Presidential Convention

Baltic student associations at the Freedom Monument (2007)

The Presidential Convention ( Latvian Prezidiju Konvents ) was founded in 1919. Today it includes 23 student associations in Riga . The 22 Latvian corporations and one Russian alliance are accredited in all Latvian universities . Until the resettlement in 1939, there was also the Chargierten-Convent (Ch! C!) Of the German-Baltic student associations .

history

Train of the Presidential Convention in front of the University of Latvia (2013)

Lettonia, Selonia , Lettgallia, Talavija and the Fraternitas Lettica founded the Presidential Convention after the Latvian War of Independence when the University of Latvia was established. In the 1920s, the German-Baltic student associations Curonia, Fraternitas Baltica , Concordia Rigensis , Fraternitas Rigensis , Corps Rubonia and Gotonia were accepted into the Presidential Convention. The fact that two of the old Dorpater Corps (Curonia and Fraternitas Rigensis) joined the Riga Presidential Convention was due to the strict national principle of the first four Baltic Corps. Since only Kurlanders were accepted in Curonia and only Rigans in the Fraternitas Rigensis, these two corps moved from the Estonian University of Dorpat to the newly founded University of Riga after the founding of the states of Latvia and Estonia . The Riga Polytechnic had existed since 1862. The Estonia and Livonia , like other corps, remained in Dorpat. The Latvian corporations Lettonia , Lettgallia and others, based in Dorpat, also moved their headquarters from Dorpat to Riga. The German-Baltic Corps were eliminated in 1932 because the Latvian language was to become binding for them at the Convents . After the German-Soviet non-aggression pact and the annexation of Latvia, the connections, the Presidential Convention and other organizations in the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic were banned in 1940. In the fight against the (two-time) occupation by the Soviet Union , many Latvians were forest brothers .

Like many Latvians , the members emigrated to the United States , Canada , Australia , Sweden, and West Germany . In 1947, seven Latvian associations were established there, five at the Baltic University in Pinneberg and two in Munich . In 1949 the Union of Latvian corporations was founded. In 1989, before Latvia's independence was restored in May 1990, the first allies returned to Riga .

See also : History of Latvia # End of Independence 1939/1940 , Teodors Grīnbergs and Gutmannshöhle

Essence

Choir and Orchestra of the Riga Presidential Convention in the 1930s

The model of the Latvian student associations were the corps of the German-Baltic , which in turn orientated themselves on the German corps of the early 19th century; There have never been fraternity tendencies in the Baltic States . The Riga Comment is similar to the oldest SC Comments .

Like the rest of Latvia of patriotism worn, the corporations' formative society organizations "and central pillars of the young are the nation-state . With the thirteen women's associations , they have around 10,000 members. With the circle censorship you maintain a special fencing comment . All ribbons are three-colored. The respective Baltic star is embroidered on the student cap (the lid ) . According to Baltic custom, the foxes have no color , but only a black lid. You become a boy much later than in Germany. In the 21st century, Latvian corps students have come to life. Selonia has been in an introductory relationship with the Kösener Seniors Convents Association since 2006 . The fact that most of the Riga student associations want to set up a senior citizens' convent prompted four Graubünden to leave the presidential convention - for contradicting reasons: Lacuania and Arctica do not want to fence, Talavija and Lettonia want to fencing more and set up a boarded convent based on the German-Baltic model .

