People of Afghan origin in Germany

As Afghanistan ethnic or Afghanischstämmige in Germany people are called, which in Germany live and originally from Afghanistan come.

Migration situation

The number of people with an Afghan migration background living in Germany was 267,000 in 2018. According to Statista, there were 257,110 Afghan citizens living in Germany as of December 31, 2018 . This corresponds to an increase of around 125,000 compared to 2015. As of December 31, 2017, there were 35,805 people with an Afghan migration background in Hamburg , the largest number in a major German city. They also form the largest community of Afghan people in all of Europe. With regard to the proportion of the population of people of Afghan origin, the cities of Offenbach am Main and Hamburg were at the top of the districts and urban districts in the Federal Republic in the 2011 census, followed by Darmstadt and Frankfurt.

At the end of December 2015, 131,454 Afghan nationals were living in Germany. Of the Afghans who immigrated in 2015, around 31,000 applied for asylum for the first time . Of the Afghan applicants whose asylum applications were decided in the course of 2015, 47% were granted protection status , mainly due to their refugee status . The recognition rate as persons entitled to asylum was less than 1 percent.

According to the journalist David Shah in a 2004 report, Afghans represent one of the most integrated minorities in Germany and often have little ties to their home country. According to the development worker Reinhard Erös in October 2015, of all immigrant groups, they had the lowest proportion of foreigner crime . According to the crime statistics of the Federal Criminal Police Office for 2016, however, Afghans made up the second largest group of non-German suspects in criminal offenses in Germany after Syrians with almost 80,000 suspects.

At the turn of the year 2016/2017, according to the Interior Ministry, there were around 12,000 Afghans who were required to leave Germany.

In September 2017, 37,700 Afghans were employed in Germany subject to social security contributions; 94,400 received standard benefits from basic social security (ALG II). The employment rate of Afghans is 20.5 percent (for comparison: foreigners a total of 41 percent, asylum seekers from non-European countries of origin 17.8 percent), including the marginally employed 25.1 percent.

Well-known Afghans in Germany

• Sultan Masood Dakik - entrepreneur, member of the Afghan royal family , first recipient of the Federal Cross of Merit of Afghan origin
• Sulaiman Masomi - poetry slammer and writer
• Kabir Stori - Pashtun poet
• Nadiem Amiri - soccer player
• Hassan Amin - soccer player
• SSIO - rapper
• Zohre Esmaeli - model
• Valy Hedjasi - pop musician
• Kalim , rapper
• Rebecca Mir - Model, 2nd place in the 6th season at Germanys Next Topmodel
• Abdul Ahad Momand - cosmonaut
• Walid Nakschbandi - journalist, television producer and manager in the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group
• Karim Popal - lawyer
• Hamid Rahimi - boxer
• SadiQ - rapper
• Graziella Schazad - singer-songwriter
• Djelaludin Sharityar - football player
• Nina Tenge - rap artist and actress from Hamburg
• Burhan Qurbani - film director and screenwriter
• Ghulam-D. Totakhyl - politician and aficionado of Afghanistan, sworn interpreter and translator and entrepreneur.
• Diba Hakimi - singer and entrepreneur
• Shabnam Ruhin - soccer player
• Mariam Ruhin - soccer player
• Mena Ahmadi - soccer player
• Dorranai Hassan - soccer player
• Manija Mir - soccer player
• Faisal Kawusi - comedian
• Mariam Noori - author and journalist
• Seeta Qasemie - singer and composer
• Mina Tander - actress
• Simin Tander - jazz musician
• Zallascht Sadat - model
• Fereshta Ludin - teacher
• Nasrat Haqparast - MMA fighter; Winner of the "Fight of the Night" at the Ultimate Fighting Championship Fight Night No. 138 in October 2018 and the "Performance of the Night" in August 2019.
• E. Haschemi, specialist in internal medicine (internist), scientific work in the field of COPD and sleep apnea syndrome with E. Erdmann at the University of Cologne.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Page 66 Federal Statistical Office: Population in private households by migration background in the broader sense by selected countries of birth , accessed on May 15, 2020.
2. ↑ Statista survey on Afghans in Germany 2018 , accessed on May 15, 2020
3. ^ [1] Statistical Office for Hamburg and Schleswig-Holtein: Population with a migration background in the Hamburg districts at the end of 2017 , page 3 (accessed on May 15, 2020).
4. ↑ Map page: Afghans in Germany - Districts Accessed on September 9, 2017
5. ↑ Foreign population - results of the Central Register of Foreigners (as of December 31, 2015) , p. 155.
6. ↑ Federal Office for Migration and Refugees: Asylum business statistics for the month of December 2015 and the 2015 reporting year . ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Asylum business statistics for the month of December 2015, page 2. (pds file, 640 kB) 
7. ↑ David Schah: "Integration miracle from Central Asia" Deutsche Welle, September 15, 2004
8. ↑ http://www.deutschlandradiokultur.de/fluechtlingskrise-warum-ausgereCHN-die-afghanen-nach.1008.de.html?dram:article_id=335126
9. ↑ Report on the 2016 police crime statistics, Federal Criminal Police Office 2017, page 59
10. ↑ Issio Ehrich: "Mustafa is a serious case for de Maizière" ntv.de of December 13, 2016
11. ↑ Effects of migration on the labor market. Labor market compact, November 2017, published by the Federal Employment Agency.