Population
The Free City's population rose from 357,000 (1919) to 408,000 in 1929, according to the official census 95% of whom were Germans, with the rest mainly either Kashubians or Poles. According to E. Cieślak the population registers of the Free City show that in 1929 the Polish population at over thirty five thousand or 9.5% of the population
Henryk Stępniak estimates the Polish population up to around 22,000, or around 6% of the population, increasing to around 13% in the 1930s. Based on the assumed voting patterns (according to Stępniak many Poles voted for the catholic Zentrumspartei instead of Polish parties) Stępniak estimates the number of Poles in the city to be 25-30% of Catholics living within it or about 30-36 thousand people Including around 4,000 Polish nationals who were registered in the city, Stępniak's estimate of Polish population rises to 9.4-11% of population. In contrast Stefan Samerski estimates about 10 percent of the 130,000 Catholics were Polish.
The Treaty of Versailles, which had separated Danzig and surrounding villages from Germany, now required that the newly formed state had its own citizenship, based on residency. German inhabitants lost their German Citizenship with the creation of the Free City, but were given the right to re-obtain it within the first two years of the state's existence; however, if they did so they were required to leave their property and make their residence outside of the Free State of Danzig area in the remaining part of Germany.
| Nationality | German | German and Polish |
Polish, Kashub, Masurian |
Russian, Ukrainian |
Hebrew, Yiddish |
Unclassified | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danzig | 327,827 | 1,108 | 6,788 | 99 | 22 | 77 | 335,921 |
| Non-Danzig | 20,666 | 521 | 5,239 | 2,529 | 580 | 1,274 | 30,809 |
| Total | 348,493 | 1,629 | 12,027 | 2,628 | 602 | 1,351 | 366,730 |
| Percent | 95.03% | 0.44% | 3.28% | 0.72% | 0.16% | 0.37% | 100.00% |
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