German minority in Uzbekistan

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As a German minority in Uzbekistan which is German-speaking minority in the area of today's Uzbekistan called.

history

The first German traces in Uzbekistan have been documented since the middle of the 19th century. Most of them came from the Baltic provinces of Russia. However, the majority of the German minority still living there in Uzbekistan are Volga Germans . Under Josef Stalin, they were deported from the Volga region to Central Asia (including Uzbekistan) and Siberia in the early 1940s (see Kazakh Germans , Siberian Germans ). Approx. 40,000 were interned in labor camps. Many Volga Germans at that time died in these camps. In the 1970s, many Uzbek Germans emigrated to Germany . The members of the German minority in Uzbekistan are also known as Uzbek Germans.

Today's distribution

In 2001 around 24,000 Germans lived in Uzbekistan. That corresponded to approx. 0.1% of the total population of the country.

There are no exact figures about the current number of Germans in Uzbekistan, but it is likely that their number has continued to decrease significantly, as in the other Central Asian countries.

According to estimates by the four German cultural centers and the German Society for International Cooperation , only about 10,000 Uzbek citizens of German descent still live in Uzbekistan. Half of the German minority live in rural areas under difficult infrastructural and economic conditions.

Support from the Federal Republic of Germany

Since 1995, the Federal Republic of Germany has financially supported the citizens of Uzbekistan of German origin with a quarter of a million euros annually. The money will be used to support four cultural centers of the German minority and the remaining Germans received direct humanitarian aid.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b German minorities abroad Commissioner of the Federal Government for questions of repatriates and national minorities
  2. ↑ German minorities introduce themselves , Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Home Affairs, 3rd, revised edition, 2018, page 139 blob = publicationFile & v = 7 PDF
  3. ↑ Milutin Michael Nickl: Lineamenta of the global contemporary German , page 13 [1]
  4. ^ Ferdinand Stoll, Gert Strasser: Das medialvermedte Deutschland , page 75 restricted preview in the Google book search
  5. ↑ a b funding measures in favor of the German minority in Uzbekistan
  6. ↑ Help for the German minority in Uzbekistan Deutsche Welle