Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen

The Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen or Cartellverband (CV) is a German umbrella organization of Catholic

Catholic

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male student fraternities (Studentenverbindung

Studentenverbindung

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Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen
Union of Catholic German Studentfraternities

Basic Dates
\|- style="background: #ffffff;"	Founders	K.D.St. V. Aenania München K.D.St. V. Winfridia (Breslau) Münster
Foundation:	1856
Members:	123 + 4 (see Lov! or Sld!)
Shortform:	CV
Motto:	In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas
Colors:	yellow green
Address:	Linzer Str. 82 53604 Bad Honnef Germany
Website:	https://www.cartellverband.de/

Foundation

During the period of 19th century in Germany

Germany

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called the Kulturkampf

Kulturkampf

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, the Prussia

Prussia

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n state tried to reduce the influence of the Catholic Church. As a result of this, many Catholic organizations were founded in order to withstand this pressure by forming a single front.

Catholic students of several universities in Germany

Germany

, Austria

Austria

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and Switzerland

Switzerland

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formed Catholic fraternities. These Catholic fraternities were the successors of informal Catholic clubs, founded by students of theology. They were formed according to the historic examples of the already existing fraternities, like wearing couleur

Couleur

Couleur is the expression used in European Studentenverbindungen for the headgears and ribbons worn by members of these student societies....

, rules of behaviour, life long membership and democratic organization, but added as main principle the foundation upon the Catholic faith.

In 1851 in Munich

Munich

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a fraternity called Aenania München was founded. This fraternity tried to establish connections to other Catholic fraternities on other universities. On 6 December 1856, Aenania München formed an alliance with the newly founded Winfridia Breslau. This formal alliance was the birth of the Cartellverband. Both fraternities shared the same principles, religio, scientia et amicitia.

In 1864 Guestfalia Tübingen and Austria Innsbruck entered the Cartellverband. Later Bavaria Bonn founded in 1844, entered. In 1871 Alsatia Münster, renamed Saxonia Münster, and Markomannia Würzburg, Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau in 1873, Suevia Berlin in 1876, Rhenania Marburg and Burgundia Leipzig, both in 1880 followed.

These new Catholic fraternities, called Studentenverbindung

Studentenverbindung

A Studentenverbindung is a student corporation in a German-speaking country somewhat comparable to fraternities in the US or Canada, but mostly older and going back to other kinds of...

en, faced strong resistance of the older Corps

Corps

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and Burschenschaft

Burschenschaft

German Burschenschaften are a special type of Studentenverbindungen . Burschenschaften were founded in the 19th century as associations of university students inspired by liberal and nationalistic ideas.-History:-Beginnings 1815–c...

en and of the administrations of the universities as well. They were forbidden to wear their colors and one, Alsatia Münster even was forced to temporary suspend itself. Nevertheless the Cartellverband showed a solid growth of membership.

In 1907 a fourth principle, patria, was added to the other three. Patria did not mean a limitation of membership to people of German, Austrian or Swiss origin, as several members from other countries, as Belgium

Belgium

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, the Netherlands

Netherlands

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, and the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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show. For example on February 28, 1905 the first American, Irville Charles LeCompte http://www.afv-wasgovia.de/RAPChronik/z_LeCompte.pdf, later a professor at Yale, was accepted as a member of AV Rappoltstein, then in Strasbourg, now in Cologne (KDStV Rappoltstein).

Since its foundation, the Cartellverband only accepted into its structure one fraternity from every university, called the principle of singularity. Those fraternities, which were denied membership founded other umbrella organisations, like the Katholische Deutsche Verband farbentragender Studentenkorporationen (KDV), sharing the same principles as the CV. In 1907 the principle of singularity was abolished. Now the former members of these umbrella organisations could join the Cartellverband, which structure and membership exploded.

During the first years the member fraternities of the Cartellverband were forbidden to accept members without a certificate of having passed the Abitur

Abitur

Abitur is a designation used in Germany, Finland and Estonia for final exams that pupils take at the end of their secondary education, usually after 12 or 13 years of schooling, see also for Germany Abitur after twelve years.The Zeugnis der Allgemeinen Hochschulreife, often referred to as...

, the German equivalent of a university entrance qualification. In these times this Abitur was not necessary to study on a technical university. The fraternities of these universities accepted such students. Those fraternities founded their own organizations because they could not gain membership in the Cartellverband. Because it abolished the precondition of Abitur in 1904, those fraternities could also join the Cartellverband. Shortly before World War I

World War I

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, former fraternities of the Unitas Verband, like Alania Bonn and Cheruskia Tübingen also entered the Cartellverband.

Several small organizations, like the Österreichischer Cartellverband, the Cartell katholischer Verbindungen an Tierärztlichen Hochschulen, the Verband Katholischer Studentenvereine and the Cartell katholischer Verbindungen an Landwirtschaftlichen Hochschulen followed. Thus the Cartellverband became the largest organisation representing Catholic academics in Germany and Austria.

The academic Kulturkampf

The Catholic fraternities always faced reproaches to endanger the academic liberty with their Catholic faith, because as avowing Catholics they would be Ultramontanists, following orders from the other side of the mountain, which means from the Vatican on the other side of the Alps. Therefore they were declared enemies of the Empire. During the Kulturkampf (1872–1887) the few fraternities of the CV could not ply a significant part. During the academic Kulturkampf of 1903–1908 the situation had changed. Now the Catholic fraternities were a main target of the attacks of nationalistic and liberal fraternities.

7199 members of the CV served in WWI. 1282 of them, more than 10% of the whole members died. After WWI the CV was spread on seven states, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania, but soon the fraternities of Strasbourg had to leave Alsace. Having shared the bloodshread of World War I the catholic and non confessional fraternities put an end to their quarrels by signature of the Erlangener Verbände- und Ehrenabkommen (Treaty of honour between academic organizations of Erlangen) in 1921. Now all fraternities treated each other as equals.

