Lead aids

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Retention aid are measures that were developed by German federal governments after 1990 to help members of the German minority or people of German origin in the successor states of the Soviet Union , above all in Russia , as well as in Poland , but also in other post-communist states, and to help them stay in theirs To motivate living area. Members of the German minorities in these countries had and still have the right to immigrate to Germany as repatriates or late repatriates .

activities

Lead aids consist of:

  • Community-promoting measures: Promotion of meeting places, extracurricular language teaching (in Russia and Kazakhstan ), promotion of self-organizations of the German minority together with cultural and educational support from the Federal Foreign Office .
  • Economic projects: major investment projects, smaller economic aid in the form of business start-up loans for small businesses and crafts, loans for housing and job creation in Russia, agricultural aid and qualification measures for members of the German minority.
  • Help in the medical field.
  • Help in the social area.
  • Effectiveness controls.

These measures are flanked by town twinning and information campaigns.

The Federal Government's aid policy is embedded in the OSCE process, the agreements of the Council of Europe on the protection of minorities and the existing bilateral agreements.

In the course of reducing the budget, the Federal Government is no longer carrying out complex infrastructure measures and major investment projects in the field of economy and agriculture. Instead, measures are being increasingly promoted that open up concrete perspectives for people in their traditional residential areas.

Political strategy

Settled from the area of ​​the former Soviet Union

  • 1990: 147,950 people
  • 1991: 147,320 people
  • 1992: 195,576 people
  • 1993: 207,347 people
  • 1994: 213,214 people
  • 1995: 209,409 people
  • 1996: 172,181 people
  • 1997: 131,895 people
  • 1998: 101,550 people
  • 1999: 103,599 people

to the Federal Republic of Germany. Against the background of the high number of resettlements after 1990, it was and is the aim of the federal governments to stabilize living conditions in the settlement areas and thus to encourage the German minorities to remain in the CIS. In 1990 the “ Treaty on Good Neighborhood, Partnership and Cooperation between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ” was signed with the Soviet Union , to which Russia feels bound. Contracts with Kazakhstan (1996) and Ukraine (1996) followed.

One of the goals of the lead aid is to reduce the persistent disadvantages of the German minorities from the communist era. Tensions and prejudices between minority and majority populations are to be reduced.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior: Help for the minorities in the countries of origin . Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmi.bund.de
  2. ↑ Jochen Welt (Federal Government Commissioner for Resettler Issues) on the goals of the German government's expatriate policy. September 1999. http://www.haus.pl/pl/pdf/pub1/09.pdf
  3. ^ Federal Center for Political Education: Aussiedlermigration in Deutschland . 2005. http://www.bpb.de/themen/L2K6XA,2,0,Aussiedlermigration_in_Deutschland.html#art2
  4. ↑ Ute Heinen: The situation in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) . In: Federal Center for Political Education. Issue 267 ( Aussiedler ). 2005 http://www.bpb.de/publikationen/04502249434327166921706202451273,2,0,Die_Situation_in_der_Gemeinschaft_unabh%E4ngiger_Staaten_(GUS).html

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