Student forest association

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Forest students on the bathing pond near Tharandt around 1900
Tharandter forest student, 1855
Bavarian Forestry School Aschaffenburg with forest students 1854

A student forest association, sometimes also forest corps or forest academic association , describes a student association that was founded by students at forest colleges or academies or corresponding faculties. They are to be differentiated from the student hunting associations , who give hunting a large part of the collective life. The term is also used for connections that had a corresponding origin, but are no longer limited by profession. In the English-speaking environment, the term Forest Fraternity is used for analogous student fraternities based on the American modelas also used for the relevant professional associations in the sense of a brotherhood .

term

Forest connections emerged in the 19th century. The associated term, also used as a self-designation, was used a little later as a fixed category, for example in the necrology of Moritz August Seubert in 1878 and can be found analogously in compilations such as in the German University Calendar 1907, in Wilhelm Fabricius. The German Corps or Michael Doeberl et al. Academic Germany . It is also differentiated from the so-called hunting associations. At some forest academies there were corps with their own senior citizens' convent (SC), which joined the existing SC at the new location when the academy was relocated. Today you are predominantly a member of the Kösener Seniors Convents Association . This was particularly the case in Freiburg and Munich . The Aschaffenburger Forstcorps were known as a professional network of high foresters , for example in the case of Georg Escherich .

history

The following forest academies have passed:

Hann. Münden / Göttingen

In addition to the forest connections that are active today, the Hann. The following forest academic societies lead to:

  • Haasemann'sche Tischgesellschaft (1869–1876, partly taken over by the ATG)
  • Forest Academic Society Hubertia (susp. Before 1893 and 1919 to before 1935, 1959 merger with FAG Freia)

The following forest connections exist today in Göttingen :

  • Andree'sche Tischgesellschaft (ATG, founded 1868)
  • Mündener Tanne Society (1871)
  • Forest Academic Society Freia (1879)
  • Academic Association of Feldjäger (1919)
  • Forest academy connection Rheno-Guestfalia in the CV (1927)

It was and is characteristic of these forestry academic connections that they usually neither carry nor wear colors, nor do they belong to an umbrella organization. The only exception is the Rheno-Guestfalia Göttingen Forest Academic Association in the Cartell Association .

There are no defining gauges, but the gauges are formally free for the members.

Due to the old Münden traditions, the three old companies maintain closer relationships with one of the Kösener Corps located in Göttingen . All five Göttingen Forestry Associations are combined in the Mündener Convent of Forest Academic Associations (MC) and accept students from all faculties of Georgia Augusta .

In the first half of the 20th century, the forest academies were first converted into forest colleges, then into forest science faculties of already existing universities and partly relocated to the respective locations of the universities.

Karlsruhe / Freiburg

The role as a professional network became a long-term political issue at Corps Hubertia Freiburg . After the Baden Center had become the strongest party in the state parliament and government in 1919 , Heinrich Köhler, as finance minister, publicly called for “the extermination of the Hubert from the Baden state forest service” . In his memoirs, he himself refers to the hitherto all-powerful forest connection , which after his assumption rightly feared for its influence.

Aschaffenburg / Munich

The Aschaffenburger Senioren-Convent was the union and the highest decision-making body of the forest corps at the Royal Bavarian Forestry School . A few months after its reopening, the Corps Hubertia was founded in 1844 . The Corps Arminia followed in 1845 and the Corps Hercynia in 1847. According to Wilhelm Fabricius , the three corps were still life corps in 1926 , which was an exception even then.

The SC was the point of contact and last resort in the event of conflicts, and in the second half of the 19th century increasingly also in the forest civil service. In honor of the forest candidates who died in the Franco-Prussian War , the three corps erected a memorial that has been preserved in Friedrichstrasse opposite the justice building.

When the forestry college was relocated from Aschaffenburg to Munich in 1910, the three Aschaffenburg corps also came to the Ludwig Maximilians University . The Aschaffenburger Zeitung published a special edition on July 31, 1910, in which the history of the university was described in great detail on four pages.

Since 1895 there has been an active association of old corps students in the Aschaffenburg area. Until 1910 it existed parallel to the ASC. 100 years after the dissolution of the Aschaffenburg University, the Aschaffenburg AHSC organized various commemorative events that were reported in the local media.

Tharandt / Dresden

At the Forestry Faculty in Tharandt there is the Cervidia Forest Academic Hunting Corporation, which was founded in 1990 and is organized in the WJSC .

The Corps Silvania Tharandt moved to Dresden and is still (but not exclusively) related to forestry. During the GDR era, the tradition was upheld by the former Aschaffenburg Forest Corps Arminia Munich .

