德意志东进运动是一场自12世纪起由教俗贵族组织的、向易北河以东斯拉夫地区拓殖移民的活动。期间,在西斯拉夫乡村的拓荒移民依地区差异分为两种不同的形式:紧邻德意志边境的各公国和地区多以委托土地承租人直接吸引德意志移民迁入的方式,给予移民自由的法律地位、自治的村社地位以及减免租金等优惠政策;而在远离德意志边境的波兰、匈牙利等地则以引入“德意志法”来组织和管理各公国内部的移民活动。方式迥异但实质相近的移民活动改变了近现代中欧和东欧的政治经济格局。
"Drang nach Osten"is a movement which leaded by Kings ,dukes and aristocracys from 12th century to 14th centu-ry in the area in the east of the Elbe .There are two ways that was taken in the Slavic rural colonization and immration move-ment.All countries that closed to German Kindom generally granted the privileges to Locators for recruiting and attracting the German immigrants directly .Immigrants would be granted the legal status of freedom , status of autonomic villages , rent relief and other incentives;Poland, Hungary and other countries which was far away from German managed to organize the domestic colonization and immigration by following exmple of "German Law".The movement finally affected and changed the political and economic structure of modern Central and Eastern Europe .