German minority in the Czech Republic

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The German minority of the Czech Republic lives in the regions of Bohemia , Moravia and Moravian-Silesia .

German minority in the Czech Republic

In the 2001 census, around 39,000 people identified themselves as part of the German minority in the Czech Republic, which is around 0.4 percent of the total population of the Czech Republic . Most of them are descendants of the German Bohemians and German Moravians who remained in the country despite the expulsion . Neither the Czech government sees this population group as Sudeten Germans, nor does the majority of Germans there declare themselves to be members of this minority, which is often classified as historical by political representatives. After the Second World War , the Germans who remained in what was then Czechoslovakia were subjected to strong pressure to adapt, so that especially younger members of this minority often assimilate into the Czech majority population in the country.

Before the Second World War, the German minority was by far the most important minority in what is now the Czech Republic, with a share of around 30 percent. In the 1921 census, 3.06 million people gave German as their nationality; in the 1930 census it was 3.23 million.

In the first survey after the Second World War in 1950, there were only around 160,000 Germans in the Czech Republic due to the reasons mentioned above. This number continued to decrease thereafter. In 1970 it was around 81,000 and in the last survey in 2001 it was 39,100.

In absolute terms, the largest German minority lives in Ústecký kraj (a total of 9,500 German inhabitants), the Karlovarský kraj has the highest percentage with almost 3%. Within the Karlovarský kraj, the Sokolov district is the district with the largest German minority in the Czech Republic with 4.5%. In Měděnec (in Okres Chomutov), ​​a quarter of the inhabitants declared themselves to be the German minority. The German minority in the towns of Tatrovice (Okres Sokolov), Horská Kvilda (Okres Klatovy) and Kryštofovy Hamry (Okres Chomutov) make up about a fifth . All places are municipalities of the smallest size category up to 199 inhabitants. Specifically, the proportion of Germans in the following municipalities in the Czech Republic is over ten percent:

The dialects of the German minority in the Czech Republic are documented and researched in the context of the Sudeten German dictionary and the atlas of historical German dialects in the territory of the Czech Republic .

German citizens in the Czech Republic

In addition to this group mentioned above, there is a growing number of German citizens in the Czech Republic, especially since the Czech Republic joined the EU. In the summer of 2011, of the approx. 15,000 Germans in the Czech Republic, only approx. 4,400 had a permanent residence permit. The vast majority of Germans only had a temporary residence permit. The ratio of men to women is very one-sided at around 80:20.

At the end of 2007, most Germans lived in Ústecký kraj ( 4805) , followed by the capital Prague with 2,437 Germans and Plzeňský kraj with 2,219 Germans. The two North Bohemian districts Ústecký kraj and Karlovarský kraj (1768 Germans) each have the highest proportion of Germans with 0.58%, followed by Plzeňský kraj with 0.4%.

Number of Germans in the Czech Republic from 1994 to 2010

Very few Germans have taken Czech citizenship in recent years. Between 2001 and 2008 only 39 Germans became Czech citizens.

Deadline Germans
in the Czech Republic		 Share in the
total population		 Share of
foreigners
in the Czech Republic
December 31, 1994 4,195 0.04% 4.02%
December 31, 1995 5,553 0.05% 3.49%
December 31, 1996 5,875 0.06% 2.95%
December 31, 1997 5,927 0.06% 2.70%
December 31, 1998 6,248 0.06% 2.73%
December 31, 1999 6.112 0.06% 2.67%
December 31, 2000 4,968 0.05% 2.47%
December 31, 2001 4,937 0.05% 3.01%
December 31, 2002 5,183 0.05% 2.89%
12/31/2003 5,188 0.05% 2.66%
December 31, 2004 5,772 0.06% 2.98%
December 31, 2005 7.187 0.07% 2.78%
December 31, 2006 10,109 0.10% 3.14%
12/31/2007 15,700 0.15% 4.00%
December 31, 2008 17,496 0.17% 3.99%
December 31, 2009 13,792 0.13% 3.18%
December 31, 2010 13,871 0.13% 3.26%
December 31, 2011 15,763 0.15% 3.63%
December 31, 2012 17,149 3.93%
December 31, 2013 18,507 4.21%
December 31, 2014 19,687 4.38%
December 31, 2015 20,464 4.40%
December 31, 2016 21,216 4.27%

Media of the German-speaking minority

Title head of the German-language Prager Zeitung
Title head of the German-language regional newspaper from Prague

The offer ranges from scientific journals such as Germanoslavica or Communio Viatorum to the business magazine Plus .

The most important publications were the Prager Zeitung , which appeared weekly until 2016, and is the bi- weekly Landesecho - magazine of Germans in the Czech Republic . The latter is published by the German minority and promoted and financed by the Czech state.

Radio Prague , the Český rozhlas regional studios for Olomouc and the Středočeský kraj region and Hallo Radio Hultschin produce radio broadcasts in German .

German-speaking institutions in the Czech Republic

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Das Kluge Alphabet , Volume 2, Propylaen Verlag, 1935, p. 350.
  2. ↑ Population by nationality: as measured by 1921–2001 censuses (PDF; 90 kB)
  3. ↑ Czech Statistical Office: German Nationality ( Memento from September 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Czech)
  4. ↑ Article in the Prager Zeitung
  5. ↑ Foreigners by citizenship 1994–2007 (December 31) (PDF; 77 kB)
  6. ↑ Foreigners: by type of residence, sex and citizenship , December 31, 2008 (PDF; 48 kB)
  7. ↑ CZSO: Foreigners: by type of residence, sex and citizenship , December 31, 2009 (PDF)
  8. ↑ a b CZSO: Foreigners: by type of residence, sex and citizenship , November 30, 2011 (PDF)
  9. ↑ Foreigners: by region, district and citizenship , December 31, 2007 (PDF; 178 kB)
  10. ↑ Czech citizenship acquired per year: number, by previous citizenship; 2001–2008 (PDF; 58 kB)
  11. ↑ CZSO: Foreigners: by type of residence, sex and citizenship , December 31, 2010 (PDF; 46 kB)
  12. ↑ CZSO: Cizinci v ČR podle státního občanství 1994–2012 (31.12.)
  13. ↑ Český statistický úřad : Foreigners in the Czech Republic , December 2017 (PDF; 11.3 MB), page 65, linked by Cizinci v ČR - 2017
  14. ^ Radio Prague in German
  15. ^ German-language radio broadcast by the Czech regional radio ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ^ German-language radio broadcast by the Czech regional radio
  17. ^ German-language radio broadcast Hallo Radio Hultschin ( Memento from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )