Romanians in Germany


Romanians in Germany are one of the sizable communities of the Romanian diaspora in Western Europe. According to German statistics, in 2022, the number of Romanian citizens in Germany was 883,670. The number of people with Romanian ancestry in 2022 was 1,096,000.

History

Emigration to Germany from Romania was common throughout the 20th century, and continued steadily way into the early 21st century. Large numbers of ethnic Germans of Romania left the country prior, during, and after the events that ultimately led to World War II.
In the times of the communist regime in Romania, albeit the borders were officially closed by authorities, significant numbers of Romanian-Germans were allowed to emigrate to West Germany, particularly in the later years of the Ceaușescu era. This formed part of a series of ethnic migrations, which were tolerated under the then socialist rulership. During the 1980s, more than half of the people who left Romania went to Germany.
After the Romanian Revolution which took place in December 1989, there has been a mass migration of Transylvania Saxons to Germany, approximately half a million of them immigrated to Germany.

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According to German statistics from 2016, the number of Romanian citizens in Germany on 31 December 2015 was 452,718, which was up from 94,326 in 2008. By 2022, the number had increased to 883,670 Romanian citizens.
The distribution of Romanian citizens by German states is as follows :

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