White Ring

The so called White Ring was an organization within the CV, existing from 1908 until 1923. The members were the fraternities Bavaria Bonn, Burgundia München, Ripuaria Freiburg im Breisgau and Zollern Münster. Some other fraternities sympathized with them, for example Guestfalia Tübingen, Rheno-Palatia Breslau, Rheno-Franconia München andMarco-Danubia Wien.

When in 1912 the CV decided that all Cartellbrüder (Members of different fraternities of the CV) had to call each other "Du" (an address used in families and among close friends) a treatment comparable to call someone by first name, these fraternities did not want to do so. Because they were denied to use the "Sie" (a formal address, directed to strangers, especially superior persons) to address an Cartellbrüder, now they decided to call the Bundesbrüder, the members of the own fraternity Sie. Formal sign of the white ring was a white carnation. This was terminated by the Cartellversammlung of 1923, where these doings was forbidden.

National Socialism and WWII

The Cartellversammlung of 1932 forbade the members of the CV fraternities to be member of the NSDAP as well, because the German bishops opposed the NSDAP. One year later, the relations between the German state and the Vatican were cleared by the Reichskonkordat

Reichskonkordat

The Reichskonkordat is a treaty that was agreed between the Holy See and Nazi government, that guarantees the rights of the Catholic Church in Germany. It was signed on July 20, 1933 by Secretary of State Eugenio Pacelli and Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen on behalf of Pope Pius XI and President...

. Now there was no more reason to deny membership in a party the Holy See had relations with. The same day members already wore uniforms of the SA and the SS.
Beginning in the year 1933 there was a process of Gleichschaltung (alignment). The fraternities had to develop a principle of leadership similar to the party organizations of the NSDAP and connection to the national socialist student community.
As a reaction to these proceedings, the Austrian fraternities and those in Czechoslovakia split off. They founded the Österreichischen Cartellverband der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen (ÖCV) on July 10. 1933, and the Sudetendeutscher Cartellverband der farbentragenden katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen (SCV) on June 14. 1933. They should never reunite.

On January 31. 1934 the leadership of the CV declared the Catholic orientation of the CV to be terminated. October 27. 1935 the Cartellversammlung decided to close the CV. Now only the fraternity Teutonia Fribourg in Switzerland survived. On June 20. 1938 the remaining structures of the CV were eliminated by order of Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS. All property of the former fraternities was confiscated. Although the fraternities did not exist any more, many of the former members tried to find informal ways to live their academic traditions. There was no unitary attitudes. Among the members of the CV were victims of the National Socialism and culprits as well.

After war

After the war, the fraternities tried to reestablish. This was a difficult and very painful process. Victims of the Nazi tyranny met those, who destroyed their fraternities or even participated in crimes. In 1950 the CV was reestablished, but it had changed. The fraternities in Austria did not return, those in the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Ukraine had to search new location within Western Germany or Austria.

The CV and the ÖCV, the organization of the Austrian Fraternities and the Student organization of Switzerland formed friendship with a contract on 10. February 10. 1963 at Innsbruck. The CV is a founding member of the European Federation of Christian Students' Associations in 1975. It is also member of the consortium of Catholic Organizations (AGV), of the Pax Romana - International Catholic Movement for Intellectual and Cultural Affairs and the Catholic of Germany and several other organizations.

Today the German (CV) and Austrian (ÖCV) Cartellverband together unite more than 177 active and 12 inactive German student fraternities in Germany

Germany

, Austria

Austria

, Switzerland

Switzerland

, Belgium

Belgium

, France

France

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, Hungary

Hungary

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, Italy

Italy

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, Japan

Japan

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, Poland

Poland

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, Slovakia

Slovakia

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and Syria

Syria

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. Today they represent 42,000 academics throughout the world. For example of member fraternities, see K.A.V. Lovania Leuven or Catholic German student corporation Saarland (Saarbrücken) Jena

Catholic German student corporation Saarland (Saarbrücken) Jena

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Organization

The Cartellverband is a confederation

Confederation

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of individual fraternities with equal principals, in a subsidiary relation, which means that the fraternities have the greatest possible autonomy, within the framework of the basic principles of the Cartellverband.

All the member fraternities share equal rights and duties, especially equal voting rights. Only in matters of protocol, a distinction is made on the basis of the historic date of membership of the Cartellverband. Individual persons can not become a member of the Cartellverband.

All the Aktivitates (an Aktivitas is the entirety of the members of a single fraternity, still member of the university) of the single fraternities together form the Studentenbund, the Altherrenschaft (Altherrenschaft is the entirety of the members of a fraternity who finished their studies) together form the Altherrenbund.

If there are several member fraternities in a town, these are to form Ortsverbände, local divisions of the CV to coordinate their connections and their exterior view. For example there are Ortsverbände at Aachen (7 Fraternities), Darmstadt (3), Freiburg im Breisgau (6), Hannover (3), Köln (7), München-Freising-Weihenstephan (10), Münster (7), Würzburg (6,) Mainz, (3), Frankfurt am Main (4), Heidelberg (2),Berlin (4) Bonn (8) and Erlangen-Nürnberg (3).

Member fraternities

To see the member fraternities please watch List of member fraternities of the Cartellverband

The development of membership:

Before the split off of 1933

1869: 4 fraternities with 566 members
1875: 8 fraternities with 840 members
1880: 11 fraternities with 1,223 members
1885: 16 fraternities with 1,577 members
1890: 18 fraternities with 2,011 members
1895: 21 fraternities with 2,773 members
1900: 30 fraternities with 4,039 members
1905: 50 fraternities with 6,197 members
1910: 67 fraternities with 8,966 members
1915: 80 fraternities with 12,398 members
1920: 95 fraternities with 14,991 members
1925: 113 fraternities with 19,840 members
1931: 123 fraternities with 26,746 members

After the split off without the members of the ÖCV

1950: 95 fraternities with 17,308 members
1955: 105 fraternities with 24,744 members
1960: 108 fraternities with 29,531 members
1965: 111 fraternities with 33,224 members
1970: 114 fraternities with 34,843 members
1975: 117 fraternities with 33,488 members
1980: 116 fraternities with 32,108 members
1985: 116 fraternities with 31,872 members
1990: 120 fraternities with 32,081 members
1995: 122 fraternities with 31,499 members
1998: 119 fraternities with 32,104 members
2005: 126 fraternities with 29,827 members

Regional groups (Zirkel)

In about 247 locations in Germany and Austria, and in Brussels

Brussels

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, Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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, Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

and New York

New York

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there are regional groups of individual members of fraternities of the Cartellverband called Zirkel. These offer the regular possibility for individual members, living far from their fraternity, to keep contact to other members who live nearby.

The oldest Zirkel, founded 1876 in Koblenz

Koblenz

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is called Confluentia Koblenz.

Legislative institutions

The supreme legislative institution is the Cartellversammlung (C.V.), the assembly of all the member fraternities of the Cartellverband. It is composed of two chambers, the Studentenbund and the Altherrenbund, representing students and alumni. Each fraternity has one vote. In addition to the meetings, the programme during a Cartellversammlung consists of a ball, a Kommers and a Holy Mass on Sunday. For spouses of members and girlfriends, there is a parallel cultural program.

Executive institutions

Superior executive institution is the CV-Rat (CV Council). Chairman is the chairman of the executive committee of the Altherrenbund. The other Members are the Vorortspräsident (the chairman of the Aktive) and two elected members, one elected by the Alte Herren, one elected by the Aktive. There are several other institutions as the department of pastoral care, the department of treasure, the department of academic education and the legal department.

Every year another fraternity or local group of fraternities presides the CV. They form the Vorortspräsidium (executive committee of the Ative), consisting of the president the vice president and heads of the divisions social policy, press and publicity, foreign contacts and finance. This Vorort also represents the whole Cartellverband. The executive committee of the Altherrenbund, a president, and several heads of regional divisions is elected for therms of four years.

Judicial institutions

The Cartellverband has its own courts on fraternity, regional and national level. These function as an honorary Senate.

Academia

Der Cartellverband is publisher of a magazine, called Academia, which is published five times a year. This magazine was founded in the year 1888.

Foundations and organizations

The CV-Akademie, an educational institution.
The Eugen Bolz Stiftung, supports the democratic education of academic students.
The Felix Porsch-Johannes Denk Stiftung, gives financial support to the education of young scientists in and outside Germany.
The Alfons Fleischmann Stiftung, helps constructing dormitories to universities on the territory of the former German Democratic Republic.
Working with the catholic churches in Africa, the CV-Africa Hilfe supports projects in Africa and helps African students to attend European universities by giving them alimentation.

Principles

Nearly every fraternity of the Cartellverband is founded upon four guiding principles:

religio: the fraternity and all its members publicly adhere to the Roman Catholic faith;
scientia: the pursuit of an academic education is common to all of its members;
amicitia: a lifelong friendship between all the members of the fraternity as long as they live;
patria: patriotism towards the fatherland within a Europe
Europe
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an context.

The fraternities of the Cartellverband historically do not practise academic fencing

Academic fencing

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(Mensur) because it was forbidden by the Roman Catholic Church. Academic fencing is common with the more liberal student fraternities that already existed in German-speaking

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

countries. Owing to this restriction, Catholic students had to organize themselves in separate fraternities. The fraternities only accept men into the organization.

Motto

The motto of CV : In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas

In necessariis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus caritas

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("In essentials, unity; in doubtful matters, liberty; in all things, charity.").

This was a phrase used by Christian Irenics, and has been traced to Rupert Melden in Paraenesis votiva pro Pace Ecclesiae ad Theologos Augustanae Confessionis, Auctore Ruperto Meldenio Theologo, 62 pp. in 4to, without date and place of publication. It probably appeared in 1627 at Frankfort-on-the-Oder, which was at that time the seat of theological moderation. Melden was a Lutheran, but the motto has also been used by the catholic Church, such as in John XXIII's first encyclical, Ad Petri Cathedram of 1959. The English version is also frequently used by British Freemasons.

Coat of Arms

The coat of arms

Coat of arms

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was designed in 1921 by Dr. Joseph Weiß and Philipp Schumacher. It shows a shield, parted; on gold a black eagle with a white shield on his breast, the old sign of Christ, Chi-Rho, within; on red a green hill with a white tower and a golden star on each side.

A Helmet with a medieval student on top, in a green coat, doubled gold and yellow, a sword on his right side. In the left hand, he has a flag with a golden cross on a red shield containing the letters C and V surrounded by a green wreath. In the left hand he has a red book. The manteling is made in the colors green, dubbled silver on the left side, dubbled red and gold on the right side. in the manteling is a white ribbon with the motto.

The tower represents the inner strength through unity, confirmed by the Cartellverband. It represents friendship (amiticia) in a shared belief (religio)
The eagle represents the principle of patria, being an imperial bird
The scholar with flag and book represents the academic
The two stars represent the two founding members, who share these colors gold and green with each other and the Cartellverband

Hymn

The Cartellverband has an official hymn, called Laßt ihr buntbemützten Scharen. The text was written by Heinrich Gassert, a member of Hercynia Freiburg im Breisgau, in 1885, the melody was adopted from the former popular song Strömt herbei ihr Völkerscharen, composed by Peter Johannes Peters in 1867. It has six strophes, which are following:

1.Laßt Ihr buntbemützten Scharen schallen euren Festgesang, aus dem Liede der Scholaren töne laut der Freiheit Klang! Singet deutscher Art zum Preise drum ein rechtes Burschenlied, durch des´ Wort und durch des´ Weise frisch der Hauch der Freiheit zieht.

