Tübingen decision

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The Tübingen resolution to "rebuild student communities" was passed by the West German Rectors' Conference (WRK) on October 11, 1949 in Tübingen . Therein the assembled rectors of the West German universities welcomed the formation of student communities, but expressly described the “restoration of old, outdated forms of community” - meaning the traditional student associations - as a threat to German universities. They appealed to the students to remain aware of their political and social responsibility and to “look forward to new goals, not backwards”. The old rulers of earlier corporations called on them to "support the younger generation in developing new forms of community that point towards the future, instead of tying them to the forms of bygone times". In addition, the WRK pointed out the governments and state parliaments of the German states "emphatically to their task of creating the conditions for the maintenance of a" healthy student community life by providing sufficient funds and suitable rooms ".

The basis for this decision was a recently issued resolution of the Grand Senate of the University of Tübingen , which the WRK expressly adopted. Among other things, this resolution said:

"In the image of the coming student communities there will be no more space for the events of scales , the assertion and exposure of a special student honor concept , the holding of mindless and noisy mass feasts , the exercise of a non-freedom club discipline and the public wearing of colors ."

This decision was not without criticism among the rectors of the universities and was not supported in particular by self-incorporated rectors. The Würzburg rector Max Meyer campaigned for the universities to deal with the connections in a more unbiased way. However, the resolution was renewed several times in the following years. The strong connections reacted on the initiative of the Kösener Corps by the Association of Old Corps Students on April 1, 1951 with the establishment of the Andernach Working Group . Only after the Göttingen scale process and further proceedings by individual student associations on individual points of the Tübingen decision before the administrative courts newly created in 1949, which declared the implementation of the decisions of the Rectors' Conference to be incompatible with the new Basic Law of the Federal Republic, did the Rectors gradually give up their resistance. This is how the VG Hannover ruled on "wearing paint in public" on July 8, 1954:

“Neither the state nor the university have the authority to give individual students or student associations an exceptional right with regard to basic constitutional rights . The wearing of colors does not violate the rights of others, nor does it violate the moral law or the constitutional order . "

- Hanover Administrative Court

The attitude of the rectors as well as the ministers of education and the senators towards the student associations was not uniform in the following period because of the cultural sovereignty of the federal states ; a particularly tough line was followed in West Berlin against corporates . Legal disputes between universities and student associations over their rights within the universities continued even after German reunification .

The question also remained controversial within the student body . For example, while in Göttingen in 1957 Ruprecht Vondran, who was elected AStA chairman via a corporation list, came under the spotlight of the secret services because of the trip he organized during the Cold War , the AStA chairman of the Free University of Berlin, Eberhard Diepgen , was still in 1963 . due to his affiliation to a striking connection in a student ballot demonstratively deselected. In 2014, the Lower Saxony regional branch conference excluded the AStA of the University of Göttingen because two non-colored liaison students were members of the board of the Göttingen AStA.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Neuhaus, Documents on University Reform, p. 39.
  2. ↑ See Neuhaus pp. 42, 44, 50 f. and 54 f.
  3. ↑ AGA circular 1/1951 (PDF file; 333 kB)
  4. ↑ Guys out. In: Der Spiegel, 24/1953, pp. 26-29.
  5. ^ Franz Stadtmüller : History of the Corps Hannovera zu Göttingen , p. 323.
  6. ↑ On the illegality of the refusal of admission for corporates at the Free University of Berlin : BVerwGE 7, 287 of October 24, 1958, with reference to the decision of the Federal Court of Justice in the scale trial; on the obligation of the Free University to admit a corps as a student association: Administrative Court Berlin in DVBl . 1968, 714.
  7. ↑ On the non-existent claim of a corps to be linked to the website of the University of Leipzig : file number 2 B 386/07 of the Saxon Higher Administrative Court of Bautzen, decision of March 9, 2009.
  8. ^ Based on the biography "Ruprecht Vondran" at Munzinger online.
  9. ^ Declaration of exclusion from May 15, 2014 of the LAK Lower Saxony