English Translation

46. The origin of the Sudetenland was awakened and promoted by the separation of the rest of Germany from the rest in 1866 and later, with the advance of formal democracy, led to an inorganic over-emphasis of the numerical relationship between the peoples and ethnic groups living in Austria alone, which had a central importance between Germans and Czechs in the Sudoten countries, is self-evident. In these conflicts, the German character of Üsterreichisch-Schlesien asserted itself; in Bohemia, the closed German settlement area, which bordered directly on the German Reich and the German Kronländer of the Austrian Reich half, became more and more known as the German Bohemian. While in Moravia between Germans and Czechs in 1905 a balance was achieved, which achieved a relative pacification until the end of the monarchy, such a balance in Bohemia failed mainly because the Czechs never wanted to take into account the fact of a closed German settlement area. one of the reasons on which in 1883 the suggestion of the leader of the Alttschechen, Rieger, failed to settle the matter, that the leader in Bohemia, Schmeykal, made the condition for such negotiations that the attempt of the Czechs to introduce the Czech official language in purely German circles must cease. In 1887, Prince Lobkowits, who was very close to the Czech national groups, inspired a cigene curia of the German towns and rural communities in his proposals for equalization negotiations and thus recognized a German settlement area. As for the punctuations agreed by the Germans with the Old Czechs but not carried out in 1890, the representatives of both nationalities agreed at that time that the judicial districts should be demarcated according to the wishes of the population and changed in such a way that perhaps only those of one and the same nationality belong to a judicial district, with the possibility of multiplying the district and district courts. The establishment of chambers of commerce and commerce in eastern Bohemia and the division of the allodial large-scale problem into several territorially demarcated electoral bodies also had the tendency to delimit and secure a German territory. In 1897, when the unfortunate Badeni language regulations finally gave rise to all approaches to an understanding, the Germans' sharpest struggle was against the fact that, in addition to the German, the Czech official language was also introduced in the internal service in the purely German offices and thus the passage of the German territories with Czech officials and their families.