A Turnerschaft is a kind of
Studentenverbindung, a German student corporation, similar to
fraternities in the US and Canada. The Turnerschaften are a sports corps, and students practice the
Mensur
Academic fencing (german: link=no, akademisches Fechten) or is the traditional kind of fencing practiced by some student corporations () in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Latvia, Estonia, and, to a minor extent, in Belgium, Lithuania, and Pol ...
(academic fencing).
Most Turnerschaften are members of either the
Coburger Convent or the
Marburger Convent.
Notable Turnerschaft members
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Christoph Ahlhaus
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Karl Andree
Karl Andree (20 October 1808 – 10 August 1875) was a German geographer.
Biography
Andree was born in Braunschweig. He was educated at Jena, Göttingen, and Berlin. After having been implicated in a students' political agitation he became a j ...
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Heinrich Biltz
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Adolf Butenandt
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Otto Dempwolff
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Max Eckert-Greifendorff
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Biography
He received his education in Löbau and Berlin, and taught for some time at Löbau ...
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Franz Etzel
Franz Etzel (12 August 1902 – 9 May 1970) was a German politician of the CDU.
Etzel was born in Wesel, Rhine Province
The Rhine Province (german: Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia () or synonymous with the Rhineland (), was t ...
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Carl Friedrich Goerdeler
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Hugo Junkers
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Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz Friedrich may refer to:
Names
* Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich''
* Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich''
Other
* Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Year ...
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Eckart von Klaeden
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Hermann Löns
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Gottfried Münzenberg
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He studied physics at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen and Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck and completed his studies with a Ph.D. at the University of Giessen, ...
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Ferdinand Sauerbruch
Literature
* Edwin A. Biedermann, "Logen, Clubs und Bruderschaften", Droste-Verlag, 2007, 2.AUfl., , 415 Seiten
External links
Coburger Convent - Dachverband der akademischen Landsmannschaften und Turnerschaften
Student societies in Germany
German words and phrases
Fencing organizations
Historical fencing
Fencing in Germany
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