List of student associations in Giessen

The list of student associations in Gießen shows the 21 active student associations that are based in Gießen .

Active connections

Surname	founding	Colours	coat of arms	Circle	Association	Fencing question	Members	House
Fraternity of Adelphia	1870	green-white-gold			without	not striking	Men's association	⊙
Alemannia fraternity	1861	light blue-crimson-gold			without	mandatory	Men's association	⊙
Country team Chattia	1882	Red White Red			CC	mandatory	Men's association	⊙
Landsmannschaft Darmstadtia	1882	violet-white-red			CC	mandatory	Men's association	⊙
Fraternity of Dresdensia-Rugia	1853	violet-white-red red-white-green			DB	mandatory	Men's association	⊙
Frankonia fraternity	1872	green-white-red			without	mandatory	Men's association	⊙
Free AV Geo-Giessensis	2008	blue-white-green			without	not striking	mixed	without
Germania fraternity	1851	black-crimson-gold			ADB	mandatory	Men's association	⊙
Germania-Charlottenburg fraternity	1911	green-silver-light blue			without	exposed	Men's association	⊙
VKDSt. Hasso-Rhenania	1883	yellow-white-red			CV	not striking	Men's association	⊙
Academic Society The Monastery	1872	without	without	without	without	not striking	mixed	⊙
K.St.V. Nassovia	1895	blue-orange-blue (ff)			KV	not striking	Men's association	⊙
Corps Normannia Hall	1846	gold-white-blue			KSCV	mandatory	Men's association	⊙
Corps Starkenburgia	1826	crimson-white-gold			KSCV	mandatory	Men's association	⊙
Corps Teutonia	1839	green-crimson-gold			KSCV	mandatory	Men's association	⊙
WKSt.V. Unitas Cheruskia	1919	blue-white-gold (ff)			UV	not striking	Men's association	⊙
WKSt.V. Unitas Maria Montessori	1994	gold-white-blue (ff)			UV	not striking	Ladies connection	⊙
Fraternity of Vandalia Ilmenau and Giessen	1899	black-white-gold			without	optional striking	Men's association	⊙
VDSt Giessen	1891	black-white-red (ff)			VVDSt	not striking	Men's association	⊙
Wartburg fraternity	1948	black and crimson on gold			without	not striking	Men's association	⊙
Giessen Wingolf	1852	black-white-gold			Wingolfsbund	not striking	Men's association	⊙

Legend

• Establishment: year of establishment (after specifying the connection)
• Colors: colors of connection (guy colors )
  • if without additional information, then colored (wearing the colors in the ribbon , on the hat and in the corner , occurring in other objects)
  • ff: color-leading (appearance of colors in different objects, worn in the corner)
  • vu: read from below
• Coat of arms: Coat of arms of the association
• Circle: Circle of Connection
• Association: corporation association
• Fencing question: position of the connection to the scale length
  • compulsory: every member is required to hit determination gauges
  • Optionally striking: every member is required to learn the drums until they are ready to measure
  • free-striking: the timpani and the striking of lengths are voluntary
  • non-striking: Members are not allowed to strike the scale
• Members: Position of the connection to accept members of a certain gender
  • Women's association: exclusive admission of women
  • mixed: acceptance of women and men
  • Male Association: exclusive admission of men
• House: fraternity house

literature

• Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, pp. 47-50.
• Ernst-Günter Glienke: Civis Academicus 2005/2006 . SH-Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-89498-149-0 .
• Joachim Hönack, Gernot Schäfer (Red.): Vivat academia! Student associations at the University of Giessen in the past and present. A contribution to the 400th anniversary of the university and to the city's history . Accompanying volume for the exhibition with short chronicles of the corporations involved. Akadpress, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939 413-02-8 .
• Jürgen Setter: A brief history of the connections in Giessen . Verlag Friesland, Sande 1983, ISBN 3-9800773-0-6 .

Web links

Commons : Student Associations in Gießen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Free academic association Geo-Giessensis: The Geo-Giessensis becomes a mixed association. In: Giessen newspaper . GZ Medien GmbH, April 10, 2016, accessed on April 13, 2016 . 
2. ^ General German Burschenschaft: Members. Retrieved October 8, 2016 . 

 Map with all coordinates of the connecting houses: OSM | WikiMap