2.Singt zum Preise Eurer Farben, die der Schönheit Glanz verklärt! Was die Neider dran verdarben, nicht des Scheltens ist es wert. Unsre Farben, die wir tragen, schmücken unsrer Ehre Schild. Sind nach außen drum geschlagen, weil´s ihn blank zu halten gilt.

3.Greift die Freundschaft hoch zu preisen, in die Saiten tief und voll, Freundschaft muß die Losung heißen, wenn der Bund bestehen soll. Deutsche Freundschaft sich bewähret, sie ist treu bis in den Tod, und die Liebe sie verkläret, wie den Fels das Abendrot.

4.Auf das Auge zu den Sternen, auf den Blick zum Himmelszelt, wo ein Gott in heil´gen Fernen Eures Bundes Banner hält. Auf zum heil´gen Fahneneide, hebt die Bruderhand und schwört, daß dem Gott im Sternenkleide ewig Euer Herz gehört!

5.Tretet her, Ihr Musensöhne, an des Wissens heil'gen Born; Schöpft das Gute, trinkt das Schöne aus der Weisheit Wunderhorn. Bringt der Schönheit Eure Liebe als ein reines Opfer dar, legt des Herzens beste Triebe auf der Wahrheit Hochaltar.

6.Reicht die Hand Euch, Ihr vom Rheine, Ihr vom Neckar, Ihr vom Main, Ihr vom schroffen Alpenstein, ihr vom grünen Eichenhain. Euer Burschenwort zum Pfande, laßt es schallen himmelwärts: Unserm deutschen Vaterlande, unsre Hand und unser Herz.

Famous members (selection)

Only fraternities are members of the Cartellverband, in the strict sense of the word. A complete list of all the fraternities that are members of the German (CV) and Austrian (ÖCV) Cartellverband, you can find here.

These following persons are living or deceased members of one of these fraternities that make up the Cartellverband. They are called Cartellbrüder.

Living members

Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
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Cardinal Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga archbishop of Tegucigalpa
Tegucigalpa
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Cardinal Christoph Schönborn archbishop of Vienna
Vienna
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Cardinal Walter Kasper president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity origins are associated with the Second Vatican Council which met intermittently from 1962–1965.Pope John XXIII wanted the Catholic Church to engage in the contemporary ecumenical movement...
Cardinal Friedrich Wetter former archbishop of Munich
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Munich and Freising
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Cardinal Peter Shirayanagi former archbishop of Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
Cardinal Reinhard Marx
Reinhard Marx
Reinhard Marx is a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the incumbent Cardinal archbishop of Munich and Freising. Pope Benedict XVI elevated Cardinal Marx to the cardinalate in a consistory on 20 November 2010...

archbishop of Munich
Gebhard Fürst
Gebhard Fürst
Gebhard Fürst is the Bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.Fürst began his career attending the Collegium Ambrosianum in Stuttgart, where he studied Greek and Hebrew, in 1969. He then studied theology at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Vienna...

bishop of Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Hubertus Brandenburg
Hubertus Brandenburg
Hubertus Brandenburg was a Roman Catholic bishop of Stockholm. He was ordained priest in Osnabrück on 20 December 1952. On 12 December 1974, he was appointed by Pope Paul VI as auxiliary bishop of Osnabrück. On 21 November 1977, he was appointed as Bishop of Stockholm...

former bishop of Stockholm
H. I. R. H. Archduke Otto von Habsburg
Otto von Habsburg
Otto von Habsburg , also known by his royal name as Archduke Otto of Austria, was the last Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in 1918, a realm which comprised modern-day Austria, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia,...

heir to the throne of Austria
Austria
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, Hungaria
Hungaria
Hungaria may refer to:*Kingdom of Hungary*Hungary, a European country*Hungaria , a symphonic poem by Franz Liszt*Hungaria, a former New Zealand association football team, now part of Wellington United*434 Hungaria, an asteroid...

, Bohemia
Bohemia
Bohemia is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands. It is located in the contemporary Czech Republic with its capital in Prague...

and Moravia
Moravia
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H. S. H. Prince Hans-Adam II von und zu Liechtenstein
Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
Hans-Adam II , is the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein. He is the son of Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein and his wife Countess Georgina von Wilczek . He also bears the titles Duke of Troppau and Jägerndorf, Count of Rietberg...
H. I. H. Prince Katsura
Prince Katsura
is a member of the Imperial House of Japan and the second son of HIH Prince Mikasa and HIH Princess Mikasa. He is a first cousin of Emperor Akihito...

of Japan
Japan
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Franz Fischler
Franz Fischler
Franz Fischler is an Austrian politician. He was the European Union's Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries ....

former European commissioner
European Commission
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Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Stoiber
Edmund Rüdiger Stoiber is a German politician, former minister-president of the state of Bavaria and former chairman of the Christian Social Union...

former minister-president
Minister-President
A minister-president is the head of government in a number of European countries or subnational governments, in which a parliamentary or semi-presidential system of government prevails, who presides over the council of ministers...

of Bavaria
Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
Jürgen Rüttgers
Jürgen Rüttgers
Jürgen Rüttgers is a German politician and former Minister-President of North Rhine-Westphalia, widely known for his views on immigration and the much-discussed phrase "Kinder statt Inder" which was a media interpretation of "Statt Inder an die Computer müssen unsere Kinder an die Computer"...

former minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
Josef Pühringer
Josef Pühringer
Dr. Josef Pühringer is an Austrian politician. Since 2 March 1995 he has been the Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party ....

