Germans in Russia
As a German in Russia on the one hand are Russian Germans who in the course of emigrants policy not from Russia emigrated or moved further from Kazakhstan also citizens of Russia, on the other hand German citizenship , so foreign German such as diplomats, students or businessmen.
It is estimated that there are (still) half a million Russian-Germans in Russia today, with the entry: “Nationality: German” in official Russian documents being the decisive characteristic for belonging to the group of Germans. Anyone who speaks German well enough to easily in the society of the Federal Republic of Germany integrated will be able, has the possibility to Article 116 of the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany as a German folk Related to be recognized. It is theoretically possible to leave Germany and obtain German citizenship .
Groups of people and historical background
- Germans in Russia before Catherine II
- Russian Germans
- Communists who fled Nazism to Russia in the 1930s
- German prisoners of war (1941–1955)
- Civilian Germans who were deported to Russia from the areas occupied by the Red Army after 1945
- German nationals who are not from after 1945. Prussia were expelled
- Prisoners from the Soviet occupation zone or the GDR who were deported to the Soviet Union to begin their sentence
- Russia returned emigrants
- Germans living abroad who are staying or have settled in Russia and can return to Germany at any time
Organizations and media
The Germans in Russia can look back on a tradition of their own organizations and media that goes back to the times of the tsars, if not uninterrupted. So many of them were (re) established in the new Russia.
The International Association of German Culture (IVDK) was founded in 1991 and represents the interests of German meeting centers in Russia at the federal level. The activities of the IVDK focus on questions of cultural-historical self-image, language promotion and the strengthening of the identity of the German minority in Russia. The Federal National Cultural Autonomy of Russian Germans (FNKA) is primarily committed to strengthening the legal status of the German minority. Social work with the German population as well as cooperation with state bodies and civil society institutions of the Russian Federation are also part of the FNKA's area of activity, whose president is the Russian-German cultural activist Heinrich Martens .
With lead aid , the Federal Republic of Germany supports the willingness of those who might decide to move to Germany to stay in Russia.
German speaking media
German-language newspapers already existed in Moscow and Saint Petersburg during the Tsarist era. Perished in the turmoil of the October Revolution, they were partly revived after the end of the Soviet Union. In the age of the Internet, several online media from Russia in German have been added.
The Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung (MDZ) is one such German-language newspaper that is currently published twice a month and in extracts online. It goes back to a daily newspaper of the same name from the Tsarist times. The print edition of the MDZ has a circulation of approx. 25,000 copies. The internet portal rusdeutsch.ru (Russian) or russdeutsch.eu (German) provides regular and extensive information about the cultural and political developments in Russia that affect the Germans living there.
The online newspapers Russland.ru ( Tarusa , Kaluga Oblast with Internet TV Russland.tv), Russland Aktuell (Moscow) and Sankt Petersburg Herold are based in Russia and operated by Germans abroad . Another newspaper with a print edition is the Saint Petersburgische Zeitung .
See also
- History of the Russian Germans
- Russian mennonites
- Kazakh Germans
- Caucasian Germans
- Kyrgyzstan Germans
- Crimean Germans
- Black Sea Germans
- Siberian Germans
- Volga Germans
- Wolhynian Germans
- German Balts
- International Association of German Culture
- Federal national cultural autonomy of Russian Germans
- Country team of Germans from Russia
- Plautdietsch friends
Web links
- Rusdeutsch - information portal for Germans in Russia
- History of the Russian Germans (Die Linde eV)
- Online Migration Museum Rhineland-Palatinate: permanent exhibition "The Russian-German House"
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.moskau.ru/moskau/deutsche_oesterreicher_schweizer/biz_russlanddeutsche_ Zwischen_ost_und_west_142.html
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2008 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.
