German armed forces

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The German Armed Forces (DW) was an umbrella organization of obligatory, ethnic student associations , so-called armed forces . The association was founded in 1919 as the Teutoburg Representatives' Day (TVT) and was renamed the German Armed Forces in 1927 .

history

The aim of the association was to spread military knowledge among the academic youth in Germany. This happened against the background of the terms of the Peace Treaty of Versailles , which imposed severe restrictions on the German Reich, particularly with regard to its troop strength. The establishment of the armed forces as paramilitary organizations was a circumvention of the terms of the Versailles Treaty.

From 1921 onwards, DW published the association organ Der Wehrschafter . DW's motto was: German and loyal, fearless and free! DW held its annual Representatives Day in Detmold and at the Hermannsdenkmal . In its heyday it had 38 members. The association committed itself to the Waidhofen principle ( " Jews are devoid of any honor ; they are therefore not to be given satisfaction on any weapon ." ) And from 1919 assumed that its members had an "Aryan descent" .

As early as February 1930, the emphatically "anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic" DW concluded a formal alliance with the National Socialist German Student Union , of which it joined as a corporate member.

From 1921 the German Armed Forces had been a member of the Allgemeine Deutsche Waffenring (ADW), which, after the Hitler government came to power, entered into a discussion as to whether the Aryan provisions of the law for the restoration of the professional civil service or the broader principles of the NSDAP should apply to the admission of party members (see Aryan proof ). Since the advocates of the hard line, which included the German fraternity , the German choir and a few others, in addition to the German armed forces, they left the ADW in 1934 and founded the Völkischer Waffenring (VWR). According to the founding declaration, "only those associations should belong to it that do not tolerate any ethnic group, Jewish relatives or members of lodges , orders or their successor organizations".

DW was the first weapons student association to disband on the occasion of the NSDAP party congress on September 14, 1935, after the re-introduction of general conscription was resolved and the association's goals were considered to have been achieved. DW was not re-established. The former members of numerous armed forces were transferred to other arms student associations such as country teams, gymnastics associations, fraternities or corps. But since the 1920s, the armed forces that had left DW have been changing into these forms of association .

Well-known members of the armed forces

  • Erwin Brauer (1896–1946), theologian, philosopher, Higher Regional Church Council (Burgundia Jena)
  • Axel Bruhn (1904–1983), lawyer and Hamburg politician (CDU) (Cheruskia Hamburg)
  • Friedrich Karl Florian (1894–1975), Gauleiter of the NSDAP of the Gaus Düsseldorf (Falkenburg / Rheno-Borussia Cologne)
  • Hermann Gebbers (1879–1952), District Administrator of Bückeburg and Stadthagen (Cimbria Leipzig, Cheruskia Hamburg)
  • Karl Laforce (1904–1923), participant in the 1923 Hitler putsch (Bajuvaria Munich)
  • Karl Prahl (1882–1948), North German painter (Cheruskia Hamburg)
  • August Pschorr (1862–1935), Privy Councilor of Commerce, General Director of Pschorrbräu AG (Bavaria Weihenstephan)
  • Antonius Raab (1897–1985), pilot, aircraft manufacturer and entrepreneur (Neo-Suevia Berlin)
  • Horst Rechenbach (1895–1968), SS-Oberführer, National Socialist politician, researcher and writer (Markaria Göttingen)
  • Max Wartemann (1905–1993), Schleswig-Holstein politician and mayor of Lübeck (Cheruskia Hamburg)
  • Rudolf Weyermann (1880–1946), factory owner, councilor and honorary citizen of Bamberg (Bavaria Weihenstephan)
  • Georg Zink (1879–1962), librarian (Germania Heidelberg)

Member connections

Membership in TVT or DW is given in brackets.

Existing and merged links

(= existing or merged activitas)

  • Alemannia Berlin (1933-1935)
  • Borussia Berlin (1923-1929)
  • Burgundia Berlin (1923–1929)
  • Saxo-Borussia Berlin (1920-1929)
  • Rhine Franconia Bonn (1921–1927)
  • Nibelungia Breslau / Munich (1924–1930, 1931–1933)
  • Frisia Frankfurt (1920–1921)
  • Cheruskia Hamburg (1919-1929)
  • Hohenheimia Hohenheim (1919–1929)
  • Burgundia Jena (1924–1929)
  • Nordmark Kiel (1922–1929)
  • Hercynia Leipzig (1921-1925)
  • Bajuvaria Munich (1919–1929, 1931–1935)
  • Franco-Bavaria Munich (1922-1925)
  • Phaeakia (Austro-Bavaria) Munich (1922–1929)
  • Bavaria Weihenstephan (1925–1929, 1933–1935)
  • Aldanen Vienna (1925–1933)
  • Friesen Vienna (1923–1927)

