Corps spirit

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Korpsgeist [ˈkoːa̯ɡaɪ̯st] or Corpsgeist ( French corps 'body (shank)'; from the Latin corpus 'body') is an expression of the “ we-feeling ” of an ingroup .

definition

The term is derived from the French esprit de corps , which initially denotes a community of people of the same class. A historical definition can be found in Brockhaus from 1911, who writes that the spirit of the corps is “the most active participation of each individual in the common good of all, setting aside all egotistical and personal considerations”.

Of esprit de corps we speak to today's definition when an emotional Community occurring within an objectively definable social group toward uniformly occurs to the outside and show mutual solidarity acts and thereby promotes personal ties beyond the purely social measure.

In a negative sense, this term is often associated with “ arrogance of class ”.

history

Even the medieval orders of knights were shaped by the spirit of the corps by wearing uniform clothing, medals, banners and seals. The spirit of the corps gained further importance in the Prussian army in the early modern times , when noble officers, members of a supposedly exclusive class, developed an esprit de corps with their own code of conduct and uniform clothing independent of rank. This behavior was also observed in the 19th century at German universities and among student associations . The German lawyer Ernst Wichert wrote:

"The corps spirit grew rampant at the universities and gradually injected itself into the fraternities who did not want to appear inferior"

- Ernst Wichert, 1899

At present, the spirit of the corps is predominantly to be found in the military , the police and also in politics . At the beginning of 2017, when cases of abuse in the Bundeswehr in Pfullendorf and Sondershausen became known, a public debate about the corps spirit in the German armed forces was triggered.

The corps spirit from the United States of America has also found its way into the European economy and is viewed as an instrument of modern management and employee motivation. An example is the Wal-Mart company , where employees shout slogans at the beginning of each day and support this with gestures such as the so-called squiggly .

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See also

literature

  • Michael Ruck : Corps Spirit and State Consciousness . R. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Mannheim 1996, ISBN 3-486-56197-9 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Giuseppe Bonazzi: History of Organizational Thought . Ed .: Veronika Tacke. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-531-14534-1 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  • Christian Hartmann: Wehrmacht in the Eastern War: Front and military hinterland 1941/42 . 2nd edition 2010.

Web links

Wiktionary: Korpsgeist  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on "Esprit". Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon, accessed March 27, 2009 .
  2. ^ Rafael Behr : Police culture. Routines - rituals - reflections. Building blocks for a theory of police practice . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14584-3 .
  3. ↑ Alain Demurger: The Knights of the Lord. History of the spiritual orders of knights . CH Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-50282-2 , p. 213 ff .
  4. ^ Karl-Volker Neugebauer (Ed.): Basic course in German military history. Volume 1: The time until 1914. From the warband to the mass army . R. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57853-7 .
  5. ^ Thomas Ormond : Dignity of a judge and loyalty to the government. Service law, political activity and discipline of judges in Prussia, Baden and Hesse 1866–1918 . Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-465-02633-0 ( Ius commune. Special issues. Studies on European legal history 65), (At the same time: Frankfurt am Main, Diss., 1992–1993).
  6. ^ Rafael Behr : Police culture. Routines - rituals - reflections. Building blocks for a theory of police practice . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14584-3 .
  7. ^ Korpsgeist at G20 deluded colleagues , by Ansgar Siemens, Der Spiegel July 7, 2018
  8. ↑ Falko Drescher: Who controls the police? Berlin 2007, urn : nbn: de: kobv: 188-fudissthesis000000002591-4 . (Dissertation at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin ).
  9. ^ Leo Kissler: The German Bundestag . In: Gerhard Leibolz (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the public law of the present. New episode . tape 26 . Mohr-Siebeck, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-16-640382-5 .
  10. ↑ Marcel Bohnert : About corps spirit and combat troops. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. April 28, 2017, Retrieved May 1, 2017 (paid article).
  11. ↑ Kerstin Haase: coordination of marketing and sales. Determinants, design dimensions and effects on success . Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8350-0501-4 ( Gabler Edition Wissenschaft. Customer Management & Electronic Commerce ), (At the same time: Vallendar, Wiss. Hochsch. Für Unternehmensführung, Diss., 2006).