Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia Giessen

coat of arms	Circle
Guy nband	Fux enband
Basic data
University :	Justus-Liebig university of Giessen Technical University of Central Hesse
Founding:	February 11, 1882
Associations:	Coburg Convent
Color :	Violet-white-red
Headgear :	small plate format
Couleur principle:	color-bearing
Position to the scale :	mandatory
Motto:	In unitate robur!
Website:	www.landsmannschaft-darmstadtia.de

The Landsmannschaft in CC Darmstadtia Gießen is a colored and compulsory student union in the university town of Gießen . Her house is at the gates of the Giessen UKGM in Klinikstrasse 1. She unites students and graduates from the Justus Liebig University and the THM in a friendship and life alliance . The members refer to each other - regardless of their origin - as Darmstadters .

The association belongs to the Coburg Convent , the association of country teams and gymnastics associations at German-speaking universities. Within the CC , it is part of the Triple Alliance . Their friendship alliances are the country teams Spandovia Berlin , Zaringia Heidelberg , Teutonia Munich and Rhenania Jena . In addition, it maintains the only existing cartel relationship between a country team and a fraternity with the Gießen fraternity Germania .

history

Established until the end of the German Empire

Origin and change to the student union

Most of the members of the 1881 Abitur class of the Ludwig-Georg-Gymnasium in Darmstadt began their studies at the nearby Ludoviciana in Giessen. Already in Darmstadt it had been agreed to "found an association of Darmstadters, which, regardless of a bond through religious belief and specialist science, should aim to cultivate student sociability and genuinely youthful cheerfulness " and to maintain the old friendship within the framework of this association .
In order to structure the regular but informal gatherings, it was decided to draw up pub rules . This was signed by the 13 members of the association on February 11, 1882; this date is still regarded as the Landsmannschaft's foundation day.

In the years that followed, the members of the Darmstadt Association - also under the influence of the existing Giessen corporations - increasingly endeavored to convert their union into a full-fledged student union. In 1886 the Darmstadtia Association received the right to corporation from the Rector of the University of Giessen. This was preceded by debates about the final color , which, however, had not yet been worn publicly, and Darmstadtia's coat of arms .

Way to the Landsmannschafter-Convent

The Darmstadt advocated from the outset the position of unconditional satisfaction . As members of a “black” association , however, it was necessary for them to prove gun protection for foreign associations . In 1891, therefore, as well as for reasons of prestige, the first efforts to join the association of the Coburg Landsmannschafter-Convent . With the help of the LC-Landsmannschaften Spandovia Berlin , Ulmia Tübingen and Teutonia Würzburg Darmstadtia was accepted into the Landsmannschafter-Convent at the Whitsun Congress in 1894. This was preceded by the decision to wear the colors publicly as well as the creation of paucity relationships with the Landsmannschaft Germania Marburg (converted into fraternity in 1898) and the ATV Philippina Marburg . In the summer semester of 1896, a short-lived, albeit cordial, crap relationship was established with the Giessen fraternity, Germania, which formed the basis of the later cartel relationship .
In the course of the so-called " LC crash " Darmstadtia left the Coburg LC in January 1898, but returned the following year.

Turn of the century and First World War

In the summer semester of 1903, Darmstadtia took over the presidency of the CLC. In 1907, the Darmstadthaus , financed by federal funds and built according to a design by Hans Meyer , was inaugurated; On the occasion of the 25th foundation festival , the student song “Praise to Gießen” was written by Otto Lerch from Darmstadt .

Darmstädterhaus seen from Klinikstrasse, taken in 2008

In the winter semester of 1908/09, the Landsmannschaft joined the gold cartel within the German Landsmannschaft .

With the outbreak of the First World War , Darmstadtia - in contrast to many other corporations - did not have to suspend, because, due to the nature of Gießen as a garrison town, many of the drafted Darmstadters continued to stay in Gießen or in the surrounding area. A total of 238 members of the Landsmannschaft went to war, 43 of whom were killed.