Extinguished connections

Postponed or dissolved connection or old rule taken over

Frisia Munich
  • Burgundia Berlin (1934–1935)
  • Gedania Berlin (1933-1935)
  • Ghibellinia Berlin (1929-1935)
  • Guestphalia Berlin (1922-1929)
  • Markomannia Berlin (1925-1935)
  • Neo-Suevia Berlin (1922-1933)
  • The Lützower Breslau (1924–1930)
  • Rodenstein Darmstadt (1921-1925)
  • Rheinhessen Darmstadt (1924–1929, 1933–1934)
  • Lower Saxony Detmold (1920–1924)
  • Falkenburg Detmold / Cologne (temporarily Rheno-Borussia) (1921–1924, 1926–1935)
  • Elbmark Dresden (1921–1925)
  • Franko-Bavaria Erlangen (1921-1934)
  • Markaria Göttingen (1922–1929)
  • Normannia Halle (1921–1927)
  • Askania Hamburg (1920-1928)
  • The Herminones Hanover (1924–1927)
  • Germania Heidelberg (1922–1929, 1932–1934)
  • Hohenstaufen Hohenheim (1921–1930)
  • Franco-Suevia Hohenheim (1922–1928)
  • Cheruscia Jena (1934–1935)
  • The Märker Jena (1925–1929)
  • The Southwest German Cologne (1923–1925)
  • Sugambria Königsberg (1928–1935)
  • Borussia Köthen (1934-1935)
  • Cimbria Leipzig (1919–1930, 1932–1935)
  • Saxo-Thuringia Leipzig I (1919–1921)
  • Saxo-Thuringia Leipzig II (1923-1935)
  • Arminia Mannheim (1920–1930)
  • Frisia Munich (1921–1929)
  • Franconia Nuremberg (1925–1929)
  • Nibelungen Nuremberg (1934–1935)
  • Vandalia Stuttgart (1922-1929)
  • Hohenstaufen Vienna (1922–1929)

literature

  • Ernst Hans Eberhard : Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig 1924/25, pp. 219-220.
  • Erich Geißler: The German Armed Forces (DW) in the Teutoburg Representatives' Day (TVT) 1919-1935 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, Vol. 9 (1964), pp. 166–178.
  • Paulgerhard Gladen , Kurt U. Bertrams: The German-Völkisch corporation associations. German Armed Forces, Waidhofener Verband et al. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2009, ISBN 3-933892-11-2 . Pp. 135-304.
  • Bernhard Grün, Christoph Vogel: The Fuxenstunde . Manual of Corporation Studentism. Bad Buchau 2014, pp. 196–197, ISBN 978-3-925171-92-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael H. Kater: Student Union and Right-Wing Radicalism in Germany 1918-1933. A socio-historical study on the educational crisis in the Weimar Republic. Hamburg 1975, p. 140.
  2. ↑ Harald Lönnecker : The assembly of the "better National Socialists"? The Völkischer Waffenring (VWR) between anti-Semitism and corporate elitism . Frankfurt am Main 2003, pp. 7, 18 ff., As PDF .
  3. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen, Kurt U. Bertrams: The German-nationalist organizations Corporation. German Armed Forces, Waidhofener Verband et al. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2009, ISBN 3-933892-11-2 . Pp. 173 and 211
  4. ↑ Paul Gerhardt Gladen, Kurt U. Bertrams: The German-nationalist organizations Corporation. German Armed Forces, Waidhofener Verband et al. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2009, ISBN 3-933892-11-2 . P. 195 ff.
  5. ^ Hans Peter Hümmer: Franko-Bavaria Erlangen, Wehrschaft. In: Christoph Friederich; Bertold Frhr. from Haller; Andreas Jakob (Ed.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon. Editor: Martina Bauernfeind. Nuremberg: W. Tümmels, 2002, 784 pages, ISBN 3-921590-89-2 - on the web

Remarks

  1. ↑ about Landsmannschaft Alemanno-Bavaria Nürnberg in the CC, today the gymnastics club Alemanno-Palatia Erlangen-Nürnberg in the CC
  2. ↑ about gymnastics club Hohenzollern Clausthal and Saxo-Borussia Berlin today Corps Alemannia Kiel in the WSC
  3. ↑ about the Berlin Burschenschaft Normannia in the DB, today the Berlin Burschenschaft der Märker in the DB
  4. ↑ about Corps Saxo-Borussia in the RSC / WSC today Corps Alemannia Kiel in the WSC
  5. ↑ about singers Teuto-Rhenania Cologne and singers Nibelungen Bonn today singers Bardia Bonn in the DS
  6. ↑ about Bajuvaria Munich and fraternity Babenbergia Munich today fraternity Franco-Bavaria Munich
  7. ↑ today Corps Frisia in the WSC in Braunschweig
  8. ↑ Today the Hohenheimia fraternity
  9. ↑ today Landsmannschaft in CC Slesvico-Holsatia united with the Landsmannschaft Cheruscia zu Kiel
  10. ↑ about gymnastics club Mündenia-Hercynia Göttingen in the CC today Landsmannschaft Gottinga Göttingen in the CC
  11. ^ About fraternity Babenbergia Munich today fraternity Franco-Bavaria Munich
  12. ↑ today Strasbourg gymnastics club Cheruscia in the CC in Munich
  13. ↑ about Corps Agronomia today Corps Alemannia Munich in the WSC
  14. ↑ today country team in the CC Bavaria zu Weihenstephan
  15. ↑ today Academic Burschenschaft Aldania Vienna in the DB
  16. ↑ about Landsmannschaft Hercynia Vienna today Academic Grenzlandmannschaft Cimbria Vienna in the CC
  17. ↑ founded in 1887; not to be confused with Burgundia (founded 1903, today fraternity of the Märker )
  18. ↑ about Burschenschaft Saravia in the DB to the Burschenschaft Saravia-Semnonia , dissolved in 1975
  19. ↑ via Arminia Mannheim to the Rheno-Arminia fraternity in the DB, dissolved in 1994
  20. ↑ dissolved as a fraternity Rheno-Arminia in the DB 1994