Legitimistic fraternity

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The legitimist efforts in Austria after the First World War found their expression in the student scene in the legitimist student associations . During the Nazi era , avowed legitimists were persecuted by the National Socialists because they regarded Otto von Habsburg as their rightful head of state and refused to swear allegiance to the German Reich .

A distinction can be made between two camps: Catholic legitimist associations and legitimist corps .

Catholic Legitimist Associations

This path offered itself due to the ties between the Habsburgs and the Catholic Church. In most cases, these connections gathered in the Academic Association of Catholic-Austrian Landsmannschaften , so they are not members of the CV . Since they declared themselves Catholic, they were bound by the ban on fencing of the Catholic Church . With the marginalization of legitimism in Austria, this means of differentiation from other Catholic connections plays an increasingly minor role.

As a pennale equivalent there is the Seniors Convention pennaler Landsmannschaften (SCPL).

Legitimist Corps

Legitimist corps were more or less openly legitimist beating associations that sooner or later referred to themselves as corps in all known cases . The relatively openly legitimist leagues in Vienna came together in the Vienna Seniors' Convention . The at least latently legitimist corps in Graz sought to join the locally established Kösener corps . The contradiction of striking with the loyalty to the Catholic former imperial family was small, since one was used to living with such tensions not only after the war, which surpassed the threat of a fencing game by all means: In the monarchy duels were formally forbidden, but tolerated and customary. Officers who refused the (actually forbidden) duel or otherwise forfeited their ability to be satisfied, like the unfortunate Lieutenant Gustl , were threatened with dismissal. In the tension between beating and Catholic students in 1895, the emperor's support for fencing is documented. Emperor Karl also belonged to Wasgonia from 1921 .

Known Corporated Legitimists

Corporated Legitimists include:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen : Gaudeamus Igitur: The student societies past and present. Callwey Verlag, Munich 1986.
  2. ↑ History of Arminia. The being & becoming from 1868 until today. (PDF; 1.56 MB) Graz Academic Burschenschaft Arminia, 2015, p. 2 , accessed on September 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Christoph M. Ledel: "Boys and bombs" - student corporations. In: www.ledel.at. Retrieved September 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Friedrich Wagner: The Austrian Legitimism 1918 to 1938, its politics and journalism. Dissertation at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Vienna, June 1956.
  5. ↑ Otto Molden : The call of conscience: The Austrian struggle for freedom 1938-1945. Herold, Vienna 1958.
  6. ↑ Erwin Steinböck: Austria's military potential in March 1938. Oldenbourg, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-7028-0275-4 .
  7. ^ Claudia Kuretsidis-Haider, Andrea Steffek: Deprivation of property in the case of politically persecuted people. Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 2004, ISBN 978-3-486-56797-7 .
  8. ↑ Note: Krausz-Wienner's estate is in the Austrian National Library.