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Romanians in Germany
Distribution of Romanian citizens in Germany (2020)
Total population
965,000 with Romanian ancestry (2018)[1]
799,180 Romanian citizens (2020)[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 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 from 2016, the number of Romanian nationals in Germany on 31 December, 2015 was 452,718, which was up from 94,326 in 2008.[3] By the end of 2019, the number had increased to 748,225.[4]

History

Romanian embassy in Berlin
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.

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.[5]

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.[6]

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. 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.

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References

  1. ^ Bevölkerung mit Migrationshintergrund - Ergebnisse des Mikrozensus - Fachserie 1 Reihe 2.2 - 2018, Retrieved 13 December 2019.
  2. ^ "4 milioane de români, rezidenți în Italia, Marea Britanie, Spania și Germania. Statistica românilor stabiliți în alte state" [4 million Romanians, residents in Italy, Great Britain, Spain and Germany. The statistics of the Romanians established in other states]. G4Media (in Romanian). 2021-08-14. Archived from the original on 2021-08-14. Retrieved 2021-08-14.
  3. ^ "Ausländische Bevölkerung. Ergebnisse des Ausländerzentralregisters" (in German). Statistisches Bundesamt. 2016. p. 37. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  4. ^ "Ausländische Bevölkerung nach Altersgruppen und ausgewählten Staatsangehörigkeiten" (in German). Statistisches Bundesamt. 15 April 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2020.
  5. ^ 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 2019-04-20.
  6. ^ 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)
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