Leipzig fraternity Germania

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Basic data
University location: Leipzig , Germany
Founding: June 17, 1818 in Leipzig
Association: German fraternity (DB)
Colours: Black-white-red with golden percussion
Website: www.germania-leipzig.de

The Leipzig fraternity Germania is a colored , obligatory student union based in Leipzig . It is the oldest fraternity in Saxony .

General

As a circle Germania leads the small Burschenschafterzirkel

The Leipzig Burschenschaft Germania is a life union in which students become members of the old rulers of the Burschenschaft after graduation , which supports the young students ( Aktivitas ) financially and ideally (reverse generation contract ). It is also organized according to the convention principle , ie decisions are made in votes and elections, with the majority deciding.

Germania wears the colors black-white-red with golden percussion in the Leipzig tape measure, brick-red hats in a small straight shape, and carries the motto " Freedom - Honor - Fatherland ". It requires its members to hit three approved lengths .

history

The time until 1945

The Leipzig fraternity Germania was founded on June 7th, 1818 in the inn " Zur Grünen Linde " in Leipzig. It was dissolved in 1824 when the Carlsbad resolutions were enforced in Saxony. The fraternity was present again in 1825, but was again banned in 1826. The student union continued as a fencing company from 1827. In 1827/28 there was a split, from which the fraternity Markomannia Leipzig emerged. Its best-known member was probably the composer Robert Schumann . As a result of the Frankfurt Wachensturm , measures were taken again against the fraternity in 1832. In 1833 it came to self-dissolution.

The student union was reorganized in 1839. It came with the honorary member Robert Blum at the heyday of the Leipzig fraternity as "Kochei" (after the name of the economy Koch in the Fleischergasse, where people popped). In 1852 the fraternities in Leipzig were banned again. The Leipzig fraternity continued to exist underground until 1855.

The re-establishment took place in 1859 as Wartburg while maintaining the old color of the Leipzig fraternity. In July 1862 the union with the Albia fraternity to form the Leipzig fraternity Germania took place under the colors of the Wartburg. In 1872 the current colors black-white-red were adopted.

In 1903 the Leipzig fraternity Germania took over the chairmanship of the German fraternity. In 1909 the house at Schenkendorfstraße 16a was inaugurated. In the First World War 24 members fell. The couleur business was resumed in 1919. In 1926 the chairmanship of the German fraternity was taken over again.

After Hitler came to power in 1934, the Führer principle was introduced before the forced dissolution took place in 1935. In 1936 the fraternity was transformed into the NS-Kameradschaft Wartburg. In the Second World War , 26 members died and in 1944 the Germanenhaus was destroyed by bombs.

Exile in Cologne

Contacts were resumed after 1945 and the first post-war meeting took place in Bad Godesberg in 1948. There were negotiations with various old gentlemen's associations to revive an activity. In 1950 a Cologne fraternity Wartburg was founded by the fraternity Germania Köln. The old gentlemen's association of the Leipzig Burschenschaft Germania merged with the Aktivitas of the Cologne Burschenschaft Wartburg under the name Kölner Burschenschaft Wartburg, also known as the Old Leipzig Burschenschaft Germania . This name was shortened to Wartburg Cologne / Germania Leipzig in 1958.

Return to Leipzig

In 1993, the 175th anniversary of the Leipzig fraternity Germania was celebrated in Leipzig and a separate old man's association Germania Leipzig was founded. In the winter semester 1993/94 the active operation in Leipzig took place with four foxes. In April 1994 the first rooms in Barfußgäßchen 12 were rented. From May 1994 drumming begins in the "Halle-Leipzig" weapon ring. In the summer semester of 1994 activitas and old gentry of the Leipzig fraternity Germania were resumed in the German fraternity. In 1995 a floor was moved into at Nikolaistrasse 57. In 1997, a friendship was established with the Aktivitas of the Arminia fraternity in the Jena castle cellar .

Right-wing prepper group

In June 2020 it became known that members of the fraternity had formed a right-wing extremist prepper group from 2015 to arm themselves privately and to prepare for an alleged crisis. The taz found numerous racist statements by the group members in Facebook chats . Against the background of the influx of refugees, the handful of men and women spoke of a coming “race war”.

Known members

Membership directory :

  • Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. pp. 1067-1068.

literature

  • [Adolf Hirschfeld, August Franke]: History of the Leipzig fraternity Germania 1859-1879. Ceremony for the twentieth foundation festival on July 25, 26, 27 and 28, 1879 . o. O. o. J. (Leipzig 1879), p. 73, no. 275.
  • Emil Knaake, Wolfgang Thiele, Valerian Tornius, Hans Leonhardt (arr.): History of the Leipzig fraternity Germania 1818–1928 . Leipzig undated (1928).
  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. WJK, Hilden 2005, pp. 272-273.
  • Michael Doeberl , Alfred Bienengräber (Ed.): The academic Germany. Volume 2: The German universities and their academic citizens . CA Weller, Berlin 1931. p. 923.
  • Hans Leonhardt: The oldest Leipzig fraternity (1818-1833) - A contribution to the history of the University of Leipzig in the 19th century. Inaugural dissertation, Borna-Leipzig 1913.
  • Rudolf Nöbel: The old gentlemen's association of the Old Leipzig Burschenschaft Germania - origin and development up to 1972. Self-published, Cologne 1973.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ taz research on right-wing extremist preppers: Preparing for the “race war” , taz June 5, 2020