Tübingen Senior Citizens' Convention

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Development of the SC in Tübingen

The Tübingen Senior Citizens' Convention is the 200 year old amalgamation of the corps at the University of Tübingen.

history

Student communities are as old as universities. Students of the same national origin came together at the universities for the purpose of mutual support in the so-called Nationes . This is where the roots of the (historical) country teams of the 17th century lie, which were ousted by the student orders in the second half of the 18th century . At the end of the 19th century, however, under the influence of the Enlightenment and German idealism, the Landsmannschaften rose again, now as "Constituierte Landsmannschaften". Their names and colors are mainly rooted in the imperial circles .

SC

Allemannia Tübingen (1825)

In Tübingen, where all earlier forms of student communities can be traced, at the beginning of the 19th century the state children of the Kingdom of Württemberg studying at the university joined together in three country teams (corps) according to their origin: the Altwürttemberger on January 7, 1807 in Suevia I, the Neuwürttemberger on 17 March 1808 in the Obersuevia and the Swiss franc on 18 March 1808 in the Franconia I . Obersuevia and Franconia probably emerged from Suevia I, which in 1808 was now called Niedersuevia to differentiate it from Obersuevia. The Suevia I, for its part, arose from the Würtembergia / Cheruscia, which has been verifiable since 1805. In 1810/11, the Niedersuevia and Franconia I finally came in as a result of the conscription for the Russian campaign in 1812 . In contrast, the Obersuevia remained and was called Suevia II from 1813 onwards. The Suevia II was the corps that was the only one to survive the fraternity storms, until it rejuvenated in 1825 by merging with the corps-like association Obersuevia from 1823 to Allemannia I and from there 1827 the Rhenania were founded.

Helvetia joined Obersuevia / Suevia II in 1811, Teutonia in 1814 and Würtembergia in 1815. The last three named corps dissolved when the fraternity was founded in December 1816. The Franconian element at the university was found again in 1815 in Hohenlohia, which was outside the SC and then transferred to the fraternity, from which today's Franconia (II) emerged in 1821 - the founder of Hohenlohia was a former Swiss (Helvetia No. 11).

At the end of 1833, the demagogue persecution brought the Tübingen life together to a standstill. As early as February 1833, the university had brought to mind the strict regulations of the Bundestag for the suppression of the corporations. They were tightened after the Frankfurt Wachensturm . With her "aristocratic tendencies" Suevia stood against the new German spirit of the student body. She helped with investigations and denounced revolutionary fellow students . On November 1, 1835, the fraternity association Vandalia was established . At the end of the winter semester 1835/36 it was formally constituted as a corps in the SC with Frankonia and Rhenania. After three years it died in November 1838. The Tübinger SC again consisted of the three corps Franconia Tübingen (1821), Rhenania Tübingen (1827) and Suevia Tübingen (1831). In 1870 Borussia Tübingen joined the SC as the fourth corps.

Constitutions

Helvetia c / a Teutonia (1814)

The Tübingen Corps had a wide variety of constitutions. The originals of the constitutions from the years 1813 to 1815 have been preserved. Apart from the constitution of the Swabian Corps Suevia II with a strict presidential democracy and the senior with great authority at the top, the other corps - Helveria, Teutonia and Würtembergia - had made the complete equality of all recipients ( i.e. not the Renoncen ) a principle. Like a burning mirror, the Tübingen Constitutions show the opposing views on the best constitutional form in the first half of the 19th century and basically until 1949. They illustrate the ongoing efforts of the constituted country teams (corps) from the last quarter of the 18th century, in the German principalities and kingdoms to achieve constitutional guarantees in writing.

