Sudeten German country team

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Coat of arms of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft

The sudetendeutsche landsmannschaft Federal Association ( SL ; Czech Sudetoněmecké krajanské sdružení or Sudetoněmecký landsmanšaft ) is a German displaced association , which was established with the aim of the interests of the Sudetendeutschen , so the 1945/46 from Czechoslovakia and there mainly from the Sudetenland displaced German Bohemia and German Moravians to represent. The federal chairman is Bernd Posselt , who was also elected spokesman for the Sudeten German ethnic group by various organizations. The Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft is a member of the Association of Expellees (BdV).

organization

The Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft is divided into “Heimatlandschaften” and “Heimatkreise” according to the origin of its members, on the one hand, and into regional, district and local groups according to their current place of residence. Together with the Sudeten German homeland associations, the Landsmannschaft represents the interests of 250,000 members. The SL claims to speak for all Sudeten German expellees and involves other Sudeten German organizations in the Sudeten German Council . The members of the SL today include both the experience generation (born before 1945) and the confession generation (born after 1945).

The " European Charlemagne Prize " has been awarded annually since 1958 , which (in contrast to the Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen) is named after the Bohemian King and Roman-German Emperor Charles IV .

history

After displaced persons from Bohemia had already formed a district group in Munich in 1948 and a regional group for Bavaria in 1949, the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft was founded as a federal association in 1950. After the opening of the Iron Curtain , a hesitant rapprochement with the old homeland began, which culminated in 2003 with the establishment of a Sudeten German office in the Czech capital, Prague .

For several decades, the chairmen of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft were made up of members of the Witiko Association , which sees itself as the “national community of the Sudeten Germans”.

Every year at Pentecost, the Sudeten German Day is held in Augsburg , Nuremberg or Munich - often in recent years . In addition to the SL, it presents all other groups that maintain the cultural heritage and want to carry it into the future. There are also increasing numbers of Czech visitors, especially young ones.

The "Bürgerervereinigung Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia" is a Czech organization that originated and operates independently of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in Germany. The Czech Ministry of the Interior initially denied her recognition as an association. This was justified by the fact that the goals of the association violated the Czech constitution. At the beginning of March 2015, however, the ban on the organization was lifted by the Supreme Court in Brno and the association was officially registered.

The citizens' association supported the enforcement of the right to a home (right to return) as well as the legal right to restitution of former possessions and to compensation. She also campaigned for the right to acquire Czech citizenship for displaced persons , the repeal of the Beneš decrees and war crimes trials against those responsible for the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.

The Sudeten German Landsmannschaft has so far expressly distanced itself from this Czech group. In order to avoid any risk of confusion, they even forbade her to use the Sudeten German coat of arms. However, this distancing is controversial within the country team.

On February 28, 2015, the Federal Assembly of the Sudeten German Landsmannschaft in Munich passed a new declaration of principles and some changes to the statutes. These also included the deletion of a number of paragraphs calling for “regaining of home” and “restitution or equivalent compensation”. While these changes were criticized and legally challenged by some members, politicians in Germany and the Czech Republic were largely positive and spoke of a new beginning. Whether one can speak of a radical realignment of the country team, however, is controversial.

Political importance

Traditionally, the SL is closely interwoven with the CSU in terms of personnel and programs . Like other German expellees' associations, the SL positioned itself clearly against the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt and the abandonment of German territorial claims in the course of the negotiations on German unification . In the course of the Czech Republic 's accession to the EU , the SL tried in vain to make admission to the Czech Republic dependent on whether the Czech government repealed the Beneš decrees that had been in force since 1945 .

stand-in

The SL is based in Munich in the Sudeten German House on Hochstraße, where other associations and groups (such as the Adalbert Stifter Association and the Sudeten German Academy of Sciences and Arts ) are also based.

guide

speaker

Federal Chairperson

Structures of the SL

Since the expulsion, the Sudeten Germans have been organized in two ways: on the one hand, according to their place of origin (homeland structure), on the other hand, according to their current place of residence (regional structure).

