Munich fraternity Arminia-Rhenania

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Arminia-Rhenania fraternity

coat of arms Circle
Coat of arms Munich Arminia.png Circle Munich Arminia-Rhenania.jpg
Basic data
University location: Munich
University / s: Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
Technical University Munich
University of the Federal Armed Forces
Founding: February 19, 1848
Corporation association : General German fraternity
Color status : colored
Colours:
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : mandatory
Motto: Honor, freedom, fatherland !
Website: www.arminia-rhenania.de

The Munich fraternity Arminia-Rhenania is a dutiful , colored student union and the oldest fraternity in Munich . It was founded on February 19, 1848 and today wears the colors black-red-gold and a wine-red flat cap . Her motto is " Honor, Freedom, Fatherland ".

history

History of Arminia

The time until 1945

Arminia coat of arms

The Arminia fraternity goes back to the regional association Algovia , which was brought into being in the winter semester of 1847/48 by Allgäu students, many of whom were high school graduates in Kempten , and after King Ludwig I approved the formation of student associations and associations . applied for admission. Founding date is February 19, 1848. The royal approval to form a student volunteer corps came Algovia in its 12th company (Martia) and took the Kokardenfarben blue-gold-black and the blue cap on. The motto Unite and Free expressed her sympathy for the goals of the fraternity movement: Unity of Germany and freedom from monarchical tutelage. After the dissolution of the Freikorps in May 1849, Algovia changed the colors to green-gold-purple with a green cap. In order to avoid confusion, the colors were changed again in 1850: based on the Allgäu colors, a green-white-black ribbon was chosen for the green hat.

The merger of the Allgäu students to form Algovia initially took place on a national basis. Nevertheless, there were already liberal fraternity ideas. In 1860 Algovia officially declared itself a fraternity and adopted the motto Honor, Freedom, Fatherland . The fraternity colors black, red and gold were only created in 1862 because of an objection by the rector of the university. Together with the red cap, this color is still worn today. Around 1860 political differences of opinion emerged between supporters of a markedly liberal attitude and those of a more Catholic-conservative tendency. The latter were mainly attached to (Catholic) theologians, who were particularly numerous among all faculties in the early years. That the sympathies belonged to the Austrians in the Austro -Prussian War of 1866 is not surprising in view of the fact that the Bavarian troops fought on this side. The general mood was still largely German and directed against Bismarck's policies . In the years after the founding of the empire, political differences came to a head under the influence of the Kulturkampf and led to an open conflict between the national liberals loyal to Bismarck on the one hand and the so-called ultramontanes , supporters of the Catholic Center Party, on the other. The internal quarrel had a negative effect on the attractiveness of the federal government, led to a shortage of young people and in 1874 to the suspension of Algovia.

In January 1876, some former algovens brought the suspended fraternity back to life under a new name. The name was initially simply the Munich fraternity . When another fraternity was established in Munich, the name Arminia was chosen in 1878 . From that year Arminia also belonged to the Eisenach Deputy Convent (EDC), from 1881 to the General Deputy Convent (ADC), which from 1902 was called the Deutsche Burschenschaft (DB). In 1884 two Armines and a Jenenser German founded the Munich fraternity Cimbria . In 1895 Münchener Arminen were instrumental in founding the General Student Committee of the University of Munich.

During the First World War, active operations could only be maintained with difficulty. After its end, however, an enormous upswing began in terms of numbers, which lasted into the 1930s despite the inflation and global economic crisis. During this time the technical fraternity Gothia (1919) and the free fraternity Askania (1922) were added.

Together with other students, the Armines took part in the battles of the Freikorps against the Munich Soviet Republic in 1919 . The political attitude in the 1920s was quite typical for the bourgeoisie of the time and especially its academic circles, predominantly German national. There were clear reservations about the Weimar Republic. With other like-minded fraternities, the Arminia founded the Red Direction on January 10, 1920 , a cartel within the German fraternity. At the beginning of the 20s, an excited anti-Semitism debate arose in the Arminia fraternity, which is reflected in numerous controversial contributions in the communications of the federal government.

