Wingolf

Wingolf (German: [ˈvɪŋɡɔlf]) is an umbrella organisation of 35 student fraternities at 34 universities in Germany, Austria and Estonia. 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 not to practise 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

Source: Gesamtverzeichnis des Wingolf, Lichtenberg 1991

• Gottlieb Olpp (1872-1950) evangelic medical missionary

Chapters

• For more details see List of member fraternities of the Wingolf

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

Estonia

• University of Tartu

Austria

• Vienna

External links

• http://www.wingolf.de