Coburg Convent
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| Surname | Coburg Convent of the academic country teams and gymnastics associations at German universities |
| abbreviation | CC |
| Colours | white - green - red - white |
| principle | Self-education of its members |
| Represented in |
 Germany Austria
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| founding | May 12, 1951 in Coburg |
| Motto | Honor - freedom - friendship - fatherland |
| Member connections | 94 |
| Number of members | 1,638 active in 92 activities at 47 university locations 10,000 old men in 92 old men’s associations |
| Type of member | Men's leagues |
| Old gentlemen's associations | Association of Old Men of the Coburg Convent (AHCC). Association of Old Men of the Coburg Convent (VACC) |
| Religious orientation | Religiously unbound |
| Position to the scale | Duty |
| Color status | Colored |
| Members magazine | CC sheets (quarterly) |
| Chair of AHCC eV | Ali Mahdi |
| Speaker / Presidium | Victor Kolck Lukas shipyard Julius Eberhardt |
| President (2019/2020) | Landsmannschaft Brandenburg in the CC in Berlin |
| Antitrust agreement | No cartel agreement |
| Friends | German singers (DS) since 1922 |
| Working groups | Working group Andernach of the mensuristic associations (AGA) |
| archive | Student history association of the Coburg Convent eV |
| Office | CC office, Triftstrasse 1, 80538 Munich |
| Website | http://www.coburger-convent.de/ |
The Coburg Convent of the academic country teams and gymnastics associations at German universities is a corporation association .
About the CC
Principles
The colors of the association are white-green-red-white. They combine the colors of the forerunner associations of the German Landsmannschaft (white-green-white) and the representative convention of the gymnastics associations (red-white-red). The motto of the Coburg Convent is "Honor - Freedom - Friendship - Fatherland ".
The most important principle of the Coburg Convent is the self-education of its members. This task is fulfilled by the individual connections. The guiding concepts of the CC - honor, freedom, friendship and fatherland - should be the guideline.
Structure and organization
The Coburg Convent consists of two supporting pillars. The first pillar are the old men. The old man's associations of the corporations are united in the Association of Old Men of the Coburg Convent (AHCC). The AHCC is supplemented by the Old Gentlemen's Associations of the Coburg Convent (VACC). The second pillar consists of the activities that are combined in the active Coburg Convent (CC). Both pillars are separated by statutes.
The AHCC is an association registered in the Coburg register of associations. The CC is an unregistered, non-legal association . The local VACC brings together the old gentlemen of the leagues united in the Coburg Convent (CC) in their confederate and local associations in order to keep their interest in the development and performance of the CC and its leagues alive and to promote the CC through economic aid. CC corporations, which are based at the same university location, each form a local association of the Coburg Convent (OCC).
The association's legislature consists of three general assemblies: the CC day, the AHCC day and the Coburg General Convention (CGC). On the CC day, each active covenant has one vote. Frets that are suspended, d. H. due to insufficient strength, no longer conduct daily student operations, lose their voting rights. On the AHCC day, each of the old rulers has one vote, even if the associated active association is suspended. In addition, all local associations of old men of the Coburg Convent (VACC) have voting rights on the AHCC day. The votes of the VACC are calculated according to their number of members. On the CGC, all fraternities with voting rights on the CC-Tag, all old rulers and all VACC have one vote.
The executive of the active association is the president. In order to carry out its business, this corporation has to set up a presidential expulsion consisting of its spokesman and his two deputies as well as a representative of the pre-and post-presidents with an advisory vote. The respective chairperson is appointed to the CC or the German Landsmannschaft (DL) or the Representative Convent (VC) according to their date of entry. The fiscal year runs from August 1st to July 31st of the next year. The President is supported in her work by the offices or their office holders and office heads. In 2000 the Landsmannschaft der Salzburger zu Salzburg became the first Austrian president. In the 2006/07 presidential year, a corporation from Central Germany, the compatriot Palaeomarchia Halle, ran the business for the first time since reunification . With the presidential year 2007/08 the order started again from the beginning and the founding national team Ghibellinia Tübingen took over the presidium for the second time after 1952/53.
The executive branch of the AHCC is the board , which is re-elected every two years. If possible, the board members should come from a VACC, which is elected to the on-site upon suggestion. To support the board of directors, representatives are elected in parallel to the areas of office.
Others
The Franconian city of Coburg is the founding and conference location of the Coburg Convent . The annual association conference of the CC, the Coburg Whitsun Congress , takes place there. Since 2000 , the Greifenstein conference has been held annually in autumn in Bad Blankenburg , Thuringia , which was the old venue for the gymnastics associations.
