KAV Suevia Berlin

KAV Suevia
Basic data
University location:	Berlin
University / s:	Universities in Berlin and Potsdam
Founding:	November 7, 1875
Corporation association :	Cartell Association , since 1878
Association number:	8th
Abbreviation:	Sv!
Color status :	colored
Type of Confederation:	Men's association
Religion / Denomination:	Catholic
Position to the scale :	not striking
Motto:	Per tenebras ad lucem!
Website:	www.suevia-berlin.de

The Catholic Academic Association Suevia ( KAV Suevia ) in the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) in Berlin is a Catholic, colored and non-striking student association that has members at all Berlin and Potsdam universities and colleges.

Principles, motto and color

The KAV Suevia has the principles Religio, Scientia, Amicitia and Patria . Their motto is “Per tenebras ad lucem!” (Eng. “Through darkness to light!” ).

The fraternity boys wear a black, yellow and blue ribbon , the Fuxes a black, yellow and black ribbon . The head color is an occipital color made of black velvet with the connecting colors from bottom to top as a ribbon. Optionally, a sky-blue silk storm with a gold circle can be worn in the summer semester .

history

On November 7, 1875, the Free Association of Catholic Union Students was founded in Berlin , which in the same year took the name Suevia . This foundation is remarkable in several ways. It is the first time that the Cartell Association was founded. In view of the founding date - in the hot phase of the Kulturkampf - the founding had to be understood as a clear sign to the Reich government. In this context, the naming "Suevia" is to be understood, which does not have a national background, as was common in student associations at the time, but a political and programmatic background. The name refers to the Hohenstaufen (in this respect the same stem as Swabians), who ruled the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation until 1268. This kingdom was predominantly Catholic and should be remembered. In addition, it is the first Catholic corporation that was ever founded in a predominantly Protestant university town.

At the Cartell Assembly in Munich in 1876, Suevia was given the status of a free association, a kind of preliminary stage to full membership. On February 14, 1878, the Suevia was finally accepted as the ninth member in the CV. In the same year, the Suevia was officially recognized as AV Suevia by the Academic Senate. The couleur principle was introduced - ribbon and hat always had to be worn.

In 1935 the CV was dissolved, and the Suevia had to cease active operations a year later. In 1938 the old gentlemen's association was dissolved by the Gestapo .

As early as 1946, another foundation festival could be celebrated. In July 1947 the approval of the founding of the Suevia old gentlemen's association took place with the approval of the American occupation authorities. In June 1948 the authorities approved the renaming to KAV Suevia and an amendment to the statutes, which also provided for the admission of students. This made the Suevia the first active student association in Berlin after the Second World War . Active operations were initially resumed together with the old rulers Borusso-Saxoniae as Saxo-Suevia (colors: red, yellow, black). In 1949 the two leagues separated amicably.

In 2005 the 130th foundation festival was celebrated. The Suevia ran the suburb of the Cartell Association three times: 1885/1886, 1895/1896 and 1952/1953. Suevia Berlin is number 8 in the association's internal order of the Cartell connections. The official abbreviation is Sv .

Known members

The German lawyer and member of the Reichstag, Bernhard Nadbyl, was in charge of founding Suevia .

With Constantin Fehrenbach and Wilhelm Cuno , two members of Suevia became Chancellor of the Weimar Republic in the twenties . Always in difficult times: Fehrenbach was the first chancellor after the Kapp Putsch and Cuno had to fight the Ruhr war .

Other well-known members of the association are the politician and culture fighter Felix Porsch ; Eugen Bolz , German center party politician and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime; Georg Ress , judge at the European Court of Human Rights; the first Berlin Commissioner of the Federal Republic of Germany Heinrich Vockel ; the Berlin Senator for Construction and Housing Ulrich Rastemborski ; the first auxiliary bishop of Berlin Paul Tkotsch as well as Friedrich Berentzen , Tassilo Bonzel , Theopont Diez and Heinrich Wiechens . Even Father Odilo Braun , Joachim Rückert , Bernhard Justen , Bernard Broermann and Josef Roeckerath were or are members of Suevia.

Since October 31, 2007 the former nuncio in Germany HE Archbishop Erwin Josef Ender has been an honorary member of Suevia.

Daughter connections

In 1898 the Academic Senate approved the renaming to KAV Suevia - this was impossible during the Kulturkampf . At the same time, it was urged that members of the TH Charlottenburg (today TU Berlin ) should be released from the KAV Suevia, because according to the regulations at the time, a connection could only consist of members of a university. For this reason, the KDStV Borusso-Saxonia Berlin was founded in 1899 as a subsidiary at the TH Charlottenburg.

After the CV had abolished the singularity principle , according to which there was only one Cartell connection at each university, the way was clear in 1900 for the establishment of the second subsidiary, the AV Hansea Berlin, which was re-established in Cologne after the Second World War, which was long overdue in view of the enormous increase in membership has been.

literature

Albert Vock: 110 years of KAV Suevia in CV Berlin: 1875–1985 . West Berlin 1985.
OA: KDSt.V. Suevia Berlin. In: Michael Doeberl , Alfred Bienengräber (Hrsg.): The academic Germany. Volume 2: The German universities and their academic citizens. CA Weller, Berlin 1931. p. 653.

Individual evidence

^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 19.

Web links

[1] EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 19.