Community for German Student History

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The Community for German Student History e.V. (GDS) is a historical association that deals with the history and current problems of university, student body, student associations (especially student associations) and academic organizations. Their magazine Studenten-Kurier, book publications and symposiums serve for this purpose.

History
The GDS was launched on the 4th. Founded in August 1974 as an archive association of Markomannia in Würzburg and initially had the task of securing and opening up the historically important archival stock of a connection, namely the KDStV Markomannia in the CV zu Würzburg, founded in 1871. From the beginning, however, the association was open to anyone interested, and already among the founders were members of various corporations.

Three decades later, the non-profit association with extensive fields of work comprised about 2,100 members from almost all corporation associations and beyond. Since its founding, it has been chaired with an interruption (Pfarrer em). Detlef Frische, Essen, 2008–2012 by historian Friedhelm Golücke, Paderborn.

In 1981, the member magazine Studenten-Kurier appeared for the first time, which reaches the members quarterly with its new episode in 1986 and is supervised by board member Detlef Frische in Essen, where the office of the association is located. In the same year, the name of the association was changed. From the end of 1989, the GDS was able to officially manage its members in the GDR, who were previously only allowed to belong to it covertly and published messages without attribution in the student courier.

From 1989 onwards, the publications of the GDS were published by SH-Verlag (Schernfeld, later Vierow near Greifswald and Cologne). The publisher was closed in 2013. The scientific series Treatises on Student and Higher Education, published on behalf of the GDS, was adopted by Böhlau Verlag (Vienna, Cologne, Weimar).

In 1992, the first song seminar of the GDS took place at Burg Bodenstein in Saxony. These meetings became a tradition; The contributions of the first five meetings were published in the book Ergo Cantemus in 2001. Since 2002, the GDS meetings have been continued in a new form and in conjunction with GDS Day. The membership program is now rounded off with student and university history trips under the direction of board member Raimund Lang.

From 1996, there was an intensification of cooperation with the working group of student historians in the CDA, who chose the GDS archive as its publication organ. Since 2003, the GDS has run its own institute at the Stadtarchiv Paderborn, the Institute for German Student History (IDS), with its library, archive and collections. The German Student History Foundation is also a foundation of the association.

As an anniversary gift for the 30th anniversary in 2004, Golücke published an author’s encyclopaedia on university and student history.

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