KDStV Sugambria (Jena) Göttingen

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KDStV Sugambria (Jena)

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Basic data
University location: Goettingen
University / s: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and other Göttingen universities
Founding: May 30, 1902
Place of foundation: Jena
Corporation association : CV
Association number: 36
Abbreviation: Sb!
Color status : colored
Colours:
Fox colors:
Cap: purple flat cap
Religion / Denomination: Catholic
Position to the scale : not striking
Motto: Flectimur, non frangimur
Website: www.sugambria.de

The Catholic German student association Sugambria (Jena) zu Göttingen is a student association in the Cartellverband (CV), the largest umbrella association of German student associations. The connection is non-striking and colored . It unites students and former students of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen . The members are called Sugambrer or Siegerlander .

Sugambria wears the colors purple-gold-green with golden percussion . The motto is Flectimur, non frangimur ("We are bent, but not broken"). The KDStV Sugambria has the number 36 in the association's internal order of the Cartell connections, the official abbreviation is Sb .

founding

The Catholic German Student Union Sugambria was founded on May 30, 1902 at the University of Jena . The founders, mostly from the Siegerland , chose the name of the connection based on the Germanic tribe of the Sugambres . At this point in time, Jena was the last German university that did not yet have a Catholic connection. It was founded at the time of the academic culture war .

Sugambria picked up the colors violet-gold-green with violet silk storm . She chose religio, scientia, amicitia as principles, the Cartell principle patria followed in 1907. The fuchsia colors violet-gold-violet were converted to violet-gold in 1919 in consideration of the Black Castle connection Allemania.

Controversy over the establishment

It quickly became apparent that the local fraternities and the four corps in particular were willing to prevent the association from wearing colors. They perceived a colored Catholic student union in Protestant Jena as a provocation and accused Sugambria of "treason" and "obedience to Rome" or " ultramontanism ". In the months that followed, there were often violent disputes. After a torchlight procession by the opponents of Sugambria on Ash Wednesday 1904, during which not only the Sugambrians but also the Catholic faith and the Church were insulted, the University Senate decided to ban Sugambria in order to avoid further disputes. The decision of the Senate read: "Student associations that pursue essentially religious, denominational purposes, as well as those that only accept members of one denomination as members according to the statutes, may not wear colors!" Such an administrative measure against a legally existing, colored association was in its entirety Germany is unique.

The color ban for Sugambria lasted from 1903 to 1918. It was not until the students experienced a common front during the First World War that a compromise was reached, which finally resulted in the Erlangen Association and Honorary Agreement in 1921 , which regulated matters of honor between hitting and non-hitting allies. Cheruscia Münster as a suburb (war suburb ) of the Cartell Association proposed Sugambria in 1918 as the subsequent suburban connection. Because of the low number of active members, the connection had to be rejected.

Weimar and the Nazi regime

During the Weimar Republic, Sugambria experienced a heyday of steady growth. For the 25th foundation festival under Senior Georg Diedrich, 40 Cartel connections from Germany, Austria and Bohemia, led by the suburb of Sauerlandia Münster, appeared in Jena. In 1929 the CV-Altherrentag took place in Jena. The Rudelsburg festivals with Burgundia Leipzig and Silesia Halle since 1902 were a high point of the union life, later Saxo-Thuringia Dresden was added.

In the time of the Third Reich , life for the connection became increasingly difficult. The National Socialist regime saw the corporate student character as an enemy of their ideology. After sustained pressure, the connection broke up in 1935, but continued to live as a group of friends of old Sugambrers underground until 1945, as the Gestapo had banned all associations outside the NSDStB.

After the fall of the Third Reich, re-establishment in the Soviet-occupied zone was not possible.

Re-establishment in Göttingen

In particular, on the initiative of the then Archbishop of Paderborn, Lorenz Cardinal Jäger , and with the help of the Göttingen Palate Klaus Stemmer, Sugambria was re-established at the Georg-August University in Göttingen in 1948. Sugambria named Cardinal Jäger its (so far only) honorary member in 1949. The connection did not return to the Jenenser striker and decided on purple velvet hats as the only head color .

The 1950s and 1960s saw a second heyday. In 1962 Sugambria moved into her fraternity house in Göttingen's east quarter .

After times of carefree existence, the 1968 unrest and its consequences also cast a shadow on the corporation at Georg-August-Universität. Sugambria's reception numbers fell noticeably. However, the connection survived the 1970s and was able to recover in the 1980s and 1990s.

In 1995, active Sugambrers made contact with Belgian Catholic connections at the Flemish Catholic University of Leuven . Since then, Belgian students who spend their semesters abroad at the Georg-August-Universität have been active at Sugambria again and again. Therefore, most of the old men outside of Germany live in Belgium.

Sugambria celebrated the 100th foundation festival in Jena in 2002. The connection felt confirmed in their decision in 1990 not to return to the University of Jena. The Sugambrerhaus at Planckstrasse 5 is the center of the community life.

Known members

  • August Crone-Münzebrock (1882–1947), farmer and politician ( center ).
  • Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger (1892–1975), Archbishop of Paderborn, ecumenist
  • Ottomar Batzel (1900–1971), member of the Berlin House of Representatives 1950 to 1954 (CDU), district mayor of Berlin-Charlottenburg 1951 to 1955
  • Georg Grosse (1900–1973), CDU, Thuringian Minister of State for Trade and Supply (1945 to 1948), from 1956 director of the Bank for Community Economy in Aachen
  • Günter Korbmacher (1926–2015), former presiding judge of the Asylum Senate at the Federal Administrative Court and victim of attacks in the Revolutionary Cells (1987)
  • Wilhelm Buerstedde (* 1929), CDU, City Director of Hildesheim (1984 to 1994)
  • Michael Behnen (* 1938), professor for modern and recent history at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
  • Clemens Stroetmann (* 1946), State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (1987 to 1995) and managing director of the "Initiative Mehrweg" foundation

literature

  • Peter Stitz: History of the KDStV Sugambria to Jena and Göttingen. Oberursel, 1960
  • Peter Stitz: The academic culture war for the raison d'être of Catholic student corporations in Germany and Austria from 1903 to 1908. Munich, 1960

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 72.

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