Nunquam retrorsum
Nunquam retrorsum (Latin for never go back ) is a motto of the Welfenhaus . Its use has been documented since the 18th century.
Motto of the Welfen in Lower Saxony
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The motto “Nunquam retrorsum” connects in Germany and the United Kingdom with the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and stood next to its actual and older motto “Nec aspera terrent” (Latin for even adversity does not frighten ) and the “ Honi soit ” caused by the personal union qui mal y pense “of the Order of the Garter .
"Nunquam retrorsum" is documented as a personal motto in the 18th century for Duke Karl von Braunschweig-Bevern from a branch line of the House of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . After the Artlenburg Convention (1803) and in the course of the wars of liberation , the more pithy "Nunquam retrorsum" gained in importance and at times superseded the older motto in use. So wore him z. B. the Brunswick Life Battalion , which took part in the battles at Quatre-Bras and Waterloo in June 1815 , to its equipment.
The Kingdom of Hanover , which emerged from the Electorate, adopted the motto “Nunquam retrorsum” in its national coat of arms. It was also chosen as the order's motto when the Order of St. George was founded in 1839. The last king of Hanover, Georg V , also chose "Nunquam retrorsum" as a personal motto. In the Court and State Handbook for the Kingdom of Hanover for 1853, the motto appears for the first time as a transcription to the state flag . The motto was also used in the Hanoverian army until the battle of Langensalza on June 27, 1866, and since the fall of the kingdom on June 29, 1866 it has often been used as the motto of the veterans' associations and welfish-minded circles.
Other uses of the motto
During his stay on Helgoland (August 11th to September 5th, 1841) August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote not only the song of the Germans on August 26th , but also on the following day to the melody of the student song “ We had built a stately house ” combative poem "We have sworn it". It was first published in the collection of German songs from Switzerland, published in Switzerland in 1843 without any naming, under the title Nunquam retrorsum!
The French-Canadian regiment Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal , established in 1869, made "Nunquam retrorsum" its motto around 1878. The city of New Rochelle in the American state of New York , founded in 1688, also has the motto “Nunquam retrorsum” in its seal.
Use in student associations
The Corps Hannovera Göttingen has carried the motto as the Hanover State Corps at the Georg-August-Universität since its foundation in 1809. The entry “Nunquam retrorsum” or the corresponding abbreviation “NR” can also be found on the records of the previous Hanoverian Landsmannschaft , sometimes equal to the older "Nec aspera terrent". The Corps Hannovera Heidelberg , founded in 1810, also adopted the motto. On the back of the pictured pipe bowl from 1811 is a member list with 31 names from the years 1810/11. In 1848 the motto of the Göttingen Corps was supplemented by the motto of the Corps Hanseatia Göttingen to “Nunquam retrorsum, fortes fortuna adiuvat !” (Latin for “Never go back, luck helps the brave!”).
Later other student associations took over "Nunquam retrorsum" without any recognizable Guelf reference as their election or weapon slogan.
Modifications
The motto was later changed to Nunquam retrorsum, semper prorsum! ( Never go back, always only forward! ). So z. B. von Ernst Jünger in his autobiographical work In Stahlgewittern , published in 1920, and with some student connections.
The converted version Semper prorsum, nunquam retrorsum! The Hanover- based tire manufacturer Continental used the idiosyncratic transference “Always be useful, never persist!” as an advertising slogan in the 1920s .
literature
- Rudolf Eckart : motto, motto and sayings of the Guelph princes , Hanover 1901.
- Otto Elster : Nunquam retrorsum. A look back at the history of the Brunswick troops, especially the ducal Brunswick infantry regiment, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the fusilier (body) battalion. Wagner, Braunschweig 1884.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Slogan on the flags of the chur-braunschweig-lüneburg army and on the banner of the braunschweigische Landeswappen, zeno.org from Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon , fifth edition, volume 2. Leipzig 1911., p. 251.
- ↑ Rudolf Eckert: motto, foreign currency ...
- ↑ Rudolf Eckert: motto, foreign currency ...
- ↑ Otto von Pivka : Brunswick Troops 1809-15. Osprey, Men-at-Arms Series, ISBN 0-85045-613-4 , pp. 37 and 40 .
- ^ Otto von Pivka: The Black Brunswickers. Osprey, Men-at-Arms Series, ISBN 0-85045-146-9 , p. 36 .
- ↑ Hoffmann von Fallersleben: My life . Third volume. Hanover 1868. p. 211 books.google
- ^ German songs from Switzerland . Verl. D. literary comptoirs Zurich / Winterthur 1843. p. 237digitale-sammlungen.de ; zeno.org
- ↑ Motto of the Fusiliers Mont-Royal ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Franz Stadtmüller : History of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen 1809-1959. Göttingen 1963, p. 24 with reference to documents Wilhelm Fabricius (historian, 1857) and the studbook of the stud. theol. Georg Samuel Meyer (registration period 1801–1803)
- ↑ The pipe head has been in the archive of the Corps Hannovera Göttingen since the 1920s; Image of the back at corpsarchive.de
- ^ For example, the Corps Rhenania Bonn (1820), the Greifswalder Burschenschaft Rugia (1856), the Corps Transrhenania Munich (probably 1877), the Corps Saxonia Freiburg (1896), the Landsmannschaft Thuringia Munich (1898) and the KDStV Moeno-Franconia Frankfurt am Main (1955); as "Nusquam retrorsum!" the Academic Corps Teutonia in Graz (1863)
- ↑ Portrait photo of Jüngers with motto
- ^ KDStV Saxo-Silesia Hanover
- ↑ Early Advertising: Something New in the West. In: Spiegel Online , September 4, 2009.
