Deutsch-Baltische Gesellschaft

The Deutsch-Baltische Gesellschaft ("German-Baltic Society") is an organization which represents Baltic German refugees expelled from Estonia and Latvia during World War II and its aftermath. It was established in 1950 as the Deutsch-Baltische Landsmannschaft im Bundesgebiet.

The organization is based in Darmstadt, Hesse. Its youth organization is the Deutschbaltischer Jugend- und Studentenring.

Society Chairman

• Georg von Manteuffel-Szoege (1950-1962)
• Axel de Vries (1962-1963 comm.)
• Erik von Sivers (1963-1973)
• Rudolf von Wistinghausen (1973-1980)
• Klas Lackschewitz (1980-1984)
• Hans Erich Seuberlich (1984)
• Runar of Sivers (1985-1989)
• Waltraut Dame von Tiesenhausen (1989-1996)
• Heinz-Adolf Treu (1996-2005)
• Eckhart Neander (2005-2010)
• Frank von Auer (2010-2015)
• Christian von Boetticher (since October 31, 2015)

Corporate members

• Carl-Schirren-Gesellschaft e. V. - German-Baltic cultural work
• German Baltic youth and student ring e. V.
• German Baltic Studienstiftung
• German-Baltic Genealogical Society (DBGG)
• German-Baltic church service eV (auxiliary committee of the ev.-luth. Deutschbalten)
• Baltic monuments eV

See also

• Nazi–Soviet population transfers
• Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950)
• Federation of Expellees
• All-German Bloc/League of Expellees and Deprived of Rights

External links

• Deutsch-Baltische Gesellschaft (in German)
• Deutschbaltischer Jugend- und Studentenring (in German)