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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 ...
This is a list of notable Baltic Germans. Art and literature ... Nazi ideologist and architect (Germany) Max Scherwinsky (1859–1909), architect and designer (Latvia)
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.
German populations affected by the population exchanges were primarily the Baltic Germans and Bessarabia Germans and others who were forced to resettle west of the Curzon Line. The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact had defined "spheres of interest", assigning the states between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to either one of those.
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 ...
Baltic-German history (1 C, 17 P) P. Baltic-German people (5 C, 27 P) Pages in category "Baltic Germans" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
A member of the Baltic Landeswehr. After the November 11, 1918, armistice the Inter-Allied Commission of Control insisted that the German troops remain in the Baltic countries to prevent the region from being re-occupied by the Red Army.