The thesis focuses on the image of Czechs in German caricatures. The image of Czechs is researched on caricatures through historical timeline consisting of milestones of Czech- German relationship. The first chapter focuses on Czech-German tension from times of Badeni's language ordinances to Ann's patents. Furthermore, the image of Czechs is investigated in period of Great War. The focus is primarily on the rise of independent Czechoslovakia because main hypothesis states that the image of Czechs was intensified after this event. The next researched time period is year 1933 as Nazi party took over. The last researched period is time period 1937-1939. The focus is on death of T. G. Masaryk. The thesis is complemented by Austrian caricatures which aim to extend the image of Czechs by Austrian view. The Austrian image of Czechs is then compared to German one. Analysis is made through image analysis of German and Austrian caricatures. The research is done on 35 historical caricatures and is supported by secondary literature. The caricatures were picked from major satirical-humoristic magazines such as Simplicissimus, Kladderadatsch, Fliegende Blätter, Kikeriki and Figaro.

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Liberale politische Veränderungen in der Habsburgermonarchie zu Ende der 1860er und Anfang der 1870er Jahre, gegeben durch die Dezember-Verfassung von 1867 und die folgende Schulgesetze schufen den notwendigen rechtlichen Rahmen für die Gründung deutscher und tschechischer Schulvereine, die durch den Bau der sogenannten "Minderheitenschulen" jeweils eine einsprachige nationale Schulbildung in Böhmen durchsetzten. Bald wurden lokale Organisationen von den zentralen Schulvereinen abgelöst, nämlich dem Deutschen Schulverein und der Ústřední Matice Školská in Prag. Beide Organisationen wurden 1880 gegründet, um Schulen in sprachlich und damit national umkämpften Regionen entlang der sogenannten "Sprachgrenze" zu errichten. Diese Studie behandelt die Dynamik des nationalen Wettbewerbs um die Schulbildung vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg und vergleicht die Aktivitäten dieser beiden Vereine vor dem Hintergrund der politischen Demokratisierung, Massenmobilisierung und sozialen Frage der Fin de Siècle-Zeit. Die vergleichende Analyse von Proklamationen, Aktivitäten und politischen Kontakten der konkurrierenden nationalen Schulvereine zielt darauf ab, Thesen über die Position und Bedeutung dieser Organisationen zu revidieren und ihre sehr enge Abhängigkeit von sozialen und politischen Prozessen der...

The Policy of the German Minority in the Interwar Czechoslovakia on the Example of German Social Democratic Workers Party in Brno Abstract of Diploma Thesis The diploma thesis deals with the politics of the German minority at municipal level in the first years after the Czechoslovak Republic was established. The relations between Czech and German political representation in the years 1918 to 1924 are described by the example of the German Social Democratic Workers Party in Brno. The case study is based on the analysis of contemporary press, especially the party journals of the German Social Democracy, and archival documents from the sessions of the local municipal government. The introduction describes the reactions of German politicians to the loss of the privileged position in the city after the break-up of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy. The first municipal elections after World War I represented a turning point in the politics of the Germans in Brno. They rejected the requirement of joining Moravian capital Brno to Austria and started to be interested in their own representation in the municipal government, and thus participation in the Czechoslovak political system. The next part of the thesis follows up the development of the relationships of the German Social Democrats towards other Czech and German...

