Schwarzburgbund
The Schwarzburgbund (SB) is a corporate association of non-beating, Christian-oriented student associations from Germany . It brings together 21 active and 15 adjourned connections with a total of more than 2,000 members.
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structure
In the Schwarzburgbund, the individual connections have always enjoyed a very high degree of autonomy. Correspondingly, the connections in the SB developed a greater differentiation in terms of content than with other umbrella organizations. This is already reflected in the naming of the individual corporations . In addition to fraternities and country teams, there are also terms such as Schwarzburgverbindungen (SBV) or Akademischeverbindungen (AV). Except for one connection (AV Kristall to Clausthal) all are colored.
The decision on whether to accept women or men lies with the individual associations. Currently (1/2020) the Schwarzburgbund has 1 women's association, 8 male associations, 12 mixed associations and 35 old men associations (18 of them mixed). Around 16.5% of the members are female.
The SB does not see itself as an association, but as a federation, which means that there is a particularly close relationship between all members. Within the Schwarzburgbund there is therefore a duo relationship among all members, regardless of their respective status.
The SB is committed to the tradition of the original fraternity. With the re-establishment after the Second World War , the former slogan of the SB “God, Freedom, Fatherland” was deleted from the new statutes and deliberately not replaced by a new one.
View from Trippstein to Schwarzburg (2009)
View into the Schwarzatal (2012)
history
Since the middle of the 19th century, there had been repeated attempts between the later founding associations to found a joint union. However, these foundations did not last and broke due to differing views on form and content. It was not until 1887 that a permanent establishment came about in Schwarzburg, Thuringia . The founders were the associations Uttenruthia Erlangen , Tuiskonia Halle , Nordalbingia Leipzig and Sedinia Greifswald , which were strongly influenced by Protestant theologians . Despite the Christian-Protestant character, the Schwarzburgbund has never established a denomination or church affiliation as a membership criterion.
By joining existing associations and founding new ones from the SB, the SB grew to 11 member associations by the beginning of the First World War. In the 1920s, a real start-up boom began and the SB grew to 35 member associations by the time it was dissolved in 1939.
Like all other corporations, the federal connections of the SB 1935 were given the choice of affiliation to the NSDStB or of self-dissolution. Thanks to the commitment of the last SB chairman Jochen Sievers (1936–1939), the Schwarzburgbund was the only association at that time that was still allowed to hold an association conference. This was only possible under the obligation that the association had to dissolve within the framework of the SBT 1939. The SB was not re-established until 1951. The reconstruction took place under the direction of Leopold Petri . During the division of Germany, the federal meetings took place in Bad Hersfeld , Hessen . Since the 1990s, people have met again in Schwarzburg every two years for the Schwarzburgbund conference, during which the general assembly also meets as the decision-making body of all member associations.
In the period after the Second World War, most of the West German student associations were re-established, and some associations from the former eastern regions moved their active operations to West Germany. In addition, there were further start-ups as well as the entry of previously non-association connections. The latter were in large numbers, even before the forced dissolution under the Nazi regime, former members of the German Association of Scientists and the Association of German Boys .
Since 1972, earlier than most other umbrella organizations, the Schwarzburgbund has opened up to accept women in individual associations. In 1996, the first female connection was established with AV Athenia Würzburg.
From 2006 to 2012 the SB was a member of the Convent of German Academic Associations (CDA) . In addition, the SB maintains contacts with the Alter Wingolfiten Association .
Principles of the Schwarzburgbund
The binding bond within the federal government are the principles of the Schwarzburgbund, which were revised in 2006. The weight that the individual connections place on the individual principles is different.
Article 1: Christianum The Schwarzburgbund (SB) is an association of non-defeating student associations from the German-speaking area who see their basis in Christianity. The Schwarzburgbund does not require its members to belong to a certain denomination or worldview, but generally to orientate themselves towards the values of Christian ethics. In the question of faith he gives everyone room for his own development, provided he is open to the message of the gospel.
Article 2: Moderation Derived from the Christianum is the requirement of every member to deal responsibly with fellow human beings, with creation and with oneself.
Article 3: Lebensbund Members of the connections of the Schwarzburgbund unite the idea of federal brotherhood in a cross-generational life union. The expression of this special relationship is the fraternal "you" in this overall alliance.
Article 4: Academicism Associated with membership in an association of the Schwarzburgbund is the consistent readiness for a single-minded study and the serious endeavor to obtain an academic degree. The federal government and its associations promote and support the scientific education of its federal sisters and friars.
Article 5: Fatherland The commitment to the fatherland is expressed in the Schwarzburgbund in the love for the homeland, in the cultivation of its culture and language and in particular in standing up for the free democratic basic order within the framework of a united Europe.
