Landsmannschaft Gottinga Göttingen

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State : Lower Saxony
University : Georg-August-University Goettingen
Founding: 1860 in Göttingen
Association: Coburg Convent
Motto: Honestas, libertas, fraternitas in aevum!
Boy colors


Fox colors

Gottinga Band.jpg
Coat of arms: Coats of arms of the Landsmannschaft Gottinga
Circle: Circle Gottinga.png
Address: Nikolausberger Weg 25

37073 Goettingen

Website: www.gottinga.de

The Landsmannschaft Gottinga zu Göttingen is a compulsory and color-bearing Landsmannschaft ( student union ) in the Coburg Convent (CC). It unites students and former students at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in friendship for life. The members of the country team are called "Göttinger".

Gottinga has the colors "blue-gold-red" - the coat of arms colors of the city of Göttingen - with golden percussion . In addition, a blue occiput is worn. The foxes wear a blue ribbon with gold percussion. The motto is "Honestas, libertas, fraternitas in aevum!" (German: "Honesty, freedom, brotherhood in eternity!" ).

history

Black connection and country team in the Coburg LC

The Landsmannschaft Gottinga was founded on November 3rd, 1860 by students of the Göttingen grammar school as a so-called bubble . It initially took on the colors black-gold-black, which, however, were not worn in public. In its founding year, the federal government teamed up with other black connections in Göttingen to form the first Göttingen Bubble Convention and thus supported the fight for equal rights for students in the mandatory black connections at universities, which the bubbles were waging against the corps . To pursue this goal, the Göttingen Bubble Convention joined forces with the Jena and Halle bubble conventions in 1866 to form the Waltershausen Bubble Convention . From this cooperation arose u. a. the friendship between Gottinga and Vitebergia-Halle, established in 1873 . The Walterhäuser BC only existed for a few semesters. Another attempt, supported by Gottinga, between 1881 and 1885 to bring the black connections together in the Gotha First Convent (Gothaer EC) was unsuccessful. After leaving the Gothaer EC, Gottinga took on the Göttingen coat of arms colors blue-gold-red as the color-bearing connection and put on a blue back of the head. In 1883, at the suggestion of Vitebergia, which Gottinga had taken this step forward, the Bund joined the Coburg LC. This had emerged shortly before from the General Landsmannschafts Convent and, with its principle of equal rights for all honorable students, largely embodied the goals that Gottinga had also pursued until then. As a compatriot in Coburg LC, Gottinga then recorded a relatively constant development. Despite some intermittent setbacks due to the suspensions from 1884 to 1889, from 1891 to 1898 and during the First World War, the membership grew from year to year, especially since the old gentlemen's association, founded in 1898, proved to be strong support. 1911/1912 Gottinga led the presidium of the German Landsmannschaft . In 1934 the freelance Landsmannschaft Thuringia zu Göttingen merged into Gottinga and thus contributed to a further stabilization of the federal government. Three years earlier, in 1931, the Göttinger-Haus, today's federal domicile at Nikolausberger Weg 25, had been acquired by the old rulers, as the previous quarter at Steinsgraben had proven too small for the expanding federal government.

Comradeship Scharnhorst during the National Socialism

The old gentlemen's association and the house association managed to keep the house on Nikolausberger Weg open as a meeting place for the people of Göttingen even during the National Socialist dictatorship and the difficult time of the war. In the wake of the co-ordination policy of the new rulers, the active Gottinga association, like all other corporations, was dissolved in the winter of 1935/36 and formally adopted as the Comradeship Coburg (or later Scharnhorst) in the NS student union , but through the close contacts that were maintained In addition to the existing old gentlemen's association, the former active members of the comradeship managed to continue to set up a kind of corporation within the comradeship, among other things through a temporary resumption of fencing and the gradual return from the ordained leader to the convention principle, thus setting themselves apart from the pure NS comradeships as so-called corporation comradeships. During the war, the members of the adjourned Landsmannschaft Markaria zu Göttingen, whose old rule had merged with Gottingas in 1940, were also included. The Comradeship Scharnhorst was also able to avoid total appropriation by the regime because the house association had made the Göttingen house available to them for all activities right from the start, and even the sharpest threats could not move the property right to the house to the Place of the German Landsmannschaft entered NS-old gentlemen's organization. Only through this resistance was it possible after the war to get the house, which had been confiscated by the military government as supposed Nazi property, relatively quickly free and in 1947 to make it available to the re-established federal government.

