Swiss Cadet Association

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Logo of the Swiss Cadet Association

In Switzerland, the association members of the Swiss Cadet Association (French: Association Suisse des Cadets ) or the participants in its programs are often referred to as the cadets for short . Cadets clubs, which exclusively provide traffic and parking control services, the so-called traffic cadets departments are -. The same as the participants in these programs - the transport cadets called.

Relay competition between cadets

Goals and Organization

Camp sports / trekking at the ZH & SH Cadet Association

The cadet clubs are all members of the Swiss Cadet Association, a Swiss sports and youth association . There are also the cantonal associations of Bern, Zurich and Schaffhausen. The Swiss Cadet Association is a member of the Swiss Olympic Association , the umbrella organization for Swiss sport. The cadets are supported locally either through the public school or a non-profit organization.

According to their mission statement, the cadet associations of the Zurich and Schaffhausen Cadet Association have the following goals:

  • The so-called young cadets (age: 6 to 11 years) should learn through playful, imaginative activities, mainly in nature, to integrate into a group, to support its rules and to deal responsibly with the environment.
  • The cadets in the narrower sense (age: 11 to 15 years) should be promoted in their personality through shared adventures, sport and quiet moments, whereby they should learn to find their way in nature and to take responsibility for themselves and others.
  • The Cadet cadre (aged 15 to 20 years) plans and implements the programs of the cadet clubs under the supervision of adult leaders. The direct leadership of the young cadets and cadets is thus carried out by young people, who are to be encouraged in creativity, organizational skills, responsibility and self-confidence.
Main article: Traffic cadets Switzerland

The traffic cadet departments exist independently of the cadet associations and have their own umbrella organization with the Swiss traffic cadet association.

Contents of the cadet programs

Cadet music Murten

The cadet clubs themselves offer u. a. the following programs: general sports, especially athletics and team sports (such as handball with the Kadetten Schaffhausen ) including sport shooting and winter sports as well as parking lot management services. Some of the cadet clubs have a cadet music affiliated with them. The historical roots of this program element lie - as in sport shooting - with the old cadet corps.

The Y + S sports subject camp sports / trekking, often practiced by the cadets , includes experience-oriented sports activities in nature as well as experience-oriented training on the road or in the field. For the cadets, for example, this can mean abseiling, rafting on lakes and rivers, moving using self-made cable bridges and cable cars, and orienting yourself in nature with a map and compass.

Logo of the Cadet Days 2008

The Swiss Cadet Days are the largest event organized by the Swiss Cadet Association . In 1936 the first Swiss cadet days with sports competitions took place in Vevey. This occasion coincided with the establishment of the Swiss Cadet Association. The Cadet Days usually take place in the canton of Bern, as they arose from the Bernese Cadet Days or its predecessor, the “Affolterntag”. It was organized for the first time in 1983 in the canton of Zurich by the cadets Horgen, Meilen and Stäfa as the “ Cadet Days on Lake Zurich ”. The cadet days in the canton of Zurich were held a second time in 2008 in Winterthur by the cadet association of Zurich and Schaffhausen. Since the Cadet Days in Winterthur in 2008, the Cadet Days have been held in the same place for two consecutive years:

Cadet Days 2008 Winterthur
  • Huttwil Cadet Days 2009 and 2010
  • Burgdorf Cadet Days 2011 and 2012
  • Cadet Days Thun 2013 and 2014
  • Cadet Days Murten 2015 and 2016
  • Huttwil Cadet Days 2017 and 2018
  • Langenthal Cadet Days 2019 and 2020

A major event open to everyone is the cadet relay of the Schaffhausen cadets . The relay was first carried out in 1991 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Schaffhausen Cadets and has taken place every year since then, due to the great popularity. The route, which is 121 km long and has an altitude difference of 2400 m, leads around the canton of Schaffhausen and is divided into 12 stages, each of which is covered by jogging, biking or skating.

history

Swiss cadets on an excursion in 1869
Flag of the Pestalozzi Cadet Corps with the heading “Pestalozzi”, Winkelried as an emblem and motto “in amore virtus” (“the power of love”), referring to the republican civic ideal and the citizens Pestalozzi ( guided tour of the orphanage in Stans ) and Winkelried (Sempach)

From the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, so-called cadet corps were used in Switzerland to prepare young people for their duties as citizens of a democracy, with the spirit of the time being given special importance in the militia army. In this sense, the pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi maintained a cadet corps at his institute in Yverdon for the physical training of the students. The founders of the cadet corps, who came from liberal circles, wanted to promote the still young Swiss federal state by integrating young people and educating them to become active citizens after school-age children had been banned from factory work. In some places, civics was still part of the cadet program well into the 20th century, and the Bern Cadet Music was allowed to lead the pageant for the opening of the first federal assembly of the liberal federal state in 1848.

