Baltic German Youth and Student Association
The German Baltic Youth and Student Association (DbJuStR for short) is a German association with German-Baltic roots.
history
The association was founded in March 1949 by Baltic Germans and students living in Germany . It was created through the merger of two associations founded almost a year earlier, the Baltic German Student Ring and the Baltic German Youth Ring. The ethnic group of the Baltic Germans had been forcibly resettled from the Baltic States, where they had existed for centuries, to Posen and West Prussia in 1939 as a result of an agreement between Hitler and Stalin in the secret additional protocol of the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty . After the end of the Second World War, most of the Baltic Germans fled to Germany, but many also emigrated to Canada, Sweden and some other countries. Due to the great need for cohesion, the young people first founded the DbJuStR in 1949, and in 1950 the German-Baltic Landsmannschaft im Bundesgebiet eV was founded as the general association of the Baltic Germans. In addition to solidarity, the desire to preserve the Baltic values and traditions played an important role in the founding of both associations.
Structures
The association is a member of the djo-German youth in Europe . The association is based in Munich .
literature
- I. Brueckner (Ed.): 50 Years of the German Baltic Youth and Student Association, Bad Kissingen 1999
- B. Filetow: Continuity and Change. On the integration of the Baltic Germans into the society of the FRG, Baden-Baden 1990 (Nomos Universitätsschriften, Geschichte 2)
- H.-O. von Lilienfeld-Toal: The reorientation of the Baltic German youth after the Second World War, in: Brückner, I. (Ed.): 50 Years Deutschbaltischer Jugend- und Studentenring eV, Bad Kissingen 1999, pp. 22-25
- M.Pabst: New Beginning of Baltic Germany - Founding and Organizational Work from 1945 to 1952. Master's thesis at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster 2009