Germans in the Czech Republic

The German minority in the Czech Republic lives in the areas of Bohemia, Moravia and Moravia- Silesia.

German minority in the Czech Republic

For the German minority in the Czech Republic known at the 2001 census about 39,000 people, which includes about 0.4 percent of the total population of the Czech Republic. These are mainly the descendants of the expulsion in the country despite the remaining German Bohemia and Deutschmährer. Neither the Czech government sees this population as Sudeten Germans nor the majority of the local Germans declared as members of these often classified by political representatives as historically minority. After the Second World War, the Germans were subjected in the former Czechoslovakia a strong pressure to adapt, so that assimilate especially younger members of this minority frequently Czech majority population in the country.

The German minority was before the Second World War, with a share of about 30 percent on the territory of today's Czech Republic, the most important by far a minority. In the 1921 census, 3.06 million people gave German as a nationality in the 1930 census, there were 3.23 million.

In the first survey after the Second World War in 1950, there were, due to the above reasons, only about 160,000 on the German in the Czech republic. This number thereafter decreasing constantly. So it was in 1970 at about 81,000, and in the last survey in 2001 at 39,100.

In absolute terms, now lives the largest German minority in the Ústí nad Labem Region (a total of 9,500 German inhabitants), the highest percentage owns the Carlsbad Region of almost 3%. Within the Region Karlovarský is the Sokolov district with 4.5% of the district with the largest German minority in the Czech Republic. In place Měděnec ( in okres Chomutov ) is known a quarter of the inhabitants of the German minority. About one-fifth forms the German minority in the places Tatrovice ( okres Sokolov ), Horská Kvilda ( okres Klatovy ) and Kryštofovy Hamry ( okres Chomutov ). All locations are communities in the smallest size category up to 199 inhabitants. Specifically, the proportion of Germans in following towns in the Czech Republic is more than ten percent:

  • Medenec (German Kupferberg )
  • Tatrovice (Eng. yolk Wiesbaden )
  • Horská Kvilda (German Innergefild )
  • Kryštofovy Hamry (German Christoph Hammer)
  • Stříbrná (German silver brook at the Erzgebirge)
  • Horni Blatna (German mountain town of plates)
  • Mikulov (German Niklas Berg in Teplitz -Schönau )
  • Abertamy (German Abertham )
  • Josefov (German Josefsdorf )
  • Kaceřov u nad Ohri Kynšperka (Eng. Cats Green)
  • Bozi Dar (German Gottesgab in the Ore Mountains )
  • Pernink (German Bärringen )
  • Bublava (German Schwaderbach in the Ore Mountains )
  • Vejprty (German Weipert )
  • Stare Saddleback u Sokolova (German Altsattl the Erzgebirge)
  • Krasno nad Teplou (German Schoenfeld at Sokolov )
  • Královské Poříčí (German king Werth in Sokolov )
  • Žacléř (German Schatzlar )

The dialects of these Germans in the Czech Republic is being explored as part of the Atlas of the historical German dialects on the territory of the Czech Republic.

German nationals in the Czech Republic

In addition to these above-mentioned group, there is a growing especially since the EU accession of the Czech Republic number of German nationals in the Czech Republic. In the summer of 2011 had by the approximately 15,000 Germans in the Czech Republic only about 4,400 permanent residence. The vast majority of Germans had only a temporary residence permit. The male-female ratio is approximately 80:20 very one-sided.

End of 2007, most Germans lived with Ústí nad Labem Region in 4805, followed by the City of Prague with 2437 Germans and the western Bohemia with 2219 Germans. The two circles nad Labem North Bohemian Region and Carlsbad Region ( 1768 German ) have each with 0.58 %, the highest proportion of German, followed by western Bohemia with 0.4 %.

In recent years, very few German participated in the Czech citizenship. Between 2001 and 2008, only 39 German Czech citizens were.

German -language institutions in the Czech Republic

  • Cultural Association of the citizens of German nationality in the Czech Republic
  • State Assembly of Germans in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia
  • Country newspaper of the Germans in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, published every 14 days, issued by the same state assembly
  • Prager Zeitung, founded in 1991 German -language weekly magazine
  • Radio Prague with a German transmission window
  • German School in Prague
  • Austrian School Prague
Měděnec Josefov (Sokolov District)
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