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 is the oldest type of fraternity in Germany. It has approximately 5,000 members.

It is a Christian fraternity, wears its own couleur, and, unlike many other German Studentenverbindungen, does not practice academic fencing.

Contents 1 Motto 2 Notable members 3 Chapters 3.1 Germany 3.2 Estonia 3.3 Austria 4 External links

[edit] Motto

The motto of all Wingolf fraternities is "Δι ένoς πάντα" - "Di henos panta" (Greek: all things through him (= Jesus Christ). (Philippians 4, Verse 13).

[edit] Notable members

• Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769-1860), poet and academic
• 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), evangelical theologist
• Paul Schneider (1897-1939), pastor and martyr
• Georg Leibbrandt (1899-1982), politician
• Otto Zöckler (1833-1906), theologist

[edit] Chapters

[edit] Germany

• University of Berlin
• University of Bonn
• University of Bremen
• University of Clausthal
• 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)
• University of München
• University of Münster
• University of Rostock
• University of Siegen
• University of Stuttgart
• University of Tübingen
• University of Würzburg

[edit] Estonia

• University of Tartu

[edit] Austria

• Vienna

[edit] External links

• http://www.wingolf.de

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