The members' magazine of the Coburg Convent, the CC-Blätter, appears quarterly. Since the presidential year 2012/2013, the Office for Press and Public Relations has been publishing an internal, digital PR dispatch.
The CC has its own training academy, the CC Academy. The CC maintains a friendship agreement with the German singers , which also has its roots in the progress movement. The agreement has existed since 1922 and was concluded by the Deutsche Landsmannschaft, a predecessor association of the CC. The CC is a member of the Andernach working group . After the Second World War, two cross-association associations were founded to represent interests. The active connections merged in the Convent of German Corporations Associations (CDK) and the old rulers in the Convent of German Academic Associations (CDA). Since October 22, 2011 membership has been suspended due to the events surrounding the “ethnological admission criteria” in the German Burschenschaft (DB).
history
The Coburg Convent was created on May 12, 1951 through the merger of the Landsmannschaft of the German Landsmannschaft and the gymnastics associations of the representative convention of the gymnastics associations at German universities. A sign of the friendship lived in the corporations of the CC is the membership of numerous students and senior citizens of non-German descent and nationality, different religious affiliations and different parties. The CC is a member of various working groups such as the Andernach working group.
The founding date is that of the General Landsmannschafter Convent , founded on March 1, 1868 in Kassel . This was the oldest predecessor association of the German Landsmannschaft. The representative convent was founded on August 4th, 1872 in Berlin . From 1954 the Austrian Landsmannschafter und Turnerschafter-Convent (ÖLTC) was associated with the Austrian Landsmannschafter und Turnerschafter-Convent (ÖLTC) and were accepted as full member associations in the Coburg Convent in 1996.
The Coburg Convent is based on traditions or was strongly influenced by a number of associations of the country teams and gymnastics associations:
| founding | Association | place |
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| June 28, 1867 | Wetzlarer General Landsmannschaften-Seniors-Convent (Wetzlarer ALSC) | Wetzlar |
| March 1, 1868 | General Landsmannschafter-Convents (LC) → DL | kassel |
| June 1, 1872 | Coburger Landsmannschafter Convent (Coburger LC) → DL | Coburg |
| 4th August 1872 | Representative Convent (VC) | Berlin |
| January 7, 1882 | Coburger Landsmannschafter Convent (Coburger LC) → DL | Wurzburg |
| 1882 | Goslar Chargierten-Convent (GCC) | Goslar |
| November 11, 1883 | General German Burschenbund (ADB) (Reform fraternities ) | Berlin |
| 1895 | Auerbacher Landsmannschafts-Seniors-Convent (Auerbacher LSC) | Auerbach |
| 1898 | Arnstädter Landsmannschafter Convent (ALC) → DL | Arnstadt |
| April 1, 1900 | Association of Age Gymnastics (VAT) | Gotha ? |
| February 6, 1904 | Association of compatriots of German universities (VLDH) | Darmstadt |
| 1904 | General Landsmannschafter Convent on the Marksburg (ALC a. DM) | Marksburg |
| 1908 | German Landsmannschaft (DL) | Coburg |
| November 16, 1954 | Austrian Landsmannschafter- und Turnerschafter-Convent (ÖLTC) | Vienna |
The roots of the CC
The LC from its foundation in 1868 to its renaming to DL in 1908:
Around the middle of the 19th century, the founding of new academic country teams can be seen in many university locations in Germany. They emerged as a counter-development to the dominant corps at the time , in which contemporaries believed they recognized numerous undesirable developments - such as the bad appearance in public, fencing and the aloof attitude towards large parts of society. Therefore, the new associations took the old country teams of the 18th century with their regional principle as an example and revived their ideals.
In order to change this situation, Normannia Berlin issued an appeal in July 1858 to “all beating, anti-corps connections to the exclusion of all progress-friendly and purely Christian connections” to found a joint association. A second attempt to found the association was initiated nine years later, in the summer of 1867. The starting point of the activities was that Ghibellinia Tübingen had been suspended in 1867 and was to be reopened by representatives of various country teams present in Tübingen . Due to the friendly relations of the compatriots active in Tübingen near Ghibellinia, it was suggested from there to maintain friendly relations with other compatriots in Germany. That is why Ghibellinia wrote to Teutonia Halle on July 2, 1867: “Given the brisk traffic between north and south German universities, Ghibellinia also wants to get in touch with other compatriots and therefore turns to the Teutonia Convent with the question of whether the same would not be inclined to enter into a friendly relationship with her. ”On March 1, 1868, the representatives of the five founding country teams in Kassel. These were the country teams Ghibellinia Tübingen, Verdensia Göttingen, Teutonia Halle, Teutonia Bonn and Makaria Würzburg.
On June 2, 1868, the official founding act took place as part of the 1st Congress of the General Landsmannschafterverband in Zwingenberg . This event is still celebrated today, every year shortly after Pentecost, with the Zwingenberg Festival of the Coburg Convent, at which the active groups from the Rhine-Main area and the Rhine-Neckar region, as well as the old gentlemen's regulars tables located in the region are present.
The principles of the new association should include, on the one hand, the realization of the greatest possible personal freedom within the framework of a student association and, on the other hand, equality towards all student associations that give absolute satisfaction. The active pursuit of political and religious tendencies or directions was denied from the beginning and the moral rules were imposed on the members, which were to be derived from the general rules of propriety of the respective time. The Coburg Convent is still committed to this principle today and is diametrically opposed to the fraternities and religious student associations .
It was not until 1872 that the location of the conference was finally determined, "at the suggestion of the Makaria representative for the future, the geographically favorable and scenic city of Coburg was chosen as the permanent conference location." The name of the association was then changed to Coburg LC .
At the same time as the name change and the establishment of Coburg as the permanent conference venue, the designated scale length in the Coburg LC was also made mandatory. The rapid growth of the association shows that the two above-mentioned basic ideas of the Coburg LC enjoyed great approval. In 1874 there were already 15 leagues, including the first league from Austria, that formed the Coburg LC. This rapid growth is u. a. The reason for this is that the new association recruited itself particularly from the middle-class educated middle class, which in the 1870s increasingly pushed for the colleges and universities of the German Empire. The rapid expansion of the association also quickly led to internal conflicts. So it is not surprising that in the course of the 1870s these internal association conflicts became more and more important and ultimately the association was to be dissolved at the request of the Neoborussia Halle regional team on February 17, 1877.
The initiative for the reconstitution of the Coburg LC in 1882 came from Würzburg. Five of the seven country teams still in existence at that time were represented by double-band people at the Makaria Würzburg country team. Because of these personal and friendly relationships, they pushed the re-emergence of the Coburg LC and proudly announced on January 6, 1882: "The Coburg LC exists again today!"
By 1891, the number of leagues of the Coburg LC grew at all university locations, and the 15 leagues of the Goslar Chargierten-Convent joined the Coburg LC as a whole, because they had similar principles to the Coburg LC. In 1893 the Coburg LC consisted of 35 member associations.
Since the Coburg LC had a massive increase in membership in the years up to 1891, new conflicts between the confederations, which had been involved in the Coburg LC from the beginning and also formed the large cartels, and the connections that were only added can be recognized from around 1893 . The core of the discussion was the balance of power in the association. As a result, in the wake of the so-called "LC-Krach" in 1897, some leagues, especially the leagues of the gold and silver cartels, which then formed the Arnstädter Landsmannschafter Convent in 1898.
One consequence of leaving the Coburg LC was the renewed dissolution of the association on January 16, 1898. However, numerous fraternities, especially those that had only recently joined the Coburg LC, vehemently contradicted the dissolution. A collection movement arose, and thought was given to continuing the association. In this case, too, it was the fraternities that had just joined the Coburg LC that were particularly committed to the association. As a result of this dispute, the Coburg LC founded its own old gentlemen's association in 1898. Overall, this development led to a consolidation of the association and to a continuity in the association's work.
From the foundation of DL in 1908 to its dissolution in 1938:
Since Whitsun 1908, the association was now called the German Landsmannschaft (Coburger LC), which was intended to make it clear that the regional principle of the old Landsmannschaft was abandoned in favor of the Landsmannschaft of the Germans. By the beginning of the First World War, an association had developed within a few years that, with its 52 leagues, was firmly established in the structure of the corporate landscape of the German Reich in 1914.
In the years of the First World War , teaching at German universities and thus also active activities largely ceased and large parts of the student youth rushed to arms, including numerous active and young old men of the German Landsmannschaft. Federal life was only temporarily maintained and the main focus of reporting in the newspaper of the German Landsmannschaft consisted of a wide variety of reports from the front.
