German emigrants in the east

Table of Contents ● Vocabulary ● Timeline ● Catharina the Great ● Picture of Katharina II. ● Reasons to go to Russia ● Emigrants I ● Emigrants II ● I. and II. Worl War ● Return to Germany ● Emigrant to Germany ● Wilhelm Küchelbecker ● Today ● Sources

Vocabulary ● Settlements – some people who live in different houses together ● Empress – female ruler of the country ● Spread her reign - make her country bigger ● Significant contribution – important addition ● Craftsman- another word for a person who works with his hands ● Crimean war- a war in the Eurasian area

Timeline ● 1763: Catherine the Great began to colonize Russia ● : Frirst German emigrants came to Russia ● : Establishment of 104 German colonies ● : Crimean War, German colonists helped Russia to fight against Turkey. They made a significant contrubution to the economic deveploment of Russian Germans. ● 1874: Germans had to do their duty in the Russian army ● 1887: Russans wanted their country back and for themselves ● 1897: there were about 1 million emigrants ● : World War I ● : World War II

Catherine the Great ● born 1729 in Stettin ● Empress, duchess from Russia ● She was a young princess ● Came from Germany ● She wanted to spread her reign ● She called German immigrant worker to work for her in Russia ● She offered them religious freedom, free land and liberation from millitary service ● Died 17th november 1796 in Sankt Petersburg

Picture of Catherine the Great

The reasons to go to Russia ● They wanted to work ● They wanted to earn money for their families ● They wanted to have better lives

Emigrants I. ● There were millions of emigrants in Russia ● They were all German ● Worked for Catherine the Great as: ● Farmers and craftsmen ● Catherine wanted to colonize Russia ● They wanted to have better lives

Emigrants II. ● Problems: ● Language ● They forget their ● memories of the old way of ● life and started a new life ● Bad conditions

Word War I and II ● 1st August 1914 the first World War began ● Russia and Germany were enemies ● Some of the German people who lived in ● Russia had to fight in the war ● 22nd of June 1941 Nazi Germany attacked Russia (Soviet Union) ● The German people had to go Siberia because the Soviet people took revenge for the attack ● Men and women had to work in camps

Return to Germany ● After the end of the Soviet Union in 1991, the remigration began ● They sold their houses and cars ● They went back to Germany ●

Emigrants to Germany ● 1950 – 2000, 4.12 millions people came to Germany ● Reasons: ● National, political, economic reasons ● Some of them had families in Germany

Wilhelm Küchelbecker ● Born on 21st Juny 1797 in St. Petersburg ● Was a poet ● His works:“ The fate of Russian poets“ ● and was very famous ● His family was German ● Died on 23rd August 1846

Today ● Some of the Russian people go to Germany, for work and a new home

Sources ● Sources from the internet