The legal status of the german minority in Czechoslovakia in the years 1918 - 1939

The thesis deals with the legal status of the national minorities in the territory of Czechoslovak Republic in the years 1918 - 1939 and especially focuses on the german minority, which was the largest and most important national minority in Czechoslovakia. Thesis contains the analysis of the relevant international treaties, national laws and judgments of the highest courts of Czechoslovakia, which determined the legal status of the members of national minorities. Its purpose is to reach to concrete conclusions based on critical analysis of the legal documents and form an objective view on the examined issue. The result of the research is particularly the conclusion, that although the Czechoslovak Republic provided to the members of the national minorities a relatively broad catalog of fundamental constitutional rights, these rights were not always consistently applied and were often inhibited by issuing of implementing regulations. Key words: Czechoslovakia - minority - Germans - right - statute - regulation - language - nationalit