KDStV Borusso-Saxonia Berlin

KDStV Borusso-Saxonia
coat of arms	Circle
Basic data
University location:	Berlin
University / s:	Berlin universities
Founding:	February 24, 1899
Place of foundation:	Charlottenburg
Corporation association :	CV since 1899
Association number:	26th
Abbreviation:	BS!
Color status :	colored
Colours:
Fox colors:
Cap:	red hat in the small Biedermeier format
Type of Confederation:	Men's association
Religion / Denomination:	Catholic
Position to the scale :	not striking
Motto:	sincere et constanter
Total members:	190
Website:	www.bosa.org

The Catholic German Student Union Borusso-Saxonia (KDStV Borusso-Saxonia) in the CV zu Berlin is a non-beating, Catholic student union founded in 1899 , which belongs to the Cartellverband (CV).

history

From the foundation to the First World War

On February 24, 1899, the Catholic German Student Union Borusso-Saxonia was founded by seven students as the first color-bearing Catholic student union at the Technical University of Charlottenburg, today's Technical University of Berlin . The founders (founding senior Josef Frerich, Rudolf Pabst, first Fuxmajor and later well-known church builder Wilhelm Fahlbusch , Bernhard Stürenberg, Hugo Wischnowski, Friedrich de Gehren and Gerhard Lewe) had previously become members of the KAV Suevia Berlin , the only association of the color-bearing cartel association to date Catholic German student associations (CV) in Berlin. After the TH Charlottenburg was allowed to award the degree of Doctor of Engineering by decree of Kaiser Wilhelm II of October 19, 1899 as the first technical university in Germany, the Borusso-Saxonia was established together with the KDStV Franconia Aachen and the AV Alania Stuttgart as the first technical connections in the Cartell Association, which recognized the academic equality of engineering.

Shortly after the foundation, the connection was the focus of the Academic Kulturkampf , in which a number of striking, non-denominational connections tried to deny the Catholic corporations their right to exist. In addition to Jena, the TH Charlottenburg was a center of this dispute, with Borusso-Saxonia being the only color-bearing Catholic association of the university exposed to particular attacks.

In the First World War , the fraternity came to a largely standstill, as 37 of the 50 original members became war participants; seven of them fell.

Between the world wars

In 1926 the connection took over the presidency of the general association of the CV for the first time as a suburb. The Cartel Assembly met for a week in Berlin under the suburb of Gerhard Seewald. At the Festkommers, among others, the Chancellor Wilhelm Marx and the Apostolic Nuncio and later Pope Pius XII. Eugenio Pacelli attended. A short scene of the parade of the Cartell Assembly appears in the famous documentary Berlin - The Symphony of the Big City from 1927.

In 1927 Borusso-Saxonia moved into its first own fraternity house on Englische Strasse in the immediate vicinity of the TH, where there were numerous other fraternity houses. During this time, Borusso-Saxonia was the strongest student union at the Technical University of Berlin.

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, a phase which began in the university sector Gleichschaltung of all student associations. As a result of a series of government decrees such as the introduction of the Führer principle, the obligation to participate in military sports and the abandonment of the catholicity principle, the denominational connections lost many of their actually constitutive characteristics.

On March 31, 1934, Borusso-Saxonia was excluded from the German student body because, in the opinion of the responsible district leader of the German student body, it belonged to the student associations, "which the entirety of the corporations through their resistance to the primacy of National Socialism in the public I had a reputation for being reactionary leagues. ”Since it was an unauthorized measure by the district leader, the exclusion was withdrawn a short time later.

On July 7, 1934, Borusso-Saxonia merged, initially for a limited period of two years, with its sister association AV Hansea to form Borusso-Saxonia-Hansea. The merger was not extended, but dissolved on February 18, 1936.

After the dissolution of the Cartell Association in October 1935, Borusso-Saxonia also had to resolve the dissolution of the active liaison operation on June 29, 1936, the old men’s association continued to exist until July 1938. As the last link in the connection, the house building association was dissolved by the Secret State Police in March 1939 ; the fraternity house fell to the Reichsstudentenwerk .

See also : Himmler Decree of June 20, 1938

The honorary member of Borusso-Saxonia, the former Prussian minister Heinrich Hirtsiefer , died in 1941 of the consequences of the concentration camp imprisonment suffered due to his religious and political convictions. He is venerated as a martyr by the Catholic Church. Heinrich Hirtsiefer's three sons were original members of Borusso-Saxonia.

During the Second World War , twelve Borusso Saxons were killed in action.

After Cesare Orsenigo resigned his office as Apostolic Nuncio in February 1945, his secretary, the original member of Borusso-Saxonia, Pater Eduard Gehrmann SVD (beer name at Borusso-Saxonia: "(Pater) Noster"), became the managing apostolic nuncio and chargé d'affaires of the Apostolic Nunciature in Berlin.