See also : Presidential Convention of Latvian Women's Associations

Corporations in the Presidential Convention

connection	Color	Foundation, endowment	coat of arms	Circle	star
Lettonia		February 19, 1870 in Dorpat
Fraternitas Arctica		November 7, 1880
Selonia		November 24, 1880
Lettgallia		February 8, 1899 in Dorpat
Talavija		December 14, 1900
Fraternitas Lettica		October 20, 1902 in Moscow
Latvia		February 17, 1917 in Dorpat
Ventonia		November 21, 1917 in Dorpat
Tervetia		April 30, 1922
Beveronija		May 4, 1922
Philyronia		July 7, 1924 in Libau
Fraternitas Metropolitana		October 6, 1924
Fraternitas Vesthardiana		October 8, 1924
Fraternitas Academica		February 4, 1925
Fraternitas Lataviensis		September 16, 1926
Patria		September 20, 1926
Fraternitas Livonica		October 29, 1926
Vendia		March 20, 1927
Lacuania		December 7, 1927
Fraternitas Imantica		February 18, 1947 in Pinneberg
Gersicania		March 14, 1947 in Pinneberg
Fraternitas Cursica		May 7, 1947 in Pinneberg
Fraternitas Vanenica		June 20, 1947 in Munich

literature

• Baltic Society in Germany (Ed.): Baltic Burschentum. The student corporations of the Baltic Germans, Estonians and Latvians then and now , edited by Hans von Rimscha . Heidelberg Gutenberg printing house 1968.
• Karlis D Zirkalis: The Latvian Corps then and now . Einst und Jetzt , Vol. 9 (1964), pp. 91-103.
• Hans-Dieter Handrack (Ed.): The corporations as defining social organizations in the Baltic States . 19th Baltic Seminar, 2007. ISBN 978-3-923149-58-2 .
• Dietrich G. Kraus: Baltic boyhood in Dorpat and Riga . Yearbook of the Baltic Germans, Volume XLV (1998).
• Walter L. Lange: About the Fraternitas Marcomannia zu Riga from the semesters 1902 / I to 1918 / II and from Riga's university life . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 22 (1977), pp. 129-149.
• Presidential Convention Riga: The Latvian student choir "Latvijas Universitätes Prezidiju Konventa Vīru Koris" visits Sweden and Norway, 3–16. June 1937 . Stockholm, Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim 1937.
• Valters Ščerbinskis: Uzticīgi Draugam [true to the friend]. Prezidiju Konvents 2010. ISBN 978-9984-39-985-0 .

Web links

• Prezidiju Convention
• 51st Baltic Nations' Convention in Riga (Latvian TV, 2014)
• Demonstration of the circle censorship as it is still used in Estonia today

Remarks

1. ↑ Two of the three women's associations were donated in Pinneberg and one in Munich.
2. ↑ At the beginning of the 19th century there was disagreement among German-Baltic connections as to whether the German student body should organize itself according to the model of the corps or that of the original fraternity . The question was decided in favor of the Corps and was never discussed again (Dietrich G. Kraus, Berlin).
3. ^ The Fraternitas Arctica is currently the only Russian student union in the world.
4. ↑ The name refers to the Latāva district in Latvia.
5. ↑ Cursica refers to cures .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich G. Kraus, Berlin
2. ↑ CORPS Magazin (2005) ( Memento from May 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ lv: Latvijas Korporāciju apvienība
4. ↑ Then and now : Fourteen of the oldest SC comments before 1820 . Special issue 1967
5. ↑ H.-D. Handrack (2007)
6. ↑ Lettonia
7. ↑ Karlis Dzirkalis: Lettonia (1870-1970). The hundred years of the oldest Latvian corps . Once and Now, Vol. 16 (1971). Pp. 155-159.
8. ↑ Lettgallia
9. ↑ Talavija
10. ^ Fraternitas Lettica
11. ↑ Latvia
12. ↑ Ventonia
13. ↑ Tervetia
14. ↑ Beveronija
15. ↑ Fr. A. Pietzsch: The coat of arms of the Beveronia corps in Riga. From the perspective of a German heraldist . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 21 (1976), pp. 89-94
16. ↑ Philyronia
17. ^ Fraternitas Metropolitana
18. ^ Fraternitas Academica
19. ↑ Fraternity Lataviensis
20. ↑ Patria ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
21. ↑ Fraternity Livonica
22. ↑ Lacuania
23. ↑ Fraternity Imantica
24. ↑ Gersicania
25. ↑ Fraternity Cursica
26. ↑ Fraternity Vanenica