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1941 Romanian census
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1941 census held in Romania
May 2022
1941 Romanian census Romania 1941 1930 1942 National Institute of Statistics
The 1941 Romanian census (ro Recensământul General al României din 1941) was conducted on 6 April 1941 in all territories still remaining in the Kingdom of Romania, following the loss of land to Hungary (Northern Transylvania), Bulgaria (Southern Dobruja), and the Soviet Union (Bessarabia, Hertsa, and Northern Bukovina).Enciclopedia de istorie a României Editura Meronia 2002 358 ro Recensămintele României: 1899–1992 After the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, Romania retook control of its lands that the Soviet Union had invaded, in which it conducted the census separately in the autumn of 1941. Later, Romania also annexed the Transnistria Governorate, finishing the census by conducting it there in December 1941.Publikationstelle Wien, Die Bevölkerungzählung in Rumänien, 1941, Vienna, 1943 (in German)Golopenția Anton https://books.google.com/books?id=fybaAAAAMAAJ Românii de la est de Bug Editura Enciclopedică 2006 9789734505470 Bucharest ro Romanians from the east of Bug Google BooksFondul Conferința de Pace de la Paris Arhivele MAE 1946 125 Paris 472 ro Paris Peace Conference Holdings
The census-taking process was overseen by Friedrich Burgdörfer de Friedrich Burgdörfer, the chairman of the Bavarian Statistical Office of Nazi Germany. After a six-day trip across multi-ethnic Romanian regions, he reported to Sabin Manuilă and Ion Antonescu (then the leader of Romania), praising the methods of the census and predicting that it would offer an accurate count.Fahlbusch Haar https://books.google.com/books?id=vBYW0uYved8C&pg=PA145 German Scholars and Ethnic Cleansing, 1919-1945 2005 Berghahn Books 978-1-57181-435-7 145 en Google Books Hungarian statistician Varga E. Árpád hu Varga E. Árpád has stated that the data, specifically with reference to ethnic Hungarians in Southern Transylvania, is quite correct.Árpád Varga E. 1998 Orbell Rachel Translated by Tamás Sályi Hungarians in Transylvania between 1870 and 1995 http://www.kia.hu/konyvtar/erdely/erdang.pdf Magyar Kisebbség hu Magyar Kisebbség (folyóirat) 4 Budapest Teleki László Foundation 3 4 331-407 20 May 2022 The 1941 Romanian census data with respect to Hungarians in South Transylvania are quite correct, since most ethnic groups whose identity was debated were found north of the border and were thus recorded by the Hungarian census. The Cultural Innovation Foundation's Library Despite this, several other Hungarian ethnographers and demographers continue to dispute the numbers found by the census.Davis R. Chris https://books.google.com/books?id=Hvh7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA184 Hungarian Religion, Romanian Blood: A Minority's Struggle for National Belonging, 1920–1945 2019-01-08 University of Wisconsin Press 978-0-299-31640-2 184–185 en Google Books The provisional results of the census were first publicly released in 1944 by the National Institute of Statistics.
Notably, it was the first Romanian census to include ethnic origin as a separate category. The census, on Manuilă's direction, also included a special section cataloguing all Jewish-owned property, a summary of which was sent to the German Main Security Office.Wedekind Michael 2010 The Mathematization of the Human Being. Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Romania in the Late 1930s and Early 1940s New Zealand Slavonic Journal 44 62
Results
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The ethnic structure of Romania, in its April 1941 borders, was as follows:Stanescu Iulian May 2018 General aspects regarding the quality of life in Romania during 1940-1947 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330760893 Economic Scientific Research - Theoretical, Empirical and Practical Approaches Bucharest ESPERA ResearchGate
EthnicityPercentageNumberRomanians87.38%11,827,110Germans4.01%542,325Hungarians3.01%407,188Jews2.23%302,090Others3.38%457,044Total100%13,535,757
The ethnic structure of Romania, in its December 1941 borders, was as follows:
EthnicityPercentageNumberRomanians73.31%13,987,494Germans3.53%674,307Hungarians2.13%407,188Jews2.01%384,397Others19.01%3,626,821Total100%19,080,207
The ethnic structure of the Transnistria Governorate, which was the last territory Romania annexed in which this census was undertaken in December 1941, was as follows:
EthnicityNumber%% of Rural% of UrbanUkrainians/Ruthenians1,775,27376.379.957.4Romanians197,6858.49.34.4Russians150,8426.52.427.9Germans(including Black Sea Germans)126,4645.45.92.7Bulgarians27,6381.21.11.4Jews21,8520.90.72.0Poles13,9690.60.32.3Lipovans968 - -0.1Tatars900 - -0.1Others10,6280.510.21.7Total2,326,2241001,956,557369,669
See also
Demographic history of Romania
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