Re-establishment and post-war period

Soon after the war, many Borusso Saxons found themselves together again in the Rhineland and Ruhr area as well as in Berlin. The roots of the re-establishment of the connection after the Second World War lay in the Catholic Student Community (KSG) of the Technical University. Various KSG students were inspired to set up an active CV connection in Berlin. This was initially carried by the old boys' associations of Borusso-Saxonia and their parent association KAV Suevia and, by resolution of November 27, 1948, was named KDStV Saxo-Suevia.

Three quarters of a year later both connections went their separate ways, and on August 4, 1949, the republication of Borusso-Saxonia took place as an active connection in Berlin.

After the Second World War, Berlin did not have the potential to reconstitute all six CV connections that were located there during the Weimar Republic . In addition to Suevia and Borusso-Saxonia, only the KDStV Bavaria Berlin succeeded, the KDStV Makaria Berlin founded a new Aktivitas in Aachen , the AV Hansea did the same in Cologne . The KDStV Germania Berlin, founded in 1895 at the Agricultural University (with the colors blue-yellow-red) also decided not to re-establish any activities of its own, but instead joined the old rulers of Borusso-Saxonia as a whole. The last member of Germania died in 2010, so that the KDStV Germania finally expired.

In the 1950s, there were protracted disputes between Borusso-Saxonia and other colored student associations on the one hand and the Free University of Berlin on the other over admission to the Free University of Berlin. Borusso-Saxonia was only admitted to the Free University of Berlin in 1955 “despite serious concerns” (because of the color being worn).

Liaison house of the KDStV Borusso-Saxonia Berlin.

As the old fraternity house had been destroyed in the English street by a bomb and the property now by the Royal Porcelain Factory, Berlin was used, the Borusso Saxonia settled in the 1950s near the newly founded Free University of Berlin (FU) to , where they first moved into a joint house with Suevia in Dahlem , before moving into their own newly built connecting house in Lotzestraße in the Lichterfelde district in 1969 . The house building association Borruso-Saxonia eV has been operating a student residence there since then.

Borusso-Saxonia had previously been able to chair the Cartell Association for the second time in 1966 under the suburb of Hans-Ludwig Schmahl.

From the turning point in 1968 until today

A little later, in the course of the student movement of the 68s , the corporation faced existential problems due to numerous resignations and decreasing new admissions. In the early 1970s, old men often took over the offices of Aktivitas and laboriously maintained the connection with emergency programs.

Only towards the end of the 1970s did the number of new additions rise and the connection could resume regular active operations. The Philistine Senior Günter Schneider (1936–2008), who headed the Association of Elderly Men of the Association from 1977 to 1998, played a major role in the resurgence of the connection.

Under the topic “The Austrian corporate state - Engelbert Dollfuss between socialism and national socialism”, the association organized a contemporary history seminar from June 7th to 11th, 1984 with almost 80 participants from Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany. The Austrian Chancellor, murdered by the National Socialists, had studied in Berlin for a time in the 1920s and had become a member of the KDStV Germania Berlin, whose members joined Borusso-Saxonia after the Second World War. Speakers included the former Austrian Trade Minister and Vice Chancellor Fritz Bock , the political scientist Gottfried-Karl Kindermann and the theologian and church historian Maximilian Liebmann .

After the reunification of Germany , Borusso-Saxonia presented the suburb for the third time in 1992/93 under the suburb President Andreas Kübler and in 1993 hosted the first Cartel meeting in East Germany since its own suburb in 1926. Under the motto "Critical inward, open to the outside", the Berlin suburb initiated a fundamental debate on the question of whether the principles of the Cartell Association are up to date. This sparked a controversial debate in the general association, especially about the question of opening up to non-Catholics and female members, which finally ended at the Berlin Cartel Assembly with a clear commitment to maintaining the previous rules. The organization of the Cartell Assembly in Berlin also aroused resistance, especially in the autonomous scene.

Color, motto and coat of arms

Color

The connection has the colors red-white-black. The fox colors are red and white. Head color is a red cap in the format of a small Biedermeier. The connecting colors are made up of the colors of Prussia black and white and Lower Saxony (House of Hanover) white and red.

Motto

The motto of Borusso-Saxonia is sincere et constanter (upright and constant).

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Borusso-Saxonia consists of a four-part escutcheon. In the upper part you can find the Prussian eagle on the left and the Sachsenross on the right , as can be found in the coat of arms of Charlottenburg . The reference to Lower Saxony / Hanover is based on the origin of the namesake of Charlottenburg, Sophie Charlotte von Hanover , the first queen in Prussia. In the lower part, on the left, three white or silver shields on a red background symbolize the visual arts of sculpture, painting and architecture, the establishment of the connection at a technical university. At the bottom right there is a white tower on a black background for the CV ("CV tower"), the three battlements of which symbolize the three original CV principles Religio, Scientita and Amicitia.

Social Commitment

Borusso-Saxonia has been supporting the mission and development work of the Arenberg Dominican Sisters from Koblenz in Comarapa, Bolivia, since 1982 . Through an annual Christmas collection and other collections, the “BoSa-Hilfe Comarapa” has collected more than 200,000 euros in donations during this time.

Borusso Saxonen members were repeatedly active in the student parliaments of various Berlin universities. Among other things, they campaigned against the so-called “general political mandate” of the general student committees or the planned closure of the Benjamin Franklin University Hospital at Freie Universität (2002). Nevertheless, it was still difficult to appear as a connection, especially at Freie Universität. In 2000, the university banned an information event for law students with a reference to a general ban on events organized by student associations.

The association also took a public position in other contexts, for example against the exhibition “ Body Worlds ” (2001) or the general opening of shops on Sundays and public holidays.

Known members (selection)

• Johannes Baron (* 1966), German administrative officer. Former District President of the Darmstadt District in Hesse (2009–2014).
• Götz Briefs (1889–1974), Roman Catholic social theorist, social ethicist, social philosopher and economist.
• Günter Drost (1908–1985), German pharmacist. First President and later Honorary President of the Berlin Chamber of Pharmacists (1963–1975), Vice President of the Federal Chamber of Pharmacists (1965–1976).
• Wilhelm Fahlbusch (1877–1962), German architect, head of the Prussian building police in the Prussian Ministry of Welfare, Berlin-Brandenburg as senior government and building officer, architect of several church buildings in the style of Expressionism in Berlin-Brandenburg.
• Eduard Gehrmann (1888–1960), German religious priest of the Steyler Missionaries (SVD), secretary of the apostolic nuncios Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII.) And Cesare Orsenigo. From February 1945 executive apostolic nuncio to the German Reich.
• Josef Graw (1907–1986), German physicist, founder of the Dr. Graw measuring devices, today GRAW Radiosondes GmbH & Co. KG, Nuremberg.
• Hermann Heukamp (1886–1966), non-party German politician, State Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests in the first North Rhine-Westphalian state government.
• Heinrich Hirtsiefer (1876–1941), German social politician, member of the German Center Party, deputy Prussian prime minister and victim of the Nazi regime.
• Andreas Korbmacher (* 1960), presiding judge at the Federal Administrative Court.
• Günter Korbmacher (1926–2015), former presiding judge of the Asylum Senate at the Federal Administrative Court.
• Wolfgang Wilhelm Koschel (* 1938), German aerospace engineer and former director of the Institute for Space Propulsion at the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
• Ulrich Neumann (1903–1977), German engineer, CEO of MAN 1954–1969.
• Adolf Pirrung (1878–1965), German engineer and electricity economist, former General Director of Energy Supply Swabia and honorary citizen of the city of Biberach an der Riss.
• Karl Schmeing, Mayor of Ochtrup 1976–1983.
• Wolfgang Thüne (* 1943), German meteorologist.
• Hermann-Joseph Wurm (1862–1941), German Roman Catholic clergyman and journalist.

See also

• List of active Berlin connections
• List of member connections of the CV

literature

• KDStV Borusso-Saxonia (Red. Christoph Herbort), KDStV Borusso-Saxonia 1899–1999: Festschrift. Berlin 1999 (self-published).
• Paul Thomas, History of the KDSt.V. Borusso-Saxonia Berlin 1899–1938 , Berlin 2014 (self-published by Raphael Jünemann, Alexander Kropp and Marc Schüffner based on the manuscript from 1962).
• KDStV Borusso-Saxonia (Red. Peter Muschol): The Austrian corporate state - Engelbert Dollfuss between socialism and national socialism. a contribution to contemporary history , Berlin 1984. (printed as a manuscript).
• Peter Stitz: The CV 1919–1938: the higher education policy path of the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) from the end of World War I to its destruction by National Socialism. Society for CV History, Munich 1970.
• S. Schieweck-Mauk: Lexicon of CV and ÖCV connections. Association for German Student History, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-89498-040-0 .
• Society for Student History and Student Customs V. (Ed.), CV manual. 3rd edition, Regensburg, 2000, ISBN 3-922485-11-1 .

