The Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg is a German Student Corps at the University of Heidelberg.
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History
Saxo-Borussia was established on 16 December 1820. 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.
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.
Symbols
Saxo-Borussia's motto is Virtus sola bonorum corona!. Its colors are white, green, black and white. The corps also has a zirkel.
Notable members
Princes
Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden
Prince Maximilian of Baden
Constantine I of Greece
Prince Oskar of Prussia
Charles Augustus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1844–1894)
Ernst I, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Otto of Stolberg-Wernigerode
Others
Herbert von Dirksen, ambassador to Britain
Albrecht von Hagen, executed in 1944
Hermann Theodor Hettner, literary historian
William Hillebrand, physician and botanist in Hawaii
Leopold von Hoesch, esteemed diplomat in England
Joseph Florimond Loubat, bibliophile, antiquarian, sportsman, and philanthropist
Eduard von Rindfleisch, pathologist
Hans Joachim von Rohr, agrarian
Rudolf von Scheliha, executed in 1942
Gustav Simon, surgeon
Riesenstein
Saxo-Borussia is also known for her Corpshouse called Riesenstein. It is located nearby the Gaisberg (Heidelberg).