Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg

Saxo-Borussia was established on 16 December 1820. 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). Her motto is Virtus sola bonorum corona!

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.[1] Unlike the befriended Corps Borussia Bonn, Saxo-Borussia has never been mocked by the 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 presided the KSCV.[2]

Riesenstein

Saxo-Borussia is also known for her Corpshaus called Riesenstein. It is on the Gaisberg (Heidelberg).

• Junker (Prussia)
• List of members of German student corps

• Lees Knowles: A day with corps-students in Germany[3]
• 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)

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