German cultural association
The German Cultural Association (DKV) was founded on November 2, 1919 by Ludwig Krieg and other former members of the German School Association in Prague and was considered its legal successor in the area of the first Czechoslovak Republic . Like the other national protection associations, the DKV also regarded its work as strictly apolitical, although it pursued an active minority policy by equipping schools, financing teachers and teaching material and awarding scholarships. In 1933, the DKV comprised 3,100 branches on the territory of Czechoslovakia (ČSR), which was founded in 1918.
The cultural association had 2,700 local groups with 500,000 members. Most of them were Sudeten Germans and lived in the German-Czech border areas.
The main goals of the cultural association consisted in the preservation and strengthening of the German nationality in its Bohemian and Moravian settlement areas.
After the destruction of Czechoslovakia in 1939 and the DC circuit of the association in the Nazi state had DKV under its chairman, August Gessner in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia at the Volkstumspolitik the National Socialists.
publication
From 1922 to 1938 a calendar of the German Cultural Association was published annually , which was created on behalf of the main management.
Famous members
- Bruno Nowak (1901–1940), writer (pseudonym Gottfried Rothacker )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nikolaus G. Kozauer: The Carpathian-Ukraine between the two world wars . Esslingen / Neckar 1979. p. 161.
- ↑ Detlef Brandes : "Umvolkung, Umsiedlung, racial inventory": Nazi "Volkstumsppolitik" in the Bohemian countries . Oldenbourg, Munich, 2012 ISBN 978-3-486-71242-1 , pp. 53, 294