Country team of Germans from Russia

Country team of Germans from Russia ; (LmDR)
legal form	registered association
founding	April 22, 1950
Seat	Stuttgart , Germany
main emphasis	Representation of interests , aid organization and cultural association for all Russian Germans
Website	deutscheausrussland.de

The country team of Germans from Russia e. V. (LmDR) represents the interests of Germans who were expelled within the Soviet Union and who moved to Germany as Russian Germans over the course of several decades after the Second World War . The federal office of the LmDR is in Stuttgart . Its longstanding chairman in the early days was Karl Stumpp . The compatriot of Germans from Russia is committed to the charter of German expellees .

tasks and goals

According to its own statements, the LmDR sees itself as an interest group , aid organization and cultural association for all Russian Germans . Above all, the organization works for Germans in and from the successor states of the Soviet Union . The right to leave the country freely, to practice one's religion freely and to use one's mother tongue are the focus of efforts. Publicly demanding the implementation of the right to cultural autonomy and redress for the injustice suffered in 1941 and later is one of the goals of the Landsmannschaft.

The LmDR supports the Russian Germans during and after their immigration in Germany. On the social, political and cultural level, the Landsmannschaft contributes to the creation of favorable framework conditions for integration in German society and works closely with the responsible administrative offices at the state and federal level. As a result of the Immigration Act, which came into force on January 1, 2005, and following resolutions by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, initial migration advice centers (MEB) were set up with organizational and financial support from the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF).

The legal equality of Russian Germans and locals, family reunification , public awareness of the history of Russian Germans and overall social integration in the “old new” homeland are central issues and tasks of the country team.

Organization and public relations

The country team of Germans from Russia pursues charitable purposes. The Landsmannschaft is organizationally divided into regional associations and 106 local or district groups (as of February 2017). The employees of the Landsmannschaft in the federal, state and local boards basically work on a voluntary basis . The Landsmannschaft's funds come largely from membership fees and donations from members.

The Landsmannschaft conducts its public relations work through numerous of its own events and publications, especially with the monthly magazine Volk auf dem Weg . Under the direction of the project manager Jakob Fischer , information is also provided about the history and current situation of Germans from Russia by means of a traveling exhibition.

In their public self-portrayal, the compatriot of Germans from Russia does not describe itself as a migrant self-organization . In fact, it is (alongside the Turkish-Kurdish immigrant group) one of the most influential umbrella organizations among the organizations of immigrants in Germany. The Russian-German repatriates are by far the largest group of people with a migration background in Germany.

Federal Executive

According to the statutes of the LmDR, the federal board is re-elected every three years. The following people were elected at the Federal Delegate Assembly on October 13, 2018 in Fulda:

Johann Thießen (Hessen), Federal Chairman
Lilli Bischoff (Lower Saxony), Deputy Federal Chairwoman
Dietmar Schulmeister (North Rhine-Westphalia), Deputy Federal Chairman
Albina Nazarenus-Vetter (Hessen), Deputy Federal Chairwoman
Ewald Oster (Bavaria), assessor
Valentina Dederer (Rhineland-Palatinate), assessor
Walter Gauks (Berlin), assessor

Regional associations

The LmDR is divided into regional associations that coordinate the work of the local or district groups. The state boards are responsible for internal and external representation in the respective federal state.

Regional association	Chairman
Baden-Württemberg	Ernst Strohmaier
Bavaria	Ewald Oster
Berlin - Brandenburg	Alexander Rupp
Bremen	Frieda Banik
Hamburg	Otto Horst
Hesse	Johann Thießen
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Luise Breider
Lower Saxony	Lilli Bischoff
North Rhine-Westphalia	Dietmar Schulmeister
Rhineland-Palatinate	Valentina Dederer
Saarland	NN
Saxony	Florian Braun
Saxony-Anhalt	Pauline Wiedemann
Thuringia	Tamara Barabasch
Schleswig-Holstein	Viktor Pretzer

literature

Monthly magazine
Homeland books of the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen von Russia (published since 1953 together with "Volk auf dem Weg")
From the establishment of autonomy to exile and disenfranchisement. The years 1918 and 1941 to 1948 in the history of the Germans in Russia. Ed .: Alfred Eisfeld. Special volume of the series “Heimatbücher der Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland e. V. ". Stuttgart 2008
70 years of deportation of the Germans in the Soviet Union. A commemorative publication of the Bavarian regional group of the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland e. V. Stuttgart 2011
Nobody is forgotten. Commemorative book for the 70th anniversary of the deportation of the Germans to the Soviet Union. Ed. By the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland e. V. Stuttgart 2011