After the end of the Second World War, around three million Sudeten Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia. In West Germany, they initially organized themselves into loose associations before the nationwide Sudeten German Landsmannschaft was founded at the end of 1950. One of the most influential organizations, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft zur Wahrung sudetendeutscher Interessen, signed the 1950 Wiesbaden Agreement with politicians from the Czech National Committee on 4 August 1950, in which they declared their intention to establish democratic conditions in Czechoslovakia and the return of the Sudeten Germans to their homeland.

The Czech side was represented by General Lev Prchala and Vladimir Pekelsky. Dr. Rudolf Lodgman von Auen, Dr. Richard Reitzner and Hans Schütz signed the Wiesbaden Agreement on behalf of the Sudeten Germans. A few years after the Second World War, the Wiesbaden Agreement was a hopeful approach to reconciliation between the German and Czech peoples.