KDStV Nassovia Darmstadt

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Basic data
State :	Hesse
University :	Darmstadt
Founding:	October 28, 1896 in Darmstadt
Association:	CV
Entry into CV:	1901
Abbreviation:	N / A!
Colours:
Members:	309 (2001)
Address:	Alexanderstrasse 27 64283 Darmstadt, Germany
Website:	www.nassovia.de

The Catholic German Student Union Nassovia (KDStV Nassovia) to Darmstadt in the CV is a colored , non-striking student union that belongs to the largest interdisciplinary academic association in Germany, the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV). Nassovia was a co-founder of the Starkenburger Cartellverband .

history

The KDStV Nassovia was founded on October 28, 1896 at the Technical University of Darmstadt . Apart from the non- colored Academic Association Darmstadt , which had declared itself a student corporation in 1889, Nassovia was the first non-striking association in Darmstadt. It was also the first denominational association in Darmstadt. In 1896, thousands of students in Darmstadt and at other technical universities demonstrated against the establishment of denominational associations as part of the academic culture war . The Catholic student associations were denied the right to exist by a gathering of 700 Darmstadt students and demanded to exclude them, and especially Nassovia, from all festivities; The Rector and Senate sided with Nassovia, however, and asked the student body to give up the rejection of Nassovia, as this would violate the university's statutes and encroach on academic freedom.

The founding senior of Nassovia was Joseph Kehrein (1872–1948). She was first accepted as a friendly association in the Cartell Association of Catholic German student associations in 1897 . With the other CV candidates KDStV Normannia Karlsruhe and KDStV Rheno-Saxonia from Köthen (today Halle) she founded the Starkenburger Cartellverband (based on the Hessian province of Starkenburg ). The background was the lack of the Matura principle of the teaching institutions in Darmstadt, Karlsruhe and Köthen; You could study at these without a high school diploma. However, membership in the Cartell Association required that the liaison members had a high school diploma. The connections of the Starkenburger Cartellverband could therefore initially not become full members of the CV. The coexistence of Starkenburger and "big" CV should lead to connections at technical universities becoming members of the Cartell Association: Nassovia and Normannia joined the Cartell Association in 1901 as free associations and in 1904 as full full members, they documented this in this way Academization process of the technical universities also in the area of ​​student connections. In 1913, Nassovia moved into its first connecting house at Ballonplatz 5 (today Alexanderstraße 29) in Darmstadt, directly opposite the university.

After the National Socialist harmonization in 1933, the climate for student associations became more difficult. The increasing pressure on the German connections of the Cartell Association and the introduction of the Führer principle led to efforts to split off the Austrian connections, which wanted to preserve their previous freedoms and escape the pressure of the National Socialists; Nassovia was active to enable the unity, but also the functioning of the connections in their respective state environment. Finally the Cartell Association was split up, the remaining German part was forcibly dissolved by the Nazi state in 1935 ; The Aktivitas of Nassovia in 1936 had to be suspended in order to forestall a conversion into a Nazi comradeship. The old gentlemen's association lasted until 1938. The fraternity house was expropriated .

See also : Himmler Decree of June 20, 1938

A member of the association, the center politician Kuno Kamphausen (1900–1934), was murdered by the SS during the Röhm Putsch in 1934 , and Nassovia associates the memory of Kamphausen with “a sharp condemnation of right-wing extremism”.

Shortly after the war, the St. Michael student group formed within the Catholic university community and made contact with the old rulers. From this initiative, the KDStV Nassovia was re-established on October 26, 1949 at Baldeney Castle . In 1952 Nassovia also re-established the KDStV Nibelungia zu Brno in Darmstadt. In 1958, Nassovia moved into the listed front building at Alexanderstrasse 27 (formerly Ballonplatz 7), restored on its own initiative, with the newly built rear building in the courtyard ; the new property is in the immediate vicinity of the TU city center and next to the old connection house.

Nassovia Darmstadt has number 33 in the official order of the Cartel connections. The official abbreviation is Na .

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  Nassovenhaus (from 1958)

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  Flight over the Nassovenhaus (2003)

Connecting life

The KDStV Nassovia has around 30 active members (i.e. students and recently graduated academics) and more than 270 old men (as of 2010). In 2010 it was the largest connection in Darmstadt. Its members have studied or are enrolled in a wide variety of disciplines at the Technical University of Darmstadt , Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and also at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt .

The connection is rooted in the Catholic parish of St. Ludwig . Their liaison saint is the Archangel Michael .

Their colors are dark blue-white-light green, their motto is the motto of the Jesuit Claudio Acquaviva : Fortiter in re, suaviter in modo (solid in the matter, moderate in the way).

The KDStV Nassovia provided the suburb of the CV in 1982/1983 and 2004/2005 with the other Darmstadt CV connections - KDStV Rheinpfalz and KDStV Nibelungia .

Known members

• Kuno Kamphausen (1900–1934), architect and construction officer
• Hellmut Ley (1909–1973), German chemist, Chairman of the Board of Metallgesellschaft AG (1961–1973), President of the Society of German Chemists (GDCh) (1966–1967) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (1970–1973)
• Paul Vaske (1920–1985), engineering scientist and university professor
• Franz-Josef Spalthoff (1923–2004), nuclear manager and board member of RWE AG
• Bodo-Maria Erhard ISch (* 1924), physicist and Roman Catholic clergyman and superior general of the secular institute of the Schoenstatt Fathers (1968–1974)
• Friedrich Berentzen (1928–2009), entrepreneur ( Berentzen Group )
• Reinhold Zwickler (* 1933), engineering scientist and university professor
• Wolfgang Suwelack (* 1937), entrepreneur (Suwelack Group) and pioneer in the freeze-drying of food
• Siegbert Keller (1937–2015), architect and building economist, university professor
• Günther Altrogge (1939–2014), economist and professor for business administration at the University of Hamburg
• Bernhard Stieler (1934–2010), engineer ( German Aerospace Center (DLR) ) and university professor
• Jörg Vienken (* 1948), biomedical scientist and university professor, research director at Fresenius Medical Care
• Michael Pietsch (* 1958), physician and politician (CDU), university professor
• Michael (Mike) Roth (* 1966), Vice-President and Head of Logistics at Amazon worldwide

KDStV Rheinpfalz

Due to the record number of 36 Füxen , the subsidiary KDStV Rheinpfalz was founded in Darmstadt on July 17, 1921 .

Web links

• Official website of the KDStV Nassovia Darmstadt
• Collection of color cards of the KDStV Nassovia Darmstadt

literature

• Helma Brunck: Student connections in Frankfurt am Main. Small writings from the Historical Museum. Frankfurt am Main. Volume 29. Kelkheim 1986.
• Michael Doeberl et al. (Ed.): Academic Germany. Volume 2: The German universities and their academic citizens. CA Weller, Berlin 1931. p. 730.
• Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk: Lexicon of CV and ÖCV connections. Association for German Student History, Würzburg 1997, ISBN 3-89498-040-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Technical University of Darmstadt (ed.), Student Union of the Technical University (ed.): Hochschulführer Darmstadt , Darmstadt 1922, p. 94
2. ↑ Intellectual underground car park. On the trail of student corporations in the city of science Darmstadt ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Stephan Peters, June 2005, ISBN 3-9807550-1-0 
3. ↑ Michel Grunewald (ed.): Le milieu intellectuel catholique en Allemagne, sa presse et ses réseaux (1871–1963) - The Catholic intellectual milieu in Germany, its press and its networks (1871–1963) . Peter Lang, Bern 2006, ISBN 3-03910-857-3 . P. 66.
4. ^ Academische Revue: Zeitschrift für das Internationale Hochschulwesen, Munich, 1897; P. 227 ( online )
5. ^ Academia 3/2012; P. 78 ( Memento of November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 133.
7. ↑ Peter Stitz: The CV 1919–1938: the university-political 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, p. 171
8. ↑ Catholic with fatal consequences ( Memento of March 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), Echo online, March 19, 2011
9. ↑ Against the murderers of then and now ( Memento from February 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Christian Knatz, Echo online, February 2, 2012
10. ^ KDStV Nassovia , website of the parish of Sankt Ludwig
11. ↑ Helmut Moll : “Kuno Kamphausen. Victims of the Nazi Regime (1900-1934) ” , Internet portal Rheinische Geschichte of the LVR Institute for Regional Studies and Regional History , accessed on April 3, 2020

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 30.4 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 34.1"  E