Indians_in_Germany
Indians in Germany
Ethnic group
The community of Indians in Germany includes Indian expatriates residing in Germany, as well as German citizens of Indian origin or descent. In 2009, the German government estimated that the number of people of Indian descent residing in Germany at 110,204, of which 43,175 people were holding an Indian passport, while 67,029 were holding a German passport.[2] In 2022 the number stood at about 247,000 of Indian descent of which 198,000 had a migration background.[3] According to the Federal Statistical Office the number of nationals from India is the second largest in Germany from either South, South East, East or Central Asia, only below the number of nationals from Afghanistan.[4]
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 Distribution of Indian citizens in Germany (2021) | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 163,000[1] 0.199% of the German Population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt | |
| Languages | |
| German, English, Other Indian languages | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Indian diaspora |
Small numbers of Indian students resided in Germany before and during the Second World War. In early to late 1960s and 1970s, many Malayali Catholic women from Kerala were recruited by the German Catholic institutions to work as nurses in German hospitals.[5] According to the documentary ‘Translated lives’, around 5,000 women migrated from Kerala during the 1960s and 70s to become nurses there.[6] Since the 2010s, the Indian population also grow in former East Germany due to Indian students who study mostly in technical universities. Unlike other minorities, there are many Indians in cities like Chemnitz and Leipzig and the state of Saxony has the largest population of federal state in former East Germany with about 9,000 Indians.
Germany has become a popular destination for higher learning, and of the total student population in Germany about 12% are International students.[7] Hundreds of schools in India have signed up to teach students German as their primary foreign language as part of an effort by Germany's top technical colleges to attract more Indian students.[8] As a result, there has been a steady increase in the Indian student population in Germany which has quadrupled in 7 years since 2008.[9][10] Of these, more than 80% Indian students pursue their studies or research in the STEM fields i.e., Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.[11]
| Academic year | No. of Indian students enrolled in German universities |
|---|---|
| 2008-09 | 3,516[9] |
| 2011-12 | 5,998[10] |
| 2012-13 | 7,532[9] |
| 2013-14 | 10,000[12] |
| 2014-15 | 11,860[11] |
| 2015-16 | 13,740[10] |
| 2017-18 | 17,570[13] |
| 2018-19 | 20,810[14] |
| 2019-20 | 25,149[15] |
| 2020-21 | 28,905[16] |
| 2021-22 | 34,134[16] |
| 2022-23 | 42,997[16] |
- Rahul Kumar Kamboj, first Indian City Parliament Member of Frankfurt[17]
- Dhruv Rathee, Youtuber
- Evelyn Sharma, Bollywood actress
- Mink Brar, actress
- Ayesha Kapur, actress
- Sandeep Bhagwati, composer
- Rahul Peter Das, South Asianist (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg) and President of the German Association for Asian Studies
- Robin Dutt, football club manager
- Sebastian Edathy, member of the German parliament (Social Democratic Party)
- Collien Fernandes, media person
- Shanta Ghosh, sprinter
- Gujjula Ravindra Reddy, member of the state parliament of Brandenburg and former mayor of Altlandsberg (Social Democratic Party)
- Joybrato Mukherjee, Professor of English Linguistics and the President of the University of Giessen.Youngest university president ever appointed in Germany. President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
- Judith Lefeber, singer
- Subrata K. Mitra, political scientist (Heidelberg University, retired)
- Xavier Naidoo, singer
- Anita Bose Pfaff, economist, daughter of Subhas Chandra Bose
- Kamala Reddy, Hindu guru
- Sabrina Setlur, singer and ex-girlfriend of Boris Becker
- Shweta Shetty, singer
- Ashok-Alexander Sridharan, Ex-Mayor of Bonn
- Indira Weis, singer
- Josef Winkler, member of the German parliament (Alliance '90/The Greens)
- Atul Chitnis, open-source software developer
- Tino Sehgal, Berlin-based artist of Indian and British descent
- Irshad Panjatan, Berlin-based actor and mime artist of Indian descent
- Anuradha Doddaballapur, Germany National Women's cricket Team captain[18][19]
- Sharanya Sadarangani, Germany National Women's cricketer
- Karthika Vijayaraghavan, Germany National Women's cricketer
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- Indians in Magdeburg - a student initiative that helps and provides useful information to non-German speakers, especially Indian students
- Magdeburg Indians- Magdeburg Indians e.V. - a private organization registered in Magdeburg, Germany, Saxony-Anhalt
- Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft
- Indians in Germany
- Indians In Germany
- Indien-Institut in Munich/Bavaria ; attached to Völkerkundemuseum
- Escape from East Germany 1972, autobiographical account of an Indian Ph.D. student in Dresden who married an East German woman
- Marathi Katta Germany, Frankfurt - A Marathi Indian Community, a non-profit organization serving Marathi/Maharashtrian Indian community living in Germany for many years.