KATV Norica

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Basic data
State : Styria
University City: Graz
Founding: May 26, 1930 in Graz
Association: ÖKV
Entry into ÖKV: June 23, 1933 (founding corporation)
Abbreviation: No!
Motto: With God for people and country
Principles: Amicitia, Patria, Religio, Scientia
Color sign: Coat of arms body without border.png
Tricolor: black red Gold
Advance: gold, white
Tape: boy strap only (28mm)
Circle: Circle Norica.JPG
Monogram: V, C, F, N

vivat, crescat, floreat Norica

KV number : 97
Website: http://norica.kartellverband.org

The Catholic-Academic Gymnastics Association Norica (KATV Norica) to Graz in the ÖKV is an Austrian non-colored , non-striking student union that belongs to the Cartel Association of Catholic Non-Colored Academic Associations of Austria , or ÖKV for short.

background

The Norica was founded on May 26, 1930 by professors and students of the Prince Bishop's High School and the Marieninstitut in Graz. Before that, the gymnastics club for Catholic-German students had existed on the Graz university floor ( university site) since the early 1920s . This gymnastics club was largely responsible for the founding of Norica , as it provided an already existing foundation. The name Norica is the feminine form of the name of the Roman province on today's (Lower) Austrian soil (Noricum), especially in memory of the missionary Severin von Noricum .

The KATV Norica was a member of the Christian-German gymnastics association in Austria and it was founded with the intention of creating a Catholic counterweight to the liberal academic gymnastics associations and the Jahnbund . Nevertheless, the sporting idea of ​​the KATV Norica is based on the gymnastics principles of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn , who had a decisive influence on the sporting spirit of the 19th and 20th centuries. As a result and through membership in the Christian-German Gymnastics Association of Austria, the colors Noricae black-red-gold are easily explained, with their symbolism for freedom, law and unity as well as their popularity at this time playing a major role. The advance (lower left quarter of the coat of arms) refers to the Catholic faith with the papal colors gold and white, which together with the three-color result in a rare combination. The academic positioning and the idea of ​​gymnastics together with the basic Catholic attitude resulted in the abbreviation KATV .

Before that, there had been general disputes between the Catholic and liberal corporations and there was talk of an academic culture war . The establishment of another Catholic student association in the predominantly liberal university landscape of Graz was an additional provocation, the focus of the Austria-wide " wood comment " was in Graz and its university founded in 1895. The old gentlemen's association of the suspended Graz Corps Norica lodged a protest against the unauthorized founding under their name with the rectorates of the two Graz universities. The adoption of the fraternity colors black-red-gold also led to serious disputes.

Controversy over the establishment

Problematic for Austria faithful Catholic connections, including also the Norica, the high then share German students turned in Graz. Thus tried in completed on May 14, 1931 academic recognition of CATV Norica liberal students beating to prevent this Grazer connections by they barricaded the entrances to the Karl-Franzens-Universität . The members of the KATV Norica managed, however, under the command of all the Catholic corporations in Graz at the time ( KV and CV connections), to force access to a numerically superior counterparty, thus finally to officially report to the then rector of the university and thus the recognized status a university connection. The clashes were not yet over, however, and so the city police had to keep both rival groups away from each other during the entire parade from Universitätsplatz via Ring and Herrengasse to Sackstrasse. Only then could calm be restored with the support of the army. The next day the newspapers headlined: Student Battle of Graz or Student Battle at the gates of Graz University . The name is reminiscent of the so-called oyster battle , in which in 1889 members of the Norica of the same name in Vienna (in the ÖCV) were beaten up by hundreds of hostile, national-liberal students at the university. The Reich German students left the city in large numbers after 1933 due to the thousand-mark barrier .

time of the nationalsocialism

In 1933 Norica left the KV (by previously being an extraordinary member) and founded the ÖKV with Aggstein , Austria , Winfridia and Tirolia on July 22nd and 23rd, respectively. This had become necessary after the NSDAP's co-ordination of KV in Germany, after the Tirolia and Norica had previously joined the Patriotic Front as a corporate entity , an association that was impossible to reconcile with the NSDAP's commitment to the greater German idea . In 1938, as in 1935 in Germany, all connections were forbidden, their property was confiscated and their flags, jerks and other emblems were destroyed in public burns. The Norica got ahead of this by dissolving itself and was able to save a considerable sum of money as well as its founding flag.

During the Nazi era (1938–1945) there were frequent meetings of Noricans, whereby special attention had to be paid to secrecy, as the Nazi regime expressly stated that the Austrian KVers were conspiring beyond the borders of Austria against the Third Reich would.

After 1945

The reconstitutions in Innsbruck ( Rhenania ) and Graz (Norica) took a little longer. In 1946, under the British occupation, the AH-Verein was reconstructed and Aktivitas in 1949. Since then, the KATV Norica has had an active life of connections in that its members maintain the principles Religio, Amicitia, Scientia and Patria (religion, friendship, science and fatherland).

In 2001 the Norica house on Leonhardstrasse was acquired.

On October 16, 2009, five to six masked people attacked the Norica clubhouse , injuring five of the people present there.

  • KATV Norica booth with ÖKV standard (left), founding flag from 1930 (right), as well as GKV color signs (above)

  • Liaison house Noricae (since 2001)

  • Logo of KATV Norica for the 75th Foundation Festival (2005)

Known members

  • Hanns Koren (1906–1985), professor, member of the Austrian National Council and founder of the Styrian autumn
  • Gerhard Lojen (1935–2005), architect, painter and teacher

See also

literature

  • Dieter Binder : The history of the ÖKV
  • Catholic-Academic Gymnastics Association Norica (Ed.): 80 years of KATV Norica zu Graz in ÖKV: 160 semesters with God for people and fatherland. Vehling, Graz 2010. ISBN 978-3-85333-174-3 .
  • Christian Brünner, Helmut Konrad (eds.): The university and 1938. Boehlau Verlag, 1998. ISBN 978-3205052463 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Hartmann: For God and Fatherland: History and Work of the CV in Austria, Lahn-Verlag, 2006, p. 116
  2. ^ Catholic associations and the Cartel associations. In: www.oecv.de. Retrieved May 15, 2015 .
  3. ^ Christian Brünner (ed.), Helmut Konrad (ed.): Die Universität und 1938. Boehlau Verlag, 1998. p. 79
  4. ^ CV in Austria, 1864–1938: Organization, internal structure and political function, Gerhard Popp, Böhlau, 1984.
  5. ^ Heinrich Obermüller: Forbidden and persecuted: From the beginnings to 1918. Austrian Association for Student History, 2003, p. 58.
  6. ^ Gerhard Hartmann: The CV in Austria. Lahn-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-7840-3229-X , p. 39.
  7. ↑ a b c Dieter A. Binder: Political Catholicism and Catholic associations: using the example of the Cartel Association of Catholic Student Associations in Austria (ÖKV), SH-Verlag, 1989.
  8. ↑ http://www.kleinezeitung.at/steiermark/2170714/ueberfall-studentenverbindungen-norica.story
  9. ↑ Attacked at a student association's premises. In: oesterreich.orf.at. October 18, 2009, accessed November 23, 2017 .