In the Weimar Republic , the German Landsmannschaft experienced further expansion and integration into student associations. In 1919 the General Landsmannschafter-Convent on the Marksburg became part of the German Landsmannschaft. With this step, the country teams at the technical universities were integrated into the German country team. In addition, there were numerous other new memberships in the German Landsmannschaft.In this way, the German Landsmannschaft was able to increase the number of its member unions to 102 in 1932.
In 1919 the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV), the DL and the VC the Allgemeine Deutsche Waffenring (ADW) was founded, to which all other obligatory and satisfaction-giving connections joined in 1922. In addition, the DL was involved in the Hochschulring Deutscher Art (HdA). In this way, an attempt was initially made to preserve conservative ideas without being exposed to party political influences or falling into party political waters, but this did not succeed in the long term.
Another development of the 1920s is the successive inclusion of the compatriots of the Vienna LC and the Bünde from Prague from Whitsun 1920. With this step, the aim was to point out the unity of students in the German cultural area and at the same time to draw attention to the extent to which higher education was German was widespread in Central Europe. Within the DL there was a movement of younger member unions in the years of the Weimar Republic with the aim of limiting the influence of the big cartels - the gold cartel and silver cartel to be mentioned here - by entering into new relationships. In this context, the Treubund and the Iron Ring, which also jokingly referred to itself as the tin cartel, should be emphasized, whereby its fundamental distance from the existing old cartels becomes clear.
At Pentecost 1933, the German Landsmannschaft also adapted to the new framework for life in the German Empire. At the Pentecost conference in 1933, the leader principle was introduced in the German Landsmannschaft, although conflicts arose right from the start about who would be suitable leaders and how the leader principle should be specifically designed in the DL.
The Pentecost conference in 1934 made the changes introduced in 1933 practically clear for the first time: The tried and tested program of conventions and meetings that obeyed democratic principles had to be dropped for the first time in 1934 due to the introduction of the Führer principle. In order to strengthen the influence of the student associations on political leadership, the German Landsmannschaft decided in January 1935 to take part in the establishment of the community of student associations. It was intended to ensure the continued existence of the student associations.
After the state exerted further influence at the beginning of 1936, the activities of the corporations dissolved around the same time on May 1, 1936. From 1937, individual old rulers of the AHLC were recognized in small steps to support the Nazi student union and its comradeships . At Pentecost 1938, the old gentlemen's association of the German Landsmannschaft, the AHLC, disbanded under the impression of Austria being incorporated into the German Reich and under massive political pressure.
The gymnastics roots of the CC
When the first academic gymnastics clubs (ATV) were founded at German universities in the 1850s , they were left to their own devices in the majority of cases. This did not change until the 1860s, because in June 1860 the first German Gymnastics Festival took place in Coburg, to which the academic gymnastics clubs were invited. From that day on, however, it would be years before the academic gymnastics clubs merged into their own association. It was not until the 4th German Gymnastics Festival in Bonn, which took place around August 4, 1872, that the Cartell Association of German Academic Gymnastics Clubs was founded by three academic gymnastics clubs. Similar to the country teams, the academic gymnastics clubs developed quickly and were able to win numerous existing ATVs as members, and new clubs could be founded by the members of the cartel themselves. From 1874 onwards one can speak of a rapid upswing in the Cartell Association of German Academic Gymnastics Associations.
As part of the expansion of the German universities in the 1880s, numerous changes also occurred in the Cartell Association of Academic Gymnastics Clubs, which clearly show that this association also benefited immensely from the growth in student numbers in the German Empire. So it was decided at the meeting of representatives in 1881 to hold regular gymnastics festivals. The first Kartell Gymnastics Festival in 1882 took place in Thuringia. In 1884 it was then allowed that several associations of the association exist at a university. At that time the association consisted of 17 clubs. In addition, a cartel newspaper was founded in the same year, and a year later the ban on fixed sizes, which had only been issued in 1882, was lifted again.
With the association conference in 1891, the general cartel among the member associations was finally dissolved, a corporate student association emerged in the classic form, which enabled its members to form their own cartels within the association. Since 1894 the association was called "Association of color-bearing academic gymnastics clubs at German universities (VC)". At the end of the 1890s, the term gymnastics club was finally abandoned because it no longer seemed up to date. The term gymnastics was introduced for the 32 or so member associations of the VC. They continued to take part in the German gymnastics festivals, but with a lot of pride under the new name.
VC Association of Gymnastics Associations at German Universities 1897–1938:
In 1897 the term gymnastics club found its way into the name of the association. From this point on it was called "VC, Association of Gymnastics Associations at German Universities". On April 1, 1900, the old men organized themselves into the Association of Alter Turnerschafter. With the decisions of the 1890s and the lifting of the prohibition of the designated scale length in the 1880s, the academic gymnastics associations moved more and more away from the idea of gymnastics clubs and thereby set themselves apart from the black ATVs that later merged in the ATB.
