Connection Rupertia

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Connection Rupertia

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Basic data
University location: Heidelberg
University / s: Heidelberg University
Founding: May 23, 1873
Corporation association : formerly Miltenberger Ring (left 1995)
Abbreviation: R!
Color status : black
Colours: Red White Red
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : not striking
Motto: "Nec Aspera Terrent!"
Website: www.rupertia.de

The Rupertia association is a non-striking, non-colored student association without a corporation at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and surrounding universities. The compound was founded as Corona Francofurtensis on May 23, 1873 and renamed Rupertia in 1876. The members of the Rupertia are made up of students of different nationalities, beliefs and idiosyncrasies. Their motto is “Nec Aspera Terrent!”, Which can be freely translated as “don't be afraid of any effort!”.

history

The beginnings of the connection

The history of Rupertia begins in the summer semester of 1872, when twelve students from Frankfurt am Main (nine of them of Jewish origin) at Heidelberg University met regularly in the “Schwarzes Schiff” restaurant in Heidelberg-Neuenheim . As early as May 1873, this group decided to give itself a more official framework with statutes : On May 23, 1873, the Corona Francofurtensis with the colors red-white-red (the colors of the city of Frankfurt am Main ) was founded. The Corona Francofurtensis immediately decided not to wear their colors in public and thus to be a so-called "black compound" . The Corona also did not set any special admission conditions, as do some other student associations (such as religion, compatriot origin, etc.) - it made "personal freedom" and "lifelong friendship" the only leitmotifs of belonging to the association.

The founding ideals were described by the nine Jewish founders in the following words:

"We established the connection to enable closer friendly intercourse among equals and to act on all those ideal attitudes and goals which must and should raise us above the accidental in people: birth, class, origin, nationality and denomination."

- The Jewish founding fathers of the Rupertia

From Corona Francofurtensis to Rupertia

After its foundation, the Corona Francofurtensis enjoyed a strong influx, not only from other Frankfurters, but from all parts of the German Empire and abroad. Due to the large number of visitors, the premises in the “Black Ship” were soon no longer sufficient, so that from then on the regular meetings were held in the “Bremeneck” restaurant (the later liaison house of the Teutonia Landsmannschaft ). As early as 1876, three years after it was founded, the Corona had 23 old men , which is why the name "Francofurtensis" no longer seemed appropriate due to the majority of non-Frankfurters and the connection was renamed Rupertia on January 23, 1876 . The choice of the name goes to the then youngest Fuxen Michael Martin Lienau, who made the successful proposal to name the connection after the Count Palatine Ruprecht I (founder of the University of Heidelberg ). The Rupertia connection was recognized by the Senate of Heidelberg University in 1878.

In 1884, the BC of the Rupertia decided that from now on the members were unconditionally satisfactory . This officially introduced student fencing in the Rupertia, with no compulsory graduation .

House of the Rupertia Association
Rupertenhaus (1898)

Rise of the Rupertia

The Rupertia connection quickly enjoyed great public recognition, which u. a. this showed that local politicians such as B. the princes Maximilian and Ludwig von Baden (both conkneipanten 1887) as well as Friedrich II. Von Baden joined. Above all, the sons of rich Baden families joined the Rupertia.

Like the “Black Ship” before, the “Bremeneck” could soon no longer offer enough space to the rapidly growing connection. For this reason, the Rupertia decided in 1894 to build a house on Schlossberg No. 27/29, which was completed in 1896. This house construction was only possible thanks to the generous donations of some old men and their fathers.

The rupertia during the world wars

During the First World War , 34 members died and fraternity almost completely came to a standstill. After the liaison and study operations were resumed in 1919, the Rupertia participated in the establishment of the "Heidelberger Verband Schwarzer Schlagenderverbindungen" (HVSSV) and was now called "Schwarzes Corps Rupertia". In the same year the Rupertia founded the Miltenberger Ring together with other connections .

In 1935, the Aktivitas and formally also the Rupertia were dissolved in the course of the synchronization of the student associations in the Third Reich , only the Alter Ruperten eV association was allowed to remain. In 1938 the Rupertia was "continued" in the form of the Kameradschaft General v. Schlieffen , who continued the usual fencing business and extensive student activity in the house until the “Total War” was proclaimed in 1943. In 1945 the comradeship General v. Finally, Schlieffen also dissolved formally.

Re-establishment of the Rupertia after '45

After the end of World War II in 1945, the corporation house was confiscated by American troops, which led to the loss of numerous inventory. After the Americans left, the Alter Ruperten eV association got the house back. Between 1947 and 1949, two student groups used the premises of the Rupertia for their meetings at the invitation of the old rulers: The Alpach Group (the later Heidelberg district) and Lykeion. In 1949 the old rulers approached the Lykeion group with the request whether they should join the Rupertia as a new activity. Lykeion accepted, but in turn enforced some conditions, which in 1953 a. a. led to the official giving up of unconditional satisfaction . The Rupertia in its current form was recognized by the University of Heidelberg in 1963 together with all other Heidelberg student associations . In the course of a constitutional reform, the appointment censorship was officially abolished in 1967 , since then the rupertia has been a non-binding association.

Even after the war, Rupertia participated in the re-establishment of the Miltenberger Ring, which in 1973 merged with the Wernigeroder Black Association (WSV) to form the Miltenberg-Wernigeroder Ring (MWR). In the course of an association crisis in 1995, Rupertia left the newly founded Miltenberger Ring and has since been without a corporation .

Known members

In alphabetic order

literature

  • Gerhart Berger, Detlev Aurand: Weiland Bursch zu Heidelberg. A commemorative publication of the Heidelberg corporations for the 600th anniversary of Ruperto Carola , Heidelberger VA, Heidelberg 1986, ISBN 3-920431-63-4
  • Michael Doeberl (Ed.): Das akademische Deutschland , Vol. 2: The German universities and their academic citizens , Berlin 1931, p. 854.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eckhard Oberdörfer: Der Heidelberger Karzer , Cologne 2005, p. 161.
  2. ↑ Literally: "(And) do not fear the hardship"
  3. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 67.
  4. ^ Gerhart Berger, Detlev Aurand: Weiland Bursch zu Heidelberg. A commemorative publication by the Heidelberg Corporations for the 600th anniversary of Ruperto Carola , Heidelberger VA, Heidelberg 1986, p. 147

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