STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 270, sig. 109-4/12

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14 - 16 Sprachinsel existing dcutache folkdom virteshac.lisl and social raising, to generously promote the industrial economy, to extort agriculture and to help the German workers to adequate jobs and wages. With the economic improvement of the conditions with the Jglau Germans also those at present become. In this context, the Council of State of Jglau has decided to extend the scope of the European Union's cooperation in the field of justice and home affairs to cover all aspects of the Community's relations with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In the 22 municipalities (without the city of dglau), which belong to the Moravian part of the Jglauer Sprachinsel, were counted altogether among German inhabitants: 1880: 6011 inhabitants 1890 5943 11 1910: 5634 n 1920: 4261 " 1930: 3971 11 The Czech population increased in the same time from 993 to 2077, losses which the German population subsequently suffered are quite considerable. It would be worth noting how much, in addition to the losses of the population, is the loss that German land ownership has experienced, how many German farms have entered, to what extent Czech land has acquired, how much non-farmers have taken possession of land in the last decades, etc. This factual material should be procured quite soon, so that the necessary conclusions can be drawn for the future German settlement policy in the language island. In the territory south of the language island, which is to be declared as a German area of interest, the work of the people will first have to focus on the places Datschitz, Jamnitz, Teltsch and Triesch, the population numbers of these.