In 1932 Arminia acquired the villa at Maria-Theresia-Straße 20 in Bogenhausen, which was moved into in 1933 after some renovations. In order to avoid a ban by the Hitler government, the German fraternity and its member allies dissolved themselves in October 1935. The Arminenheim association remained as a registered association and legal owner of the house in Maria-Theresia-Strasse. The latter was made available in the winter semester of 1937/38 to the Albert Leo Schlageter comradeship of the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB) , with whom the old gentlemen of Arminia celebrated the 90th foundation festival in July 1938. Most of the Arminenphilister, 235 altogether, joined the old gentry of comradeship, which until then only comprised six old gentlemen. With this, the Arminia fraternity was brought into line. In the Second World War, 38 armines and 25 members of the comradeship died. The house was destroyed by fire bombs in an air raid in July 1944.

The time after 1945

On February 19, 1949, the date it was founded, the Arminia fraternity was officially reopened. In the summer of 1949, the 100th foundation festival was celebrated a year late. In the 1950s to the early 1960s, the federal government was consolidated. The close ties to other fraternities that were unable to reconstitute themselves also contributed to this. After the war, 18 members of the former Albert Leo Schlageter comradeship had already been taken over by Arminia. In 1950 the Philisterium accepted 40 members of the Arminia Czernowitz fraternity from Buchenland . In 1951 a sponsorship agreement was signed with the Ghibellinia Prague fraternity, which until its re-establishment in 1959 at the new University of Saarbrücken offered the old men of Ghibellinia a home with the Armines. In 1955, the old ADB fraternity of the Prager Franconians, which had first reopened in 1950 as the Old Prager Fraternity Franks in Munich, was accepted into the Arminia fraternity.

The increasing improvement in economic conditions in the Federal Republic of Germany made it possible to rebuild the house, the ruins of which were owned by the Arminenheim Association. A partner was found in the Munich fraternity, Babenbergia, who took over half of the co-ownership and construction costs and, after completion, moved into the upper floor. In the 1960s, planning began for a student residence on the site of the old coach house in the backyard, which was inaugurated in 1967.

In 1961 Arminia was one of the founding members of the Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft (BG), from which she resigned after the fraternities residing in Austria were admitted to the German Burschenschaft in 1971 and the accompanying completion of the founding concept.

History of the Rhenania

The time until 1945

Rhenania coat of arms

In the winter semester of 1886/87, nine students from Ludwig Maximilians University founded the Free Student Association Rhenania with the motto German honor, German loyalty, German singing and the colors blue-gold-black, which were initially not worn in public. The official foundation festival was celebrated on January 8, 1887 by 15 members. In January 1889 the name was changed to Free Student Association Rhenania . In the summer semester of 1889, with the support of the Munich fraternity of Cimbria, acceptance into the General Convention of Deputies (ADC), which was finally confirmed a year later (1890). In addition to the old motto, that of the new umbrella organization ( "Honor, Freedom, Fatherland" ) was added.

In 1897, Rhenania organized an all-German fraternity conference in Munich on its own and on its own initiative, with the aim of preparing an association that encompasses all fraternities, including those at Austrian universities. In the 1900 summer semester, Rhenania chaired the ADC, and the Burschentag was chaired by one of the most important Rhenans, namely Heinz Potthoff .

1931 bought the Rhenania around the turn of the century the Corps Bavaria Built corporation House Am Platzl 5 . From 1928 to 1935 trips to Yugoslavia in the Gottschee were organized annually to support the German language island there. Around 1930 there was an increasing polarization in political thought and action between liberal-democratic stance, which prevailed in the old rulers, and National Socialist ideas, in whose waters Aktivitas got more and more in the 30s. Otto Nippold was the exponent of the latter direction . The climax of these internal political disputes was the forced resignation of Heinz Potthof in 1932, who at the time was a highly respected labor lawyer in the Reich Labor Ministry and had moved from the DDP to the SPD in 1930 .

