Wingolf
Wingolf is an umbrella organisation of 35 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 one of the oldest oecumenical organisations in Germany. It has a close friendship with the Falkensteinerbund in Switzerland.
It is a Christian fraternity, wears its own colours (black, white, gold), and, was the first German Studentenverbindung, which does not practice academic fencing.
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).
Notable members
- Albrecht Alt (1883-1956)
- Willibald Beyschlag (1823-1900)
- Gustav Bickell (1838-1906)
- Friedrich von Bodelschwingh (1831-1910), pastor
- Harald Braun (1901-1960)
- Rolf Wilhelm Brednich (1935- )
- Friedrich Brunstäd (1883-1944)
- Theophil Friedrich Christen (1879-1920)
- Hans Conzelmann (1915-1989)
- Hermann Cremer (1834-1903)
- Friedrich Delitzsch (1850-1922)
- Konrad Duden (1829-1911), philologist and lexicographer
- Friedrich von Duhn (1851-1930)
- August Ebrard (1818-1888)
- Sigfrid Gauch (1945- )
- Franz Grashof (1826-1893)
- Adolf von Harnack (1851-1930)
- Erich Haupt (1841-1910)
- Karl Heim (1874-1958)
- Hermann Volrath Hilprecht (1859-1925)
- Emanuel Hirsch (1888-1972)
- Heinrich Holtzmann (1832-1910)
- Ferdinand Justi (1837-1907)
- Martin Kähler (1835-1912)
- Johannes Kahrs (1963- )
- Emil Kautzsch (1841-1910)
- Paul Kleinert (1837-1910)
- August Klostermann (1837-1915)
- Johannes Kuhlo (1856-1941), pastor and trombonist
- Walter Künneth (1901-1997)
- Georg Leibbrandt (1899-1982)
- Friedrich Maurer (1898-1984)
- Carl Meinhof (1857-1944)
- Christian Mergenthaler (1884-1980)
- Julius Müller (1801-1878)
- Alexander von Oettingen (1827-1905)
- Wilhelm Pauck (1901-1981)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818-1888), social reformer and banker
- Albrecht Ritschl (1822-1889)
- Gerhard Ritter (1888-1967)
- Adolf Schlatter (1852-1938)
- Paul Schneider (1897-1939), pastor and martyr
- August Tholuck (1799-1877), evangelic theologist, oriental philologist
- Paul Tillich (1886-1965), Protestant theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher
- Jacob Volhard (1834-1910)
- Theodor Weber (1836-1906)
- Theodor Zahn (1838-1933)
- Matthias Zimmer (1961-)
- Otto Zöckler (1833-1906), theologist
Chapters
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