WKStV Unitas-Salia Bonn

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WKStV Unitas-Salia

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Basic data
University location: Bonn
Founding: June 11, 1847 as Ruhrania
Corporation association : UV
Color status : colorful
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Religion / Denomination: Catholic
Position to the scale : not striking
Motto: in necessariis unitas,
in dubiis libertas,
in omnibus caritas
Total members: 303
Active: 28
Website: www.unitas-salia.de

The Scientific Catholic Student Association Unitas-Salia Bonn, with a history dating back to 1847, is one of the oldest Catholic corporations. It was in it that some of the typical characteristics of Catholic student associations were developed. The Union of Scientific Catholic Student Associations Unitas , which is the oldest Catholic student association and currently the third largest of the Catholic associations in Germany with a total of around 6,000 members, emerged from it.

The association changed its name several times in the 19th century: It was founded as Ruhrania in 1847 and renamed Unitas in 1854 . In 1875 the Unitas merged with the Salia to form Unitas-Salia . In 1887 the name Scientific Catholic Student Association was added.

Established as Ruhrania

In the first half of the 19th century there were fundamental upheavals in social ideas that called the traditional church views into question. This, as well as the contrast between the Protestant Prussian state and the Catholic population, which culminated in the arrest of the Archbishop of Cologne in 1837 , led to the formation of a large number of Catholic associations , especially in the Rhine Province . As the then existing forms of student associations - Fraternities , Country Teams and Corps - embodied no religious values and, moreover, rejected by Catholic faithful scale cultivated, it came in 1844 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University at Bonn establishing the Bavaria as the first Catholic corporation . Due to the large influx of this then new form of student association, further Catholic associations emerged in 1847.

On June 11, 1847, Ruhrania , from which Unitas would later emerge, was founded in the Engel inn in Bonn's Rheingasse . The association only accepted Catholic theology students. He joined forces with Bavaria and the sister associations Burgundia , Romania , Salia and Thuringia to form a union in order to gain greater weight compared to the liberal student associations in Bonn. The six union members led - at that time of course for a union of students - a red-white-red ribbon, the colors of which were intended to demonstrate belonging to the Archdiocese of Cologne . As early as 1848 , the Ruhrania had to officially dissolve again due to pressure from the Prussian state as the sponsor of the university on the members of student associations.

In the summer semester of 1850 , former members - in particular from the Convicts Collegium Albertinum and Collegium Leoninum - reconstituted the Ruhrania . They deliberately refrained from wearing colors, as they saw internal work as more important than external work. They no longer joined the Union. In the following years the association was fundamentally reformed.

Development to Unitas

In the early 1850s, the still relatively loose union of the Ruhrania , which was primarily held together by the common faith and common study, became a close association that realized these things in its own way. The purely social conversations and outward appearances to affirm the Catholicism in public that had shaped the Union became less important. Instead, the focus was on educating the members, who at the time were all theology students, to live together in faith and to deal scientifically with Catholic teaching. In the statutes, the patron saints, the club festivals and the type of cultivation of the scientific principle are recorded, which characterize the Unitas Association to this day. The club festival, which was celebrated for the first time on August 6th, 1850 in Heisterbach , developed into the highest festival of the Unitas with the combination of the common celebration of holy mass, agape and a scientific morning session.

On February 2, 1854, the Ruhrania took the name Unitas . This was justified in the protocol book of the association by the theology student Ferdinand Rheinstädter with the words: “Unity in faith is the essence of Catholicism, unity in science consists primarily in the relationship of all our scientific endeavors to the greater glory of God and the glorification of him holy church, unity in friendship be our mutual sanctification through the effective understanding of the idea of ​​friendship in the Lord. ” (quoted from Brenig: 110 years of Unitas-Salia in Bonn , page 9).

In 1853, students from other faculties were accepted for the first time by unanimous decision. Nonetheless, the Unitas remained a theological association until 1887. Having previously worked in the years principles were laid down in a new Statute on 3 March 1853 an was in October 1854 old boys' club for the members of the established who had completed their studies and issued a unanimous declaration of all members in 1855, Unitas than life covenant to consider. In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas were set as the motto . In 1858, the Bonn Unitarian P. Liesen composed the federal song of the Unitas association, " Schall now, du Bundessang" . On March 5, 1863, Unitas Bonn chose the club colors blue-white-gold, which became the Unitarian colors of the association. Blue and white are the colors of Saint Mary , white and gold are those of the Catholic Church.

Foundation of the Unitas Association

On December 8th, 1855 , the establishment of the Tübingen subsidiary Unitas Tübingen resulted in a new association, which later became the Association of Scientific Catholic Student Associations Unitas (UV). Originally an association was to be established that was based in two locations. Since Bonn was in Prussia and Tübingen in Württemberg , this was impossible, so an umbrella organization was founded for both clubs.

Association with the Salia in the Prussian Kulturkampf

In the winter semester of 1865, the Monasteria was founded as a wreath at the Konvikt in Bonn . After the Prussian authorities dissolved the Konvikts on June 9, 1875, the Konviktsverein Monasteria was renamed Salia . In the autumn of 1875 the two associations Unitas and Salia merged to form Unitas-Salia . The principles, association patrons and statutes of the Unitas were adopted as well as the previous membership in the Unitas association .

In 1874 the old gentlemen's association had to dissolve under pressure from the authorities. The Aktivitas could continue to exist.

After the association decided in 1871 that unanimity was no longer required to accept non-theologians, more and more students from other faculties became members of the Unitas. This measure turned out to be positive for the Unitas during the Prussian Kulturkampf , since in the years 1880/81 most theology students left the University of Bonn. The theological faculty of the University of Bonn, which 20 years earlier had 240 students, now comprised only 45 students. When the state pressure eased, the number of students increased again from 1882, as did the number of active members of the association. When all theology students were obliged to live in the reopened Konvikt in 1887, the existence of the Unitas-Salia as a theological connection was threatened. It was therefore transformed into an academic Catholic student association in which members of all faculties should have equal rights. Nonetheless, the number of members remained relatively low and only rose again ten years later. In the old rulers in particular, theologians continued to dominate for a long time, making 175 out of a total of 297 old men in 1907.

Unitas-Salia in the 20th century

Several subsidiary corporations were founded in the years shortly before the First World War. Finally, the old gentlemen's association, which was dissolved in 1874, was officially re-established in 1913.

The Unitas-Salia did not have a house of its own for a long time. Association meetings were held in restaurants, private rooms and also in church rooms. A house building association was only founded in 1907, since Unitas-Salia was meanwhile the only Catholic corporation without a fraternity in Bonn. In 1911 the house at Bachstrasse 57 was bought.

During the First World War, club life largely came to a standstill. Three members of the Unitas-Salia died as soldiers.

After the end of the war, more young people began to study again, so that club life flourished again. The difference of opinion in the student body at the time, whether the republic was to be welcomed as a new form of government, or the old monarchical state was desired, also went through the Unitas. The desire for a more national orientation and for the wearing of couleur as an external symbol was rejected by the Salians as well as by the majority of the Unitas Association . However, because of this, the subsidiary company Sigfridia left the Unitas Association and joined the newly founded ring of Catholic German fraternities .

In 1930 the previous house was sold and today's house in Luisenstrasse was bought.

After the unitarian club life in its specifically Catholic form became more and more difficult from 1933, the Unitas-Salia was banned by the Gestapo in 1938 as an organization hostile to the state. The association's assets, especially the house, were confiscated by the National Socialist state and all activities of the association were prohibited.

In 1946, the St. Georg group of the Catholic student community in Bonn was founded and members of the Unitas join. Therefore, the 100th foundation festival could be celebrated in 1947. In 1949 the old name Unitas-Salia was adopted again. On May 5, 1954, the Unitas-Salia received their house back. The neighboring house was bought later.

Daughter clubs

  • In 1855 Unitarians from Bonn founded the Unitas Tübingen.
  • In 1859 Unitarians from Bonn and Tübingen jointly founded the Unitas Münster.
  • In 1905 the subsidiary company Unitas-Alania was founded, which left the Unitas Association in 1908 and operates today as KDStV Alania Bonn in the Cartell Association .
  • In 1910, the subsidiary Unitas-Sigfridia was founded, which in 1924 became the RKDB .

Significant members

literature

  • Anton Brenig (Ed.): 110 years of Unitas-Salia in Bonn / 1847 to 1957 - commemorative publication for the 110th foundation festival of the WKStV Unitas-Salia, the parent corporation of the Unitas Association . Bonn, 1957.
  • Markus Heubes (ed.): Fuxenfibel - Association of Scientific Catholic Student Associations Unitas . Volume XV of the Unitas series. 1999.
  • Michael J. Fassbender, Christian Lützenrath: Work folder on tradition and comment of Bavaria Bonn . Bonn, 1995.
  • S. Schieweck-Mauk: Lexicon of CV and ÖCV connections . Association for German Student History, Würzburg, 1997, ISBN 3-89498-040-0 .
  • 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 Department of History at the University of Cologne, 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 26.

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