SC comment

Tübingen SC-Comment (1815)

The seniors of the Corps united in 1808 for the Convent of Seniors (SC). The oldest surviving version of the SC-Comment from 1808 is from 1815 as a boy’s comment or generally binding rules for boyfriends at the University of Tübingen . This means that the SC's claim to be responsible for the student organization at the university is already clear in the heading. The Tübingen SC-Comment is based on the Comment of the Heidelberg Seniors 'Convent from 1806 and in turn became the model for the Comment of the Freiburg Seniors' Convent in 1818 . In a later version of the Tübinger SC comment from 1825, the comment is defined:

"Concept of Comments. By comment in the a !! common one understands the norm, which is indispensable for the maintenance of the external order in the life of a boy, sanctioned by reason and common opinion, as the boy, apart from the statutes of a special association, in all circumstances, in which he can come to behave as such and according to which he has to act, as long as he does not renounce his boyhood. "

- Tübingen SC-Comment (1825)

"It cannot be expressed in words how much this undertaking [introduction of the comment] contributed to the improvement of the spirit and the whole attitude in the universities," says a contemporary report. The SC logs from the years 1814 to 1816 have been preserved. Its significance goes far beyond Robert von Mohl's 4th edition of the Historical Documentation , published in 1977, about the customs and behavior of Tübingen students during the 16th century . In the SC protocols, not only student customs and relationships between the students and the university and citizens come to light, but also student legal interests. The self-confident and disciplined demeanor of the students towards the university, the thorough, but also cautiously exercised justice towards resentful citizens (horse and room renters) and fellow students becomes clear again and again. When the SC fell apart in 1816 due to disputes between the two parties Suevia / Teutonia and Würtembergia / Helvetia, each party nevertheless stuck to the SC Comment as the most suitable form of student self-government. The corps refused to dissolve the federally united in the umbrella body "SC" with the most varied constitutional forms in favor of a fraternity as a whole.

General fraternity

In the course of early nationalism, the general (equality) fraternity (student body) was founded at the end of 1816 under the influence of foreign fraternity members . Developed from Würtembergia and Helvetia, it was supposed to replace the old SC constitution with a new one. Since Suevia resisted in association with the Teutons, student unrest broke out again and again for years. They finally forced the government in Stuttgart to intervene and sever all ties - most radically in the years 1826 to 1829. The fraternity had taken care of “state and such matters” more and more openly, in contrast to the SC, which only represented university political goals those responsible for law and order at the university. As part of these government interventions, the General Student Committee, founded in 1821, came to an end in 1825. In any case, the SC had only recognized the AStA with reservations “when, true to its actual tendency, it did not take care of anything purely boyish matters, and only in other matters that concern the students as such but not as boys, the mediator between him and the Senate makes ”- like 140 years later at the time of the 68 movement .

Weimar Republic and the Nazi era

Timpani doctor Dr. Kraus

In the summer semester of 1928, the SC donated the decade-long drumming doctor Dr. Kraus received an honorary gift of 3000 Reichsmarks on his 80th birthday  . In the winter semester of 1929/30, stronger but ineffective scale tracking by the police took place.

His bulletin of February 26, 1932 reports how the Tübingen corporations stood towards the National Socialist German Student Union :

“Fraternities: here there are 3 fraternities with whom we get along very well and in which we have a lot of party members, including SA men. Fraternity i. There is only one ADB here. In this we have a total of 8 party members. Relationship is a very good one.
Corps in the Kösener SC. exist here 4. They take a more indifferent attitude towards us. We only have 4 party members with them. Your relatives are more into the Stahlhelm. But they leave us completely alone,
there are three compatriots here in which we have very many party members. Are very good for us here.
There are 4 gymnasts here in which we only have a few party members. They also take a more negative attitude towards us. But we get on very well with them.
It is the case here that we have our people in all associations and corporations, including the Catholic connections. "

- University group leader of the Tübingen NSDStB

During the time of National Socialism , Suevia refused to implement the Aryan paragraph . She suspended on May 15, 1934 and was expelled from the KSCV a week later. Old men from the four corps participated in two of the twelve fellowships .

