Carpathian German country team Slovakia
The Karpatendeutsche Landsmannschaft Slovakia eV based in Stuttgart is an association of expellees . It was founded in 1949 .
History and organization
The initiators were the two ecclesiastical Carpathian German organizations Aid Association of Carpathian German Catholics and Aid Committee for Evangelical Lutheran Slovak Germans . The Landsmannschaft is a member of the Association of Expellees (BdV); Long-term federal chairman was Oskar Marczy ( FDP ) until his death in April 2006 . The federal chairperson is (as of February 2017) Brunhilde Reitmeier-Zwick.
In addition to the federal association, there are six state associations (Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and North Rhine-Westphalia), in which the members are organized according to their place of residence, and 26 local communities (from Blaufuß to Zips - Bodwatal ), in which the members are organized according to their origin.
The federal meeting of the Carpathian Germans takes place every two years in Karlsruhe , the sponsor city of the Carpathian Germans.
Publications
The Landsmannschaft issues the following publications:
- Carpathian Post , Frequency: monthly
- Carpathian Yearbook , together with church organizations (see above) and the "Karpatendeutschen Kulturwerk" , frequency of publication: annually in December, editing: until 2009 Hans Kobialka, from 2010 Dr. Heike Drechsler-Meel and Dr. Heinz Schmitt.
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Mathias Beer (Ed.): On the integration of refugees and expellees in the German southwest after 1945. Inventory and perspectives of research. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1994, ISBN 978-3799525039 , p. 225 ( online )
- ↑ 70 years of the Carpathian Yearbook - a success story. at karpatendeutsche.de, accessed on October 3, 2019.