Würzburg Federation
The Würzburger Bund , as the Bund of Catholic Student Corporations , which existed from 1864 to 1865, is usually called, was the first comprehensive amalgamation of Catholic corporations . The federal government played an important role as the forerunner organization of the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations (KV) and in the further development of the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations (CV).
prehistory
Since 1856 there was a friendship between Aenania Munich and Winfridia Breslau . However, there is a discussion in certain circles about the qualifications of this friendship. Nevertheless, the two associations themselves are clearly committed to it.
In the letter from Winfridia Breslau to Aenania Munich of July 29, 1856 with the question of a relationship, the words friendly relations were used literally. Shortly before that, Winfridia, which had existed as a loose reading association for Catholic students since 1848 , had transformed into a much more deeply structured Catholic student association . By wearing colors and by courageously advocating the principles against materialism to the outside world , this circumstance was of great significance and importance for Aenania Munich, which emerged from her letter of December 6, 1856 . The friendship was accepted with great joy.
The Aenaniae Convent was pleased that ... an association has been flourishing at Wroclaw University for years, which, in addition to the social purpose, pursues a higher goal, whose striving is aimed at scientific education and the development of a solid, healthy and male character, which also raises the Catholic consciousness accepted under his principles and wants to bring them to active life. But what heightened our brotherly feelings was the attached message that this noble association no longer wants to work as before, only inwardly in a friendly circle, but that you have decided to act as courageous representatives of the principles towards the outside world Materialism to show you that the same tricolor adorns you that also unites and encourages us Aenans to strive for unity. (At that time Winfridia Breslau had the same colors as Aenania Munich.)
Aenania had already established relationships with other Catholic associations that also strived for scientific and social purposes and sent each other a report once a semester. Nevertheless, a clear distinction was made between such associations, some of which were generally accessible, and connections at universities, which only students could enter. These connections showed their colors to the outside world as a principle of public relations work. A monthly and much more intensive exchange of reports was maintained. This friendship between Aenania Munich and Winfridia Breslau has been qualified as a cartel relationship since 1860 through the two connections . Since then, the terms Cartell and Cartell connection appeared. The term Cartell was clearly used to differentiate between non-colored associations. At the same time, looser relationships were established with these in the form of a correspondence relationship. For example the correspondence relationship between Aenania Munich and the Reading Club Berlin in the summer of 1863 or the correspondence relationship between Aenania Munich and the K.St.V. Arminia Bonn .
The term Cartell connection was interpreted by the Convent Aenaniae in 1861 as follows: The Cartell connections are actually only a connection separated by space. In 1862 it was added: The connection sees the Cartell connection as it were, as it were only existing in another place; With the correspondence connections, the relationship can only be more or less loose.
Foundation of the Würzburger Bund
The speech of the young Georg von Hertling on the XV. Katholikentag 1863 (at the same time of the 1st Cartel Assembly of the CV) in Frankfurt , in which he introduced the terms religion, science and friendship as the guiding principles of a Catholic fraternity student, triggered the endeavor to unite all Catholic student corporations; both the clubs and the connections.
On the XVI. Katholikentag in Würzburg In 1864 the Association of Catholic Student Corporations was set up, consisting of the Reading Association Berlin , Arminia Bonn and the connections Aenania Munich and Winfridia Breslau . The associations Germania Münster and Unitas Breslau as well as the connections Guestfalia Tübingen and Austria Innsbruck also joined. The last to join was the Walhalla Würzburg association . With this Würzburger Bund the first nationwide umbrella organization of Catholic student associations and associations was created.
Split of the Würzburg Confederation
At the general assemblies there were disputes between Arminia Bonn and Bavaria Bonn , which in the summer of 1865 led to the split of the Würzburg Confederation in Trier . A human reason may have been in the founding history of Arminia. Its founder, Max Lossen , moved from the University of Munich, where he belonged to the Aenania, to the University of Bonn and joined Bavaria in 1863 . However, there was soon a break with the Bavarians. There is disagreement about the reasons. Bavaria represents that Lossen and his cousin Friedrich Kayser, who joined Bavaria at the same time, claimed the same batch . For his part, Lossen complained about the Bavaria's lack of exclusivity , which had been shattered by many internal arguments.