Darmstadtia in the Weimar Republic

On January 8th, for the first time since the end of the war, fraternity students appeared with members of the Darmstadtia and Chattia country teams on a stroll through the city ​​center of Giessen. In February of that year, under the chairmanship of Darmstadtia, the Giessener Waffenring was concluded with the local fraternities and corps , about which negotiations had already been held before the war began. The preamble to the joint fencing comment was:

“The undersigned beating corporations in Giessen have come together to maintain good morals in student cooperation and to eliminate everything that is likely to damage the reputation of our university, with the firm will to represent the interests of the German arms student outwardly and hold up. "

In 1920 the application for the inclusion of a “Judenpassus” in the statutes of the Landsmannschaft was thrown out in a written vote by the old rulers with 43 against 16 votes. In 1922, at a time of increasing economic hardship, Darmstadtia took over the chairmanship of the German Landsmannschaft from the Afrania Leipzig Landsmannschaft .

In 1925, Darmstadtia and the Landsmannschaft Spandovia Berlin left the gold cartel after the Landsmannschaft Zaringia Heidelberg failed to join the cartel due to the resistance of the Landsmannschaft Ghibellinia and Pomerania . The separate friendship relationship with the Teutonia Munich team was not affected.

The AStA elections in February 1930 brought about a strong increase in the NSDStB in Giessen for the first time ; the indifference of the student associations towards university policy matters had significantly favored the rise of the Nazi student union, which in its propaganda was vehemently anti-bourgeois and anti-corporation.

National Socialism

After the National Socialist "Aryan Paragraph" was adopted by the Allgemeine Deutsche Waffenring in 1933, Darmstadtia also had to decide on the whereabouts of some federal brothers who did not comply with Nazi racial legislation. Five federal brothers were affected, three of whom were able to assert their status as front-line fighters in World War I; in the other two cases the "Führer" of the German Landsmannschaft took the decision. In the late summer of that year, the Führer principle was introduced on the basis of the corresponding Reich law; in the following winter semester, a " living companion " of the German student body was established on the Darmstädterhaus . The normal daily routine for corporate students could, however, be maintained for some time , despite the heavy use of the students by National Socialist organizations and the mandatory military sport introduced at universities .

Darmstadtia left the German Landsmannschaft in November 1935. Due to a saber fencing sequence that was still outstanding , the self-dissolution of Aktivitas , which was decided at the same time, was delayed until the end of the winter semester; On February 22, 1936, the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia was completely suspended as a student union after 108th semesters.

In the winter semester of 1938/39, the “Kameradschaft VII” was set up on the Darmstadtia building as a student living and living community of the NSDStB . From October 1938 onwards, this was financially supported by the old rulers of Darmstadtia after a number of former federal brothers had found connection to the comradeship and were able to persuade them to continue the country-team traditions - especially the principle of unconditional satisfaction . With this in mind, Kameradschaft VII was renamed “Kameradschaft auf dem Darmstädterhaus ” in the winter semester 1938/39 .

With the beginning of the war it became increasingly difficult (e.g. the Darmstädterhaus was confiscated by the Wehrmacht for six months in September 1939 ) to continue the corporate student orientation of comradeship. Nevertheless, in the summer of 1942 it was possible to implement the renaming to “Kameradschaft Ritter von Rompf” (after Otto Ritter von Rompf from Darmstadt, who was highly decorated in World War I ) and thus to anchor the Darmstadtia tradition to the outside world. The Darmstädterhaus survived the devastating air raid on St. Nicholas' Day in 1944 unscathed, as it was located outside the Gießen town center at that time. With the end of the winter semester 1944/45 and the end of the Second World War , the camaraderie ended. Darmstadtia lost 44 federal brothers in World War II; six more remained missing.

Post-war until today

After the end of the war, the Darmstädterhaus was confiscated by the American occupation forces and in 1946, in a plundered condition, assigned to the Red Cross. After a long official struggle by the old rulers, the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia finally got their house back with effect from January 11, 1952. In December 1947 a new Aktivitas was accepted into the union, which consisted of three old man's sons from the “old” Darmstadtia as well as 19 members of the Giessen student association “Scholaren”. In 1948 the “Darmstadtia Student Association” was licensed by the Giessen University of Applied Sciences; from 1951 it was called "Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia" again. In 1952, the first post-war grades were beaten and old drum ratios were resumed.

