Leonhard Zander
Leonhard Zander (born November 26, 1833 in Schönbrunn , Province of Silesia , † January 12, 1890 in Schleswig ) was a German lawyer in the Prussian military administration. He gained historical importance as a corps student.
Life
Zander's father was a pastor in Waldenburg . Leonhard spent part of his youth there. He attended high schools in Schweidnitz , Breslau and Liegnitz . After graduating from high school in the autumn of 1852, he volunteered for one year for the 2nd Silesian Jäger Battalion No. 6 of the Prussian Army . He then studied law at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University , the University of Jena and the Friedrichs University in Halle . After the first legal exam he worked as an auscultator for the government in Bromberg . After he had passed the assessor examination in 1863, he registered for the directorate of the III. Army Corps . After he had marched against Austria with the VII Army Corps in the German War , he became director of the 20th Division in Hanover . For a while he was director of the IV Army Corps and took part in the Franco-Prussian War . Awarded the Iron Cross , he was then in Freiburg im Breisgau until 1874 , then with the XI. Army Corps in Kassel and from 1877 to 1887 with the V Army Corps in Posen. For the IX. Army Corps was transferred to Altona and fell ill with a brain disease, he had to retire in the summer of 1889. He was admitted to a mental hospital in Schleswig, where he died in early 1890 at the age of 57.
Since he had participated in two wars of German unification and was captain of the Landwehr , he was buried with military honors in the Schleswig garrison cemetery. The Austrian officers who fell at the beginning of the German-Danish War rest next to him . Six NCOs carried the coffin to the grave. The division pastor, Starkenburger Büttel, gave the funeral oration. Numerous students from the corps gave him final escort . The tomb is from Isaiah (57, 2): THOSE WHO HAVE WALKED RIGHTLY, COME TO PEACE AND REST IN THEIR CHAMBERS .
Corps student
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Supported all his life by the ideals of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association , Zander was perhaps the most important student in the corps in the 1880s . In January 1853 he renounced as a military fox at Corps Borussia Breslau , where he was a senior in the third semester . On May 4, 1854 he became a corps bow bearer of the Lusatia Breslau . At Easter 1854 he went to Guestphalia Jena with paints . On May 14, 1854 recipiert , he was twice senior. After he became active at Marchia Halle at Easter 1855 and was a successful consenior , he went back to Breslau. With his mother corps Borussia he was once again senior. From Hanover he was a frequent guest of his Kartellcorps Hannovera in Göttingen . In Freiburg he frequented the Rhenanen and the Swabians . In Poznan he founded a flourishing AH association . Zander's reform movement , which is still famous today, began there. Guestphalia Jena awarded him honorary membership in 1881.
Zander reform movement
When the corps was doing "too well" after the founding of the empire and expensive outward appearances took over, Zander campaigned for a reflection on the old corps student ideals. With Paul Hirche ( Lusatia Leipzig , Neoborussia Berlin ) and Alexander von Claer (honorary member of Palatia Bonn , ribbon bearer of Guestphalia Bonn and Rhenania Bonn ), he sent thousands of questionnaires to old men in the fall of 1880 - as far as their addresses could be determined; because old gentlemen's clubs and Kösener corps lists did not yet exist. Dealing with excessive effort in corps visits, public representation (e.g. corp dogs ) and external PP suites, they met with broad approval. 4,177 questionnaires were returned, signed. The “Memorandum against Luxury and Procession” submitted to the HKSCV was signed by Otto von Bismarck and Prince Wilhelm, who later became Kaiser Wilhelm II , among others .
The Senior Citizens' Convents were arranged to send a second representative to the Kösener Congress in 1881 in addition to the main representative. Its sole task should be to take part in the discussion of Zander's proposals. The so-called Nebenkösener met on June 4, 1881 in the overcrowded main hall of the Brave Knight in Kösen . In “appropriate, in some cases excellent speeches, illuminated and clarified, the Commission's motions were accepted point by point after a relatively short debate, but not without opposition from a part of the SC. The letter from the greatest German corps boy, Prince Bismarck, to the director's councilor Zander, which has meanwhile become known, still had a resounding effect. When the meeting broke up, a joyful hurray arose, the best proof of the heartfelt joy with which the success of the work was welcomed by the old men. ” (NN, Academische Monatshefte, 1881)
A few years later, Zander completed another significant work in the history of corps students. With considerable pecuniary sacrifices - he had to support a family of twelve from his small director's salary - he published the first directory of living corps students with 4084 names as the forerunner of the Kösener corps lists that had been published since 1904 .
The reform also led to greater commitment by the old men to their corps, who until then had been completely on their own. In 1888, two years before his death, Zander helped found the Association of Old Corps Students . This first amalgamation of old gentlemen's associations of student associations was also a historical consequence of Zander's reform movement.
"As long as there are German corps students, Zander's memory will live."
Zander's grave was rediscovered in January 2011. Borussia Breslau , Lusatia , Palatia-Guestphalia , Marchias Kartellcorps Saxonia Göttingen , the Association of Old Corps Students and the Association for Corps Student History Research had it prepared by a youth group of the German War Graves Commission and laid wreaths on October 9, 2011 .
The 81-page directory of names of the Zander movement is archived in the Institute for University Studies in Würzburg under G / A 69.
literature
- [Karl] Rosenbaum: In memoriam Leonhard Zander . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corporate Student History Research, Vol. 2 (1957), pp. 113–115.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolf Büttel, Kösener Korpslisten 1910, 57/322.
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 29/349; 30/156; 99/242; 125/189.
- ↑ Commemoration for Directorate Zander (corpsarchive.de)
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 25/174; 21/577; 26/420.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zander, Leonhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 26, 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schönbrunn |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 12, 1890 |
| Place of death | Schleswig |