Article 6: Personality development The Schwarzburgbund trains its members to become responsible personalities and citizens through mutual education in the spirit of respect, openness to the world, tolerance and willingness to help.
Structure and organization
The internal structure of the individual connections is largely the same. They are divided into a Philistine or old gentleman association and an activitas. Members still studying are organized in Aktivitas. Only the Philistine associations are usually registered associations. Independent members of the SB are both Aktivitas and the Philistine Association.
The SB is entered in the register of associations at the local court in Rudolstadt .
The members elect the six-person board for four years each. The elections will take place on Whitsun at the Annual General Meeting on the occasion of the Schwarzburgbund Conference (SBT), which takes place in Schwarzburg in even calendar years. In addition, the board includes a representative (federal X) of the active connections, who is only elected by the active members for one year. The connection to which the Bund-X belongs is referred to for the one-year term of office as “suburb” - the presiding connection of the active member corporations.
In addition to the Philistine associations, which unite the members of a connection beyond their studies, there are also regional state associations (LV) in which the members of different Philistine associations living in a region are brought together. There are currently nine of them for Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin-Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, Middle Rhine-Palatinate-Saar, Lower Saxony and Bremen, North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein. The interests of the LVs are represented in the federal board by the so-called spokesman for the regional associations.
Membership development
The membership development in the Schwarzburgbund basically follows the trends of other student associations. A steady increase in members can be seen up to 1968, but has been gradually declining since then. A further decline in membership is to be expected , in particular due to the statistically observed mortality of the strong member cohorts (see table; reference to year of birth, active registration at the age of estimated 20 years) from before 1968.
The following table shows the membership development for selected years since 1887, when the SB was founded. “Activities” describes the number of active federal connections. If no data could be determined or was not available, this is marked with "-".
| year | 1887 | 1895 | 1911 | 1930 | 1925 | 1935 | 1951 | 1960 | 1968 | 1975 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2009 | 2012 | 2015 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activities | 4th | 5 | 16 | 30th | 31 | 32 | 12 | 25th | 27 | 18th | 20th | 21st | 25th | 23 | 22nd | 19th | 22nd |
| Philisteria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 38 | 37 | 39 | 39 | 37 | 36 | 37 |
| Active | - | 230 | 593 | 889 | 1452 | 1173 | 375 | 1189 | 1204 | 399 | 345 | 362 | 327 | 324 | 347 | 301 | 270 |
| of which female | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 17th | 18th | 42 | 63 | 67 | 73 | 80 | 81 |
| Proportion of active women | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4% | 5% | 12% | 19% | 21% | 21% | 27% | 30% |
| Old gentlemen / ladies | - | 1474 | 2742 | 3257 | 3356 | - | 3505 | 4033 | 4158 | 4047 | 3393 | 2827 | 2526 | 2351 | 2171 | 2101 | 1950 |
| of which female | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 23 | 86 | 118 | 152 | 245 | 285 |
| Share of high ladies | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1 % | 3% | 5% | 7% | 12% | 15% |
| Total members | - | 1704 | 3335 | 4146 | 4808 | - | 3880 | 5222 | 5362 | 4446 | 3738 | 3189 | 2853 | 2636 | 2518 | 2402 | 2220 |
| of which female | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 19th | 31 | 65 | 149 | 171 | 237 | 325 | 366 |
| Share of women in total | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0% | 0% | 0% | 1 % | 2% | 5% | 6% | 9% | 14% | 16% |
The reference date was January 1st of each year and the evaluation was based on the available statistics from the member directories.
