Wetzlar General Landsmannschaften-Seniors-Convent
The Wetzlarer Allgemeine Landsmannschaften-Seniors-Convent (Wetzlarer ALSC) was the oldest corporate association of compulsory and color-bearing country teams . His work relates to the technical universities in the period from 1867 to 1875 and is regarded as a predecessor of the Coburg Convent of Landsmannschaften and gymnastics associations .
prehistory
The first attempt to found a national association at technical universities was made by the Slesvico-Holsatia Hanover national team. Through the local LSC, she had been connected to the Landsmannschaft Obotritia Hannover since March 1861, and on the other hand she was in close contact with the Landsmannschaft Teutonia Zurich, which had been founded by students from Hanover (including some Holsaten). In the summer of 1861, requests were sent to six compatriots, but no agreement was reached.
Another attempt was made in December 1863. This time a draft statute was submitted to found a general association of country teams at polytechnic schools . The proposal was accepted by Obotritia, Teutonia, the Landsmannschaft Baltica Zürich (newly founded, in the cartel with Obotritia) as well as the Landsmannschaft Baltica Karlsruhe and Landsmannschaft Germania Munich. However, since the LSC Hanover had concerns about Germania, which existed as a fraternity until March 22, 1865 and in Zurich the effective connections with the academic authorities had difficulties, the negotiations in Biebrich were broken off in May 1865.
Emergence
Some changes have now occurred in the aforementioned country teams. The two Zürcher Landsmannschaften had to suspend in 1865, Teutonia opened up again as Frisia in Karlsruhe and most of the active members of the Baltica also continued their studies in Karlsruhe with the Baltica there. In spring, Baltica and Frisia formed the local Landsmannschaften-Seniors-Convent (LSC) while the Hanoverian LSC with Obotritia and Slesvico-Holsatia remained. The Germania continued to call itself Landsmannschaft, but gradually withdrew and finally became a Corps at the end of 1867 . The only other polytechnic country team associations that existed this year were the country team Helvetia Karlsruhe and the country team clubs that were formed in Berlin.
Another impetus for the merger was proposed on May 29, 1867 by a letter from the Karlsruhe LSC to the Hanoverian country teams with a meeting in Wetzlar, which is halfway in the middle . On June 28, 1867, the Allgemeine Landsmannschaften-Seniors-Convent (ALSC) was founded. The statutes got their final version and made it clear that the ALSC was on a national team basis and committed itself to unconditional satisfaction . The first president was the Slesvico-Holsatia.
Following an application by the Karlsruhe LSC, a positive decision was made in 1870 about a temporary suspension of the ALSC to revise and supplement the statutes after disputes arose. The Franco-German War then broke out and all activities except for the Baltica were suspended. A reconstitution of the now Wetzlar ALSC association took place on 29./30. March 1872 on the initiative (from 1871) of the Karlsruhe LSC and the Obotritia Hanover.
| member | city | entry | exit | Connection type today |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frisia | Karlsruhe | June 28, 1867 | corps | |
| Baltica | Karlsruhe | June 28, 1867 | corps | |
| Obotritia | Hanover | June 28, 1867 | WS 1873/74 | corps |
| Slesvico-Holsatia | Hanover | June 28, 1867 | SS 1869 (resigned after a dispute) | corps |
| Alemannia | Hanover | 29./30. March 1872 | Refusal of final admission WS 1873/84 | corps |
| Saxonia | Stuttgart | 29./30. March 1872 | Compatriot | |
| Teutonia | Aachen | 29./30. March 1872 | short term suspension | corps |
| Ghibellinia | Stuttgart | May 1873 | November 1874 (cartel with Obotritia) | Fraternity |
| Normannia | Aachen | May 1873 | WS 1873/74 | Compatriot |
resolution
The economic upswing of the early days was followed by the economic crisis and the number of students at technical universities fell sharply. In the winter semester of 1873/74, Normannia was not finally accepted from the Renonce and had to withdraw. The Alemannia declared their exit and reopened as a corps. Obotritia, who was now alone in Hanover, tried once again to force the free country teams in Hanover, Guestphalia and Ostfalia, by means of an ultimatum to be accepted into the Wetzlar ALSC without a trial period (Renonce). When this failed, she resigned herself and henceforth trained an LSC outside the association in Hanover, which Vandalia joined in January 1875 as the fourth local polytechnic team. In Stuttgart, the two country teams fall apart over financial issues in the LSC. Further disputes ensued and in November Ghibellinia announced its resignation due to the departure of its cartel union Obotritia. After Teutonia Aachen had to temporarily suspend due to a lack of young talent, the Wetzlar ALSC consisted of only three country teams at the end of 1874.
Finally, on February 1, 1875, Saxonia submitted the following application:
"Since the current ALSC no longer has any real meaning at all, the BC suggests that the Saxonia country team dissolve it and, if the current ALSC country team wishes to establish a different relationship between them."
After a failed debate, on June 2, 1875, Saxonia announced its exit from the Wetzlar ALSC to the Karlsruhe LSC. The association was thus de facto dissolved.
Shortly after her departure on February 13, 1875, Obotritia decided to negotiate with the polytechnical country teams that did not belong to the dying association about the establishment of a new association, but it would take fifteen years until a new association, the Auerbacher Landsmannschafts-Seniors-Convent, was founded should.
Individual evidence
- ↑ today: Weinheimer Corps Slesvico-Holsatia Hannover
- ↑ Compare: Dietrich Weber: Landsmannschaften an Technische Hochschulen and their associations , p. 76
- ↑ today: Weinheimer Corps Obotritia Darmstadt
- ↑ today: Corps Germania Munich
- ↑ Compare: Dietrich Weber: Landsmannschaften an Technische Hochschulen and their associations , p. 77
- ↑ Compare: Dietrich Weber: Landsmannschaften an Technische Hochschulen and their associations , p. 78
- ↑ Compare: Dietrich Weber: Landsmannschaften an Technische Hochschulen and their associations , p. 80
See also
literature
- Dietrich Weber: Country teams at technical universities and their associations from Historia Academica, Volume 10, Stuttgart
- The German universities and their academic citizens. from: The Academic Germany Volume II, Berlin 1930/1