Erlanger pastor's daughter

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Founded in 1858 Erlanger pastor's daughter - also association of foreign inactive Corps students of Kösener SC - goes to a pre-existing informal student Stammtisch back. It developed into the first corps student inactive association .

background

The corps at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität were organized according to the life corps principle and therefore did not admit students who were already members of another corps. Anyone who moved to Erlangen as a foreign corps student could not be active at Onoldia , Baruthia (before 1876) and Bavaria (before 1900). Emil Eisenlohr and Benno v. Kügelgen (son of the history painter Wilhelm von Kügelgen ) therefore founded the association of inactive foreign corps students of the Kösener SC in the summer semester of 1858 . Possibly she was a direct successor to the loose inactive association Eiskeller , which was proven in the mid-1850s . She became known as the pastor's daughter . The first prince (chairman) was the Munich Franconian Heinrich Gemeiner .

Surname

The Founders (1863)

The name, which was very popular at the time, takes up stereotypes associated with the concept of the pastor's daughter. The phrase among us (Catholic) pastors' daughters , which is mostly used by men for In confidence , is also listed as the reason for the naming. In a kind of Streisand effect ante festum, the comparatively informal association became known throughout Germany when the Bavarian Parish Association opposed the naming to the university management, the magistrate, the ministry of education and the court.

There are several explanations for the naming. Presumably there was (also) alluding to the then powerful theological faculty and the many Lutheran theology students. The tone in the early days was considered rough, which was evidenced by the expression "Erlangen bullfight". In 1805, 56 of the 216 students enrolled were punished with prison sentences. Despite the very small number of students, Erlangen University was not closed in 1810 because it was the only Bavarian state university with a Lutheran theological faculty.

The phrase itself probably goes back to the novel The parson's daughter by the notorious playboy and joker Theodore Hook , published in England in 1833 , which was already available in German in 1844 under the title The Pastor 's Daughter . The caricatured stereotype of impoverished country nobles and pastors with many children, whose daughters tried to make up for a lack of dowry with emphasized virtue and increased education, was already well established at that time, a generation after Jane Austen's death .

The Erlanger Tageblatt attributed the declaration to an "old clergyman" that the adult pastors 'daughters from all over the area had come together in Hof (Bavaria) for a ladies' party. A dean got upset about this, which the presiding pastor's daughter vigorously rejected. “That doesn't happen among us pastors' daughters. We are far too well educated for that. ” This saying came to Erlangen through a pastor's son, was used ironically at a theologians 'regulars' table and was then adopted by the inactive association.

Semi-official association

Founding image for the Oppelei

In 1863 the pastor's daughter was constituted with a statute, coat of arms and circle. She chose the colors white – light blue – white. The motto was Virtus in medio!

At first it did not strive for the character of a corporation, but appeared at university celebrations as an independent association and did not sit on the Presidium of the Senior Citizens' Convention (SC). It had 26 members from 30 corps at the beginning and around the turn of the 20th century. In fact, it became the fourth, from 1894 the fifth Erlanger Corps . It only accepted Kösener Corps students and members of the Aschaffenburg Senior Citizens' Convention . Members of the Erlanger Corps were only admitted if they (exceptionally) also wore bands from foreign corps.

In 1873 there was an interruption due to the establishment of the Rhenania Erlangen weapon corps . The pastors' daughters Zahn and Munzinger immediately joined her. All others became MCs of the first Erlangen Waffen Corps. In the so-called Erlanger secession dispute, the three life corps Onoldia, Baruthia and Bavaria, Rhenania refused to recognize them as SC corps. This led to entanglements with the umbrella organization, the Kösener Seniors Convents Association . The Erlanger Corps Baruthia and Bavaria Erlangen followed Rhenania's example and also became weapon corps.