As part of the DC circuit after the seizure of power of Hitler and the Nazi party the fraternity Rhenania was forced to dissolve itself. This happened gradually with the laying down of the band on the Wartburg at the Burschentag in October 1935 and the dissolution of Aktivitas, which was then converted into the Kameradschaft Rhenania , in April 1936. The old rule could remain and in 1938 took over the care of the Kameradschaft Planetta of the NSDStB . This maintained an active business until the war destruction of their home on Gabelsberger Strasse in December 1944. As far as is known, 40 Rhenanen and 31 members of the comradeship Planetta died in World War II .

The time after 1945

In 1949 the Bund der Münchener Rhenanen was re-established without Aktivitas. In this situation, I made contact with an association of about two dozen military students, the Academic Club Munich (ACM), which sought connection to corporate life, joined the Association of Munich Rhenanen and formed a new connection.

Disagreement on the scale question and a decline in the number of active members led the federal government in 1967 to a crisis. In 1967 the second compulsory censorship and in 1968 fencing was completely abolished, which led to differences with the German fraternity, which was still demanding compulsory censorship at the time. At the end of 1969 there was the provisional postponement of the active fraternity on June 6, 1970.

History of the Arminia-Rhenania

On May 22, 1976 in Würzburg merger negotiations with the Munich fraternity Arminia were resolved, which on July 16, 1977 led to the merger of the two fraternities into the Munich fraternity Arminia-Rhenania .

The Munich Burschenschaft Arminia-Rhenania was elected chairwoman of the German Burschenschaft (DB) in the 2011 financial year at the Burschentag 2010 .

Following the scandal over the so-called "Aryan certificate" in 2011, the DB corporation association moved even further to the right in 2012 and many national-liberal fraternities resigned as a result. In 2013, Arminia-Rhenania also left the DB because it “saw no more chance of realizing its ideas of liberal fraternity work” and was unwilling to support “further radicalization”.

In Jena on October 3, 2016, Arminia-Rhenania was a founding member of the new corporate association Allgemeine Deutsche Burschenschaft .

Cartel and friendship relationships

With the exit from the Association of German Burschenschaft, membership in the North German Cartel , which had existed since 1963, ended .

In January 2013, a friendship was established with the fraternity of Hilaritas Stuttgart .

Out of this friendship, the four-league was formed on October 18, 2013 between the Karlsruhe fraternity Teutonia , the fraternity Hilaritas Stuttgart , the Braunschweig fraternity Germania and the Munich fraternity Arminia-Rhenania. The four-league decided to dissolve at the four-league convention in January 2018, as the goals of bridging the time without an association and constructively accompanying the establishment of the ADB were considered to have been achieved.

Known members

politics

Johannes von Widenmayer
  • Emil Bems (1881–1961), lawyer, attorney general at the Nuremberg Higher Regional Court
  • Otto Bethke (1892–1948), lawyer and politician, district administrator in Eckartsberga
  • Pius Dirr (1875–1943), member of the Bavarian state parliament, head of the Munich City Archives
  • Otto Flehinghaus (1904–1987), lawyer, politician (CDU)
  • Joseph Fluthgraf (1851–1926), lawyer, mayor of Grünberg in Silesia and of Wesel on the Lower Rhine
  • Paul Frühauf (1862–1916), lawyer, member of the citizens' committee in Karlsruhe, member of the Baden state parliament
  • Karl Heinz Hederich (1902–1976), engineer, party functionary (NSDAP)
  • Emil Ketterer (1883–1959), medical doctor, politician (NSDAP), Olympic participant
  • Hermann Koelblin (1873–1943), publisher and member of the Baden state parliament
  • Johannes Krancke (1885–?), Mayor of Glücksburg and Buxtehude
  • Peter Jochen Kruse (1929–2007), lawyer, notary, politician (FDP), MdL Hessen
  • Karl Külb (1870–1943), human medicine specialist, politician (DDP), Lord Mayor of Mainz
  • Wilhelm von Lermann (1846–1917), lawyer, District President of Swabia and Neuburg, President of the Bavarian Administrative Court
  • Heinrich Lindenberg (1902–1982), lawyer, politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag, MEP
  • Hans Merkel (* 1934), lawyer, politician (CSU), retired ministerial director D.
  • Otto Merkt (1877–1951), lawyer, First Mayor and Lord Mayor of Kempten
  • Wilhelm Niklas (1887–1957), veterinarian, politician (CSU), Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests
  • Otto Nippold (1902–1940), politician (NSDAP), member of the Reichstag
  • Heinz Potthoff (1875–1945), political scientist, social reformer, politician (FVP), member of the Reichstag
  • Gerhard Rühle (1905–1949), lawyer, author, politician (NSDAP), member of the Reichstag
  • Ludwig Schneider (1902–1944), lawyer, politician (NSDAP), member of the Reichstag
  • Lorenz Rhomberg (1896–1976), Austrian entrepreneur, councilor in Vienna, Gaujägermeister of Vienna
  • Alfred Straßer (1887–1959), lawyer, local politician (NSDAP, Bavarian Party), district administrator of the Ingolstadt district
  • Hans-Peter Uhl (1944–2019), lawyer, politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag, legal advisor of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group
  • Rudolf Wagner (1911–2004), historian, expellee functionary, politician (BHE), Member of the State of Bavaria
  • Heinrich Wastian (1876–1932), philosopher, Austrian writer and politician (GDVP), member of the Austrian House of Representatives
  • Karl Günther Weiss (1917–2001), lawyer and honorary consul for South Korea
  • Johannes von Widenmayer (1838–1893), lawyer, First Mayor of Munich

church

Dr. Maximilian von Lingg, Bishop of Augsburg

science

Culture

economy

  • Max Roesler (1840–1922), factory owner and founder of the fine stoneware factory of the same name in Rodach near Coburg

Member directories :

  • Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. Directory of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 1078-1079 (Arminia) and P. 1084-1085 (Rhenania).

See also

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder : The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 312-314, 328-330.
  • Karl Gareis: The Munich fraternity Arminia - Werden und Schicksal , Munich 1967.
  • Artur Kulak (ed.), Hans-Dieter Krüger (arrangement), et al .: Community shapes - 160 years of the Munich fraternity Arminia-Rhenania , Munich 2008.
  • Enno Meyer: History of MB! Rhenania 1927–1958 , Munich 1961.
  • Joachim Michael: History of MB! Rhenania 1958–1973 , Munich 1974.
  • Hermann Wittkopf: History of MB! Rhenania 1887–1927 , Munich 1927.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meyers Konversationslexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
  2. ↑ a b http://allgemeine-burschenschaft.de/verbindungen/
  3. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 98.
  4. ↑ Peter Krause : O old lad glory. The students and their customs. 5th edition. Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1997, p. 107.
  5. ↑ Fraternities argue about "Aryan proof". In: sueddeutsche.de. November 4, 2011, accessed May 10, 2018 .
  6. ^ Florian Diekmann: Right shift of the German fraternity: Alliance of Constitutional Enemies. In: Spiegel Online . November 25, 2012. Retrieved June 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ dpa / ots: No chance in your own ranks: the oldest Munich fraternity declares leaving the German fraternity. In: Focus Online . February 25, 2013, accessed October 14, 2018 .
  8. ↑ http://www.burschenschaftliche-blaetter.de/netzversion/detailansicht/meldung/398/ein-burschen.html
  9. ↑ Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches: 1980, vol. 91, no1-2, pp. 211-231.

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