Flamenpolitik

As Flamenpolitik the measures of the German Empire in Belgium are called, ( etc. German Empire, Austria - Hungary) to draw the Flemings during the occupation in World War I on the political side of the Central Powers. The Empire went here the conflict between Flemings and Walloons ( Flemish - Walloon conflict ) advantage, in particular the discrimination of Dutch against the French.

First, the existing Belgian language laws were implemented. 1916, the first Dutch-speaking university in Belgium was opened in Ghent. 1917 intervened in the French dominant state structures of the country and the administrative separated into a Flemish and a Walloon. Support received, the occupation authorities of the so-called Flemish activists, but also the Flemish movement. The German Flamenpolitik is for the other Belgian history of importance insofar as the first time the public administration separated by the Flemish and Walloon populations to a greater extent and also the state independence of Flanders was demanded.