Fraternity Danubia Munich

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Basic data
University location: Munich , Germany
Founding: March 6, 1848 in Munich
Association: German fraternity (DB)
Colours: White-lime-green-rose red
Motto: Free speech, bold in action!
Website: danubia.de

The fraternity Danubia Munich is a fraternity from Munich . She is obligatory , a member of the German Burschenschaft (DB) and belongs to the ethnic fraternity there . She is assigned to the right-wing extremist spectrum and her activities are monitored by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution .

General

As a student association , the Danubia fraternity is a life union in which students become members of the old man 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.

The Danubia wears the colors white-green-rose-red with silver percussion , white hats in the Munich plate format and carries the motto “ Free speech, bold in action! “It requires its members to hit three approved lengths .

Fraternity house of the Danubia Munich fraternity in Potsdamer Strasse 1a

Danubia belongs to the Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft (BG) and forms the East German cartel with the Teutonia Vienna fraternity and the Old Breslau fraternity of the Raczeks in Bonn . There is a friendship relationship with the Brixia Innsbruck fraternity .

history

founding

The Danubia fraternity was founded on March 6, 1848 in the course of the dispute over the dancer Lola Montez and King Ludwig I , making it the oldest fraternity in Munich after Algovia (now Arminia-Rhenania ). Danubia was part of the bourgeois revolutionary movement of 1848 and had to disband temporarily on May 1, 1853 because of its participation in the revolution in Munich. The first spokesman for Danubia had previously been arrested for high treason , but the case was later dropped. In 1871 one of the former revolutionaries, Nepomuk Fäustle , finally became royal Bavarian Minister of Justice .

In 1874 Passau and Straubing high school graduates founded an informal association Passavia , which was renamed Danubia in the winter semester 1875/76 , wore the same colors and the same circle as the original Danubia and represented its ideals; from May 23, 1877 the Danubia fraternity called itself .

Time until 1945

In 1877 she was accepted into the Eisenach Deputy Convent (EDC) and in 1881 switched to the General Deputy Convent (ADC), from which the German Burschenschaft later emerged. Danubia resigned from the ADC for a few years and was not part of any umbrella organization from 1883 to 1886. In 1890 the members of Danubia from 1848 joined the new fraternity of Danubia as old men. In 1898 the final reconciliation with the House of Wittelsbach took place when Prince Ludwig of Bavaria (later King Ludwig III ) attended the fraternity's 50th foundation festival.

During the First World War , 30 members of the Danubia were killed as soldiers. In 1919 members of the Danubia were involved in the violent suppression of the Munich Soviet Republic in Bavaria, and many Danubes also belonged to the Epp Freikorps . On January 10, 1920, Danubia and other fraternities founded the Red Direction . In 1923 all members of the free association Avaria converted to Danubia. Together with Walter Schmadel , she was the chairman of the AStA umbrella association of the German student body from 1927–29 .

In 1935, the Danubia disbanded because it resisted integration into the National Socialist German Student Union and rejected the principle of leadership associated with it . In the Second World War a total of 44 former Danubes were killed as soldiers.

After 1945

From April 1946, the former Danuben met again regularly in Munich. In 1949, the Danubia fraternity was re-established and in the same year went into operation. On June 15, 1950 she was involved in the re-establishment of the German fraternity. In 1953 the academic senate added it to the list of associations existing at the University of Munich .

In the 1960s, several members of Danubia were actively involved in the South Tyrolean struggle. After a merger of the Austrian and German fraternities failed at the Burschentag 1961, the Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft (BG) was founded on July 15, 1961 by the fraternities supporting this initiative in the house of Danubia . The 42 German and Austrian fraternities profess themselves in the founding protocol of the BG “to the people-related concept of fatherland” and demand “the spiritual and cultural unity of all who belong to the German people and profess them”. The BG refers positively to a "Greater Germany" within the borders of September 1, 1939.

In 1967 Danubia and other corporations won the majority in the AStA for the last time . So far she has chaired the German Burschenschaft three times (1930, 1955, 1977) .

