Bandage of colored girls

The association colors supporting girls (VfM) is a corporation Association of colorful supporting pennalen sororities in Austria .

The association was founded at Pentecost 1988 in Feldkirch to represent the interests of initially six pennal girls' associations in Austria. VfM has been a member of the European Cartel Association of Christian Student Associations (EKV) since 1989 .

history

In the autumn of 1986 the Mittelschülerkartellverband organized an active conference in Fürstenfeld in Styria and invited the (already existing) girls' associations to the topic of 'Girls in Color'. It was during this meeting that the thought first came up that the girls should unite.

On November 14, 1987, they met in Vienna for talks and it was decided to found the Association of Colored Girls. As a result, the statutes were drawn up, sent to interested connections, and they were invited to Feldkirch to pass resolutions on the statutes and found the association on Pennälertag 1988.

On Saturday, May 21, 1988, six contacts met in the meeting room of the town hall of Feldkirch in Vorarlberg for the constituent meeting of the VfM. The drafted statutes were passed unanimously; the association was founded.

Puellaria Arminiae Hollabrunn, Babenberg Klosterneuburg, Prima Vindobonensis, Concordia Vienna, Stella Polaris Laa / Thaya and Tragisa St. Pölten are considered to be the founding connections of VfM.

At the Pennälertag 1989 in Ried in Upper Austria, the board of directors was able to hold talks with the European Cartel Association of Christian Student Associations (EKV) about a possible admission. In August, the VfM applied for membership in the EKV. On October 7, 1989, the VfM was unanimously accepted into the EKV as the 13th member at the 15th General Cartel Meeting in Vaduz .

In 2003, the VfM was listed in a list of proposals by the President of the National Council, Andreas Khol, for the participation of non-governmental organizations in a constitutional convention .

Relationships with other associations

The VfM has been a member of the EKV (European Cartel Association of Christian Student Associations) since 1989 .

The aim of the VfM is to promote contacts among the individual girls and women in the connections. He represents his individual member associations with approx. 300 members in Austrian and Europe-wide committees of the couleur students and has friendship agreements with the following Austrian associations:

the Association of Christian Women Students ( VCS ),
the middle school cartel association ( MKV ),
the Catholic-Austrian Landsmannschaften ( KÖL ),
the Cartel Association of Catholic, Non-Colored Academic Associations of Austria ( ÖKV )

The VfM is non-partisan, although it is said to be close to the ÖVP . With Maria Rauch-Kallat and Liese Prokop, two ÖVP ministers were active members of a member association of the VfM, whereby the membership is said to have promoted their careers.

Principles and Customs

The VfM is committed to Christian social teaching , a democratic Austria and a united Europe . Like its member associations, it is based on four principles:

religio - Christian attitude to life
patria - the love for the home country Austria
scientia - education for a lifetime
amicitia - friendship

The member associations can accept girls and women of all Christian religious communities as members. Personal commitment in public, political interest, participation in charitable organizations and further education in work and life are required of these.

The colors of the VfM are red-white-red , the motto is: "God protect our actions!"

The VfM sings its own student songs, some of them older songs with gender-specific texts.

Member connections

C.Ö.St.VDZ Puellaria Arminiae Hollabrunn (PUE)
K.Ö.MMV Babenberg Klosterneuburg (BAB)
K.Ö.KV Prima Vindobonensis Vienna (PRV)
K.Ö.M.St.V. Concordia Vienna (CCW)
C.Ö.M.St.V. Tragisa St. Pölten (TRP)
C.Ö.MV Walcueria Güssing (WAG)
C.Ö.M.St.V. Laetitia Korneuburg (LAK)
K.Ö.St.V. Vindobona Nova Vienna (VBN)
K.Ö.St.V. Prima Lentia Linz (PRL)
KEMV Hesperia Graz (HEG)
St.V. Bregancea Bregenz (BCB)
CEMV Rupertina Bruck an der Mur (RPB)

literature

Richard Bamberger , Franz Maier-Bruck , Karl Gutkas (eds.): Austria Lexicon in two volumes. Volume 2: M-Z . Verlagsgemeinschaft Österreich-Lexikon-Brandstätter-Hölzl, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-95004-380-2 , p. 464.
Bernhard Grün, Christoph Vogel: The Fuxenstunde . Manual of Corporation Studentism. Bad Buchau 2014, ISBN 978-3-925171-92-5 , p. 236.
Gertrude Polnitzky (Ed.): 10 years of VFM: Festschrift on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Association of Colored Girls (VFM) , Vienna 1998.
Veronika Schwediauer: Same Same But Different: The Political Recruitment of Women and Men to the Austrian Government . Dissertation, University of Vienna 2010, p. 163 ff.

Web links

Homepage of the umbrella organization

Individual evidence

^ Gernot Stimmer: Elites in Austria 1848-1970. Böhlau, Vienna 1997. p. 962.
↑ Alexandra Kurth: Men - Bünde - Rituals: Student associations since 1800 . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004. p. 50.
^ Emil Brix, Jürgen Nautz, Klaus Poier (eds.): The Austrian Constitutional Discussion and Civil Society. Passagen, Vienna 2006. p. 79.
↑ Veronika Schwediauer: Same Same But Different: The Political Recruitment of Women and Men to the Austrian Government. Dissertation, University of Vienna 2010, p. 163.
↑ Raimund Lang: Ergo Cantemus! Texts and materials for the student song. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2001. p. 71.

[1] Gernot Stimmer: Elites in Austria 1848-1970. Böhlau, Vienna 1997. p. 962.

[2] Alexandra Kurth: Men - Bünde - Rituals: Student associations since 1800 . Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2004. p. 50.

[3] Emil Brix, Jürgen Nautz, Klaus Poier (eds.): The Austrian Constitutional Discussion and Civil Society. Passagen, Vienna 2006. p. 79.

[4] Veronika Schwediauer: Same Same But Different: The Political Recruitment of Women and Men to the Austrian Government. Dissertation, University of Vienna 2010, p. 163.

[5] Raimund Lang: Ergo Cantemus! Texts and materials for the student song. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2001. p. 71.