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The German Minorities Association (MGB) is a political organization operating in the Weimar Republic between 1924 and 1939 to defend the rights of minorities in Germany: Lusatian Serbs, Danes, Poles, Frisians and Lithuanians.

History

She was born on January 26, 1924, at the Berlin Convention. It included the following organizations:

In the 1924 elections to the Reichstag, the Common List of National Minorities was unsuccessful - for its candidates a total of 132 thousand. of the votes (including 101,000 in the regions inhabited by Poles), which did not translate into a single mandate. The electoral defeat of 1924 led to the weakening of the Union, but it formally existed until 1939 when it was dissolved by the Nazis. Management

Stanisław Sierakowski was elected President of the Union, in the 1930s he was replaced by Danish Ernst Christiansen. The Secretary General of the organization was Dr. Jan Kaczmarek. Publishing activities

The association has been publishing since May 1925: initially under the name "Kulturwille", later "Kulturwehr". The editor was Luizian Jan Skala. Bibliography

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