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The Burschenschaft and German Political Culture, 1890–1914

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Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker
Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker
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In the history of the Burschenschaft published in 1939, Georg Heer wrote that with the coming of the National Socialists to power “the goals of the German Burschenschaft had been achieved; the National Socialist German Student Union had now taken over its tasks.” Of course Heer was not free to write what he wished about the 1935 dissolution of the Burschenschaft, but his interpretation is consistent with the ideas of many historians about this important organization within the history of German nationalism. Something had gone terribly wrong with this organization, despite its clear liberal and middle-class origins.

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Central European History , Volume 42 , Issue 3 , September 2009 , pp. 389 - 428
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7 “Auf die deutschen Burschenschaften,” BB, vol. XXVI, no. 6, June 15, 1912, 134.

8 “Ziele der heutigen Burschenschaft,” BB, vol. XIII, no. 11, March 1, 1899, 262; similarly Weinrowsky, Paul, Geschichte der Berliner Burschenschaften Franconia zum 50. Stiftungsfest, 1878–1928 (Berlin: Als MS gedr., 1928), 40Google Scholar.

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12 Driesman, Heinrich cited by Matthew Jeffries in “Lebensreform: A Middle-Class Antidote to Wilhelminism?,” in Wilhelminism and its Legacies, ed. Eley, Geoff and Retallack, James (New York: Berghahn, 2004), 92Google Scholar; Kerbs, Diethart and Reulecke, Jürgen, eds., Handbuch der deutschen Reformbewegungen, 1880–1933 (Wuppertal: Hammer, 1998)Google Scholar; Repp, Kevin, Reformers, Critics, and the Paths of German Modernity: Anti-politics and the Search for Alternatives, 1890–1914 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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21 Eley, Geoff, Reshaping the German Right: Radical Nationalism and Political Change after Bismarck (Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press, 1980), 200Google Scholar. Chickering, Roger, We Men Who Feel Most German: A Cultural Study of the Pan-German League (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1984), 302Google Scholar.

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25 “All-deutschen Burschenschafter-Tagung,” BB, vol. XII, no. 5, Dec. 1, 1897, 126; Potthoff, Heinz, “Die Gleichheit der Studenten,” BB, vol. XVIII, no. 10, Feb. 15, 1904, 232Google Scholar; “Essen,” BB, vol. XXVIII, no. 6, June 15, 1914, 143; Hünemörder, Christian, Biographisches Lexikon der Deutschen Burschenschaft, vol. I, “Politiker, Teilband 4: M-P” (Heidelberg: Gesellschaft für Burschenschaftliche Geschichtsforschung, 1999), 345–346Google Scholar. Lönnecker, “Die Burschenschaft der Ostmark (BdO),” n.p.

26 To flesh out the perspective that was presented in the Burschenschaftliche Blätter, I consulted the Handbooks of the Burschenschaften, twenty-five histories of Burschenschaft chapters, and the archival records on the Burschenschaft in the Bundesarchiv Koblenz. For my book project on student life and politics in the Wilhelmine era, I also examined records of student organizations at university archives in Berlin, Freiburg, Greifswald, Göttingen, Halle, Heidelberg, Jena, Leipzig, Münster, and Strasbourg. See Heither, Verbündete Männer, 21–38, for an overview of the literature on the Burschenschaft. See also Bohrmann, Hans, Stukturwandel der deutschen Studentenpresse. Studentenpolitik und Studentenzeitschriften 1848–1974 (Munich: Verlag Dokumentation, 1975), 266–68Google Scholar. Between 1910 and 1940 the Burschenschaftliche Historische Kommission published seventeen volumes and six supplements of the project, “Quellen und Darstellungen zur Geschichte der Burschenschaft und der deutschen Einheitsbewegung.” Also the period before 1914 saw the publication of thirty-three volumes from the Burschenschaft Library (Burschenschaftliche Bücherei), which was meant to expand on articles published in the newspaper, the Burschenschaftliche Blätter. Despite the importance of this organization for the history of German nationalism, there has been little work on it, especially for the Wilhelmine era. Exceptions include Heither, et al., eds., Blut und Paukboden, and Heither, Verbündete Männer.

