WKSt.V. Unitas Ruperto Carola

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WKStV Unitas Ruperto Carola

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Basic data
University location: Heidelberg
University / s: Heidelberg University
Founding: July 11, 1900
Corporation association : UV (1855)
Abbreviation: U! RC
Color status : colorful
Colours: gold-blue-white
Colours:
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Religion / Denomination: Roman Catholic
Position to the scale : not striking
Total members: 300 (2018)
Website: www.unitas-ruperto-carola.de

The Scientific Catholic Student Association Unitas Ruperto Carola zu Heidelberg (U! RC) is a non-striking and non-colored student association at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . It was founded on July 11, 1900 and belongs to the Union of Scientific Catholic Student Associations , a nationwide network with associations in many German-speaking university towns.

history

On July 11, 1900, the Unitas Heidelberg was founded at the University of Heidelberg by the federal brothers of their parent corporation, Unitas Freiburg. Initially, the Hotel Luxor served as the meeting place, where the active participants ate lunch and dinner together and discussed club issues. Due to the small number of active members, the association was soon strengthened by federal brothers from Bonn, Munich and Freiburg, following the association principle. Membership flourished until the beginning of World War I; and the club soon had more than 40 students among its active members. Six friars died in World War I and the Hotel Luxor had to close its doors towards the end of the war. The Unitas Heidelberg nevertheless gained more and more members, so that on May 20, 1931, five Heidelberg friars founded the Unitas Rheno-Palatia in Mannheim, which still exists today.

At the end of the 1920s, Unitas Heidelberg acquired a house at Klingenteichstrasse 19. As part of the National Socialists' seizure of power and as a result of the Heidelberg asparagus meal , which led to a general ban on connections, Unitas in Heidelberg also came under increasing pressure. However, the Unitas association was the only student association to refuse to dissolve itself. As a result, Unitas Heidelberg was forcibly dissolved on June 20, 1938 by means of the Himmler Decree as a subversive, Catholic organization. The house at Klingenteichstrasse 19 was previously signed over to the caretaker to prevent expropriation by the Waffen SS .

After the Union of Scientific Catholic Student Associations Unitas started its work again in 1948, it did not take long before active operations were resumed in Heidelberg on February 20, 1949. A repurchase of the house at Klingenteichstraße 19 was not possible due to the transfer. Nonetheless, Unitas Heidelberg quickly regained its attractiveness in the post-war period, so that by the end of the 1950s it had over 80 student members. During this time, the Unitas Rheno-Nicaria zu Heidelberg was founded on July 29, 1953 by five Heidelberg federal brothers, which, however, was reintegrated into the Unitas Heidelberg in 1955 and was suspended as a result.

Six years later, 17 Heidelberg Unitarians attempted to found another Unitas association in Heidelberg by founding the Unitas-Kurpfalz on July 23, 1959, which from then on met regularly in the Essighaus Plöck. About a year later, on June 9, 1960, the Unitas-Kurpfalz was accepted into the Unitas Association. 18 months later, the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg recognized the newly founded association as an academic student association.

Both the Unitas-Kurpfalz and the Unitas Heidelberg were able to attract more and more students as members in the following years. In 1967, the two associations acquired the Villa Mohr on the north side of the Neckar at Neuenheimer Landstrasse 42, which is still the connection house for the Unitas in Heidelberg. Despite the fluctuating number of members in the 1970s, the Heidelberg Brothers became increasingly involved in the Union of Scientific Catholic Student Associations, and in 1979 they hosted the association's general assembly. In the 1990s the number of members became more stable again, so that in 1992/1993 the Unitas Kurpfalz zu Heidelberg provided the suburb for the Association of Scientific Catholic Student Associations Unitas.

The Unitas Kurpfalz applied for a suspension on April 13, 2005 with the following reason: “In order to strengthen the Aktivitas of the Unitas in Heidelberg, so that Unitarian life can continue to flourish in the future, the Aktivitas of the WKSt.V. Unitas-Kurpfalz zu Heidelberg, the WKSt.V. Unitas Heidelberg to join Heidelberg. This is done with the proviso that the WKSt.V. Unitas Heidelberg zu Heidelberg in the WKSt.V. Unitas Ruperto Carola renamed to Heidelberg. Thus the traditional founding date of July 11th, 1900 is preserved. ”This was granted, and the Unitas Ruperto Carola zu Heidelberg was created. Today the student association has around 30 students from all disciplines at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität. In addition, the association is supported by an alumni network, which is made up of three old-man associations, namely the AHV Heidelberg, AHV Kurpfalz and AHV Ruperto Carola. Taken together, there are around 250 former members of the student associations Unitas Heidelberg, Unitas Kurpfalz and Unitas Ruperto Carola.

The name of the Unitas Ruperto Carola zu Heidelberg is in Latin, which was the first mandatory lecture language at the university. Here Ruperto leans towards the founder of the University Ruprecht I. and Carola leans towards Karl Friedrich , who has done the reorganization of the university. Heidelberg University bears the same name as its founding fathers.

Women and the Unitas in Heidelberg

According to tradition, pubs were originally only visited by men. The Unitas association opened early, however, so that a few women were allowed to take part in unofficial closings in club bars. As early as 1909, Unitas Heidelberg had a young lady take over the presidium in the unofficial part of the bar at the beginning of the semester with the support of her husband, an old man. This openness is still there today, which is why women first moved to the Unitas House in Heidelberg in 2003.
In 2005, they founded their own Unitas association with the support of the Heidelberg Unitarians. Today four of the 15 rooms on the Unitas house are reserved for the women's association, which is the only fraternity house in Heidelberg with two different associations.

Local activities

The student association now has around 35 active members, making it the largest student association in Heidelberg. In addition to the usual semester program for student associations , Unitas in Heidelberg organizes several charitable events during the semester, including the Heidelberg charity run , a stand at the Heidelberg Christmas market and a stand on the Lebendiger Neckar , where donations in the mid four-digit range are raised every year. For example, the Sterntaler children's hospice in Mannheim, the Heidelberg refugee initiative Each1Teach1, the Orthos child and youth welfare organization and an aid organization in Bolivia were supported .

Well-known Heidelberg Unitarians

literature

  • Markus Heubes (Ed.): Fuxenfibel - Association of Scientific Catholic Student Associations Unitas , Volume XV of the Unitas series, 2016.
  • S. Schieweck-Mauk: Lexicon of CV and ÖCV connections , Association for German Student History, Würzburg, 1997, ISBN 3-89498-040-0 .
  • Gerhart Berger and Detlev Aurand (eds.): Weiland Bursch zu Heidelberg, A Festschrift of the Heidelberg Corporations for the 600th anniversary of Ruperto Carola . Heidelberg, 1986, ISBN 978-3-920431-63-5 .
  • Christopher Dowe: Also educated citizens: Catholic students and academics in the Kaiserreich , Göttingen, 2011, ISBN 978-3-647-35152-0
  • Unitas Heidelberg 1900-1975. Unitas Electoral Palatinate 1959-1975. Festschrift for the 75th Foundation Festival of the Unitas Heidelberg and the 16th Foundation Festival of the Unitas Kurpfalz , o. Place u. Year.
  • Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch I , Siegburg, 1995
  • Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch II , Siegburg, 1996
  • Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch III , Siegburg, 1997
  • Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch IV , Siegburg, 2000
  • Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch V , Siegburg, 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch I, 1995, pp. 191f.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch I, 1995, p. 173.
  3. ↑ Christopher Dowe: Also Bildungsbürger: Catholic students and academics in the Kaiserreich, 2011, p. 121.
  4. ^ Between art, music and studies in: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, 2012, accessed in July 2018
  5. ↑ Who is behind the charity run? Retrieved September 3, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Student association Unitas Ruperto Carola once again supports the Sterntaler | Sterntaler children's hospice . In: Sterntaler Children's Hospice . November 30, 2017 ( kinderhospiz-sterntaler.de [accessed September 3, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Arco Iris | Lebendiger Neckar in Heidelberg 2015. Retrieved on September 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch I, 1995, p. 77.
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch III, 1997, p. 50.
  10. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch I, 1995, p. 75.
  11. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (Ed.): Unitas Handbuch II, 1997, p. 294.