FORMATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA (1918) AND THE GERMAN POPULATION OF SPIŠ. IDEAS AND REALITY

• Authors: Švorc Peter
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The relationship of Spiš Germans to the ČSR evolved. In the first years of its existence, it was, as a rule, dismissive. Germans had a hard time coming to terms with Slovaks becoming members of city and village councils; they refused to communicate in the new official language and sabotaged many a governmental regulation. In the town Veľká, the local German adherents of the Evangelic faith even refused for Slovak services to be held in their church; they wanted to divide the town of Spišská Belá into a Slovak and a German part, etc. The older, and partially middle, generation of Spiš Germans did not accept the ČSR during the entire interwar period. It was reflected in the activities of the political party Zipser Deutsche Partei. The Czechoslovak Republic was only accepted later on by the young generation, politically engaged in the Karpathendeutsche Partei. This generation, nevertheless, also took a long time to accept Slovaks and Rusyns as equals to the German inhabitants of Spiš.

Keywords

EN

GERMANS; SPIŠ; CZECHOSLOVAK REPUBLIC; ZIPSER DEUTSCHE PARTEI; KARPATHENDEUTSCHE PARTEI

• Publisher: Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Historický časopis (Historical Journal)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 887–913

Contributors

author

Švorc Peter

• Inštitút histórie, Filozofická fakulta Prešovskej University, Ul. 17. novembra č. 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovak Republic

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3716-5058

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/histcaso.2022.70.5.4