily alone in the SC
  10. 1889: Masovia, Baltia II and Hansea
  11. 1894: Masovia, Baltia II, Hansea and Littuania

history

At the Albertus University , the Collegia nationalia had expired by 1744. The corporations of the 19th century had no relationship with them. Rather, after the Wars of Liberation , the Konigsberg student body was still inspired by Germany's unity and freedom, to which they had made a significant contribution in the East Prussian Landwehr . The 300 (male only) students of the Albertina formed a general fraternity (AB). They saw themselves as a special group, especially since the general land law for the Prussian states subjected every “permanent society” to official approval and forbade the student orders and the (old) country teams . Associations within the AB were therefore formed as scientific circles (Academic Leisure, Euphemia) or country teams . In their regional and intellectual openness, the Kränzchen were forerunners of the Corps .

Fraternity

The Wartburg Festival and the political demands of the Jena Urburschenschaft drove into this contemplative existence like lightning. A group of the Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenschaft (ADB) also came into being in Königsberg. It took on the colors black-red-gold , but like the country teams soon lived underground; after the books were burned at the Wartburg , the Crown of Prussia, through the Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein, banned all student connections on December 7, 1817. Now the AB showed the colors black-red-white. Nobody from Königsberg had yet participated in the Wartburg Festival of 1817; but in March 1818 the founders and seniors of the Königsberg fraternity, Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach and Ludwig Lucas , traveled to Jena for the boys' day . Also at the second boys' day in October 1818 Königsberg was represented by delegates.

In 1817 two older boys (Lubecius and Sawatzki) donated the silver Albertus pin, which was soon considered to be the recognition and decoration of all Königsberg students. Joint balls and concerts , torchlight procession , academic funerals , vivats and comitates also marked the sense of community. The festivals on the Galtgarben in memory of the Battle of Belle Alliance were of particular importance .

In 1819, the student unity efforts came to a quick end. The murder of August von Kotzebue by Karl Ludwig Sand brought persecution of the fraternity and the Karlsbad resolutions . All universities were deprived of their academic freedom . In Königsberg, Theodor von Baumann and Christian Friedrich Reusch had to supervise the Senate and the student body and report to Berlin on all politically sensitive matters. The "dangerous fraternity" was dissolved immediately, all other connections - of which nothing is known, of course - forbidden. The seniors and the colors of German unity black, red and gold disappeared. Every semester all newly enrolled students had to sign a lapel, never to join an unauthorized connection.

First connections

Coat of arms of the (second) Königsberg fraternity, from which the Baltia Corpsland team split off in mid-1833

Koenigsberg i. Pr. Was far outside of the German Confederation and created a completely independent life of connections. According to an official report, the first "parties" within the AB were a Littuania (I) and a Pomesania, named after the old Prussian Pomesania . Both appeared in 1820, had a constitution and found themselves as the "more educated part of the students together for the sake of social intercourse in a select committee of the AB". Littuania rose as a country team in 1821 and continued as a wreath (Littuania II) until 1825. Pomesania's first seniors were v. Hanstein, v. Vietinghoff, Siegfried, Bock, Laudien and Benetsch. Pomesania was captured by the police on June 18, 1822 during the Galtgarben Festival and therefore dissolved in 1823. Its members wore the colors red-blue-white under their skirts.

Generality

In Königsberg, the so-called generality with the general boyhood custom remained. The general meetings of the boys were held unhindered in the Collegium Albertinum . In order to check the new connections for political activities, the Senate took a complaint because of some disturbances as an opportunity to summon the senior citizens of the country teams and the representatives of the "general". On November 20, 1829, the university judge recorded a record: “It is not only through the striking clothing of several students with hats of the same color and identically marked caps, as sky blue with white and red and gold, etc., that the well-founded suspicion arose that this headgear was outer badge of various associations, but also became known to the undersigned through various rumors that the following associations take place here. "

After the writing were found

1. the fraternity with hats "of black-white-red" color,
2. Borussia with caps "of black and white",
3. the Masurians with hats "of red-white and blue",
4. the Pappenheimers and Lithuanians with hats of "white, black and blue",
5. the Teutons with caps "of sky blue, red and gold".

Scotia is missing from this record.

