KDStV Vandalia (Prague) Munich

KDStV Vandalia
coat of arms	Circle
Basic data
University location:	Munich
University / s:	until 1938: Charles University in Prague after 1950: Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
Founding:	January 28, 1905
Place of foundation:	Prague
Corporation association :	CV , joining 1905
Association number:	40
Abbreviation:	Va!
Color status :	colored
Colours:
Fox colors:
Cap:	Cherry red, cloth, plate format
Type of Confederation:	Men's association
Religion / Denomination:	Catholic
Position to the scale :	not striking
Motto:	German loyalty everywhere
Website:	www.vandalia.de

The Catholic German Student Union Vandalia Prague to Munich , or KDStV Vandalia (Prague) Munich for short, is a Catholic , non- striking , colored student union founded in Prague in 1905 , which belongs to the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Union (CV). It is the oldest of the Sudeten German student associations of the CV, which helped shape all three phases of the Sudeten German Cartell Association and which is still trying to preserve its Sudeten German heritage.

Sudeten German connection in Munich

Today's KDStV Vandalia (Prague) Munich was founded in Prague in 1905 as KDStV Vandalia Prague. It is a Catholic, non-striking, color-bearing student union. It belongs to the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) from 1905 until it was banned in 1938 and until today after it was re-established in Munich in 1950 . For boys, the connection knows the colors black-red-green, for Füxe red-black-red.

The connection name Vandalia alludes to the scholarly designation of the land between the Elbe and the Vistula as Vandalia, which has been documented since the 15th century . So it is a geographical name.

After its founding at the Charles University in Prague , it was involved in the founding of the Prague Cartell Association as well as the Sudeten German Cartell Association and the later Sudeten German Cartell Association of the colored Catholic German student associations as an independent umbrella organization. Of the Sudeten German student communities, the Vandalia is the oldest association that has gone through all three phases of the Sudeten German Cartel Association and which was able to preserve parts of its Sudeten German heritage for a long time even after the re-establishment in Munich. A circumstance that was also due to the fact that the displaced members of the Vandalia Prague, which was dissolved in 1938, made up the majority of the new old men. It is one of the only five student associations in the CV who tried to reunite the expellees from the Sudetenland after the Second World War and who still take this legacy today through active participation in relevant events, such as B. in cooperation with the House of the East in Munich and the association Oberschlesier in Munich and maintaining contacts. The archive data of the connection were used by numerous authors for the documentation of the Prague student connection system as well as the phases of the academic culture war and other areas of tension between 1905-09 in Prague as well as the further development of the Cartell organizations until 1938. The connection history was taken up especially for the consideration of the Cartel history in Bohemia, Moravia and Prague, as it played a key role in shaping it for almost three decades.

As of 2016, it knows the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich as a new university location .

history

Founding years

In the period from 1898 to 1903, the parent compound K.D.St.V. Ferdinandea-Prag zu Heidelberg , at that time of course still called KDStV Ferdinandea Prague, was struggling with sharply declining membership numbers. The situation did not change until 1903 through the active advertising of Richard Wollek and the simultaneous purchase of his own student apartment ("Bude") near Prague's Wenceslas Square . The membership development was so positive that the subsidiary KDStV Vandalia Prague was founded at the cumulative convent of the Ferdinandea student association on January 28, 1905 . The necessary division of the existing connection was decided unanimously and finally after the statutes had been approved by the academic senate on the same day. Founding batches of Vandalia were jur. Alfred Kotschwar as senior and med. Ludwig Zuderell as secretary. The other years were more than pleasing, so that as early as 1907 the KDStV Vandalia Prague was able to found another subsidiary, today's KaV Saxo-Bavaria Prague in Vienna. A circumstance that was certainly also due to the electoral triumph of political Catholicism in the form of the Christian Social Party. Vandalia used space in the building of the “German Craftsmen's Association” at Smetschkagasse 22 in Prague. The establishment and the first years of the Prague CV connections Ferdinandea, Vandalia and Saxo-Bavaria coincided with the most difficult ideological and national struggles on Prague soil. The Vandalia was only indirectly affected by the Badeni crisis in 1897, but fully participated in the severe riots that took place in Prague in 1908. It became apparent, beginning with 1904/05 and the following years up to this crisis year, that the hostilities between German and Czech students believed to have been overcome had by no means been overcome. But even between the German students, the agreement that could still be felt in 1897/98 was over. For example, a student committee of the Ferdinandae, which was constituted on March 10, 1904, refused to participate and, when the Vandaliae was founded, massive attempts were made to prevent it by the German-born students. This takes up the following historical couplet, written by the contemporary witness Brix Fd ! on:

“In 1905 there was a lot of ranting in Prague. Because just think of the scandal, the vandal is now appearing in Prague! The black danger in this country is suddenly rampant. The G'sindl, it has to get away from here, we swear by it. And then it gets quiet, you don't hear anything anymore, vandals keep increasing and there are hardly two years left before the third is founded: Saxo-Bavaria. "

The Vandalia earned a special reception in the minutes of the Vienna Reich Council through the prohibition of colors imposed in 1908 on the grounds that “there was no act for the right to exist”. The background was the application of the subsidiary Saxo-Bavaria, submitted to the academic authority on October 10, 1907, for formal recognition and permission to wear colors. Due to the academic culture war that also took place in Prague, the application was given a negative decision on July 23, 1908 can only be implemented on August 27, 1908 through the appeal via the Ministry of Culture. In the meantime, the mother and daughter connections were called Vandalia and both connections were prohibited from wearing paint by the decision of July 1908. The Prague Cartell, also known as the Prague Cartell Association, is not to be equated with the Akademia, even if both were created in almost the same time window. To distinguish itself from the existing liberal and nationalist, the academia was an independent Catholic reading and speaking association; "In it the four CV connections of Prague (Ferdinandea, Vandalia, Saxo-Bavaria, Nordgau) with freelance students and the university groups of Staffelstein and Quickborn were united ..."

From Prague to the Sudeten German Cartell Association

The student associations "Ferdinandea", "Vandalia" and "Saxo-Bavaria" formed the Prague Cartel Association (PCV), whose declared aim was to build a Catholic academy house for German students in Prague. This was made possible by Pius X. through a special donation in the form of a splendid, "gold-embroidered cassette with a rosary made of real pearls set in gold and silver" ". The devastation of the Vandaliae booth on November 16, 1920 shows that not all events of this time went so well.

After the First World War , in 1922, the CV connection Elbmark was founded at the agricultural college in Tetschen-Liebwerd, so that with the already existing CV connection Nibelungia / Brünn in the Sudetenland there were six CV connections, which in 1927 became Sudetendeutscher Cartellverband (SCV), merged as a working group in the Cartellverband of the Catholic German student associations. As an extension, the Sudeten German Cartell Association replaced the Prague Cartell Association as a city-related island solution. The SCV, also called 1. SCV, included the connections Ferdinandea Prague, Nibelungia Brünn, Vandalia Prague, Saxo-Bavaria Prague, Nordgau Prague and Elbmark Tetschen-Liebwerd. The German University of Prague was the university location from 1918 to 1938. This is due to the fact that in 1918, with the establishment of the First Czechoslovak Republic, the Czech university took on the name Charles University, and the German-speaking (Bohemian) university therefore needed a different, supplementary name.

From 1933 onwards, a noticeable rapprochement with the National Socialist German Student Union with the accompanying processes of conformity and the implementation of the Führer principle could be seen within the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations . As a direct consequence of these tendencies, the Sudeten German Cartell Association restricted its relations with the German Cartell Association from June 14, 1933 and decided to split off from the Cartell Association in July 1933 and on April 15, 1934 to found the Sudeten German Cartell Association of colored Catholic German student associations as an independent umbrella organization. The new SCV, also called the 2nd SCV, included the connections Nibelungia Brno, Vandalia Prague, Saxo-Bavaria Prague, Nordgau Prague and Elbmark Tetschen-Liebwerd.

Under the pressure of the political situation, the Cummulativconvent Vandaliae decided on May 22, 1938 to dissolve the association itself .

See also : Himmler Decree of June 20, 1938

After the turmoil and terror of the Nazi era, the first contacts and meetings of the scattered vandals began in 1948, whose members were largely expellees due to the political situation . In 1950 it was decided to re-establish Vandalia Prague.

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  Smetschkagasse 22 (Prague) connecting seat until 1938

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  Friedrichstrasse 34 (Munich) liaison office from 1954

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  St. Ursula (Munich) House church of the Vandalia Prague

Re-establishment

Due to the political situation after the Second World War , a re-establishment in Prague or at least in the Sudetenland was no longer possible. It was decided, as happened with the other Sudeten-German Cartel connections, to re-establish it outside the Sudetenland. In the case of Vandalia, Munich was chosen as the new liaison office. This was reported to the CV board and approved by the then competent military government of the US zones .

