German-Polish border treaty

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The German-Polish border treaty is on November 14, 1990 between Germany and Poland closed international treaty . Under the long title contract between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland on the confirmation of the existing border between them, it guarantees the inviolability of the state border and thus represents a renunciation of force.

prehistory

Due to the lack of a peace treaty after the Second World War , the international legal position of the German territorial losses and thus the new borders, especially with Poland, were not secured. Both the GDR in 1950 and the Federal Republic of Germany in 1970 recognized the borders and rejected their own territorial claims. Due to the still existing rights of the allied main victorious powers over Germany as a whole , the two German states could only act for themselves and not legally binding for Germany as a whole until a final peace settlement was reached. In the course of the "2 + 4" negotiations, Poland therefore pressed France, as the victorious power involved in the negotiations, for a final recognition of the Oder-Neisse border . In the two-plus-four treaty of September 12, 1990, not only were the borders of the reunified Germany laid down as final, but a separate German-Polish border agreement was also announced. In addition, both German parliaments, the Bundestag and Volkskammer , gave the Poles identical prior assurances for the corresponding recognition of the Oder-Neisse border.

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The German-Polish border treaty finally confirmed the Oder-Neisse line, recognized in the Görlitz Agreement between the People's Republic of Poland and the GDR and in the Warsaw Treaty with the Federal Republic as the political western border of Poland, as inviolable. Furthermore, in both countries that commit state sovereignty and territorial integrity of other fully respecting each and each other of any territorial claims to rise. These formulations refer primarily to the eastern areas of the German Reich .

“The contracting parties confirm the existing border between them, the course of which changes according to the agreement of July 6, 1950 between the German Democratic Republic and the Republic of Poland on the marking of the established and existing German-Polish state border and the agreements concluded to implement and supplement it (Act of January 27, 1951 on the execution of the marking of the state border between Germany and Poland ; Treaty of May 22, 1989 between the German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of Poland on the delimitation of the sea areas in the Oder Bay ) and the treaty of December 7 1970 determined between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of Poland on the basis of normalization of their mutual relations. "
(Article 1 of the German-Polish border treaty)

The agreement was signed by the then foreign ministers of both states, Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Krzysztof Skubiszewski , in Warsaw .

In Poland, the ratification took place on November 26, 1991, the German Bundestag ratified both this and the German-Polish Neighborhood Treaty concluded on June 17, 1991 on December 16, 1991 , which states in Article 2 the inviolability of borders and territories. Both treaties were published in the Federal Law Gazette on December 21, 1991 and came into force on January 16, 1992 when the ratification instruments were exchanged.

Web links

Wikisource: German-Polish Border Treaty  - Sources and full texts (Polish)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Görtemaker : Negotiations with the Four Powers , Federal Agency for Civic Education, March 19, 2009.
  2. ↑ BGBl. 1991 II, p. 1329 f.
  3. ^ German-Polish reconciliation. In: MDR time travel. MDR , June 10, 2016, accessed August 7, 2019 .
  4. ^ German-Polish neighborhood agreement of June 17, 1991
  5. ↑ Federal Law Gazette of December 21, 1991 (Federal Law Gazette II 1991 No. 33) ( Memento of March 1, 2005 in the Internet Archive ).