Confederation Internationale des Etudiants
The Confédération internationale des étudiants ( CIE) was an international student organization in the interwar period.
History
The CIE was founded in 1919 at the Strasbourg Congress of the Union nationale des étudiants de France ( UNEF ) and included the national student umbrella organizations of the countries represented in the League of Nations. The organization was recognized by the League of Nations as the representative of the national student bodies and not with the also recognized by the League of Nations Fédération Universitaire Internationale pour la Société des Nations ( FUI ) to be confused in which university groups either party of socialists to the national conservatives about the central office were represented for the League of Nations student work in Germany. First President of the CIE was the Frenchman Jean Gérard ( 1890-1956 ). The CIE organized the World Games of the universities (since 1959 also Universiade ).
In the CIE, the French made at the beginning of their influence to Germany, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria, which recorded its opinion for the First World War responsible not to include, while English and Scots took a mediating position. The statutes of the CIE saw before, accordingly, that the student bodies of the Central Powers in the League of Nations Member should be only after the inclusion of the country. However, in 1924, contact with the German student body was taken under pressure from the British, who as a result of the Council meeting in Warsaw could participate without voting rights. However, since the German student body was large German structured, ie according to their understanding of the interests of the students in Austria, the Sudetenland and the Free City of Danzig represented, was prevented a recording of the French side in consensus with the countries of Eastern Europe. 1929 came at the Council meeting in Budapest to a working agreement between the German Student shaft and the CIE, which in fact amounted to a association and the right to represent the German student body about the actual borders of the German Reich was recognized by the CIE since 1919 addition. This particular led to tensions between the German student body and the Polish member association in regard to Danzig.
The CIE existed until the German invasion of Belgium in 1940. As the successor organization was created after the Second World War, the International Union of Students ( IUS ), for the high school sports the Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire.