Oyster battle

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The oyster battle describes a violent conflict between Catholic and national-liberal student associations in Vienna in 1889 .

It is the most well-known controversy of the so-called wood comment in Austria. With the emergence of Catholic student associations since the end of the 19th century and in the context of the Academic Kulturkampf , there were regular violent clashes between liberal and Catholic fraternity students loyal to Austria.

Particularly affected were members of the Catholic academic association Norica Wien and the K.Ö.St.V. Austria Vienna . The name refers to the members of Austria who are referred to as Viennese oysters . The corresponding non-beating Catholic corporations were attacked by the beating national-liberal connections. On October 26, 1889, members of Austria such as Norica were beaten up by 600 to 800 hostile national-liberal students from the University of Vienna , because the two Catholic connections appeared for the first time on the usual Saturday stroll of students in Couleur , but not the they took up space in the arcade courtyard, but took place in the auditorium , as had been decided three days earlier by the two associations. There were a total of 23 injured. According to Josef Schlegel , the spokesmen for Norica and Austria then complained to the academic authorities and again during an audience with the then Minister of Education Paul Gautsch von Frankenthurn about the punishment that followed the brawl; a reprimand from the academic senate was later lifted by the Ministry of Education. The Vienna dispute is best known to this day. A memorial event planned by the ÖCV on October 23, 2009 at the University of Vienna led to irritation because the university wanted to prohibit the student associations in Couleur from appearing at this event. It was then registered and carried out as a demonstration .

The focus of this “wooden comment” in Austria, however, was in Graz, where, until the thousand-mark barrier in 1933, German students made up a large proportion. On May 14, 1931 there was a brawl in Graz similar to the oyster battle . On this day, members of a Catholic student union, also called Norica , tried to report to the rectorate of the University of Graz in order to be officially admitted. Members of striking student associations tried to prevent this by blocking the entrances, which led to violent clashes. The incident found media coverage under the headline Student Battle of Graz .

Known participants

  • Franz Pauer (1870–1936), Austrian administrative officer and federal minister
  • Josef Schlegel (1869–1955), Austrian politician, governor of Upper Austria, member of the Reichsrat and member of the Provisional National Assembly

Literature & sources

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  2. ↑ Oliver Rathkolb : Violence and anti-Semitism at the University of Vienna and the Badeni crisis in 1897. Before and after. In: Oliver Rathkolb (ed.): The long shadow of anti-Semitism. Critical examination of the history of the University of Vienna in the 19th and 20th centuries. University of Vienna 2013, p. 76.
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  4. ^ Heinrich Obermüller: Forbidden and persecuted: From the beginnings to 1918. Austrian Association for Student History, 2003, p. 58.
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  8. ↑ Peter Krause : O old lad glory. The student associations and their customs. Styria Verlag, 1997, ISBN 3-222-12478-7 , p. 111.
  9. ^ Stenographic minutes of the meetings of the House of Representatives of the Austrian Imperial Council. Volume 6, Vienna 1913, p. 7184. Online version
  10. ↑ Cartell Association irritated by the University of Vienna's approach. Retrieved May 15, 2015 .
  11. ^ Academia . December 2009, p. 44. Online version ( Memento of the original dated May 28, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oecv.at
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  13. ^ Franz Loidl : For Church and Home. Festschrift. Franz Loidl on his 80th birthday. Vienna, Munich 1985, p. 329.