 Distribution of Armenian citizens in Germany (2021) | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 80,000 – 100,000[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| North Rhine-Westphalia, between the cities ofCologne andDüsseldorf,Hesse (here majority of Armenians living inFrankfurt) andHamburg, Sufficiently strong Armenian community inBerlin (about 6,000 people) andMunich, which are also fairly typical places of residence immigrants. | |
| Languages | |
| Armenian andGerman | |
| Religion | |
| Armenian Apostolic,Armenian Catholic | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Armenian diaspora | |
All figures from[2] |
Armenians in Germany (Armenian:Հայերը Գերմանիայում,romanized: Hayery Germaniayum;German:Armenier in Deutschland) are ethnicArmenians living within the modern republic ofGermany. Like much of theArmenian diaspora, most Armenians immigrated to Germany after theArmenian genocide of 1915. Others came later, fleeing conflicts in places likeIran,Azerbaijan andLebanon. Another influx came fleeingnationalistpersecution inTurkey. AfterWorld War II, manySoviet Armenians, formerPOWs in particular, fled to the American occupied areas of Germany. While many traveled on, some settled in the country, providing a base for later asylum-seekers.[3]
The first recorded settlement of Armenians in Germany took place during the middle ages. These Armenian communities would cluster in major cities, such as Hamburg, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, and Frankfurt. In neighboringPoland-Lithuania, on the other hand, there were larger Armenian communities in important commercial cities, namely also in the northern citiesGdańsk andToruń.[4] In the course of severalPartitions of Poland at the end of the 18th century, areas with an Armenian minority also came underPrussian control. In the course of the Napoleonic conquests, the Prussian territory shrank again, but was able to expand again after theCongress of Vienna in 1815, also at the expense of Poland. In theHistorical-statistical overview of all provinces and components of the Prussian monarchy from 1820, for example, it is subsequently reported that "in the eastern provinces" of Prussia there were also Armenians, albeit "in scattered residences [...] without to form their own communities".[5]
A few well-known Germans were (in part) of Armenian descent as early as the 19th and 20th centuries. These include the orientalistFriedrich Carl Andreas (1846–1920), whose father came from an Armenian family of minor princes and gave up his family nameBagratuni, or the co-founder of theTchibo groupCarl Tchilling -Hiryan (1910–1987), whose Armenian father was born inAydın in western Turkey. There is already an Armenian descent legend for the early 18th century: According to a baptismal certificate, the founder of the Bavarian noble familyAretin, Johann Baptist Christoph Aroution Caziadur, is said to have been born in 1706 as the son of the Armenian petty prince Baldazar, who had fled from the Persians Caziadur and his wife Gogza of the House of thePrinces of Qarabagh, to have been born in Constantinople.
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The first Armenian organization in Germany was theArmenian Colony of Berlin, founded around 1923.[3] Until 1975, Armenian associations inHamburg,Berlin,Cologne,Frankfurt am Main,Stuttgart andMunich established. In the 1980s other associations inBremen,Braunschweig,Bielefeld,Duisburg,Neuwied,Bonn,Hanau,Eppingen,Nuremberg,Kehl and other places throughout Germany.[3]
More than 25,000 naturalized Armenians and 15,000 Armenians seeking asylum are currently living in the Federal Republic of Germany. They focus onMecklenburg-Vorpommern, as well onSchleswig-Holstein, many of whom are Armenian asylum seekers coming directly fromArmenia and for whom theArmenian Apostolic Church services, baptisms, Bible readings and provides community assistance. The Diocese of Germany bears the costs of assisting Armenians from post-Soviet Armenia and considers these services part of its mission.[3]
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