[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] GERMAN CITIZENSHIP MAINTAINED?

[Jerry Frank]

At 08:46 AM 29/01/2003 -0500, Ingrid Abram wrote:
>My mother-in-law said her father, Karl Heinrich Heinemann,
>born 1861 in Tuczin, Wolhynia, had citizenship from Leipzig
>which allowed his children to go to Germany after their
>Siberian excile.
>
>Have not been able to document this.  Is this true for others
>from Wolhynia?  Or is it possible he served in the German Army
>before his marriage?


I have heard stories about some people who moved from Prussian parts of 
Germany to Volhynia and then returning for a brief time to fulfill some 
form of military obligation.  However, I don't think that would apply to 
someone who was born in Volhynia.  He would be obligated to Russian 
military service, not German.  Not saying it couldn't have happened but I 
don't think it would be the norm.

Obviously Karl would not have had any rights by birth to citizenship in 
Leipzig.  However, Germans have often been very liberal about allowing 
their emigrants to return to the homeland.  As you probably know, in the 
post Glasnost era, Germans from Siberia and Kazahkstan were / are allowed 
to return if they can prove their German lineage, can speak the language, 
etc.  I don't know what stipulations may have been in place in your time 
frame (I am assuming pre WW I because of Karl's age) but, as long as he 
could get out of Russia, it was probably fairly easy to return to Germany.




Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
jkfrank at shaw.ca