[[Image:VictoriaKanasaVolgaGermanStatue.jpg|thumb|right|Volga German pioneer family comemorative statue in Victoria, Kansas, USA.]] The Volga Germans were ethnic Germans living near the Volga River and the Black Sea, maintaining German culture, German language, traditions, and religions: Evangelical Church in Germany and Roman Catholicism. Many Volga Germans immigrated to the American mid-west in the 19th century. After she displaced Peter III of Russia from the Russian Empire throne, German princess Sophie Fredericke Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst, a native of Stettin, took the vacant imperial throne under the name of Catherine II (the Great) in 1762. Since settlement by ethnic Russians had been slow in the Ukraine lands conquered from the Ottoman Empire, Catherine published manifestos inviting Germans to immigrate and farm Russian lands while maintaining their language and culture. Germans went to Russia with special rights as a group, which were later revoked when the need for conscription into the Russian army arose in the latter part of the 19th century. The Germans, who had little commitment to the Russian Empire, often emigrated to avoid the draft. After the Russian Revolution, the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Autonome Sozialistische Sowjet-Republik der Wolga-Deutschen; Автоно́мная Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика Не́мцев Пово́лжья) was established from 1924–1942 with the capital in Engels, Russia (known as "Pokrovsk" before 1931). As the Nazis advanced into the USSR towards Volga, Joseph Stalin became worried about the possibility of Volga Germans collaborating with them. On August 28, 1941, he ordered a 24-hour relocation of Volga Germans eastwards. The males spent the war in Stalin's Gulags, where the survival rate was very low. Similar deportations happened for other ethnic groups, see: Polish minority in Soviet Union, History of Chechnya, Tatar. The Volga Germans never returned to the Volga region. After the war, many settled in the Ural Mountains, Siberia, Kazakhstan (2% of todays Kazakh population are recognized as Germans - approximately 300,000), Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (appr. 16,000 = 0.064%). Decades after the war, some talked about resettling where the German Autonomous Republic used to be, but this movement met with opposition from the population resettled to their territory and did not gain momentum. Since the late 1980s, many Volga Germans have emigrated to their ancestral homeland of Germany, taking advantage of the German ''Right of return#Germany'', a policy which grants citizenship to all those who can prove German ancestry. This exodus has occurred despite the fact that most Volga Germans speak little or no German. In the late 1990s, however, Germany made it more difficult for Russians of German descent to settle in Germany, especially for those who do not speak some of the Volga dialects of German. == Volga Germans in North America== Volga Germans emigrated to the United States and Canada and settled mainly in the Great Plains; Alberta, eastern Colorado, Kansas, Manitoba, Minnesota, eastern Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Saskatchewan, and often succeeding in dryland farming, a skill learned in Russia. Many of the emigrants who arrived after between 1870 and 1912 spent a period doing farm labor, in northeastern Colorado in the sugar beet fields. Bernhard Warkentin, a German Russian, was born in a small Russian village in 1847, and traveled to America in his early 20s. Interested in flour mills, he was especially impressed with the wheat growing possibilities in the United States. After visiting Kansas, Warkentin found the plains much like those he had left behind in his native Russia. Settling in Harvey County, he built a water mill on the banks of the Little Arkansas River - the Halstead Milling and Elevator Company. Warkentin's greatest contribution to Kansas was the introduction of hard Turkey wheat into Kansas, which replaced the soft variety grown exclusively in the State. Modern descendants in Canada and the United States refer to their heritage as ''Germans from Russia''. In the United States, however, they tend to have blended to a large degree with the much more numerous "regular" Germans who dominate the northern half of the United States. == External links == * [http://www.grhs.org/ Germans from Russia Heritage Society] * [http://flagspot.net/flags/su-ruwd.html Flag] * [http://www.webbitt.com/volga/ Volga Germans] * [http://www.grhs.com/alberta/history2.html Canadian Germans from Russia] * [http://www.ahsgr.org/ American Historical Society of Germans from Russia] * [http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/ Germans from Russia Heritage Collection North Dakota State University] * [http://www.fresno.edu/affiliation/cmhs/gpc/overview.htm California Mennonite Historical Society's Genealogy Project Committee] == Related articles == *Expulsion of Germans after World War II *Ethnic German *Volksdeutsche *Danube Swabians *Transylvanian Saxons *Volhynia *Georg Leibbrandt Germanic peoples Ethnic groups of Russia Russian and Soviet Germans
This is barely English, poorly organized, and I have a bad feeling about it. It's reminiscent of User:H.J.. User:Vicki Rosenzweig 21:50 18 Jul 2003 (UTC) :Yes, it could be better written, but from the history, people from 2 different IP addresses (clearly not from the same subnet) editted it before I touched it. (And for one of them, English not her/his first language.) And from my knowledge of Russian history, it appears to be accurate so far -- it's clearly a stub. :If you'd like, Vicki, I'll add it to my watch list & help it along. I'm willing to take the risk that this won't become another point of bitterness here on WikiP. -- User:Llywrch 03:45 19 Jul 2003 (UTC) The Article Germans from Russia which is about an American ethnic group has been redirected here, truncated and merged. I think it should go back to being an independent article. The story of the Volga Germans, is also very interesting and can be substantially expanded, but is really a different story as the division between the two groups generally occured before the Revolution. The only contact most Americans of German-Russian heritage ever had was an occasional pitiful letter from distant relatives. User:Fred Bauder 15:59, Apr 5, 2004 (UTC) : I second that. Let's start from the separation within the current article first. User:Mikkalai 16:52, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC) ---- I have created a stub German-Russian for information on people of German ethnic background who have adopted Russian culture such as Lenin or Vilyam Genrikovich Fisher. --- My sources are people I "interviewed" - my parents and grandparents OGT ---- Volga-germanism of most of thse people is not verifiable in wikipedia. NOt to say what Catherine the Great is doing here. *Descendants of Germans from Russia include John Denver, Lawrence Welk, Angie Dickinson, Steven Dietz, Dawna Friesen, Jeff Friesen, Robyn Regehr, Matt Groening, Chris Isaak, Jesse M. Unruh, Tom Daschle, Roy Romer, Cheryl Ladd, and Sergio Denis. *Public persons some not quite so famous include Catherine the Great, Les Dudek, John Hessler ,John Klein, Leroy Lehr. Adolph Lesser, Svyatoslav Richter, George Henry Sauer, Nancy Jones Schaefer, Willard Schmidt, Alfred Schnittke, Ron Schuele, Armin Mueller-Stahl , Benjamin F. Brack, Oscar Brosz, Al Duerr, Merle Freitag, Charles Gemar, Jim Geringer, Count Hans Moritz Haucke, Richard Hieb, Robert W. Hirsch, Joseph Kessler, Otto Krueger, Roland Kunfeld, Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke, Reuben Metter, David J. Miller, Allen Neuharth, Toby Roth, Harvey Wollman, Dr. George P. Epp, and Rudy Wiebe I suspect these lists were simply copied from some webpages. Many of the persons are probably not famous. You cannot just trow a bunch of names into an encyclopedia without saying a word about them, unless the name is of world fame. But in the last case at least a stub is reasonably to expect. Please clean this up. User:Mikkalai 20:50, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
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[[Image:VictoriaKanasaVolgaGermanStatue.jpg|thumb|right|Volga German pioneer family comemorative statue in Victoria, Kansas, USA.]] The Volga Germans were ethnic Germans living near the Volga River and the Black Sea, maintaining German culture, German language, traditions, and religions: Evangelical Church in Germany and Roman Catholicism. Many Volga Germans immigrated to the American mid-west in the 19th century. After she displaced Peter III of Russia from the Russian Empire throne, German princess Sophie Fredericke Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst, a native of Stettin, took the vacant imperial throne under the name of Catherine II (the Great) in 1762. Since settlement by ethnic Russians had been slow in the Ukraine lands conquered from the Ottoman Empire, Catherine published manifestos inviting Germans to immigrate and farm Russian lands while maintaining their language and culture. Germans went to Russia with special rights as a group, which were later revoked when the need for conscription into the Russian army arose in the latter part of the 19th century. The Germans, who had little commitment to the Russian Empire, often emigrated to avoid the draft. After the Russian Revolution, the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Autonome Sozialistische Sowjet-Republik der Wolga-Deutschen; Автоно́мная Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика Не́мцев Пово́лжья) was established from 1924–1942 with the capital in Engels, Russia (known as "Pokrovsk" before 1931). As the Nazis advanced into the USSR towards Volga, Joseph Stalin became worried about the possibility of Volga Germans collaborating with them. On August 28, 1941, he ordered a 24-hour relocation of Volga Germans eastwards. The males spent the war in Stalin's Gulags, where the survival rate was very low. Similar deportations happened for other ethnic groups, see: Polish minority in Soviet Union, History of Chechnya, Tatar. The Volga Germans never returned to the Volga region. After the war, many settled in the Ural Mountains, Siberia, Kazakhstan (2% of todays Kazakh population are recognized as Germans - approximately 300,000), Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan (appr. 16,000 = 0.064%). Decades after the war, some talked about resettling where the German Autonomous Republic used to be, but this movement met with opposition from the population resettled to their territory and did not gain momentum. Since the late 1980s, many Volga Germans have emigrated to their ancestral homeland of Germany, taking advantage of the German ''Right of return#Germany'', a policy which grants citizenship to all those who can prove German ancestry. This exodus has occurred despite the fact that most Volga Germans speak little