Misplaced Pages

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "German Student Union" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (February 2021) Click for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Misplaced Pages. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,136 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Misplaced Pages article at ]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Deutsche Studentenschaft}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation.

The German Student Union (German: Deutsche Studentenschaft, abbreviated DSt) from 1919 until 1945, was the merger of the general student committees of all German universities, including Danzig, Austria and the former German universities in Czechoslovakia.

The DSt was founded during the Weimar Republic period as a democratic representation of interests. It experienced serious internal conflicts in the early 1920s between the Republican minority and the völkisch majority wing. It was dominated from 1931 onward by the National Socialist German Students' League, which was merged on 5 November 1936 under Gustav Adolf Scheel with the DSt, played a large part in the Nazi book burnings and was eventually banned in 1945 as a Nazi organization.

On 6 May 1933, members of the DSt made an organised attack on the Institute of Sex Research in Berlin's Tiergarten area. A few days later, the institute's library and archives were hauled out and burned in the streets of the Opernplatz. Around 20,000 books and journals, and 5,000 images, were destroyed.

Chairmen

See also

• Sozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (1946–)

References

1. Hans-Wolfgang Strätz (1968). "Die studentische "Aktion wider den undeutschen Geist" im Frühjahr 1933" (PDF). Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. 16 (4): 547–572. Here: p.550
2. Lutz Hachmeister: Schleyer: eine deutsche Geschichte, C.H.Beck, 2004, S.98

This German history article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

• Student organizations established in 1919
• Organizations disestablished in 1945
• Nazi Party organizations
• Student societies in Germany
• Organizations based in the Weimar Republic
• Education in Nazi Germany
• German history stubs