Kadimah ViennaA.V. Kadimah Wien

The Kadimah was founded on October 25, 1882 in Vienna and was approved by the authorities on March 23, 1883. This is why the founding year is sometimes given as 1882 and sometimes as 1883. The colors of the Kadimah were amaranth red-violet-gold on violet-white. The foxes wore a red-violet ribbon. The cap color was initially black, from 1928 dark blue. The motto was: With word and defense for Judah's honor!

Members of the Kadimah founded the Hasmonaea Czernowitz in 1891 and the Barissia Radautz in 1912. On December 10, 1909, Kadimah suggested founding a "Ring of Zionist AH Associations in Vienna". From December 1913 to June 1922, Kadimah was the only color-bearing association in the Kartell Zionistischer Verbindungen - Kartell Jüdischer Verbindungen from 1914 - and was separated from this association. One reason for this was that the KZV had banned Satisfaction. On March 16, 1935, Kadimah and JAV Charitas Graz founded the Bund Zionistischer Verbindungen. Kadimah was officially dissolved after the annexation of Austria on August 13, 1938. After the Second World War, the Old Men joined the IGUL - Ring der Alt-Herren-Verbände der zionistisch-akademischen Verbindungen und Vereine in Israel in 1954.

The Kadimah emerged as the first national Jewish student organization. Some corporate associations such as the Kyffhäuser Association had begun to exclude Jews. The Kadimah, initially also derided by Jews, was committed to Zionism. Like the Associations of Zion Lovers that had already emerged throughout Europe, the Kadimah was the first to show organized national Jewish aspirations. They prepared the ground for Theodor Herzl and the later success of political Zionism.