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The Association of Transylvanian Saxons in Germany (German: Verband der Siebenbürger Sachsen in Deutschland) is a German organization formed in 1946 by Transylvanian Saxons (German: Siebenbürger Sachsen) who were resettled in Germany from Transylvania (German: Siebenbürgen).
Numerous Saxons have emigrated to Germany, especially after the fall of the Eastern Bloc in 1989 and are represented by the Association of Transylvanian Saxons in Germany. The official logo of the Democratic Forum of Germans in Romania (FDGR/DFDR), one of the oldest still functioning political platforms in post-1989 Romania.
Articles about people who were Transylvanian Saxons, people of German ethnicity who were settled in Transylvania (German: Siebenbürgen) in waves starting from the mid-12th century until the late Modern Age (specifically mid-19th century).
Illustration from 'Die Gartenlaube' (1884) depicting a group of Transylvanian Saxons during the Middle Ages. The Transylvanian Saxons, a group of the German diaspora which started to settle in Transylvania, present-day Romania, since the high medieval Ostsiedlung, have a regional culture which can be regarded as being both part of the broader German culture as well as the Romanian culture.
The Group of Transylvanian Saxons (Romanian: Gruparea Sașilor Transilvăneni, GST) was a political party active in interwar Romania representing the minority rights of the Transylvanian Saxons, a sub-group of the ethnic German community in Romania who have been living in Transylvania since the High Middle Ages.
Numerous Romanian Germans have emigrated to Germany, especially after 1989 and are represented by the Association of Transylvanian Saxons in Germany (German: Landsmannschaft der Siebenbürger Sachsen in Deutschland). Due to this emigration from Romania, the population of native Germans there has been dwindling constantly over the course of the ...
Between 1952 and 1963 Zillich was president of the Association of Transylvanian Saxons in Germany (German: Landsmannschaft der Siebenbürger Sachsen), and published in the radical right-wing press during the same period.
The number of native Transylvanian Saxon speakers today is estimated at approximately 200,000 persons. Transylvanian Saxon is also the native dialect of the current President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, by virtue of the fact that he is a Transylvanian Saxon. [18] It is also the native dialect of well known German rock superstar Peter Maffay.