Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft

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The CoA of the Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft and herewith of the movement of Sudeten Germans in Germany (designed and approved in July 1950, West Germany )

Sudetendeutsche Landsmannschaft is an organization formed in January 1950 by German refugees. Most of them fled to Western Germany during the expulsions from Czechoslovakia after World War II; the "Sudetendeutschen" belonged to the Sudetenland in Bohemia, where they had settled during the Austro-Hungarian times before Hitler occupied the region in 1938.

The charter was signed in Stuttgart in 1950 and committed the organization to the renouncing of revenge and retaliation and promoting European accord. The organization tried to slow down the membership of today's Czech Republic in the European Union by demanding a complete revocation of the so called "Benes decrees" which established the official driving out of Germans from Czechoslovakia after the war. The organization does not exclude Neonazis from membership. Its present chairman is Bernd Posselt.

The German government has stated it will not attempt to acquire Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia, and most of today's members have no ties to the region, joining for political reasons, giving the organization little hope of reacquiring the region in any way, shape or form. Moreover, the vast majority of contemporary residents are Czech.