27 “Zur Frauenbewegung,” BB, vol. IX, no. 2, Oct. 15, 1896, 45.

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29 Engelbrecht, Burschenschaft Allemannia Berlin, 36; Wirth, Freiburger Burschenschaft Alemannia, 175–78.

30 Wirth, Freiburger Burschenschaft Alemannia, 167.

31 Hardtwig, , “Die Anfänge der deutschen Burschenschaft,” 587, quoting Walbrach, Carl, ed., Der Giessener Ehrenspiegel. Beiträge zur Geschichte der teutschen Sammtschulen seit den Freiheitskriegen 1813 (Frankfurt am Main: Amtlicher Verlag der Deutschen Burschenschaft, 1927), 57Google Scholar; Robertson, Priscilla, “Students on the Barricades: Germany and Austria, 1848,” Political Science Quarterly 84 (1969): 367–369CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For outstanding coverage of existing literature on the early Burschenschaft, see Lönnecker, “Die Burschenschaft der Ostmark (BdO).”

32 Heither et al., eds., Blut und Paukboden 14–54; Hardtwig, “Die Anfänge der deutschen Burschenschaft,” 581, 587–93, 625; Hardtwig, Wolfgang, “Protestformen und Organisationsstrukturen der deutschen Burschenschaft 1815–1833,” in Demokratische und soziale Protestbewegungen in Mitteleuropa, 1815–1848/49 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1986), 37–76Google Scholar; P. Brandt, “Von der Urburschenschaft,” 35–53. Gerhard Schäfer also finds völkisch ideas in the early Burschenschaft, “Die frühe Burschenschaftsbewegung,” 14–53.

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34 Wetzcke, Geschichte der Deutschen Burschenschaft, 206–311; H.-H. Brandt and Stickler, eds., Burschen Herrlichkeit, 41. In Göttingen in 1821 the Burschenschaft Brunsviga had 180 members, about half of all students. Meyer, Julius, “Kurze Bemerkungen über die alte Göttinger Burschenschaft,” Geschichte der Burschenschaften Brunsviga zu Göttingen, 1848–1898 (Göttingen: Klindworth, 1898)Google Scholar; Hardtwig, “Die Anfänge der deutschen Burschenschaft,” 599, 616.

35 Hardtwig, Wolfgang, “Protestformen und Organizationsstrukturen der deutschen Burschenschaft 1815–1833,” Demokratische und soziale Protestbewegungen in Mitteleuropa, 1815–1848/49 (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1986), 41, 50Google Scholar; Lutz, Rolland Ray, “The German Revolutionary Student Movement, 1819–1833,” Central European History 4 (1971): 239–241Google Scholar; Wetzcke, Geschichte der Deutschen Burschenschaft, 311–371; Meinecke, Friedrich, Erlebtes 1862–1901 (Leipzig: Koehler 7 Amelang, 1941), 84Google Scholar; Böttger, Handbuch, 179; Heer, Georg, Geschichte der Deutschen Burschenschaft, vol. 2, Die Demagogenzeit. Von den Karlsbader Beschlüssen bis zum Frankfurter Wachsturm (1820–1833) (Heidelberg: Winter, 1927)Google Scholar; Heer, Georg, Geschichte der Deutschen Burschenschaft, vol. 3, Die Zeit des Progresses. Von 1833 bis 1859 (Heidelberg: Winter, 1929)Google Scholar.

36 “Fünf Antworten,” BB, vol. XXIII, no. 7, July 1, 1909, 168.

37 On the Kaiserreich as the heyday of fraternity life, see Grieswelle, “Korporationen und Karrieren,” 421.

38 With a higher percentage of Burschenschaft men among all students only in Jena, Marburg, Erlangen, and Königsberg, BB, vol. XVI, no. 11, March 1, 1902.

