Získávání československého občanství po roce 1918. Případ vojenských gážistů

• Authors: Michal Sojčák

Title variants

EN

GAINING CZECHOSLOVAK CITIZENSHIP AFTER 1918 : THE CASE OF CIVILIAN ARMY EMPLOYEES

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study deals with some issues pertaining to the Czechoslovak citizenship of army employees after the country‘s founding in 1918. Due to Czechoslovakia achieving independence, some persons gained foreign status overnight, despite living and working in the Czech lands for decades. Some of them included former employees of the Austrian-Hungarian armed forces, whose lack of Czechoslovak citizenship prevented them from serving in the newlyformed Czechoslovak army and could not claim for various financial benefits for which they would otherwise be eligible owing to their previous service. Therefore, some of the military employees sought to gain Czechoslovak citizenship. Their applications were decided by lower-tier political authorities. A number of these applicants were ultimately unsuccessful. This was chiefly caused by the fact that Czechoslovakian authorities would have to compensate them, which would put a strain on the country‘s budget.

Keywords

EN

Citizenship; Lex Patriae; Foreigners; Military Employees; First Czechoslovak Republic

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: University of Ostrava, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Historica: revue pro historii a příbuzné vědy (Historica: Review in history and related sciences)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 6
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 159-176

Contributors

author

Michal Sojčák

• Ostravská univerzita v Ostravě, Czech Republic