The draft resolution finally adopted in Würzburg read: The General Assembly of the Catholic student associations should agree on the unanimous resolution that a separation of the associations and connections is desirable in the interests of better implementation of our principles.
Founding myths for KV and CV
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At the end of January 1866 , the Cartel Association of Catholic German Student Associations (KV) was set up under the chairmanship of the Reading Association Berlin , to which Arminia Bonn, Unitas Breslau, Germania Münster and Walhalla Würzburg also belonged. These student associations renounced the use of color and other external student customs that they saw as a distraction from their scientific and religious principles.
Aenania Munich, Winfridia Wroclaw, Guestfalia Tübingen and Innsbruck Austria led their relationship on the basis of the already since 1856 existing Cartellverband continued (CV). There was no differentiation between the common programmatic objectives of the two newly founded associations. After the split, Bavaria Bonn joined the CV. The CV is colored .
The separation of CV and KV was not primarily based on differences in the basic objectives of the two associations - extensive similarities can be found here - but rather on the orientation. The KV attached less importance to the maintenance of external forms, as they were customary in the student youth, it turned far more to intellectual, religious and cultural questions. In addition to the pursuit of intellectual and religious issues, the CV also served the maintenance of student customs as a means of upbringing and asserting Catholic interests in the academic world.
The KV initially saw 1863 as the date of origin of the Catholic associations, including itself. This year, the Reading Association Berlin entered into a correspondence relationship with Aenania Munich and Winfridia Breslau, which they have had for seven years as part of a cartel relationship.
With this, the correspondence relationship between the three associations was qualitatively turned into the nucleus of an association. Correspondingly, in 1913, in accordance with the resolution of the meeting of representatives , Hermann Cardauns presented his commemorative publication 50 Years of Cartel Association . From the meeting of representatives in 1955 , the KV referred the age of the association to the year 1853 , when the Berlin Reading Club was founded.
In contrast , the CV sees itself traditionally founded since 1856 , the year of the first Cartel relationship between Aenania Munich and Winfridia Breslau (today Münster).
literature
- Florian Werr , History of the Cartell Association of Catholic German Student Associations, Paderborn, 1890.
- Cartel Association of Catholic Student Associations, Fifty Years of Cartel Association (1863–1913) - Commemorative publication for the golden anniversary of the Association of Catholic Student Associations in Germany, Kempten, Munich, 1913.
- O. Wolf: History of the Catholic German student union Bavaria 1844-1914 . Bonn 1914.
- Gerhard Popp: CV in Austria 1864–1938 . Hermann Böhlau, Vienna 1984, ISBN 320508831X .
- S. Schieweck-Mauk: Lexicon of CV and ÖCV connections . Association for German Student History , Würzburg, 1997, ISBN 3894980400 .
- Siegfried Koß: Against the independence of a historical cliché. Possibly. v. H., the Würzburger Bund u. the CV / KV color dispute , in student courier. Zschr. F. Student history, university policy and Korporationswesen, Cologne, 1998, no. 4, pp. 5-7.
- Matthias Stickler : The Würzburger Bund of 1864. A contribution to the early history of political Catholicism in Germany , in: Bernhard Grün, Johannes Schellakowsky, Matthias Stickler and Peter Süß (eds.): Between corporation and confrontation. Contributions to the history of universities and students in Würzburg . Cologne, 1999, pp. 239-259.
- KDSt.V. Aenania Munich: 150 years of the Catholic German student union Aenania . Munich, 2001.
- Daniel Koschera: Has recently formed a new association of Catholic students - Bavaria and the Bonner Union 1844–1867: A contribution to the early days of Catholic student associations in Germany . Master's thesis at the historical seminar of the University of Cologne, Cologne 2004.