Student day

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Since the middle of the 19th century, supra-regional, more or less representative student assemblies have generally been referred to as student days in German . In the past, the German Student Days of the respective umbrella organizations, the German Student Union (1919–1945) and the Association of German Student Unions (1950–1965), were of particular importance . But other organizations (student communities, corporation associations, professional associations) sometimes refer to their meetings as student days.

Eisenach Student Day 1848

The term was first mentioned in connection with the second Wartburg Festival in Eisenach in 1848, when around 1200 students gathered for a "general student day" to formulate political demands to the Frankfurt National Assembly , including the transfer of all universities into national ownership and student participation in the occupation of the chairs.

German Student Days 1919–1945

In the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich , the annual general meetings of the then umbrella organization of the German Student Union were known as the German Student Day. This practice goes back to historical models such as the Landtag or Reichstag and is still common in a similar form in other professional organizations (e.g. German Medical Association ).

The 1st German Student Day took place from 17. – 19. 1919 in Würzburg , on the occasion of which the German student body was founded. Further student days took place there in 1922 and 1923 as well as from 22. – 27. May 1939. The 4th German Student Day in Erlangen in 1921 was of particular importance: it concluded the Erlangen program , in which the term “working student” was coined and the foundation for the development of today's student unions was laid.

At the 14th German Student Day in Graz in 1931, a National Socialist was elected to the head of the German student body for the first time . In the period that followed, the German Student Days lost their function as a democratic decision-making body for the student body and, like the Nazi party rallies, became mere propaganda events. Instead, at the behest of the Reichsstudentenführung, from 1938 onwards, annual “student days” with political rallies and sporting competitions were held in all university towns.

German Student Days 1946–1965

Even after the Second World War , the first meetings of student representatives in the zones of occupation at that time were again called student days. The Association of German Student Associations (VDS) was founded in 1949 to represent the West German universities and organized a total of eight German Student Days between 1950 and 1965 every two to three years . These should - outside of the regular general meetings of the association - make the student's concerns heard in a larger and representative setting. These major events with up to 2000 participants were primarily devoted to questions of university reform or student funding ( Honnef model ), but also general political issues such as B. the attitude to parliamentary democracy or German reunification. Leading politicians ( Theodor Heuss , Konrad Adenauer , Willy Brandt ) and scientists ( Max Horkheimer , Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker ) often took part in these student days .

date place Surname source
3-5 July 1946 Goettingen 1st British Zone Student Day
January 23-26, 1947 Hamburg 2nd British Zone Student Day
6-8 March 1947 Heidelberg 1st American Zone Student Day
April 16-19, 1947 Tübingen 1st student day of the French zone
June 19-22, 1947 Halle (Saale) 1st Student Day of the Soviet Zone
July 15-18, 1947 Bonn 3rd British Zone Student Day
September 4-10, 1947 Seeshaupt 2nd American Zone Student Day
October 10-12, 1947 Hanover Conference of the students of the German states with the participation of the ministers of education and rectors
January 20-23, 1948 Berlin Interzonal Student Day
May 15, 1948 Frankfurt / Main (West) German Student Day
May 15, 1948 Eisenach " Wartburg Festival of the German Student Union"
August 31 - September 3, 1950 Cologne 1. German Student Day
April 30 - May 3, 1952 West Berlin 2nd German Student Day
2-5 May 1954 Munich 3. German Student Day: The student's responsibility towards the people and the state
3-6 May 1956 Hamburg 4th German Student Day: The student in society
1-4 May 1958 Karlsruhe 5th German Student Day: Restore - Repair - Reform. Keeping the university alive
4-8 April 1960 Berlin 6th German Student Day: Farewell to the ivory tower
April 23-27, 1963 Bochum 7th German Student Day: Students at new universities
May 25-29, 1965 Bonn 8th German Student Day: What is the state worth of the next generation?

Student days of other organizations

In addition, other student associations (student communities, corporation associations and professional associations) also like to refer to their gatherings as student days. For example, the Catholic ( KDSE ) and the Protestant ( ESGiD ) student congregations regularly held publicly recognized Catholic and Protestant student days in the 1950s and 1960s. In Austria , the Student Day of the Austrian Cartel Association (ÖCV) takes place twice a year as a place for the student association to form its will. Since 1990, the Coburg Convent and the German Singers' Association have been calling their previous joint all-German conferences a student day. And there are also professionally oriented student days, such as B. the "International Metallurgy Student Day", which has been taking place since 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schulze / Ssymank, Das deutsche Studententum, reprint of the 1932 edition, pp. 264–266.
  2. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 256-258 and p. 1284, note 337.
  3. ^ The Greater German Student Day in Würzburg 1939. The Reichsstudentenführer and leader of the NS-Altherrenbundes Dr. GA Scheel at the opening of the Student Day in the Huttensaal. In: D. Altherrenbund. Volume 1, 1939, p. 298 f. ( The program for the German Student Day 1939 ).
  4. ^ Deutsches Studentenwerk: The Erlanger Program from 1921. Archived from the original on February 27, 2014 ; accessed on September 28, 2016 .
  5. ^ Golücke, Student Dictionary, p. 424
  6. ↑ Cf. that of the VDS ed. Documentation of the 1st to 8th German Student Day, Bonn 1950–1965.
  7. ^ A b c Wolfgang Kalischer: The university and its student body. universitas magistrorum et scholarium. Attempt to document from laws, decrees, resolutions ... Essen 1967.
  8. ^ A b c d e Rolf Neuhaus: Documents on the university reform 1945–1959. Wiesbaden 1961.
  9. ↑ a b c d e f g h Detlev E. Otto: Students in divided Germany. A report on the relations between the student bodies in East and West Germany 1945 to 1958. (Writings of the VDS ; 1) Bonn 1959.
  10. ^ Reminder of the Christian Student Day in Hanover in 1949 ( memento from July 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 9, 2014.
  11. ^ TU Bergakademie Freiberg: 15th Metallurgy Student Day. Archived from the original on May 12, 2014 ; accessed on September 28, 2016 .
  12. ↑ 21st International Student Metallurgy Day. In: www.isdm2014.de. Retrieved September 28, 2016 .