Angola Germans
As Angola German are called German families in the 20th century in what was then the colonial power Portugal ruled Angola migrated and operated mainly in charge of agriculture. They devoted themselves in particular to the cultivation of coffee and sisal , wood construction and, in southern Angola, cattle breeding.
The Germans who emigrated after 1975 organized themselves into the "Interest Group of Angola Germans" (IAD).
history
After the German defeat in World War I , German settlers from the German colonies mostly emigrated to Portuguese colonies , as the other colonial powers Great Britain, France and Belgium did not want to accept Germans. In particular, settlers from neighboring German Southwest Africa came to Angola, but also impoverished landowners and farmers from Germany. Over 1,400 Germans emigrated to Angola from 1915 to the 1930s. They were among the larger and economically more important foreign communities in the Portuguese colony.
Almost all of them left the country after Angola's declaration of independence in 1975 and the subsequent escalating Angolan civil war and went to South West Africa or Germany; not a few fell victim to the fighting. Most of the estates were expropriated or fell into disrepair as the civil war continued.
The center of the Angola Germans was primarily Benguela , where there was also a German school at the time. In addition to Benguela, other main areas of settlement were also found in the region around the city of Huambo . Individual German families still live today or again around the small town of Calulo in the province of Kwanza Sul and in the capital Luanda .
Individual evidence
- ↑ German farmers in Angola - Das Vermächtnis , article from June 27, 2012 in the FAZ , accessed on January 3, 2017