Afro-Germans
Also known as Black Germans, Imperial Negroes
Afro-Germans () or Black Germans () are German citizens who have ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Afro-GermansAfrodeutsche
- Ethnic group.image
- Africans in Germany.png
- Ethnic group.population
- from 711 000 to over 1,000,000
- Ethnic group.popplace
- (Berlin, Cologne, Stuttgart, Bremen, Hanover, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Munich, Braunschweig, Nuremberg, Hamburg)
- Ethnic group.languages
- German, English, French, African languages
- Ethnic group.religions
- Islam, Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism
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- History
- African-German interaction from 1600 to late 1800s
- Africans and German interaction between 1884 and 1945
- Weimar Republic
- Nazi Germany
- Since 1945
- Immigration
- Racism and social status
- Afro-Germans in literature
- Afro-German political groups
- Initiative of Black People (''Initiative Schwarzer Deutscher'')
- Notable Afro-Germans in contemporary Germany
- Politics and social life
- Art, culture and music
- Film and television
- Sport
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Afro-Germans () or Black Germans () are German citizens who have ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
Cities such as Hamburg and Frankfurt, which were formerly centres of occupation forces following World War II and more recent immigration, have substantial Afro-German communities. With modern trade and migration, communities such as Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, and Cologne have an increasing number of Afro-Germans. The German census does not use race as a category. The number of persons "having an extended migrant background" (mit Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn, meaning having at least one grandparent born outside Germany), is reported as over 1,000,000. The Initiative Schwarzer Deutscher ("Black German Initiative") estimates the total of Germans with African ancestry to be over 1,000,000 persons.