Associations and Societies of the German Minority in Romania during the Weimar Republic: Cultural and Scientific Societies Cover Image

Vereinsleben der deutschen Minderheit in Rumänien zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik: Kulturelle und wissenschaftliche Vereine
Associations and Societies of the German Minority in Romania during the Weimar Republic: Cultural and Scientific Societies

Author(s): Iulia-Elena Zup
Subject(s): History, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Academia Română – Centrul de Studii Transilvane
Keywords: cultural and scientific societies; Germans of Romania; Greater Romania; Weimar Republic; German culture and language;

Summary/Abstract: The present article deals with the activities of the most important cultural and scientific societies of the German minority in all provinces of Greater Romania: in the Old Kingdom (Wallachia and Moldavia) and in the territories newly incorporated after World War I (Transylvania, Banat, Bukovina and Bessarabia). The goals of such societies were to preserve the German culture and language and to promote the interests of the “Germans of Romania,” representing 4.1% of the total population, through projects, cultural and scientific publications, a summer university and cooperation with scientists in Romania and abroad

  • Issue Year: XXIX/2020
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 116-128
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: German