Vienna academic fraternity Albia

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Vienna academic fraternity Albia

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Basic data
University location: Vienna
University / s: University of Vienna
Founding: November 20, 1870
Corporation association : German fraternity from 1919
Cartel / District / AG: Black-Red-Golden Cartel, BG
Abbreviation: B!
Color status : colored
Colours:
Fox colors: Foxes do not wear a ribbon
Cap: light blue stiff flat cap
Type of Confederation: Men's association
Position to the scale : compulsory with five compulsory graduations
Motto: Honor, freedom, fatherland
Website: www.albia.at

The Vienna academic fraternity Albia is a colored and obligatory student union . In addition to the Prague fraternity Teutonia and the Graz Academic Fraternity Arminia, it is a member of the Black-Red-Golden Cartel, the German Burschenschaft (DB), the Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft (BG) and the Wiener Korporationsring (WKR). In addition, as a white fraternity, Albia continues to adhere to the principles of the White Circle .

history

monarchy

Theodor Herzl (1st from right) after his mensur on June 11, 1881

The Viennese academic fraternity Albia was founded on November 20, 1870 by four members of a social group of German university students from Bohemian-Leipa that had existed in Vienna since 1862 as the "German Student Association Lipensia". The statutes were submitted on December 12, 1870 and approved on February 20, 1871. A blue, white and gold chest band was worn as a badge, corresponding to the city colors of Bohemian Leipzig. From 1873, when the advertising area was extended to the whole of northern Bohemia and, referring to the “ Elbegau ”, the name “German-Academic Association Albia” was adopted, people also wore light blue loafers made of stiff silk. The motto was "loyal, free, German, honest" and § 2 of the rules of procedure read: "The connection is from a progressist point of view and aims to raise German national awareness, preserve and promote student interests, intellectual training, collegiality and a staunch demeanor of the members Outside."

Anton Pergelt in particular advocated racket fencing and on June 24, 1874 for the first time made the request that “the Coleur should declare itself conservative”, which did not find a convincing majority. Various corrections followed, which finally resulted in the will to found a "fraternity". The Albia merged on May 28, 1877 with the association “Gothia” as the “Wiener Burschenschaft Gothia” and adopted the colors black, red and gold on a blue background, which are still valid today, as well as the still valid motto “Honor, Freedom, Fatherland” on. Due to internal disputes, most of the Goths resigned, so that on February 3, 1878, the “Gothia” fraternity took the name “Albia” again.

On October 5, 1879, a cartel was founded with the Teutonia Prague fraternity as "one fraternity at two university locations", i.e. H. the members of both fraternities are federal brothers with equal rights. When the Viennese fraternities Libertas, Silesia, Teutonia merged with the Bruna fraternity to form an academic delegate convention, Paul von Portheim applied in 1882 to declare himself “academic” and to rename it to the “Vienna academic fraternity Albia”. At this time Albia began to no longer accept Jewish members and became anti-Semitic from then on . (Portheim himself shot himself in 1883 because of a lack of academic success, and not, as the alb Hermann Bahr claimed decades later, because of his Jewish descent.)

On March 5, 1883, the funeral commemoration in honor of Richard Wagner took place in the Sofiensaal in Vienna . The Kommers, who organized a large German rally with over 4,000 participants, was headed by the progress mine Franz Dafert , the speech was given by Hermann Bahr, who also addressed Wagner's anti-Semitism. As a result, further speeches were banned and, when Georg Ritter von Schönerer was clapped on the stage, the meeting was forcibly closed. Exaggerated by the press for the anti-Semitic event, both Dafert and Bahr were expelled from the University of Vienna. When the alb Theodor Herzl found out about the content of this speech from press releases, he applied to leave. On the part of the fraternity he was accused of not having consulted, which is why he was deleted. Hermann Bahr himself was honorably dismissed in 1893 because his series of interviews about anti-Semitism in the Deutsche Zeitung put pressure on the fraternity and Bahr declared that he was ready to leave. Bahr was later friends with Herzl until his death and also gave a speech at his funeral.

On June 27, 1887, the Arminia Graz fraternity was accepted into the “black-red-gold cartel”, which now formed a fraternity at the three university towns of Prague, Vienna and Graz. In 1890, the defensive associations in Waidhofen u. a. to deny the Jews any satisfaction, Albia and the two cartel sisters rejected the “ Waidhofen principle ”.

When the Germania holiday association introduced racket fencing in Budweis, their activists crammed into Albia and founded the "conservative association of Budweiser Hochschüler Germania" in Vienna in 1912.

