Corps Hannovera Göttingen
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The Corps Hannovera Göttingen is one of the eldest German Student Corps, a Studentenverbindung or student corporation founded 18 January 1809 at the Georg August University of Göttingen. The name was chosen because the founders had their home residences in the Kingdom of Hanover. As a corps it is a founder member (1848) of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV), the eldest governing body of such student associations in both Germany and Austria.
Hannovera commits itself still to the principles of academic fencing. Its members wear couleur (cap and tricoloured sash) on official occasions. Hannoveras Latin motto isNunquam retrorsum, fortes adiuvat fortuna! (engl: Never backward, luck is with the brave).
The most famous member of Hannovera was Otto von Bismarck, who probably had the "wildest" time of his life in the course of his studies at Göttingen university, where, owing to his excessive boisterousness, he was forced to live outside the town walls and was once placed under arrest for a period of ten days in the university jail (in German: Karzer).
Other famous members of Corps Hanovera Göttingen were the leader of the liberal opposition in the Reichstag, Rudolf von Bennigsen and the German economist Wilhelm Roscher.