The old rulers were recruited from the ranks of the members of the Vandalia until 1938, who had lived through the Prague period and mainly came from the Sudeten German area. Due to the ban during the Nazi era , the connection no longer had any activity , so that students of the KDStV Vindelicia Munich , KDStV Aureata Eichstätt and KDStV Rupertia Regensburg transferred to Vandalia. The re-establishment senior, corresponding to the chairman of the old rule, was Herbert Biolek, who, like his brother Alfred Biolek , came from Freistadt in today's Czech Republic . The first chairman of the Vandaliae in his new homeland showed the traditional Sudeten German roots.

The Sudeten German roots as a special characteristic of the KDStV Vandalia describes, among others, Tobias Wegner in his elaboration with the words “In the connections mentioned, ideological ideas have been preserved in some cases up to the most recent times, which had arisen on the soil of the Czechoslovak Republic before 1945. They are thus being maintained by a generation of students who have long since lost their biographical reference to the ´volkstumklamm´ of the interwar period. "The re-establishment took place in June 1950. In the year of foundation the connection took over the function of the presiding connection in the Munich CV. In 1951, through the participation of 40 members of the Vandaliae at the publication festival of the subsidiary Saxo-Bavaria (Prague) in Salzburg, the relationship between the CV and the ÖCV was resumed. At the 93rd Cartel Assembly (CV) on May 5, 1979, Vandalia, together with the KDStV Markomannia Würzburg, sponsored the KDStV Oeno-Danubia Passau. In 2005 Vandalia celebrated its 100th foundation festival.

Known members

• Josef Bick (1880–1952), philologist, general director of the Austrian National Library and prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp
• Alfred Biolek (1934), television entertainer, talk show host, lawyer and television producer
• Albert Keller (1932–2010), Jesuit and philosopher (honorary member)
• Johannes Gründel (1929–2015), Catholic theologian, priest and university professor
• Rudolf Koppe (1889–1987), district chairman of the German Christian Social People's Party, head of the Prague academy, chairman of the Ackermann congregation in the city of Bamberg
• August Naegle (1869–1932), "Iron Rector" of the German University in Prague
• Ernst Nittner (1915–1997), historian (honorary member)
• Eduard Pant (1887–1938), Polish journalist and politician
• Richard Wollek (1874–1940), Austrian politician (honorary member)
• Erhard Schlund OFM (1888–1953), religious, religious scholar and philosopher
• Eduard Winter (1896–1982), historian and university professor

Web links

• Website of the KDStV Vandalia Prague in Munich
• Collection of color cards of the KDStV Vandalia Prague to Munich

literature

• Rudolf Geser et al. (Ed.): Catholic German student union Ferdinandea-Prag zu Heidelberg in CV, 1886–1986. Heidelberg 1986 / I 1988 / II 2006 / III.
• Paulgerhard Gladen: Gaudeamus igitur. The student connections then and now. Munich 1986.
• Ferdinandea: Festive Chronicle 100 Years of Ferdinandea Prague. Heidelberg 1986, p. 151 ff.
• Andreas Hannawald: History of Vandaliae. In: Vandalia 1905-1035. Friedland (Bohemia) 1935, p. 101.
• Gerhard Hartmann: For God and Fatherland: History and Work of the CV in Austria. Lahn 2006. Here especially p. 75 f. and p. 180 f.
• Emil Lerch: About the Sudeten German CV. In: Vandalia 1905-1935. Friedland (Bohemia) 1935.
• Siegfried Oehlinger: 25 years of Vandalia. Academia, Berlin, year 42.
• 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. Munich 1970.
• Siegfried Schieweck-Mauk: Lexicon of CV and ÖCV connections. The corporations and associations of the Cartell Association of the Catholic German Student Associations (CV) and the Cartell Association of the Catholic Austrian Student Associations (ÖCV) in historical briefs. Cologne 1997.
• Tobias Weger : “Volkstumkampf” without end? Sudeten German Organizations, 1945–1955. Lang, Frankfurt am Main a. a. 2008.
• Walter Gustav Wieser: History of the Cartell Association in Bohemia, Moravia and in Bukowina. Vienna 1967.
• Wolfgang Wolfram von Wolmar : Prague. The oldest university in the empire. Prague 1998.

