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[[File:Anna Lemminger and Franz Burda.jpg|thumb|[[Aenne Burda|Aenne]] and [[Franz Burda]], 9 July 1931. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dueling scars were seen as a badge of honor in Germany and Austria, making their owners "good husband material".]]
Foreign tourists visiting Germany in the late 19th century were shocked to see the students, generally with their {{lang|de|Studentcorps}}, at major German universities such as [[University of Heidelberg|Heidelberg]], [[University of Bonn|Bonn]], or [[University of Jena|Jena]] with facial scars – some older, some more recent, and some still wrapped in bandages.<ref>"Where students fight. Scarred Faces are common sights at Heidelburg." ''Daily Bulletin Supplement''. San Francisco. 12 July 1890.</ref>
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The wounds were generally not that serious, "wounds causing, as a rule, but temporary inconvenience and leaving in their traces a perpetual witness of a fight well fought. The hurts, save when inflicted in the nose, lip, or ear, are not even necessarily painful, and unless the injured man indulges too freely in drink, causing them to swell and get red, very bad scars can be avoided. The swords used are so razor-like that they cut without bruising so that the lips of the wounds can be closely pressed, leaving no great disfigurement, such, for example, as is brought about by the loss of an ear."<ref>"Scarred Dueling Heroes", St Louis Daily Globe 15 August 1887</ref>
Sometimes, students who did not fence would scar themselves with razors in imitation,<ref name="DeMello p 237" /> and some would pull apart their healing cuts to exacerbate the scars, although this was generally frowned upon. Others paid doctors to slice their cheeks.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}} The number and extremity of scars was reduced in the later years of the practice and virtually does not exist anymore in modern Germany, and the custom of obtaining dueling scars started to die off after the [[World War II|Second World War]].
== Modern day ==
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