Romanians in Germany

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Romanians in Germany
Romanian population relative to total Romanian population in Germany 2021.svg
Distribution of Romanian citizens in Germany (2021)
Total population
1,096,000 with Romanian ancestry (2022) [1]
883,670 Romanian citizens (2022) [2]
Regions with significant populations
Berlin  · Munich  · Frankfurt  · Hamburg  · Rhein-Ruhr  · Nuremberg  · Stuttgart  · Bremen  · Düsseldorf
Languages
Romanian   German
Religion
Predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christianity
(Romanian Orthodox Church),
also Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic, Protestant

Romanians in Germany are one of the sizable communities of the Romanian diaspora in Western Europe. According to German statistics, in 2022, the number of Romanian citizens in Germany was 883,670. [2] The number of people with Romanian ancestry in 2022 (defined as all persons who migrated to the present area of the Federal Republic of Germany after 1949, plus all foreign nationals born in Germany and all persons born in Germany as German nationals with at least one parent who migrated to Germany or was born in Germany as a foreign national) was 1,096,000. [1]

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History

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Romanian embassy in Berlin
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Romanian general consulate in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia

Emigration to Germany from Romania was common throughout the 20th century, and continued steadily way into the early 21st century. Large numbers of ethnic Germans of Romania (most notably Transylvanian Saxons and Banat Swabians) left the country prior, during, and after the events that ultimately led to World War II. [3]

In the times of the communist regime in Romania, albeit the borders were officially closed by authorities, significant numbers of Romanian-Germans were allowed to emigrate to West Germany, particularly in the later years of the Ceaușescu era. This formed part of a series of ethnic migrations (including Jews to Israel and Hungarians to Hungary), which were tolerated under the then socialist rulership. During the 1980s, more than half of the people who left Romania went to Germany. [4]

After the Romanian Revolution which took place in December of 1989, there has been a mass migration of Transylvania Saxons to Germany, approximately half a million of them immigrated to Germany. [5]

Emigration of ethnic Romanians to Germany become quite common in the 21st century, particularly after the entry of Romania in the European Union in 2007.[ citation needed ] The Romanian diaspora in Germany has a strong presence. If descent is actually taken into account as the main criterion of immigration, then the total number of individuals living in Germany who stem from Romania (both Romanian-German and Romanian) may amount to as much as 2,000,000 residents, therefore putting the Romanian diaspora living in this country the largest of all Romanian ones living within the European Union.

Distribution

According to German statistics from 2016, the number of Romanian citizens in Germany on 31 December 2015 was 452,718, which was up from 94,326 in 2008. [6] By 2022, the number had increased to 883,670 Romanian citizens. [2]

Number of Romanians in larger cities
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1. Berlin 24,264
2. Munich 18,845
3. Nuremberg 14,903
4. Frankfurt 10,451
5. Hamburg 10,010
6. Duisburg 8,853
7. Augsburg 7,242
8. Karlsruhe 6,269
9. Stuttgart 6,121
10. Mannheim 5,763
11. Offenbach 5,471
12. Cologne 4,841
13. Düsseldorf 4,756
14. Essen 4,652
15. Dortmund 4,567
16. Bremen 4,243
17. Gelsenkirchen 4,216
18. Leipzig 4,161
19. Wiesbaden 3,265
20. Hanover 3,135

The distribution of Romanian citizens by German states is as follows (as of 2022): [7]

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