Seniors' Convention in Clausthal

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The Clausthal Seniors Convent (short: SC zu Clausthal ) is the amalgamation of Weinheimer Corps at the Technical University of Clausthal . The Corps Hercynia , Montania and Borussia belong to the Senior Citizens' Convention .

  • Hercynia

  • Montania

  • Borussia

History of the college

After the Bergakademie Schemnitz in Hungary (1763) and the Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony (1765) were founded, the pressure on the Harz mining authorities to create better training opportunities for the miners employed there grew. As a result, Claus Friedrich von Reden , Elector of Hanover Mining Captain of Clausthal, founded in 1775 a “climbing school for miners and smelters”. During the time of the French occupation , in 1811 this became the "Bergschule der Harzdivision zu Clausthal", which was continued after 1815 by the Kingdom of Hanover . In the years from 1821 to 1844, a forestry school was attached to the mountain school, which was separated in 1844 and relocated to Hannoversch Münden . King George V of Hanover elevated the mining school to a mining academy in 1864 . At the beginning of the 1960s, the range of services offered by the Clausthal Mining Academy was expanded considerably by expanding many of the previous supplementary subjects to main courses. In 1966 the Bergakademie was elevated to a technical university and in 1968 to the Technical University of Clausthal.

Foundation of the SC and operation until 1914

Even after the mountain school was elevated to a mining academy, the mountain school regulations of 1859 still applied, which forbade merging into "corps associations or country teams". The first student associations were a “Cheruskia” in 1856 and a “Corps Rhenania” in 1861, but both were banned after a short time and had to be given up again. This restrictive attitude of the university management meant that some of the students migrated to the other mining academies in Freiberg and Berlin, because in their opinion academic freedom was more guaranteed there.

On April 19, 1866, today's Corps Hercynia was founded. The constitution had already defined the character of a striking association, but in public it appeared under the cover name “Association for the promotion of comfort and unity among the members”. When they publicly declared themselves to be the "Corps Hercynia" in May 1867, Bergrat Roemer , the director of the Bergakademie at that time , ordered the termination of the connection on July 4, 1867. Only an objection by the Hercynen, which was supported by the entire professorial body, led to a rethink, as it was feared that otherwise more students would migrate to other universities. The ban on connections with a lot of thread was therefore finally lifted on October 27, 1867.

Even before this ban was lifted, on May 7, 1867, the “Club for the funny ass leather” opened in Clausthal. Its members confirmed in confidential talks to the Hercynes that they intended to open up as a corps. This happened on July 11, 1868, initially under the name Montana and with the colors "black-green-gold". In 1870 the Corps took the name “America” and the colors “blue-white-red”, changed its name to “America-Montana” in 1872 and since 1883 has been called “Montania”.

In order to create a body for the settlement of disputes among the students, a "kind of senior citizens' convent" was founded on November 23, 1867, based on the Göttingen model. This committee included the three Chargierten the Corps Hercynia and the chairman of the "Association for funny ass leather". When today's Corps Montania was constituted on July 11, 1868, the two corps merged to form the “Clausthal Senior Citizens' Convention”.

The Corps Borussia was founded as the third corps at the Clausthal Mining Academy on October 25, 1875, initially as a free association. Borussia was accepted into the Clausthaler SC on May 14, 1891 as a renouncing corps and on February 11, 1892 as a voting corps. From 1903 the SC consisted of only two corps, since the Corps Borussia moved to Aachen on March 14, 1903 and from there to Munich on April 20, 1907. In October 1920 Borussia returned to Clausthal.

On May 22, 1874, the three corps of Clausthaler SC were accepted into the WSC through the agency of Freiberger SC . In 1883, the WSC dissolved when there were disputes about the lack of the Matura principle at the Clausthal and Freiberg Mining Academies . The other universities re-founded the WSC the following year, while the old WSC was continued by the Clausthalers and Freibergers until 1889. The Clausthaler SC was only accepted back into the WSC after a ministerial decree in 1905 introduced the Matura principle for the Clausthal Mining Academy.

Operation of the SC since 1919

During the First World War, lectures at the Bergakademie were suspended, the Corps and the SC were suspended during this time. On January 1, 1919, university operations were resumed, which also ended the suspension of the corps. In October 1920, after a 17-year absence, the Borussia Corps returned to Clausthal, so that the SC now consisted of three corps again.

From 1933 onwards, the NSDAP and its branches put increasing pressure on the student associations. Its members had to join the National Socialist German Student Union (NSDStB), and the corps was largely displaced by the SA training and camaraderie evenings. Under pressure from the NSDStB, the WSC disbanded on October 20, 1935, which was followed by the Clausthaler Corps on November 6, 1935. The students were combined in a comradeship of the NSDStB. From the division of this "original comradeship" - it had too many members in the meantime - the "Kameradschaft III" emerged in 1937, which consisted of the members of the three former corps. This "K III" was named after Kurt Elliesen, a Clausthal Hercynen who died in 1921 in the fight against insurgents . The meeting point was the house of the former Corps Borussia.

After the end of the Second World War, Clausthal was not only represented by interests, such as B. the AStA , initially only friendship covenants allowed. As such, the “Bergakademische Verein” was founded in July 1946 as the successor to Kameradschaft III. From this, the Corps Montania was the first to restitute in the 1950/51 winter semester, while the other two Corps initially opened together under the name "Hercynia-Borussia". In the spring of 1952, the old corps "Borussia" was restituted from this connection and on June 21, 1952 the remaining corps "Hercynia-Borussia" took on the old name "Hercynia" again. With these three corps, Clausthaler SC still exists today.

literature

  • Clausthal University of Technology (Hrsg.): Clausthal University of Technology. For the bicentenary 1775–1975 . Volume I: The Bergakademie and its history. Piepersche Buchdruckerei und Verlagsanstalt, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1975, p. 66-67 and 76-77 .
  • Georg Müller: Clausthal University of Technology. Outline of their historical development . Ed .: Clausthal University of Technology. Clausthal University Library, 2007, ISBN 978-3-940394-05-7 .
  • Georg Müller: Disciplinary cases at the Clausthaler Bergschule and Bergakademie . Ed .: Clausthal University of Technology (=  TU Clausthal bulletin . Issue 80). Clausthal-Zellerfeld 1995, p. 32-36 .
  • Max Feuchter: History of the Corps Hercynia zu Clausthal am Harz 1866-1935 . Carl Gerber Book and Publishing Company, Munich, 1942.
  • Hermann Meyer: 100 years of Corps Hercynia zu Clausthal 1866–1966 . Carl Blech printing works, Mülheim (Ruhr), 1966.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 152.