Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg
{{short description|German student corps}}
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| birthplace = Ruprecht-Karls-University
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The Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg is a German Student Corps at the University of Heidelberg.
History
Saxo-Borussia was established on 16 December 1820. Its motto is Virtus sola bonorum corona!. In 1829 Robert Schumann became a lifelong member. During the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states the corps participated in founding the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV), an association of German-speaking Student Corps.
In the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic Saxo-Borussia was considered "the most distinguished corps of Christendom" – a reference to the 1st Foot Guards (German Empire). Wilhelm Meyer-Förster wrote a student novel (1885) and Mark Twain reported on his visit in A Tramp Abroad. Kurt Tucholsky taunted the corps with a poem.[https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Saxo-Borussen Tucholsky's poem] Unlike the befriended Corps Borussia Bonn, Saxo-Borussia has never been mocked by satirical magazine Simplicissimus. The group was prosecuted in Nazi Germany. It dissolved on 3 July 1935 under persecution, and was recreated in 1952. In 1910 and 1998 it headed the KSCV.see :de:Vororte des KSCV
Members
= Princes =
= Others =
- Herbert von Dirksen, ambassador to Britain
- Albrecht von Hagen, executed in 1944
- Hermann Theodor Hettner, literary historian
- William Hillebrand, physician and botanist in Hawaii
- Leopold von Hoesch, esteemed diplomat in England
- Joseph Florimond Loubat, bibliophile, antiquarian, sportsman, and philanthropist
- Eduard von Rindfleisch, pathologist
- Hans Joachim von Rohr, agrarian
- Rudolf von Scheliha, executed in 1942
- Gustav Simon, surgeon
Riesenstein
Saxo-Borussia is also known for her Corpshouse called Riesenstein. It is located nearby the Gaisberg (Heidelberg).
See also
Further reading
- Lees Knowles: A day with corps-students in Germany{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/daywithcorpsstud00knowrich#page/n7/mode/2up |title=A day with corps-students in Germany |date= |accessdate=2013-09-27}}
- Heinz-Adolf von Brand und Maxtheodor Reichmann (Hg.): Beiträge zur Geschichte der Saxo-Borussia zu Heidelberg, vol. 1: 1820–1935. Heidelberg 1958.
- Rosco Weber: The German Corps in the Third Reich. Macmillan, London 1986
- Robert von Lucius (ed.): Weiß–Grün–Schwarz–Weiß. Beiträge zur Geschichte des Corps Saxo-Borussia zu Heidelberg, vol. 2: 1934–2008. Heidelberg 2008.
- Thomas Weber: Our Friend "The Enemy". Elite Education in Britain and Germany before World War I. Stanford University Press 2008. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_CeAAAAIAAJ&dq=corps+saxo-borussia+heidelberg&pg=PA33 GoogleBooks]
- Stephen Klimczuk, Gerald Warner: Secret Places, Hidden Sanctuaries: Uncovering Mysterious Sights, Symbols, and Societies, Sterling Publishing Company, 2009, p. 224-232 (The German University Corps)
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg}}
- [http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/3889/1 Gregor Samarow: Die Saxo-Borussen. Stuttgart 1885] (Projekt Gutenberg)
- List of notable members (German Wikipedia)
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Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg, Corps
Category:Heidelberg University alumni