Romanians in Germany

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. 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. Most of the Romanians in Germany belong to German ethnic communities, such us Transylvanian Saxons and Banat Swabians.

History

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.

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.

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. By 2022, the number had increased to 883,670 Romanian citizens. +Numbers of Romanians in larger cities # City People 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+Distribution of Romanian citizens by federal state (as of 2022):Federal stateNumberBayern 209,865Baden-Württemberg 178,240Nordrhein-Westfalen 164,220Hessen 82,010Niedersachsen 74,805Rheinland-Pfalz 48,975Berlin 27,990Schleswig-Holstein 20,210Sachsen 15,120Thüringen 13,475Sachsen-Anhalt 10,740Saarland 9,870Hamburg 9,790Brandenburg 8,730Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 5,570Bremen 4,060

Notable people

Art , painter Adrian Ghenie, painter Petre Hârtopeanu (1913–2001), painter Diet Sayler, painter and sculptor George Ștefănescu (1914–2007), painter

Entertainment , actor, comedian Mircea Crișan (1924–2013), actor, comedian Maria Drăguș, actress Marc Dumitru, actor and musician Alexandra Maria Lara, actress , film producer Florian Munteanu, actor, best known for his role as Viktor Drago in the drama film Creed II Călin Netzer, film director , dancer and former judge for the reality television show Deutschland sucht den Superstar Anny Ogrezeanu, singer, winner of The Voice of Germany in 2022. Lupu Pick (1886–1931) film director, producer and screenwriter (Romanian mother) , actress , actress Sabin Tambrea, actor Ana Ularu, actress Johanna Wokalek, actress

Music , hip hop producer, member of the production duo Soulbrotha , producer and rapper (Romanian mother) , rapper, best known for his association with Kool Savas Sergiu Celibidache (1912–1996), conductor and composer Roger Cicero (1970–2016), jazz and pop musician Michael Cretu, music producer, songwriter and founder of Enigma Damae, singer, former vocalist of trance group Fragma (Romanian mother) , hip hop producer , singer and composer (Romanian mother) Peter Herbolzheimer (1935–2010), jazz trombonist and composer Nicolae Herlea (1927–2014), baritone , jazz saxophonist Ramona Nerra, singer and songwriter Miss Platnum, singer and songwriter Michael Radulescu, composer , cellist , singer and songwriter

Politics Joana Cotar, member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Markus Frohnmaier, member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Nicolaus Handjery, conservative politician, member of the Reichstag of the German Empire Ramona Pop, member of the Alliance '90/The Greens Octavian Ursu, member of the Christian Democratic Union

Sports Karim Adeyemi, footballer (Romanian mother) Michael Andrei, volleyball player Alina Astafei, track and field athlete Francis Bugri, footballer (Romanian mother) , basketball coach, who discovered German NBA player Dennis Schröder Călin Colesnic, former managing director of the Hispania Racing F1 Team Nicolae Firoiu, water polo coach Ralph Gunesch, footballer Andreas Ivan, footballer Petre Ivănescu, handball coach Simone Laudehr, football player (Romanian mother) Mihai Leu, professional boxer Elena Leonte, handball player Stelian Moculescu, volleyball coach Maximilian Nicu, footballer Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu, chess grandmaster , handballer Gerhard Poschner, footballer Josef Posipal, footballer, member of Germany's 1954 FIFA World Cup winning team , professional boxer and IBF European Middleweight Champion Marcel Răducanu, footballer Dennis Seimen, footballer Albert Streit, footballer Romy Tarangul, judoka Monica Theodorescu, equestrian Andreas Toba, artistic gymnast Alexandra Wenk, swimmer (Romanian mother) Luminita Zaituc, long-distance runner Tom Bischof, footballer (of Banat Swabian descent) Christopher Lannert, footballer Eric Porstner, footballer

Other Cornel Chiriac (1941–1975), journalist, radio producer and jazz drummer Ricarda Ciontoș, curator and production manager Ruxandra Constantinescu, biophysicist Eugen Coșeriu (1921–2002), linguist Miriam Davoudvandi, music journalist Pavel Fyodorovich Keller (1883–1980), officer of the Imperial Russian Navy (submariner, Captain 1st rank) and of the Romanian Land Forces(intelligence colonel) Georg Maurer (1907–1971), poet Paul Miron (1926–2008), linguist. The first professor of Romanian language and literature in West Germany Vlad Mugur (1927–2001), theater director Ion Petrovici, neurologist , writer Nicolaus Sombart (1923–2008), sociologist Catalin Voss, entrepreneur

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