Liderzy mniejszości niemieckiej na Pomorzu Gdańskim po 1989 roku

The article presents the analysis of selected aspects of the activity of the German minority, i.e. the socio-demographic structure of the German minority associations in areas of northern Poland after 1989 and national-ethnic autoidentification of its leaders. So far, the German minority in the Gdańsk Pomerania was treated as a background or supplement of analyses concerning the associations operating in other regions of Poland. By contrast, in this article the German minority in northern Poland is the subject of the research. On the basis of results obtained in in-depth sociological studies, the author describes the preset state and functioning of the German minority in the Gdańsk Pomerania. Thereby, she fills the gap in the previous analyses related to positions occupied by people of German descent.