German Bohemia

The German Bohemia Province was established on 29 October 1918 by German members of the Austrian Imperial Parliament from the region at a meeting of the Lower Austrian country house as intrinsically legitimate province of the State of German Austria and was one of several Bohemian areas within the state.

First Governor was Raphael Pacher, who handed over his office on November 5, 1918, Rudolf Lodgman of floodplains. With the establishment of the province of the Imperial Council deputies wanted to prevent the majority of them rejected incorporation of the 2.2 million German Bohemia in the proclaimed in Prague on October 28, 1918 Czechoslovak Republic. This referred to the unity of the countries of the Bohemian Crown.

The German Imperial Assembly deputies from the province participated in the Provisional National Assembly in Vienna, which for all German settlement areas Cisleithania 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. On November 16, stepped in Reichenberg together a provisional national assembly. Both projects failed because of the peace treaty of St. Germain, entered into force on 16 July 1920. Moreover, the claimed also of German Austria German settlement areas were occupied from November 13, 1918 by Czechoslovakian military.

The state government of German Bohemia turned on 12 November 1918, a message transmitted by the Swedish embassy cable telegram to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. You asked for ensuring the proclaimed him self-determination of peoples and protested against " rape, which our territory is exposed by troops of the Czecho - Slovak State. " The Austrian State Chancellor Karl Renner deplored the occupation and declared. "We freely confess, we have no power to avert, the Republic of German Austria has nothing but sun clear right "

The German Bohemian state government fled on 14 December 1918 after Vienna.