Vienna academic fraternity Bruna Sudetia

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Vienna academic fraternity Bruna Sudetia

coat of arms Circle
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Basic data
Founding: October 29, 1871
Place of foundation: Vienna
Foundation date: October 22, 1871
Corporation association : German fraternity
Colours: Violet, red, gold with gold-red percussion
Position to the scale : mandatory
Motto: Freedom, honor, fatherland!
Website: www.bruna-sudetia.at

The Viennese academic fraternity Bruna Sudetia is a dutiful student union founded on October 22nd, 1871 , whose members are students and graduates from Viennese universities and colleges. Its members refer to themselves as "Brunen".

Couleur and Comment

Band of the Bruna Sudetia

The colors of the Bruna Sudetia fraternity consist of the violet-red-gold boys' band with gold-red counter percussion . The members wear a cherry-red hat in the so-called Viennese format as headgear , old men wear the barrel to internal events .

As a dutiful fraternity, the Bruna Sudetia beats its scales according to the club custom of the Vienna Delegate Convention .

The Bruna Sudetia house

Color card with a front view of the old Bruna Sudetia house

On November 20, 1898, the old gentlemen of Bruna Sudetia founded a legally independent association, the Bruna Sudetia housing association , with the aim of building a house in Vienna and providing a home for the active. On April 9, 1899, the foundation stone of this house was ceremoniously laid in Vienna, Josefstadt, Strozzigasse 11. Already on November 18, 1899 the festive inauguration of the house took place in the presence of the Rector of the University of Vienna .

Portal of the newly built Bruna Sudetia House

Since the old Bruna Sudetia house fell victim to an air raid in 1944 , the former Bruna Sudetia housing association was rebuilt on February 9, 1947 with the intention of rebuilding the Bruna Sudetia house. The architect was the Brune Josef Oskar von Wladar. The foundation stone was laid on May 10, 1954 and the grand opening of the new Bruna Sudetia house on May 7, 1955, which is still located at Strozzigasse 11 today. The historicist facade of the old Brunenhaus was not restored, but a smooth facade typical of the reconstruction period of the 1950s in the sense of functionalism . Today the house has function rooms, student rooms and the largest fencing floor of the Viennese striking corporations.

history

From the foundation to the First World War

On October 29, 1871, Brno high school graduates who started their university studies in Vienna founded the German-academic association Bruna with dark red caps and a black, red and gold ribbon on which a "B" was embroidered in silver. This connection was initially progressive . On January 27, 1872, she declared herself to be the Bruna Landsmannschaft , retaining the previous colors, but abolishing the silver "B".

On June 6, 1874, the Bruna Landsmannschaft adopted the conservative principle and on June 19, 1874, it declared itself an Academic Landsmannschaft Bruna . Furthermore, she accepted the position of unconditional satisfaction ; regular drumming became mandatory. In the following winter semester, on November 14, 1874, the Bruna struck her first stick grading with the Landsmannschaft Markomannia (today Burschenschaft Markomannia Wien zu Deggendorf).

On January 22nd, 1876, the Bruna became a member of the German Landsmannschaft , today Coburg Convent . After two semesters, the Bruna left the country team camp on October 22, 1876 and declared herself an academic fraternity of Bruna . This kept the hat color, but changed its colors to purple-red-gold.

On December 13, 1873, Sudeten German university students founded the Association of German University Students from the Sudetenland in Vienna . On May 3, 1882, the name of the association was changed to Sudetia, Association of German Students from the Sudetenland . The Sudetia wore no hats, but a black, gold and white band of boys. Also initially progressive, Sudetia became conservative in 1882 and struck their first thug grade on the weapons of the Silesia fraternity against the above-mentioned country team Markomannia.

The mutual need to strengthen their positions on the Viennese Couleurboden led to the fact that the two corporations merged on December 12, 1882 to form the Viennese academic fraternity Bruna Sudetia . The fusion fraternity adopted the circle, which is still valid today, as well as today's coat of arms and has been wearing the colors purple-red-gold and dark red caps ever since.

In the winter semester 1886 was perpetuelle Gemeinheits infamous by the Vienna DC about Bruna Sudetia imposed, after which the Bruna Sudetia from other members of the Vienna DC members perpetually ie, without interruption were to be avoided. After the fraternity had no more Jewish members from May 3, 1888 and after the adoption of the Waidhofner Principle , according to which Jews were denied any honor and thus also the ability to be satisfied , the disreputation was lifted by the Vienna DC.

In 1889 compulsory membership in the old gentlemen's association for university graduates of the Bruna Sudetia was introduced. In the same year, a tradition that has remained up until today was born: the Greifenstein excursion .

