KStV Rhenania Innsbruck

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State :	Tyrol
City:	innsbruck
Founding:	May 27, 1895
Association:	KV and ÖKV
Abbreviation:	Rh-I!
Motto:	In Fide Firmitas
Principles:	Religio, Scientia, Amicitia
Colours:	green-white-blue
Website:	kstv-rhenania.at/
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The Catholic student association Rhenania Innsbruck or KStV Rhenania Innsbruck was founded on May 27, 1895 as a non-colored student association. It belongs to the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations and the Cartel Association of Catholic Non-Colored Academic Associations in Austria .

The foundation

In the course of the break-up of the student movement and, above all, of the Catholic student organizations in Austria, the third Catholic corporation, the “Akademia Innsbruck”, was founded in Innsbruck on October 19, 1871. The establishment followed on November 29, 1872, the admission into the KV. In 1874 the alliance split into the Akademia and the Alpinia as a result of disputes. The dissolution of both associations in 1877 could not be prevented.

Another attempt to revive the cartel idea in Austria was started in 1893 with the founding of AKV Tirolia Innsbruck . However, this connection pursued more national Austrian goals and so four German students from Rhineland and Westphalia decided to set up a KV corporation in the castle brewery on Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck, which, contrary to the already existing Innsbruck connections, refused to wear colors and was a meeting point for all German students in Innsbruck should be. With his high school graduates and friends Peter Gander, Peter Rödder and Heinrich Schleppinghoff, Joseph Gotzen founded the academically Catholic student association Rhenania on May 27, 1895. The model was the non-colored Helvetia association, which had just been dissolved at the time and only accepted Swiss students. The Rhenania grew to 12 active participants in the winter semester of 1895/96 and became the strongest connection in Innsbruck in the summer semester of 1896. Her first senior was Karl Huisking, her first consenior and secretary was Joseph Gotzen. Just one year later, Rhenania was accepted into the KV as a full member.

Further development

In the following years, predominantly Reich German students became active in Rhenania. Since many German theology students studied in Innsbruck in their free semesters, the proportion of theologians at Rhenania is above average. Many high clerics in Germany were and are Innsbruck Rhenanen. After the interruption caused by the First World War , the connection continued to develop. During this time the KV and many KVers supported the South Tyrolean struggle for survival intensively. The Bavarian Prime Minister and KVer Heinrich Held , as well as the Austrian Chancellor Ignaz Seipel , who was an honorary member in three Austrian KV connections , played a leading role . Held became honorary philistine of Rhenania in 1925. In 1928 Rhenania founded a subsidiary in KV called South Tyrol . When Chancellor Seipel sent a telegram of greeting to their publication ceremony and declared his solidarity with the KV's initiative, there were diplomatic protests on the part of Italy in Vienna.

Dissolution in the time of National Socialism

With the rise of National Socialism in Germany, the KV and thus also the corporations threatened danger. After Hitler came to power on January 30, 1933 and the subsequent restrictions, the beginning of the end of the KV and its corporations was heralded. On the one hand the danger of Adolf Hitler was underestimated, on the other hand the resistance of Catholic institutions and groups was severely paralyzed. Until April 1933 KV members were forbidden to belong to NS branches. Then, however, membership in the NSDAP and its defense organizations was allowed with association membership, as it was believed that worse things could be averted for the association. The leader principle was introduced, with the result that decision-making authority was transferred to a cooperation leader. Even the Aryan paragraph was implemented. Through this synchronization of the association management, the Austrian KV corporations finally left the KV and founded the independent ÖKV on July 22, 1933 . On March 20, 1934, the self-administration of the student associations was subordinated to the Reichsführer of the German student body. The denominational principle was suppressed and the name was changed to "Kartellverband Katholischer Deutscher Burschenschaftlicherverbindungen (KDB)". In Rhenania - as in other corporations - there was agreement that one would not allow oneself to be misused to infiltrate Nazi ideas, which is why Rhenania was suspended in 1934 due to the political situation; This opposition to National Socialism also led to the fact that the KV was dissolved on November 20, 1935 in Hanover. The KV corporations were finally dissolved in 1938 as anti-subversive and banned, and the assets were confiscated.

Reactivation of Rhenania Innsbruck in 1952

The reactivation of Rhenania Innsbruck after the Second World War turned out to be difficult. In 1947/48 the cartel brothers from Germany and Austria began to track down the federal brothers scattered around the world, but there was no connection to Innsbruck. A large number of Rhenans were in North Rhine-Westphalia and tried to find a new activity in Bonn / Bad Godesberg, since a return to Innsbruck was not permitted - according to the occupation statutes. In 1949 the old Rhenans founded the KStV Rheinland in Bonn. She adopted colors, voting circles and the songs of the Rhenania. The old Rhenan flag, which was saved from being confiscated by the Nazis, was also handed over. All known Innsbruck residents came to the 1st Foundation Festival; Among them were the founders Gotzen and Schleppinghoff. Finally in 1951 the opportunity finally arose to re-establish the KStV Rhenania in Innsbruck and so Rhenanen, who had done a lot for the Rhineland Bonn, made the decision and went to Innsbruck. The students were supported by AKV Tirolia Innsbruck , which served as a suitable operational base for the project.

