Landsmannschaft Spandovia Berlin

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The Landsmannschaft Spandovia in the CC zu Berlin is a Landsmannschaft ( student union ) in the Coburg Convent (CC). It is compulsory and colored and was founded on October 28, 1878 in Spandau as an association of former high school graduates from Spandau .

Color

The country team wears the colors white-blue-gold with blue percussion and the Fuxen colors are white-blue-white. The student cap is worn in a medium head format and is blue.

history

founding

The "Association of former Spandau high school graduates" was founded in the Spandau district, which was independent until 1920, in the "von Linke" restaurant in Havelstrasse. The first members were: Ferntheil, Pachnicke, Maas, Braune, Karst and Bruder. The approval and registration as "Academic Association Spandau High School Graduates" took place on December 1, 1882 by the university authorities with the colors white-blue-gold (elected on August 14, 1882). The circle was also chosen in 1882. Up until this point in time, the members who still referred to themselves as "fellow students" wore the city colors of Spandau (blue and white) in their beer tips .

After being registered as an academic club, the active members established ever more intensive relationships with similar clubs, in particular with the "Academic Gymnastics Club Borussia" (later: Gymnastics Association Borussia ). As a result, the club began to play drums in 1882, which resulted in the first length of the federal brother (Bbr.) Leppin on May 14, 1883 (judged to be unsatisfactory). Despite rejected applications from the Bbr. Rößler, who tried to tighten the federal government, established the satisfaction principle in the following years and the academic protective and defensive weapons were acquired.

So far, adhering to the strict country team principle, the association's convention decided on December 4, 1885, “that every student enrolled at one of Berlin's universities could be accepted into the association”. At the end of the summer semester (SoSe) 1886, the association rejected the proposal of the Alsatia Landsmannschaft to merge and constituted itself as a free association, which should now wear its colors publicly.

Through the transition of the association to a free association, the operation tightened and the number of events and obligations of the active grew: the convents took place regularly, the lesson took place six times a week. In the first eight semesters of its existence, 133 bat and 8 saber games were struck. At this point, the prerequisites for inactivation were five bat games and a saber course.

Admission to the Coburg LC

In 1888 the old gentlemen's association was founded and the free association joined the corporation association (CV) of the Berlin University. Upon her application to join, Spandovia was admitted to the Coburg Landsmannschafter Convent (Coburg LC) on August 6, 1890 and accepted in 1892 (finally accepted as a full member). The temporary dissolution of the Coburg LC by the Pomerania Halle led to Spandovia's exit (January 26 to February 21, 1898).

Of the four friendship relationships that exist today, the oldest was with the Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia Gießen in 1893 without a formal agreement through the exchange of federal brothers and through double memberships.

As with most corporations, there was also a severe shortage of active members at Spandovia from 1906 to 1914, so that suspension was considered at the General Convention. In spite of this, at this time (1907) the purchase of the first constant at Elsässer Strasse 76 in Berlin, which was the first home of its own until moving to Potsdam in 1928.

First World War

In the time of the First World War , federal life was completely idle, so that after its end on December 7, 1918, the reopening of the federal government was celebrated and in the summer semester of 1919 the drama business was resumed. Because of the many fallen in the war, Spandovia had to forego the presidium of the Coburg LC in the semester 1919/1920. The lack of assets finally led to the merger of Spandovias with the Berlin Landsmannschaft Suebia zu Potsdam on November 5, 1923 and the move to Potsdam . Since it was not possible to attract enough offspring in the following years, Spandovia decided to move to Berlin again to a place that was to be easily reached from Potsdam and Berlin University. Spandovia moved into the third home in 1925: In Berliner Straße 164, a fifth floor was added to the house, financed by levies and regular contributions, on which two active people could live.

In 1925 the Landsmannschaft Spandovia broke away from the Golden Cartel, into which it had entered in 1921. The attempt of the Landsmannschaft Pomerania Halle and Ghibellinia Tübingen to push the friendship association Landsmannschaft Zaringia Heidelberg out of the Golden Cartel, led to their exit, which Spandovia and Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia joined. The relationship between these three country teams established the Triple Alliance , also known as the fine gold cartel .

In 1930 a traffic relationship with the Landsmannschaft Marko-Natangia Königsberg was established (today: Landsmannschaft Hammonia-Marko Natangia Hamburg ), which was converted into a friendship relationship in 1932. At the same time, the friendship relationship with Landsmannschaft Silesia (today: Landsmannschaft Alemannia-Silesia Clausthal ) , which was not formally resolved, falls .

National Socialism

At the beginning of the 1930s, the Spandovia country team was also affected by the decline in active and new entrants. The worsening economic crisis caused many of the middle-class civil servants, whose sons had previously made up the majority of the Spandau offspring, to no longer allow their children to study.

The rise of National Socialism showed u. a. on resignations and missions of some active members from 1932 onwards because of their membership in the SA . Measures by the NSDAP government such as the implementation of the “Führer principle” were implemented at Spandovia from 1933 onwards. After disputes about direction, the “Führer” Minde-Pouet resigned at the end of 1933 because he was unable to implement his vision of a “völkisch comradeship house”. Between 1933 and 1939, another 20 members resigned who had committed themselves to the National Socialist movement and did not want to accept that the Landsmannschaft Spandovia adhered to the apolitical principle.

In the struggle of the traditional student associations against the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB), members of the Landsmannschaft Spandovia occupied almost all important positions in the umbrella organization of the academic Landsmannschaft, the German Landsmannschaft (DL), which led to the fact that the chairman ("Führer") of the DL , Meinshausen, was instructed not to appoint any more Spandauer to management positions in the association. In the same year Meinshausen resigned, which made the DL leaderless. Increasing pressure from the NSDStB ultimately led to the self-dissolution of the Landsmannschaft Spandovia on March 10, 1936. The old gentlemen's association, however, continued to exist.

After the Second World War

In 1951, the year the Coburg Convent (CC) was founded, the Landsmannschaft Spandovia celebrated its reopening and the first active announcement of the post-war period. The Landsmannschaft found a new constant in a ruinous house at Motzstraße 45 (move March 8, 1952 ), where the drum business was resumed, which ultimately led to the first post-war graduation on July 29, 1953 despite a ban by the Free University of Berlin (FU) led. In the same year the general convention of the country team decided that three compulsory games were to be played.

1956 marked a new change of location when the Landsmannschaft moved to Karolingerplatz 8 within Berlin. In 1957, the Landsmannschaft's active statutes were passed. In the winter semester of 1959/1960 the move to the current home, the Villa Spandovia in Berlin-Charlottenburg (Preußenallee 15).

Known members

  • Arthur Hübner (1878–1934), psychiatrist, forensic doctor and university professor
  • Karl Kirsch (* 1938), gravitational physiologist and university lecturer
  • Georg Minde-Pouet (1871–1950), Germanist and librarian
  • Hermann Oncken (1869–1945), historian
  • Hermann Pachnicke (1857–1935), politician
  • Martin Stritte (1877–1963), politician, mayor of the Spandau district, state chairwoman of the LDP Berlin
  • Rudolf Weber (1872–1945), Minister of the Interior of the Free State of Oldenburg, President of the Oldenburg Higher Administrative Court

literature

  • Max Lindemann: Handbook of the German Landsmannschaft. 10th edition, Berlin 1925, pp. 175-176.

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. 13.

See also

Web links

Homepage of the Landsmannschaft Spandovia Berlin