Indians in Germany

The community of Indians in Germany includes the expatriate Indian nationals in Germany as well as German citizens of Indian origin or descent.

In early 2000, there were nearly 40,000 persons of Indian origin who possessed German citizenship, and as many Indian citizens who live in Germany. The total of about 80,000 Indians are mostly Hindus, Jains and Sikhs, but there are also atheist, Christian and Muslim groups. You speak as a native language of many languages ​​in India, as well as many master the English and the German language.

According to the Federal Statistical Office lived 2010 45.638 Indians in Germany (NRW, 10,320; Bavaria, 6954, Hesse, 6581; Baden- Württemberg, 6508; Hamburg, 2802; Berlin, 2772; Lower Saxony, 2096; Saxony, 1677; Rhineland -Palatinate, 1541, Saxony- Anhalt, 782; Schleswig -Holstein, 730; Bremen, 656; Brandenburg, 623; Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, 539; Saarland, 531; Thuringia, 526).

History

In the 1950s and 1960s, many Indian men came to study in Germany, most of them in engineering. Some of them returned to India, most of them remained in Germany to work. In the late 1960s, many malayalische Catholic women from Kerala were brought by the German Catholic institutions in Germany. They worked mostly as nurses in hospitals.

Beginning of the new millennium was introduced by the former coalition government, the German Green Card for IT specialists that brought about 20,000 Indians in Germany, especially men. According to a statistic created in 2001 the proportion of women was 7.8 percent. As a rule, in this way, having come to Indians have little knowledge of German and communication with colleagues usually takes place in English. In the political debate about the introduction of the Green Card the buzzword children instead of Indians who returned to campaign statements by the then North Rhine-Westphalian CDU regional chiefs Jürgen Rüttgers was that said that promotion of the German junior in the IT sector to recruiting professionals would be preferable from abroad. The slogan has been widely criticized as xenophobic and later used only by extreme right-wing parties.

Today, many Indians in Germany are freelance, for example, as doctors, engineers, professors or software developers. More people are often employed in the service sector, especially in restaurants.

Three Indians were living in Germany, previously awarded the highest Indian government award for achievement abroad, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman. These are the poets Alokeranjan Dasgupta ( 2005), which was until 1994 a visiting professor at the South Asia Institute of Heidelberg University, Shri Sibabrata Roy (2007), President of the German - Indian Society in Hamburg, and Professor Victor Shahed Smetacek (2012 ) by Alfred Wegener Institute.

Well-known German - Indian

  • Sandeep Bhagwati, composer
  • Esha Chakravarty, TV presenter ( Viva Germany )
  • Rahul Peter Das, Professor of South Asian Studies
  • Alokeranjan Dasgupta, literary scholar
  • Belsy Demetz, singer
  • Sebastian Edathy, politician, member of the Bundestag (SPD )
  • Collien Fernandes elm, television presenter
  • Kumaran Ganeshan, actor
  • Shanta Ghosh, sprinter
  • Ravindra Gujjula, politician ( SPD)
  • Gim Killian, singer
  • Anant Kumar, Author
  • Judith Lefeber, singer
  • Nandini Mitra, television presenter
  • Subrata K. Mitra, political scientist
  • Joybrato Mukherjee, Professor of English Linguistics, President of the Justus -Liebig- University Giessen
  • Xavier Naidoo, singer
  • Irshad Panjatan, actor
  • Murali Perumal, actor
  • Anita Bose - Pfaff, Professor of Public Sciences
  • Prashant Prabhakar, actors
  • Sumitra Sarma, TV presenter ( GIGA )
  • Julia - Niharika Sen, TV presenter (NDR )
  • Sabrina Setlur, singer
  • Mona Sharma, actress and author
  • Raju Sharma, politician, member of the Bundestag (The Left )
  • Shweta Shetty, singer
  • Sanjay Shihora, comedian
  • Stephen A. Sikder, actor and casting director
  • Shirin Valentine, producer (Noble Savage )
  • Josef Winkler, politician, member of the Bundestag ( Alliance 90/The Greens )
  • Indira Weis, singer
  • Ranga Yogeshwar, science journalist and presenter
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