German Argentines (in Spanish referred as germano argentinos) are made up of Argentines of German descent, as well as Germans who became Argentine citizens.
Please, note that ethnic Germans not only lived within the German borders of their time, but there were many communities of ethnic Germans living in other parts of Europe, especially before WWII. The German language and culture have traditionally been more important than the country of origin, as the basis of the ethnic and national consciousness of the Germans (Germany as a political entity was founded as late as 1871). Therefore, the political places from which these people or their ascendants emigrated to Argentina may vary. For example, Volga Germans arrived from the Russian Empire, most of Danube Swabians did it from the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Hungary, Romania, etc.), etc. Likewise, there are multi-ethnic European states such as Switzerland, which has a German Swiss population with their own German language, while French and Italian-speaking citizens inhabit other regions of the country, retaining their differences even today. Austrians, on the other hand, were historically regarded as ethnic Germans and viewed themselves as such. As can be seen, the large population of German ethnicity occupied an area of several present-day countries. Citizenship is the mere legal condition of belonging to one state or another, while nationality or ethnicity is related to anthropological and sociological aspects and thus has an extraterritorial character.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of some notable German Argentines. In it, German surnames abound. However, an amount several times this number is estimated for notable Argentines of partial German descent who do not have German surnames.
Academia
Hans Altglet (prominent architect) Marcella Althaus-Reid (professor of contextual theology and writer) (engineer, the first electronic engineer at the National University of Tucumán, Argentina, and the first woman professor in the field of Telecommunications Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain) (scientist) Carlos Berg (scientist) (historian) (scientist) (scientist) Emil Bose (scientist) Ludwig Brackebusch (scientist) (architect)
(sociologist, pedagogue and historian) Mario Bunge (scientist) (scientist) Hermann Burmeister (scientist) (engineer, architect) (mathematician) (scientist) (scientist) Carlos Fader (engineer, some Argentine schools honor his name) Gustavo Fester (scientist) (educator) Germán Frers (naval architect)
(philologist) Pablo Groeber (scientist) Johannes Franz Hartmann (astronomer) Gabriela Hässel de Menéndez (scientist)
Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (undertook the inventory of Argentine flora and fauna) (scientist) (scientist)
(scientist) (philosopher) Alejandro Korn (physician, philosopher and reformist) Otto Krause (engineer, founded the first Technical School in Argentina in 1899) (architect, he made the first extensive survey of all Spanish colonial architecture in Argentina) Franz Kühn (scientist) Oscar Kühnemann (scientist) Federico Kurtz (scientist) (philosopher, pro Native Americans activist) Paul Günther Lorentz (scientist) (economist) Ernesto Meyer (architect) (scientist, he discovered Tabebuia/Lapacho properties) (architect) (scientist) Anastasius Nordenholz (writer and scientist) (architect) Alberto Prebisch (architect) Raúl Prebisch (the most notorious economist of Latin America, he formed the basis of economic dependency theory with the Singer-Prebisch thesis) (engineer, architect, pioneer) Carlos Segers (astronomer) (linguistic scientist and educator) Friedrich Schickendantz (scientist) Walter Schiller (scientist) Otto Schneider (scientist) (scientist) Hans Schumacher (physicist and chemist) Felipe Schwarz (architect) (medicine woman) Carlos Segers (astronomer) (botanist) Otto Thomas Solbrig (biologist, botanist) Baldomero Sommer (founder of Sociedad Dermatológica Argentina) Alfred Wilhelm Stelzner (geologist) Adolph Strümpell (scientist) (botanist) Kurt Tank (scientist, he designed FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II in Argentina) Max Tepp (scientist) Wolfgang Volkheimer (scientist) Otto von Arnim (architect) Arturo von Seelstrang (engineer) Ricardo Wichmann (scientist) (scientist) (scientist)