Until the beginning of the First World War, further changes were introduced in the VC of the gymnastics associations, which on the one hand were typical of the time, on the other hand clearly showed that the association had established itself and was in line with the social trend of the time. In 1900, for example, the Association of Alter Turnerschafter was founded as an organization for the old men in the VC Association of Turnerschaften at German universities. From 1901 the gymnastics associations at technical universities were included in the association and Gotha was designated as a permanent conference location. At the same time, the motto “mens sana in corpore sano” was introduced for the association. In 1911 the VC already united 53 gymnastics associations. A similar development as with the country teams can be seen for the time of the First World War and the years after 1918 with the gymnastics associations. With the growth of the association to include numerous leagues in Germany and Austria after 1918, the need for a more comprehensive reorganization of the association became clear. As early as 1920 a university policy office was introduced, a press office was permanently installed and a border office was established to support the Germans in the border area of the German cultural area. In 1921, at Pentecost, it was decided to expand the VC to Austria and in 1922 the first leagues from Austria joined the VC. Since 1925, Bad Blankenburg in Thuringia had been designated as the new permanent venue for the representative convention and in 1932 the VC was able to inaugurate its new sports facilities and the memorial at Greifenstein Castle in its congress city.
Since the beginning of the 1920s there has also been a collaboration between DL and VC, as both associations addressed similar social classes, had a similar history of development and had to face comparable social hostilities and problems.
At the Pentecost conference in Bad Blankenburg in 1933, the VC greatly simplified its association structures and ultimately introduced the leader principle. The leadership of the VC was firmly in the conservative camp and thus drew a very clear dividing line from the National Socialist system. This situation changed, however, as early as 1934, when the VC left the Allgemeine Deutschen Waffenring, an institution that represented the basic conservative consensus of the corporation associations. The result was internal disputes about the direction to be taken in the VC. At Pentecost 1935, the VC was dissolved, with around 95 leagues at that time, 5,000 student members and around 10,000 old men. In the spring of 1936 the dissolution was reversed, only to be resolved again in August 1938. Similar to other corporations and the leagues of the DL, in the comradeships in the houses of the gymnastics associations of the VC, after a high phase of comradeship from around the end of 1936 to mid-1939, at the latest since the beginning of the war, corporate life as it existed before the Third Reich developed anew.
Coburg Convent (since 1951)
prehistory
The idea of the Coburg Convent did not just emerge in the years after 1945. As early as 1922, DL and VC agreed to found a working group "for the purpose of successfully maintaining and promoting common patriotic, student and weapons student ideals as well as to jointly ward off hostile tendencies or the hegemony of other groups".
But there was still no question of close cooperation, because despite all the similarities, many participants also saw fundamental differences between the German Landsmannschaft and the representative convention. In addition, both associations expanded in the Weimar Republic and there was no need to merge. That is why the collaboration ultimately only took place on the lowest common denominator, the university policy level. VC and DL agreed to actively represent the interests of middle-class middle-class students in university politics.
Pre-foundation phase
After years of collecting, association life began in Coburg - Bad Blankenburg could no longer be reached behind the Iron Curtain - again with a private meeting of compatriots at Pentecost in 1948. And a year later, numerous old and young compatriots met in Coburg at Pentecost. In autumn 1949, inspired by the Association of Old Landsmannschafter Rhein-Ruhr, which, like similar institutions, had been re-established shortly before, the idea of a new association was quickly and widely spread among the compatriots. At Pentecost 1950, both the country teams and the gymnastics community decided later joint negotiations at separate meetings. The main goals that were to be achieved together were the re-establishment of an active corporate student association, the continuation of the reformatory efforts of the inter-war period, the merging of the associations of the Erlangen Association Agreement and, ultimately, the suggestion of merging the gymnastics and country teams in one association .
Founding act
After numerous previous discussions and debates, DL and VC announced on November 8, 1950 that a joint meeting of both associations would take place in Coburg at Pentecost 1951. In order to prepare for this, the Coburg Working Group of Landsmannschaften was formed on January 15, 1951, and on February 24, 1951, at a meeting of the gymnastics associations, the founding of the Blankenburg Working Group was decided.
