Student movements have accompanied university life since the nineteenth century. In 1815 in Jena (Germany) the "Urburschenschaft" was founded. That was a Studentenverbindung that was concentrated on national and democratic ideas.In 1817, inspired by liberal and patriotic ideas of a united Germany, student organisations gathered for the Wartburg festival at Wartburg Castle, at Eisenach in Thuringia, on the occasion of which reactionary books were burnt. In 1819 the student Karl Ludwig Sand murdered the writer August von Kotzebue, who had scoffed at liberal student organisations. The French July Revolution in 1830 was influenced by student organizations. In May 1832 the Hambacher Fest was celebrated at Hambach Castle near Neustadt an der Weinstraￃﾟe with about 30 000 participants, amongst them many students. Together with the Frankfurter Wachensturm in 1833 planned to free students held in prison at Frankfurt and Georg Bￃﾼchner's revolutionary pamphlet Der Hessische Landbote that were events that led to the revolutions in the German states in 1848. Students movements in the Developing World have always been a factor and have promoted the goals of independence in the [ - ]

Student movements have accompanied university life since the nineteenth century. In 1815 in... [ + ]