Baltische Historische Kommission ('Baltic Historical Commission'; abbreviated BHK) is an organization which deals with history related to
Baltic Germans
Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly declin ...
/Germany and
Baltic states. BHK is located in
Göttingen
Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911.
General information
The ori ...
, Germany. Since 2007, BHK's chairman is
Matthias Thumser.
BHK was established in 1951 in Göttingen.
BHK publishes several publications.
BHK organizes ''Baltischen Historikertreffen'' ('Baltic Historians Meetings').
As of 2020, BHK has about 100 full and 30 corresponding members.
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Baltic-German people
Organisations based in Germany
Education in Göttingen
1951 establishments in Germany