prime minister of Upper-Austria
Herwig van Staa
Herwig van Staa
Herwig van Staa was the governor of Tyrol from 2002 to 2008.Van Staa was born in Linz, Upper Austria . His father, who came from the Rhine area, worked as a technician in the steelworks in Linz and died in a sick bay in 1943 after military action on the Eastern Front. His mother came from an...

former prime minister of Tirol
Tyrol (state)
Tyrol is a state or Bundesland, located in the west of Austria. It comprises the Austrian part of the historical region of Tyrol.The state is split into two parts–called North Tyrol and East Tyrol–by a -wide strip of land where the state of Salzburg borders directly on the Italian province of...
Armin Laschet
Armin Laschet
Armin Laschet is a German politician.Laschet was born in Aachen-Burtscheid. He has three children, Julius, Eva and Johannes Laschet, and is married with Susanne Laschet. He attended Pius-Gymnasium in Aachen and studied law at the universities of Bonn and Munich. In Munich he became a member of...

regional minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
Erwin Teufel
Erwin Teufel
Erwin Teufel is a German politician of the CDU. Teufel was the leader of the CDU parliamentary faction in the state parliament of Baden-Württemberg from 1978 to 1991. He was minister-president of Baden-Württemberg and chairman of the CDU state party group from 1991 to 2005, serving as President...

former minister-president of Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
Klaus Kinkel
Klaus Kinkel
Klaus Kinkel is a German civil servant, lawyer, and politician of the liberal Free Democratic Party . He served as Federal Minister of Justice , Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor of Germany in the government of Helmut Kohl. He was also chairman of the liberal Free Democratic Party from 1993...

former foreign minister of Germany
Alois Mock
Alois Mock
Alois Mock is a politician and member of the Austrian People's Party . He was Vice Chancellor of Austria from 1987 to 1989. As foreign minister he helped take Austria into the European Union....

former foreign minister of Austria
Philipp Jenninger
Philipp Jenninger
Philipp Jenninger is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union and diplomat. He served as Member of the German Parliament, the Bundestag , Minister of State at the German Chancellery , President of the Bundestag , German Ambassador to Austria and German Ambassador to the Holy See...

former President of the Bundestag
President of the Bundestag
The President of the Bundestag presides over the sessions of the Bundestag, the parliament of Germany, with functions similar to that of a speaker in other countries. In the German order of precedence, his office is ranked second after the President and before the Chancellor...

(speaker of German parliament)
Matthias Wissmann
Matthias Wissmann
Matthias Wissmann is the president of the Verband der Automobilindustrie.Since 1999 he has been a partner with the law firm WilmerHale.-Education:...

former transport minister of Germany
Fritz Wittmann
Fritz Wittmann
Dr. Fritz Wittmann is a German politician and lawyer.Wittmann was born in Plan bei Marienbad in Czechoslovakia's Egerland. He was a member of the German Parliament and president of the Federation of Expellees from 1994-1998...

German politician
Politician
A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz is a German politician, former chairman of the major centre-right party CDU and currently a member of the German parliament, the Bundestag...

German politician
Othmar Karas
Othmar Karas
Othmar Karas is an Austrian politician and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the Austrian People's Party, vice-chair of the EPP-ED group, and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.He is also a substitute for the Committee on the Internal...

Austrian member of the European parliament
Andreas Khol
Andreas Khol
Andreas Khol is an Austrian politician of the center-conservative Austrian People's Party, President of the Nation Council from 2002 to 2006....

Austrian politician
Anton Zeilinger
Anton Zeilinger
Anton Zeilinger is an Austrian quantum physicist. He is currently professor of physics at the University of Vienna, previously University of Innsbruck. He is also the director of the Vienna branch of the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information IQOQI at the Austrian Academy of Sciences...

Austrian professor of physics
Wolfgang Schuster
Wolfgang Schuster
Wolfgang Schuster has been the Lord Mayor of Stuttgart, Germany, since January 1997. He is the successor to Manfred Rommel and a member of the CDU.-Studies and early positions:...

mayor of Stuttgart
Fritz Wittmann
Fritz Wittmann
Dr. Fritz Wittmann is a German politician and lawyer.Wittmann was born in Plan bei Marienbad in Czechoslovakia's Egerland. He was a member of the German Parliament and president of the Federation of Expellees from 1994-1998...

German politician
Reinhold Ewald
Reinhold Ewald
Dr. Reinhold Ewald is a German physicist and ESA astronaut.Born in Mönchengladbach, Germany, he received diploma in experimental physics from the University of Cologne in 1983 and the Ph.D. in 1986, with a minor degree in human physiology.In 1990, he was selected to the German astronaut team,...

German astronaut
Astronaut
An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft....
Thomas Gottschalk
Thomas Gottschalk
Thomas Johannes Gottschalk is a German TV host. He is best-known for hosting the popular show Wetten, dass..?, which he has led to a huge success in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol.-Early life:...

German TV host
Christoph Metzelder
Christoph Metzelder
Christoph Tobias Metzelder is a German footballer who plays for FC Schalke 04 as a central defender....

German soccer player
Elmar Mäder
Elmar Mäder
Elmar Theodor Mäder was the thirty-third and former Commandant of the Pontifical Swiss Guards. He held the rank of colonel in the Guards.-Biography:...

former commander of the Swiss Guard
Swiss Guard
Swiss Guards or Schweizergarde is the name given to the Swiss soldiers who have served as bodyguards, ceremonial guards, and palace guards at foreign European courts since the late 15th century. They have had a high reputation for discipline, as well as loyalty to their employers...

at Vatican City
Vatican City
Vatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
Matthias Storme
Matthias Storme
Matthias Edward Storme is a Belgian lawyer, academic and conservative philosopher.- Family life :Storme was born and raised in a Catholic family in the Belgian city of Ghent. His father Marcel Storme Matthias Edward Storme (born Ghent, 1959) is a Belgian lawyer, academic and conservative...

