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* [http://www.die-corps.de Homepage of the two Corps associations]
* [http://www.die-corps.de Homepage of the two Corps associations]
* [http://www.corpsstudent.de "Corpsstudent"]
* [http://www.corps.at Corps in Austria]
* [http://www.corps.at Corps in Austria]


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Weinheimer Senioren-Convent
The castle Wachenburg in Weinheim is the symbol of the Weinheimer Senioren-Convent. It was specifically designed and built as fraternity meeting point in 1907-13 by the alumni WSC's organization WVAC.
Foundation
April 7, 1863 in
Frankfurt am Main
Member fraterities
58 Weinheimer Corps
in 23 University cities (2012)
Principles
Motto
Jemer bereit stan!
(Always be ready!)
Alumni organization
Weinheimer Verband Alter Corpsstudenten (WVAC)
Cooperation
Publication
CORPS - Das Magazin
(four publications per year)
Headquarters
Büro des WVAC
Friedrichstraße 32
69469 Weinheim
Homepage

Map of the Corps in Europe:
Corps in Europa.

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

The WSC had been founded in Frankfurt in 1863 under the name of „Allgemeiner Senioren-Convent" (ASC). Soon it moved its venue to Weinheim near Heidelberg in 1864 and it adopted the name of Weinheimer Senioren Convent in 1867. The WSC has built a castle near Weinheim to suit their needs - the Wachenburg. It has merged the Corps of the Rudolstädter Senioren-Convent (RSC) and the Naumburger Senioren-Convent (NSC) in 1934. Since 1955 the WSC has an association treaty with the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (abbreviated KSCV, the oldest and largest association of Corps).

In 1997, members of the Weinheimer Senioren Convents (WSC "Corps") came to the United States to discuss the possibility of forming an international fraternity cooperation with Tau Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity, the largest collegiate social fraternity in North America. Through this meeting a fraternal exchange program was created between TKE and the German Corps whereby Corps members and Tekes could visit one another, learn one another's traditions, and see how fraternities separated by an ocean and centuries in age share similarities in structure, direction, values, programs, and results.[1]

List of Corps

In alphabetic order with Corps present on the English Wikipedia (links in blue) first.

Coats of arms of member Corps at the entrance to the Wachenburg castle
All of the German Student Corps can be distinguished by their coat of arms, such as this one of Corps Altsachsen in Dresden

References

  1. ^ TKE.org
  • Tau Kappa Epsilon German Corps Affiliation [1]
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Links to web sites in German language:

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