Connection Österberg

Osterberg

Franconia, Suevia and Borussia merged in 1949 to form the Österberg connection . The name was given by the Österberg , on which the four corp houses are located. Rhenania went her own way and reconstituted alone. The ribbon of the Österberg took up the main colors of the three corps. The federal government dissolved in 1950 when the reconstitution of the three corps became possible. Max Waldeck played a mediating role in the reconstitution of the corps in Tübingen . The professors showed him respect ("Mr. Privy Councilor").

loss

Like Bremensia , Vandalo-Guestphalia and Rhenania Strasbourg , Suevia Tübingen was captured by the 1968 movement . She gave up fencing and on April 30, 1971, left the Tübinger SC and thus the KSCV.

Österberg seminars

The SC has been organizing the Österberg seminars on law and medicine since 2009 .

Fencing weapon and batch number

The student fencing weapon is the basket bat .

The batch numbers are x, xx and xxx.

On site

Suburb of Tübingen (1983)

The Tübinger SC placed the suburb in the KSCV six times: 1879 (Franconia), 1899 (Suevia), 1923 (Borussia), 1959 (Rhenania), 1983 (Borussia) and 2010 (Franconia).

See also

literature

  • Tübingen. Comment from 1808 in the version from 1815 , in: 14 of the oldest SC comments before 1820 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, special issue 1967, pp. 82-104.
  • Rainer Assmann : The Tübinger SC was suspended in the Third Reich and during the occupation. On the history of the Tübingen SC comradeship Theodor Körner . 21: 153-172 (1976). GoogleBooks
  • Rainer Assmann: The SC in Tübingen . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 25 (1980), pp. 89-113.
  • Erich Bauer : Development of the Tübingen scale length 1808–1890. Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 27 (1982), pp. 13-30.
  • Martin Biastoch : Jewish students and student anti-Semitism 1919 to 1922 in Tübingen . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 38 (1993) pp. 249-252.
  • Martin Biastoch: Tübingen students in the German Empire. A socio-historical investigation . Sigmaringen 1996 (= Contubernium - Tübingen Contributions to the History of Science, Vol. 44), ISBN 978-3-515-08022-4 .

Web links

Commons : Seniors' Convention in Tübingen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Peter Hümmer: The emergence of the corps under the sign of classical idealism , in: Rolf-Joachim Baum (ed.): We want men, we want deeds . Kösener Festschrift. Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-88680-653-7 , pp. 15-44.
  2. ^ Rüdiger Döhler: The German Idealism and the Corps Studentism , in: Sebastian Sigler (Ed.): Friendship and Tolerance. 200 years of Corps Bavaria in Landshut and Munich . Munich 2006, pp. 183-188, ISBN 3-932965-86-8 .
  3. ^ A b c Rainer Assmann: Studentische Communities, SC, Corps , in: ders .: Die Tübinger Rhenanen, 5th edition 2002, pp. 12-14.
  4. ↑ Erich Bauer: The Corps Alemannia zu Tübingen (1825-1827) . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 14 (1969), p. 37.
  5. ↑ Erich Bauer: The Corps Vandalia in Tübingen . Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 21 (1976), pp. 195-198
  6. ^ Rainer Assmann, Ernst Napp and Ingo Nordmeyer: Die Tübinger Rhenanen (corps list and corps history), 5th edition 2002, pp. 201, 205
  7. ↑ Winter semester 1931/32, in: Rainer Assmann, Ernst Napp and Ingo Nordmeyer: Die Tübinger Rhenanen (corps list and corps history), 5th edition 2002, p. 212
  8. ^ Rainer Assmann: Extinct Kösener colors of the 20th century . (Margrave of Meißen, Leipzig; Carl Allmenröder, Marburg; Österberg, Tübingen; Marchia Bochum). Einst und Jetzt, Vol. 34 (1989), pp. 270 f.
  9. ^ Österberg seminars
  10. ↑ meetings: Naraschewski / Schmidt, New Journal of Corporate Law in 2014, 295; Tielmann, NZG 2013, 173 ff .; Rottnauer, NZG 2012, 339; Backhaus, NZG 2011, 416; Hartmann, NZG 2010, p. 211.