The Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (abbreviation: KSCV) is the oldest association of German, Austrian and Swiss

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en or students fraternities. It comprises roughly 105

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n and a Flemish (Belgian), Hungarian and

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''Corps'', all of which are based upon the principle of tolerance.

History

The KSCV was founded in Jena, Thuringia, Germany in 1848. It soon moved to

Bad Kösen Bad Kösen () is a spa town on the Saale river in the small wine-growing region of Saale-Unstrut, Germany. It is a former municipality in the Burgenlandkreis district, in Saxony-Anhalt. Bad Kösen has a population of around 5,300. Since 1 Januar ...

in the northernmost German wine growing area

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. Its annual meetings are held Bad Kösen and in the nearby

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Nazi rule

During the

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regime of the

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(Ger. Drittes Reich), a majority of member corps of the KSCV (namely , , , , and ) refused to exclude

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ish members or to cooperate with the National Socialist youth movements, which were intended to replace the corps and other non-compliant student associations. Inevitably, this policy resulted in the forced closure and disbandment of the corps and, eventually, the KSCV. The dissolution of the KSCV was further ensured by

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after May 1935, in which

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members had interfered with a broadcast speech by Hitler by singing satirical songs against the Nazis. The

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was a rival organization which gained supremacy as the premiere youth organization in Germany under the Third Reich.

Reorganization

The KSCV, which had an ambivalent relationship with the Nazi government, was reconstituted by 1950 primarily in West Germany, with fraternities from the now-Soviet-occupied East Germany relocating to the West. Upon reunification, the Eastern fraternities returned to their original locations.

Monuments

The ''Kösener monuments'' commemorate prestigious members of the Corps as well as the many fallen during the wars.

Member corps

* Corps Athesia Innsbruck *

Corps Austria Corps Austria is a member German Student Corps, Corps of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband, the association of the oldest student Studentenverbindung, fraternities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Corps Austria is "pflichtschlagend", ...

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* * * * * Corps Concordia Rigensis * Corps Flaminea Leuven *

Corps Franconia München The Corps Franconia München is a German Student Corps at the University of Munich. As a member of the Münchner Senioren Convent (SC) it is a member of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV, est. 1848), the oldest fraternity association ...

* Corps Frankonia Prag zu Saarbrücken * * * Corps Guestphalia Halle *

Corps Hannovera Göttingen Bismarck 1836 The Corps Hannovera Göttingen is one of the oldest German Student Corps, a Studentenverbindung or student corporation founded on January 18, 1809, at the Georg August University of Göttingen by Georg Kloss and his associates ...

* Corps Hansea Köln *

Corps Hubertia Freiburg The Corps Hubertia Freiburg is a fraternity (''Studentenverbindung'') in Freiburg im Breisgau, Freiburg, Germany. It was founded on October 29, 1868, and is one of 162 German Student Corps in Europe today. The Corps is a member of the Kösener ...

* * * * Corps Marchia Brünn * Corps Marcomannia-Breslau zu Köln *

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* Corps Palatia Munich * Corps Rhenania Bonn * Corps Rhenania Heidelberg *

Corps Rhenania Tübingen Corps Rhenania Tübingen is a German fraternity and member of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV), which is among the oldest Fraternal and service organizations, fraternity associations. The Corps commits itself to a traditional kind of ...

* Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg * Corps Schacht Leoben * Corps Teutonia-Hercynia Göttingen * * Corps Suevia Freiburg * Corps Suevia Heidelberg * * Corps Vandalia-Teutonia,

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References

External links

English

Reportage on Corps in English language
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German

* (of the two Corps associations)
"Corpsstudent"

Corps in Austria
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