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When Student association or Student Association In general, one refers to every overlocal association of students or student organizations at universities, regardless of the respective purpose of the association. With regard to their composition, at least two basic types can be distinguished at the national level and at the level of the German federal states:

On the one hand, there are the compilations of the local students, which in turn are based on the mandatory membership of all students of a university Student representations ).

On the other hand are the so -called Student associations , which are based on the principle of voluntary membership of the students, with organizationally distinguishing two types of associations: in some associations, the students themselves are a member, while other associations are compilations of university groups. In addition to the (party) political associations, the student associations also include the local associations of student associations as well as the countless associations of technical, religious or musical-cultural nature.

As a third type of association, one could finally the so -called Action alliances Look at, which are more likely to be closed for time and for the persecution of a certain goal and who can belong to both individual student affairs, a wide variety of associations and individuals.

There are also international mergers of national associations.

The following structure serves to try an introduction to the-somewhat confusing-student association landscape.

Student representations also include the state student representatives of the German federal states, the nationwide mergers of student councils (federal conference meetings), the Federal Association of Foreign Students and some others.

Historical representations:

Political student associations (Germany) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The Juso University Groups are organizational part of the Jusos, which in turn are a working group in the SPD. The left. In both cases, the members are people. The other associations are organizationally independent and their members are university groups.

Historical associations:

  • Reichsbund of German Democratic Students (1919–1933)
  • German university ring (1920–1933)
  • German national student body (? –1933)
  • Reich Committee of the University Groups of the German People’s Party (1922-1933)
  • Reich Association of German Center students (? –1933)
  • Socialist student body in Germany and Austria (1922–1933)
  • Stahlhelm student ring Langemarck (1926-1933)
  • National Socialist German Student Association (1926-1945)
  • Socialist German Student Association (SDS) (1946–70, until 1960 The SPD student association)
  • Association of displaced German students (VHDS) (1950–1964)
  • Liberal Student Association of Germany (LSD) (1950–1969, FDP student association)
  • BUND National Students (BNS, 1956-1961)
  • Socialist/Socialist University Association (SHB) (1960–1992, until 1971 as a social democratic university association The SPD student association)
  • National Democratic University Association (NHB) (Student Association of the NPD, 1966-1990)
  • German students Union / Social Liberal University Association (DSU / SLH) (1968–1987, from around 1980 FDP-Nah)
  • Marxist Student Association Spartakus (MSB Spartakus) (DKP-Nah, 1971–1990)
  • Liberal University Association / Radical Democratic student groups (LHV / RSG) (1972–1988, until 1982 as a Liberal University Association of the FDP student association)
  • Ecological-democratic students (ÖDS) (student association of the ÖDP, 1987–2005)
  • Alliance of left and radical democratic university groups (Lira) (PDS-Nah, 1998–2006)
  • Association of Marxist students (AMS, DKP-Nah, 1997–2010)

Political student associations (Austria) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Political student associations (Switzerland) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Student connections and their umbrella organizations [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Religious associations [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Technically oriented mergers [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Other [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Despite their name, the student unions and their umbrella organization are German Studentenwerk No student organizations in the narrower sense (more). Originally founded in the 1920s as student self -help institutions, but more and more were removed from student self -government over time and finally transferred to public law in institutions in the early 1970s. Today they see themselves as independent support facilities for the students.