SC comment

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Heidelberg, first documentation of the term "Corps" (1810)

An SC-Comment is the written comment of a Senior Citizens' Convention (SC). Seniors from all corps of the respective university, newly elected each semester, have a seat and vote in a SC .

Scope

An SC comment regulates the rules of procedure of the SC, the coexistence of the corps at the respective study location and the behavior of the individual members of the corps represented at joint events and in public. In many university locations where corps with other types of connections do not have a pitch ratio, the SC comment also regulates the execution of sharp scales ( pitch comment ).

Emergence

The establishment of the SC and the SC-Comments goes back to the year 1800, when the early corps emerged as the first student associations in today's sense after the decline of the old-style country teams and the decline of the student orders. At that time there was the conviction that the age-old rules of student coexistence, the comment , had to be put down in writing in order to put the coexistence of students on a binding basis. The historical background was the demand of the time to make written constitutions the basis of the state. The aim here was to curb the arbitrariness of the princes and to involve large groups of the population in state control.

Characteristic of the first corps, which at that time still "country club", " wreath " or simply "society" were called, was in addition to their own constitutions the establishment of senior convents and the creation of SC Comments that time the basis for the student self-government at the universities created what was not necessarily welcomed by the university authorities. At that time, the SC comments were valid for all students of the respective university, as the SC asserted sole representation for all students. This was also generally recognized, as all country team groups were represented in the SC.

An essential part of the first SC comments was the regulation of the student duels , which were considered extremely important at the time, i.e. questions of honor and satisfaction . The SC Comment also regulated sanctions that could be imposed by the SC. The most serious punishment was the SC disrepute , ie the social exclusion from the student community. This penalty could also be imposed on non-students, for example if businessmen or landlords with unfair business methods took advantage of students. This then meant that no student was allowed to use that person's services. Since most of the service providers in a university town were existentially dependent on the students at that time, the SC disreputation had serious financial consequences for those affected.

Old SC comments at German universities

Tubingen (1815)
  • Frankfurt / Oder: February 16, 1798
  • Halle / Saale: May 12, 1799
  • Erlangen: Michaelis 1802
  • Heidelberg: 1803 and 1806, the Heidelberg SC-Comment from June 1, 1810 uses the term corps for the first time to typify the type of connection
  • Giessen: July 1, 1806
  • Marburg: 1807
  • Leipzig: 1808
  • Tübingen: 1808 in a version from 1815
  • Göttingen: beginning of 1809
  • Jena: 1809
  • Landshut: approx. 1809
  • Freiburg im Breisgau: 1818
    • The corps of the smaller northern German universities of Kiel (1812) and Rostock (1813) each issued a general boys' comment instead of an SC comment.

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