Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Litauen

The country team is the German Association of Lithuania, a displaced Association. The country club is a member of the Federation of displaced persons ( BdV ), National Chairman is now Hardy Mett. The country team of Germans from Lithuania is organized in various state associations. The country club of the German was founded in Lithuania in 1951 and soon had well over 10,000 members. Today, the number has declined significantly and is still at just under 1,000.

History

While the displaced persons from Latvia and Estonia are organized in the German -Baltic society, the displaced chose from Lithuania for their own association. This goes back to historically-based cultural differences. While the Baltic Germans in the wake of the conquests of the Teutonic Order immigrated in the 13th and 14th centuries and a guide layer formed by Lithuania Germans came only in the 18th century in the then constitutionally linked with Poland country and formed a peasant ethnic group.

In the Hitler -Stalin pact, a Soviet occupation of Lithuania and a resettlement of the Germans, it was decided to the Reich. 1941 approximately 52,000 people were therefore relocated. After the German occupation of Lithuania about a fifth went back to 1944 again a wave of refugees from the Red Army may establish.

Tasks

The country team of Germans from Lithuania took over initially particular social tasks. The focus is on helping displaced people stood by the integration into the Federal Republic. They led in part the duties of the Relief Committee of the Germans from Lithuania continued in the relief organization of the Evangelical Church in Germany in the Fund of the Evangelical Church in Germany. The tasks included a travel and visiting service for often scattered living compatriots, relief supplies, elderly care, recreational trips for children, pastoral care. Zunehmens social work has been superseded by the preservation of traditions and cultural activities.

Publications

The diamond

Since January 1950, the country club has the Germans from Lithuania with " The diamond ", " culture and news journal of the Germans from Lithuania " a union newspaper ( ISSN: 0949-8974 ). The diamond was founded in 1950 under the title "home voice" from the " Support Committee of the Germans from Lithuania 's Fund of the Evangelical Church in Germany ", one of the predecessors of today's Association.

Home greeting

The country team of Germans from Lithuania is the editor of a series of year-books of the Germans from Lithuania under the title "home greeting ".

Swell

  • Displaced organization
  • Federation of displaced
  • Club ( Germany )
  • Founded in 1951
  • German -Lithuanian relations
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