Die tschechisch-deutschen Beziehungen wurden nach den vielversprechenden Gesten der Versöhnung, die der tschechoslowakische Präsident Václav Havel unmittelbar nach seinem Amtsantritt Ende 1989 den sudetendeutschen Vertriebenen entgegenbrachte, schnell von ihrer konfliktreichen Nachbarschaftsgeschichte eingeholt. Eine der wesentlichen Aufgaben der Prager Außenpolitik der neunziger Jahre - insbesondere im Lichte des angestrebten EU-Beitritts - war daher die Klärung der offenen rechtlichen, moralischen und politischen Fragen, die seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges zwischen Tschechen und Deutschen unbeantwortet geblieben waren. Erst 1997, mit der tschechisch-deutschen Deklaration, sollte es gelingen, einen Schlußstrich unter die virulentesten Fragen zu ziehen, um damit ein von Rechtsansprüchen ungestörtes Verhältnis zwischen beiden Ländern zu ermöglichen. Wie dieser Erfolg tschechischer Außenpolitik herbeigeführt werden konnte, welche innen- und außenpolitischen Hürden im Laufe dieses Annäherungsprozesses genommen werden mußten und welche Faktoren schließlich ausschlaggebend wurden, sind die Fragen, die in dieser Arbeit beantwortet werden. Ausgehend von vergleichbaren Versöhnungsprozessen der jüngeren Geschichte und den spezifischen Transformationsbedingungen wird in dieser Arbeit die These geprüft, inwieweit politische Akteure generell eine initiatorische Rolle in der Versöhnungspolitik übernehmen und diese durch ihre politisch-moralischen Überzeugungen nachhaltig prägen. Zugespitzt wird die Frage gestellt, ob nun die dissidentisch geprägte Elite der Anfangsphase oder die pragmatische Funktionselite, die Mitte der neunziger Jahre die Außenpolitik Tschechiens bestimmte, dem deutsch-tschechischen Verhältnis zum Durchbruch verhalf. / The book traces the rapprochement policy of the Czecho-Slowak Republic respective Czech Republic towards its German neighbour during the 90s of the 20th century. The promising gestures of reconciliation by the freshly appointed President Václav Havel towards the formerly expelled Sudeten Germans were not answered. More over, Czech-German relations became trapped by their difficult common history already at the beginning of 1990. Thus, one of the main tasks of Prague foreign policy was to settle the open juridical, moral and political questions that date back to the World War II and to which an answer was not found during the Cold War. Only in 1997, the Czech-German Declaration succeeded in settling the most urgent political and juridical problems. The declaration opened up the possibility for a dialogue between Czech and Germans beyond the fear of mutual claims arising from the dreadful past. How is this successful rapprochement policy to be explained? What kind of domestic and international conditions have fostered these process? Which factors are most powerful in accounting for this fortunate reconciliation politics? These are the questions, the book aims to answer. Examples from the past as well the specific context of the transition from authoritarian to democratic rule suggest, that political actors and their belief systems have an great impact on processes of reconciliation. Therefore the question is posed, whether the former dissidents, i.e. the political elite of the early 90s, or the later pragmatic elite are the main actors in Czech reconciliation policy.

The thesis Political Programmes of the Czech Representation in the Second Halve of the 19th Century focuses on both programme documents and actual work of Czech political parties, whether more or less institutionalized, between the years 1848 (March Revolution) and 1918 (the downfall of Austria-Hungary). At first it summarizes the historical development in the respective period (Chapter 1), next, it analyses programmes of political parties in three broadly defined topics: 1) Organisation of the empire, question of the Czech State Right (Chapter 2); 2) Constitutionalism, civil rights and role of a citizen (Chapter 3) and 3) National matters (Chapter 4). The attitudes about each of these areas of the following political parties are defined: Bohemian nobility, National Party (till 1874) or Old Czechs (since then), Young Czechs, Social Democrats, Agrarians, Catholic parties, National Socialists, Progress parties and parties of the Radical State Right, Realists and Anarchists. For the conclusion, the author of the thesis attempts to characterise and evaluating the Czech political representation, as well as its importance for the development since 1918.

The subject of this dissertation thesis is investigating the issue of the German ethnic group status in inter-war Czechoslovakia shown in the example of the Nejdek political district with the emphasis on the major and crucial aspects of social life - politics, economic and social issues while the assistance and support elements include: demographics, border issues, the presence of the Czech ethnic group, a preview of own (German) history and the development of churches and religion. The Nejdek political district is set within a framework of regional history with regard to the historical context of the development of Czechoslovakia, or even of the world in some cases. The regional history presented here in the form of a probe from the perspective of great historical events and partly through micro-history aim to build on the broad source base and capture the impacts and effects of national policies on shaping of the Nejdek region and its inhabitants. In some ways, when possible of course, research methods are applied. Overall, the work is to fill the so-called white gaps in the regional historiography, since the books or studies published so far have been focusing only on partial, closely regionally defined topics and only comprehensive work, which the author of this paper attempts, could therefore...