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16 December 1820

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The Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg is a German Student Corps at the University of Heidelberg.

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History

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 Christianity" – 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 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.

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

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

    References

    Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg Wikipedia
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