Reform country team

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The country teams ( student associations ) that reappeared in Göttingen from 1837 are often referred to as reform country teams , mainland teams or new country teams . With their principles they advocated the equality of the student body as well as the ending of disreputations , which today belongs to the common property of all corporations. They abandoned the country team principle and after Göttingen they also emerged in Bonn, Tübingen, Leipzig, Halle and other cities. In particular, they were directed against the dominance of the corps and "felt themselves to be their outspoken opponents, but managed, especially in Göttingen and Bonn, that the corps adapted to their principles and worked out a joint comment and worked together according to him."

Consecration of the monument on the first day of the secular ceremony at the University of Göttingen, September 17, 1837

prehistory

Since the Göttingen Revolution (1831) and the Frankfurt Wachensturm (1833), however, they were closely watched and after that there were only the Bremen, Brunswick and Hildesheimers, temporarily also Westphalia, Lüneburgers and Nassauer as corps, the Friesen had been a pub since 1833 .

Foundation of the Göttingen mainland teams

Parade across the market in Göttingen to St. John's Church , September 17, 1837

In 1837 the University of Göttingen wanted to celebrate its centenary and involve the students in it. The proposal was made from the professors that the students draw lots within the faculties and then form companies. This met with such strong rejection that the students were finally allowed “to be divided according to the diversity of the fatherland; of course, on the condition that no Corp. compounds likely to emerge. "Thus arose the well known continental teams .

Charges were chosen from among them , flags were purchased and national colors were allowed to be worn. While the flags were donated to the university after the festival and left in the auditorium, the hats were allowed to be worn. Some of the originally twenty-two compatriots remained in place after the celebration and initially called themselves pubs .

Renaming, Göttinger LC and principles

From 1839 the differences between pubs and corps became sharper, so the Göttingen Senior Citizens' Convention saw itself as a representative of the entire student body. After more duels , the pubs finally organized a meeting that the corps had heard about and that a fraternity was present. So they blew up the event by indicating that a fraternity should be formed. This led to an investigation by the university authorities, and the prorector explained below that the companies had not exceeded what was permitted, but were just about to violate the law. This had the consequence that in the summer of 1840 the connections were officially called Landsmannschaften. This was followed by the establishment of the first Göttingen Landsmannschafter Convent (Göttinger LC) and the creation of a Landsmannschafter Comments .

In the period that followed, the new Landsmannschaften, independently of one another, made demands on the individual universities

  • the equality of all worthy students and student associations ,
  • the lifting of all disrepute as well as the
  • Establishment of generally binding courts of honor .

Equal rights for all students

Use of weapons (disrepute and court of honor)

In its attitude to the use of weapons they held the duel firm but rejected the Bestimmungsmensur off and before each duel one should honor court review its authorization.

Further developments

In the further course, a General Convent (AC) was founded, but it only lasted for a short time, as the rules of the arbitral tribunal led to problems with the procurement of designated minors in the corps.

Eventually the progress movements emerged , which now have a strong influence on the country teams. These are dissolved and either enter or reopen as a corps or fraternity.

In addition to the establishment of progressist circles, a progressist country team, the Hildeso-Cellensia, was founded in 1844.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Bernhardi: The Göttinger Landsmannschaften from 1840-1854 , p. 11
  2. ↑ Erich Knittel: Recognition and equal rights of associations and connections with one another and disreputations in the last 150 years , p. 57
  3. ↑ Univ. Archive Göttingen CCLXIX, 12; DCLXXV 1.
  4. ↑ Horst Bernhardi: The Göttinger Landsmannschaften from 1840-1854 , p. 16
  5. ↑ Erich Knittel: Recognition and equal rights of associations and connections with one another and disreputations in the last 150 years , p. 57
  6. ↑ Compare: General Landsmannschaftlicher Comment of the Göttingen Landsmannschaften 1843

literature

  • Erich Knittel: Recognition and equality of associations and connections with one another and disreputations in the last 150 years , Historia Academica Volume 2, Stuttgart 1962
  • Horst Bernhardi: The Göttingen Landsmannschaften from 1840-1854 , Historia Academica Volume 2, Stuttgart 1962
  • Horst Bernhardi: The Göttinger Landsmannschaft Hildeso-Cellensia (1844-48) and its successor connections Burschenschaft Germania (1848) and connection Arminia (1848-51) , Historia Academica Volume 13
  • Otto Deneke: Old Göttingen country teams. Göttingen 1937

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