Eisenach / Giessen / Mannheim

The corps of the Senior Citizens 'Convent in Eisenach, Hubertia and Silvania, which had tried in vain to be accepted into the Weinheim Senior Citizens' Convention before the First World War , relocated to the Justus Liebig University in 1919 as a result of the closure of the Grand Ducal Forest Academy there Giessen and joined the Rudolstadt Senior Citizens' Convention . Both were not reconstituted after World War II. Their tradition is continued by the Corps Rheno-Nicaria Mannheim .

Abroad and assigned use

Meeting of international forest experts at the Hagendenkmal in Eberswalde in 1892. The committee decided to set up the International Association of Forest Research Institutes .

Xi Sigma Pi is an Honor Society founded in 1908 at the University of Seattle , which is closely associated with the Society of American Foresters and recognizes and accepts particularly advanced students in the forest sector. In 1991 it had over 40 chapters in the USA and Canada, 24,000 members and now also accepts students from related fields.

The Tau Phi Delta Fraternity began as a forest fraternity at Penn State University in the 1920s , but was later represented nationwide. At times there was also a local interest group with the Lumber Jills , founded in 1959, and from 1962–1968, the Association of Forest Student Wive's, an umbrella organization of the (over 20) associations of the associated wives of forest students. Tau Phi Delta or Treehouse is currently the only active (male) chapter. It is still valid as a student brotherhood of diehard outdoorsmen who, among other things, regularly go bear hunting and also take up the hunting aspect.

The student associations mentioned are to be distinguished from fraternal organizations, i.e. professional associations. The latter include the British Foresters Friendly Society , which was founded in 1834 as the Ancient Order of Foresters , and the North American Independent Order of Foresters (IOF), which was replaced by it in 1874 . The use of corps forestier in France must also be distinguished. The term refers to the entirety of the (state) management personnel on behalf of the forest administration. The forest students or equivalent graduates of the French elite schools are assigned to the Corps des ingénieurs des ponts et chaussées . They are not a fraternity per se, but they are still an important elitist network.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in the Leopoldina on Moritz August Seubert , Volume 14, 1878
  2. ↑ e.g. in German university calendar , 1907
  3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius: The German Corps: A historical representation of the development of the student liaison system in Germany up to 1815, the Corps up to the present . BoD - Books on Demand, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8460-7211-0 ( google.com [accessed February 26, 2016]).
  4. Michael Doeberl with Otto Scheel, Wilhelm Schlink, Hans Sperl, Eduard Spranger, Hans Bitter and Paul Frank (eds.): Academic Germany , 4 volumes, 1 register volume by Alfred Bienengräber. CA Weller Verlag, Berlin 1931
  5. ^ Horst GW Nusser: Conservative Defense Associations in Bavaria: Prussia and Austria: 1918-1933; with a biography by Forestry Councilor Georg Escherich, 1870-1941 . Nusser, 1973, p. 23 ( google.com [accessed February 23, 2016]).
  6. ↑ Announcement of the presentation by M. Neuhaus 2012 ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Working group of student historians ; PDF; 1.6 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.akademikerverbaende.de
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  8. Chr. Wehle (1979)
  9. ^ Heinrich Köhler: Memoirs of the politician and statesman, 1878-1949 . W. Kohlhammer, 1964, p. 100 ff . ( google.de [accessed on February 23, 2016]).
  10. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : The German Corps. A historical representation of the development of the student liaison system in Germany up to 1815, the corps up to the present . Verlag der Deutschen Corpszeitung 1926, p. 414.
  11. M. Brod: From the corps life in Aschaffenburg. From old letters . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 29 (1984), pp. 113-124.
  12. Ernst Weber: Der Aschaffenburger SC , in: Geschichte des Corps Hercynia 1847-1977 , part 1. Munich 1977, pp. 43-114.
  13. Herrmann Sand: Adjee you research polacke! Spessart. Journal for the Spessart Cultural Landscape from June 2010, p. 24 f.
  14. ^ Website of the AHSC Aschaffenburg
  15. ^ Forge of science History: 100 years ago Aschaffenburg lost its Main-Netz forestry school on August 5th, 2010.
  16. ^ History. Forest Academic Hunting Corporation Cervidia zu Tharandt, accessed on February 23, 2016 .
  17. ^ SC to Eisenach and Weinheimer SC
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  20. ^ A Century of Forest Resources Education at Penn State: Serving Our Forests, Waters, Wildlife, and Wood Industries . Penn State Press, ISBN 0-271-04728-3 , pp. 105 ( google.com [accessed February 23, 2016]).
  21. ^ Field & Stream Blood Brothers . September 1, 2006, p. 86 ff . ( google.com [accessed February 23, 2016]).
  22. ^ About Us Ancient Order of Foresters, 2013. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
  23. ^ Fraternally Yours: A History of the Independent Order of Foresters , Warren Potter and Robert Oliver (Queen Anne Press Ltd., London, 1967)
  24. ^ Le nouveau corps des ingénieurs des ponts, des eaux et des forêts (IPEF) on AgroParisTech, accessed on January 30, 2012
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