South Tyrolean Middle School Students Association

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The South Tyrolean Middle School Association ( StMV ) was the corporation association of the Catholic South Tyrolean middle school associations .

history

The first school connections (“Pennalien”) in South Tyrol can be found in Bozen in 1850 and in Merano in 1873 .

The StMV was founded in 1960, but its roots go back to the 19th century. The oldest member association of the StMV is the KDMV Laurinia Brixen , founded in 1892. When it was founded, the StMV had four student associations, making it the largest German school and graduate association in South Tyrol. The StMV was independent of parties and committed itself to Christian social teaching and a united Europe .

In 1980 the StMV comprised five Pennalia with around 500 members:

  • KDMV Laurins Round Table Bozen
  • KDMV Laurinia Brixen *
  • KDSt.V. Aquileia Merano
  • KDSt.V. Waltharia Meran
  • KDMV Braunegg in Bruneck

The KDMV Braunegg zu Bruneck was founded in 1976 on the initiative of the StMV and is the youngest school association in South Tyrol.

Until 2003, the StMV was a member of the European Cartel Association of Christian Student Associations (EKV), which is registered as an NGO with the Council of Europe. Since then, European interests of the association have been represented by the friendly Austrian MKV .

Furthermore, the StMV cooperated closely with the connections of the Tyrolean Middle Schools Association (TMV), the Tyrolean regional association of the Austria-wide MKV. Due to the tendency of the South Tyrolean high school associations to join the TMV in order to implement the commitment to a unified Tyrol in practice, the StMV only exists today as an association of old men.

aims

  • The StMV wanted to encourage pupils at secondary schools to critically examine the world and society on the basis of a Catholic worldview determined by the dynamic principles of religio, patria, scientia and amicitia.
  • The members of the alliances should be enabled to work in public life and in society and realize the values ​​of Catholic couleur students in family, work and society.
  • As an independent Catholic lay organization, the StMV wanted to make its contribution to the development of a humane society and a world that followed the divine order of creation.

Principles and motto

Laurin's Round Table participates in the Sacred Heart Procession part

The four principles of the StMV are patria, religio, scientia and amicitia , the motto Pro Deo et Patriae .

  • Religio : The promotion of being a Catholic, the promotion of tolerance among the Christian denominations and the active shaping of one's own life based on the Catholic faith in responsibility before God, people and creation.
  • Patria : The love of the fatherland. According to the statute of the StMV: To be Tyrolean is both an honor and an obligation for us. Every state lives through the responsibility of every citizen for the state. Active participation at all levels of the community is a civic duty. The roots in the history of Tyrol are an essential basis for the further development of this community in a united Europe.
  • Scientia : The education of its members is an important task for the StMV. Therefore, the completion of a higher school with Matura is a prerequisite for a member to remain in a connection of the StMV.
  • Amicitia : As a defining element of the association, personal friendship across all generations is a matter of course as a principle of life that goes beyond studying. Dealing with one another is shaped by responsibility for this lifelong spiritual and material obligation.

See also

literature

  • Heinrich Obermüller: Forbidden and persecuted. Catholic connections at middle and high schools in Austria and the successor states of the monarchy. From the beginning to 1918. Volume 1 of the series “Tradition and Future”, ed. from the Austrian Association for Student History, Vienna 1991.
  • Heinrich Obermüller: Awakening and Falling. Catholic connections at middle and higher schools in the German-speaking area. From 1918 to 1945. Volumes 5 and 8 of the series “Tradition and Future”, ed. from the Austrian Association for Student History, Vienna 2000 and 2003.
  • Wilhelm Schmied: The Middle Schools Cartel Association (MKV). ( Contributions to Austrian Student History , Volume 1); ed. from the Austrian Association for Student History, Vienna 1973.
  • Gerhard Stanzel: Color students in South Tyrol. Self-published, Bozen 1983.

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