page_title: Corps Altsachsen Dresden
section_title: Post-war reconstitution and return to Dresden
hierarchical_section_title: Corps Altsachsen Dresden / History / Post-war reconstitution and return to Dresden
caption_attribution_description: Anlegestelle der Weißen Flotte am Terrassenufer
context_page_description: The Corps Altsachsen is a fraternity in Dresden, Germany. It was founded on October 31, 1861 and is one of 162 German Student Corps in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Latvia and Hungary today. The Corps is a member of the Weinheimer Senioren-Convent, the second oldest federation of classical Fraternities in Europe with roots dating back to the 15th century.
  Four presidents of Dresden University of Technology, Dresden's largest university with approximately 30.000 students, are among the list of members of the fraternity, underlining the deep connection between the Corps and the local alma mater. The connections with the university and the city of Dresden go far back to the fraternity's early beginnings in the late 19th century, with members aspiring to drive developments for the university over the course of history. Two major accomplishments were ensuring the university's recognition by developing the former Technical Institute into the Royal Saxon Technical College of Dresden in the late 1800s and founding of today's Studentenwerk Dresden in the early 1900s as the university's student council.
context_section_description: After the war, the fraternity was reconstituted at the University of Cologne in 1950 and soon fused with the smaller Corps Gothia Dresden in 1953. Originally located in Köln-Lindenthal, Altsachsen soon moved to Köln-Marienburg, where it stayed until the Iron Curtain collapsed. During the Soviet dictatorship in East Germany, fraternities abiding by free will and common consensus were again not allowed to exist as they could not be controlled by the Socialist Party. Following Germany's reunification in 1989, the fraternity returned to Dresden in 1994 with the aid of the Blaues Kartell, a circle of four like-minded fraternities that Altsachsen had joined in 1993. The Blaues Kartell today includes the Corps Saxo-Thuringia München in Munich, Corps Hannoverania in Hanover and Corps Berlin in Berlin. In 1997, the Corps Altsachsen transitioned its headquarters to its newly remodeled fraternity house on Weissbachstreet 1, right in the middle of the Campus of the Dresden University of Technology, thereby reconnecting with its traditional roots.
caption: Steamboat at Brühl's Terrace
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