  • Benno Eduard Petzenburg
    (Scotia, 1835)

  • Adolph Koch
    (Baltia, 1836)

  • Leon Sack
    (Borussia, 1836)

  • Hermann Neander Optacy
    (Scotia, 1841)

Compatriot Seniors' Convention

When these national student associations no longer wanted to submit to the violence of the AB, they formed a senior citizens' convent (SC) as a joint committee . He made it his task “to watch over the general spirit in the Albertina and to work internally and externally to maintain the lady's honor.” He also saw it as his prerogative to convene general student assemblies if something was undertaken with the participation of all should be.

Lithuania

Littauerkreis (1829) .JPG

Donated by Gustav von Saltzwedel on December 19, 1828 , Littuania IV adopted the Corps constitution on December 6, 1836. Littuania broke up into a larger country team and a smaller corps in 1848. The Silber-Litthauer were closely connected to the Baltic . The "silver" corps suspended in 1866.

Borussia

Circle CL Borussia Kbg
Borussia

Donated by the “Masurian elite” with 40 members on May 24, 1829, the Borussia compatriot announced its withdrawal from the AB. It was in black and white with a silver percussion and a black student cap . The motto was Virtus bonorum corona! This development was suspected by the "general". The worst opponents, the Pappenheimers , no longer had the predominance; in return, however, the Prussians came on the scene, who gave in to them in no way. In 1833, Borussia adopted the corps constitution as the first Königsberg connection. Isolated in the SC in 1839, she "disappeared from the scene".

“The transition to the Corpsland Team in Königsberger SC did not take place uniformly and simultaneously. Conclusions can therefore be drawn from the behavior of the individual compatriots about their composition and inner attitude. Borussia went first in 1833. From her later attitude it must be concluded that she introduced the innovation with full conviction. The Prussians had recognized that only the corps constitution could bring about the necessary tightness of the structure that would give the necessary clout for the expected struggle for leadership. They therefore dominated the SC and took an unyielding demeanor towards the rest of the students, now commonly called the "camels." They were admired and feared more than loved. "

- Siegfried Schindelmeiser

Scotia

Circle CL Scotia Kbg

Students of the old town high school founded the circle within the "general" on August 7, 1829. On May 24, 1833 Scotia resigned from the fraternity and became a country team. The motto was Virtuti semper coronam! The colors were black and blue with a silver percussion and a black cap. After the bulkheads emerged, the AB disbanded. The Baltia and Normannia compatriots were later formed from what was left of a union. As a closed circle, Scotia adopted the corps constitution without internal struggles, in fact in 1833. On November 17, 1847, the league was dissolved. According to the (uncertain) Kösener corps lists of 1910, Scotia had only 19 members, two of them with Masovia. The members portrayed in the Blätter der Remembrance (Schmiedeberg) are not listed . Scots were Hermann Bobrik , Hermann Hirsch , Friedrich David Michaelis , Otto Saro and Alexander Schmidt .

Teutonia

The federation, founded on November 1, 1829, called itself the Landsmannschaft and was considered a "wild society". It is said to have only existed for four months. The colors were blue-red-gold (or blue-gold-red).

Masovia

Masurian Circle.JPG

Masovia left the AB on February 19, 1831 and celebrated the day for a long time as the "Constitution Festival". On August 25, 1835, the Masurians from the Herzog-Albrechts-Schule (Rastenburg) introduced the corps constitution; the others from Kgl. They refused Lyck High School . This split into “coarse” (Lycker) and “fine” (Rastenburger) Masuria was only overcome when those involved had left the university and the federal government was reunited on March 14, 1838. Masovia was firmly rooted in Masuria and came through the Progress unscathed . From 1876 to 1880 she was not in the SC.

Baltia I

Baltia
Circle CL Baltia (Kbg.). Jpg

Baltia was donated by members of the (second) Königsberg fraternity on June 24, 1834 and from the beginning it was based on the corp principle. The colors were blue and white with a silver percussion and a blue cap. The motto was: Concordia res parvae crescunt! Baltia's senior citizens are named on the coat of arms: Otto Reitz, Easter 1834 to Easter 1837; Friedrich Weber, Easter 1837 to Michaelis 1838; Johann Ossowski Easter 1837 to 1838; Johann Niederstetter, February 1838 to October 1839; Eduard Steinke, Michaelis 1838. Baltia recruited her offspring from the Catholic Warmia . When that did not happen, she asked Masovia on November 30, 1840 to take over her 48 members. From then on, the SC consisted of only four Corpsland teams. Members were Robert Jaensch , Anton Rehaag , Hermann Romahn , Wilhelm Schmiedeberg and Albert Wichert .

