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The Corps Hannovera Göttingen is one of the oldest German Student Corps

German Student Corps

Corps are the oldest still-existing kind of Studentenverbindung, Germany's traditional university corporations; their roots date back to the 15th century. The oldest corps still existing today was founded in 1789...

, a 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...

or student corporation

Corporation (university)

Corporation refers to different kinds of student organizations worldwide.Generally, universities in the various European countries have student organizations called corporations. The name is derived from the Latin corporatio meaning a body or group...

founded 18 January 1809 at the Georg August University of Göttingen by students like Georg Kloss

Georg Kloss

Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss was a German historian of freemasonry.-Biography:...

. The name was chosen because the founders had their home residences in the Kingdom of Hanover

Kingdom of Hanover

The Kingdom of Hanover was established in October 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III to his Hanoverian territories after the Napoleonic era. It succeeded the former Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg , and joined with 38 other sovereign states in the German...

. As a corps it is a founder member (1848) of the 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....

(KSCV), the oldest governing body of such student associations in both Germany and Austria.

Hannovera commits itself still to the principles of academic fencing

Academic fencing

Academic fencing or Mensur is the traditional kind of fencing practiced by some student corporations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and to a minor extent in Kosovo, Estonia, Latvia, Poland and Flanders.- Technique :Modern academic fencing, the "mensur," is neither a duel nor a sport...

as well as the common principles of tolerance and democracy shared by all Corps of the KSCV

Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband

. Its members wear red and blue couleur

Couleur

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

(red cap and tricoloured sash) on official occasions. Hannovera's Latin motto

Motto

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is Nunquam retrorsum, fortes adiuvat fortuna! (engl: Never backward, fortune favours the bold).

Corps Hannovera officially regards the 18 of January 1809 as its founding date though it can be proved that there were similar gatherings of Hanoverian students in Göttingen as far back as 1735.

Corps Hannovera is also a founding member and stringent follower of the "blaues Prinzip" or blue principle (along with fellow cartel Corps Teutonia Marburg and Lusatia Leipzig) . The blue principle is a social principle which consists of the promotion of gentlemanly conduct and social behaviour in general. Flowing from these ideals Corps Hannovera host several social events in their club house (Corpshaus

Fraternity and sorority houses

North American fraternity and sorority housing refers largely to the houses or housing areas that fraternity and sorority members live and work together in...

) which are generally regarded as some of the most coveted and exclusive social occasions in Göttingen.
The most famous member of Hannovera was Otto von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck

Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg , simply known as Otto von Bismarck, was a Prussian-German statesman whose actions unified Germany, made it a major player in world affairs, and created a balance of power that kept Europe at peace after 1871.As Minister President of...

, who probably had the "wildest" time of his life in the course of his studies at Göttingen

Göttingen

Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

university, where, owing to his excessive boisterousness, he was forced to live outside the town walls and was once placed under arrest

Arrest

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for a period of ten days in the university jail (in German: Karzer
Karzer
A Karzer was a designated lock-up or detention room to incarcerate students for punishment, within a jurisdiction of some institutions of learning in Germany. Karzers existed both at universities and at gymnasiums in Germany until the beginning of the twentieth century. Marburg's last Karzer...

).

Other famous members of Corps Hanovera Göttingen were general Friedrich Balduin von Gagern

Friedrich Balduin von Gagern

Friedrich Balduin, Baron von Gagern , the eldest of the sons of Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern, was born at Weilburg on the 24th of October 1794. He entered the university of Göttingen, but soon left, and, taking service in the Austrian army, took part in the Russian campaign of 1812, and fought...

, the leader of the liberal

National Liberal Party (Germany)

The National Liberal Party was a German political party which flourished between 1867 and 1918. It was formed by Prussian liberals who put aside their differences with Bismarck over domestic policy due to their support for his highly successful foreign policy, which resulted in the unification of...

opposition in the Reichstag

Reichstag (German Empire)

The Reichstag was the parliament of the North German Confederation , and of the German Reich ....

, Rudolf von Bennigsen

Rudolf von Bennigsen

Rudolf von Bennigsen was a German politician descended from an old Hanoverian family. His father, Karl von Bennigsen, was an officer in the Hanoverian army who rose to the rank of general and also held diplomatic appointments...

and the German economist Wilhelm Roscher. Furthermore poet Ernst Schulze

Ernst Schulze

Ernst Conrad Friedrich Schulze was a German Romantic poet, born at Celle.-Early life and education:The son of the Mayor of Celle, his mother died while he was only two years old and much of his early education was overseen by his two grandfathers, who were a Celle bookseller and a minister.Widely...

, botanist Heinrich Wendland

Heinrich Wendland

Heinrich Ludolph Wendland was a botanist who authored a number of Acacia species....

, surgeon Louis Stromeyer

Louis Stromeyer

Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer was a German surgeon who was born in Hanover. He was the son of surgeon Christian Friedrich Stromeyer .-Biography:...

, geologist Otto Volger

Otto Volger

Georg Heinrich Otto Volger was a German geologist born in Lüneburg. He studied natural history at the University of Göttingen, and later taught classes in natural history at the Muri monastery in Aargau....

, fisheries expert

Fishery

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Walther Herwig

Walther Herwig was a Prussian administrative lawyer, and the founder of the German fisheries science....

, the Imperial German ambassador to China and Japan Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein

Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein

Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein was a diplomat of the German Empire. He succeeded the murdered Baron Clemens von Ketteler as ambassador in Beijing in 1900....

and Wolfgang Kapp

Wolfgang Kapp

Wolfgang Kapp was a Prussian civil servant and journalist. He was a strict nationalist, and a nominal leader of the so-called Kapp Putsch.-Early life:...

.

The Corps has some members from the United Kingdom and the United States. One of them was the later physician Mitchell Campbell King

Mitchell Campbell King

Mitchell Campbell King was a planter and physician in the Carolinas. Mitchell Campbell King was the son of teacher, Lawyer and Judge Mitchel King and his first wife Susanna Campbell...

from South Carolina, who belonged to the circle of Bismarcks american friends in Göttingen.
During his stay at Göttingen 1856 John Pierpont Morgan joined the Corps, but was not a full fledged member since he wanted to avoid a smite. Others have worked in the US and Canada like surgeon Hinrich Bitter-Suermann

Hinrich Bitter-Suermann

Hinrich Bitter-Suermann is a German-Canadian pathologist and Professor of Surgery specialized in organ transplantation.-Education:...

External links

Corps Hannovera Göttingen (in German)
Jonathan Green: Armed and Courteous, Financial Times
Financial Times
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magazine, 3. January 2004, S. 16. http://web.archive.org/web/20080212115357/http://www.jonathan-green.com/articles/report_a03/report_a03.htm
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