Ghibellinia gymnastics club in Heidelberg

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Gymnastics Federation Ghibellinia

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Basic data
University location: Heidelberg
University / s: University of Heidelberg
Founding: November 5, 1886
Corporation association : Coburg Convent
Color status : colored
Colours:
Fox colors:
Cap: moss green flat cap
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : mandatory
Motto: nunquam incerti, semper aperti
Website: www.ghibellinia.de

The gymnastics club Ghibellinia is a colorful , striking student union that is based in Heidelberg . She is a member of the Coburg Convent . The term “ gymnastics ” has a historical background.

history

The Ghibellinia was founded on November 5, 1886, in the year of the 500th Heidelberg university jubilee, as an Academic Gymnastics Association, was accepted into the Representative Convent (VC) on June 15, 1888 and was renamed Ghibellinia in 1897. It quickly gained popularity and was able to establish itself as a powerful connection in the Heidelberg corporation scene by the turn of the century. In 1904 the maturity principle was introduced, which means the general university entrance qualification as a prerequisite for entry. At that time, courses such as dentistry or pharmacy could still be studied after a special entrance examination without a high school diploma. On November 1, 1911, the AHV was accepted into the suspended gymnastics club Guestphalia Freiburg (founded January 10, 1893, colors dark green-white-black). In July 1935, Ghibellinia was suspended from the VC, then finally postponed because of the harassment by the National Socialist regime on February 8, 1936.
Together with the Thuringia and Hubertia-Rhenonicaria fraternities and the Saxo-Frisia Mannheim singers, Ghibellinia formed the comradeship from 1938 "Friedrich Friesen", in which at least part of the tradition could be continued. So tips in the colors of Ghibellinia and with the slightly different circle of Thuringia were exchanged. The comradeship existed at least until 1944, then its traces are lost.
After 1949 the AH von Thuringia, Saxo-Frisia and Ghibellinia came together to restitute the union as a student association with the name and circle of Ghibellinia and the colors of Thuringia with a joint AHV, which succeeded with AH sons on November 28, 1950. In July 1951, however, Thuringia restituted independently, the association was dissolved and Ghibellinia took on its original colors again, shortly thereafter introduced the censorship and on July 18, 1953, joined the newly founded Coburg Convent as a gymnastics club . Numerous old men of the comradeship joined the gymnastics community during this time.
In the mid-1950s, the reimbursed shares in the house of the former comradeship at Hauptstrasse 244 were sold to the Corps Rheno-Nicaria, and in 1958 the present house was acquired for active gymnastics.

Symbols of Ghibellinia

Name and colors : The name “Ghibellinia” refers to the imperial politics of the medieval Hohenstaufen from the perspective of the time after the German nation-state was founded in 1871. The modern "Ghibellines" saw as supporters of the small German empire and against the background of the " Kulturkampf " in the eponymous medieval partisans of the Hohenstaufen in Italy, who opposed the Papist Guelfs , their historical forerunners. As a reminiscence of the Italian scene of these party struggles and probably also the emergence of the Italian national state, which shows parallels with the establishment of the German Empire, a variant of the Italian tricolor, moss green - white - pink, was chosen as the colors of the new Ghibelline League.

Coat of arms : In addition to the image of Germania based on the Niederwald monument in the Ghibellinia coat of arms inaugurated in 1883 , the four cross-shaped letters "F" of the Turner Cross , which stand for the motto "Fresh, pious, happy and free", refer to that of Friedrich Ludwig Jahn founded the gymnastics movement at the beginning of the 19th century. The motto “nunquam incerti, semper aperti” (“never insecure, always open”) on the lower side of the coat of arms illustrates the connection between Ghibellinia and Heidelberg's Ruprecht-Karls-Universität , whose motto is “semper apertus”.

Mittermaierhaus

Mittermaierhaus, Ghibellinia corporation house since 1958

At the beginning of the 20th century, the plans for the establishment of a representative domicile in Hauptstrasse had already been completed, but were wiped out by the outbreak of the First World War and the inflation of the post-war years. In the following decades, Ghibellinia used the “White Rose” opposite the Church of the Holy Spirit as a constant. In 1958, the connection was able to acquire the Mittermaierhaus on Karlsplatz, one of the most important buildings in Heidelberg's old town in terms of art history . The well-known previous owners of the house include the physicians and professors Franz Gabriel Schönmetzel, Franz Anton Mai and Friedrich Karl Nägele. In 1821 Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier , one of the most famous lawyers of his time and liberal politician, acquired the house and made it the focus of his work. In memory of Mittermaier, the gymnastics association Ghibellinia organized the lecture series of the Mittermaier talks, to which u. a. Günther Oettinger , Konrad Seitz and Gerd Koenen gave lectures.

Known members

The writer Alfons Paquet (1881–1944) should be emphasized among the outstanding personalities who belonged to and belong to the Ghibellinia . Paquet processed the affiliation to Ghibellinia in several places of his work, for example in the development novel "Comrade Fleming" (1911), in the treatise "Der Kaisergedanke" (1915) and in autobiographical writings and poems.

2010 caused a stir membership of the designated Hamburg Mayor Christoph Ahlhaus as Konkneipant . Ahlhaus has meanwhile asked to be removed from the list of members.

literature

  • VC association of gymnastics associations at German universities. Charlottenburg 1926, pp. 117–118.
  • Gerhart Berger, Detlev Aurand: ... Weiland Bursch zu Heidelberg ... A commemorative publication by the Heidelberg corporations for the 600th anniversary of Ruperto Carola . Heidelberg 1986, pp. 183-185.
  • Friedrich Berthold Sutter: The gymnastics club Ghibellinia in 20 years , Leipzig 1906.
  • Herbert Grathwol: One hundred years of “Ghibellinia” in CC Heidelberg , Heidelberg 1986.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 67.
  2. ↑ Michael Doeberl (Ed.): Das akademische Deutschland , Vol. 2: The German universities and their academic citizens , Berlin 1931, p. 852.
  3. ^ Eckhard Oberdörfer: Der Heidelberger Karzer , Cologne 2005, p. 160.
  4. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/nord/artikel/1/gal-kritisiert-geschlagenen-ahlhaus/
  5. ↑ FAZ ( online )

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