Göttingen Bund Roland and re-opening as a country team after the war

The reopening of Gottingas after the war was carried out by a group of former Scharnhorsters who had returned to Göttingen to study. After making contact with the local elderly gentlemen, they got together soon after the end of the war in order to revive the former life of connections, albeit in a modified form according to the circumstances of the time. After overcoming considerable resistance from the local supervisory authorities of the British military government , which were opposed to the German liaison system and the revival of the name Gottinga, in October 1947 the founding of the Göttingen Bund Roland, whose statutes were approved by the military government in May 1948. From what was initially a loose association, the Bund Roland developed into a corporation in the following years with the holding of regular conventions and other events, the step-by-step restart of the house and finally the resumption of the blue-gold-red ribbon.

This process was completed with the renaming in November 1950 to Gottinga Student Association, or later Landsmannschaft Gottinga, the reintroduction of the full couleur principle with the old colors of the Landsmannschaft Gottinga and the commitment to the principle of determination gauges as the characteristic feature of students in arms. In 1951 Gottinga joined the Coburg Convent , the newly formed umbrella organization of the country teams and gymnastics associations, as a now mandatory association. The following years were marked by a steady upward development and strong bloom of the federal government. In 1953 the merger with the old owners of Vitebergia Halle took place, which brought with it a further increase in membership, but which in the merger agreement also imposed the obligation on Gottinga to reopen Vitebergia in Halle as soon as the political conditions in Central Germany and the conditions at the University of Halle allowed this .

This promise was kept by Gottinga after the reunification of Germany and after 38 years of common path during the German-German division by re-establishing the Wittenberg Altherrenverband in January 1991. For the reconstitution of the Vitebergia in Halle in May 1991, in addition to the still living original bearers of the Wittenberg tape, 40 Göttinger recorded the Halle tape. Since then, Vitebergia has independently developed into a stable union. Since October 20, 2001, the former Mündenia-Hercynia gymnastics club in Göttingen has merged with Gottinga. In 2010, the 150th year of its existence, the Gottinga Landsmannschaft comprised 223 old men and 49 active and inactive members.

Known members

  • Christoph Bosse (1863–1950), Prussian member of parliament, administrative director of the Kgl. Prussian museums and curator of the University of Greifswald
  • Friedrich Robert Kretschmann (1858–1934), professor and privy councilor in Magdeburg, founder of the ENT clinic in Magdeburg
  • Karl Quantity (1855–1930), Chamber Judge and District Court President in Berlin; Undersecretary of State for Justice and Culture for Alsace-Lorraine
  • Theodor Parisius (1896–1972), administrative lawyer and Prussian district administrator
  • Kurt Meyer-Rotermund (1884–1977), writer
  • Kai Schürholt (* 1971), former CDU politician, known for incorrectly using the doctorate
  • Hermann Wilhelm Stockmann (1848–1924), Vice President of the German Colonial Society, Prussian MP and member of the Reichstag, Director of the Kgl. Consistory in Münster, district president of Gumbinnen, honorary member of the German Warrior Association and honorary citizen of the city of Gumbinnen
  • Paulus von Stolzmann (1863–1930), from 1915 Chief of Staff of the German Southern Army (awarded the order " Pour le Mérite " on July 7, 1915), later Chief of Staff of the Bug Army (later Army Group Linsingen ), from 1920 Commander in Military District IV and commander of the 4th division, finally general of the infantry
  • Paul Trautmann (1881–1929), Lord Mayor of the City of Frankfurt (Oder) from 1917 to 1925 and Lord Mayor of Braunschweig from 1925 to 1929, honorary member of the Kleist Society

Friendship relationships

The Landsmannschaft Gottinga maintains friendship relationships with:

literature

  • Dieter Alfke / Eckhard Harms / Gerhard Kortemme / Karsten Wilke / Jochen Wilkens: Gottinga Göttingen 1960–2010 . Wetzlar 2011.
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : History of the student corporation associations , Volume 1, Würzburg 1981, pp. 129–185.
  • Friedrich Hadenfeldt: Gottinga Göttingen 1860–1960 . Hamburg 1962.
  • Max Lindemann: Handbook of the German Landsmannschaft. 10th edition, Berlin 1925, pp. 197-198.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 51.

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