Middle School Cartel Association

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The Middle Schools Cartel Association of Catholic, Colored Student Corporations in Austria (MKV) is the umbrella organization for Catholic student associations at general and vocational higher schools in Austria. He himself is a member of the European Cartel Association (EKV), which in turn is registered as a non-governmental organization (NGO) with the Council of Europe and belongs to the Working Group of Catholic Associations in Austria (AKV). Over 160 connections with over 20,000 members belong to the MKV and thus form the largest student and graduate association in Austria. The MKV is a founding member of the Austrian Student Union , an Austria-wide representation of students.

The MKV is committed to Christian social teaching , a democratic Austria and a united Europe . The MKV is non-party ; a conservative orientation of its members can be seen.

The MKV also works closely with the associations of the Association of Colored Girls and the Association of Christian Student Associations in Austria .

prehistory

Middle School Cartell Association (MCV)

The Middle Schools Cartell Association (MCV) was founded in 1900. It could only exist in secret because of the prohibition of middle school students on coalitions.

Association of Catholic-German Pennal Associations in Austria (VPV)

Founded in 1919. After the end of the MCV, most of the associations merged in the VPV. It existed from 1919 to 1931.

Christian-German Student Union (CDSB)

Founded in 1919.

history

1933 to 1938

The MKV was founded on September 9, 1933 on the occasion of the Catholic Day in Vienna , but its roots go back to the 19th century (predecessor associations: “Mittelschüler-Cartell-Verband” (MCV) in 1900, “Association of Catholic-German Pennal Associations Austria”) "(VPV) in 1919," Christian-German Student Union "(CDSB), also 1919). The oldest member association of the MKV is Teutonia Innsbruck , founded in 1876.

On October 18, 1933, just a few weeks after its founding, the MKV decided to ban members of the NSDAP . After initially welcoming authoritarian Austrian politics during the regime of Engelbert Dollfuss and Kurt Schuschnigg (1934–1938), the MKV distanced itself from it when the introduction of a comprehensive state youth - into which the MKV was to be incorporated - was planned. The association joined the “Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaftischer Catholic Jugendverbände Österreichs” (Reich Working Group of Catholic Youth Associations in Austria), whose relative independence was given until 1937 under church supervision by the Concordat . Nevertheless, well-known representatives of the regime such as Federal Chancellor (1930/31) Otto Ender - he drafted the constitution of the so-called corporate state announced on April 24, 1934 - or the Vice Chancellor and later Mayor of Vienna Richard Schmitz , members of MKV connections. But Engelbert Dollfuss's posthumous admission as an honorary member of the MKV association Amelungia Innsbruck after his murder by National Socialist supporters in the July coup shows his closeness to the ruling regime.

1938 to 1945

With the "Anschluss" of Austria in 1938, the connections were banned. On the day the German troops marched in, club premises of the MKV connections were devastated by members of the NSDAP and inventory was confiscated. Some members of Catholic connections had given their proximity to the Austro-fascist corporate state in concentration camps (z. B. the later Federal Chancellor Leopold Figl ). Many members were actively involved in resistance movements, some paid with their lives.

A manifestation against the Nazi regime was a religious festival, the " Rosary Festival " in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna on October 7, 1938: 7,000-10,000 young people, including many MKV members, took part in the mass led by Cardinal Innitzer . The famous words of Innitzer: “Now [we have to] confess our faith all the more steadfastly, to Christ - our leader!” And the rally following the mass, at which the young people chanted “ We want to see our bishop ”, were included punished for storming the archbishop's palace by the Hitler Youth , during which a member of the MKV was thrown from the first floor into the courtyard of the Kurhaus.

Since 1945

Since the occupying powers recognized the MKV as an association against National Socialism, it was reactivated in 1945. Almost all connections of the MKV resumed their operations in the following years. Most connections excluded all members who had collaborated with the Nazi regime. Among the important politicians of this time were the Catholic couleur students Julius Raab and Leopold Figl.

The post-war years brought a great increase in membership numbers. After 1967 a consolidation was noticeable. In the last few years, increasing numbers of members have been recorded in the MKV associations.

Vienna 19: memorial plaque

aims

  • The MKV wants to stimulate pupils at secondary schools to “critically examine the world and society on the basis of a Christian worldview determined by the dynamic principles of religio, patria, scientia and amicitia” .
  • The members of the association are to be “enabled to work in public life and in society and to realize the values ​​of Catholic students in families, work and society” .
  • As an independent Catholic lay organization, the MKV wants to "make its contribution to building a humane society and a world that follows the divine order of creation" .

The MKV takes great care not to be confused with striking connections. On his homepage, he states: “In principle, the MKV stipulated in a resolution of the cartel meeting that actions that serve fraternization are to be rejected. Even if there are external similarities in customs, the MKV as a Catholic association represents a different tradition and a different worldview. In addition, contact with striking connections harms the public image of the MKV, which is repeatedly confronted with prejudices in this regard. Attending fraternity events in Couleur is also to be rejected. "

Principles and motto

The four principles of the MKV are “patria”, “religio”, “scientia” and “amicitia”.

  • Religio : The promotion of being a Catholic, the promotion of tolerance among the Christian denominations and the active shaping of one's own life based on the Catholic faith in responsibility before God, people and creation.
  • Patria : The love of the fatherland. According to the MKV website: To be Austrian is an honor and an obligation at the same time. Every democratic state lives through the responsibility of every citizen for the state. Active participation at all levels of the community is a civic duty. The roots in history and the democratic development of Austria are an essential basis for the further development of this community in a united Europe.
  • Scientia : The education of its members is an important task for the MKV. Therefore, the completion of a higher school with Matura is a prerequisite for a member to remain in an association of the MKV. The MKV itself offers further training opportunities for its members with the cartel management school and various regional association training courses.
  • Amicitia : As a defining element of the association, personal friendship across all generations is a matter of course as a principle of life that goes beyond studying. Dealing with one another is shaped by responsibility for this lifelong spiritual and material obligation.

