Czech Republic–Germany relations

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Czech-German relations
Map indicating locations of Czech Republic and Germany

Czech Republic
Germany

Czech–German relations are the relationship between

OSCE, Council of Europe and the World Trade Organization
.

Country comparison

Official name Czech Republic Federal Republic of Germany
Common name Czechia Germany
Flag
 Czech Republic Germany
Coat of arms
Kde domov můj (Czech)
 "Deutschlandlied"[a]
Population
 10,649,800 84,432,670
78,866 km2 (30,450 sq mi) 357,600 km2 (138,100 sq mi)
134/km2 (347.1/sq mi) 232/km2 (600.9/sq mi)
UTC+1 (CET)
Government
 Unitary parliamentary constitutional republic Federal parliamentary republic
Capital & largest city
  Prague – 1,324,277 (2,677,964 Metro)  Berlin - 3,850,809 (6,144,600 Metro)
Official language
 Czech German
First leader
 Bořivoj I, Duke of Bohemia (867–889, traditionally)

Václav Havel (1936-2011, current constitution)

Francis I (1815-1835, traditionally)

Richard von Weizsäcker (1920-2015, current constitution)

Current head of government
 Prime Minister Petr Fiala (ODS; 2021–present) Chancellor Olaf Scholz(2021-present)
Current head of state
 President Petr Pavel (2023–present) President Frank-Walter Steinmeier 2019–present)
$261.732 billion

$24,569 per capita

$4.309 trillion

$51,384 per capita

$432.346 billion

$40,586 per capita

$5.546 trillion

$66,132 per capita

Czech koruna (Kč) – CZK Euro (€) – EUR
0.891 (very high) - 2017 0.942 (very high) - 2021
Expatriates
 21,267 Germans in the Czech Republic 503,000
Czechs in Germany

Background

Bohemia and Moravia (now in the Czech Republic) were settled in the 6th century by

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk convinced American President Woodrow Wilson to establish a Czechoslovak state in Central Europe on the principle of national self-determination, after three hundred years of Austrian domination, with a significant German minority (30% of the total population) in the nation's borderlands
, which had a majority German population.

Adolf Hitler in German-occupied Prague in 1939

After

parliamentary democracy, and sought to "reintegrate" Bohemia and Moravia into the Nazi empire. This Nazi German policy took the form of so-called Grundplanung OA (Basic planning) from the summer of 1938, which included extermination of Czech nation, and later the genocidal Generalplan Ost
.

At the end of the war, as part of the

Czech government has refused to entertain, citing the German occupation, wartime injustices, the German minority's support for the Nazi Party, genocidal plans by the German government, and atrocities such as the Lidice Massacre
.

Modern relations

After the end of the Cold War, relations warmed between the newly-reunified

freedom of movement for workers
.

Relations with the Free State of Bavaria

In December 2010 and November 2011,

Minister-President of Bavaria, who visited the Czech Republic. This was considered an important step in the dispute over the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans after the Second World War. In February 2013 the then Czech Prime Minister Petr Nečas was the first Prime Minister to visit the Free State of Bavaria. In a speech in front of the Bavarian Parliament he regretted the expulsion of the Sudeten Germans.[4]

On December 4, 2014, the Minister-President Horst Seehofer opened the Representation of the Free State of Bavaria in the Czech Republic. Among the guests of the opening ceremony were the Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka and many Czech and Bavarian ministers. In his speech, Seehofer praised the establishment of a Bavarian Representation in the Czech Republic as a symbol of the growing friendship between Bavaria and the Czech Republic and for a common Europe. The Bavarian Representation should be a place for dialogue, friendship and cooperation.[5]

Education

Deutsche Schule Prag

The Deutsche Schule Prag is a German international school in Prague.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ From 1952 to 1990, the entire "Deutschlandlied" was the national anthem, but only the third verse was sung on official occasions. Since 1991, the third verse alone has been the national anthem.[1]

References

  1. ^ "Repräsentation und Integration" (in German). Bundespräsidialamt. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  2. ^ German-Czech relations positive despite the past
  3. ^ LN: Gauck's gesture means huge leap in Czech-German relations Archived 2014-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl".
  5. ^ "Bayern in Prag – Bayerisches Landesportal".

References to Books

  • Detlef Brandes and Václav Kural (eds.): Der Weg in die Katastrophe. Deutsch-tschechoslowakische Beziehungen 1938–1947. Klartext, Essen 1994, 255 pp.
  • Václav Kural: Konflikt anstatt Gemeinschaft? Tschechen und Deutsche im tschechoslowakischen Staat (1918–1938). Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, Praha 2001, 359 pp.
  • Václav Kural: Místo společenství konflikt. Češi a Němci ve Velkoněmecké říši a cesta k odsunu (1938–1945). Ústav mezinárodních vztahů, Praha 1994, 296 pp.

External links

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Czech_Republic–Germany_relations&oldid=1217234673"