Ukrainian Student Association in Germany

Ukrainian Student Association in Germany (Спілка студентів-українців у Німеччині; Spilka studentiv-ukraintsiv u Nimechchyni). The first Ukrainian student organization in Germany. Founded in 1921 and based in Berlin, it had 11 branches with approximately 180 members in 1923. In the following decade approximately 400 students were members of the association, of whom 140 completed their education. In the 1930s the association gradually dissolved.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]