After the Second World War, around 1.2 million people from East Prussia, Pomerania, East Brandenburg, Silesia, Czechoslovakia and the former Central Germany were displaced to Hesse. In 1948, the expellees and refugees in Hesse came together in local interest groups and finally at state level. In 1950, the Hessian state parliament recognized the state association of displaced Germans as the sole official organization of displaced persons in Hesse.

The Verband der vereinigten Landsmannschaften in Hessen merged with the Landesverband in the early 1950s. At a meeting in Marburg on June 10, 1953, the Marburg Resolutions were announced, from which the General Association of Expellees emerged with the name Bund der Vertriebenen in Hessen. This created an organization that united the interests of 45 district associations and over 2,500 local associations.

In Wiesbaden, the two Hessian regional groups Landsmannschaft Schlesien (Lower and Upper Silesia) and Sudeten German Landsmannschaft have their offices in the Haus der Heimat at Friedrichstraße 35.