Prussian Lithuanians
As Memelländer, according to Duden Memel, an Old Prussian - Curonian - German ethnic mixed group is referred to ( with several westlitauischen immigrants from Polotsk ), which got its name according to the Memel, which was separated in 1920 by Germany and France by the Allied and Associated Powers under management was made and annexed in 1923 by Lithuania. The Memel had no nation of their own, because until 1920 and again from 1939 to 1945 they were the northernmost inhabitants of Germany.
The Memel were mainly Protestant. From Lithuania Escaped were often Catholic, and there were a number of other faith communities, depending on the origin of immigrants from Scotland, Friesland and Switzerland, etc. (Church of England, Mennonite, Reformed, Baptists, Jews, etc.).
After the Prussian census of 1890, there were 121 345 litauischsprechende inhabitants and under not the hochlitauische Aukschtaitsche is " Lithuanian " to understand, but the Curonian and žemaitisch influenced, in Lithuania Minor spoken Prussian Lithuanian. Almost all fled to the end of the Second World War, when East Prussia was divided between Poland, Lithuania and the Soviet Union. The Klaipėda Region ( Memel region ) was added to Lithuania.
Known Memelländer
- Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander
- Archibald Bajorat
- Paul Brock
- Alfred chest
- Simon Dach
- Karl Eulenstein
- Margarete Fischer
- Wilhelm Gaigalat ( lit. Vilius Gaigalaitis )
- Georg Gerullis
- James Hobrecht
- Martin Kakies
- Hans Kant
- Erich Karschies
- Charlotte Keyser
- Henry A. Kurschat
- August Lewald
- Paul and Harald Lindenau
- Rudolf Naujok
- William Pete riding ( lit. Vilius Pėteraitis )
- Richard Pietsch
- Ludwig Rhesa
- Eva Simoneit ( lit. Ieva Simonaitytė )
- Wilhelm Storost ( lit. Vilius Storosta ) aka Vydūnas
- Hermann Sudermann
- Ewald Swars
- Doris Treitz aka Alexandra
- Lena Valaitis
- Ernst Wichert