Flemisch professor of law

Holy members

Saint Józef Bilczewski
Józef Bilczewski
St. Jozef Bilczewski was a Catholic archbishop of the city of Lviv, Ukraine, a professor of theology at the Lviv University and a rector of that school...

former archbischop of Lemberg
Blessed Cardinal Clemens August Graf von Galen
Clemens August Graf von Galen
Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen was a German count, Bishop of Münster, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church....

former bishop of Münster
Münster
Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland...
Blessed Rupert Mayer
Rupert Mayer
Rupert Mayer was a Jesuit priest and a leading figure of the Catholic Widerstand in the Third Reich in Munich. In 1987 he was beatified by Pope John Paul II.-Life:...

SJ former German priest and anti-Nazi, resistance member
Blessed Jakob Kern OPraem

Deceased members

Pope Pius XII
Cardinal Aloisius Joseph Muench
Aloisius Joseph Muench
Aloisius Joseph Muench was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Fargo from 1935 to 1959, and as Apostolic Nuncio to Germany from 1951 to 1959...

former bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fargo
Roman Catholic Diocese of Fargo
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Fargo is a Roman Catholic diocese in North Dakota. It was founded on April 6, 1897 by Pope Leo XIII. Fargo, North Dakota is the episcopal see of the diocese.-Bishops of the Diocese of Fargo:...

, North Dakota
North Dakota
North Dakota is a state located in the Midwestern region of the United States of America, along the Canadian border. The state is bordered by Canada to the north, Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south and Montana to the west. North Dakota is the 19th-largest state by area in the U.S....
Cardinal Julius Döpfner
Julius Döpfner
Julius August Döpfner was a German Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1961 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958.-Early life and ordination:...

former archbishop of Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

and Freising
Freising
Freising is a town in Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the district Freising. Total population 48,500.The city is located north of Munich at the Isar river, near the Munich International Airport...
Cardinal Joseph Wendel former archbishop of Munich
Cardinal Josef Frings former archbishop of Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
Cardinal Joseph Höffner former archbishop of Cologne
Cardinal Franz König
Franz König
Franz König was an Austrian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1956 to 1985, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958...

former archbishop of Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
Cardinal Theodor Innitzer former archbishop of Vienna
Cardinal Corrardo Bafile former president of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
Congregation for the Causes of Saints
The Congregation for the Causes of Saints is the congregation of the Roman Curia which oversees the complex process that leads to the canonization of saints, passing through the steps of a declaration of "heroic virtues" and beatification...
Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk
Cardinal Antonio Agliardi
Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Waldheim
Kurt Josef Waldheim was an Austrian diplomat and politician. Waldheim was the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1981, and the ninth President of Austria, from 1986 to 1992...

former secretary general of the United Nations
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...

and former president of Austria
H. I. H. Prince Takamado
Prince Takamado
was a member of the Imperial House of Japan and the third son of HIH Prince Mikasa and HIH Princess Mikasa. He was a first cousin of Emperor Akihito, and formerly was seventh in line to the Chrysanthemum throne.-Education:...

of Japan
Heinrich Brüning
Heinrich Brüning
Heinrich Brüning was Chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932, during the Weimar Republic. He was the longest serving Chancellor of the Weimar Republic, and remains a controversial figure in German politics....

former chancellor of Germany
Wilhelm Cuno
Wilhelm Cuno
Wilhelm Carl Josef Cuno was a German politician who was the Chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923. He was born in Suhl, Prussian Saxony. Cuno's government is best known for its passive resistance of the French occupation of the Ruhr Area . Cuno's government was also responsible for its poor...

former chancellor of Germany
Karl Arnold former minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia
Heinrich Lübke
Heinrich Lübke
Karl Heinrich Lübke was President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1959 to 1969.-Biography:...

former president of Germany
Wilhelm Miklas
Wilhelm Miklas
Wilhelm Miklas was an Austrian politician who served as the third President of Austria, from 1928 until its annexation by Nazi Germany in the Anschluss 1938.-Early life:...

former president of Austria
Thomas Klestil
Thomas Klestil
Thomas Klestil was an Austrian diplomat and politician. He was elected the tenth President of Austria in 1992 and was re-elected to the position in 1998...

former president of Austria
Konstantin Fehrenbach
Konstantin Fehrenbach
Constantin Fehrenbach was a German Catholic politician who was one of the major leaders of the Centre Party. He served as President of the Reichstag in 1918, and then as President of the Weimar National Assembly from 1919 to 1920...

former chancellor of Germany
Georg von Hertling former chancellor of Germany
Ignaz Seipel
Ignaz Seipel
Ignaz Seipel was an Austrian prelate and politician who served as Chancellor during the 1920s.-Career:Seipel studied theology at the University of Vienna and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1899...

former chancellor of Austria
Otto Ender
Otto Ender
Otto Ender was an Austrian political figure. He served as the chancellor of Austria between 1930 and 1931.-Early life and education:...

former chancellor of Austria
Carl Vaugoin former chancellor of Austria
Engelbert Dollfuß former chancellor of Austria
Kurt Schuschnigg
Kurt Schuschnigg
Kurt Alois Josef Johann Schuschnigg was Chancellor of the First Austrian Republic, following the assassination of his predecessor, Dr. Engelbert Dollfuss, in July 1934, until Germany’s invasion of Austria, , in March 1938...

former chancellor of Austria
Leopold Figl
Leopold Figl
Leopold Figl was an Austrian politician of the Austrian People's Party and the first Federal Chancellor after World War II...