Normannia I

Circle CL Normannia Kbg

Like Borussia and Baltia, Normannia was already committed to the corp principle when it was founded on March 6, 1835. She had the colors black-gold-light blue (read from below) with gold percussion and a blue cap with gold-black-gold stripes. The motto was initially honor, freedom, fatherland due to the fraternity origin , but was soon changed to Vir cedere nescit . Normannia suspended on December 11, 1847. According to the Kösener corps lists, it had 153 members, three of whom were together with Masovia. Gustav Graef's lithograph is the oldest corporate image from Albertus University. Until 1945 it hung on Masovia's corp house.

Federal song

Normannia (Gustav Graef, 1843)
O. Christiani (1845)

Text and melody: Gustav Herrmann or Heermann (Normannia), probably around 1835

Join in, Normans, the festive song
And ring with the sound of the swords ,
The time of weakness, it has vanished ,
We have found each other so happy ,
stayed true and remained pure .
We love a happy get-together ,
We sing of love and sing of wine
And boldly strike with swords :
Blow with at ,
Man for man ,
Who can lead the bat!

We no longer bear slavery ,
We come together deeply and freely .
And what glowed fiery in our hearts ,
what sparked a flame of enthusiasm ,
swear allegiance to the foaming wine .
We want to be happy together ,
we want to love each other true and pure
and boldly strike with swords :
Blow with at ,
Man for man ,
Who can lead the bat!

So when the eye breaks in death ,
We do not give up our loyalty .
For freedom, honor and a manly chariot,
our hearts should beat in our bosom .
High fills the goblet with foaming wine ,
Let the Norman's love be true and pure ,
He should consecrate the bat to honor
And black-blue-gold be his motto :
Blow with at ,
Man for man ,
Who can lead the bat!

Members

Internal structure of the corps country teams

The new compatriots wanted to get the entire student body under their influence. The division was thought so that the closest circle was the SC, the other the full members of the country teams who had gone through a probationary period.

“The new country teams with corps strived from the start to be the elite of the student body. You set the tone. The mass of students had to adapt to it. On the other hand, the dissolution of the corporate state at the beginning of the 19th century meant that the aristocratic student did not remain among his peers, but sought communities that corresponded to his view of life. The aristocratic trait in the country teams with corps was therefore consolidated, in contrast to the later democratic aspirations of the fraternity. "

- Siegfried Schindelmeiser

Batches

The fully legitimate Corp boys chose from among its Chargierten , namely two seniors as alternates to the third party Chargierten, just the "Corp representatives". In addition to this board in the legal sense, there was the secretary, the renditioner (cashier) and one or two fencing floor managers, also known as proponents or gun keepers. Entrepreneurs (“one-piece”) were named to prepare for special events.

Renoncen

The other members were part of the country team, but not part of the corps. They were therefore no longer called foxes, but renoncenes , because they waived equality for the time being. There were the “special” Renoncen, ie young semesters who had joined the federal government in order to acquire full membership rights, and the Renoncen, which were the majority of those who did not want to join a country team, but were compatriots.

Stay

Since at that time the Bünder did not have their own houses, and did not even have a special room rented for their purposes in an inn, the meetings of the SC and the Convente of the Landsmannschaften took place in an auditorium of the Albertinum, on the fencing floor or even on the Place of a member. The fencing floor consisted of a small independent apartment or a special room in a courtyard building. It was rented and therefore the only place where the Bund could feel at home. Less well-off “Couleur Brothers” even lived in it.

University anniversary

For the 300th anniversary of Albertus University in the summer of 1844, there was a special program for the students:

  • Monday, August 26th: student concert in the v. Borck's garden
  • Tuesday, August 27th: Masuren-Kommers in the shooting house
  • Wednesday, August 28th: ​​Soirée in both boxes
  • Thursday, August 29th: torchlight procession. Entrepreneurs from Masuria Mendthal and the Scot Simson; the poet of Masure Kleist, the speaker of the Lithuanian election
  • Friday, August 30th: Vivat for the Vice Rector Burdach . Dinner in the Junkerhof and fireworks. Fidele pub on Königsgarten
  • Saturday, August 31: laying of the foundation stone [for the new university] in Königsgarten. Dinner with the king with the entrepreneurs of the torchlight procession. Ball in the Muscovite Hall in the evening
  • Sunday, September 1st: Water trip to Holstein and general Kommers in the v. Borck's garden