Home organization of the SL

When it comes to the home division, a distinction is made between 14 home landscapes, 81 home districts and over 2000 home communities.

  • Home landscape of the Eagle Mountains
    • Heimatkreis Friesetal, Heimatkreis Grulicher Ländchen, Heimatkreis Oberes Adlergebirge
  • Homeland Old Fatherland
    • North Moravia
      • Bärn homeland, Mährisch Schönberg homeland, Römerstadt homeland, Sternberg homeland
    • Sudeten Silesia
      • Freiwaldau home area, Freudenthal home area, Jägerndorf home area, Troppau home area
  • Home landscape Beskydy Country
    • Friedek-Mistek home district, Mährisch Ostrau home district, Teschen home district
  • Homeland Bohemian Forest
    • Bergreichenstein homeland, Budweis homeland, Eisenstein-Neuern homeland, Kaplitz homeland, Krummau homeland, Prachatitz homeland
  • Egerland homeland
    • Home district Asch, home district Bischofteinitz, home district Eger, home district Elbogen, home district Falkenau, home district Graslitz, home district Karlsbad, home district Luditz, home district Marienbad, home district Mies / Pilsen, home district Neudek, home district Plan-Weseritz, home district Tachau, home district Tepl-Petschau
  • Elbe valley home landscape
    • Aussig home district, Leitmeritz home district, Tetschen-Bodenbach home district
  • Home landscape of the Erzgebirge-Saazerland
    • Brix home district, Kaaden-Duppau-Klösterle home district, Komotau home district, Podersam-Jechnitz home district, Preßnitz-Weipert home district, Saaz home district, Sankt Joachimsthal home district
  • Kuhländchen home landscape
    • Fulnek homeland, Neutitschein homeland, Odrau homeland, Wagstadt homeland
  • Homeland low mountain range
    • Bilin home district, Dux home district, Teplitz-Schönau home district
  • Home landscape Polzen-Neisse-Netherlands
    • Heimatkreis Böhmisch Leipa, Haida, Heimatkreis Dauba, Heimatkreis Deutsch-Gabel / Zwickau, Heimatkreis Friedland, Heimatkreis Gablonz, Heimatkreis Niemes, Heimatkreis Reichenberg, Heimatkreis Rumburg, Heimatkreis Schluckenau, Heimatkreis Warnsdorf
  • Homeland Giant Mountains
    • Braunau home district, Hohenelbe home district, Trautenau home district
  • Home landscape Schönhengstgau
    • Hohenstadt-Müglitz homeland, Landskron homeland, Mährisch Trübau homeland, Zwittau homeland
  • Homeland of South Moravia
    • Heimatkreis Neubistritz, Heimatkreis Nikolsburg, Heimatkreis Zlabings, Heimatkreis Znojmo
  • Language islands in Inner Bohemia and Inner Moravia
    • Language island Brno, language island Iglau, language island Olomouc , language island Prague, language island Wischau. The language island of Budweis is included in the home structure of the SL to the Bohemian Forest, Pilsen to the Egerland, Moravian Ostrava to the Beskids.

See also

literature

  • Fritz Peter Habel: Documents on the Sudeten Question , Ed .: Sudetendeutsches Archive Munich. Publisher: LangenMüller, 1984. ISBN 3-7844-2038-9 .
  • Alfred Bohmann: Das Sudetendeutschtum in numbers (existence and development between 1910 and 1950), publisher: Sudetendeutscher Rat, Munich 1959.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Hopp: Power factor even without a power base? The Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft and the CSU , VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften 2010, p. 153
  2. ↑ Recognition refused: country team sues the Czech Republic . In: Sudetenpost . No. 7 , 2012 ( PDF [accessed December 10, 2015]).
  3. ↑ Tiroler Tageszeitung, accessed on June 27, 2015
  4. ↑ Article in Die Zeit, accessed on June 27, 2015
  5. ↑ Peter Josika: Much ado about little new: What happens next with the Sudeten Germans? June 27, 2015, accessed December 10, 2015 .