Shipbuilders Association Latte
The shipbuilding association Latte was founded in 1878 at the Gewerbeinstitut Berlin . She still represents the interests of shipbuilding students at the TU Berlin . In 1904 a daughter of the shipbuilders' association Latte was born at the Technical University in Danzig , which is now called Heylige Frawe Latte at the Technical University of Hamburg . A shipbuilding association HF Latte existed at RWTH Aachen from the 1960s until the course was discontinued and the shipbuilding institutes closed in 1995.
founding
Kaiser Wilhelm I survived an assassination attempt on June 2, 1878, seriously injured and returned to Berlin after almost six months of absence due to illness. This return was celebrated and the representatives of all German universities were invited. Citizens of the Reich capital and the Berlin student body took part in the two-day festivities. The latter consisted of students from Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität as well as from the building, mining, trade and art academy. They celebrated this event with unprecedented unanimity. Public meetings, patriotic rallies and an evening torchlight procession with 5,000 torches on Unter den Linden rounded off these celebrations.
The enthusiasm of the shipbuilding students at the Royal Trade Academy did not die down after the end of the festive season . Therefore, the students moved to the Hasenheide to celebrate the very last imperial day in a room of the Union brewery . The festive mood rose, many patriotic and collegial speeches were held and Kommers songs were sung. One of the students had taken his best straklat from the shipbuilding room. It was broken and ceremoniously distributed to those present. This was regarded as a sign of unanimous togetherness and eternal friendship as the founding act of the order of the shipbuilder Latte . In the course of time, rules were drawn up and a career path from aspirant to master of the order developed. Similar to the equatorial baptism at sea, a baptism was introduced for acceptance into the order of the Holy Lady Latte . Only after receiving baptism was one a full-fledged pale disciple.
students life
Each year the chapter was re-elected. It consisted of the master of the order, the chancellor and the master of ceremonies. Under this leadership, the Latte not only ensured a social gathering, but also made difficult scientific work easier for its members. Since the students had large working rooms to create the many, sometimes very large, drawings, there were ideal retreats between lectures. The staff had procured teaching aids for the extensive and time-consuming work, in addition to technical books planimeters, integrators, precisely trained iron rulers, curve boxes, and the like, which the individual could often not procure himself. The necessary funds came from the regular dues, repeated donations from the faculty, donations from friends and alumni of the Latte. The cultural side was not neglected either, so the Latte had a so-called squadron band and a squadron choir. For the 50th order festival, she and the theater group der Latte performed an elaborate play in the Renaissance Theater in Charlottenburg. The musical direction was Hermann Woermann (Latte).
The highlights of the pale year were the identification bar, the baptism and the religious festival. After the baptism, the candidates were appointed squire and after the preliminary examination they were knighted by the Holy Woman. The highest honor was bestowed on the Lattenjüngern when they acquired the diploma and on this occasion were raised to the rank of commander. Then the longed-for Commander's Cross was awarded. But there were also incentive medals for minor merits, for example the excursion medal for having participated in the organization of an excursion.
Recognition bar and religious festival
The first-year students who appeared in the Schiffbauer halls in autumn were distributed to the working halls by the hall directors and integrated into the “hall life”. The first-year students usually took part in the recognition bar. Here he saw the shipbuilding teaching, upper and lower body in full size for the first time. The annual religious festival with music and singing took place alternately in one of the halls, which had been rearranged and decorated in a maritime style. Even if the processes have changed in the course of time, they definitely ate hearty, pork knuckle or, in other years, Labskaus as a hearty sailor's meal in order to have a good basis. The service was carried out by the bakeries and the chapter of the order sat on a kind of stage. The honorable greeting of the dignitaries was very important, they were the professors, former masters of the order and official guests from shipyards, the supplier industry, shipping companies and classification societies . These were often pale brothers themselves, who warmly welcomed their professors and many old friends, but also made new contacts. It was not uncommon for them to win interns, student workers and diploma workers and often future young talent among the students. The delegations of the Latte from Hanover, Aachen and the margravates from Flensburg, Bremen, Kiel, Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Lübeck and others were officially welcomed.
Speeches were held, certificates read out and gifts for guests were given. The latter could be valuable books, ship models or even joke objects that were presented with great dignity and great gestures. The host master thanked him accordingly, the orderly handed the obligatory welcome drink and the pale people loudly expressed their approval or the opposite. In between, people drank latte and sang songs to the health of the Heyligen Frau Latte . The Latte's songbooks lay ready on the tables. The distribution of the newly acquired titles and medals was another highlight.
A baptism around 1950
At the end of the summer semester, the christening called "Lattenspritze" took place, this was a kind of summer and sports festival for the students and the teaching staff of ship technology with a funny exam and subsequent christening of the new students. For this purpose, the Latte rented a passenger ship with a capacity of around 100 to 120 people. The candidate candidates and miners chosen to be bakeries had brought large aluminum pots, cutlery, beer glasses from the latte, around 120 servings of potato salad and 120 pairs of wiener sausages from the cafeteria. 5 barrels of beer of 50 liters each with CO 2 dispensers were procured from the already experienced and hard-drinking Lattenbrothers and transported on board. Another group of slat brothers was responsible for the sports equipment in the form of balls, ropes for the tug of war, sacks and the plaster eggs for the egg-running.