Known members of MKV connections

  • The Federal Presidents ...
  1. Wilhelm Miklas
  2. Rudolf Kirchschläger
  3. Kurt Waldheim .
  1. Ignaz Seipel
  2. Carl Vaugoin
  3. Otto Ender
  1. Leopold Figl
  2. Julius Raab
  3. Alfons Gorbach
  4. Josef Klaus .
  1. Franz Rehrl
  2. Josef Rehrl
  3. Wilfried Haslauer Sr.
  4. Franz Schausberger
  5. Wilfried Haslauer
  • ... from Tyrol
  1. Günther Platter .

All of the named members were in the Christian Social Party before the annexation of Austria and in the Austrian People's Party since April 1945 .

Also the Vienna Archbishop Cardinal Christoph Schönborn , Auxiliary Bishop Franz Scharl , the Salzburg Archbishop Franz Lackner and his predecessor Alois Kothgasser , the Salzburg Auxiliary Bishop Andreas Laun , the Bishop of Linz, Manfred Scheuer , the former St. Pölten Bishop Kurt Krenn , the former Bishop of the Diocese of Graz-Seckau Egon Kapellari , the former bishop of Innsbruck Reinhold Stecher , the bishop of the diocese of St. Pölten Alois Schwarz and Caritas director Michael Landau were or are members of MKV connections.

structure

The MKV is divided into nine regional associations:

  • Burgenland Regional Association (BMV)
  • Regional Association of Carinthia (LVK)
  • Lower Austrian MKV (NÖMKV)
  • Upper Austrian MKV (OÖMKV)
  • Salzburg Regional Association (SLV)
  • Styrian Middle School Students Association (StMV)
  • Tyrolean Middle School Students Association (TMV)
  • Vorarlberger Landesverband (VLV)
  • Vienna City Association (WStV)

Structure of the MKV

legislative branch
  1. Active day
  2. Old Gentlemen's Association
  3. Cartel meeting

These convents choose the

executive
  1. Cartel senior, cartel consenior and cartel praetor
  2. Cartel philistine senior and two cartel philistine conseniors
  3. Cartel chairman, cartel chaplain, cartel finance officer and other speakers

From this the cartel presidium is formed: cartel chairman , cartel senior, cartel philistine senior and cartel chaplain, who together with the speakers also form the association's management .

The Cartel Council is both centralistic and federal. It consists of the cartel chairman, cartel senior, cartel philistine senior, cartel chaplain, all state chairmen, state seniors and state philistine seniors.

Jurisdiction
The cartel court decides in disputes between connections and legal questions.

criticism

It is criticized that the Mittelschüler-Kartell-Verband is an organization consisting exclusively of male associations. Connections that decided a few years ago to take on women left the middle school cartel association. In the meantime friendship agreements have been concluded between the MKV and these connections, as well as with the women's corporation associations VfM and VCS .

Another point of criticism is the position of the association on the question of abortion . For example, in a broadcast of the association entitled “Declaration of the MKV against radicalism” , the right to abortion is placed on the same level as xenophobia . "Liberalization of abortion" and "exclusion of our foreign fellow citizens" prepare the ground for those "who are willing to use physical violence to abolish democracy" , it says there.

In the opinion of critics, the memory of Federal Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss , who was murdered by the National Socialists in 1934, is still honored today in the MKV .

See also

literature

  • Heinrich Obermüller: Banned and persecuted: Catholic connections in middle and higher schools in the German-speaking area. Volume 1: From the beginnings to 1918. (= tradition and future. Volume 1). Austrian Association f. Student history, Vienna 1991, DNB 945640374 .
  • Heinrich Obermüller: New beginnings and downfall: Catholic connections at middle and high schools in Austria and the successor states of the monarchy. , Volume 2: 1918 to 1945 - Part I and Part II. (= Tradition and Future. Volumes 5 and 8). Austrian Association f. Student history, Vienna 2000 a. 2003. DNB 965469980
  • Michael Mittelstaedt: Register on Heinrich Obermüller : Forbidden and persecuted, Catholic connections in middle and higher schools in the German-speaking area, Volume 1 - from the beginnings to 1918 and Aufbruch und Fall, Catholic connections in middle and higher schools in Austria and the successor states of the monarchy . Volume 2 Part I and Part II. (= Tradition and Future. Vol. 10) Österr. Association f. Student history, Vienna 2006 DNB 98965849X
  • Herbert Fritz, Peter Krause (ed.): Carrying Color, Confessing Color 1938–1945; Catholic Corporates in Resistance and Persecution. (= Tradition and future. Volume 15). 2nd significantly expanded edition. Austrian Association f. Student history, Vienna 2013, DNB 1034983563 .
  • Wilhelm Schmied: The Middle Schools Cartel Association (MKV). (= Contributions to Austrian student history. Volume 1). Austrian Association f. Student history, Vienna 1974, DNB 209752297
  • Not everything that looks the same is the same. Student associations from the establishment of the universities to the present day. Wiener Stadtverband des MKV, Vienna 2003, OCLC 178924319 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ F. Golücke, "Studentensprachebuch", 4th ed., Pp. 304f
  2. ^ F. Golücke, "Studentenwörterbuch", 4th ed., Pp. 304f, 478
  3. ^ F. Golücke, "Studentensprachebuch", 4th ed., Pp. 304f