Lecture series

Since the 1980s, the fraternity Danubia regularly organizes the Bogenhausener talks in their fraternity house in Bogenhausen . Well-known right-wing extremists such as Pierre Krebs and Günter Deckert were invited to these talks, as well as the Holocaust denier Wilhelm Stagh . In 1998, as part of the Bogenhausen Talks, the lecture evening with Horst Mahler , Peter Furth and Bernd Rabehl attracted attention. Horst Mahler sent Rabehl's lecture entitled “Thirty Years After 68 - Ways to Overcome the Spiritual Vacuum in Germany” to the Junge Freiheit , who published it. Even Jürgen Schwab occurred at the fraternity as a speaker. Danubia regularly announces its Bogenhauser Talks in the new right-wing weekly newspaper Junge Freiheit .

The fraternity also organizes a regular series of lectures that are free from domination . In June 2014 it became known that Martin Pfeiffer , editor-in-chief of the right-wing extremist Austrian magazine Die Aula and chairman of the Society for Free Journalism (GfP), classified by the German constitutional protection as the “largest right-wing extremist cultural association” in Germany , was to be the speaker. The lecture was then canceled at short notice by the old man, their chairman called the invitation "a regrettable oversight".

Peter Kienesberger, convicted of a bomb attack in South Tyrol, and Alain de Benoist , masterminds of the New Right , also gave lectures at Danubia.

Political orientation

The Danubia fraternity has long had contacts with the right-wing extremist spectrum, especially with the New Right , and according to the Federal Agency for Civic Education it is assigned to the “radical folk wing of the DB, the fraternity community ”. The activities of Danubia are observed by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution and classified as “right-wing extremist”. The fraternity “as a whole” including the “old gentlemen” is also in view because of their activities, but the latter “do not see any sufficiently weighty actual evidence” that they “pursue efforts that are directed against the free democratic basic order”. The former Bavarian Interior Minister Günther Beckstein ( CSU ) classified the Danubia as the first Bavarian fraternity as “clearly right-wing extremist” and “anti-constitutional organization”. Accordingly, since 2001 members of the Danubia can no longer be accepted into the civil service without proof of their loyalty to the constitution. Danubia organized several lectures with right-wing extremists and anti-Semites like Horst Mahler . In addition, members of the fraternity were and are active in other right-wing extremist associations. She is friends with the Austrian fraternity Olympia Wien , which was temporarily banned there in the 1960s because of its ties to separatist South Tyrolean terrorists.

In the 1970s, members of Danubia were also organized in the NPD student organization “ National Democratic University Association ” (NHB), whose “cadre forge” was Danubia.

On July 21, 1977, 20 neo-Nazis, led by an NPD functionary, attacked several students in front of the University of Munich in order to secure a place for the fraternity in front of the cafeteria . In the 1979 court case it emerged that the violent group from Regensburg had come to an information stand at the request of Danubia as a so-called protection force .

In the late 1980s, the fraternity was closely associated with the Republicans . In 1989 the “ Republican University Association ” (RHV), the party's student association, was founded in the house of the Danuben. Danubia member Hans-Ulrich Kopp , editor-in-chief of Witiko-Letters and co-initiator of Junge Freiheit , became chairman.

In 2001, Danubia hit the headlines because it gave shelter to the 19-year-old neo-Nazi Christoph Schulte , who was known to the police , after he had seriously injured a 31-year-old Greek as the main culprit out of a group of around 50 neo-Nazis. A member of the Prague fraternity Teutonia in Regensburg had brought the perpetrator bleeding to the Danuben house at around 3 a.m. on the night of January 13th. The racially motivated attack came out of a birthday party organized by a member of Danubia. Schulte then went to the Netherlands, where he was caught two weeks later. The Munich public prosecutor's office investigated for fraudulent use. In the later proceedings, the Danube Reinhard Mehr stood together with other neo-Nazis for serious bodily harm, and Schulte and his 18-year-old girlfriend for attempted murder. As a result of the incident, the rector of Munich University, Andreas Heldrich, prohibited the fraternity from putting up notices on the university's premises. The then Bavarian Minister of the Interior, Günther Beckstein , called for Danubia to be "crystal clear" from right-wing extremist members and content. According to the taz , after the incident became known, Danubia blocked its website "quickly" and then "heavily" defused it.

The Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution then mentioned Danubia in its 2001 annual report and stated in 2002 that, contrary to a statement made by Danubia to the contrary in 2001, no willingness to turn away from previous right-wing extremist efforts was evident. He listed the activities of Danubia up to and including 2006 in his reports with the other right-wing extremist organizations worth mentioning . From 2004, a detailed description was dispensed with, since right-wing extremist activities “could not be detected”, although they were initially still under observation by the state office due to the “still existing proximity to right-wing extremism”. From 2007 to 2011 the Danubia was then temporarily no longer listed in the reports for the protection of the constitution. The reason given was that the Aktivitas only consisted of 15 students and that its importance no longer corresponds to the scale shown. A pending lawsuit by the Danubia fraternity against the reporting in the years 2001 to 2006 played no role in the failure to mention it from 2007 onwards.

In 2005 Sascha Jung , co-founder of the new Hofgeismarer Kreis and old man of Danubia, was refused admission to the higher judicial service of the Free State of Bavaria. The rejection on the grounds that “the applicant's commitment to loyalty to the constitution” appeared “not credible” referred to Jung's membership in the Aktivitas of Danubia from 1994 to 2002. Jung's impending employment at the University of Bayreuth was also given by Günther, then Minister of the Interior of Bavaria Beckstein prevented. The fraternity “Academic Freedom Initiative” then tried in vain to rehabilitate Jung and his corporation. In 2007, after being expelled from the party by the SPD , Jung successfully sued the expulsion. Since July 21, 2007, Jung is no longer a member of the SPD.

In June 2012, a member who, according to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, had close contacts with the neo-Nazi comradeship in Munich was expelled from Danubia.

Since the report for the protection of the constitution for 2012, the activitas of Danubia has been mentioned again as an "independent object of observation of the state office for the protection of the constitution" due to contacts with the Munich neo-Nazi scene. In the report for 2013 it says: “The activitas of the fraternity Danubia acts revisionist and propagates an exaggerated nationalism in the folkish sense”.

In 2017, Der Spiegel reported on a member of the fraternity who is active in the national identity movement observed by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . According to the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution, “intensive personal connections” between individuals from Aktivitas and the Identitarian Movement are striking.

As a result of terrorist investigations against German soldiers in 2017 who examined Military Counterintelligence (MAD), the activities of eleven Bundeswehr - relatives , some of which contacts with the fraternity Danubia should have.

Fraternity houses

Former house of the Danubia Munich fraternity in Bogenhausen , Möhlstrasse 21 (2011)

The fraternity house of Danubia was from 1958 to 2016 in the Möhlstraße 21. It was in 1901 by later by the Nazis as Jews declared and pursued Lutheran-Protestant built couple Julius and Luise Kaufmann. The Kaufmann family lived there until the building was " Aryanized " on February 1, 1938 and passed to the family of the Barons von Leonrod . Julius and Luise Kaufmann took their own lives with their son Bruno in 1940 to avoid deportation . The son of the new owners, Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod , was involved as a major in the conspiracy against Hitler on July 20, 1944 . He was born on August 25, 1944 executed .

In 2016 the fraternity moved out of the house on Möhlstrasse. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, it is not known who took over and at what price . The association Möhlstrasse 21 eV was entered in the land register. Danubia acquired a building on Potsdamer Strasse in Schwabing .

Known members

Known deceased members

Membership directory :

  • Willy Nolte (Ed.): Burschenschafter Stammrolle. List of the members of the German Burschenschaft according to the status of the summer semester 1934. Berlin 1934. P. 1081.