Since Bruna Sudetia always held leading positions in supraregional associations of weapons students and fraternities, the well spokesman Moritz Edler von Statzer, chairman of the reading and speaking club Germania , headed the first Pan-German Boys' Day in 1897 .

The opening of the first Bruna Sudetia house (also the first Couleur house in Austria) at Strozzigasse 11 took place on November 19, 1899.

The First World War made it impossible for the fraternity to be active in the fraternity from the end of the summer semester of 1914 until the winter semester of 1918. About a hundred members were drafted for military service.

Between the wars and the time of National Socialism

In 1919 the Bruna Sudetia reactivated with 26, mostly war-shaped, foxes . Civil academic life was initially difficult. In the same year the Bruna Sudetia became a member of the German fraternity .

In October 1932, the General Convention decided to forbid its members from participating in certain parties that violated the fraternity's principles. After the German fraternity was brought into line with the Nazi regime in 1933, the Austrian fraternities re-established the fraternity of the Ostmark (BdO) , which had existed from 1907 to 1919. The leadership in the umbrella organization took over the Brune Erich Führer , from 1932 a member of the NSDAP .

From 1936 the members were obliged to take part in military sports . On June 8, 1938, after the “ Anschluss ”, the Bruna Sudetia fraternity was transferred to the Otto Planetta comradeship named after the Dollfuss murderer, and which was a member of the NS student union . In 1940 she was able to found an offshoot fraternity ( Danubia ) in order to continue fencing lengths. It was only after being called up as part of the Russian campaign that the life of connections came to a largely standstill.

On November 5, 1944, the Bruna Sudetia house was destroyed by fire bombs in an air raid by the US Air Force .

Re-establishment after the Second World War until today

After the war, federal activities were taken up by an Academic Association Greifenstein , founded on June 6, 1951 , shortly thereafter Academic Association Hohenheim . From August 7, 1952, this carried the title of Vienna Academic Association Bruna Sudetia . It was not until 1953 that the old name of the Vienna academic fraternity Bruna Sudetia was allowed to be used again. On May 7, 1955, the newly built Couleurhaus was ready to move into.

In 1959 the Brune Josef Oskar Wladar wrote the declaration of principle of the German Burschenschaft in Austria with the title Manifesto of the German Burschenschaft in Austria on the occasion of the 100th anniversary . A year later, the Brune Hermann Kränzl-Hollan published his more than 900-page work on the history of Bruna Sudetia. Since 1976 the Bruna Sudetia fraternity has been a member of the German fraternity again.

In connection with the protests against the ball of the Vienna corporation ring in 2012, an "arson attack" was carried out on the fraternity's house. According to her, members of the "left block" tried to break in the door and then set it on fire. The Vienna police confirmed the attempted arson .

Around the turn of the year 2014/2015, delegations from the fraternity traveled to Dresden at least twice to take part in the racist Pegida marches there. In 2016, Bruna Sudetia and the right-wing extremist Austrian Landsmannschaft organized a midsummer celebration at the Windischhütte in Klosterneuburg .

In 2016, the fraternity, as co-chairman with the Berlin fraternity Gothia , chaired the German fraternity (DB). In 2017, after a long time, she took over the chairmanship of the Vienna Corporationsring (WKR). The fraternity's chairman has been Herwig Götschober, district councilor of the FPÖ in the Vienna district of Leopoldstadt, and from the end of 2017 to 2019 in the FPÖ-run Ministry of Transport, Minister Norbert Hofer ( Federal Government Kurz I , ÖVP / FPÖ) has been employed as social media officer .

On February 20, 2018, the weekly newspaper Falter published a report according to which anti-Semitic and propaganda songs used during the Nazi era can be found in a songbook of the fraternity, similar to the songbook of the fraternity Germania zu Wiener Neustadt that had become known a few weeks earlier . The public prosecutor's office in Vienna initiated ex officio proceedings on suspicion of National Socialist re- engagement and hate speech . The fraternity and its chairman declared that they were not aware of such a songbook and that such content would be rejected. The moth was threatened with legal action. On the following day, Götschober took a leave of absence from his position in the Ministry of Transport until the allegations were "completely cleared up". On the same day, the house of Bruna Sudetia was searched by the police, during which several boxes with contents not yet known to the public were confiscated; According to fraternity members, it was “bequests from deceased members”. Nine days later, Götschober resumed his work in the Ministry of Transport. The fraternity lodged a complaint against an expert appointed in March 2018. As a result, the Higher Regional Court of Vienna dismissed the expert in November 2018, as there was the appearance of bias: The expert works for the documentation archive of the Austrian resistance (DÖW), which on its website “the crime to be examined [...] is already considered to be 'right-wing extremist 'located'. In the summer of 2019, fraternity members were asked about the songbook. The prosecution dropped the proceedings because there was no underlying crime that would face a judicial penalty.

