K.D.St.V. Saarland (Saarbrücken) Jena

The Catholic German student corporation Saarland (Saarbrücken) Jena (German: Katholische Deutsche Studentenverbindung (K.D.St.V.) Saarland (Saarbrücken) Jena, founded in 1961, is a Catholic German academic fraternity. As all the other member fraternities of the Cartellverband (CV), the largest organization of academic persons in Germany, the members of the K.D.St.V. Saarland do not practise academic fencing (Mensur) because of their Catholic religion.

The K.D.St.V. Saarland was established on June 18, 1961 as a spin-off of the fraternity K.D.St.V. Carolus MagnusCartellverband at the University of the Saarland. Final act of the foundation was the publication on June 30. 1962. The K.D.St.V. Saarland was separated from Carolus Magnus because of the significant effects of the referendum of 1955, concerning the Saarstatut. With this referendum the citizens of the Saarland had to decide whether to reunite the Saarland with Germany or to be an independent territory, governed by an elected government, in matters of foreign policy represented by a commissar of the Western European Union and with an economy connected to France. There were heavy arguments between the supporters of both solutions. The break ran through Families, clubs and friendships and continued to exert an influence even after the conclusion of the referendum and the reunion to Germany. The new founded K.D.St.V. Saarland was the result of such a break. Here mainly the supporters of the Europastatut tried to form a new fraternity, separated from the supporters of the reunion to Germany, who mainly stayed in the Carolus Magnus fraternity.

In 1962 an apartment at Saarbrücken's Graf-Johann-Street was rented, followed by an apartment at Mozartstreet. In 1983 the fraternity bought a house of its own at Akazienweg, still in Saarbrücken.

In 2006 the fraternity decided to change from the University of the Saarland to the Friedrich Schiller University at Jena, a university full of the history and the traditions of fraternities. The Urburschenschaft, which was the first user of the colors black red and gold, which later should form the flag of Germany and which was the first one of today's type of German fraternities, although many of them do not share her nationalistic principles and her academic fencing, was founded here. This place of great academic tradition fifteen years after the German reunification still did not contain a fraternity of the CV, the largest organization of German fraternities. K.D.St.V. Saarland is the only fraternity of the CV that ever moved from the western part of Germany to a place of the former German Democratic Republic. On July 15. 2006, the transfer was terminated and the fraternity moved into an apartment at Löbdergraben near the university of Jena.

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