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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.
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 ...
Friedrich Amelung (1842–1909), chess player, endgame composer, and journalist; Werner Bergengruen (1892–1964), novelist; Lovisa von Burghausen (1698–1733), slave and memoirist (Sweden)
This motto was a reaction to the behaviour of the German government during the so-called Baltenputsch ("Baltic coup") of 16 April 1919 — a coup by Baron Hans von Manteuffel-Szoege with the Baltische Landeswehr, which resulted in the formation of a pro-German government — as a result of which the Iron Division was ordered to withdraw. The ...
The Russian Bolsheviks ceded the Baltic areas to Germany under the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk of 3 March 1918. The Imperial German government established occupation governments in Estonia and Latvia [1] and formally recognised the independence of a puppet government in Lithuania on March 24, 1918. [2]
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;
The Baltic: A new history of the region and its people (New York: Overlook Press, 2006; published in London with the title Northern shores: a history of the Baltic Sea and its peoples (John Murray, 2006)) Šleivyte, Janina (2010). Russia's European Agenda and the Baltic States. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-55400-8. Vilkauskaite, Dovile O.
The Baltic states would have preferred to remain neutral, but the only security systems on offer were German or Soviet. [27] In June 1939, Estonia and Latvia yielded to German pressure and signed non-aggression pacts. [28] In late June, the German general Franz Halder visited Estonia and Finland, and later Admiral Wilhelm Canaris visited ...