WHO ARE THE DANUBE SWABIANS?
(From the book The History of the Danube Swabians by Hans Kopp) and from ……. * Dennis Bauer Genealogist for the New Jersey German club. The Danube Swabians are the descendants of those German colonists, who settled during the three Great Swabian Migrations in Hungary. The colonization was done by explicit invitation of the Hungarian Landlords, during the reign of the Habsburgs as Kings of Hungary and Emperors of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, to repopulate the land after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire by a contingency of German-Austrian allied forces (1683-1718). They became first known as the Ungarlaendische Deutschen (German-Hungarians). After the dismantling of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire at the end of WWI by the allied Nations, the regions the Germans had settled in Hungary were divided among three nations, Hungary, Romania and the newly created Yugoslavia, thus making the collective name Ungarlaendische Deutschen for the Germans no longer valid. * (EDITORS NOT