Individual evidence

1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 187.
2. ↑ See entry in Michael Doeberl et al.: Das akademische Deutschland, Berlin 1931 (II).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Tobias Weger: 'Volkstumkampf' without end? : Sudeten German organizations, 1945 - 1955, Frankfurt am Main [ua] 2008, p. 307 f.
4. ↑ Cf. Gladen, Paulgerhard: Gaudeamus igitur, d. student connections once and now, Munich 1986, pp. 213, 246 ea
5. ↑ Heinrich Klug: The Slav legend - a historical lie, in: "Der Schlesier", 19 Nov. 2010.
6. ↑ See Kurt Augustinus Huber et al.: Catholic Church and Culture in Böhmen: selected treatises, Münster 2005, p. 323.
7. ↑ See Peter Sitz: The CV 1919–1938: the university-political path of the Cartels Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) from the end of the First World War to the destruction by National Socialism, Munich 1970.
8. ↑ See e.g. B. Rundbrief 3/2014, oberschlesier.wodok.de and Vandaliae festival magazines.
9. ↑ Example of an event with a displaced person background: HDO: Open Day 2014 - House of the German East, 2015, http://www.hdo.bayern.de/imperia/md/content/hdo/tag_der_offenen_t__r_2014.pdf . There:. “... the brass music of the Catholic German Student Union Vandalia in Prague under the direction of its Silesian conductor Damian Schwider. Höhenberger, [...], emphasized the great achievement of the expellees in the area of ​​integration and culture and described them as ´corner of German society and defender and fighter for the democratic order´. "
10. ↑ E.g. see references in: Egon Erwin Kisch: Prager Farben: Student Associations and Association Students in Old Prague, Hilden 2001. Peter Stitz: The CV 1919-1938: the university policy path of the Cartels Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV) from the end of the 1st World War up to the destruction by National Socialism, Munich 1970. Hans Schmid-Egger: Staffelstein: Youth Movement and Catholic Renewal among the Sudeten Germans between the Great Wars, Munich 1983.
11. ↑ Walter Gustav Wieser: History of the Cartell Association in Bohemia, Moravia and Bukowina, Vienna 1967, pp. 78, 82.
12. ↑ Simon Binder: Ferdinandea 1886-1911, commemorative publication for the 25th anniversary of the foundation festival of the academic-technical connection Ferdinandae to Prague, Prague 1911, pp. 18–46.
13. ↑ Alexander Graf: "Los von Rom" and "Heim ins Reich" the German national academic milieu at the cisleithan universities of the Habsburg Monarchy 1859 - 1914, Berlin 2015, p. 163 ea.
14. ↑ Gerhard Hartmann: For God and Fatherland: History and Work of the CV in Austria, Lahn-Verl 2006, p. 180.
15. ^ Austria. Reichsrat. House of Representatives: Stenographic minutes of the meetings of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Reich Council, Vienna 1908.
16. ↑ Further reading: Adolf Siegl: The Prague German universities and their students in the years from 1870 to 1914. Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 21 (1976), p. 122.
17. ↑ See Prager Senioren-Convent , Faith Struggles and the source there: A. Siegl: The Prague German Universities and their Students in the Years from 1870 to 1914. Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 21 (1976), p. 122.
18. ↑ ^{a b} cf. and see: Hans Schmid-Egger: Staffelstein: Youth Movement and Catholic Renewal among the Sudeten Germans between the Great Wars, Munich 1983, p. 83.
19. ↑ Gerhard Hartmann: For God and Fatherland: History and Work of the CV in Austria, Lahn-Verl 2006, p. 75.
20. ^ R. Geser et al. (Hg): Catholic German student union Ferdinandea-Prag zu Heidelberg in CV - 1886–1986, Vol. I, Heidelberg 1986, p. 220.
21. ↑ cf. Gerhard Hartmann: For God and Fatherland: History and Work of the CV in Austria, Lahn-Verl 2006, p. 368.
22. ^ Roderich Ptak et al: Weiland Bursch zu Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1986, p. 181.
23. ^ Karl Bosl et al: Culture and Society in the First Czechoslovak Republic: Lectures at the meetings of the Collegium Carolinum in Bad Wiessee from November 23 to 25, 1979 and from November 28 to 30, 1980, Munich 1982.
24. ↑ See Jungferndorf - Kobylá nad Vidnavkou ( memento of the original from January 22, 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. (accessed January 6, 2016). 
25. ↑ Jens Blecher: Universities and Anniversaries, from the Use of Historical Archives: Spring Conference of Section 8: Archivists at University Archives and Archives of Scientific Institutions in the Association of German Archivists from March 18 to 20, 2003 in Leipzig, Leipzig 2004.