During the First World War, 14 federal brothers of the Albia fell.

Interwar period

In the winter semester of 1918, Albia opened its active business with the "Bude" in the teacher's house, Langegasse 26. On the Burschentag in Jena from August 4th to 8th, 1919, under the impression of the brotherhood in arms, the German fraternity was the first to merge with the BdO.

On the festive occasion of the 60th Foundation Festival in 1930, the book "Vienna Academic Burschenschaft 'Albia' 1870–1930" was published, written by Honorary Senior Karl Becke, and received the Rector of the Vienna University Hans Uebersberger "in view of his outstanding services in Germany's struggle against the war guilt lie" the Albia's ribbon of honor.

When, in 1932, the Vandalia fraternity's Aktivitas took the "step in line" and joined the NS student union , their old men 's association dissolved and 23 former vandals were accepted into the Albia, including Rudolf Neumayer . After the dissolution of the German student body in 1933, the fraternities in Austria separated from the DB before it was transferred to the NSDStB on October 18, 1935, and constituted itself again as the fraternity of the Ostmark .

On November 23, 1935, at the Cartel Convention on the occasion of the 65th Album Foundation Festival, the Waidhofen principle was accepted by all three cartel fraternities under pressure from various associations. After Austria was annexed to the German Reich, on June 8, 1938, the corporations in the large concert hall were "dissolved themselves" and the corporations were taken over into the NS Student Union and the NS Altherrenbund. A number of corporates, including the representatives of the Marko-Germania fraternity, which was formed in 1921 as a result of the Budweiser Hochschüler Germania association, left the hall protesting; Albia had to cease active operations, but neither gave her flag to the NS student union, nor did she form a comradeship.

Despite the prohibition and war, the 70th foundation festival was celebrated in colors on November 16, 1940. The Second World War claimed a total of 41 deaths from Albia and Marko-Germania.

post war period

The facade of the Apponyi Palace

On May 18, 1948, students who wanted to revive the old color student customs and ideals founded the "Academic Reform Association Dürnstein". Blue-gold-red ribbons and black soft hats were worn, or blue-gold-blue ribbons for foxes. At the Dürnstein opening pub on October 27, 1950, the albums Wilfried von Hornberg and Herbert Eggstain were awarded the Dürnstein band and subsequently more and more albums, until they agreed on June 14, 1951 that the Dürnstein should be regarded as the younger generation of albums. When it was decided on March 4, 1953 to change the name to “Vienna Academic Burschenschaft Albia”, the transition from Dürnstein to Albia was complete, the traditional blue colors had been worn since 1952.

Since too many members of the Marko-Germania fraternity died in the war, they could not reopen. Albia was basically ready to accept former Marko-Teutons and so the first 19 of the 63 Marko-Teutons received the album tape at the foundation festival in 1952 and the fallen of both world wars were recorded posthumously.

On April 18, 1952, regular and compulsory drumming hours were decided and on March 21, 1953 Albia's first post-war grades were fought.

The connections Dürnstein, Heimdall (Silesia) and Laetitia ( Olympia ) were, supported by the Academic Association, significantly involved in the re-establishment of DC 1950 and WKR 1952, the Albe Dankmar Sorge designed z. B. the DC statutes and the album Wilhelm Meister made the first "Agreement on the formation of the Vienna DC" out of it. Since it was not possible for the Austrian fraternities to join the DB, the Austrian fraternities founded their own association, the “General Delegate Convention” (ADC), on the DB Burschentag in Bingen am Rhein in 1952 . The formal founding took place one semester later on ADC day on January 3, 1953 in Wels .

At the beginning of 1961, today's “Bude” in Vienna 4th, the Palais Apponyi , could be moved into. The house was built in 1880 for the Hungarian Count Albert Apponyi von Nagy-Apponyi , who was the leader of the moderate opposition in the parliament in Vienna from 1878 to 1899. From 1899 until his death in 1925 it was owned by the ku k court painter Heinrich von Angeli and another famous painter, Ernst Fuchs , spent his youth and studies in the attic.

After the DB Burschentag in Nuremberg in 1961 had rejected the merging of the German Burschenschaft in Austria DBÖ into the DB, the "Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft" BG of 42 fraternities of both associations was created on July 15 at the house of the Munich Burschenschaft Danubia with the aim of uniting them.

The DBÖ chairmanship was held by Albia in the 1970/71 academic year. The chairmen Hellfried Heikenwälder, Erich Heidler and Sepp Seeberger prepared the unification of the two umbrella organizations during a busy trip to the Federal Republic, which was made possible by renouncing the mandatory censorship . On the Burschentag of the DB from 6th to 8th October 1971, the Austrian alliances were allowed to join the DB with exactly the required ¾ majority. This was done by Albia in the following semester.

