The "Schwäbische Deutsche Kulturbund"
Swabian-German Cultural Society
 
by Hans Kopp

         As a primary goal and purpose, the Cultural Society sees the education, the development and preservation of the identity of the Yugoslavia Donauschwaben expanding the care of their culture and their German nationality and educational institution, such as schools.  However, the Cultural Society was not only, what the basic outline of its guidelines directed.  According to its concept, the Cultural Society was to pursue additional far perceived comprehensive tasks.  During these years the thought developed among the minds of certain German intellectual nationalities, that the development of a German people’s cultural community in the newly-formed Yugoslavian Kingdom should be created according to their ideas, without any political deviousness.  Hence, it was necessary to have an organization which could promote the German awareness more easily, and at the same time bring the Donauschwaben minority in Yugoslavia together to accomplish the task of their cultural, educational and economic endeavors.

          The constitution of the Cultural Society were approved on May 17th 1920 without any difficulties soon after of their presentation.  They were modeled and written after the constitution of the Sudeten-Germans and after the Serbian Cultural Association Prosveta, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, prior to the First World War.  

 
 

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