Cultural German
The term Kulturdeutscher describes a person who is seen as part of a "German cultural nation " and is usually used for people who are not German citizens .
origin
Originally the term was used in debates about the right of naturalization in the Weimar Republic as a contrast to the concept of " German origin ". In 1927 , the Prussian Interior Minister Albert Grzesinski wanted to use the term “cultural German” as a criterion in the naturalization process. He wanted to define the term in more detail using measurable criteria, e.g. B. with a connection to a family now or earlier resident in Germany, with birth or upbringing in a German-speaking area, attending German schools, German names as well as with the preservation of German customs and language. Religion should explicitly not play a role. With this stance, Grzesinski was unable to assert himself against a majority of countries that wanted to use “German descent” as a criterion for naturalization. Thus the principle of descent prevailed, which was directed in an extreme form against Russians, Poles and " Eastern Jews ", who were increasingly defined by descent and "race".
Use today
Today the term is mainly used in the Austrian Third Camp to express that Austria is part of the German cultural nation.
Andreas Mölzer , Martin Graf and Gerhard Pendl , for example, call themselves cultural Germans .
Günther Nenning generally referred to the Austrians as "cultural German and Austrian national in terms of history and language ".
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dieter Gosewinkel : Naturalization and Exclusion. The nationalization of citizenship from the German Confederation to the Federal Republic of Germany. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, p. 353 ff., Quoted from: Georg Hansen: The ethnicization of German citizenship and its suitability in the EU (PDF; 192 kB), p. 5.
- ↑ Oliver Trevisiol: The naturalization practice in the German Empire 1871-1945. (PDF) Dissertation at the University of Konstanz , 2004, p. 69 f.
- ↑ At the moment . No. 43/2008, p. 2.
- ↑ Lisa Nimmervoll: Of course I'm a right man. In: The Standard . April 18, 2008, accessed September 28, 2012 .
- ↑ Günther Nenning : Is there Rothschild there? In: The time . No. 50/1988.