Normannsteiner
The Normannsteiner (also Schar der Normannsteiner ) were a federation of the Catholic youth movement founded in 1924 at Normannstein Castle in Thuringia , which had separated from the federation of New Germany . Around 1930 the federal government largely dissolved.
history
In 1923 - four years after its foundation - the Bund New Germany adopted a new federal program at Hirschberg Castle in Franconia in which the goals of the federal government were formulated. It contained a clear rejection of "undesirable development (s) of the youth movement such as enthusiasm, subjectivism, radicalism". This realism met with resistance from some of the student groups known as “Great New Germans”, while at the same time there was a dispute about the girls' groups that were only represented in the student union.
Thereupon a substantial part of the "Großneudeutschen" with all girls' groups and some younger groups resigned from the Bund New Germany in the summer of 1924 at the Bundestag at Burg Normannstein and founded the "Normannsteiner". In contrast to the Bund Neudeutschland, this group took the position that the youth movement was an end in itself and that organizational issues such as founding an association were subordinate to it.
The strong influence of student groups clearly influenced the content of the federal work. Her subjects included questions of the liturgy , the examination of the Sermon on the Mount and the Epistle to the Romans and questions of lifestyle. The striving for liturgical renewal was a connecting element to the Quickborners with Heinrich Kahlefeld and Romano Guardini as leading figures. The “Werkland Economic Community” was founded in 1925 as a project to shape life together, but it failed due to economic problems.
As early as 1927, the federation showed signs of dissolution, which were mainly due to the changed living conditions of the members as a result of starting a career and starting a family. The federal government was able to catch up again, but finally dissolved in 1930/31. Individual groups, which had a larger proportion of younger members, continued to work until they were dissolved by the Hitler Youth in 1933/34.
aftermath
The Normannstein Chapel has stood near the Fuldaer Haus in the Rhön since 1948, where a service is celebrated in memory of the Normannsteiners every September.
The band was initiated by the former president of the Rhön Club , Josef Hans Sauer, who was himself a member of the Nomannsteiner Association; the chapel itself was first used to commemorate the friends who fell in World War II (28 of the 60 conscripted soldiers died), whose names are immortalized in a plaque on the front panel of the small altar in front of the chapel. The architect was Ernst Kramer from Fulda, and the chapel was inaugurated on September 12, 1948 by Pastor Alfons Maria Lins . Lins was formerly one of the outstanding figures of the Normannsteiners and the author of their newsletter "Heerfahrt".
Known members
- Odilo Braun , Dominican Father
- Alfons Maria Lins , pastor
- Josef Hans Sauer, Age President of the Rhön Club
literature
- Werner Kindt: Documentation of the youth movement . Volume III: The German Youth Movement 1920 to 1933. The Bündische Zeit. Diederichs, Düsseldorf 1974, ISBN 3-424-00527-4 , pp. 697-718
- Rhönwacht (magazine of the Rhön Club) (2008, issue 4, November to December)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Kindt: Documentation of the youth movement . Volume III, p. 698
- ^ The Fulda region in the period 1919–1945. (No longer available online.) CDU Fulda, archived from the original on July 18, 2005 ; Retrieved July 9, 2008 . 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.
- ↑ Celebration at the Normannstein Chapel. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved December 2, 2008 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hermann Heim, "Alfons Maria Lins, A Life for People", Catholic Church Community St. Martin, Bad Orb, 2018, p. 68
