Marburg Wingolf

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Marburg Wingolf

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Basic data
University location: Marburg
University / s: Philipps University of Marburg
Founding: February 25, 1847
Corporation association : Wingolfsbund
Cartel / District / AG: Diezer Convention
Color status : colored
Colours: green-white-gold
Colours:
Fox colors:
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Religion / Denomination: non-denominationally Christian
Position to the scale : not striking
Motto: Fresh, pious, free!
Website: www.marburgerwingolf.de

The Marburger Wingolf is a Christian, interdenominational student association at the Philipps University of Marburg . The Marburger Wingolf was founded on February 25th, 1847, making it the oldest Christian non-beating corporation in Marburg and today's Hesse.

history

Foundation and first years

In contrast to the older Wingolf connections in Erlangen, Bonn, Berlin and Halle, the Marburg Wingolf did not arise from pietistic or student edification, but from the desire of some students to create a counterweight to the corps that dominated the universities at that time. Initially without names and colors, the association was founded on February 25, 1847 in an inn in Weidenhausen under the suggestion of theology professor Heinrich Thiersch , who was a member of the Uttenruthia Erlangen , by 13 theology students; four donors were former corps students. Initially more of a group of friends than a connection, contact was soon made with the Wingolf in Erlangen, Berlin and Halle and the name "Wingolf" was adopted. Nevertheless, the Marburger Wingolf always emphasized its independence.

In the revolution of 1848 the young club stepped forward on the part of the conservatives; so two Wingolfites became members of the student authority that was formed to support the civil guard. On March 8, 1848, the connection was based on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Godfrey of Bouillon in the colors gold-white-gold. Although the corporation was the largest in Marburg in the summer of 1850 with 30 active members, there was a dispute over the duel question . Although the Marburger Wingolf refused the duel, it gave its members the opportunity to decide in favor of the duel in important cases. This and the forced dissolution of all the Hessian associations in December 1850 led to the split off of a more fraternity-oriented Germania on January 13, 1851 (not identical to today's fraternity Germania) and five days later to the re-establishment of Wingolf. This separation and the final rejection of the duel in 1853 calmed and united the young union. The original colors gold-white-gold were replaced by black-white-gold in 1852 as a sign of belonging to the overall wingolf .

In the Kingdom of Prussia 1866–1918

The annexation of the Electorate of Hesse by the Kingdom of Prussia after the German War in 1866 led to horror in the Marburg Wingolf and to disputes about the future relationship with the predominantly Prussian brother associations. After heated discussions, the association decided to leave the Wingolfsbund in December 1867 and opted for the “Hessian” colors of red-white-gold. This led to the departure of four Marburg Wingolfites studying in Erlangen and the founding of a wingolfite association in Marburg, which was established in 1870 under the name "Altwingolf" with the colors black-white-gold and was accepted into the Wingolfsbund the following year. Many Philistines joined the Altwingolf and recognized him as the successor to the association founded in 1847. Despite the initially hostile relationship between the two, both connections united in 1875 under the neutral and still valid colors green-white-gold and with the decision to exclude any political activity in the future.

In the following years Wingolf was several times the largest corporation in Marburg. This and frequently changing pubs led to the desire for their own corporation house , which was completed in 1888 after the laying of the foundation stone in 1878 and was the first connecting house in Lutherstrasse. In 1881 the status of an inactive was introduced and in 1884 the three-member batch college, which still exists today, consisting of senior (x) , fox major (xx) and Kneipwart (xxx), after the connection had previously been managed solely by a praeses .

In 1900 there was a dispute over the Christian principle of the Marburg Wingolf with the Leipzig Wingolf , which was clearly more dogmatic on this issue , which was only settled in 1903. For the first time, the corporation called itself a “Christian connection” after the founding charter in 1847 only stipulated a “scientific-religious-moral element”. In 1904 the "Alter Marburger Wingolfiten Association" was founded, which organized all Philistines for the first time. The green and white Fuxenband has existed since 1906. The up to then high number of active participants sank significantly with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914; a total of 53 members lost their lives.

Weimar Republic and the time of National Socialism

To the murders of Mechterstädt no Marburger Wingolfit was involved; however, active members of the association took part in military actions in Thuringia. The very high number of members in the Wingolfsbund raised the question of whether the singularity principle , according to which there is only one Wingolf in each university town, could be maintained. Unlike the Tübingen Wingolf , which founded the subsidiary Nibelungen in 1928, Marburg initially took a different path and in the same year divided Aktivitas into three groups, each led by a fox major. This solution lasted two years until the Wingolfs connection, which was postponed in Clausthal due to the lack of members there, moved to Marburg in 1930. In addition, 26 active Marburg Wingolfites transferred to the "Clausthaler Wingolf zu Marburg" that still exists today. Since then, there have been two very different Wingolf connections in the city; Since the Second World War, Marburg has been the only city in which there are two active Wingolf connections. Also in 1930, due to the great activity, next to the existing connecting house at Lutherstrasse 12, the neighboring house at Lutherstrasse 10, the previous "Villa Palermo", was bought, which was also used.

