Expellees (Federal Expellees Act)
Displaced persons is in the strict sense, a collective term for persons of German state or ethnicity , from their homes in the former German territories or in areas outside the boundaries of the German Reich in 1937 in connection with the events of World War II sold were. This is roughly how the term is defined in Section 1 of the Federal Expellees Act (BVFG).
It differs from the term “ displaced person”, which is defined in § 2 BVFG and describes those displaced persons who belong to the original population who once lived there.
In a broader sense, “displaced person” is used to describe any person who was forcibly forced to leave their residential area or home area.
definition
The BVFG in its originally applicable version from 1953 defined the term as follows:
- A displaced person is anyone who, as a German citizen or a German national, had his place of residence in the formerly under foreign administration or in the areas outside the borders of the German Reich according to the territorial status of December 31, 1937 and this in connection with the events of the Second World War has lost as a result of displacement , in particular through expulsion or flight . In the case of multiple domiciles, the domicile that was decisive for the personal living conditions of the person concerned must have been lost. In particular, the domicile at which the family members lived is to be regarded as the determining residence within the meaning of sentence 2.
- Anyone who is a German citizen or a German national is also expelled
- left the areas mentioned after January 30, 1933 because of Nazi acts of violence that threatened him or that were perpetrated against him on the basis of political conviction, race, belief or ideology and took up residence outside the German Reich,
- was resettled from areas outside of Germany on the basis of the intergovernmental agreements concluded during the Second World War or during the same period as a result of measures taken by German agencies from areas occupied by the German Wehrmacht ( resettlers ),
- after the completion of the general expulsion measures has left or is leaving the formerly under foreign administration German eastern territories, Gdansk , Estonia , Latvia , Lithuania , the Soviet Union , Poland , Czechoslovakia , Hungary , Romania , Bulgaria , Yugoslavia or Albania , unless he only established a residence in these areas after May 8, 1945 ( Aussiedler ),
- without having had a place of residence, continuously exercising his trade or profession in the areas mentioned and had to give up this activity as a result of displacement.
- A person also counts as a displaced person who, without being a German citizen or a German national, has lost his place of residence in the named areas as the spouse of a displaced person.
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Ziegler: Refugees and Displaced Persons , Historisches Lexikon Bayerns , 6 September 2011.
