Vienna academic fraternity of Teutonia

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Basic data
Universities: University of Vienna
Founding: January 28, 1868 in Vienna
Association: German fraternity (DB)
Colours: Black-gold-red with gold percussion
 
 
 
 
 
Motto: Freedom, honor, fatherland
Circle:
Circle
Website: teutonia.at
Paint bag on a plaque for the foundation of Teutonia

The Vienna Academic Fraternity Teutonia is a color-bearing and striking Viennese student union founded in 1868 . She has been a member of the German Burschenschaft since 2007 , which she chaired in 2013. The documentation archive of the Austrian resistance assigns the fraternity to the right-wing extremist spectrum and attests to its proximity to neo-Nazism .

history

The Vienna academic fraternity Teutonia was founded on January 28, 1868 in Vienna. Six of their nine founding boys were of Jewish origin. This was followed by entry into the North German cartel on August 3, 1868 .

In the emerging anti-Semitism in Austria-Hungary , this became a central issue in the 1880s, also because of its Jewish members. The anti-Semitic mood in the fraternity was mainly promoted by Julius Sylvester and Jaromir Tobiaschek , as the anti-Semitic element in the association was strengthened by new members (such as Josef Faber ). Nevertheless, it was not possible - mainly due to the efforts of Karl Emil Franzos - to enforce the introduction of the Aryan paragraph at the Convent of January 17, 1881. It was stated that "anti-Semitism is not in the interests of the fraternity".

In 1889 Sylvester organized a conference of all conservative fraternities in Linz, where the Linz Delegate Convent (LDC) was established between May 4th and 6th . Many fraternities of the LDC saw themselves as “Jew-pure” and “strictly German national ”, but were not loyal to Schönerer because they did not want to be “under the yoke of a single man”. In 1895, Teutonia rejoined the LDC with Sylvester, who had remained victorious in the internal struggle, and changed its radically national orientation, which prompted Georg von Schönerer to return the Teutonia "Ehrenburschenband", which was awarded to him in 1893, and to join the Germania Innsbruck fraternity with his supporters .

The old gentlemen's association was founded in 1893 and the first Teutonic house was bought in 1910 . In 1918 the Teutonia became a member of the DB through the union of the fraternity of the Ostmark with the German fraternity (DB) and in 1920 joined the cartel of the red direction . In 1933 she left the DB again, was dissolved in 1938 during the Nazi era and finally converted into a comradeship . The house was sold in 1940 under political pressure from the regime.

In 1952 Teutonia was reconstituted and in 1959 a new house was acquired. In 1981 the neighboring house was bought. In the 1993/94 business year, Teutonia chaired the German Burschenschaft in Austria (DBÖ) and the Vienna Corporationsring (WKR).

In 2005 Teutonia joined the Burschenschaftliche Gemeinschaft (BG) and in 2007 the DB. In the 2006/2007 and 2014/2015 financial years she was again Chairwoman of the WKR. In the 2011/2012 financial year she was chairwoman of the BG. In 2013 she was chairwoman of the DB fraternity.

Relationships with other connections

The Vienna academic fraternity Teutonia belongs to the fraternity community . It forms the East German cartel with the old Breslau fraternity of the Raczeks and the Danubia Munich fraternity and with the Graz academy. Fraternity Frankonia the Gold-Roten-Verband . There are friendships with the Innsbruck academic fraternity Brixia and the Berlin fraternity Arminia .

Political positioning

In the 1990s, according to the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW), Teutonia was a “stronghold of the militant right-wing Viennese scene”, since right-wing extremists Franz Radl and Kurt Hofinger were members of the fraternity until they were expelled in 1991/92 and were part of the fraternity for a long time Frat house lived.

In connection with a Teutonia leaflet against Ariel Muzicant , the DÖW described Teutonia 2012 as right-wing extremist .

In the course of taking over the chairmanship of DB, the German news magazine Der Spiegel criticized “right-wing extremist ideas” in Teutonia. The assumption of the chairmanship was seen by the Wiener Zeitung as a clear signal that the DB was moving to the right and would intensify the wave of liberal fraternities leaving the DB. The Süddeutsche Zeitung called Teutonia “ultra-conservative” in this context.

In February 2019, National Councilor Reinhard Eugen Bösch distanced himself from the use of the term Ostmark instead of Austria by the Teutonia fraternity and described this use as unacceptable.

In April 2019, the DÖW attested the fraternity's organizational and ideological proximity to neo-Nazism.

Known members

Teutonia Vienna with Franzos (1868)

See also

literature

  • Hans-Georg Balder: The German (n) Burschenschaft (en) - Your representation in individual chronicles. Hilden 2005, pp. 412-413.
  • Max Droßbach and Hans Hauske (eds.): Handbook for the German fraternity. 6th edition, Berlin 1932, pp. 461-462.
  • Fraternity leaves . 2008 No. 4, pp. 170-172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 5th edition, Leipzig 1896, supplement to the article student associations .
  2. ^ EH Eberhard: Handbook of the student liaison system. Leipzig, 1924/25, p. 176.
  3. ↑ Otto Mühlwerth (Ed.): Hundred Years of Burschenschaft Teutonia Vienna. Self-published, 1968.
  4. ^ A b Michael Wladika : Hitler's generation of fathers: the origins of National Socialism in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-205-77337-3 , p. 104.
  5. ↑ Michael Wladika : Hitler's generation of fathers: the origins of National Socialism in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-205-77337-3 , p. 225.
  6. ↑ Michael Wladika : Hitler's generation of fathers: the origins of National Socialism in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 2005, ISBN 3-205-77337-3 , p. 287.
  7. ^ A b c Tina Friedrich: Völkische ideologues lead German fraternity. In: SPIEGEL Online . January 2, 2013, accessed on June 23, 2017.
  8. ^ DÖW: News from the Right - June 1998 .
  9. ↑ a b Handbook of Austrian Right-Wing Extremism, 2nd edition, Vienna 1996, p. 270.
  10. ^ DÖW: News from the Far Right - January 2012. Anti-Semitism against national freedom.
  11. ↑ German fraternities move to the right under Wiener Teutonia. In: Wiener Zeitung . November 25, 2012.
  12. ^ Antonie Rietzschel: Farewell to all liberality . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. November 25, 2012.
  13. ↑ Colette M. Schmidt: “Ostmark”: In Vienna “unacceptable term”, in Linz connection name. In: derstandard.at . February 6, 2019.
  14. ^ The neo-Nazi echoes of the “Teutonia” fraternity . In: DÖW (Ed.): Messages . Episode 240. Vienna April 2019, p. 8 ( online on the DÖW website (PDF; 1.24 MB)).
  15. ^ Mölzer "alone against the left" , DÖW , May 2004.