Saxony

Lower Saxony

Saxony Anhalt

Hamburg Lower Saxony

They're counts from Saxony that one speaks Czech.

Or you'll invite his relations from Saxony here?

In East Frisia, in Lower Saxony, the East Frisian language has died out.

41. This strategy has cut xenophobic crime by 75 per cent in Saxony.

According to estimates there are about 60,000 Sorbs, two thirds of whom live in Saxony and one third in Brandenburg.

39. Mention should be made here of the work being done in Saxony by the special police group Soko Rex.

61. As regards broadcasting under public law in the Länder Saxony and Brandenburg, there are programmes in upper Sorbian and lower Sorbian.

Hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920 s fanned separatism in Bavaria, the Rhineland, and Saxony, because these remote areas thought that Germany s central bank and central government in Berlin were discriminating against them. The separatists were politically radical on the left in Saxony, and on the far right in Bavaria and the Rhineland.

This is a commission set up in 1991 by the Ministry of the Interior of Saxony to combat the extreme right and xenophobia.

(1) The people resident in this Land who are of Sorbian origin are part of the people of Saxony and enjoy the same rights.

64. In Germany the Frisians live in the north of the Land Schleswig Holstein and in the north west of the Land Lower Saxony.

Germany in the Land of Saxony Anhalt, the Deutsche Volksunion won 13.2 per cent of the votes and 16 seats in the regional elections

In the Land of Saxony Anhalt, for example, in 1997 public funds amounting to DM 1,619,223 were paid to the Regional Association of Jewish Communities.

A weekly half hour radio programme in German for Saxony with information on the Sorbs to be broadcast by a private broadcasting company is at present under consideration.

Today apos s settlement area includes Upper Lusatia in the north east of the free state of Saxony and Lower Lusatia in the south east of the Land Brandenburg.

25. The constitution of the Land Saxony Anhalt states The cultural independence and the political participation of ethnic minorities shall be protected by the Land and local governments. (art. 37, para. 1).

He visited the Free Hanseatic Cities of Bremen and Hamburg in the north, Berlin and Dresden (Saxony) in the east Stuttgart (Baden Württemberg) in the south and Frankfurt and Wiesbaden in the east central region of Hessen.

52. The Schools Act for the free state of Saxony of 3 July 1991 guarantees pupils the right to learn the Sorbian language and in some schools the Sorbian language is used in selected subjects in all grades.

As is the case in the prime minister apos s office in the free state of Saxony the Land Brandenburg has also established a special office for Sorbian matters which is attached to the ministry of science, research and culture.

This right is explicitly laid down in section 3 of the provisional Administrative Procedures Act for the free state of Saxony of 21 January 1993 and in section 23 of the Administrative Procedures Act for the Land Brandenburg of 26 February 1993.

59. On 19 October 1991, the free state of Saxony established, in agreement with the Land Brandenburg and the Federal Government, a foundation under public law called Stiftung für das Sorbische Volk (Foundation for the Sorbian People) which has its seat in Bautzen.

363. The children of the Sorbian minority in the German Sorbian region in Brandenburg (about 20,000 members) and Saxony (about 50,000) are taught Sorbian as their mother tongue, as a second language or as a foreign language, in Sorbian and other schools.

It should be explained, as regards this cooperation between Saxony and other Länder, that the unification process disrupted police services in the eastern Länder this is also why there were acts of violence without a rapid and effective reaction from the security forces.

170. Azad Kahn Fegir Ahmad, Noorol Hak Hakimi and Mohammed Nabie Schafie, Afghan asylum seekers, were allegedly beaten severely by some 12 police officers wearing masks and black suits, who had stormed their residential accommodations on 6 June 1995 in Leipzig, Saxony.

In the local government elections in Saxony and Brandenburg in the year 1994 as well as in by elections approximately 140 members of the Sorbian people were elected as candidates representing different political parties or Sorbian voters apos associations to county, city and local parliaments.

368. In addition to the establishment of private schools, it is possible in two Länder of the Federal Republic of Germany (Lower Saxony and North Rhine Westphalia) to run public schools as denominational schools if this is requested by a sufficiently large number of parents.

54. The rights of citizens of Sorbian ethnic origin, in particular with regard to promoting the Sorbian language and culture, are also guaranteed in the county regulations for the free state of Saxony of 19 July 1993 and in the local government regulations of 21 April 1993.

There is a Sorbian Superintendent apos s Office which takes care of the Sorbian Christians on behalf of the Protestant Lutheran Church of the Land Saxony and the Church of the lower Silesian Upper Lusatia in Görlitz in the Protestant Church of the Land Brandenburg there exists a working group, Sorbian service .