former chancellor of Austria
Julius Raab
Julius Raab
Julius Raab was a Conservative Austrian politician. He was Federal Chancellor of Austria from 1953 to 1961. Raab steered Allied-occupied Austria to independence. In 1955 he negotiated and signed the Austrian State Treaty...

former chancellor of Austria
Josef Klaus
Josef Klaus
Josef Klaus was an Austrian Christian/Conservative politician of the Peoples Party and the Federal Chancellor from 1964 to 1970. In 1934 graduated from law school. He married in 1936...

former chancellor of Austria
Prosper Poullet
Prosper Poullet
Prosper Antoine Marie Joseph, Viscount Poullet was a Belgian politician.Born in Leuven, Poullet studied law at the Catholic University of Leuven and was later a professor at the university. He was of member of K.A.V...

former prime minister of Belgium
Belgium
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Pierre Prüm
Pierre Prüm
Pierre Prüm was a Luxembourgian politician and jurist. He was the 14th Prime Minister of Luxembourg, serving for a year, from March 20, 1925 until July 16, 1926.-Early life:...

former prime minister of Luxembourg
Luxembourg
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Franz Josef Strauß
Franz Josef Strauß
Franz Josef Strauss was a German politician. He was the leader of the Christian Social Union, member of the federal cabinet in different positions and long-time minister-president of the state of Bavaria....

former minister-president of Bavaria
Eugen Bolz
Eugen Bolz
Eugen Anton Bolz was a German politician and a member of the resistance to the Nazi régime.- Life :Born in Rottenburg am Neckar, Eugen Bolz was his parents' twelfth child. His father, Joseph Bolz, was a salesman. His mother was Maria Theresia Bolz . Bolz studied law in Tübingen and there became a...

former minister-president of Württemberg
Württemberg
Württemberg , formerly known as Wirtemberg or Wurtemberg, is an area and a former state in southwestern Germany, including parts of the regions Swabia and Franconia....
Silvius Magnago
Silvius Magnago
- Biography :Magnano was born in Merano. He was a trained lawyer, and lived all his life in Bolzano. He was chairman of the South Tyrolean People's Party and governor of the autonomous province of South Tyrol from 1960–1989....

former governor of South Tyrol
Philipp von Boeselager
Philipp von Boeselager
Oberstleutnant Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager was the second-to-last surviving member of the July 20 Plot, a conspiracy among high-ranking Wehrmacht officers to assassinate German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1944....

former German lieutenant and conspirator against Hitler
John Pius Boland
John Pius Boland
John Mary Pius Boland was an Irish Nationalist politician, and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party for South Kerry 1900-1918...

former Irish
Republic of Ireland
Ireland , described as the Republic of Ireland , is a sovereign state in Europe occupying approximately five-sixths of the island of the same name. Its capital is Dublin. Ireland, which had a population of 4.58 million in 2011, is a constitutional republic governed as a parliamentary democracy,...

politician and Olympic
Olympic Games
The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

tennis
Tennis
Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...

champion
Hans Globke
Hans Globke
- See also :* Theodor Oberländer* Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff- Bibliography :* Tetens, T.H. The New Germany and the Old Nazis. Random House/Marzani & Munsel, New York, 1961. LCN 61-7240....

former German politician
Ludwig Windthorst
Ludwig Windthorst
Ludwig Windthorst , was a German politician.-Biography:Windthorst was born at Kaldenhof, a country house near Osnabrück in the Kingdom of Hanover. He was raised by a Roman Catholic family, which for some generations had held important posts in the Hanoverian civil service...

former German politician
Herman von Mallinckrodt
Herman von Mallinckrodt
Hermann von Mallinckrodt was a German parliamentarian from the Province of Westphalia.His father, Detmar von Mallinckrodt, was vice-governor at Minden and also at Aachen ; and was an Evangelical, his highly accomplished and pious mother was a Catholic, and the children followed her creed...

former German politician
Karl Lueger
Karl Lueger
Karl Lueger was an Austrian politician and mayor of Vienna. The populist and anti-Semitic politics of his Christian Social Party are sometimes viewed as a model for Hitler's Nazism.- Career :...

former mayor of Vienna
Richard Schmitz
Richard Schmitz
Richard Schmitz was the last Social-Christian mayor of Vienna, Austria.Richard Schmitz served as Vice Chancellor of Austria, as well as its Minister of Social Welfare and of Education, and as Commissioner of Vienna...

former mayor of Vienna
Sascha Kolowrat-Krakowsky
Alexander Kolowrat
Count Alexander Joseph von Kolowrat-Krakowsky , better known as "Sascha", was an Austrian film producer of Bohemian descent...

former Austrian director
Reinhold Frank
Reinhold Frank
Reinhold Frank was a German lawyer. He did work for the resistance to Hitler's rule in Nazi Germany. He was sentenced to death in connection with the failed July 20 Plot.-Life:...

former German lawyer and Nazi resistance member
Edmond de Goeyse
Edmond de Goeyse
Dr. Edmond de Goeyse was a Flemish student leader during the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in Antwerp.He founded the pioneer student fraternity Bezem Lovania Brussel in 1925 and in 1927 he tried to reestablish the German fraternity K.A.V...

former Flemish journalist
Rainer Barzel
Rainer Barzel
Rainer Candidus Barzel was a German politician of the CDU.Born in Braunsberg, East Prussia , Barzel served as Chairman of the CDU from 1971 and 1973 and ran as the CDU's candidate for Chancellor of Germany in the 1972 federal elections, losing to Willy Brandt's SPD.The 1972 election is commonly...

former President of the Bundestag
Richard Stücklen
Richard Stücklen
Richard Stücklen was German politician of the CSU. He had previously been a member of the NSDAP . From 1957 to 1966, he served as Federal Minister for Post and Communication. A member of the Bundestag for more than 40 years, he was its President from 1979 to 1983.-Life:Stücklen was born in Heideck...

