Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne

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Coat of arms of Germania Lausanne

The Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne is a student association founded in Lausanne in 1887 . It does not belong to any corporation and due to its original principles - apolitical, religiously neutral and tolerant - it is most closely related to the corps of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV). By 2009 about 50 Germanic tribes were also members of a corps in the KSCV. Like all connections in the French- speaking part of Switzerland, Germania doesn’t fight any scales . Most of its members are law students from the Université de Lausanne . The others represent other disciplines at the Université de Lausanne, the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and the École hôtelière de Lausanne . The members are called Lausanne Teutons.

Coat of arms and colors

The coat of arms shows the circle with the letter "G" in the middle . Heraldic in the upper right field is the eagle of the German Empire from 1871, with which the members established a reference to their country of origin when it was founded in 1887. The heraldic top left is the coat of arms of Switzerland . Heraldically at the bottom right are the date of foundation (June 7, 1887) and two crossed basket bats surrounded by laurel . The student fencing weapons available for the (1956 Discontinued) Satisfaktionsfähigkeit membership. At the bottom left are the traditional colors black-white-red . The fox ribbon is black and red, the student cap is black. A white striker used to be worn in summer .

The motto is fearless, selfless, restless!

history

City center of Lausannes (1900)

The Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne was founded on June 7, 1887 by some students with the participation of the professor of Roman law Heinrich Erman at the Académie de Lausanne , the forerunner of the Université de Lausanne . This makes it the oldest German student association abroad. Among the founders were the students at the time, stud. jur. Paul Ikier , stud. jur. Fritz Bluhme , stud. phil. Curt Avenarius, stud. phil. George Runge and stud. theol. Georg Grützmacher . The foundation arose from the need of the students in Lausanne to create a center of academic sociability and was initially not a connection in the German-academic sense, but a student society of the kind like the scientific sociable associations existing at the Université de Lausanne. It was finally implemented at the University of Lausanne in the style of the oldest existing Swiss connection in Lausanne, " Belles-Lettres " . Since it was founded, the principle of tolerance and the purely social and non-political character of Germania have remained unchanged.

The history of Germania is related to the foundation and development of the Université de Lausanne. As a result of the establishment of the Reich in 1871 and the associated increase in the internationalization of industry and trade, stays abroad were also enjoying growing popularity among German students. It became customary to spend a few semesters abroad at the universities there in order to improve one's own foreign language skills in English or French. In the English-speaking world, the colleges in Cambridge or Oxford were in demand. The university city of Lausanne became a preferred destination in French-speaking countries . The city was extremely attractive, and the law faculty at the seat of the Swiss Federal Court offered many opportunities. After the former Académie de Lausanne was expanded to include numerous departments and faculties and finally got the name and status of a university in 1890, the number of students rose steadily. In 1895 there were holiday language courses for non-French speaking students for the first time, which were offered by the Faculty of Philosophy (Faculté des lettres) . In addition, Heinrich Erman from Berlin , who has been a professor in Lausanne since 1883, has given German-language lectures on Roman law since the winter semester of 1886/87 and , for the first time, on the new German civil law after the BGB was passed in Germany in 1896 . From then on, in addition to studying Swiss law, the law studies started in Germany could be continued during the language stay in Lausanne. A tradition developed from these lectures that continues to the present day. After the chair for German law was established at the Université de Lausanne, small and large notes were offered equally. This made it possible not only to continue studying law in Lausanne, but to start right there.

Place de la Palud (1900)

The first permanent establishment since the winter semester of 1891 was a rented side room in the Café de l'Université on the Place de la Palud near the Hôtel de Ville in the city of Lausanne; larger events took place in the Château de Chillon near Montreux , among others . The second restaurant was located from 1892 to 1914 in an adjoining room of the Brasserie du Cardinal in the Rue de la Tour near the Place de la Riponne , where the university was at that time and the university library in the Palais de Rumine .

Later, Germania Lausanne was temporarily renamed Corps Hansea Lausanne and, after fulfilling the requirements, accepted as a corps in the KSCV . However, in 1892 the original name was adopted again. However, as has been the case since the founding semesters, Germania Lausanne remained connected to the KSCV through mutual memberships with certain corps. Several members later joined the Corps Borussia Bonn, Bremensia Göttingen, Franconia Jena, Franconia Munich, Guestphalia Heidelberg, Hansea Bonn, Hasso-Borussia Freiburg, Masovia Königsberg, Pommerania Greifswald, Rhenania Freiburg and Suevia Tübingen.

