Technical college in Brno /Bruenn, 31 certificates of a Jewish man Henryk Steuer, 1927-1930, Czech and German
Ceska vysoka skola Technicka v Brne. (Czech Technical University in Brno).
Deutsche Technische Hochschule in Bruenn. (German Technical University in Bruenn).
Size: 34 x 21 cm. (13.3 x 8.2 inches)
Some small damages.
Brno Czech: [ˈbr̩no] German: Bruenn is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.
Around 1900 Brno, which consisted in administrative terms only of the central city area until 1918, had a predominantly German-speaking population (63%), as opposed to the suburbs, which were predominantly Czech-speaking.[33] Life in the city was therefore bilingual, and what was called in German "Brünnerisch" was a mixed idiom containing elements from both languages.[33]
In 1919, after World War I, two neighbouring towns, Královo Pole and Husovice, and 21 other municipalities were annexed to Brno, creating Greater Brno (Czech: Velké Brno). This was done to dilute the German-speaking majority of close to 55,000[34] by the addition of the Czech communities of the city's neighborhood. Included in the German-speaking group were almost all of the 12,000 Jewish inhabitants, including several of the city's better known personalities, who made a substantial contribution to the city's cultural life.[34] Greater Brno was almost seven times larger, with a population of about 222,000 – before that Brno had about 130,000 inhabitants.[dubious – discuss][35][36][37]
In 1921 Brno became the capital of the Land of Moravia (Czech: zemÄ› Moravská). Seven years later, Brno became the capital of the Land of Moravia-Silesia (Czech: zemÄ› Moravskoslezská).
In 1930, 200,000 inhabitants declared themselves to be of Czech, and some 52,000 of German nationality, in both cases including the respective Jewish citizens.