former President of the Bundestag
Götz Briefs
Götz Briefs
Götz Briefs was a Catholic social theorist, social ethicist, social philosopher and political economist, who together with Jesuit Gundlach, influenced the social teachings of Pope Pius XI.-Biography:...

former German social theorist and political economist
Albert Michotte
Albert Michotte
Albert Edouard, Baron Michotte van den Berck was a Belgian experimental psychologist.-Certification:He enrolled at the University of Leuven at the age of sixteen, originally studying philosophy....

former Belgian psychologist
Wilhelm Killing
Wilhelm Killing
Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing was a German mathematician who made important contributions to the theories of Lie algebras, Lie groups, and non-Euclidean geometry....

former German mathematician
Wilhelm Schmidt
Wilhelm Schmidt
Wilhelm Schmidt was an Austrian linguist, anthropologist, and ethnologist.Wilhelm Schmidt was born in Hörde, Germany in 1868. He entered the Society of the Divine Word in 1890 and was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in 1892. He studied linguistics at the universities of Berlin and...

former German linguist, anthropologist, and ethnologist
Alfons Maria Jakob
Alfons Maria Jakob
Alfons Maria Jakob was a German neurologist with important contributions on neuropathology....

former German neurologist

Expelled members

Taras Borodajkewycz
Taras Borodajkewycz
Taras Borodajkewycz , was a former member of the NSDAP and after World War II professor of economic history at the College of World Trade in Vienna .-Life:During the interwar years, he was an adherent of Catholic-national ideas which...

Austrian professor
Germar Rudolf
Germar Rudolf
Germar Rudolf is a German chemist and Holocaust denier.-Background:Rudolf was born in Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse. After finishing secondary education in 1983 in Remscheid, Rudolf studied chemistry in Bonn, completing his studies in 1989. As a student, he joined A.V. Tuisconia Königsberg zu Bonn...

German scientist

Friendly relations

The Cartellverband has friendly relations with other umbrella organisations:

Europäischer Kartellverband (EKV) : European umbrella organisation
Katholiek Vlaams Hoogstudentenverbond (KVHV) : Flemisch umbrella organisation
Kartellverband katholischer deutscher Studentenvereine
Kartellverband katholischer deutscher Studentenvereine
The Kartellverband katholischer deutscher Studentenvereine) is a German academic corporate association with ninety member corporations in Germany, Austria and Switzerland...

(KV) : German umbrella organisation
Cartellverband der katholischen österreichsichen Studentenverbindungen Austrian umbrella organisation.
Schweizerischer Studentenverein
Schweizerischer Studentenverein
The Schweizerischer Studentenverein is a society of colour bearing students of both genders and at the same time a federation of student corporations which are called sections...

(StV) : Swiss umbrella organisation
Technischer Cartell-Verband (TCV) : German umbrella organisation
Unitas-Verband der wissenschaftlichen katholischen Studentenvereine (UV): German umbrella organisation

Competing organisations

Other competing umbrella organisations of German student fraternities exist, founded upon different guiding principles:

Coburger Convent
Coburger Convent
The Coburger Convent der akademischen Landsmannschaften und Turnerschaften is an association of 100 German and Austrian Studentenverbindungen, all of which are based on the principle of tolerance...

: conservative
Deutsche Burschenschaft
Burschenschaft
German Burschenschaften are a special type of Studentenverbindungen . Burschenschaften were founded in the 19th century as associations of university students inspired by liberal and nationalistic ideas.-History:-Beginnings 1815–c...

: nationalist
Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband
Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband
The Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband is the oldest association of German and Austrian Studentenverbindungen. It comprises roughly 105 German, Austrian and a Swiss Corps, all of which are based upon the principle of tolerance....

: liberal
Weinheimer Senioren-Convent
Weinheimer Senioren-Convent
The Weinheimer Senioren-Convent is the second oldest association of German Studentenverbindungen. It comprises roughly 60 German Corps, all of which are based upon the principle of tolerance....

: liberal

Literature

Wehr, Florian, Geschichte des Cartell-Verbandes der katholischen deutschen Studenten-Verbindungen, Paderborn, 1890
Stitz, Peter, Der akademische Kulturkampf um die Daseinsberechtigung der katholischen Studentenkorporationen in Deutschland und in Österreich von 1903 bis 1908, Gesellschaft für CV Geschichte, München, 1960
Stitz, Peter, Der CV 1919 - 1938: der hochschulpolitische Weg des Cartellverbandes der katholischen deutschen Studentenverbindungen (CV) vom Ende des 1. Weltkrieges bis zur Vernichtung durch den Nationalsozialismus, Gesellschaft für CV-Geschichte, München, 1970
Popp, Gerhard, CV in Österreich 1864–1938, Hermann Böhlaus, Wien, 1984, ISBN 3-205-08831-X
Schieweck-Mauk S., Lexikon der CV- und ÖCV-Verbindungen, Gemeinschaft für deutsche Studentengeschichte, Würzburg, 1997, ISBN 3-89498-040-0
Gesellschaft für Studentengeschichte und Studentisches Brauchtum e. V. (Hrsg), CV-Handbuch, 2. Auflage, Regensburg, 2000, ISBN 3-922485-11-1
Hartmann, Gerhard, Der CV in Österreich - Seine Entstehung, Geschichte und Bedeutung, Lahn- Verlag, Wien, 2001, ISBN 3-7840-3229-X

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Foundation

The academic Kulturkampf

White Ring

National Socialism and WWII

After war

Organization

Member fraternities

Regional groups (Zirkel)

Legislative institutions

Executive institutions

Judicial institutions

Academia

Foundations and organizations

Principles

Motto

Coat of Arms

Hymn

Famous members (selection)

Living members

Holy members

Deceased members

Expelled members

Friendly relations

Competing organisations

See also

Literature

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