In the two world wars, Germania had to suspend. The first suspension during World War I lasted from 1914 to 1924. This was due to a lack of members, as many students were drafted into military service. Because of the low number of students, legal classes in German also came to a standstill for over 10 years. After the First World War, Germania was briefly reconstituted in Hamburg and Würzburg . In 1924 it was able to arise again in Lausanne, which was particularly welcomed by the Swiss connections of the Lausanne cycle , the official representation at the Université de Lausanne. Until Heinrich Erman resumed lecturing in 1928 and Otto Rieses , who was appointed to the Université de Lausanne in 1931 and was able to re-establish the chair for German law, general legal lectures were initially held in French.

In 1925 a restaurant was opened on Escaliers du Grand Pont No. 4 in the city center on Place du Flon . The second suspension during and after the Second World War lasted from 1937 to 1956. During the National Socialist era, foreign exchange management in Germany was the decisive reason that financially it made it almost impossible for German students to study abroad. Studying abroad was also viewed with suspicion by the state, as openness to the world was not compatible with the regime's ideas. Also one of the resistance members in the inner circle of the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 , Kurt Freiherr von Plettenberg - he belonged to the close circle of friends of Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg, was a German from Lausanne. Ultimately, the state claimed the young men again for military service. Nonetheless, Otto Riese and his successor were able to continue lecturing in German law in Lausanne despite the low number of students.

After the re-establishment in 1956, however, the connection continued without any further suspensions and the non-profit association of former students at the University of Lausanne eV , the so-called Förderverein, was brought into being. The activities of the association include a. the publication of the commemorative publication Gratiae Fructus in honor of the University of Lausanne (1997) and, since 2005, the annual award of a prize for an outstanding doctorate at the Chair of German Law. On the part of the Université de Lausanne, lessons in German civil law have been expanded to include neighboring areas of law, including German public law . In addition, the range of courses offered by the Faculty of Law today also includes comparative law , international private law , as well as other courses of study that are predominantly offered in French, and recently also partly in English.

Known members

literature

  • Erwin Garvens : Germania-Lausanne 1887–1937 . Self-published, Hamburg 1937.
  • Olivier Meuwly: Histoire des sociétés d'etudiants à Lausanne (= Études et documents pour servir à l'histoire de l'Université de Lausanne. Vol. 18, ZDB -ID 915557-0 ). Université de Lausanne 1987.
  • Georg Theuerkauf (ed.): Reimbold in memoriam. Commemorative publication for Ernst Thomas Reimbold. (1907-1994). On behalf of the old gentlemen's association of the Germania Lausanne student association, Regensburg 1995.
  • Georg Theuerkauf: Lausanne's connection life 70 years ago . Einst und Jetzt 41 (1996), pp. 243-246. ISSN  0420-8870
  • Old gentlemen's association of the Germania Lausanne corporation (ed.): Gratiae Fructus. Festschrift in honor of the University of Lausanne. 100 years of teaching German law at the University of Lausanne. 110 years of the Germania Lausanne Corporation. Donau-Druck, Regensburg 1997, ISBN 3-927529-46-X , contributions by the former holder of the Lausanne chair for German law, Professors Karl Heinz Neumayer , Ulrich Immenga and Fritz Sturm .
  • Helmut Gebhardt: 100 years of German law at the University of Lausanne. Once and Now 43 (1998), p. 66.
  • Paulgerhard Gladen : The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps. Their representation in individual chronicles. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2007, ISBN 978-3-933892-24-9 , p. 77.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Handbuch des Kösener Corpsstudenten, vol. 2nd 6th edition, 1985 (there the Germania Lausanne is listed under " connected to the KSCV through mutual memberships ")
  2. ↑ See: Paulgerhard Gladen: The Kösener and Weinheimer Corps. 2007, p. 77.
  3. ^ Otto Gerlach : Kösener corps lists . A compilation of the members of the existing corps and those suspended after 1892 with details of colors, circles, years of birth, batches and personal details. Self-published by the Verband Alter Corpsstudenten eV (VAC), Hamburg 1960.
  4. ↑ Members of the "Lausanne Turnus" include the French-speaking associations Société d'Étudiants Zofingue section vaudoise , the Société d'Étudiants de Belles-Lettres and the Société d'Étudiants Helvetia section vaudoise .

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