In 1971, parallel to similar debates in the German fraternity , the Landmannschaftliche Verband Coburger Convent was shaken by heated debates about a possible abolition of compulsory censorship. After the formation of a camp within the association, Darmstadtia distinguished itself as a member association of the so-called "Würzburger Kreis" (i.e. the proponent of the principle of duty); the extraordinary Coburg General Convention , in the course of which it was decided to stick to the compulsory censorship and then the “ Marburger Kreis ” resigned from the Coburg Convent, took place at the Darmstädterhaus .

A reporter from the “ Stern ” caused a stir throughout Germany , who snuck in on a Marburg Pauktag in 1981 and reported under the heading The Battle of Marburg on the scale of a member of the Darmstadtia.

Well-known members

• Hermann August Eidmann (1897–1949), entomologist and forest scientist
• Wilhelm Peter Heiss (1911–1973), Senior Public Prosecutor at the Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt am Main ; responsible for the introduction of rehabilitation in the Hessian penal system
• Theodor Koch-Grünberg (1872–1924), anthropologist and, since 1956, namesake of the Theo-Koch School in Grünberg
• Ado Kraemer (1898–1972), chess composer and wine connoisseur
• Hermann Kraemer (1872–1940), animal breeder, most recently full professor in Giessen
• Ludwig Petry (1908–1991), Medievalist , co-signer of the Polendenkschrift of the Publikationsstelle Berlin-Dahlem and SA -Schführer, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
• Otto Ritter von Rompf (1883–1917), forest assessor , lieutenant in Bavarian IR 2 "Crown Prince" and bearer of the Knight's Cross of the Military Max Joseph Order
• Ludwig Schwamb (1890–1945), lawyer and member of the Kreisau district
• Karl Weise (1926–2011), veterinarian and former Saxon State Minister for the Environment and Regional Development (1990/91)
• Emil Zimmermann (1884–1951), Lord Mayor of Gelsenkirchen, member of the Provincial Landtag of Westphalia

See also

• List of member associations of the CC
• List of student associations in Giessen

literature

• Old gentlemen's association of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published in Gießen 1969.
• Max Lindemann: Handbook of the German Landsmannschaft. 10th edition, Berlin 1925, pp. 194-195.
• Holger Zinn: The comradeships of the leagues of the German Landsmannschaft (DL) and the Representative Convent (VC) in the years between 1933 and 1945 , in: Historia Academia Bd. 40 , Würzburg 2001.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
2. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 48.
3. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 1
4. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 45
5. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 57
6. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 78
7. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 123
8. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 125
9. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 130
10. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 134
11. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 142
12. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 150
13. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 158
14. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 157
15. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 165
16. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 168 u. 170
17. ↑ Discovered details and stories behind walls. In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung . September 14, 2008, accessed July 26, 2017 . 
18. ↑ Holger Zinn: The comradeships of the leagues of the German Landsmannschaft (DL) and the representative convent (VC) in the years between 1933 and 1945 , Historia Academia vol. 40, Würzburg 2001, p. 133f.
19. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 183
20. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 190
21. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 194ff.
22. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 199f.
23. ↑ Jost Bösenberg: The battle in Marburg ; in: Stern No. 47/1981.
24. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 118.
25. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 105 u. P. 211.
26. ↑ Michael Kraus (Ed.): Theodor Koch-Grünberg. The Xingu Expedition (1898–1900) - A research diary , Cologne 2004, p. 454.
27. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 17 u. 232.
28. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 235.
29. ↑ cf. Ingo Haar : Historian under National Socialism. German historical science and the "Volkstumskampf" in the east (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 143). Göttingen 2000, p. 11.
30. ↑ cf. Anne Christine Nagel : In the shadow of the Third Reich. Medieval Research in the Federal Republic of Germany 1945–1970 , Göttingen 2005, p. 27.
31. ↑ Altherrenverband der Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia: History of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia 1882–1962 , self-published Gießen 1969, p. 96 u. P. 233.
32. ↑ Barbara Malik: "Path to Disaster" - on Schwamb's role in the resistance; Retrieved July 12, 2011
33. ↑ CC-Blätter 2/92, AHCC e. V. Munich 1992, p. 31.

Web links

Commons : Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia Gießen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia Gießen
• Exemplary color maps of the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia Gießen
• Text of the Darmstädterlied "Praise to Gießen" (the given year is incorrect)

Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 38.39 "  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 39.78"  E