Association of National Minorities in Germany

The Association of National Minorities in Germany existed from 1924 to 1939 and represented the non-German minorities.

Umbrella organization of the minorities

The association included the Danish ( Schleswig Association ), Polish ( Union of Poles in Germany ), Sorbian ( Lusatian or Wendish People's Party ), Frisian ( Frisian-Schleswig Association ) and Lithuanian ( Association of Lithuanians in Germany ) minorities. Czechs and Masurians were not organized in the association, but were included in the association magazine Kulturwehr .

elections

In the elections to the Prussian state parliament , the association managed to win two seats. With the beginning of the Second World War , however, the association was dissolved.

magazine

A well-known representative was the Sorbe Jan Skala , editor-in-chief of the association journal Kulturwille , which appeared from 1926 under the name Kulturwehr .

literature

Tanja Rigitta Schumacher: Mellem national interest og mindretalsloyalitet. Det danske mindretal and samarbejdet i Forbundet af national mindretal i Tyskland 1924–39.
Wojciech Wrzesiński: Polski ruch narodowy w Niemczech w latach 1922–1939. Warsaw 2005

Web links

Review of Schumacher's book ( Memento from August 27, 2002 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

^ Marianne Krüger-Potratz, Dirk Jasper: Fremdsprachige Volksteile and German Schools: School Policy for the Children of the Autochthonous Minorities in the Weimar Republic: a source and work book. (Volume 2 of Interkulturelle Bildungsforschung), Waxmann Verlag, 1998, ISBN 9783893256259 , p. 310
^ Ferdinande Knabe: Linguistic minorities and national school in Prussia between 1871 and 1933: an educational policy analysis. (Volume 325 von Internationale Hochschulschriften), Waxmann Verlag, 2000, ISBN 9783893258383 pp. 64-65 to 71
↑ Johann Baczewski and Ceslau Klimas 1925–1928, but the Polish party already had mandates in the Prussian Landtag: Johann Baczewski (1922–1925), Stanislaus Graf von Sierakowski (1921–1925) and Josef Waida (1922–1923), cf. Bioweil: Collective biography of the members of the state parliament of the Weimar Republic: Prussia 1918–1933 ( Memento from March 1, 2012 in the Internet archive ) in: Wilhelm Heinz Schröder , Wilhelm Weege, Martina Zech: Collective biography of the state parliament members of the Weimar Republic 1918–1933.
^ Page of the Minority Secretariat / Minority Council

[1] Marianne Krüger-Potratz, Dirk Jasper: Fremdsprachige Volksteile and German Schools: School Policy for the Children of the Autochthonous Minorities in the Weimar Republic: a source and work book. (Volume 2 of Interkulturelle Bildungsforschung), Waxmann Verlag, 1998, ISBN 9783893256259 , p. 310

[2] Ferdinande Knabe: Linguistic minorities and national school in Prussia between 1871 and 1933: an educational policy analysis. (Volume 325 von Internationale Hochschulschriften), Waxmann Verlag, 2000, ISBN 9783893258383 pp. 64-65 to 71

[3] Johann Baczewski and Ceslau Klimas 1925–1928, but the Polish party already had mandates in the Prussian Landtag: Johann Baczewski (1922–1925), Stanislaus Graf von Sierakowski (1921–1925) and Josef Waida (1922–1923), cf. Bioweil: Collective biography of the members of the state parliament of the Weimar Republic: Prussia 1918–1933 ( Memento from March 1, 2012 in the Internet archive ) in: Wilhelm Heinz Schröder , Wilhelm Weege, Martina Zech: Collective biography of the state parliament members of the Weimar Republic 1918–1933.

[4] Page of the Minority Secretariat / Minority Council