Luxemburgish-German nationality

The Luxembourgish-German Nationalrajon ( Russian Люксембургский немецкий национальный район Ljuksemburgski nemezki nazionalny rayon ; Ukrainian Люксембурзький німецький національний район Ljuksemburskyj nimezkyj nazionalnyj rayon ) was an existing 1925-1939 administrative area unit in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic .

The National Rajon was created on the basis of a decree of the Central Executive Committee of the Union and the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR of April 30, 1925 and was originally part of the Okrug Mariupol ( Мариупольский округ ).

The main town of the Rajon was the village of Rosivka in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast of Zaporizhia . From 1788, German colonists moved to the area, so there were 44 settlements here in 1928, including 40 German, two Ukrainian, one Greek and one mixed. They had a total of 18,714 inhabitants, including 15,284 (81.3%) Germans, 1,065 (5.6%) Greeks, 924 (5%) Ukrainians, 823 (4.4%) Russians, 606 (3.2%) Jews and 12 (0.5%) people of other origins. On January 1, 1938, the population was 24,010 and the area of the district was 821 square kilometers.

There were Catholic and Lutheran churches as well as 36 elementary schools and two seven-year schools in which the language of instruction was German. Ukrainian, Russian and Greek were taught in only three schools in the Rajon. Dozens of people died of hunger during the grain procurement in 1931/32. Mass repression began in the region in early 1937: 73 Germans, ten Greeks, three Ukrainians and two Poles were arrested. 74 people were sentenced to death and others were deported to the Gulag .

In 1939 the Nationalrajon was dissolved and its territory was annexed to the Zaporizhia and Donetsk Oblasts.

Locations (selection)

Web links

History of the Russian German information portal of the Russian Germans (Russian)

National administrative-territorial structure in the USSR / USSR 1924-1940 in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Luxemburgish-German Nationalrajon, administrative-territorial unit in the Ukrainian SSR in the Encyclopedia of the Germans of Russia of the information portal of the Russian Germans ; accessed on September 28, 2019 (Russian)
↑ ^a ^b In the south of the Ukraine a German national region was created on news-life.org ; accessed on September 28, 2019 (Russian)

[enc-1] Luxemburgish-German Nationalrajon, administrative-territorial unit in the Ukrainian SSR in the Encyclopedia of the Germans of Russia of the information portal of the Russian Germans ; accessed on September 28, 2019 (Russian)

[newa-life-2] In the south of the Ukraine a German national region was created on news-life.org ; accessed on September 28, 2019 (Russian)