See also

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder : The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - their representations in individual chronicles , WJK, Hilden 2005, ISBN 978-3-933892-97-3 . Pp. 319-320.
  • Henning Lenthe: Free speech - bold in action. The history of the Danubia fraternity in Munich. Chronicle from 1848 to 1998. Altherrenverb. of the fraternity Danubia, 1998 - 339 pages Volume 1, Munich 1998.
  • Fraternity Danubia . In: Jens Mecklenburg (Hrsg.): Handbook of German Right-Wing Extremism (= Antifa Edition ). Elefanten-Press, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-88520-585-8 , pp. 323-324.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 98.
  2. ^ Hans-Georg Balder: The German fraternities. Your story in individual chronicles . Hilden 2005, p. 319.
  3. ↑ a b c d Max Droßbach and Hans Hauske (eds.): Manual for the German fraternity. 6th edition, Berlin 1932, p. 434.
  4. ^ Max Droßbach and Hans Hauske (eds.): Handbook for the German fraternity. 6th edition, Berlin 1932, p. 433.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, p. 320.
  6. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 5: R – S. Winter, Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 3-8253-1256-9 , p. 255.
  7. ↑ DÖW - recognize - right-wing extremism - news from far right - archive - June 2001 - Bavarian interior minister warns of fraternities. In: doew.at. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Thomas Grumke , Structures. Right-wing extremists thought leaders: Discourse-determining organizations and persons of German right-wing extremism , In: Bulletin 3/2003: Volksgemeinschaft gegen McWorld. Right-wing intellectual discourses on globalization, nation and culture , series of publications by the Center for Democratic Culture, Leipzig: Ernst Klett Schulbuchverlag 2003, p. 66
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  10. ↑ a b c d e Gabriele Nandlinger: - Dossier right-wing extremism - focus on youth culture - fraternities. In: bpb.de. April 23, 2007, accessed May 30, 2017 .
  11. ^ Fraternity Danubia: Dialogue free of domination
  12. ↑ Sebastian Krass: Danubia pulls the emergency brake . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 17, 2014.
  13. ↑ a b c d Bernd Siegler: Boys on the Right Path. In: taz.de . June 22, 2001. Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
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  16. ↑ a b "Honor, Freedom, Fatherland" , UniSpiegel, October 22, 2001.
  17. ↑ a b c www.klick-nach-rechts.de/ Nazis in Munich: Only violence becomes a problem (2001)
  18. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung, 28./29. July 2001, Munich part p. 3, Alexander Krug, refreshments for the Rollkommando (the procedure had the file number 6 KLS 113Js 4610/77).
  19. ↑ Bavarian Constitutional Protection Report 2006, p. 145. ( Memento of the original from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.1 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.verfassungsschutz.bayern.de
  20. ↑ Bayerischer Landtag, Drucksache 15/3836: Written request from Member of Parliament Florian Ritter (SPD) of June 7, 2006 and answer from the State Ministry of the Interior of July 13, 2005
  21. ↑ Bayerischer Landtag, Drucksache 16/287, March 3, 2009, Written request from MEP Christine Stahl BÜNDNIS 90 / DIE GRÜNEN of December 10, 2008 and answer of January 22, 2009
  22. ↑ The Sascha Jung case / story of a scandal. Professional ban: How the case of the Danubia fraternity became the Sascha Jung case , Junge Freiheit, 22/07 May 25, 2007
  23. ↑ Michael Mende: " The" Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft "and their positions ", aida archive from June 14, 2011, accessed on December 9, 2013.
  24. ↑ Incompatibility with the party book: SPD distinguishes itself from ultra-right fraternities. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved June 4, 2017 .
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  28. ↑ DIE NAZI-JÄGER , UniSPIEGEL 3/2017, May 20, 2017.
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  32. ↑ Benedikt Weyerer: Munich 1933-1949, city tours on political history, Munich 1996, p. 294.
  33. ^ Sebastian Krass: Danubia. The right-wing lads are moving , Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 18, 2016.
  34. ↑ Archive link ( memento of the original from January 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wikilovesparliaments.org