Due to political pressure from the National Socialists, the house at Lutherstrasse 12 was converted into a comradeship house in 1933 , and the previous Kneipsaal was converted into a dormitory for students; Lutherstrasse 10 was still used as a connecting house. In the same year the Wingolf introduced the leader principle and appointed the Marburg philistine Robert Rodenhauser as federal leader; There was a liaison leader and a lad leader on site; the latter appointed the three officers. The demand of the NSDStB to give unconditional satisfaction, that is, to allow the duel, was decisively rejected, so that on October 30, 1935, the Marburger Wingolf in its form as a corporation was dissolved. The “Christian Working Group Wingolf zu Marburg” was created, which was alien to Wingolf due to the lack of a corporate form and therefore only existed until May 1936.

Since the Second World War

After the Second World War , the occupying powers banned all German associations that had existed until then, including student associations. The resistance to this was in the US-American zone of occupation, to which Marburg belonged, but less than in the British and French-occupied areas. On the 100th foundation day of the Marburg Wingolf, February 25, 1947, a convention of the Phil Championship took place with the approval of the occupation authorities , which re-founded the Association of Philistines of the Marburg Wingolf (VMW) and asked the members who had resigned from 1935 to resign to be regarded as irrelevant. The board of directors of the VMW quickly sought contact with young students in order to sound out the possibilities of re-establishing the active connection. Despite the lack of approval, the first students were accepted into the association on the 101st foundation day on February 25, 1948, and the Marburg Wingolf was brought back to life. On May 12, 1949, this was the first connection under the old name to be licensed by the University's Senate .

The Marburg Wingolf has been a suburb of the Wingolf Association several times, most recently from 2011 to 2013, and, in addition to the Wingolf connections from Bonn, Gießen, Kiel and Würzburg, it belongs to the “ Diezer Convention ”, which aims to establish corporate and Christian values ​​within Wingolf to defend and renew.

Known members

  • Theodor Weber

  • Ferdinand Justi

  • Wilhelm Walther

  • Arnold Meyer

  • Joachim Beckmann

  • Paul Schneider

literature

  • Hans Waitz : History of the Wingolfbund communicated and presented from the sources . Darmstadt 1896, 2nd edition 1904, 3rd edition 1926 (Verlag Johannes Waitz)
  • Adolf Heermann: History of the Marburger Wingolfs . In: Hans Waitz (ed.): History of Wingolfs connections , Darmstadt 1914 (Verlag Johannes Waitz)
  • Association of the Philistines of the Marburger Wingolf: History of the Marburger Wingolf 1847-1972
  • Heinz-Werner Kubitza : History of the Protestant student community in Marburg . Tectum Verlag, 1992 ISBN 978-3929019001

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Heinz-Werner Kubitza: History of the Evangelical Student Community of Marburg . Tectum Verlag, 1992, pp. 11-12 ISBN 978-3929019001
  2. ^ Adolf Heermann: History of the Marburger Wingolfs . In: Hans Waitz (ed.): Geschichte der Wingolfsverbindungen , Darmstadt 1914 (Verlag Johannes Waitz), pp. 675–679
  3. ^ Adolf Heermann: History of the Marburger Wingolfs . In: Hans Waitz (ed.): Geschichte der Wingolfsverbindungen , Darmstadt 1914 (Verlag Johannes Waitz), pp. 690–696
  4. ↑ Harald Lönnecker: "Humility and pride, ... faith and a sense of battle". The denominational student associations - Protestant, Catholic, Jewish. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .
  5. ^ Adolf Heermann: History of the Marburger Wingolfs . In: Hans Waitz (ed.): Geschichte der Wingolfsverbindungen , Darmstadt 1914 (Verlag Johannes Waitz), pp. 703–713
  6. ^ A b Adolf Heermann: History of the Marburger Wingolfs . In: Hans Waitz (ed.): Geschichte der Wingolfsverbindungen , Darmstadt 1914 (Verlag Johannes Waitz), p. 723
  7. ↑ Eva Chr. Gottschaldt (ed.): "That is the deed of our wonderful leader." The Christian student associations Wingolf and National Socialism in the mirror of the association press. A documentation (= Marburg Contributions to the Past and Present of Student Associations, Vol. 4). Marburg 1997, ISBN 3-926295-08-2 , p. 20.
  8. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 94.
  9. ^ Heinz-Werner Kubitza: History of the Evangelical Student Community of Marburg . Tectum Verlag, 1992, ISBN 978-3929019001 , pp. 129-135.