List of member connections
A differentiated overview of the member connections can be found below (status: October 2016) :
Active self-service connections
| Type | connection | place | Abbreviation (internal) | Members | Year of foundation (final inclusion in the SB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CStV | Uttenruthia | gain | (U) | m | 1836 (1887) |
| B! | Germania | Goettingen | (G) | m | 1851 (1893) |
| SBV! | Hercynia | Heidelberg | (Herc) | m / f | 1852 (1907) |
| B! | Rheno-Germania | Bonn | (RhG) | m | 1860/1904 (1919) |
| AV L! | Onoldia | Nuremberg | (Oil) | m / f | 1863 (1963) |
| SBV! | Frankonia | Marburg | (Fr) | m | 1898 (1900) |
| SBV! | Wikingia | Kiel | (Wik) | m / f | 1898 (1909) |
| SBV! | Herminonia | Munich | (Herm) | m / f | 1900 (1903) |
| B! | Salingia | Berlin | (Sa) | m / f | 1900/1991 (1905) |
| B! | Vandalia on the Loretto | Freiburg | (V) | m / f | 1909 (1919) |
| B! in the SB | Hoheneberstein | Karlsruhe | (HE) | m | 1909 (1951) |
| B! | Germania | Mannheim | (GMa) | m | 1919/1990 (1923, 1960) |
| B! | Westmark | Aachen | (We) | m / f | 1920 (1929) |
| B! | Teutonia | Nuremberg | (To) | m | 1920 (1925) |
| B! | Kurmark Brandenburg | Bayreuth | (Kb) | m / f | 1907/1920 (1933) |
| L! in the SB | Südmark | innsbruck | (Sü) | m / f | 1921 (1921) |
| B! | Sugambria | Cologne | (Sg) | m | 1924 (1929) |
| AV | crystal | Clausthal | (Kr) | m / f | 1949 (1958) |
| SBV! | East Franconia | Hanover | (Of) | m / f | 1919/1951 (1951) |
| AV | Athenia | Wurzburg | (Ath) | w | 1994 (1996) |
| KTV | Border mark | Schweinfurt | (Gr) | m / f | 1960 (2016) |
Postponed SB connections
| Type | connection | place | Abbreviation (internal) | Members | Year of foundation (final inclusion in the SB) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SBV! | Tuiskonia Hall | Bochum | (Tu) | m | 1856 (1887) |
| SBV! | North Albingia Leipzig | Pforzheim, Central Baden | (No) | m / f | 1870 (1887) |
| SBV! | Sedinia | Greifswald | (Se) | m / f | 1884 (1887) |
| StV | Frisia Wroclaw | eat | (Fris) | m / f | 1901 (1992) |
| B! | Falkenstein | Frankfurt am Main | (Fa) | m | 1918 (1919) |
| SBV! | Teutoburg | Muenster | (Tb) | m / f | 1919 (1921) |
| SG | Rauenstein Dresden | Dortmund | (Rough) | m / f | 1919 (1923) |
| B! | Main Franconia | Wurzburg | (Mfr) | m | 1920 (1923) |
| B! | Frankenstein | Darmstadt | (Frst) | m | 1921 (1927) |
| SBV! | Marienburg Koenigsberg | eat | (Mg) | m / f | 1928 (1933) |
| ÖSBV! | Dürnstein | Vienna | (D) | m | 1931 (1933) |
| B! | Nassovia | Saarbrücken | (Ns) | m | 1956 (1956) |
| B! | Ebernburg | Mainz | (Ebg) | m | 1958 (1960) |
| B! | Albinia | Dresden | (Alb) | m / f | 1991 (1992) |
| B! | Prussian blue | Potsdam | (PrB) | m / f | 1991 (1992) |
Former self-service connections
| Type | connection | place | Abbreviation (internal) | Members | founding year | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LB! | Alemannia Leipzig to Bamberg | Bamberg | (ALE) | m | 1861 (1992) | 2014 left the SB |
| AV | Nicaria | Tübingen | (Nic) | m / f | 1893 (1898) | 1977 left the SB |
| B! | Ostmark-Breslau | regensburg | (Om) | m | 1920 (1923) | 2019 leaving the SB |
| SBV! | Schauenburg | Hamburg | (Sch) | m / f | 1919 (1921) | 2014 dissolution of the AHV |
| SBV! | Wilhelmitana | Strasbourg | (Wil) | m / f | 1855 (1909) | 1985 Dissolution of the AHV |
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Groupings of the SB
Cartell Christian Fraternities
Initially within the SB, four SB fraternities merged to form the Cartell Christian Burschenschaften (CCB) in the Schwarzburgbund in 1995.
- B! Rheno-Germania Bonn
- Leipzig B! Alemannia Bamberg
- B! Teutonia Nuremberg
- B! Ostmark-Breslau Regensburg
After a corresponding amendment to the statutes in October 2012, this interest group now also takes on student associations who do not belong to the SB. This enabled the Alemannia Leipzig fraternity to join the cartel, which was refused membership in the SB. After the Leipzig B! Alemannia zu Bamberg from the SB now two cartel members do not belong to the SB.
According to his own idea, the purpose of the CCB is to preserve and renew the original Christian fraternity orientation of the otherwise heterogeneous Schwarzburgbund, whereby the SB has always been and is heterogeneous. The German oak, as his logo, symbolizes the roots in these values. The CCB would therefore like to appear internally and externally through its cohesive appearance and assumption of a role model function and rejects the acceptance of female students as members in a student association. When it was founded, the following goals were agreed: Strengthening the fraternity's profile in public, revitalizing tradition and commentary , determining a common position in public, intensifying joint cooperation.
On August 19, 1995, the Convent of Bavarian fraternities in the Schwarzburgbund (CBB in SB) was founded in Regensburg . Founding members were the SB-Burschenschaften Ostmark-Breslau Regensburg, Burschenschaft Teutonia Nürnberg, Kurmark-Brandenburg Bayreuth (founding protocol not ratified) and Alemannia Leipzig-Erlangen Bamberg . In order to enable the non-Bavarian federal connections to the CBB interested in joining, it was decided in July 1999 to change the name to its current name. As a result, B! Rheno-Germania Bonn is the only federal association outside Bavaria to join the cartel. In 2013 Alemannia Bamberg left the Schwarzburgbund. In 2019 the B! Ostmark-Breslau Regensburg left the Schwarzburgbund on December 31 of the same year.
