Vienna corporation ring
The Wiener Korporationsring ( WKR ) is an association of Viennese student associations founded in 1952 , including above all striking associations . The chairmanship tournaments annually between the associations involved.
Member connections
The following 20 corporations currently belong to the WKR:
- Academic connection Wartburg
- Vienna academic fraternity Albia
- Vienna academic fraternity Aldania
- Vienna academic fraternity Bruna Sudetia
- Viennese academic fraternity Gothia
- Viennese academic fraternity Libertas
- Vienna academic fraternity of Moldavia
- Vienna Academic Fraternity Olympia
- Academic fraternity of Upper Austrian Teutons
- Vienna academic fraternity of Silesia
- Vienna academic fraternity of Teutonia
- Academic Corps Hansea in Vienna
- Academic Corps Saxonia
- Academic Frontier Team Cimbria
- Academic Hunting Association Silvania
- Academic Landsmannschaft Carinthia
- Academic round table Wiking in Wiener Neustadt
- Association of German Students Sudetia
- Vienna Academic Gymnastics Club
Events of the WKR
For the Vienna corporation ring, the association organized the "Vienna Korporations Ring, Ball Committee - Association for traditional customs" 1952-2012 the last controversial, annually held in January in Vienna Korporations-Ball , who until the mid-1990s under the patronage of the Rector of the University of Vienna was . Another annual event until 2012 was the May 8th memorial . Both the corporation ball and the commemoration of the dead have been regularly accompanied by protests and demonstrations since the beginning of the 2000s, in particular by the network platforms NOWKR (founded in 2008), Offensive against the Right and Set Signs Now! (both founded in 2011).
In November the WKR-Kommers traditionally takes place in the Vienna City Hall. The Kommers is usually accompanied by demonstrations, and in 2015 no organization called for a protest for the first time.
Every Wednesday, members of the affiliated associations appear in the so-called color stroll on the ramp of the University of Vienna. There are also regular demonstrations against this event.
Furthermore, there is a solstice celebration every year on June 21st.
Political positioning
According to Heribert Schiedel from the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW), fraternities on the far right set the tone in the WKR. In the handbook of Austrian right-wing extremism published by the DÖW, the WKR is listed as a contact for right-wing extremist associations - such as the Austrian Landsmannschaft (ÖLM) and the Austrian Gymnastics Federation (ÖTB). In 1990 the right-wing extremist and then a member of Teutonia, Franz Radl, was the spokesman for the WKR.
In the winter semester 1983/84 the Corps Symposion left the WKR because of its "one-sided politicization".
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the member connections on www.wkr.at ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Query in the Central Register of Associations on February 16, 2011.
- ↑ Der Standard , November 14, 2006: Controversial college student Stefan appears on the verge of a comer
- ↑ DÖW : Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Vienna, 1994, 719 pages
- ↑ Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism, Vienna, 1996 (2nd edition), p. 503
- ↑ Quoted after Heribert Schiedel , 2007: The right margin. Extremist sentiments in our society. Vienna, Edition Steinbauer,.