Arts and literature
Roberto Arlt (short-story writer, novelist and playwright) Osvaldo Bayer (writer) Elsa Bornemann (one of the best writers of children's literature in Latin America) Silvina Bullrich (writer) Delfina Bunge (writer) (alias Fernán Félix de Amador, poet, art critic) Helmut Ditsch (Hyperrealism painter) Fernando Fader (painter) Jorge Fondebrider (writer, poet) (composer and musicologist) Elizabeth Eichhorn (artist) Michael Gielen (conductor and composer) (writer) (psychoanalyst, writer) Annemarie Heinrich (prominent photographer) Paola Kaufmann (writer) Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer (writer) María Cristina Kiehr (soprano) (art critic) Bertha Kösler Ilg (writer) Manfredo Kraemer (violinist) Francisco Kröpfl (composer, music theorist) (musicologist, conductor) Carlos Alberto Leumann (poet) (artist) Alan Pauls (writer) Guillermo Pfening (actor) Silvia Roederer (pianist) Eric Schierloh (writer) Carlos Schlieper (director) Luis Mario Schneider (writer, poet) Renate Schottelius (dancer, choreographer) Xul Solar (Oscar Schulz, painter) Sebastian Spreng (visual artist, music journalist) (soprano) Carlos Veerhoff (composer) (cartoonist) (artist) Otto von Klickx (writer) (writer) Rodolfo Zagert (painter, architect) Margarita Zimmermann (singer)
Business
Guillermo Bauer (manager, owner of the first steam-operated flour mill in Argentina) Carlos Miguens Bemberg (one of the Latin America's most Important Businessmen and descendant of the wealthy Bemberg family) Otto Bemberg (founder of the Brand of beer Quilmes, the biggest one in the country) Carlos Miguens Bemberg (one of the Latin America's most Important Businessmen and descendant of the wealthy Bemberg family) Francis Mallmann (one of the best Latin America's chefs, and prominent manager) (founder of Orbis Mertig) (founder of Laboratorios Roemmers, the most important Latin American Pharmaceutical Laboratory) Juan Rosauer (founder of Los Alamos de Rosauer SA) (founder of the brand of beer Schneider) Enrique Wollmann (former owner of the first export sugar exploitation company in Argentina run by his descendants)
Diplomacy
(ambassador) (ambassador) Luis María Kreckler (ambassador)
Entertainment
Facundo Arana (mother: von Bernard) (actor) (mother: von Lhose) (humorist) Christian Bach (actress and producer of telenovelas) María Luisa Bemberg (film writer, director and actress) (actor) Eduardo Bergara Leumann (actor) Betiana Blum (actress) Inés Braun (cinematographer) Cachorro López (Gerardo López von Linden) (record producer, musician, songwriter) Julio Chávez (surname: Hirsch) (actor) Sergio Denis (singer, songwriter) Pancho Dotto (mother: Melinger) (founder and owner of the most emblematic fashion model agency in Argentina) Arturo Goetz (actor) (actor) (former drummer of Catupecu Machu) (actor) Natalí Kessler (Big Brother, season 6) (actress) (drummer of Rata Blanca) Diego Olivera (mother: Walter) (actor) Gastón Pauls (actor, TV host) (Enrique Fischer, humourist, actor) Gerónimo Rauch (singer) Axel Reigenborn (Big Brother, season 7) Silvina Scheffler (Big Brother, season 4) Jazmín Schmidt (Big Brother, season 2) (former first singer of Árbol rock band) Sebastian Schneider (singer) (actor) Matías Schrank (Big Brother, season 8) (actor) René Strickler (actor) (actor) Silvia Süller (humorist) Erika Wallner (actress) Natalie Weber (actress) Alejandro Wiebe (TV host) (musician)
Fashion models
