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Landsmannschaft
Landsmanschaft could refer to: * Landsmanshaft, a type of Jewish mutual-aid organisation * Landsmannschaft (Studentenverbindung), a German students' fraternity * Organizations of German refugees from former eastern territories ** Landsmannschaft Schlesien ** Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen ** Landsmannschaft Westpreußen ** Landsmannschaft Weichsel-Warthe Bundesverband ** Landsmannschaft der Banater Schwaben ** Landsmannschaft der Bessarabiendeutschen ** Landsmannschaft der Buchenlanddeutschen ** Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland ** Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn ** Landsmannschaft der Siebenbürger Sachsen in Deutschland ** Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Litauen ** Karpatendeutsche Landsmannschaft Slowakei ** Pommersche Landsmannschaft ** Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft ** Deutsch-Baltische Gesellschaft See also * All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights * Federation of Expellees * Organised persecution of ethnic Germans * Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federation Of Expellees
The Federation of Expellees (; BdV) is a non-profit organization formed in West Germany on 27 October 1957 to represent the interests of German nationals of all ethnicities and foreign ethnic Germans and their families (usually naturalised as German nationals after 1949) who either fled their homes in parts of Central and Eastern Europe, or were forcibly expelled following World War II. Since 2014 the president of the Federation has been Bernd Fabritius, who arrived in West Germany in 1984 as a Transylvanian Saxon refugee from Agnita, Socialist Republic of Romania, and who has since been elected as a Christian Social Union in Bavaria Member of the Bundestag. History It is estimated that in the aftermath of World War II between 13 and 16 million ethnic Germans fled or were expelled from parts of Central and Eastern Europe, including the former eastern territories of Germany (parts of present-day Poland), the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia (mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsmannschaft Schlesien
The Landsmannschaft Schlesien - Nieder- und Oberschlesien e.V. ("Territorial Association of Silesia - Lower and Upper Silesia", "Homeland Association of Silesia - Lower and Upper Silesia") is an organization of Germans born in the former Prussian provinces of Lower and Upper Silesia, and their descendants, who currently live in Germany. The Landsmannschaft Schlesien was established in March 1950 and is a member of the Federation of Expellees, and has its headquarters in Königswinter, North Rhine-Westphalia. About The association consists of people who were expelled or evacuated during World War II or after, and their descendants, as well as people who emigrated in more recent times, exercising their right to German citizenship, based on a 1913 German law. (See Aussiedler, the German Law of Return.) (The German nationality law was reformed in 1999 to, besides other matters, remove reference to ethnic German ancestry from the law.) The current president is Stephan Rauhut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsmannschaft Der Bessarabiendeutschen
Landsmanschaft could refer to: * Landsmanshaft, a type of Jewish mutual-aid organisation * Landsmannschaft (Studentenverbindung), a German students' fraternity * Organizations of German refugees from former eastern territories ** Landsmannschaft Schlesien ** Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen ** Landsmannschaft Westpreußen ** Landsmannschaft Weichsel-Warthe Bundesverband ** Landsmannschaft der Banater Schwaben ** Landsmannschaft der Bessarabiendeutschen ** Landsmannschaft der Buchenlanddeutschen ** Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland ** Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn ** Landsmannschaft der Siebenbürger Sachsen in Deutschland ** Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Litauen ** Karpatendeutsche Landsmannschaft Slowakei ** Pommersche Landsmannschaft ** Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft ** Deutsch-Baltische Gesellschaft See also * All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights * Federation of Expellees * Organised persecution of ethnic Germans * German eastwa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft
The Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft (; ) is an organization representing Sudeten German expellees and refugees from the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. Most of them were forcibly expelled and deported to western Allied occupation zones of Germany, which would later form West Germany, from their homelands inside Czechoslovakia during the expulsion of Germans after World War II. Many settled in Bavaria. The charter was signed in Stuttgart in 1950 and committed the organization to the renouncing of revenge and retaliation and promoting European accord. The organization tried to slow down the membership of today's Czech Republic in the European Union by demanding a complete revocation of the Beneš decrees which established the expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after the war and declared them unlawful. The association is currently based in Munich, Bavaria. Its chairman is Bernd Posselt. It is a member of the Federation of Expellees (Bund der Vertriebenen, BdV). Since Pen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsmannschaft (Studentenverbindung)
A Landsmannschaft (; Latin ''natio'', plural nationes) is a German fraternity of several fraternity forms called ''Studentenverbindung''. The older forms of ''Landsmannschaften'' were part of corporation (university), corporations and are closely aligned with the beginnings of university, universities in medieval times of the 12th and 13th centuries. The newer forms of ''Landsmannschaften'' are a kind of reform corps and most ''Landsmannschaften'' are members of the Coburger Convent. This is also the term for a Jewish burial society: landsmanshaft History In order to understand the history of Studentenverbindung, German fraternities, it needs to be known that the first universities in Europe were established in the 12th and 13th century in Paris (France), Bologna and Padua (Italy), and later also in Oxford and Cambridge (England). Students joined groups in regards to region in order to have protection as well as support in being heard in their interests. The two early forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen
The Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen ("Homeland Association of East Prussia") is a non-profit organization for Germans who were evacuated or expelled from East Prussia during World War II and as well as people who emigrated in more recent times, exercising their right to German citizenship, based on a 1913 German law. It was formed on 3 October 1948 by East Prussian refugees in West Germany. Organisation The organization's current president is Stephan Grigat. Its seat is in Hamburg Hamburg (, ; ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,. is the List of cities in Germany by population, second-largest city in Germany after Berlin and List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 7th-lar ..., and it is a member of the Bund der Vertriebenen. Its official newspaper is the '' Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung''. The Bund Junges Ostpreußen is a subsidiary youth organization of the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen; its predecessor, Junge Landsmannsch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsmannschaft Der Siebenbürger Sachsen In Deutschland
The Association of Transylvanian Saxons in Germany () is a German organization formed in 1946 by Transylvanian Saxons () who were resettled in Germany from Transylvania (). Its goals are the integration of Transylvanian Saxons in Germany and the preservation and promotion of the Transylvanian Saxon culture. It is based in Munich, Bavaria, southern Germany, and has over 25,000 members. It was renamed from the "Landsmannschaft der Siebenbürger Sachsen in Deutschland" in 2007. See also * Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania * Landsmannschaft der Buchenlanddeutschen * Deutsch-Baltische Gesellschaft * Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Ungarn, Society of Germans from Hungary * Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft External links Verband der Siebenbürger Sachsen in Deutschland Transylvanian Saxon people Landsmannschaften 1946 establishments in Germany Organizations established in 1946 {{Romania-hist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsmannschaft Westpreußen
The Landsmannschaft Westpreußen ("Territorial Association of West Prussia", "Homeland Association of West Prussia") is an organization of ''Heimatvertriebene'' — Germans born in West Prussia, or their descendants, who either fled or were expelled to the Federal Republic of Germany during the Expulsion of Germans after World War II. The organization was founded on 6 April 1949 and is based in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia. Its current president is Mrs. Sibylle Dreher, and CDU politician Mrs. Erika Steinbach is a notable member. The Landsmannschaft is a member of the Federation of Expellees. See also * Evacuation of East Prussia German civilian population and military personnel were evacuated from East Prussia between 20 January and March 1945. The evacuation was initially organized and carried out by Nazi Germany, state authorities but quickly turned into a chaotic fli ... External links Landsmannschaft Westpreußen (official homepage) Organizations establish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karpatendeutsche Landsmannschaft Slowakei
The Karpatendeutsche Landsmannschaft Slowakei () is an organization of German refugees expelled from their homes in Slovakia after World War II. The organization is based in Stuttgart, and it was founded in 1949. See also *Expulsion of Germans after World War II *Federation of Expellees *Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Reichsdeutsche (German citizens) and Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans living outside the Nazi state) fled and were expelled from various Eastern Europe, Eastern and Central European ... External links Official website Landsmannschaften {{Germany-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pommersche Landsmannschaft
The Pommersche Landsmannschaft ("Territorial Association of Pomeranians", "Homeland Association of Pomeranians") is an organization of German refugees expelled from their homes in Pomerania after World War II. See also *Expulsion of Germans after World War II *Federation of Expellees *Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) *Pomerania Pomerania ( ; ; ; ) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The central and eastern part belongs to the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, West Pomeranian, Pomeranian Voivod ... External links Official website Landsmannschaften {{Germany-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsmannschaft Der Deutschen Aus Litauen
The ''Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Litauen'' ("Territorial Association of Germans from Lithuania", "Homeland Association of Germans from Lithuania") is an organization of German refugees expelled from their homes in Lithuania to West Germany after World War II.Schoenberg, H.W.. Germans from the East: A Study of Their Migration, Resettlement and Subsequent Group History, Since 1945. Germany, Springer Netherlands, 2012. The organization is based in Leonberg, Baden-Württemberg. The ''Bundesvorsitzender'' (chairman) is Hardy Mett. See also * Expulsion of Germans after World War II * Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950) During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Reichsdeutsche (German citizens) and Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans living outside the Nazi state) fled and were expelled from various Eastern Europe, Eastern and Central European ... References Landsmannschaften {{Germany-org-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsmannschaft Der Buchenlanddeutschen
The Landsmannschaft der Buchenlanddeutschen (i.e. "Territorial Association of Bukovina Germans" or "Homeland Association of Bukovina Germans") was an organization of German refugees expelled from their homes in Bukovina and Bessarabia after World War II. These groups of ethnic Germans are collectively known as Bukovina Germans () and Bessarabia Germans () respectively. It ceased its activity in 2020. The organization was based in the city of Augsburg, Swabia, Bavaria, south-eastern Germany, and was founded in 1949. See also * Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania * Association of Transylvanian Saxons in Germany * Expulsion of Germans after World War II * Federation of Expellees * Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and northern Bukovina * Germans of Romania * Zipser Germans The Zipser Germans, Zipser Saxons, or, simply, just Zipsers (, , , ) are a German-speaking (more specifically Zipser German-speaking as native dialect) sub-ethnic group in Central- Eastern Europe and nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