Understanding of the state

The Bruna Sudetia committed to "German folk and cultural community " and denied in 1971 the existence of a body independent of Germany Austrian nation . Like most of the other strong ties in Austria, it is in contradiction to the prevailing Austrian understanding of the state.

Over-corporate mergers

Umbrella organizations

Coat of arms of the fraternities united in the East German Confederation
  • Member of the German Burschenschaft (DB)
  • Founding member of the Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft in DB and DBÖ (BG)
  • Founding and traditional member of the Wiener Korporationsring (WKR)
  • Founding member of the Vienna Delegate Convention (WDC)

Conditions

East German Confederation (current):

  • Academic fraternity Allemannia Graz
  • Brno Libertas fraternity in Aachen
  • Ghibellinia fraternity in Prague in Saarbrücken
  • Vienna academic fraternity Bruna Sudetia
  • formerly: Innsbrucker Burschenschaft Pappenheim, after WWII mainly merged into Burschenschaft Suevia Innsbruck
  • formerly: Prague fraternity Arminia zu Bochum, excluded on May 5, 2005

Conditions (historical):

  • South German cartel, 1921 to 1962
  • Fraternity of Alemannia Stuttgart , 1924 to approx. 1935
  • Fraternity Cheruskia Dresden, 1925 to approx. 1935
  • Association of German art academics Athenaia, until its dissolution in 1938

Known members

  • Karl Freiherr von Brzesowsky (1875–1945), Police President of Vienna (1907–1914)
  • Ferdinand Falkensammer (1878–1953), Austrian politician and industrialist
  • Rupert Franz (1882–1960), gynecologist
  • Franz Heinl (1880–1950), mechanical engineer and inventor
  • Franz Peschka (1856–1908), member of the Bohemian state parliament, member of the Reichsrat, German compatriot minister in the Beck cabinet, founder and chairman of the German Agrarian Party
  • Anton Piëch (1894–1952), Austrian lawyer and entrepreneur, head of the Volkswagen parent plant
  • Ferdinand Porsche (1875–1951), designer (honorary member since 1938)
  • Otto Hermann Reich Edler von Rohrwig (1902–1945), Austrian writer
  • Julius Roller (1862–1946), Austrian lawyer and politician, member of the Bohemian State Parliament, member of the Austrian House of Representatives, Austrian State Secretary for Justice and President of the Supreme Court
  • Robert Schwinner (1878–1953), geophysicist and geologist
  • Lutz Weinzinger (* 1943), Austrian politician (FPÖ)

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 393-394
  • German Burschenschaft: Handbook of the German Burschenschaft , various years
  • Vienna academic fraternity Bruna Sudetia: Festschrift for the 125th Foundation Festival , Vienna 1996

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 175.
  2. Documentation archive of the Austrian resistance : Erich Führer in “News from far right”, September 2001
  3. a b News from the far right: On the Vienna academic fraternity "Bruna Sudetia" , documentation archive of the Austrian resistance , February 2018
  4. Several arrests: explosive device was supposed to prevent the WKR ball. In: heute.at . January 28, 2012, accessed on July 4, 2019.
  5. ^ WKR demo: What really happened. In: derstandard.at . February 3, 2012, accessed July 4, 2019.
  6. ^ German national fraternity member, Hofer's new press spokesman. In: kurier.at . December 29, 2017.
  7. ^ Burschenschaft in Austria. Nazi songbook puts FPÖ politicians in distress. In: sueddeutsche.de . 20th February 2018.
  8. Nina Horaczek : New songbook with anti-Semitic texts. In: Falter 08/18 and on falter.at . 20th February 2018.
  9. Bruna Sudetia: Chairman is on leave for the time being. In: diepresse.com . February 21, 2018.
  10. Investigations against "Bruna Sudetia". In: wienerzeitung.at . February 22, 2018.
  11. song book: Götschober wants internal processing. In: orf.at . February 22, 2018.
  12. What happened to the second NS songbook affair? In: wienerzeitung.at . March 11, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019.
  13. ^ NS songbook: refused reviewer. In: orf.at . November 25, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019.
  14. Burschenschafter questioned about NS songbook. In: orf.at . July 4, 2019, accessed July 4, 2019.
  15. ^ NS songbook: proceedings discontinued. In: orf.at . February 3, 2020, accessed February 3, 2020.
  16. 100 years of the Vienna Academic Burschenschaft Bruna Sudetia. In: Academic Life, July / August 1971, p. 22.