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Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg
Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg
Founded	16 December 1820; 204 years ago; Ruprecht-Karls-University
Type	Studentenverbindung
Affiliation	KSCV
Status	Active
Emphasis	Dueling
Scope	Local
Motto	Virtus sola bonorum corona!
Colors	White, Green, Black, and White
Chapters	1
Zirkel
Headquarters	Riesenstein; ; 69117 Heidelberg; Germany

The Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg is a German Student Corps at the University of Heidelberg.

History

Saxo-Borussia was established on 16 December 1820. Its motto is Virtus sola bonorum corona!. In 1829 Robert Schumann became a lifelong member. During the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states the corps participated in founding the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband (KSCV), an association of German-speaking Student Corps.

In the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic Saxo-Borussia was considered "the most distinguished corps of Christendom" – a reference to the 1st Foot Guards (German Empire). Wilhelm Meyer-Förster wrote a student novel (1885) and Mark Twain reported on his visit in A Tramp Abroad. Kurt Tucholsky taunted the corps with a poem.^[1] Unlike the befriended Corps Borussia Bonn, Saxo-Borussia has never been mocked by satirical magazine Simplicissimus. The group was prosecuted in Nazi Germany. It dissolved on 3 July 1935 under persecution, and was recreated in 1952. In 1910 and 1998 it headed the KSCV.^[2]