Rudelsburg Alliance

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Alliance stone on the Rudelsburg
Invitation to the alliance commuter in 1988
Rudelsburg at the XX. Alliance commers

The Rudelsburger Allianz (RA) is an informal association of student associations of various kinds that were formed in the German Democratic Republic before the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 .

history

The RA was founded on February 10, 1990 in Halle (Saale) . The alliance color is white, the “sum of all colors.” The motto is In varietate unitas!

What was special about these connections was that they arose during the SED rule out of an interest in traditional student manners and customs - without any noteworthy assistance or support from connections from West Germany . Also, no attempt was made to continue previous connections that existed on the territory of the GDR before the division of Germany. Rather, new associations were established, whose members tried to acquire knowledge of the old traditions , which was only insufficiently possible due to the poor source situation in the GDR.

The formal founding of the Rudelsburg Alliance in 1990 was preceded by a joint Kommerse in the 1980s , since 1987 at the Rudelsburg . A visit to the fraternity monument in Eisenach by members of the Rudelsburg Alliance in autumn 1987 caught the attention of the NVA and was canceled by the police. Because of the ribbons and hats, it was assumed that “fraternity members from the FRG” visited the building.

When the first connections, which had spent the last decades in the West, returned to their central German locations after the fall of the Wall (GDR), the connections that had been established in the GDR before 1990 did not expire, but continued to exist. They went - Wingolf , Cartellverband , Coburg Convent , Technical Cartell Association , joining free - although separate ways; but they remained united under the umbrella of the Rudelsburg Alliance.

The alliance takes its name from the Rudelsburg, where it meets for the annual alliance meeting on the Saturday after Whitsun. Many of the participants continue to travel by water. To do this, they go down the Saale on rafts or in zinc bathtubs from Jena or Camburg .

The student song of the Alliance is the popular in many student organizations song There Saaleck, here the Rudelsburg . Wolfgang Kupke (Saxo-Ascania Hallensis) added the alliance stanza to the famous student song:

Brothers of the Alliance in the west or east,
put your hand together, let's taste the freedom.
In varietate unitas, we want to keep it,
united in this beautiful place, the young and the old.

Member corporations

  • KDStV Alemannia zu Greifswald and Münster ( CV )
  • Bauconstructiva Lipsiensis Leipzig (free of association)
  • F.St.K. Cimbria Dresdensis Dresden (free of association)
  • Singers Concordia Greifswald (independent)
  • AV Eques Aureus Dresdensis Dresden (no association)
  • Fraternity Gaudea zu Köthen / Anhalt (free of association)
  • KDStV Germania Leipzig ( CV )
  • Fraternity Gloriosa Erfordensis (free of association)
  • Akad. AHV Keynhausia Leipzig (free of association)
  • C.St.V. Ottonia Magdeburg (members of the old gentlemen's association partly in the VAW)
  • Dresden fraternity Salamandria ( DB )
  • KDStV Salana Jenensis Jena (free of association)
  • Landsmannschaft Plavia-Arminia Leipzig (former Akad. Landsmannschaft Saxo-Afrania Leipzig) ( CC )
  • D.St.V. Saxo-Ascania Hallensis Hall (no association)
  • KTV Unitas Ilmenau-Kassel Ilmenau ( TCV )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German: "Unity in Diversity"
  2. ↑ Fraternity members celebrate Kommers in Eisenach in 1987 - police end tour . Thuringian General of May 17, 2016.

literature

  • Kurt U. Bertrams (ed.): Student associations in the GDR - before the opening of the wall until the founding of the Rudelsburg alliance . WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2006, ISBN 3-933892-99-6 .
  • Henner Huhle : The Prewendalen Couleuriker and the Rudelsburg Alliance. A history of the student movement in Central Germany from before the opening of the Wall to the founding of the Rudelsburg Alliance . Ferger, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-931219-32-1 .
  • Peter Jacobs: The Saale drivers are coming. In: SK. 4/1996, p. 26.
  • Peter Jacobs: The salamander jug ​​from the Rudelsburg Alliance. In: SK. 3/02, p. 30.
  • The fellow correspondent. No. 4, 1996.
  • Olaf-Martin Oels: memories of the beginning. Personal experiences from the active time in the former GDR . In: then and now . 43 (1998), pp. 25-40.
  • Gerhard Richwien: The Rudelsburg in the light of the “cerevisial world order” , in: Einst und Jetzt 46 (2001), pp. 283–284.

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