Student society

As a student organization is known in general about any local association of students, irrespective of the Association purpose. In terms of their composition, however, can be distinguished at least two basic types:

On the one hand there are the mergers of local student bodies, which in turn partly on the compulsory membership of all students in a university based ( Student Representatives ).

On the other hand there are the so-called student associations that are based on the principle of voluntary individual membership. This group in addition to the (party ) political associations also include the non-local groupings of students' associations as well as the countless professional associations, religious or artistic- cultural nature

The third type of association could finally consider the so-called action groups that are more likely to be closed on time and to pursue a specific goal and can belong to which both individual student bodies, a wide variety of organizations and individuals.

The attempt to introduce into the - somewhat confusing - student associations Landscape serves the following markets:

Student representatives

  • Voluntary association of student (fzs, Germany )
  • Austrian Students and Student Union ( Student Union )
  • Association of Swiss student bodies (VSS )
  • European Students' Union (European federation of national associations representing )

The student representatives also include the country's student representatives of the German states, the national associations of student bodies ( federal student council meetings ), the German Association of Foreign Students and some others.

Historical representations:

  • German Student Union (1919-1945)
  • Association of German Student Bodies (VDS, 1949-1990 )
  • Student Association of German engineering schools ( SVI, 1947-1975 )
  • German Federal student Ring (1952-1969)

Student associations

Political student associations ( Germany )

  • Ring of Christian Democratic Students ( RCDS, CDU / CSU, est. 1951)
  • National Democratic University Federation ( NHB, NPD 1966-1990 )
  • Young Socialists university groups (SPD, 1973)
  • Federal Liberal Association of University Groups ( LHG, FDP, 1987)
  • Association of Marxist students ( AMS, DKP -nah, 1997)
  • Campus Green - Alliance green - alternative high school groups ( Alliance 90/The Greens, 1999)
  • The Linke.SDS (The Left, 2007)

Historical Associations:

  • Reichsbund German Democratic Students (1919-1933)
  • German university ring (1920-1933)
  • German National Student Union (? -1933 )
  • Reich Committee of the university groups, the German People's Party (1922-1933)
  • Reich Association of German Student Center (? -1933 )
  • Socialist Student Union of Germany and Austria (1922-1933)
  • Stahlhelm Studentenring Langemarck (1926-1933)
  • National Socialist German Students' League (1926-1945)
  • Socialist German Student Union (SDS, 1946-70 )
  • Association of German expellees students ( VHDs, 1950-1964 )
  • Liberal Students' Association of Germany ( LSD, 1950-1969 )
  • National Confederation students ( BNS, 1956-1961 )
  • Social Democratic / Socialist Hochschulbund (SHB, 1960-1992 )
  • Marxist Student Association Spartacus (MSB, 1971-1990 )
  • Liberal Education Association / radical Democratic student groups ( LHV / RSG, 1972-1988 )
  • Alliance of left and radical democratic university groups ( LiRa, 1998-2006)

Political Unions of Students ( Austria )

  • Green & Alternative students (GRAS )
  • Independent student council lists of Austria ( FLÖ )
  • Communist Students Association ( KSV )
  • Young Liberals Austria ( JuLis )
  • Ring Freiheitlicher students ( RFS)
  • Association of Socialist Students of Austria ( VSStÖ )

Political Unions of Students ( Switzerland )

  • Swiss Liberal Students Association

Student associations and their umbrella organizations

Please see the list of the umbrella organizations of student associations.

Religious associations

  • Catholic Student Communities
  • Protestant Student Communities
  • Student Mission in Germany

Expertise-oriented mergers

  • AIESEC (for students of all disciplines, used to be a focus on economics )
  • Federation of Exchange Clubs at German universities
  • Federal Association of German Student consultancies
  • Federal Association of Security Policy at universities
  • ELSA ( for legal scholars )
  • IAESTE - International internships for students of technical and scientific fields of study
  • Market Team (for students from all disciplines, to gain insights into the economic life )
  • WINGnet - Association for the Promotion of students technical and economic fields of study

Other

  • German University Sports Federation
  • AEGEE European Students' Forum
  • Erasmus Student Network organization for the care of exchange students
  • Student Forum of the Tönissteiner circle politically and denominationally independent, interdisciplinary think tank German students

Action groups

  • Action against tuition fees (ABS )
  • Alliance for policy and freedom of expression (PM Alliance, bpm )
  • Collective agreement initiative of student employees ( Tarifini )

Student Unions

Despite its name, the student unions and their umbrella organization of German Student there are no student organizations in the strict sense (more). In the 1920s, originally founded as a student self-help institutions, but these were more and more removed over time from the student administration and finally converted in the early 1970s the majority of public institutions in law. Today, they see themselves as separate conveyors for the students.

Students - roof Associations International

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