Romanians in Germany

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Romanians in Germany
Românii din Germania
Rumänen in Deutschland
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
Dialects
Religion
Predominantly † Eastern Orthodox Christianity
(Romanian Orthodox Church),
also Atheist, 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 1989, there has been a mass migration of Transylvania Saxons to Germany, approximately half a million of them immigrated to Germany. [5]

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
#CityPeople
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]

Notable people

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References

  1. 1 2 "Bevölkerung mit Migrationshintergrund".
  2. 1 2 3 "Ausländische Bevölkerung nach Altersgruppen und ausgewählten Staatsangehörigkeiten".
  3. ↑ Koranyi, James (16 December 2021). Migrating Memories: Romanian Germans in Modern Europe. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-316-51777-2 . Retrieved 1 March 2024– via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Porumbescu, Alexandra (2015). "Historical Landmarks of the Romanian's Migration to Germany" (PDF). Journal of Humanities, Culture and Social Sciences. 1 (1): 27–40. ISSN   2393-5960. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 April 2019.
  5. ↑ Martínez, Pascual; Sáez, Vincent (2019). The Saxons of Transylvania. Overlapse. ISBN   978-1-99944-683-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "Ausländische Bevölkerung. Ergebnisse des Ausländerzentralregisters" (in German). Statistisches Bundesamt. 2016. p. 37. Retrieved 29 October 2016.
  7. ↑ "Statistici români și românce în Germania și Rin-Main".
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