or no German. In the late 1990s, however, Germany made it more difficult for Russians of German descent to settle in Germany, especially for those who do not speak some of the Volga dialects of German. == Volga Germans in North America== Volga Germans emigrated to the United States and Canada and settled mainly in the Great Plains; Alberta, eastern Colorado, Kansas, Manitoba, Minnesota, eastern Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Saskatchewan, and often succeeding in dryland farming, a skill learned in Russia. Many of the emigrants who arrived after between 1870 and 1912 spent a period doing farm labor, in northeastern Colorado in the sugar beet fields. Bernhard Warkentin, a German Russian, was born in a small Russian village in 1847, and traveled to America in his early 20s. Interested in flour mills, he was especially impressed with the wheat growing possibilities in the United States. After visiting Kansas, Warkentin found the plains much like those he had left behind in his native Russia. Settling in Harvey County, he built a water mill on the banks of the Little Arkansas River - the Halstead Milling and Elevator Company. Warkentin's greatest contribution to Kansas was the introduction of hard Turkey wheat into Kansas, which replaced the soft variety grown exclusively in the State. Modern descendants in Canada and the United States refer to their heritage as ''Germans from Russia''. In the United States, however, they tend to have blended to a large degree with the much more numerous "regular" Germans who dominate the northern half of the United States. == External links == * [http://www.grhs.org/ Germans from Russia Heritage Society] * [http://flagspot.net/flags/su-ruwd.html Flag] * [http://www.webbitt.com/volga/ Volga Germans] * [http://www.grhs.com/alberta/history2.html Canadian Germans from Russia] * [http://www.ahsgr.org/ American Historical Society of Germans from Russia] * [http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/ Germans from Russia Heritage Collection North Dakota State University] * [http://www.fresno.edu/affiliation/cmhs/gpc/overview.htm California Mennonite Historical Society's Genealogy Project Committee] == Related articles == *Expulsion of Germans after World War II *Ethnic German *Volksdeutsche *Danube Swabians *Transylvanian Saxons *Volhynia *Georg Leibbrandt Germanic peoples Ethnic groups of Russia Russian and Soviet Germans
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This is barely English, poorly organized, and I have a bad feeling about it. It's reminiscent of User:H.J.. User:Vicki Rosenzweig 21:50 18 Jul 2003 (UTC) :Yes, it could be better written, but from the history, people from 2 different IP addresses (clearly not from the same subnet) editted it before I touched it. (And for one of them, English not her/his first language.) And from my knowledge of Russian history, it appears to be accurate so far -- it's clearly a stub. :If you'd like, Vicki, I'll add it to my watch list & help it along. I'm willing to take the risk that this won't become another point of bitterness here on WikiP. -- User:Llywrch 03:45 19 Jul 2003 (UTC) The Article Germans from Russia which is about an American ethnic group has been redirected here, truncated and merged. I think it should go back to being an independent article. The story of the Volga Germans, is also very interesting and can be substantially expanded, but is really a different story as the division between the two groups generally occured before the Revolution. The only contact most Americans of German-Russian heritage ever had was an occasional pitiful letter from distant relatives. User:Fred Bauder 15:59, Apr 5, 2004 (UTC) : I second that. Let's start from the separation within the current article first. User:Mikkalai 16:52, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC) ---- I have created a stub German-Russian for information on people of German ethnic background who have adopted Russian culture such as Lenin or Vilyam Genrikovich Fisher. --- My sources are people I "interviewed" - my parents and grandparents OGT ---- Volga-germanism of most of thse people is not verifiable in wikipedia. NOt to say what Catherine the Great is doing here. *Descendants of Germans from Russia include John Denver, Lawrence Welk, Angie Dickinson, Steven Dietz, Dawna Friesen, Jeff Friesen, Robyn Regehr, Matt Groening, Chris Isaak, Jesse M. Unruh, Tom Daschle, Roy Romer, Cheryl Ladd, and Sergio Denis. *Public persons some not quite so famous include Catherine the Great, Les Dudek, John Hessler ,John Klein, Leroy Lehr. Adolph Lesser, Svyatoslav Richter, George Henry Sauer, Nancy Jones Schaefer, Willard Schmidt, Alfred Schnittke, Ron Schuele, Armin Mueller-Stahl , Benjamin F. Brack, Oscar Brosz, Al Duerr, Merle Freitag, Charles Gemar, Jim Geringer, Count Hans Moritz Haucke, Richard Hieb, Robert W. Hirsch, Joseph Kessler, Otto Krueger, Roland Kunfeld, Count Fyodor Petrovich Litke, Reuben Metter, David J. Miller, Allen Neuharth, Toby Roth, Harvey Wollman, Dr. George P. Epp, and Rudy Wiebe I suspect these lists were simply copied from some webpages. Many of the persons are probably not famous. You cannot just trow a bunch of names into an encyclopedia without saying a word about them, unless the name is of world fame. But in the last case at least a stub is reasonably to expect. Please clean this up. User:Mikkalai 20:50, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
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