Thurgovia (high school connection)
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Thurgovia |
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| coat of arms | Circle | |||||
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| University / s: | Frauenfeld Cantonal School | |||||
| Founding: | November 21, 1862 | |||||
| Place of foundation: | Frauenfeld | |||||
| Corporation association : | Cartel of Eastern Switzerland (1919) | |||||
| Color status : | colored | |||||
| Colours: | green-white-green (percussion: gold) |
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| Cap: | white flat cap | |||||
| Type of Confederation: | Men's association | |||||
| Position to the scale : | not striking | |||||
| Motto: | litteris et amicitiae | |||||
| Total members: | about 400 | |||||
| Active: | approx. 20 | |||||
| Website: | www.thurgovia.ch | |||||
The Thurgovia is a high-school connection in Frauenfeld in the canton of Thurgau in Switzerland with the colors green-white-green. Thurgovia is non-denominational and politically neutral, its motto is "litteris et amicitiae" (For science and friendship). She is mainly devoted to reading and discussing books, discussing social and political issues and socializing.
Members
The Thurgovia currently consists of approx. 400 members. These are divided into an active part (Aktivitas) and the older members (inactive or old men). Connection members can be recognized by the green-white-green ribbon with gold percussion (only green-white for Fuxen), which is worn hanging from the right shoulder to the left hip under the jacket. In addition, the members wear a white color with a green hem and a beer tip.
Activitas
As a member of the Aktivitas you are valid until you finish secondary school and thus leave the canton school in Frauenfeld, you can no longer meet the required average grade at the school or you are excluded from the connection. In these cases one is classified as "inactive" and waits for the return to the Aktivitas or the entry into the old gentlemen's community.
The Aktivitas, consisting of Fuxen and Burschen (President, Contra-President, Cantusmagister, Quaestor, Actuary and Fuxmajor), meets weekly every Friday and celebrates a pub (get-together under rules). She also meets with the old gentlemen on special occasions (e.g. Christmas Comers, Altherrenkommers, etc.).
Old Masters Association
You are appointed to old-man status after completing the canton school in Frauenfeld and one year of inactive status. The old men meet optionally (the Aktivitas pubs are compulsory for normal) weekly on Saturday.
history
The later Federal Councilor and Zofinger Ludwig Forrer founded the Thurgovia on November 21, 1862 with the purpose "[...] to practice the members in German lectures and to provide them with social entertainment." (§1 of the statutes). The motto chosen is litteris et amicitiae (science and friendship).
In 1874 the Thurgovia was banned and dissolved by Dr. Hans Brunner newly founded. In 1919 a cartel was founded with Vitodurania , Scaphusia and Rhetorika .
In 2006 the Thurgovia received a new cellar. The old cold store of the Sternen brewery was renovated and rebuilt and is still the new meeting point for the pubs on Friday evenings.
To date, of the initially at least 7 existing connections in the canton capital of Thurgovia, two more exist: the Concordia (sports connection) and the Licornia (women's connection), while the others, due to legal, social or political problems or lack of young people, are dissolved or banned and were not newly founded.
cartel
In 1919, Thurgovia, together with Scaphusia Schaffhausen (founded in 1858), Vitodurania from Winterthur (founded in 1863) and Rhetorika from St. Gallen (founded in 1869, Aktivitas dissolved), founded a cartel consisting of three associations from German-speaking Switzerland. With close cohesion and regular two- or multi-colored people, the community still exists today.
Known members
From the Thurgovia, the two Federal Councilors Ludwig Forrer and Heinz (Heinrich) Häberlin , five government members , ten federal parliamentarians , fifteen university professors , the Nobel Prize winner Walter Rudolf Hess and two high corps commanders emerged.
literature
- Roland Bieri: Brothers, stick together ... Thurgovia Frauenfeld 1862–1962. History of a middle school marriage . Verlag Huber, Frauenfeld Stuttgart Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7193-1201-1 .
- Roland Bieri: The early history of Thurgovia Frauenfeld . In: Studentica Helvetica. 13th year, No. 25, 1997, pp. 11-28.
- Rolf Kugler: 125 years of Thurgovia, 1862–1987 . Old gentlemen's association of Thurgovia, Frauenfeld 1987.
- Ernst Nägeli: 100 years of Thurgovia, 1862–1962 . Frauenfeld 1962.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Andrej Rudolf Jakovac: Practicing speaking, cultivating friendship . In: St. Galler Tagblatt , September 6, 2012, p. 38.
- ↑ Walter Labhart: Federal Councilor Ludwig Forrer, 1845-1921 (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library . Volume 303). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1973, pp. 17–18.
- ↑ Elizabeth Reisp: alcohol, Palaver and friendship . In: St. Galler Tagblatt , November 19, 2011, p. 43.
- ^ Andrej Rudolf Jakovac: Practicing speaking, cultivating friendship . In: St. Galler Tagblatt , September 6, 2012, p. 38.
- ↑ Walter Labhart: Federal Councilor Ludwig Forrer, 1845-1921 (= New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library. Volume 303). Winterthur City Library, Winterthur 1973, p. 18.