German fraternity in Austria
The German Burschenschaft in Austria (DBÖ) (also: Association of Academic Burschenschaften in Austria ) is a dutiful corporation association of student associations in Austria . It currently has 16 fraternities .
history
The association was founded after the Second World War in the tradition of the fraternity of the Ostmark as a general convention of delegates ; It received its later name in 1959. Since 1952 there has been a work and friendship agreement ( Wels Agreement ) with the Deutsche Burschenschaft (DB ).
An attempt to merge with the DB failed in 1961 due to the resistance of numerous German fraternities who invoked the civic concept of fatherland and not that of the transnational German cultural nation . As a result, fraternities from DB and DBÖ founded the Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft (BG), an association-wide working group that still exists today, which was subsequently able to exert a great deal of influence on DB's association policy.
With the so-called historical compromise , the DB decided at the Boys' Day in 1971 to give up compulsory cessation as an association principle on the one hand and to enable fraternities from Austria to become a member of the DB on the other.
The great majority of the Austrian academic fraternities have since joined the DB, and practically all of the remaining DBÖ fraternities also belong to the BG. The importance of the association has therefore decreased significantly recently.
literature
- Hans-Georg Balder : History of the German fraternity. WJK-Verlag, Hilden 2005, ISBN 3-933892-25-2 .
- Martin Graf (Ed.): 150 years of German fraternities in Austria. Yesterday Today Tomorrow. Ares-Verlag , Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-902475-82-4 .
- Bernhard Grün, Christoph Vogel: The Fuxenstunde . Manual of Corporation Studentism. Bad Buchau 2014, p. 191, ISBN 978-3-925171-92-5 .