Intermarriage

Mixed marriage is a term for a marriage between people of different ethnic, cultural, national, denominational or religious affiliations. In German-speaking countries, the term was used until the 1920s

• mostly an interdenominational marriage , marriage of people of different Christian denominations
• rarely one
  • Interreligious marriage , marriage of people from different religious groups
  • Exogamy , marriage duty with people from a different social group
  • Intercultural or binational marriage, marriage between members of different ethnic groups, nations or cultures.

• Mixed marriage as the official name
  • for marriages between locals and German settlers in the German colonies
  • for marriage between "Jews" and "German bloods" in Germany between 1933 and 1945. See mixed marriage (National Socialism)

• Translation of the terms
  • mixed marriage (English), mariage mixte (French), matrimonio mixto (Spanish)
  • interracial marriage (Engl.)

literature

• Anne-Lise Head-König : mixed marriages. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . August 12, 2019 .

See also

Wiktionary: mixed marriage  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Assimilation (sociology)
• Cologne chaos (mixed marriage dispute of the 1830s)
• Mixed debate in the German Reichstag (1912)
• Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act - South Africa, 1949–1986