Germany's Eastern Colonies

Monty Burns

DuQuense said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Germans_in_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosporus_Germans
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans_of_Hungary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans_of_Yugoslavia

While the Crimean Colony was the most successful, ?Can whe make it Successful enuff to take the entire Peninsular?, ?Can whe boost any of the Others?
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But your link says that only 60.000 Germans lived in Crimea among 1.1 million others? There once was an administrative division of the Volga Germans, so I'd say those were the most successful in Russia.

Take a POD at around 1700 and change the Hapsburg efforts to resettling Hungary after the Turkish wars. You could actually begin with depopulating the region even more during those wars. If Austrians provide more liberties for the settlers (particularly religious) and for some reasons impose restrictions which promote Germans or the German language (hard to make plausible in this pre-national era) you could come out with larger German minorities there and maybe even majorities in large parts of Southern Hungary. Add a Hungarian revolt to which the Austrians respond with resettling due to the Germans not participating in that revolt (which might be harder than it seems) and here you go.

Note, though, that many measures to make these German colonies more successul effectively are ethnic cleansing.
 

Boto von Ageduch

If I may put it in such general terms, the Germans in Eastern Europe never established an own political identity or structure. So if they would "take" more territory, this can only mean they become more numerous as IOTL and settle on a larger piece of land.

It is, however, quite plausible that in some spot and under some circumstances, the Germans would form a quite influential "elite" minority.
 
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