On March 26, 1951, the two working groups published an identical declaration. The core of this declaration was the decision to merge DL and VC. At Pentecost 1951, the “Coburg Convent of Landsmannschaften and Gymnastics Associations at German Universities” was to arise. From this day on, compatriots and gymnasts should follow a common path.
"On May 12, 1951, AG Coburg and AG Blankenburg finally merged in the Coburg State Theater to form the Coburg Convent". With this ceremony, the Coburg Convent was officially established at a historic location. In the following months, the implementation on site followed. Local associations of the Coburg Convent (OCC) were founded at the university locations. Thus, in the summer of 1951, the union of the country teams and gymnastics associations in one association at all levels, both activities and old rulers, was completed. In October of the same year, the newly created association took part in the founding of the Convent of German Corporations Associations and even before that, compatriots were in charge of founding the Convent of German Academic Associations (CDA) and the Andernach working group, in which the associations came together, who adhered to the determination censorship involved. When it was founded, the new association consisted of 80 leagues with around 2,100 active and inactive members as well as an impressive number of old men.
In 1952 the first joint conference of the Coburg Convent and the German Singers' Association (DS), which was continued from 1961 under the name All-German Conference, took place in Berlin and the regular trips to the inner-German border began at Neustadt bei Coburg. In the same year the CC decided to found an aid organization for prisoners of war and refugees from the East. The determination of all members was made compulsory in the statutes of the CC in the same year. In 1954 a first friendship agreement was signed with the Association of Austrian Landsmannschaften and Turnerschaften (ÖLTC), which was founded in 1953. In 1956, the Coburg Convent and the German Singers' Association signed a friendship agreement. Another friendship agreement, with which the more than forty years of cooperation was to be further intensified, was concluded by the CC and ÖLTC in 1965. Almost 25 years later, the Austrian federations of the working group were accepted as full members in the Coburg Convent.
Debate on values in the 1970s
With the upheaval at the universities in the course of the 1968 movement, there were also fundamental debates in the Coburg Convent. The discussion about manners and customs as well as their application in the individual leagues affected the association only slightly. A small part of the leagues of the Coburg Convent were of the opinion that the compulsory classification, which was prescribed for all members in the Coburg Convent from 1952, was no longer up to date. The so-called Würzburger Kreis was formed under the leadership of the Landsmannschaft Teutonia zu Würzburg, supported by the Silver Cartel. Under the leadership of the Marburg Gymnastics Association Philippina, the Marburger Kreis was created as the opposite pole . In extensive and numerous debates it finally emerged that the leagues of the CC wanted to retain the designated censorship and at a special congress in Gießen in 1971 the decision was made to continue to adhere to the mandatory censorship. In return, the 13 leagues that no longer considered the censorship to be up-to-date resigned from the Coburg Convent and founded the so-called Marburg Convent . In the same year, the Coburg General Convent was created as the highest body of the general association to clarify the questions that affect the association as a whole. Since 1971 there has also been an official annual motto of the CC.
In 1972 the CC, KSCV and WSC discussed a cartel agreement as the remaining mandatory associations. Although no cartel was concluded, the three associations came much closer to each other after the debates of the early 1970s on questions of scale and university policy. This cooperation still takes place today as part of the three-association discussion and is also reflected in the joint activity in maintaining the Institute for University Studies in Würzburg.
A new chapter in the history of the association began for the Coburg Convent with the reunification of Germany in 1990. For the Coburg Convent, its only general political demand, the unity of Germany, which was derived from the Basic Law of the Federal Republic, was fulfilled in 1990. After German unity had been admonished for decades in the context of the reminder hours on Whit Monday, the all-German conferences and small gestures, such as visits to the inner-German border near Neustadt near Coburg, in the first years after 1990 fraternities from the new federal states could be in Coburg be welcomed. Some CC groups found their way back to their old alma mater , connections that had been founded in the GDR were established in the CC and CC members actively supported the efforts of the association to gain a foothold in the new federal states. Thus, within a very short time, academic country teams and gymnastics associations were set up again at all universities in the former GDR.
The Coburg Convent after 1990
After the reunification it was also possible to use the old VC conference facilities in Bad Blankenburg again. The area in Bad Blankenburg, which today belongs to the Landessportschule Thuringia, was acquired by the VC in 1921 and built on. The VC was expropriated under the GDR regime. The Greifenstein conference has been taking place there since 2001 and is organized every year in autumn in Bad Blankenburg in cooperation with the German Singers' Association. The first steps into the new federal states were taken quickly. As early as Whitsun 1990, CCers organized the first joint trip from Coburg to Bad Blankenburg and soon after the first visits, work began on renovating the memorial for the former VC in the Fuchsturm on the Greifenstein. A short time later, the Coburg Convent and the Landessportbund Thuringia signed a contract that still enables the CC to use the Landessportschule for its meetings in Bad Blankenburg and to set up a traditional VC room. Bad Blankenburg thus became an integral part of the life of the CC.
In 1996, a sports supervisor course was held for the first time in Bad Blankenburg at the Landessportschule Thuringia, the former VC competition facilities. Since the early 1970s, this event has taken place at the Bundeswehr sports school in Sonthofen.
In 2000 there was also the first Greifenstein conference as a follow-up event to the student day with the German singers at a historical site in Bad Blankenburg.
Monuments of the Coburg Convent
CC memorial
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Inauguration of the Landsmannschafter memorial in Coburg, Pentecost 1926
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CC Memorial 2013
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The CC memorial was inaugurated in 1926 by the German Landsmannschaft. The sculpture was created by the sculptor Richard Kuöhl . The monument is owned by the city of Coburg. The memorial shows three naked men made of white limestone holding up a sword together. The base inscriptions remind of the fallen members of the two world wars. During the Pentecost Congress there will be a memorial at the CC memorial.
Memorial of the VC in Bad Blankenburg
Between 1925 and 1928, the representative convent supported the reconstruction of the tower on the Greifenstein castle ruins in Bad Blankenburg. In this tower the association erected a memorial for its fallen members in the First World War.
The memorial shows a standing male nude , next to which the inscription “Tower and monument dedicated to the memory of his heroes who fell for the fatherland, VC, Association of Gymnastics Associations at German Universities, 1928–1929” can be read.
During the Greifenstein conference, a memorial will take place at the memorial.
Cartels
Golden Cartel
L! Pomerania Halle-Aachen ; L! Rhenania Jena ; L! Ghibellinia Tübingen; L! Teutonia Munich; L! Teutonia Bonn; Landsmannschaft Prussia Berlin
Silver cartel
The name Silberkartell , also known as the Silver Cartel or SK for short , is originally derived, like the Golden Cartel, from the color of the percussion of the boys' band. Today, exceptions prove the rule. The history of the Silver Cartel begins in the second half of the 19th century. At first a small cartel was formed from the three compatriots Plavia Leipzig, Neoborussia Halle and Troglodytia Kiel.
Members: L! Neoborussia Halle zu Freiburg, L! Plavia-Arminia Leipzig , L! Troglodytia Kiel , L! Verdensia Göttingen, L! Saxo-Suevia, L! Thuringia Berlin, L! Hasso-Borussia Marburg
Triple Alliance
L! Darmstadtia Giessen ; L! Spandovia Berlin ; L! Zaringia Heidelberg
Treubund
AT! Slesvigia Lower Saxony Hamburg; ALLES! Afrania Heidelberg ; L! Scotland Tubingen ; L! Borussia Stuttgart; L! Macaria Cologne; Landsmannschaft Prussia Berlin; L! Teutonia Heidelberg-Rostock Heidelberg ; L! Hercynia Jenensis et Hallensis Mainz
Iron ring
L! Brandenburg Berlin; L! Ulmia Tübingen ; L! Chattia Marburg; L! Ubia Brunsviga Palaeomarchia Bochum
Gymnast ring
Founded on January 28, 2017
Strasbourg Gymnastics Association Alsatia in Frankfurt; Old Königsberg gymnastics club Frisia Albertina in Braunschweig; Gymnastics Association Markomanno-Albertia Freiburg
Affiliated clubs
The Coburg Convent not only unites connections, but also offers a variety of study and professional training opportunities. The CC is also involved in many social projects. For this purpose, numerous other associations were founded from the ranks of the CC.
CC Academy
tasks
With a consistent seminar concept of central and regional weekend events, the members of the CC have the opportunity to acquire additional qualifications by participating in parallel to their studies and of course in their work. Using the certificates issued and participating in four basic seminars and four special seminars, this leads to an overall certificate.
CC Science and Study Award
The CC awards a science award and a study award every year. With this, the association wants to express thanks and recognition for the excellent academic and academic achievements of our association brothers.
The science prize is awarded annually for an academic work by a member of the association. The study prize is awarded for an above-average degree.
The awarding of the prizes also requires exemplary merits of the candidates for the Coburg Convent or one of its member associations.
