Ukrainians in Germany

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Relative frequency of Ukrainian citizenship at district level in 2014 in relation to other foreign population groups

The Ukrainians in Germany , accounting for approximately 130,000 Ukrainian citizens (2014), the 17th-largest foreign group in Germany. Germany's Ukrainians have formed numerous institutions and organizations, such as the Central Association of Ukrainians in Germany and the Association of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Germany .

Shield of the Ukrainian Free University of Munich
Grave of the Ukrainian politician and partisan Stepan Bandera , murdered in German exile, in the Munich forest cemetery

Most of the Ukrainians live in Berlin , Munich , Magdeburg , Leipzig and Chemnitz . Other important communities can be found in Ansbach , Potsdam , Erfurt and Dresden . The percentage of Ukrainians is particularly strong in eastern Germany. In Thuringia their share is low, whereas the Ukrainians in Brandenburg and Saxony are represented by significant diaspora communities. It is generally noticeable that Ukrainians in Germany prefer to live in big cities .

In addition to German , many Ukrainians also speak their mother tongue, Ukrainian , and Russian as a foreign language. Most are Ukrainian Orthodox Christians , there are also numerous Jewish and Catholic communities.

history

Memorial plaque at Zeppelinstrasse 67 in Munich for Jaroslaw and Jaroslawa Stezko . The OUN publishing house was also located here.

The first noteworthy wave of Ukrainians migrating to Germany took place in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and can be traced back to social and economic grievances. During the two world wars, economic and political reasons were also in the foreground. In the Second World War and in the post-war period, the motives for migration were almost exclusively politically motivated. In particular, people who fled repression by the Soviet Union were accepted into Germany. This also includes members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN).

The foreign units of the OUN ( Zakordonni Chastyny ​​OUN ; Закордонні Частини ОУН ) began to establish their center in Munich from 1945. Initially, the OUN units moved to the building at Dachauer Strasse 9, later to Lindwurmstrasse 205. In 1954, the new office was opened at Zeppelinstrasse 67, where a publishing house was established in the basement, where the newspaper Schljach Peramohi was printed. The exiled politicians Jaroslaw and Jaroslawa Stezko lived in the same house . In 2010, a memorial plaque was placed on the house at the instigation of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko . The Ukrainian Institute for Educational Policy resides in the building to this day

Other notable centers of Ukrainian emigration in Munich are the Ukrainian Free University of Munich , the Cathedral of Maria Schutz and St. Andreas or the Orthodox Church of St. Peter and St. Paul . In addition, numerous Ukrainian historical personalities are buried in the forest cemetery.

At the beginning of the 1990s there was an influx of Ukrainians due to the immigration of ethnic German repatriates and late repatriates from the former Soviet Union. Some of the late repatriates brought their Russian, Kazakh and also Ukrainian spouses to the Federal Republic in this way.

In 1999 there was a conflict with the German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer , who introduced conditions for citizens of the successor states of the Soviet Union to obtain German visas. Many people rejected the claim that it enables thousands to immigrate illegally in Germany by misusing the guaranteed visas. The majority of Ukrainians living in Germany on a scholarship are here with such visas, which further exacerbated the controversy.

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  1. ↑ Ukrainian Community, Embassy of Ukraine in Germany
  2. ↑ Grzegorz Rossoliński love : Stepan Bandera. The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist. Fascism, Genocide, and Cult. ibidim-Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-8382-0604-2 . P. 317/318
  3. ↑ Memorial plaque for Nazi collaborators and anti-Semites - who is responsible?
  4. ↑ Ukrainian Institute for Educational Policy eV on dach-ukraine.de
  5. ↑ Ukrainians look for happiness abroad on welt.de