At an ÖKV festival at the beginning of the 1952 summer semester, Rhenania appeared with 30 active members. The first re-establishment festival took place on June 21, 1952. On November 12, 1953, he was accepted into the ÖKV.

The special status of Rhenania - membership in KV and ÖKV

The Rhenania was accepted into the KV in 1897 . As an Austrian corporation, however, this was only possible because at the time it only recognized Reich Germans as full members. The other Austrian corporations, on the other hand, failed due to the small German orientation that prevailed in KV at the time. In the following decades Rhenania advocated that the Austrian corporations should also be included in the KV.

It was not until 1913 that the AKV Tirolia Innsbruck was initially declared a friendly association of the KV and finally confirmed as a member of the KV in 1923. Rhenania was again unable to join the ÖKV , which was founded by the Austrian KV connections that had resigned in 1933, as a "Reich German" connection. Only after being reactivated in 1952 was it admitted to the ÖKV on November 12, 1953. Since then, Rhenania has been the only Austrian association to be a full member of the KV and the ÖKV and thus enjoys a special status within the associations.

Well-known rhenans

• Clemens August Andreae (1929–1991), Austrian economist
• Arnold De Gasperi, artist
• Willibrord Benzler (1853–1921), Bishop of Metz
• Adolf Bolte (1901–1974), Bishop of Fulda
• Luis Durnwalder (* 1941), Governor of the Province of South Tyrol, honorary philistine
• Michl Ebner (* 1952), South Tyrolean entrepreneur, publisher, author and politician
• Toni Ebner (* 1957), editor-in-chief of the Dolomiten daily newspaper
• Josef Cardinal Frings (1887–1978), Archbishop of Cologne, honorary philistine
• Franz Gielen (1887–1947), Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach, honorary philistine
• Josef Gotzen (1875–1956), librarian at Cologne University Library and important song researcher, poet of the Innsbruck student song "I stand on the Iselberg"
• Konrad Hammacher (1928–2001), professor of medicine, inventor and initiator of cardiotocography
• Heinrich Held (1868–1938), Bavarian Prime Minister from 1924 to 1933, honorary citizen of the University of Innsbruck, honorary philistine,
• Bernhard Helling, doctor and long-time member of FC Schalke 04, lender for the club museum at the Arena auf Schalke
• Hans Huber-Sulzemoos (1873–1951), painter, honorary member
• Wolfgang Kamper, chairman of the KV reform committee established in 1969, CDU local politician, honorary chairman of the Düsseldorf theater community, honorary philistine senior
• Michael Keller (1896–1961), Bishop of Münster
• Otto Muck , SJ , former rector of the University of Innsbruck, former rector of the Jesuit College Innsbruck, honorary philistine
• Ludwig von Pastor (1854–1928), historian, director of the Austrian Historical Institute in Rome, head of the diplomatic mission at the Vatican, honorary philistine
• Hubert Rohde (1929–2019), director of the Saarland Broadcasting Corporation
• Winfried Scharlau (1934-2004), journalist
• Friedrich Schmieder (1911–1988), neurologist and psychiatrist
• Norbert Trippen (1936–2017), Capitular of Cologne Cathedral, church historian at the University of Bonn, biographer of the Cologne cardinals Frings and Höffner
• Achim Wessing (* 1933), German ophthalmologist, university professor and researcher
• Augustinus Winkelmann (1881–1954), pastor and founder of the Center for Contemporary Sacred Art in the Marienthal Monastery on the Lower Rhine

Relationships and Associations

• AKV Tirolia Innsbruck sister connection, founded in 1893
• KV Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations
• List of all member associations of the Kartellverband (KV)
• ÖKV Cartel Association of Catholic Non-Colored Academic Associations in Austria

literature

• Michael Gehler: Students and Politics. The struggle for supremacy at the University of Innsbruck. Haymon, 1990.

Individual evidence

1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 172.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Christopher Dowe: Also educated citizen . Catholic students and academics in the German Empire. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006. p. 169.
3. ↑ see: Prof. Dieter A. Binder. In: Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 3rd part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 4). SH-Verlag, Schernfeld 1994, ISBN 3-89498-014-1 , pp. 105f.
4. ↑ Christian Geltner (Ed.): 100 years of AKV Tirolia, 1893–1993. Innsbruck 1993. p. 125.
5. ^ Michael Gehler: Students and Politics. The struggle for supremacy at the University of Innsbruck. Haymon, 1990. p. 38.

Web links

• Homepage of the KStV Rhenania Innsbruck
• Collection of color cards of the KStV Rhenania Innsbruck