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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.

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.

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

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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

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