Indians in Germany

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The Indian community in Germany includes the emigrated Indian citizens in Germany as well as German citizens of Indian origin or descent.

At the beginning of 2000 there were almost 40,000 people of Indian origin who held German citizenship and just as many Indian citizens living in Germany. The total of around 80,000 Indians are mostly Hindus , Jainas and Sikhs , there are also atheist , Christian and Muslim groups . Your mother tongue is one of India's many languages , and many of them are fluent in both English and German .

According to the Federal Statistical Office , 45,638 Indians lived in Germany in 2010 (North Rhine-Westphalia, 10,320; Bavaria, 6,954, Hesse, 6,581; Baden-Württemberg, 6,508; Hamburg, 2,802; Berlin, 2,772; Lower Saxony, 2,096; Saxony, 1,677; Rhineland-Palatinate, 1,541 ; Saxony-Anhalt, 782; Schleswig-Holstein, 730; Bremen, 656; Brandenburg, 623; Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, 539; Saarland, 531; Thuringia, 526).

history

The first Indian international students come to the then GDR city of Dresden to enroll at the Technical University of Dresden in 1951

In the 1950s and 1960s, numerous Indian men came to Germany to study, most of them in engineering . Some of them returned to India , most of them stayed in Germany to work. In the late 1960s, many Catholic Malayali women from Kerala were brought to Germany by the German Catholic institutions. They mostly worked as nurses in hospitals.

At the beginning of the new millennium, the then red-green government introduced the German Green Card for IT specialists, which brought around 20,000 Indians to Germany, mainly men. According to statistics from 2001, the proportion of women was 7.8 percent. As a rule, the Indians who came to the country in this way have little knowledge of German and communication with colleagues is mostly in English. In the political discussion about the introduction of the Green Card, the catchphrase children instead of Indians emerged , which was based on statements made by the then North Rhine-Westphalian CDU regional leader Jürgen Rüttgers , who said that promoting young German talent in the IT sector would mean recruiting It is preferable to skilled workers from abroad. The slogan was often criticized as xenophobic and later only used by right-wing extremist parties.

Today, many Indians in Germany work as freelancers , for example as doctors, engineers, professors or software developers. Other people are often employed in the service sector, especially in catering.

Three Indians living in Germany have so far been honored with the highest Indian state prize for services abroad, the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman . These are the poet Alokeranjan Dasgupta (2005), who was visiting professor at the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University until 1994 , Sibabrata Roy (2007), President of the German-Indian Society in Hamburg , and Professor Victor Shahed Smetacek (2012) from Alfred Wegener -Institute .

See also

literature

  • Peter Weidhaas: And came into the world of the book people. Ch. Links Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-861-53458-7 , p. 189 (Book fair guest country India, limited preview in Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urmila Goel: The Seventieth Anniversary of 'John Matthew'. On 'Indian' Christians in Germany. In: Knut A. Jacobsen, Selva J. Raj: South Asian Christian Diaspora. Invisible Diaspora in Europe and North America. Ashgate, Aldershot et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-6261-7 , pp. 57-74, here p. 57.
  2. ^ Bettina van Hoven, Louise Meijering: Transient Masculinities. Indian IT professionals in Germany. In: Bettina van Hoven, Kathrin Hörschelmann (eds.): Spaces of Masculinities (= Critical Geographies. Volume 20). Routledge, New York et al. 2005, ISBN 978-0-415-30696-6 , pp. 75-85, here p. 78.
  3. ^ Bettina van Hoven, Louise Meijering: Transient Masculinities. In: Bettina van Hoven, Kathrin Hörschelmann (eds.): Spaces of Masculinities. New York et al. 2005, p. 81.
  4. ↑ The German “Green Card” . In: Focus Migration . No. 3, November 2005. Retrieved September 14, 2010.
  5. ^ Ministry of Overseas Indian Affairs: List of Previous Pravasi Bhartiya Samman Awardees . on www.moia.gov.in ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2010 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. (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moia.gov.in
  6. ↑ Indians from 54 countries met in Jaipur. on www.theinder.net