Hans Lukaschek (22 May 1885 – 26 January 1960) was a German lawyer and politician. During the German Empire and the Weimar Republic, he was active as a member of the Center Party, serving as a mayor, a district administrator and the Oberpräsident of...
The Kreisau Circle (German: Kreisauer Kreis, pronounced [ˌkʁaɪ̯.zaʊ̯.ɐ ˈkʁaɪ̯s] ) (1940–1944) was a group of about twenty-five German dissidents in Nazi Germany led by jurist and nobleman Helmuth James von Moltke, who met up from 1940 at the...
The Federal Ministry of Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims (German: Bundesministerium für Vertriebene, Flüchtlinge und Kriegsgeschädigte; BMVt) was part of the West German federal government from 1949 till 1969. Before the formation of...
The First Adenauer cabinet (German: Kabinett Adenauer I) was the 1st Government of Federal Republic of Germany in office from 20 September 1949 until 20 October 1953. It was the first democratically-elected German cabinet in the aftermath of World...
Silesian independence (Silesian: Samostanowjyńo Ślůnska; Polish: Niepodległość Śląska) is the political movement for Upper Silesia and Cieszyn Silesia to become a sovereign state. Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of Greater...
This is a list of notable people from Silesia.
Documents on the Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern-Central Europe is the abridged English translation of a multi-volume publication that was created by a commission of West German historians between 1951 and 1961 to document the population...
Ludwig Schwamb (30 July 1890 in Undenheim – 23 January 1945 in Berlin) was a social-democratic jurist and politician who fought against the Nazi dictatorship in Germany as a member of the Kreisau Circle motivated by his Christian beliefs, and as a...
The Union of Upper Silesians (German: Bund der Oberschlesier; Polish: Związek Górnoślązaków; Silesian: Ferajn Gůrnoślůnzokůw) was an early 20th-century movement for the independence of Upper Silesia. The movement had its genesis during the...
A list of notable politicians of the German Centre Party: