Wingolf
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Wingolf is an umbrella organisation of 36 student fraternities at 34 universities in Germany, Austria and Estonia. Founded as early as 1844, it counts as one of the older types of fraternities, the oldest one being the Corps. It has approximately 5,000 members.
It is a Christian fraternity, wears its own colours, and, unlike many other German Studentenverbindungen, does not practice academic fencing.
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[edit] Motto
The motto of all Wingolf fraternities is "Δι ένoς πάντα" - "Di henos panta" (Greek: all things through him (= Jesus Christ). (Philippians 4:13).
[edit] Notable members
- Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck (1799-1877), evangelic theologist, oriental philologist
- Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818-1888), social reformer and banker
- Konrad Duden (1829-1911), philologist and lexicographer
- Friedrich von Bodelschwingh (1831-1910), pastor
- Johannes Kuhlo (1856-1941), pastor and trombonist
- Paul Tillich (1886-1965), protestant theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher
- Paul Schneider (1897-1939), pastor and martyr
- Georg Leibbrandt (1899-1982), politician
- Otto Zöckler (1833-1906), theologist
[edit] Chapters
[edit] Germany
- University of Aachen
- University of Berlin
- University of Bonn
- University of Bremen
- Clausthal University of Technology
- University of Darmstadt
- University of Erfurt
- University of Erlangen
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main
- Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg
- University of Gießen
- University of Göttingen
- University of Halle
- University of Hamburg
- University of Hannover
- University of Heidelberg
- University of Hohenheim
- University of Jena
- University of Karlsruhe
- University of Kiel
- University of Cologne
- University of Leipzig
- University of Mainz
- University of Mannheim
- University of Marburg (2 chapters)
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- University of Münster
- University of Rostock
- University of Siegen
- University of Stuttgart
- University of Tübingen
- University of Würzburg
[edit] Estonia
[edit] Austria
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