Serbs in Germany
The term Serbs in Germany is not clearly defined. In part, this refers to those residents of Germany who see themselves as ethnic Serbs . You can be a citizen of Germany , Serbia , another successor state of Yugoslavia or another state. In another understanding, they can be citizens living in Germany or former citizens of Serbia, or Serbia and Montenegro , regardless of the ethnic group to which they belong. These can also be ethnic Hungarians , Albanians , Bosniaks or members of other minorities in Serbia.
Most Serbs living in Germany moved here from Yugoslavia as job-seeking immigrants or guest workers in the 1960s and 1970s . Other Serbs - or Serbian citizens - came to Germany as refugees during the Yugoslav wars (from 1991 to 2001) or as asylum seekers from among the Roma .
number
The Federal Statistical Office published the number of 197,984 Serbian citizens in Germany for 2011 . After the visa requirement for Serbian citizens in Europe was abolished at the end of 2009 , the number of Serbian citizens rose to 220,908 by 2014. The sharp increase between 2011 and 2014 can also be explained by the high number of Roma seeking asylum who, if they come from Serbia, have Serbian citizenship.
In German federal states
The regions with the largest proportions of the population of Serbian origin are in and around Frankfurt am Main , Munich and Stuttgart . Information from the Federal Statistical Office of December 31. 2014
| Number of Serbs in German federal states | ||||||
| No. | state | people | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Baden-Württemberg | 40,940 | ||||
| 2. | Bavaria | 31,868 | ||||
| 3. | Berlin | 12,649 | ||||
| 4th | Brandenburg | 1,323 | ||||
| 5. | Bremen | 2,621 | ||||
| 6th | Hamburg | 7,278 | ||||
| 7th | Hesse | 23,871 | ||||
| 8th. | Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | 851 | ||||
| 9. | Lower Saxony | 19.191 | ||||
| 10. | North Rhine-Westphalia | 62,982 | ||||
| 11. | Rhineland-Palatinate | 7,408 | ||||
| 12. | Saarland | 1,202 | ||||
| 13. | Saxony | 1,998 | ||||
| 14th | Saxony-Anhalt | 1,549 | ||||
| 15th | Schleswig-Holstein | 2,947 | ||||
| 16. | Thuringia | 2,230 | ||||
The Serbs set in Germany by the Turks , Italians , Poles , Greeks , Croats , Romanians and Russians now the twelfth largest non-ethnic German population.
Well-known Serbs in Germany
- Dušan Vasiljević , football player
- Dušan Gruden , engineer, environmental officer
- Dejan Ilic , manager, managing director
- Anica Dobra , actress, winner of the Bavarian Film Prize
- Andrej Ćilerdžić , Serbian Orthodox Bishop, first monk of the Serbian Church born in Germany
- Gojko Mitić , actor, DEFA film star ("DDR-Winnetou")
- Milena Preradovic , entrepreneur, TV presenter (Serbian paternal descent)
- Mladen Krstajić , athlete, Bundesliga football
- Mira Beham , journalist, communication scientist, lecturer at the Journalisten-Akademie Munich
- Svetislav Pešić , basketball coach and former professional player
- Nikola Sarić , painter