Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg
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. 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. Wilhelm Meyer-Förster wrote a student novel 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.Members
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
- 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.
