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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Wikidata facts

Population: 70000

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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.