Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg

Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg
Founded	16 December 1820 (16 December 1820)
Motto	Virtus sola bonorum corona!
Headquarters	Heidelberg Germany

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. 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.

Members

Princes

• Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden
• Prince Maximilian of Baden
• Constantine I of Greece
• Prince Oskar of Prussia
• Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844–1894)
• Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Otto of Stolberg-Wernigerode

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

Corpshouse Riesenstein (1850)

Saxo-Borussia is also known for her Corpshouse called Riesenstein. It is located nearby the Gaisberg (Heidelberg).

See also

• Junker (Prussia)
• List of members of German student corps
• The Student Prince

Further reading

• Lees Knowles: A day with corps-students in Germany
• 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. 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)

External links

• Gregor Samarow: Die Saxo-Borussen. Stuttgart 1885 (Projekt Gutenberg)
• List of notable members (German Wikipedia)