Province of the Sudetenland
The Sudetenland province was founded on 29 October 1918 by German members of the Austrian Imperial Parliament from the region as an independent country in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire.
With the establishment of the province of the Silesians Old Austria wanted to prevent the majority of them rejected incorporation into the proclaimed in Prague on October 28, 1918 Czechoslovak Republic, which referred to the unity of the countries of the Bohemian Crown. The German Imperial Assembly deputies from the province of Sudetenland were involved also in the Provisional National Assembly in Vienna, which for all German settlements Old Austria the state German Austria founded on 30 October 1918 who wanted to join the German Reich according to the resolution of 12 November 1918 as a whole. Both projects failed.
Expansion
The province should cover an area of 6534 km ² without East Silesia and with this 8816 km ². The first governor of the province of Sudetenland (North Moravia and Austria - Silesia) was the deputy Robert Freissler.
The proposed new province should include the following parts of the territory:
- Silesia: 4580 km ² West Silesia ( also Sudetenschlesien or Austro- Lower Silesia): 2298 km ²
- East Silesia ( also Cieszyn Silesia or Austro- Silesia ): 2282 km ²
History
On 22 November 1918 the provincial government " German Moravia ", already constituted one day after the proclamation of the Czechoslovak Republic, next to another government for the province, " German Bohemia " from their regional representatives in the Vienna parliament, the connection of the Sudetenland to German Austria declared and presented also claims to Teschen East Silesia. This should politically belong to German and Austria are jointly managed with Poland and Czechoslovakia.
The Sudetenland province was occupied at the turn of 1918/19, of Czechoslovak federations and finally of Czechoslovakia awarded by the undersigned on September 10, 1919 Treaty of Saint- Germain, while East Silesia after the Polish- Czechoslovak border war along the Olsa between Poland ( 1009 km ²) and Czechoslovakia ( 1273 km ²) was divided.
1919 were in the province of Sudetenland 646 800 German and Czech 25,000 residents located.
Since October 10, 1938 the area was part of Germany. In the wake of the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland was incorporated into the German Reich; in consequence, the Sudeten German territories were largely declared the Reich District of Sudetenland.
1945, the Sudeten Germans were largely expelled from its territory, which, as had been decided by mutual agreement of the Allies long before the Potsdam Conference, should be part of the reborn Czechoslovak state.