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Fraternities are a traditional form of student fraternity. Today they can be found at university locations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Chile. Almost all fraternities are committed to the principles of the original fraternity of 1815, although the content varies greatly. The term "Burschenschaft" is used today by sometimes very different student associations. Almost Allen student associations that call themselves fraternities have in common the commitment to the principles of the original fraternity of 1815, although the interpretation of these principles is by no means uniform. As a reaction to the Congress of Vienna, the original fraternity ideals were the totality of all students, the Christianum and the patriotic ideals (uniform Germany, liberation from the authoritarian regime).[4] All of today's fraternities wear colors, which means that their members wear a ribbon in the colors of the association and a student cap, the so-called couleur, at official events. The traditional colors of the fraternity are black, red and gold, as they were already used by the original fraternity. They are still the colors of a large part of the fraternities today. The majority of today's fraternities are fraternities, aligning with other fraternities. In some cases, however, the scale is optional. Non-violent fraternities are in the minority. They reject the mensur mostly for Christian reasons. Although only around 300 of the 1,500 to 2,200 student fraternities in the German-speaking world call themselves "Burschenschaft", the term is often used in public, incorrectly, as an umbrella term for all student fraternities. However, most of the other student corporations, such as Catholic student fraternities, country associations or corps, historically have no connection to the origin of the fraternities and still have a different orientation today. Fraternities are political student associations and, according to their own statements, deal with political issues out of responsibility for society. In public, fraternities are often perceived as politically right-wing or even right-wing radical. After the wars of liberation, the “Allgemeine Burschenschaften” came into being as assemblies of (only male) students at German universities decisively shaped student culture in Germany. Historians estimate that every second or third student took part in the wars as a war volunteer.[6] Although only about five percent of the total number of war volunteers could be considered students, no social group had such a high proportion of volunteers. Many students had fought in the Lützow Freikorps, which was recruited not only from Prussian subjects but from volunteers from all over Germany. Having returned to the universities from the wars of liberation, they campaigned during the Restoration and the Congress of Vienna for the abolition of German petty government and the creation of an all-German empire under a constitutional monarchy. The founding of the Ur-Burschenschaft took place in Jena on 12. June 1815. The national associations dissolved their Seniors' Convent (SC). In addition, the members of the four compatriots Thuringia, Vandalia, Franconia and Curonia moved to the inn Grüne Tanne. This place was outside the city limits of Jena and was therefore outside the jurisdiction of the university. As a sign of dissolution, the compatriots lowered their flags there. 30 officials were elected from among the 143 donors present. Karl Horn, the last senior member of the Vandalia, was appointed the first speaker. With that, the fraternity was born. The original fraternity consisted of groups with national, Christian and liberal ideas. Her intellectual pioneers included Ernst Moritz Arndt, Friedrich Ludwig Jahn and Johann Gottlieb Fichte. With the values ​​of honour, freedom and fatherland, she called for civic responsibility, ethnic solidarity and individual freedom rights at the same time. This synthesis of different elements was made possible by the elitist approach, which primarily emphasized the duty of the individual to stand up for the whole. The knightly Kahl (around 1819): Jacob Carl Kahl in the costume of the early fraternity community of the "Giessen Blacks" In the constitutional document of the Jena fraternity dated 12. June 1815 it says: "Elevated by the thought of a common fatherland, imbued with the sacred duty that is incumbent on every German to work towards enlivening the German way and German spirit, thereby awakening German strength and discipline, and consequently the former honor and glory of ours people again and to protect it forever against the most terrible of all dangers, against foreign subjugation and despotism, some of the students in Jena got together and discussed founding a connection under the name of a fraternity.” The Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar is a compulsory student association in Jena. It is the direct successor to the June 1815 founded Jena Urburschenschaft and leads the colors black-red-gold from below. The Jena fraternity, formed in 1815, separated on 28. January 1840 finally into the fraternity on the Fürstenkeller and the fraternity on the Burgkeller. The former later took the name Germania. The latter added its name to the Arminia fraternity on the castle cellar in 1859. The name on the Burgkeller refers to the old Burgkeller inn, which was destroyed in World War II and which the fraternity initially used as a constant for their pubs and later as a corporate building. Therefore, it is also commonly referred to as the "Burgkeller fraternity". on the 22nd On June 1, 1870, Arminia founded the Jenenser Deputen-Convent together with the Jenenser fraternities Germania and Teutonia. In 1881[4] Arminia was a founding member of the General Deputies Convention, later the German Fraternity (DB). In 1893 Arminia bought the Burgkeller inn. 325 Armins took part in World War I, of which 65 died. In the winter semester of 1930/31, the connection consisted of 429 old men and 163 members of Aktivitas. In the course of bringing all student organizations into line, the fraternity was dissolved. From the winter semester of 1937/38 onwards, active operations continued as the Menzel fraternity, and from March 1940 as the Lützow fraternity. During World War II, 102 members died and the fraternity house, the Burgkeller, was badly damaged in an air raid on Jena in March 1945. During the time of the GDR, the seat of the connection was in Mainz, after the old lordship of Arminia and the fraternity Moguntua, founded in Mainz in 1949, had merged in 1950 to form the fraternity Arminia-Jena zu Mainz. In 1950 Arminia was involved in the reestablishment of the German fraternity. In 1956 they moved into their own fraternity house in Mainz. In 1966 Arminia headed the fraternity day of the German fraternity. After German reunification, Arminia returned to its homeland in 1990. Since the Returning to Jena, Arminia uses the Grüne Tanne inn, the founding place of the original fraternity, as a corporate house. Arminia left DB in 2008. Since the 3rd November 2012 it belongs again to the Red Union and since November 30. September 2016 to the General German Burschenschaft, of which she is a founding member. In April 2015, the Mainz fraternity Arminia, which had emerged from it as an independent fraternity in 1992 when the fraternity Arminia auf dem Burgkeller returned to Jena, rejoined it. The Bund stands by the mensur. The Arminia's ribbon is black-red-gold (read from below) with gold percussion. A dark red student cap is worn as headgear. Their motto is: honor, freedom, fatherland! After leaving DB, 14 members of Arminia split on April 13. June 2008 as the old castle cellar fraternity in Jena. This was included in the DB for Burschentag 2009. A dispute over the name "Burgkellerfraschenschaft" (Burgkeller Burschenschaft) was settled in court between the two associations. As a result, the new foundation was renamed the Old Burschenschaft Burgkeller in the DB and committed not to use the short form Burgkellerburschenschaft. The band of re-establishment has the colors black and red (read from below) with golden percussion. A black student cap is worn as headgear. Their motto is: honor, freedom, fatherland. The old fraternity Burgkeller in the DB continues the friendship between Arminia and the Leipzig fraternity Germania, which was founded in 1997 and ended in 2008.
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