Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg

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. 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.

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).