Corps Hannovera Göttingen
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The Corps Hannovera Göttingen is one of the oldest 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 (1848) and member of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV), which unites some of the oldest German student corporations.
Hannovera commits itself still in our times to the principels of academic fencing. The members wear couleur (cap and ribbon) on official events. Hannoveras motto is in latin Nunquam retrorsum, fortes adiuvat fortuna! (engl: Never backward, the luck is with the brave).
The most famous member of Hannovera was Otto von Bismarck, who probably had the "wildest" time of his life during his studies at Göttingen university, where he - due to his behavior - had to live outside the town walls and became arrested for ten days in the university jail (in German: Karzer) too.
Other famous members were the leader of the liberal opposition in the Reichstag, Rudolf von Bennigsen and the German economist Wilhelm Roscher.
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