In 1888/89 the pastor's daughter had “50–60 members who ate their modest meals together at the Ochs inn. Most of them worked hard. But there were also exceptions ”(W. Weber). As long-term students , some pastors' daughters had 25 to 30, some 40 (carefree) semesters behind them; But they all got into decent jobs. The later medical councilor Dr. Wilhelm Weber (1868–1963) temporarily resigned from Hasso-Borussia as a fox to spend the 4th semester in Erlangen and to do the physics . In his memoirs he describes the Erlangen preclinical clinic , the pastor's daughter and life at the "beer-Franconian" university in the very cold winter semester of 1888/89:

“Erlangen was still quite cheap back then. A popular dinner [then as now] consisted of fried liver and blood sausage with sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. That cost 24 pfennigs. In addition one drank plenty of beer, of which a half-liter glass cost 12 pfennigs. So you didn't have to spend a Mark to sink into your pens in the evening, well filled with solid and wet. The most expensive dish was fillet beef steak. It cost 50 pfennigs. When it was raised to 55 pfennigs in my winter, no one in the pastor's daughter ate this otherwise popular dish for weeks. It was the first strike I experienced. As far as I can remember, the landlord won it. ... [a change of month of] 120 marks was enough for Erlangen. The booth only cost 15 or 18 marks. "

- Wilhelm Weber

Ludwig Thoma ( Hubertia Aschaffenburg , Suevia Munich ) was involved in his doctorate as a guest at Bavaria .

The lively tradition of the pastor's daughter was evident at the festivities in July 1910, when Erlangen had been part of the Kingdom of Bavaria for 100 years . At the 50th foundation festival on July 22nd, Wilhelm Filehne praised the pastor's daughter as the guardian of the old student ideals. Its members overcame the narrowness of their corps and the Kösener circles . The pastor's daughter was also referred to as "Kleiner Kösener". The pubs were recorded. From 1880 until after the First World War , the pastors' daughters were served by Georg Röthlingshofer and his sons and grandchildren. In 1908, in the restaurant of the landlord Franz Siedersbeck at Hauptstrasse 40, the table was still to be found that handed down the names of the founding members from 1863 and the portrait of the former pedell A. Hinker .

The pastor's daughter celebrated the Emperor's birthday in public in 1921 with a Christmas bar and a glass of wine . She took part in the SC's Reich Foundation Commissioner.

Name conflict

As early as 1899, the parish association of the Protestant regional church in the Kingdom of Bavaria took offense at the name. Due to a petition, the Academic Senate declared the name of the pastor's daughter to be inappropriate and threatened disciplinary action. The informal use continued. In 1908 an official brother in Perlach alerted the pastor's association chairman, K. Haußleiter, to the 45th foundation festival due to an advertisement from the pastor's daughter in the Augsburger Abendzeitung.

Haussleiter turned again to the Academic Senate, which declared that it was not responsible; because the pastor's daughter was not a student corporation in the sense of the university statutes. The parish association complained to the city of Erlangen, whose magistrate met in public and declared that it was not responsible. The parish association was unsuccessful, complained in vain and complained to the Ministry of Culture. The Academic Senate then became active again and demanded that the chairman of the "Association of Foreign Inactive Corps Students" be informed at the beginning of each semester that the members would face disciplinary punishment if the controversial name was publicly used. This decision was not made until May 1910.

In 1909 the youth published a mocking poem on the long process:

The song of the "pastor's daughter" (based on a true Erlangen incident)

They are the parsons' daughters
The most beautiful stars of women!
Goethe
already loved a Pfafferstöchterl in Sesenheim .
That's why a corps association also called
itself "pastor's daughter" boldly.
When the parish association heard this, he
got a shock.
Juchu, heidi did
he get a shock.

The father's heart, it was indignant,
The magistrate complains:
"Because such a name is unheard of,
Forbid it without mercy!"
The magistrate snorts his nose
and says with laughter this:
"The lovely name is allowed,
because it sounds sugar-sweet!
Juchu, heidi,
because it sounds sugar-sweet! ”

The pastors' daughters, blond and fine,
are very dearest girls .
Like all pretty maids
, they should be highly adored!
O parish association, I feel sorry for you!
You are taking me a lot!
If you are so sensitive,
then no longer beget any more!
Juchu, heidi,
then no one can beget any more!

Aftermath

The pastor's daughter's heyday lasted until after 1918. The re-establishment after the Second World War was short-lived and was limited to the summer semesters from 1953 to 1957. In 1931 Michael Doeberl still considered it an old and well-known, still existing association. Hermann Wolfgang Zahn remembered the pastor's daughter in his autobiography, "who made a lot of talk because of her somewhat rough manners". In 1974, in his articles on the history of German language and literature, Helmut de Boor cited the pastor's daughter as a very large, extremely popular and oldest inactive association of the Kösener SC, with reference to a communication by the corporate Islamic scholar Hans-Joachim Kißling , which was known among students throughout Germany has been.

literature

  • Hermann Buzello: A contribution to the fiftieth foundation festival of the “pastor's daughter” in Erlangen . Nuremberg 1911. GoogleBooks .
  • Heinrich Hirschfelder: Erlanger Nachrichten of January 2, 2009 see web link .
  • Hans Peter Hümmer : Pastor's daughter : In: C. Friederich, B. Frhr. v. Haller, A. Jakob (Ed.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon , Nürnberg 2002.
  • Herbert Kater: The Erlangen pastor's daughter . In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 18 (1973), pp. 166-178.
  • Robert Paschke : The Erlangen pastor's daughter after the Second World War. In: Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 18 (1973), pp. 179-180.
  • Robert Schneider: Brief history and list of members of the pastor's daughter in Erlangen from 1858 to 1921 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans König : Boys, Knots and Philistines: Erlanger Student Life from 1743 to 1983. Nuremberg 1983, p. 45.
  2. ↑ a b Schneider: On the origin of the “pastor's daughter” . Academic monthly books 26 (1909/10), p. 104
  3. ^ Emil Eisenlohr: Suevia Freiburg , Rhenania Heidelberg ; Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 36 , 245; 70 , 93
  4. ↑ Benno v. Kügelgen: Saxonia Halle ; Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 64 , 293
  5. ^ Heinrich Gemeiner: Franconia Munich ; Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 108 , 192
  6. ↑ a b Reference to a communication by the incorporated Islamic scholar Hans-Joachim Kißling in: Helmut de Boor , Ingeborg Schröbler : Contributions to the History of German Language and Literature, Vol. 96 (1974), p. 416 [1]
  7. ↑ Entry in Mundmische
  8. ↑ Duden entry
  9. ↑ a b c Erlanger Tageblatt, December 28, 1908
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Erlanger “Pastor's Daughter ” caused a sensation Loose student association without compulsory corps caused offense because of its name - ban failed , January 2, 2009, Erlanger Nachrichten , by Heinrich Hirschfelder
  11. ↑ Ernst Meyer-Camberg : "The bull fight" in Erlangen. From the early history of Erlanger SC . Einst und Jetzt 9 (1964), pp. 35-51. Quoted in Thomas Pester: History of Universities and Colleges in German-speaking Countries from the Beginnings to 1945 (1990), p. 224
  12. ↑ Hans-Joachim Schoeps , Christian Erlang, Vol. 6, Part 2, Georg Olms Verlag, 2000 - p. 48 ff., There also other sources
  13. ↑ Horst Albert Glaser, Gyèorgy Mihâaly Vajda: The turn of the Enlightenment to Romanticism 1760-1820 , Epochs at a glance, Vol. 1. John Benjamin Publishing, 2000, p. 141
  14. ↑ The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 155-156, F. Jefferies, 1834.
  15. ^ Karl Zahn: Rhenania Würzburg , Franconia Munich ; KKL 1910, 209 , 238; 172 , 351.
  16. ^ Ludwig Munzinger: Rhenania Würzburg , Guestphalia Heidelberg ; KKL 1910, 209 , 231; 112 , 838; 43 , 67.
  17. ↑ The manuscript of Weber's memoirs is in the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Ostwestfalen-Lippe department .
  18. ^ HP Hümmer: A semester report from the city of the pastors' daughters , Erlangen, 1888/89. Once and Now 56 (2011), pp. 394–399
  19. ↑ Wolfgang Gottwald: The corps student Ludwig Thoma Suevia Munich 1887 . Einst und Jetzt 8 (1983), pp. 143-158
  20. ^ Paul Salvisberg : Hochschul-Nachrichten. Munich 1911, p. 334.
  21. ↑ Jugend , 1904, p. 19. pdf
  22. ↑ Michael Doeberl , Alfred Bienengräber (Ed.): The academic Germany. Vol. 2, Michael Doeberl, Alfred Bienengräber, CA Weller, 1931, p. 745.
  23. ↑ Hermann Wolfgang Zahn : fools stage world. Memories of a psychiatrist. Baden-Baden 1979, p. 61.
  24. ↑ The Königsberg Masure Buzello (1871-1928) was director of a private school in Nuremberg.