Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen

The country team Prussia eV (LO ), headquartered in Hamburg, is a displaced Association. It is non-denominational and non-partisan according to the statute and recognized as charitable. It was founded on October 3, 1948 by expelled or had fled East Prussia. Already on August 5, 1950 waived the displaced in the Charter of the German expellees on revenge and retribution. The country club is a member of East Prussia in the covenant of displaced persons ( BdV ). Their spokesman since 2010 Stephan Grigat. The LO is independent and is not funded by public money.

Activities

The country team Prussia is mainly engaged in cross -border cultural and community work as well as the historical and political journalism. Among the political concerns and activities of the country team in the recent past included the creation of a Centre Against Expulsions in Berlin, possibly with the participation of BdV President Erika Steinbach, the implementation of German - Polish "Municipal Political Conventions ," the preservation and development of the East Prussian State Museum in Lüneburg and the further construction of the established end of 2007, " European Union of refugees and displaced persons " ( EUEEP ), headquartered in Trieste. In 2009, the country team also built from their reserves, the foundation for the future of East Prussia with its headquarters in Hamburg.

In the years after the turn ( DDR) of 1989/90, the country team Prussia, often set up in cooperation with the Lazarus Fund or the St. John 's Ambulance, 21 welfare centers in East Prussia, which it maintains. She has closets and pharmacies established that it maintains. She has organized and financed, wolf children, especially in Lithuania, supported in this time many aid flights for hospitals, children's and old people's homes, as well as kindergartens and schools, including through school meals. These activities are, however, resigned due to the economic development of Poland in recent years in the background.

Objectives

According to its statutes in force in November 2006, the country team Prussia itself as " an umbrella organization of displaced native East Prussia, their descendants and all who feel Prussia and its history, especially connected ". Among the objectives of the country to statutory team include:

• The preservation of cultural heritage of East Prussia,
• Care for the displaced persons and the members of the German minority in the East Prussian homeland
• The right to self-determination " as an inviolable right every nation "
• The " peaceful relations between nations on the ground of law, not violence "
• European unification in peace and freedom, as well as the
• Comprehensive ethnic group protection for all ethnic minorities in Europe.

The statute contains several places a commitment to international law, but no (explicit ) demand for restitution or compensation. The Statute also not the reincorporation former East Prussian territory to Germany is required.

Membership and organs

The country team Prussia consists of:

• 40 home county communities, according to the historical 40 counties of East Prussia,
• 16 country groups, corresponding to the 16 federal states, with a total of about 420 local and district groups and the
• Association Federation Young East Prussia ( BJO ).

In addition to these corporate members of the country team can according to the statute " to record more than two persons as individual members" who are entrusted with a special function.

The country team Prussia has two organs, the East Prussian state representation ( OLV ) and the Federal Executive. The OLV meets usually once a year. She has worked with committees and Bureau a parliament -like structure in the sense of the law on associations, it is the general meeting of the LO. Another body of the LO is the arbitral tribunal.

The LO also gives the right-wing conservative to new far-right weekly Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung (formerly " The Ostpreußenblatt " ) out and is the owner of the mail-order book trading Prussian media service based in Leipzig.

BJO

In February 2000, the Federal Government Young East Prussia, was founded in the official youth organization of the Association. The former youth organization Young Landsmannschaft East Prussia (now: Boy Landsmannschaft East Germany ) was this status is withdrawn due to their extreme right-wing orientation, after which she joined the Witikobund. The Federation Young East Prussia has about 600 members, National Chairman is the student Stefan Hein. The BJO is active in both the Federal Republic and East Prussia with seminars, retreats, training events and meetings. The War Graves in East Prussia - often together with young people from Poland - one of the activities of BJO.

Speaker (Chair)

Bierut Decrees

Ahead of the EU enlargement, the country team called for the withdrawal of " Bierut Decrees ". These decrees introduced, similar to the Beneš decrees in the former Czechoslovakia, the internationally wrongful evictions, expropriations and ill-treatment of the German population in East Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania and East Brandenburg with impunity.