Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg

Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg
Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg
Founded	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. 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]

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).

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