Web links

• Website of the KDStV Borusso-Saxonia Berlin

References

1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 122.
2. ↑ On technical higher education at the turn of the century, cf. Paul Thomas: History of the KDSt.V. Borusso-Saxonia Berlin 1899–1938. 2014, p. 68 ff.
3. ↑ Peter Sitz: The academic cultural struggle for the raison d'être of Catholic student corporations in Germany and Austria from 1903 to 1908. Society for CV History, Munich 1960 (here specifically p. 23, 29/30, 35, 47/48, 60 67 / 68, 73, 83).
4. ↑ For a detailed description of the events in Charlottenburg, cf. Paul Thomas: History of the KDSt.V. Borusso-Saxonia Berlin 1899–1938. 2014, p. 115 ff.
5. ↑ KDStV Borusso-Saxonia Berlin: KDStV Borusso-Saxonia Berlin. In: Michael Doeberl et al. (Ed.): Academic Germany. Volume II, 1931, p. 652.
6. ↑ Festkommers of the Catholic Corporations , Vossische Zeitung, September 17, 1926, page 6.
7. ↑ The daily newspaper Germania , which is close to the Center Party, reported daily with longer articles during the Cartell Assembly: The opening of the Cartell Assembly   (September 14, 1926, evening edition, p. 3); The Cartel Assembly   (Sept. 15, evening edition, p. 3); An impressive rally by the CV   (September 16, evening edition, p. 3); Der Festkommers des CV   (Sept. 17th, morning edition, p. 2); The Cartel Assembly   (Sept. 17, evening edition, p. 3).
8. ^ Berlin - The Symphony of the Big City  in the  audio archive - Internet Archive (here at minute 28:56).
9. ↑ cf. the information on the membership of the Berlin student associations in Michael Doeberl: Das Akademische Deutschland. Volume II, 1931, p. 617 ff.
10. ↑ On the significance of this development for the Cartell Association, cf. Peter Stitz: T he CV 1919–1938. Munich 1970, p. 108 ff.
11. ^ Paul Thomas: History of the KDSt.V. Borusso-Saxonia Berlin 1899–1938. 2014, p. 389 f.
12. ↑ The merger agreement is printed in Wolfgang Greimers: 100 Years Academic Connection Hansea-Berlin to Cologne in CV, 2000, p. 59.
13. ↑ On the individual events of this development cf. Paul Thomas: History of the KDSt.V. Borusso-Saxonia Berlin 1899–1938. 2014, p. 396 ff.
14. ↑ Helmut Moll: Witnesses for Christ. The German martyrology of the 20th century. 6th edition 2015, Volume I, p. 214 ff.
15. ↑ Complete list of CV 1931, p. 94.
16. ↑ On the colors of the Saxo-Suevia cf. Helmut Kersten: Berlin connections - a tabular representation from 1897 now. 2015, p. 77.
17. ↑ For the details of the re-establishment cf. Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk: Lexicon of CV and ÖCV connections, 1997, p. 182
18. ^ Siegward Lönnendonker, Tilman Fichter: Free University of Berlin 1948-1973 - University in transition. Part II: Consolidation at Any Price (1949–1957). P. 30.
19. ^ Kilian Kirchgeßner: Connection for life. In: No. 42. Die Zeit , October 12, 2006, accessed on April 15, 2016 (with quotes from Alexandra Kurth). 
20. ↑ Proceedings: KDStV Borusso-Saxonia (Red. Peter Muschol), The Austrian Ständestaat - Engelbert Dollfuss between Socialism and National Socialism. a contribution to contemporary history, Berlin 1984
21. ↑ Academia 2/1993 “Critical inward, open outward”.
22. ↑ Academia 4/1993 “The K Principle”.
23. ↑ cf. on this "June 20, 1993: Burschenschafts-Treffen in Berlin" in Interim No. 244, June 10, 1993 and "Kleines Burschenspecial", in Interim No. 246, June 24, 1993; both documented in: KDStV Borusso-Saxonia (Red. Christoph Herbort), KDStV Borusso-Saxonia 1899–1999: Festschrift, Berlin 1999, p. 114ff.
24. ↑ arenberger-dominikanerinnen.de Internet site of the Arenberger Dominikanerinnen.
25. ↑ On the engagement of Borusso-Saxonia in the 1968s cf. Anna von der Goltz: A counter-generation from 1968? Political polarization and conservative mobilization at West German universities. In: Linde Apel, Paola Bernasconi, Giancarlo Falcioni: The 1970s as a black decade. Frankfurt am Main 2010, pp. 75 f., Fn. 12.
26. ^ Asten from Berlin successfully sued , in Academia 3/2000, p. 166.
27. ↑ BS is also fighting for FU-Klinikum , in Academia 2/2002, p. 133.
28. ^ FU Berlin bans BS events , in Academia 2/2001, p. 97.
29. ↑ No rest despite Requiem , in taz of February 16, 2001, p. 21.
30. ↑ Interior Minister Volker Bouffier on the occasion of Johannes Baron's inauguration of the new RP "Ein echter Kommunaler" ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Press release of the Darmstadt Regional Council on June 30, 2009. 
31. ↑ Three centenarians: Walter Riemerschmid, Richard Fellmann and Günter Drost. In: Pharmaceutical newspaper. 38/2008.

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '6.3 "  N , 13 ° 17' 8.7"  E