Corps constitution and liberalism

From Albertina's boyhood custom (1824) the SC-Comment developed until 1848 . With the departure of the Scots, the general fraternity had dissolved. In doing so, she recognized that she no longer embodied the Albertina's student body. It was replaced by the SC, the Seniors' Convention . He had achieved what the country teams had seen as their task before the General German Burschenschaft (ADB) appeared. The SC now took over all offices and represented the student body as such. The next step was the introduction of the principles of the "Corps". These principles had developed at the other universities and made the difference between the new Landsmannschaft (student union) and the old Landsmannschaft (early modern period) . The corps principles violated the sacred dogma of the French Revolution of human equality . They were a return to the corporate state because the difference between Corpsboy and Renonce gave the CB rights. According to the principle of the ADB, the designation fox only indicated an age difference. Borussia took over the leadership in the SC because their corps boys showed a uniform corps student orientation. They proceeded from the old structure of the compatriots: SC, members elected to the corps, special renonces and other compatriots. When Lithuania wanted to abolish the scale length in 1847, it got into isolation (for the first time). The remaining three Corpsland teams joined forces and celebrated the Galtgarben Festival on June 18, 1847 . On September 9th they organized a trip to the castle pond and in the evening a Kommers . That was a "sign of the close relationships between the three allied country teams". The Masurians and the Silber-Litthauer formed a new (Pauk) cartel in 1848 and formed a senior citizens' convention. The revision of the old Landsmannschaftercomment dragged on for years.

“With this innovation, the country teams violated one of the beliefs of liberalism and committed a mortal sin against the holy spirit of an age in which the educated man had reached the highest rank. It was considered impossible that he could voluntarily give up some of the rights he had won. On the other hand, the liberal of that type did not know any feelings of inferiority; he did not devalue himself by looking at the others with a "crooked look from below" ( O. Spengler ). On the contrary, he was just as willing to sacrifice and enthusiastic as they were, and considered a bad demeanor to be unworthy. He just couldn't jump over his shadow. The confrontation of the Corpsland teams with their environment therefore remained a social question even now. "

- Siegfried Schindelmeiser

Accession of the Corps to the KSCV

Communication to the SC in Bonn as a suburb of the KSCV about the constitution of the Königsberger SC, January 25, 1865
SC message, suspension of the Silver Litthuania (1866)

The pounding relationship between the Masurians and the Silber-Litthauer was broken in the summer of 1850. So it strengthened the interests of the country team that on May 17, 1851 some Silber-Litthauer (especially August Wittich and Hermann Elgnowski ) founded the new Corps Baltia II. On June 30, 1851, Masovia, Silber-Litthuania and Baltia merged in a closer cartel to form a senior citizens' convention. The next day a general assembly of corpsmen met in the Stoa Kantiana to discuss the preparations for a general commers and a castle pond tour with music and singing. The public should be shown that the corps studenthood as part of the academic life had survived the progress. In 1863 East and West Prussia did not belong to the German Confederation ; the “Reich” was abroad. From Kösener SC Association Konigsberg students knew very little. On January 15, 1864, the Silber-Litthauer joined the suburb of Berlin as the first Königsberg corps to join the KSCV. After the mutual disrepute was lifted , the cartel of the three corps was renewed on January 18, 1865. The new Königsberger SC immediately joined the Kösener SC Association and sent the Littauer Goltz as SC representative to the Whitsun conference in Kösen. The SC prevented the obsolescence of its key representatives by ensuring that every Corps student from the 6th semester onwards was considered inactive . He no longer had the right to vote in the General Assembly of Corps. In 1873 the newly founded Normannia came to the SC. Rather Wilhelmine as East Prussian oriented, they urged the SC to adapt to the Corps "in the kingdom." In 1875 the Königsberger Corps gave up Albertus by the student hat. In 1876 the Corps Hansea Königsberg and in 1894 a part of the Littuania Landsmannschaft came to the SC. Comments changes were triggered by the suggestions of the Association of Alter Corps Students . In the winter semester of 1895/96 these led to the version of the SC-Komment, which was not significantly changed in the following decades.

The Königsberger SC appointed the chairman of the oKC three times: Baltia 1874, Hansea 1894 and Littuania 1913. According to Königsberger custom, the Kösener corps lists were not kept after reception , but after admission. The student fencing weapon was the bell striker .