A wooden dinghy of the Academic Sailing Association was attached to the ship. On the ship everyone found their hall and their hall brothers and filled with speeches from the chapter of the order and the upper body of the teaching body, it went as far as the Kaiser-Wilhelm Tower, today's Grunewald Tower .
Several rounds of beer had flowed on board before disembarking or landing. The professors' competitions, the egg-running and the tug-of-war against the assistants took place on the shores of the Havel . Then the assistants competed among themselves. These demonstrations were critically commented on by the slat brothers standing around in sports gear.
At the end of the sports match, the dinghy with Neptune, Thetis and the henchmen approached from the middle of the fairway. They could be recognized from afar by their long trident. Neptune, Thetis and about 10 henchmen had gone about 30 minutes beforehand with their props and the drink of wisdom, which was strictly guarded during the journey, to a strip of shore about 100 meters away in order to be able to change undisturbed there. While some of the henchmen rowed Neptune and his entourage across the water, the other henchmen had taken over the test subjects in their bathing suits from the disciplinarian and emergency disciplinarian, set them up parallel to the bank with their faces facing the spectators and painted them with a brush and a brush.
As soon as Neptune was stuck in the shallow water with his dinghy, he was greeted by the Chapter Chapter with the thunder of cannons. After a beer and a welcoming speech by his glory, the master of the order, Neptune replied about his journey to the dirty waters of Berlin and about his activities. Neptune then took action and began with the baptismal question for the oldest test subjects. During this act, the person to be baptized was assisted by three minions. One held his head, one closed his nose and one massaged the potion of wisdom down his throat. After the potion of wisdom, the examinee had to kiss Thetis' feet. Then the baptized person was cleaned of dirt with plenty of water and submerged by two henchmen who had come up with appropriate baptismal sayings.
After the christening ceremony, lunch, richly spiced with beer, with potato salad, mustard, pickles and hot sausages took place. Sometimes there were also meatballs. In the afternoon, the sports competitions that had not been held in the morning were often ended and then the motor ship brought the baptism company to the Charlottenburg pier. The picket sprayer usually ended here at the jetty. At the next religious festival in autumn, the candidates were promoted to squire by the master of ceremonies.
Daughter or great-granddaughter of Latte Heylige Frawe Latte in Harburg?
A subsidiary Latte was founded at the Gdańsk University , which opened in 1904, with the faculties of architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, chemistry and general sciences as well as shipbuilding . After the Second World War , shipbuilding was relocated to the TH Hannover . For this reason, on April 30, 1951 in Berlin, the birth of a granddaughter of the Latte was announced in Hanover. In 1954, as an offshoot of Hanover, the knighthood in Hamburg was brought into being, which was combined with the ship technology after the move from Hanover to Hamburg in 1984. Another move became necessary in 2001 when shipbuilding training was relocated from the University of Hamburg (Lämmersieth) to the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg . Others may decide whether it is the granddaughter or great-granddaughter of the Berliner Latte. In Harburg, the old traditions such as baptism and religious ceremonies are lived together with the professors and scientific staff who teach ship technology.
Knight counties and margraves in the coastal cities
Original text taken from 50 years of Latte: The Latte was further strengthened by the "margraviates" that opened up in the coastal cities. With the strong rush to study shipbuilding, it was only natural that a large number of interns came together in the large shipyards to do the prescribed practical working hours. What could be more natural than that they should join forces to form margravities in order to improve or even shorten the unpleasant, boring hours of work with happy hours spent together. Who doesn't remember the “Löwen” stall in Wilhelmshaven! Such margravates, which mainly flourished during the long university holidays, opened up in Kiel, Wilhelmshaven, Stettin, Hamburg and Bremen. The old semesters, who only had months to work off, let the young ones, who had to work for a whole year in a row, in on the secrets of the latte, which they often already belonged to when they moved into university.
After successfully completing their studies, many of the Latte's shipbuilding engineers began their careers at shipyards, shipping companies, suppliers and classification societies in coastal cities. Here they have already found themselves in groups as interns and committees in order to cultivate the community that is familiar and popular from the shipbuilders' halls in the shipyards, in regulars in bars or restaurants. Because anyone who had enjoyed the company of the Latte would not want to be without them anymore. Depending on the commitment and size of the community, offshoots of the Holy Frau Latte emerged as knighthoods, counties, marrow or churmark counties. The order newspapers and the Chronicle of the Latte in Hanover ad Hammaburg report on the “Margraviate of Hamburg”, which was founded in 1907 by the Commander of Zydowitz. The highlight of all these "latte offshoots" was participation in the annual order festival in Berlin. Here, the delegations from the provinces, decorated with artful cardboard medals, were solemnly welcomed and their often ambiguous gifts were happily received with a lot of fun and humor.