Since the Schwarzburgbund sees itself as a federation in many university locations, an official cartel between some of its connections and connections that do not belong to the SB is controversial.
Further mergers
Another merger is formed by four self-service connections that formed in the early 1990s on the basis of personal friendships:
- SBV! Wikingia Kiel
- B! Hoheneberstein Karlsruhe
- B! Westmark Aachen
- SBV! East Franconia Hanover
It is a loose association that does not see itself as an antithesis to the CCB and which considers cartels in the small and heterogeneous Schwarzburgbund to be unnecessary. The four associations have come together to set an example against the fragmentation of the umbrella organization and to show that closer friendships of individual associations in the SB are possible even without a cartel.
Accordingly, the merger is not based on a contractual agreement. It serves to cultivate fraternal togetherness and personal, cross-generational friendships. Therefore, a friendship contract was deliberately avoided. The corporations see the SB as a common umbrella organization in the foreground and do not want to set themselves apart from other federal associations through a cartel.
The connections meet each winter semester at a Kreuzkneipe , alternately at one of the four corporations.
Known members
A compilation of well-known members with Wikipedia entry can be found in the category: Corporates in the Schwarzburgbund
See also
Sources and literature
literature
- DH Schuster, Ms. Landwehr (edited), J. Möller (Ed. On behalf of the German Association of old Schwarzburgbündler): The Schwarzburgbund. First part: The history of the connections up to 1907. o.O. 1918.
- K.-D. Pohl (ed.): The Schwarzburgbund (SB) 1887 - 1977. A commemorative publication on the occasion of its 90th anniversary. Braunschweig 1977.
- Günter W. Zwanzig, Ernst WM Sievers: History of the Schwarzburgbund. Volume I: From the foundation to 1933. akadpress, Schwarzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-17-2 .
- Peter Hanne, Heinrich-Josef Riotte: The history of the Schwarzburg connection Alemannia Jena. akadpress, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-939413-15-8 Pp.
- Wilhelm Michaelis (Hrsg.): Handbuch des SB - Schriften aus dem Schwarzburgbund, Issue 4. Verlag of M. Heinsius successor Eger & Sievers, Leipzig 1928.
- Klaus-Detlef Pohl, Heinrich-Josef Riotte: The peculiarity of the Schwarzburgbund. What separates us and what unites us? for the 90th anniversary of the SB, oA, 1977.
- Ernst-August Gries: The Schwarzburgbund (SB) . In: Michael Doeberl , Alfred Bienengräber (Hrsg.): The academic Germany. Volume 2: The German universities and their academic citizens . CA Weller, Berlin 1931. pp. 467-470.
- Paulgerhard Gladen : History of the German-speaking corporation associations. Volume II. Würzburg 1985, pp. 323-330.
Individual evidence
- ^ Professor Ernst August Gries: Brief outline of the federal history . In: Writings from the Schwarzburgbund. New episode. Booklet 4. SB manual. 2nd Edition. Published by M. Heinsius successor Eger & Sievers, Leipzig, 1932.
- ↑ Die Schwarzburg, No. 4/2019.
- ↑ Dr. Heinrich-Josef Riotte: Why did I become an SB'er? Why am I an SB'er? Why will I stay SB'er? . In: the black castle . Husum, 2012, 4-2012, p. 3 ff.
- ↑ Torsten Lühring: Statutes and regulations of the Schwarzburgbund (SB). In: the black castle. No. 2a, 2000 special issue, p. 3, § 3.
- ^ Gunnar Auth: Minutes of the founding convention of the Bavarian fraternities convention in SB of August 19, 1995. In: Teutonenblätter 1995. Nürnberg 1995, p. 29 f.
- ↑ Marcus F. Bosse: Handbüchlein der Ostmark 2008. Philisterverein der B! Ostmark-Breslau i. SB zu Regensburg e. V .., Pentling 2008, p. 12 f.
- ↑ Markus Zimmermann: For God, freedom and our beautiful German fatherland! About the CCB . In: the black castle . Husum, 2010, 1-2010, p. 15 f.
- ↑ Dr. Heinrich-Josef Riotte: Why did I become an SB'er? Why am I an SB'er? Why will I stay SB'er? . In: the black castle . Husum, 2012, 4-2012, p. 4f.
Periodicals
- die schwarzburg - Mitteilungen des Schwarzburgbund (SB) - (Association magazine, appears quarterly)