The batch numbers were x, xx, xxx.

Baltia II

Donated as a counterbalance to Masovia, Baltia was unable to step out of Masovia's shadow in her 83 years. In the time of National Socialism , it came into the sights of those in power very early on. Hopelessly divided in the old rulers, they also turned the other three corps against them. On March 1, 1934, their AH chairmen asked Max Blunck to intervene. His special envoy Alfred Funk forced Baltia to suspend it on March 6, 1934.

Normannia II

Normannia II

After Masovia and Baltia had settled their disputes and (re) joined the KSCV as the new senior citizens' convention, they agreed to establish a third corps for reasons of convenience. So on July 4th, 1873, the Corps Normannia Königsberg was created with the colors black-silver-light blue. Their sense of outward appearances and forms reflected the Wilhelmine arrogance of the founding years , which was alien to the withdrawn nature of the old Prussian corps. "With the new tone that Normannia had introduced, the old cosiness that once prevailed in Königsberg was lost." Normannia fell out with Baltia and Masovia. The conflict intensified at the beginning of the 1880s when the Corps Hansea , which had now been established , turned against Normannia. Normannia repeatedly asked questions about the scale that were rejected by the three corps. The charges of insult and corpstouche did not end. The result was saber demands and courts of honor that Normannia refused to recognize. The arbitration tribunal called by Normannia (Berlin, Breslau) agreed with the SC; in the case of Corpstouche, however, the arbitration tribunal (Berlin, Leipzig) decided against him. Normannia now issued a promemoria to all SC and sued the oKC for violation of the Kosen statutes and for majorization by the three other corps. The SC countered with a complaint of gross insult, compromising the SC, and misrepresentation of facts. The oKC was determined by the black circle . Normannia's representative was Rudolf Focke . The three requests for protested complaints went through. Normannia was now the only corps with full rights in Konigsberg, where the other three, including their two mother corps, were to renounce. They suspended on June 3, 1882 and tried to open up new corps through their multibandom men. Since Normannia and other SCs rejected it, Masovia and Hansea volunteered to be renounced. They were admitted to the SC on December 3, 1882, which they had founded decades earlier. All of a sudden, the three corps were on the best of terms. Baltia had tried in vain to get into the SC as the new Pomerano-Borussia. She too finally renounced on June 4, 1883. The time of hostility also damaged Normannia. She lacked counterparts. The offspring became even scarcer. She was suspended on November 10, 1889. Normannia had a conceptual relationship with Guestphalia Jena and a friendly relationship with Borussia Greifswald (since 1880). The friendly relationships with Vandalia Berlin (1874–1881) and Saxonia Göttingen (1874–1877) were broken . Königsberg Normans were Max Bergius , Karl von Collas , Ernst von Kannewurff , Emil Kautz , Karl Opitz , Erich von Siegfried , Ernst Vanhöffen , Martin von Wegnern , Robert Wollenberg and Carl Zarniko . The corps only had 52 members.

Hansea

Hansea (1876) had a fraternity inheritance. In the time of National Socialism it was the last Königsberg Corps to be suspended. The Hanseatics did not get together again in Germany after the war . Some pictures and archive material were in private hands, but were lost due to water damage.

Littuania

Littauerhaus (1935)

Only a part of the country team returned to the SC in 1894. Since then the conflict of ancestry has simmered . As in 1895 and 1898, the Corps Littuania applied in 1913 to be allowed to use January 29, 1829 as the foundation date for the Lithuania Corpsland Team. She encountered (again) the unanimous resistance of the other corpsman convents . In the course of the speech battles, PP suites were overthrown. The inactive Littauer Busch brought the three other corps a batch request for rackets. It was also disputed whether Littuania was allowed to lead old members of the corpsland team and the silver Litthuania in their corps list as old men. A settlement was finally reached on this . In January 1920, Littuania requested backdating again. The result was nine batch requests for clubs and 24 pairs of PP. On top of that, the CC brought an action against SC disrepute of the other corps boys. The oKC in 1921 rejected Littuania's request. In November 1927, Littuania wanted to have it stipulated to refer to 1894 and 1829 in invitations to foundation festivals. The fact that Masovia contradicted this in a memorandum prompted Littuania to submit a batch claim for pistols to the CC involved. The court of honor approved them. Wilhelm Fabricius , the chairman of the committee for backdating, had personally taken care of the Littuania c / a Königsberger SC matter. The trial led to lively discussions but resulted in no decision. In a settlement, Littuania was granted reference to both years of the foundation. Instead, she decided not to backdate. This comparison also settled the approved pistol claims. According to the number of their active members, Masovia and Littuania were two to three times as strong as Baltia or Hansea in the interwar period. Again and again they clashed:

“In the second half of the summer semester, 48 games were fought, of which 33 CB games, 3 receptions and 12 F games. Among the contested CB games there are eight PP games that form the end of a long uninterrupted series of PP games against Masovia. Masovia opened the PP on November 25, 1926 for a very minor reason. A racket batch claim, ten personal demands and 104 PP games were fought, a total of 117 games. "

- Fencing report from Littau (SS 1929)

Littuania's identity problem was never resolved. Long after the war, images and archive material were squandered by uncomprehending descendants.

Public work

19th century

350 years of the Albertina: The SC defiles in front of Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1894).
Ernst von Kannewurff, as Police President, patron of the SC

As Friedrich Wilhelm IV. The inauguration of the Eastern Railway route Braunsberg came -Königsberg, the SC directed the Albertina in honor of the King and Rector on the evening of Aug. 2, 1853, a boat trip on the Königsberg Castle Pond from. The city had built a boat for him especially for the evening. At the box garden he accepted a salutation and a preciously integrated Carmen from the students. On November 4, 1858, to celebrate his 25th anniversary as professor at the Albertina, the three corps presented Karl Rosenkranz , who has long been very popular, with a precious silver fruit bowl with an engraved dedication. Also for the Schiller Festival the three corps united on November 10, 1859 in a Kommers in the shooting house at Sackheimer Tor ; the Masure Vigouroux gave the speech. In the summer semester of 1860, the corps and the rest of the student body again brought a torchlight procession to Professor Heinrich Rathke for his 25th anniversary . In 1861, they took part in the coronation celebrations for Wilhelm I. During the torchlight procession that the king received on October 19 Was offered in the courtyard of Königsberg Castle in 1861 , the former Masurian senior Glede was a speaker before the queen.

The preparation for the celebrations at the inauguration of the new university building on Paradeplatz provided several occasions for general student meetings in the SS 1862. After the death of Friedrich III. put the SC on for six weeks of deep corp mourning. Determined minors or contrahages were not allowed to be fought during that time. The SC sent a splendid wreath on the emperor's grave and participated with pomp at the funeral ceremony organized by the university in the auditorium. On his first visit Konigsberg May 1890 received William II. The Chargierten the Corps. From 1869 to 1933 most of the upper presidents of East Prussia were students of the corps, including Wilhelm von Bismarck , who attended many SC events. When he died early, the SC sent a representative to the memorial service in Varzin . The SC- Kommerse took place for many years in the Börsengarten , from 1897 in the Königsberg zoo . The Rector and Senate were regularly invited to the Kommersen with Landesvater . The SC took part in the mourning sequence for the police chief Ernst von Kannewurff , the founder and long-time president of the Königsberg Kommerse old students. The SC took part in the farewell to deserving professors in the Palaestra Albertina ( Hans Prutz , Karl von Gareis , Carl Garrè , Hermann Kuhnt , Felix Rachfahl , Ludimar Hermann ). During the First World War , 42 Masurians, 19 Balts, 3 Normans, 22 Hanseatic and 34 Littau fell.

20th century

When closed, the whole SC took part in the celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the Prussian kingship in January 1901 . In June 1903 he took part in an “illuminated gondola ride” on the castle pond, when a big party was held in favor of the day care centers in the stock exchange garden and in the box gardens. During the First World War, SC life largely came to a standstill. On January 9, 1919, the seniors of the Königsberger SC met for the first time since 1914 to open the SC winter semester. When the Polish Corridor separated East Prussia from the Reich, the SC participated in the technical emergency aid of Königsberg and in the East Prussian Volunteer Corps . After the First World War, “Resident Welfare Services” were formed to protect Königsberg. Hansea's corp house was the center of student aid. 11 members of the Königsberger SC had been awarded the Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern : 2 Balts, 6 Masurians and 3 Littauers. As with the university's founding celebrations, the SC charged at the large Königsberg Kant celebration (1924) when the new Kant cenotaphion was inaugurated. In 1929 the Königsberger SC had 29 corps boys, 50 foxes and 126 inactive.

