Pub name
A Kneip name (also beer name , Couleur name , code name , Cerevisname , beer Spitz or Vulgo ) is a many fraternities a member conferred and used in the internal federal use of unofficial personal name . The act of baptism and the use of pub names are handled differently. The custom of the pub name comes from the student customs of the 18th and 19th centuries. Originally, it was not by nickname , but Kneip name emerged in times of political oppression as code names for protection from persecution.
selection
They were chosen according to intellectual inclinations ( Socrates , Archimedes ) , Greek ( Theseus , Hector ) or German ( Alarich , Hermann , Teut) ideal figures, but were also based on name translations and distortions. The author's name Willibald Alexis can be traced back to the free Latin translation of the actual name Haering (al (l) ex = fish sauce) by his fraternity brothers. Whether a connection member chooses his name himself or is assigned it differs depending on the connection. In the area of the Swiss and Flemish student associations, couleur names are very common, in Catholic-Austrian associations they are usually even mandatory.
Popular appearances
Early examples
The earliest evidence of a pub name is the revenue book of the Palatinate Landsmannschaft in Heidelberg from 1805, in which names such as Alexander , Barbarossa and Tell appear. The name of the pub was also signed by the representatives of the Stuttgart Boys' Day in 1832, which decided to “go the path of the revolution”.
School associations and beer states
With the First World War , pub names disappeared, but remained particularly in school and other non-academic connections as well as in the academic sector until the 1920s with the Jenenser beer states , in which the first-time participants were given a castle or beer name.
Pub name of Otto von Bismarck
One of the idealized pub names is “Achilles the Invulnerable”, ascribed to Otto von Bismarck as a student . In fact, however, it is an invention and Bismarck had repeatedly obtained Bloody (see Mensur ). He has the less beautiful name Kassube (after the East Pomeranian property of the family) and was also called the child's head or Baribal (American bear species).
Other companies
In the numerous poetry societies of the 18th and 19th centuries, such as the Göttinger Hain , the members gave themselves supposed bard names , so Johann Heinrich Voss Gottschalk or Sangrich called himself .
In the Illuminati Order , Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had the name Abaris . During his time in Wetzlar , by the name of Götz, he belonged to the local knight society, which, judging by its customs, was a kind of beer state.
In the case of the artist society in the Berlin Tunnel , artist names that were not very appropriate were usually assigned. So was Theodor Fontane Lafontaine , while Adolph Menzel Rubens was called.
literature
- Max Mechow: Student pub names and their relatives. In: Historia Academica. Volume 13, 1974, ZDB -ID 1184386-x , pp. 95-101.
Individual evidence
- ↑ J. Vollmann: Burschicoses Dictionary. 1st part, Ragaz 1846, p. 266.
- ↑ J. Vollmann: Burschicoses Dictionary. Part 1, Ragaz 1846, p. 72.
- ↑ J. Vollmann: Burschicoses Dictionary. 1st part, Ragaz 1846, p. 108.
- ^ A b c Max Mechow: Student pub names and their relatives. P. 97ff.
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : The oldest Suevia in Heidelberg. In: Academic monthly books . Volume 8, 1894, p. 2.
- ^ Sources and representations on the history of the fraternity and the German unity movement, Volume 4, Heidelberg, 1913, p. 343.
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : From Bismarck's study time , Academische monthly booklet 8 (1894), p. 228.
- ^ Wilhelm Herbst: Johann Heinrich Voss. Volume 1, Leipzig, 1872, p. 96f.
- ^ Heinrich Gloël : Goethe and his knight table in Wetzlar. In: Goethe-Jahrbuch 32, Frankfurt 1911, p. 103 (digitized: archive.org )
- ^ Max Mechow: Student pub names and their relatives. P. 100.