Italians in Germany

Italian Germans
Italo-tedeschi (Italian)
Deutschitaliener (German)
Italian worker in Duisburg in 1962
Total population
c. 1,200,000 (by ancestry, about 1.4% of the total German population)[1]
c. 650,000 (by birth)[2]
Regions with significant populations
Berlin · Frankfurt · Stuttgart · Cologne · Munich · Rhein-Ruhr · Nuremberg · Freiburg · Hamburg · Mainz[3]
Languages
German · Italian · other languages of Italy
Religion
Major Catholicism · Lutheranism · Others
Related ethnic groups
Italians, Italian Belgians, Italian Britons, Italian Finns, Italian French, Italian Romanians, Italian Spaniards, Italian Swedes, Italian Swiss, Corfiot Italians, Genoese in Gibraltar, Italians of Crimea, Italians of Odesa

Italian Germans (Italian: italo-tedeschi; German: Deutschitaliener) are German-born or naturalized citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to Germany during the Italian diaspora, as well as the communities of Italians in Switzerland and, to a slightly lesser extent, Italians from South Tyrol. Most Italians moved to Germany for reasons of work, others for personal relations, study, or political reasons. Today, Italians in Germany form one of the largest Italian diasporas in the world and account for one of the largest immigrant groups in Germany.

It is not clear how many people in Germany are of Italian descent, since the German government does not collect data on ethnicity. However, based on the German "microcensus," which surveys 1% of the German population annually and includes a question on the nationality of the surveyees' parents,[4] the number is at least 873,000 people.[5] The total number (i.e. including third generation German Italians and above) is approximately 1,200,000 people.[1]

  1. ^ a b Recchi, Ettore; Baglioni, Lorenzo Gabrielli e Lorenzo G. (2021-04-16). "Italiani d'Europa: Quanti sono, dove sono? Una nuova stima sulla base dei profili di Facebook". Neodemos (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  2. ^ "Anzahl der Ausländer in Deutschland nach Herkunftsland in den Jahren 2015 und 2016". statista (in German).
  3. ^ "Italienische Bürger in Deutschland". italianieuropei.de (in German).
  4. ^ "Migrationshintergrund". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  5. ^ "Bevölkerung in Privathaushalten nach Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn nach ausgewählten Geburtsstaaten". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-09.