The SC initially belonged to the Hochschulring Deutscher Art (HDA), but left in 1923 for petty prestige reasons. The fact that he was absent from ceremonial, sporting and other occasions or was present as an outsider was felt as embarrassing by the university authorities and the public and was exploited by the fraternity , which soon dominated the HDA alone. The four Kösener Corps had also lost their influence on the General Student Committee as soon as they took part in the Asta elections. Masovia did not succeed in dissuading the other corpsman convents from their position. Even the general warning issued at the Kösener congresses to participate in the HDA was unsuccessful. The situation became more and more unpleasant, so that decisive Königsbergers pushed for a remedy. Masure Becker recognized the threat to the whole SC. He knew how to give the SC access to the HDA again in 1926. His policies bore fruit. The SC immediately achieved an outstanding position in the HDA and in the general student committee. The most important offices of the two board members, including the chairman, were in the hands of Masuria several times. Wilhelm von Prussia was a regular guest of Masovia.

When the KSCV was dissolved on September 28, 1935, Franz Boy, President of the Senate at the Higher Regional Court in Königsberg , tried to find an amicable solution for the Königsberger SC in negotiations with the rector ( Georg Gerullis ). Masovia suspended on October 28, 1935, Littuania on May 17, 1936 and Hansea on July 7, 1936. Only two out of eight comradeships found support from old men of the Königsberger Corps, the "Liebenberg" from Masuria and the "Tannenberg" from Littauer.

Membership numbers (winter semester 1930/31)

corps Old men Inactive Active
Baltia 130 14th 6th
Hansea 124 32 11
Littuania 242 48 27
Masovia 250 40 23

memory

Albertina

On March 12, 1950, 8 people from Littau, 9 Balts and 5 Hanseatics donated the Corps Albertina in Hamburg. Masovia has been in Potsdam since 2001.

literature

  • Ludwig Biewer : Student life at the University of Königsberg from the turn of the 19th century to National Socialism . In: Udo Arnold (ed.): Prussia as a university landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century . Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, Lüneburg 1992, pp. 45–86.
  • Klaus Bürger : The students of the University of Königsberg 1817–1844 , in: Udo Arnold (ed.): Prussia as a university landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries. Century . Northeast German Cultural Work, Lüneburg 1992.
  • Rüdiger Döhler : The Senior Citizens' Convention in Königsberg. East Prussia and its corps before the end , in Einst und Jetzt, yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research:
Part I: Vol. 52 (2007), pp. 147-176. ISSN  0420-8870
Part II: Vol. 54 (2009), pp. 219-288. ISSN  0420-8870
  • Wilhelm Fabricius : History and chronicle of the Kösener SCV . Frankfurt am Main 1921.
  • Wilhelm Fabricius: The German Corps . Frankfurt am Main 1926.
  • Otto Fünfstück: Littuania I belong to you . Hamburg 1966.
  • John Koch : From the Königsberg Corpsland teams in the years 1835 to 1839 . Deutsche Corpszeitung, 42nd year, November 1925, pp. 208-216 and 249-253.
  • John Koch: One hundred years of Königsberg student corps . Deutsche Corpszeitung, Volume 45 (1929), pp. 376–378.
  • Hans Lippold: The Königsberger Corps Scotia (1829–1847), Borussia (1829–1847), Normannia I (1833–1847), Normannia II (1873–1889), Baltia I (1834–1840) and Pappenhemia (1824–1841) . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 13 (1968), pp. 80-92.
  • Eduard Loch : From the oldest Königsberg student associations 100 years ago . Koenigsberg 1927.
  • Eduard Loch: Masovia 1818 to 1838 , in: Rüdiger Döhler (ed.): Corps Masovia. The 175-year history of Königsberg's oldest and Potsdam's first corporation in the 21st century . Munich 2005, ISBN 3-00-016108-2 , pp. 31-52.
  • Eduard Loch: From the oldest Königsberg student associations 100 years ago . Koenigsberg 1927
  • Max Pauly: Chronicle of the Landsmannschaft Littuania during their 60th anniversary, 1829–1889 . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1889.
  • Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970–1985), Vol. 1. For the first time complete, illustrated and annotated new edition in two volumes with an appendix, two registers and a foreword by Franz-Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, ed. by R. Döhler and G. v. Klitzing, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6 .
  • Gustav Gotthilf Winkel : On the prehistory of the corps at the Albertina in Königsberg . Deutsche Corpszeitung 34 (1917/18), pp. 157–166.
  • Gustav Gotthilf Winkel: Kösener SC calendar. Paperback for the Kösener corps student . Frankfurt am Main 1920.