Today in 2018 there is only one of these institutions in Lübeck, where Berliners, Hanoverians and Hamburg Lattenbrüe meet regularly.
Development of the bar in Berlin
The initial strict separation of students, assistants and professors was softened by the bar. When Lattenjünger also made careers as assistants and professors or even rectors, the bond became even closer and also included the teaching staff. Many of the invited professors were reminded of their student days at the religious festivals and, adorned with wonderful medals, enjoyed casual conviviality among the students.
As in the maritime industry, the slat family also experienced ups and downs that were overshadowed by wars and economic crises. In good years, almost 500 students studied shipbuilding and marine engineering in Berlin alone. The first generation of teachers came mainly from the Imperial Navy and at times teaching in the aviation and maritime industries at the Berlin university was very closely linked. The religious festivals remained the highlights of the year, as many alumni came to the capital Berlin. In 1928 the 50th birthday was celebrated. After the Second World War a lot had changed, Germany was smaller and Berlin was no longer the capital. The government and the navy were gone, and many companies were gradually relocating their headquarters from Berlin to other cities. The reconstruction of the shipyards, the German merchant fleet and the cheap D-Mark compared to the dollar caused an export boom in the German maritime industry. This radiated onto the universities and the bar, because more and more engineers were needed. Latte's 75th birthday was also a great celebration. During these years, the students of ship technology in Berlin and thus the Latte had up to 5 work rooms.
Growing prosperity, various developments in politics, economics and technology led to a decline in the number of first-year students in technical subjects, including ship technology, from the mid-1960s. In Berlin, this trend was reinforced by the construction of the Berlin Wall. This also reduced the number of stick disciples and critical voices questioned the stick. The student unrest of that time did not stop at the technical universities either. In 1971 the 93rd and last religious festival was celebrated in Berlin, the bar in Berlin had gone to sleep. Therefore, the 100th and 125th birthday were not celebrated appropriately.
As part of the general assembly of the Shipbuilding Society (STG), which takes place every two years in Berlin, a slat evening was often held on Thursday evening in the "Sass-Saal" (today Voigt-Sass-Saal), in which the older members of the STG in particular like to participate . It is organized by students, financed by donations and is always quite successful from a student perspective, as many valuable contacts have been made. This close connection with the STG came to an end when the STG shortened its general meeting and the pale evening was therefore canceled. Latte Berlin therefore decided to hold a lecture event oriented towards shipbuilding and marine technology, which ended in the evening with the festival of the Order. This event, organized by students and carried out as a Berlin symposium , has been held annually since 2011 and has been well received by experts.
Awakened from sleep
The tradition of baptism has also changed in the last few years. The 128th chapter of the order decided to procure the necessary equipment in order to carry out the annual baptism again from 2006 onwards. The last was 35 years ago. The 130th birthday of the Latte was celebrated on December 7th, 2008 in the old tradition with the students and many guests, especially many former students who are now established in the maritime industry.
Berlin symposium
There has been a close connection between the university, the Latte and the STG since the foundation of the Shipbuilding Society . Since the STG has held its annual general meeting alternately in Berlin and Hamburg, the Berlin shipbuilding students have organized a cozy get-together on Thursday evening in a work room for the shipbuilding students. The companies in the shipbuilding and shipbuilding supply industries, and especially the students, benefited from this evening. This close connection with the STG came to an end when the STG shortened its annual general meeting and as a result, a dinner was held instead of the latte evening. The pale evening in its old form was canceled. Latte Berlin therefore decided to hold a lecture event oriented towards shipbuilding and marine technology, which ends with a cozy evening, the original Latten Evening and, since 2006, with the Ordensfest. This event, organized by students and known as the Berlin Symposium , has been held annually in Berlin since 2011 and has been well received by experts.
Web links
- hf-latte-berlin.de
- hf-latte.de
- Lattebuch chap. 1–13 with many photos [1]
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://hochhaus-schiffsbetrieb.jimdo.com/die-latte-kapitel-1/ .
- ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, pp. 129–130.
- ↑ Festival Committee of the Latte (Ed.): Festschrift for the 50th Ordensfest der Schiffbauer Latte . Berlin February 26, 1928
- ↑ a b J. Beutel, J. Müller-Graf, B. Hochhaus, K.-H. Wessel J .: The shipbuilding association Latte is 130 years old . In: Hansa No. 11/2008
- ^ A b Reinhard Rürup (Ed.): Science and Society, Contributions to the History of the Technical University of Berlin 1879–1979 . Springer, Berlin 1979
- ↑ P. Kayser, N. Lange: 50 years of the order of the Heyligen Frawe Latte in Hanover / ad Hammaburg . Seaport, Hamburg 2002
- ↑ M. Vom Baur, W. Faller, K. Schröder: 100 years of shipbuilding association Latte in Berlin . In: Schiff & Hafen , 1978