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The Volga Germans (German: Wolgadeutsche, pronounced [ˈvɔlɡaˌdɔʏtʃə] ⓘ; Russian: поволжские немцы, romanized: povolzhskiye nemtsy) are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov and close to Ukraine nearer to the south.
The German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 marked the end of the Volga German ASSR. On 28 August 1941, the republic was formally abolished and, out of fear they could act as German collaborators, all Volga Germans were exiled to the Kazakh SSR, Altai and Siberia. [4] Many were interned in labor camps merely due to their heritage. [2]
Labour Commune of Volga Germans in 1922. The Labour Commune of Volga Germans was a polity established in Russia following the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917. The Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic passed a decree which established this [1]
The Volga region is home to a German minority group, the Volga Germans. Catherine the Great had issued a manifesto in 1763 inviting all foreigners to come and populate the region, offering them numerous incentives to do so. [45] This was partly to develop the region but also to provide a buffer zone between the Russians and the Mongols to the east.
People of Volga German descent (6 C, 5 P) V. Volga German diaspora (1 C, 32 P) Volga German settlements (11 P) Pages in category "Volga German people"
It is also known as the Volga–Arkhangelsk line, [1] as well as (more rarely) the Volga–Arkhangelsk–Astrakhan line. [ nb 3 ] [ 2 ] It was first mentioned on 18 December 1940 in Führer Directive 21 ( Fall Barbarossa ) which enunciated the set goals and conditions of the German invasion of the Soviet Union , describing the attainment of the ...
Konrad Hoffmann (Russian: Конрад Генрихович Гофман, romanized: Konrad Genrikhovich Gofman; Pokrovskaya sloboda, 1894 – Andijan, 1977) was a Soviet–Volga German politician. From 1938 to 1941, he served as the last head of state of the Volga German ASSR.
For example, an ethnic German born in a village in Odesa is a Ukraine German, a Black Sea German and a Russia German (the former Russian Empire). Alternatively, the Germans of Odesa belong to the group of the Germans of Ukraine, of the Black Sea, of Russia, and, less specifically, of Eastern Europe. The most populous division are the Volga Germans.