Web links

Commons : Senior Citizens' Convention in Königsberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ In the Kösener SC calendar of 1920 , only two corpsland teams are listed for all German universities: Littuania and Masovia.
  2. ↑ Sack was a physician, b. 1811 in Kremenez , Volhynia
  3. ↑ The Borck'sche Garten was named after Christian Ernst Wilhelm Benedikt von Borck . Later the Konigsberg General Command sat there
  4. ↑ The shooting house was at Sackheimer Tor
  5. ↑ The Königsgarten became the Paradeplatz (Königsberg)
  6. ↑ The Junkerhof was in the Kneiphof town hall
  7. ↑ King was Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
  8. ↑ see Groß Holstein Castle
  9. ↑ Georg Goltz († 1899) was a medical councilor in Barmen.
  10. ↑ The comment was printed in 1896 by Leo Krause & Ewerlien. One piece is still available today.
  11. ^ Egon Busch, assessor in Leipzig, died in Champagne in 1915; Kösener corps lists 1930, 88/708.
  12. ^ Otto Vigouroux (1837–1907) was a teacher in Hamburg.
  13. ^ Rudolf Glede (1837–1907) was a medical councilor in Bartenstein.
  14. ↑ Georg Becker (1901–1963) was an agricultural officer in Frankfurt am Main.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Rhode: The academic liaison system at the Albertina , foreword
  2. ↑ a b Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Königsberg Senior Citizens' Convention until 1848 . Deutsche Corpszeitung 1978 (issue 1).
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Eduard Loch: History of the Corps Masovia 1830–1930.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g S. Schindelmeiser (2010)
  5. ↑ O. Fünfstück, p. 12
  6. ↑ a b c d e f estate of Andreas Mildahn, fraternity Germania Königsberg
  7. ↑ H. Lippold
  8. ↑ a b List of all members of the Corps Masovia 1823 to 2005 . Potsdam 2006
  9. ^ Max Pauly: Chronicle of the Landsmannschaft Littuania during its 60th anniversary, 1829-1889 . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1889, p. 41 f.
  10. ↑ Hans Lippold: The oldest corporation picture. Gustav Graef and his portrayal of the Königsberg Normans in the Masovia House . Ostpreußenblatt , April 28, 1973, volume 17, p. 10
  11. ^ Fabricius, Deutsche Corps, p. 279 f.
  12. ^ Eduard Loch: History of the Corps Masovia 1830–1930. Part I. Königsberg 1930.
  13. ↑ Louis Mendthal, KKL 1910, 141/389.
  14. ^ Albert Wahl, KKL 1910, 140/210.
  15. ^ Emil Kleist, KKL 1910, 141/377.
  16. ^ Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Königsberg Senior Citizens' Convention up to 1848 . Deutsche Corpszeitung 1978 (Issue 1)
  17. ↑ Schindelmeiser, Vol. 1, p. 129
  18. ^ Corps Masovia (2005), p. 107
  19. ↑ Loch-Lippold, p. 84
  20. ↑ John Koch : One Hundred Years of Königsberg Corps Students . Deutsche Corpszeitung, Volume 45 (1929), pp. 376–378.
  21. ↑ Schindelmeiser, Vol. 1, p. 285
  22. ↑ Andreas Mildahn: Student fraternities at the University of Königsberg i. Pr. In lexical overview (N – Z) . Once and Now, Vol. 64 (2019), pp. 145–186.
  23. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, pp. 887–888.
  24. ↑ Walter Passauer: Corp table of the Littuania zu Königsberg . Koenigsberg 1935.
  25. ↑ Eduard Loch : 1850-1880, in: Geschichte des Corps Masovia (1930), p. 105
  26. ↑ Eduard Loch: 1850-1880, in: Geschichte des Corps Masovia (1930), p. 106
  27. ↑ Schindelmeiser, Vol. 2
  28. ^ Eduard Loch, Hans Lippold: History of the Corps Masovia, III. Part: 1910-1930. P. 263
  29. ↑ Masovia's archive (corpsarchive.de)