DUELLING IN GERMANY
STUDENTS SETTLE QUARRELS [from our own correspondent] SYDNEY, Feb. 17 Dr. H. D. Nobbe, who arrived at Sydney by the Orontes the other day to open an Australian branch for a large German firm of manufacturers of industrial and other chemicals, bears evidence on his face of his student days at Gottingen University—scars of wounds received in duelling. The doctor said that duelling was prevalent at German universities 15 years ago, but had lost much of its popularity of late. It was encouraged because it developed courago and hardihood among young men. An insult was usually followed by an encounter with swords. Complete c\ecorum was observed and a duel could not be fought until a tribunal had examined the alleged offence and authorised the duel. Medical aid was always at hand, and care was taken that injuries inflicted were not more than superficial.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22353, 26 February 1936, Page 16
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