State Corps

Richard Andree : Cantonal division for the country teams in the Kingdom of Saxony (1814)

A national corps won the majority of its student members from the country of its university . This is also what the name of the corps refers to .

meaning

The assignment comes from the time when the senior citizens' convents still stipulated their recruiting cantons in the SC comments ; but it is still used today - partly and unofficially. The Landescorps were of particular importance in the 19th century; for in smaller states the higher civil service, sometimes also the sovereign or members of the ruling house, were members of this corps. The Landescorps thus had a priority position in student representation.

Examples

• Bavaria Munich for the Bavarian nobility, provided innumerable confidants of the Wittelsbach family
• Borussia Bonn for the Prussian nobility
• Brunsviga Göttingen for the Duchy of Braunschweig
• Hassia-Gießen for the province of Upper Hesse
• Hasso-Nassovia for Hessen-Nassau
• Holsatia for the Duchy of Holstein and the Province of Schleswig-Holstein
• Littuania for Prussian Lithuania
• Lusatia Breslau for Upper Lusatia
• Lusatia Leipzig for Lower Lusatia
• Masovia for Masuria
• Palaio-Alsatia for Alsace
• Palatia Bonn for the Palatinate
• Palatia Munich for the Upper Palatinate
• Pomerania for Pomerania
• Rhenania Freiburg for the Grand Duchy of Baden
• Rhenania Tübingen for Swabia
• Saxonia Leipzig for the Kingdom of Saxony
• Saxonia Vienna for the Transylvanian Saxons
• Suevia Tübingen for the Kingdom of Württemberg
• Transrhenania for the Rhine Palatinate
• Vandalia Rostock for Mecklenburg
• Vandalia Heidelberg for the Mecklenburg nobility (and the bourgeoisie of Hamburg)

literature

• Ferdinand Lindner : The corps of the German universities together with a detailed description of the student situation . Publishing house Lißner, Leipzig 1870.
• Detlev Grieswelle : Sociology of the Kösener Corps 1870-1914 , in: Otto Neuloh , Walter Rüegg (ed.): Student and University in the 19th Century , Göttingen 1975, p. 346 f.
• Christian Helfer : Kösener Customs and Customs. A corps student dictionary , Saarbrücken, 2nd edition, 1991, p. 135.