As early as 1958, the DB Burschentag had stated: “The crimes that the Third Reich committed against the Jews oblige every German to do everything in his power to contribute to understanding among the peoples. The German Burschenschaft therefore reaffirms its will to continue to vigorously oppose anti-Semitic tendencies wherever they occur. ” With Albia's accession to the DB, the Waidhofen principle, imposed in 1935 and imposed since the end of World War II, became obsolete.

In June 1977 Albia was reported “for re-occupation ” because a banner with the inscription “17. June, Day of German Unity ”was appropriate. It was claimed by telephone that June 17th was commemorating the popular uprising in the GDR in 1953 and was therefore a public holiday in what was then West Germany. The complaint was not pursued any further. The spokesman was also able to avert the penal order with a written objection.

The Albia took over the chairmanship of the German fraternity in the 2001/02 financial year.

Known members

Honorary members were among others Hans Uebersberger , Gustav Jonak , Raphael Pacher and Josef Titta .

See also

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 71-72.
  • Hans-Georg Balder: Frankonia-Bonn 1845–1995. The story of a German fraternity . WJK, Hilden 2006, ISBN 3-933892-26-0 .
  • Vienna Academic Burschenschaft Albia: Vienna Academic Burschenschaft Albia. In: Michael Doeberl , Alfred Bienengräber (Hrsg.): The academic Germany. Volume 2: The German universities and their academic citizens . CA Weller, Berlin 1931. p. 667.
  • Specimen Corporationum cognitarum

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b From Lipensia to Albia January 1871 - April 1875 , self-published by the Vienna akad. Burschenschaft Albia, Vienna 2010.
  2. ↑ a b Klaus Eckart Ehrlicher: 100 years of the black-red-gold cartel 1887–1987 . Vienna 1987, p. 58 ff .
  3. ↑ a b c Martin Anton Müller: The self-portrait as a source. In: Müller, Martin Anton; Pias, Claus; Schnödl, Gottfried (ed.): Hermann Bahr - Austrian critic of European avant-garde. Yearbook for international German studies: Congress reports. Bern et al.: Peter Lang 2014, pp. 170–177.
  4. ^ A b Dietrich Herzog The rebellious student Hermann Bahr in: The lectures of the second Austrian student historians conference Klosterneuburg 1976. Vienna 1976, pp. 95–111 (Contributions to Austrian student history, Volume 3).
  5. ↑ Harald Seewann: The Richard Wagner Mourning Commemoration Vienna, March 5, 1883 - A documentation . Ed .: Harald Seewann. Graz 2016, p. 44 .
  6. ↑ Dietrich Herzog Theodor Herzl as a fraternity member - and the consequences in: The lectures of the first Austrian student historians conference Vienna 1974, p. 81 (Contributions to Austrian student history, Volume 2).
  7. ^ Karl Becke: Vienna academic fraternity Albia 1870-1930 . Vienna 1930, p. 45-47 .
  8. ↑ Bettina Riedmann: "I am a Jew, an Austrian and a German": Judaism in Arthur Schnitzler's diaries and letters . In: Hans Otto Horch (Ed.): Conditio Judaica . tape 36 . Tübingen 2002, p. 130 .
  9. ↑ From Lipensia to Albia January 1871 - April 1875 , self-published the Vienna akad. Burschenschaft Albia, Vienna 2010.
  10. ↑ Klaus-Eckart Ehrlicher, Reinhart Leitinger: A haven of German feeling, The Graz academic fraternity Arminia in the course of time . Ed .: Old gentlemen's association of the Graz academic fraternity Arminia. Graz 1970, p. 200 .
  11. ↑ Sepp Seeberger, Toni Kampelmühler: The Budweiser Germania in the German-Austrian history . Self-published, Vienna 2012.
  12. ↑ Sonja Kuhn: The German Burschenschaft - a grouping in the field of tension between traditional formalism and traditional foundations - an analysis for the period 1950 to 1999. Diploma thesis in the degree program in education, philosophy, psychology at the University of Bamberg. Stuttgart 2002.
  13. ^ Roland Girtler: Color students between cosmopolitanism and anti-Semitism . LIT Verlag Dr. W. Hopf, Berlin 2016.
  14. ^ Jacques Kornberg : Theodor Herzl: From Assimilation to Zionism . Indiana University Press 1993. ISBN 0-253-33203-6 , pp. 50 f.

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