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Baltic Germans (German: Deutsch-Balten or Deutschbalten, later Baltendeutsche) are ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their resettlement in 1945 after the end of World War II , Baltic Germans have markedly declined as a geographically determined ethnic group in the region.
Friedrich Amelung (1842–1909), chess player, endgame composer, and journalist; Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964), novelist; Lovisa von Burghausen (1698–1733), slave and memoirist (Sweden)
The Baltic Barons and the Baltic Germans in general were given the new and lasting label of Auslandsdeutsch by the Auswärtiges Amt who now grudgingly entered into negotiations with the Baltic governments on their behalf, especially in relation to compensation for their ruination. Of the 84,000 German Balts, some 20,000 emigrated to Germany ...
The Germans convinced the British to postpone the withdrawal of the German Freikorps units because this would give the Bolsheviks a free hand. Britain backed down after recognizing the gravity of the military situation, and the Freikorps moved on and captured Riga on May 23, 1919.
Baltic-German people from Sweden (5 P) D. People of Baltic German descent (11 C, 87 P) F. Fictional Baltic-German people (1 P) N. Baltic-German nobility (4 C, 62 P) R.
Baltic-German history (1 C, 17 P) P. Baltic-German people (5 C, 33 P) Pages in category "Baltic Germans" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Pages in category "Baltic-German history" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Baltic knighthoods;
During the 19th century, Baltic started to supersede Ostsee as the name for the region. Officially, its Russian equivalent Прибалтийский (Pribaltiyskiy) was first used in 1859. [44] This change was a result of the Baltic German elite adopting terms derived from Baltisch to refer to themselves. [8] [45]