39 Kampe, Studenten und “Judenfrage,” 186–189. Schindler, Thomas, Studentischer Antisemitismus und jüdische Studentenverbindungen, 1880–1933 (Gießen: Studentengeschichtliche Vereinigung des CC, 1988), 54–57Google Scholar; Scheuer, Burschenschaft und Judenfrage; Weil, Bruno, Juden in der deutschen Burschenschaft. Ein Beitrag zum Streit um die konfessionelle Studentenverbindung (Strassburg: Singer, 1905)Google Scholar; Heither, Verbündete Männer, 94–104; Jarausch, Students, 353–54. For an anti-Semitic account of the debate from the perspective of Heidelberg, see Dörr, Franz, Die Burschenschaft Alemannia zu Heidelberg von 1906–1926 (Schopheim: Uehlin, 1926), 104–105Google Scholar.

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42 Of 6,124 alumni of the Burschenschaften, 790 criticized the resolution, and in 1896, 440 declared that they were ready to leave the Burschenschaften because of it. Heither, Verbündete Männer, 101.

43 “Burschenschaft und Antisemitismus,” BB, vol. VII, no. 9, Feb. 1, 1893, 203–204; Dietz, , “Neue Leitplan der Burschenschaftliche Blätter,” BB, vol. VIII, no. 2, April 15, 1894, 37Google Scholar; “Erwiderung auf das Eingesandt jüdischer Ehre,” BB, vol. IX, no. 1, April 1, 1895, 23; “Nochmals Burschenschaft und Antisemitismus,” BB, vol. VII, no. 10, Feb. 15, 1893, 220–222. Letter from Freymuth, cand. jur., BB, vol. VII, no. 11, March 1, 1893, 246; “Zur Schlichtung,” BB, vol. VII, no. 11, March 1, 1893, 249; “Weitere Bemerkungen Königsberg, 6. März 1893,” BB, vol. VII, no. 12, March 15, 1893, 276.

44 Satori-Neumann, Die Berliner Burschenschaften Germania, 149; this 1912 account follows the wording of the Burschenschaftliche Blätter article, “Die deutsche Burschenschaft und ihre Zeitschrift,” BB, vol. XII, no. 11, March 1, 1898, 277. The Satori-Neumann account also specifically notes that while Jena and Erlangen did not accept Jewish members, Heidelberg, Bonn, and Breslau did. For other objections to the resolution, see “Sitzungs-Bericht. 8.-12. Juni 1897.” For the more anti-Semitic version of the resolution by Germania-Jena, see “Sitzungs-Bericht. 28. Mai 1896.”

45 While there is little evidence that the Burschenschaft directly repudiated its anti-Semitic past, it is hard to find any material in its newspaper that reflects an anti-Semitic perspective. There were some exceptions of articles with anti-Semitic content; see Review of Weil, Bruno, “Juden und Antisemitismus in der Deutschen Burschenschaft,” BB, vol. XIX, no. 12, Sept. 15, 1905, 284Google Scholar; Kleinschmidt, , “Burschenschaft und Tagespresse,” BB, vol. XX, no. 7, Jan. 1, 1906, 152Google Scholar.

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90 “Berlin,” BB, vol. XXIV, no. 9, Feb. 1, 1910, 214.

91 “Reichstagswahlen und die Studenten,” BB, vol. XXI, no. 10, Feb. 15, 1907, 232. Members of gymnastics organizations also assisted in elections; see “Burschenschaft und Turnerschaft,” BB, vol. XXI, no. 1, April 1, 1907, 9–10.

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98 BB, vol. XXIV, no. 8, 1909/10; for statistics from 1901/1902, see BB, vol. XVI, no. 11, March 1, 1902.

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123 “Wie man studentische Verbindungen bekämpft,” BB, vol. XXVI, no. 2, Oct. 15, 1911, 36.

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139 Dörr, Die Burschenschaft Alemannia zu Heidelberg, 103–104. The members of Alemannia at Heidelberg were not particularly interested in the debate evenings.

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