Regat Germans or Old Kingdom Germans ( or ) are an
ethnic German group of the eastern and southern parts of
Romania
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. The
Regat is a
Romanian-language
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term ascribed for the initial territorial extent of the
Kingdom of Romania before
World War I
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, roughly the regions of the current state of Romania to the south and east of Transylvania.
Consequently, this territory includes
Western Moldavia,
Northern Dobruja,
Muntenia,
Oltenia, and the
Hertsa region (now in
Chernivtsi Oblast, southwestern
Ukraine
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). Most of the Regat German population was re-settled in the mid 20th century during
World War II
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through the
Heim ins Reich national socialist
population transfer policy. Nowadays, the remaining Regat Germans, as all other German groups in Romania, are represented in local and central politics by the
Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR). The Regat Germans are part of the
Romanian Germans.
Population transfers to Nazi Germany
As part of the
Nazi-Soviet population transfers and the ''
Heim ins Reich'' ("Home into the Empire") population transfer policy,
Nazi Germany
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called
ethnic Germans abroad to settle in the former Polish territories. Consequently, 77,000 Regat Germans were resettled in those regions in 1940.
[''Enzyklopadie Migration in Europa. Vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart''. München: K.J.Bade, 2007, ss. 1082–1083.]
Ethnic Germans from Romania resettled by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1944
[Dr. Gerhard Reichling, ''Die deutschen Vertriebenen in Zahlen'', Teil 1, Bonn 1995, Pages 23–27]
File:Bundesarchiv R 49 Bild-0705, Polen, Herkunft der Umsiedler, Karte.jpg, German-language map depicting the transfers of Volksdeutsche during the '' Heim ins Reich'' re-settlement.
See also
*
Dobrujan Germans
References
Further reading
* Hans Liebhart, ''Deutsche in Bukarest - Zwei-drei Jahrhunderte erlebter Geschichte'', ADZ Verlag, Bukarest 2003
* Hans Liebhart, ''In Bukarest und Altrumänien - Deutsche Spuren noch und noch'', ADZ Verlag, Bukarest 2006
* „Aus fünf Jahrzehnten. Geschichte der Deutsch-Evangelischen Gemeinde Turn-Severin 1861-1911“, Tip. E.J. Knoll, Turnu – Severin, 1911 in Evangelisches Zentralarchiv in Berlin (ZA 5091 / 107), Signatur: EZA Bibl. 81/154 in „Echo der Vortragsreihe“, Nummer 12/2007, Reschitz, 2007
* Zentralarchiv der Evangelischen Kirche A.B. in Rumänien in Kultur- und Begegnungszentrums "Friedrich Teutsch", Hermannstadt, Abtl. Kirchengemeinden, Bestand 179, Turn – Severin
* Dănescu, Constantin, „Şantierul Naval din Turnu Severin”, Band 1, (1851 – 1950), Prier Verlag, Turn – Severin, 2004
* Klein, Karl Kurt, Urkunden zur Geschichte evangelisch deutscher Diasporagemeinden im 19. Jahrhundert, Hermannstadt, Krafft & Drotleff, 1927
* Klein, Karl Kurt, Geschichte der Jassyer deutsch-evangelischen Gemeinde (mit einem Überblick über den Protestantismus in der Moldau im XVI. u. XVII. Jahrhundert), Hermannstadt, 1924
* Hering, Julius, Annalen der römisch-katholischen Pfarrei von Turn - Severin, in „Echo der Vortragsreihe“, Nummer 12/2006, Reschitz, 2006
* Louie, de Bie, „Die Römisch – Katholische Gemeinde zu Turn – Severin, ist sie oder nicht unabhängig?“, Tip. E.J. Knoll, Turnu – Severin, 1889
* Raymund Netzhammer: Bischof in Rumänien. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Staat und Vatikan. Bd. I. und II. Hrsg. von Nikolaus Netzhammer in Verbindung mit Krista Zach, München 1996
* ''Povești din folclorul germanilor din România'' by Roland Schenn, Corint publishing house, 2014 (in
Romanian)
External links
*
Die Allgemeine Deutsche Zeitung
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Ethnic German groups in Romania