This cadetism found broad support among the Swiss public in the 19th century, among other things as a result of the numerous armed conflicts in neighboring countries. Accordingly, such cadet corps became a regular part of public schools in the 19th century, such as the Trogen cadet corps at the Cantonal School of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . Thus, in the same institution, the classic school preparation for professional life and participation in the community was combined with preparation for the militia army, as was demanded across Europe by the democratic movement in a monarchist environment according to the principle: universal suffrage, education for all and general conscription . In contrast to the empires of Germany and Austria-Hungary, there were never any special boarding schools for officers (so-called cadet schools ) in democratic Switzerland.

Influenced by the gymnastics movement , the originally mostly public cadet corps began to shift the focus of their program to sport as early as the early 20th century. The programs were later made available to girls. and the cadet corps partly converted into private cadet associations. The importance of sport for the cadets manifested itself in the 1960s in the project to rename the cadet association to the " Swiss Association for School Sports ".

Main article: Traffic cadets Switzerland: emergence

Traffic and parking regulations were initially an additional element of the cadet program in the 1960s, but were not pursued further by the cadet associations due to the large amount of time involved. At the same time, the traffic cadet departments specialized in such services were created . The program of traffic cadets, called "VK" for short, was the trend of the times and as a result traffic cadet departments were founded in Germany.

Cultural meaning

Gottfried Keller in 1841 at the age of 22
Aarau cadets on the May procession of 1848; Color lithograph by Karl Jauslin

The poet Gottfried Keller was a cadet in the city of Zurich and dedicated a chapter of his autobiographical novel The Green Heinrich to a two-day cadet festival. On the occasion of the Eastern Swiss Cadet Festival from September 1 to 4, 1856 in the city of Zurich, in which Keller himself participated as host, he wrote the text for the first Swiss cadet song. Shortly afterwards he wrote to a friend about this festival with 3,500 cadets: " This little army with its many flags looked like a walking flower garden, and an infinite multitude of the old, man and woman, rich and poor, surged and crowded the days over it teeming, drumming, trumpeting and singing gem of the future, and on this occasion you saw how much love and right feeling there is still in the world, because many people had tears in their eyes more often, even myself towards the end after I had the laughed at others. "

The cadets are also of local cultural importance: Events that are historically closely related to the cadet system are sometimes celebrated today as general folk or youth festivals, such as the solemnity in Murten and Burgdorf, as well as the boy shooting in the city of Zurich. Occasionally, cadets clubs themselves carriers of old customs as in the Ausschiesset connected " Fulehung " in Thun.

Zofinger Children's Festival: formerly Cadettencorps as folklore

Especially in the canton of Aargau, where numerous school cadet corps existed until the 1970s (including in Aarau, Frick, Baden, Bremgarten, Lenzburg and Zofingen), historical cadet corps that were formerly military-oriented have themselves become the subject of customs, as in Lenzburg and at the youth festival of Brugg and at the Zofingen children's festival .

The old cadet corps presented themselves during parades at celebrations and youth festivals and were therefore often equipped with brass music. For this reason, today there are youth music societies called cadet music instead of the former cadet corps in Geneva, St.-Imier, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Aarau, Chur (Bündner Kantonsschule) and Zug or are affiliated to existing cadet organizations such as in Burgdorf, Murten, Horgen and Tuna.

literature

  • Federal Cadet Association, anniversary publication : 1936-1986 50 years of the Federal Cadet Association , 1986
  • Yves Clément, Les Cadets de Vevey: un patrimoine social et culturel plus que centenaire , 2001
  • Gordon A. Craig, Geld und Geist, Zürich im Zeitalter d. Liberalism 1830--1869 , ISBN 3-406-33311-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Christian Lüthi: Cadets. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 26, 2014 , accessed June 12, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d [1] Swiss Cadet Association website, accessed on May 6, 2007
  3. ↑ a b c Louis W. Burgener in: 50 Years of the Eidg. Kadettenverband , Eidg. Kadettenverband, 1936–1986, 1986, p. 8
  4. ↑ Website of the Cantonal Cadet Association of Zurich and Schaffhausen: Mission Statement (PDF; 26 kB), accessed on May 27, 2007.
  5. ↑ [2] Swiss Cadet Days website, accessed on May 6, 2007
  6. ^ [3] Website Kadettenverband Schweiz: Service , accessed on August 14, 2007
  7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 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. Federal Office for Youth & Sport, directive leader course camp manager camp sports / trekking - advanced training for children and / or youth sports  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jugendundsport.ch
  8. ^ [4] Website of the Swiss Cadet Association: Training , accessed on May 6, 2007
  9. ^ [5] Website Kadettenverband Zürich and Schaffhausen: Program , accessed on May 6, 2007
  10. ↑ [6] Swiss Cadet Days website, accessed on May 6, 2007
  11. ^ Yves Clément, Les Cadets de Vevey: un patrimoine social et culturel plus que centenaire , 2001
  12. ^ Theodor Wagner in: 50 Years of the Eidg. Kadettenverband , Eidg. Kadettenverband, 1936–1986, 1986
  13. ^ Theodor Wagner in: 50 Years of the Eidg. Kadettenverband , Eidg. Kadettenverband, 1936–1986, 1986, p. 36
  14. ^ [7] Website of the Swiss Cadet Association, accessed on January 15, 2014
  15. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 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. Kadettenstafette website, accessed on January 17, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kadetten-stafette.ch
  16. ^ Daniel Tröhler in: Pedagogical Organizational Research , Pestalozzi and his Institute , HD Michael Göhlich, Caroline Hopf and Ines Sausele (eds.), P. 67., VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14608 -4 , p. 67
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  18. ^ Daniel Tröhler in: Pedagogical Organizational Research , Pestalozzi and his Institute , HD Michael Göhlich, Caroline Hopf and Ines Sausele (eds.), P. 67., VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14608 -4 , p. 67
  19. ↑ a b c Louis W. Burgener in: 50 years of the Eidg. Kadettenverband , Eidg. Kadettenverband, 1936–1986, 1986, p. 9
  20. ↑ Gordon A. Craig: Money and Spirit , Zurich in the Age of Liberalism 1830 - 1869 , ISBN 3-406-33311-7 , p. 109
  21. ^ Program preview in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung of November 3, 1848, p. 1832
  22. ^ Louis W. Burgener: "Sport Schweiz Geschichte und Gegenwart", ISBN 385723055X , p. 28
  23. ↑ Louis W. Burgener in: "Kadetten in der Schweiz", ASMZ 10/1986, p. 5
  24. ↑ Louis W. Burgener in: 50 Years of the Eidg. Kadettenverband , Eidg. Kadettenverband, 1936–1986, 1986. p. 10
  25. ↑ Theodor Wagner in: 50 years of the Eidg. Kadettenverband , Eidg. Kadettenverband, 1936–1986, 1986, p. 37
  26. ↑ Chlaus Walter in: 50 Jahre Eidg. Kadettenverband , Eidg. Kadettenverband, 1936–1986, 1986, p. 98
  27. ↑ Theodor Wagner in: 50 Years of the Eidg. Kadettenverband , Eidg. Kadettenverband, 1936–1986, 1986. p. 25
  28. ↑ Theodor Wagner in: 50 Years of the Eidg. Kadettenverband , Eidg. Kadettenverband, 1936–1986, 1986, p. 12
  29. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2007 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. Website Verkehrskadetten Düsseldorf: Geschichte , accessed on May 14, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verkehrskadetten-duesseldorf.de
  30. ↑ vol. 1 chap. 8 of the first version of Green Heinrich and vol. 1 chap. 13 of the final version ".
  31. ^ "March song for the Eastern Swiss Cadet Festival 1856" in: Gesammelte Gedichte (1883) under "Festlieder und Gelegentliches".
  32. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 14, 2013 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. Letter from Keller to Lina Duncker September 8, 1856 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kellerbriefe.ch
  33. ↑ [9] Cadets de Geneve website (so-called fanfare ) accessed on May 10, 2007
  34. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 15, 2014 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. Fanfare des Cadets St-Imier website (entry at Jugendmusik.ch) accessed on January 14, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jugendmusik.ch
  35. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 15, 2014 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. Website Musique des Cadets La Chaux-de-Fonds (entry at Jugendmusik.ch) accessed on January 14, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jugendmusik.ch
  36. ↑ [10] Website Kadettenmusik Aarau accessed on January 14, 2014
  37. ↑ [11] Website Kadettenmusik of the Bündner Kantonsschule accessed on January 14, 2014
  38. ↑ [12] Website Kadettenmusik der Stadt Zug accessed on January 14, 2014
  39. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 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. Website Kadettenmusik Burgdorf , accessed on May 10, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kadetten-burgdorf.ch
  40. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 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. Website Kadettenmusik Murten , accessed on May 10, 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kadetten-murten.ch
  41. ↑ [13] Website Kadettenmusik Horgen , accessed on March 5, 2008
  42. ↑ [14] Website Kadettenmusik Thun , accessed on May 10, 2007