Annie Fink (model, actress) Carla Gebhart (model) Antonella Graef (model) (model, TV host) (mother: Hofer) (model) (Miss Argentina) Erika Mitdank (model) Geraldine Neumann (model) Karen Reichardt (model, actress) Julia Rohden (model) Nicole Neumann (model, TV host) (ex model, Miss Argentina, TV host) (model) Paulina Trotz (model)
Historical figures
(he was probably the first German who arrived to Argentina, as gunner during Magellan's expedition of 1520) Virginia Bolten (anarchist and feminist) Jorge Bunge (founder of Pinamar) Tamara Bunke (communist revolutionary) Richard Walther Darré (one of the ideologist of Blood and soil) Carlos Gesell (founder of the city of Villa Gesell, beach resort in Buenos Aires Province) (founder of Begolea, a town in Cordoba Province) (pioneer) Dietrich Meyer (he founded Sierra de La Ventana with German settlers) Gunther Plüschow (aviator, he was the first to explore and film Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by air; honoured as a hero by the Argentine air force to this day. His paternal grandfather was an illegitimate son of Frederick Louis, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin). Alberto Prebisch (architect, he designed the Obelisk of Buenos Aires among others) Federico Rauch (Argentine Army colonel in the early 19th century) Omar Alberto Rupp (the only Argentine crew member killed as a result of the bombing of the Argentine fishing trawler ARA Narwal by the British Sea Harriers from HMS Hermes on 9 May 1982, during Falklands War). Ulrich Schmidl (he was the chronicler of the first Foundation of Buenos Aires) Francisco Seeber (military officer, businessman and ex mayor of Buenos Aires) Ernesto Tornquist (prominent manager, he founded the Tornquist Bank and Tornquist city among many other contributions) (military leader) Teodoro Waldner (Argentine Air Force brigadier during Falklands War) Carlos Wiederhold (a pioneer, he founded the famous city of San Carlos de Bariloche in 1895) Kurt Gustav Wilckens (famous anarchist revolutionary)
Journalism
Jorge Bullrich (sports journalist) Alejandro Klappenbach (sport journalist) (journalist) (sport journalist) Sebastian Spreng (journalist)
Nobility
(German mother from Alsace) (countess) Fernando Fader (mother: viscountess Celia de Bonneval) Cecilia Kinsky von dem Busche-Haddenhausen (countess) Leonor Martínez de Hoz Stegmann (lady, she was of partial German descent and married German Baron Karl von dem Busche-Haddenhausen) Hans Ernst von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (baron) Matilde von dem Busche-Haddenhausen (princess, she married Ulrich, 10th Prince Kinsky of Wchinitz and Tettau) Mercedes von Dietrichstein (princess) Ena von Wenckheim (countess)
Politics
Luis Alberto Ammann (politician, writer) (socialist politician) Hermes Binner (political leader and ex-governor of Santa Fe Province) (ex-mayor of Bahía Blanca) Adolfo Bullrich (ex-mayor of Buenos Aires) Esteban Bullrich (politician) Patricia Bullrich (Minister of Security of Argentina) Maurice Closs (ex-governor of Misiones Province) Eduardo Fellner (ex-governor of Jujuy Province) Liliana Fellner (senator) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (mother: Wilhelm) (ex-president of Argentina) Gustavo Hein (politician) Néstor Kirchner (ex-president of Argentina) Daniel Kroneberger (politician) Lucila Lehmann (politician) (ex-governor of Santa Fe Province) Edelmiro Mayer (ex-governor of Santa Cruz Province) Rogelio Pfirter (ambassador) Alberto Prebisch (ex-mayor of Buenos Aires) Carlos Reutemann (former Formula One racing driver and politician) Cornelia Schmidt-Liermann (politician) Francisco Seeber (military officer, businessman and ex mayor of Buenos Aires) (politician, he denounced Human Rights violations during the last dictatorship) (ex-vice governor of Misiones Province) Ernesto Ueltschi (ex-governor of Mendoza Province) (military officer and ambassador) (politician)
Religion
Roman Catholic bishops
Víctor Ahrenhardt, bishop of Oberá Pedro Boxler, bishop emeritus of Gualeguaychú Luis Guillermo Eichhorn, bishop of Morón Ricardo Oscar Faifer, bishop of Goya