Student History Association
The Student History Association of the CC, founded in 1959, promotes and conducts research on a scientific basis on the history of higher education, the student body and especially the historical developments of the Coburg Convent of the academic country teams and gymnastics associations.
Coburg law firm
The Coburg Society for Student Aid was founded on May 19, 1964 by the Coburg Convent. Initially, with the help of the Coburg law firm, the liaison houses were only to be financed in the case of liaison establishments at newly founded universities. In accordance with the medieval principle of the student bureau , an institution had now been created that could support individual connections in setting up through a joint fund of the association. At the beginning of the 1970s, a donation account was also set up. The Coburg partnership continues to support the members of the CC and their connections with funds from a fund supported by membership fees according to the principle of solidarity.
CC archive
At the Institute for Higher Education in Würzburg, the Coburg Convent has an extensive archive of the LC, VC and CC with a small library as well as a collection on student history, which has been expanded in recent years and, in addition to written sources, objects such as weapons, postcards or pieces of porcelain on the history of the CC and houses its predecessor associations. This historical material is often made available for exhibitions or publications. In addition, the Student History Association of the CC publishes in its series “Historica Academica” volumes on the history of the student body, the association or the corporation.
External perception of the Coburg Convent
During the past Whitsun Congresses, there were repeated demonstrations by critics of the Coburg Convent from the left-wing political spectrum. The criticism of the Coburg Convent is often based on the history of the Coburg Convent as well as on the principles and the motto of the Coburg Convent.
See also
literature
- Ulrich Becker: CC in the picture.
- Ulrike Claudia Hofmann: The Coburg Convent between tradition and change. In: Region - Nation - Vision. Festschrift for Karl Möckl on his 65th birthday. Bamberg 2005, pp. 109-131.
- Holger Zinn: The student comradeship system in the Third Reich with special consideration of the associations of DL and VC. Würzburg 2001 (Historia academica series, Volume 40).
- Holger Zinn: Sixty eventful years. In: CC sheets. Year 2011, issue 2, pp. 8–9.
- Franco Zizzo: The International Component of Corporate Studentism. In: Between cosmopolitanism and national narrowing. Würzburg 2000, ISBN 3-930877-34-1 . (Historia Academica, Volume 39)
- "Historia academica" series of publications by the Student History Association with numerous articles on the history of the Coburg Convent
- Detlef Freshness, Bernd Koltermann u. a. (Ed.): Handbook of the Coburg Convent. Worth knowing and helpful . Wuerzburg 2004.
- Dietrich Weber: Country teams at technical universities and their associations. In: Historia Academica Volume 10. Stuttgart 1980.
- Raimund Lang : Student and University World War Memorials. In: Marc Zirlewagen, “We win or we fall”. German students in the First World War . Cologne 2008, pp. 407-428.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "Brief Info" on the association's own website.
- ↑ coburger-convent.de
- ↑ student history.cc
- ↑ Interpretation of the motto ( memento of the original from March 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Coburg Convent: Documentation: Presidents and their annual themes ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press release of the CC on this from October 23, 2011 ( memento of the original from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 9, 2015
- ^ Dietrich Weber: Landsmannschaften at technical universities and their associations. P. 78.
- ^ Dietrich Weber: Landsmannschaften at technical universities and their associations. P. 86ff.
- ^ Dietrich Weber: Landsmannschaften at technical universities and their associations. P. 89ff.
- ^ Dietrich Weber: Landsmannschaften at technical universities and their associations. P. 91.
- ↑ a b Theodor Hölcke: The History of the German Homeland Association (= Historia Academica, Special Volume 1). Würzburg 1998, p. 14.
- ↑ Peter Engelhardt: History of the Coburg Convent and the corporation students. In: CC-Rat (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Coburger Convents. Interesting and helpful information (= Historia Academica, special volume 3). Munich 2005, pp. 23–56.
- ↑ Peter Engelhardt: History of the Coburg Convent and the corporation students. In: CC-Rat (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Coburger Convents. Interesting and helpful information (= Historia Academica, special volume 3). Munich 2005, p. 38.
- ↑ Peter Engelhardt: History of the Coburg Convent and the corporation students. In: CC-Rat (Hrsg.): Handbuch des Coburger Convents. Interesting and helpful information (= Historia Academica, special volume 3). Munich 2005, p. 49.
- ^ Homepage of the silver cartel
- ↑ verdensia-goettingen.de
- ↑ inFranken.de: CC dispute: Kastner calls Greens "intolerant"
Web links
- Website of the Coburg Convent
- Ulrike Claudia Hofmann: Coburg Convent . In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria