Greeks in Germany

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Significant immigration from Greece to Germany started around 1700, when the Ottoman Empire opened its borders. The first community was found in Leipzig at this time.

A second wave of immigration occurred when Otto of Wittelbach became King of Greece as Otto of Greece. Many Greeks came as students to Bavaria.

The last major wave took place following World War II, with the majority of today's Greek population arriving during this period. In those post-war years, West Germany sought workers for their expanding industries, while East Germany provided safe haven for Greek communists.

Many Greek children were involuntarily relocated to the German Democratic Republic by the Communist rebels during the Greek Civil War.

The first Greek schools were created because of the number of Greeks immigrating to Germany. Since the first Greek school built in 1960 and up until 1990, over 1 million Greeks had immigrated to Germany. About 800,000 of those Greeks had after either a long-term or a short term stay gone back to Greece. Nowadays, every fifth of an estimated 47,000 students of Greek origin attends one of 35 Greek schools in Germany.

{{See also|Academic achievement among different groups in Germany}}

The first Greeks came during the time of the Roman Empire to Central Europe. Among the major German cities Offenbach am Main and Stuttgart had the highest share of Greek migrants in 2011 according to German Census data. {{cite web|url=https://kartenseite.wordpress.com/2017/03/26/griechen-in-deutschland-landkreise/ |title=Kartenseite: Griechen in Deutschland - Landkreise |publisher=kartenseite.wordpress.com |date=2017-03-26 |access-date=2017-04-23}} Munich was home to the largest Greek community in Germany. According to the same census, there are also large Greek diaspora communities in Nordrhein-Westfalen, especially in Düsseldorf and Bielefeld.

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{{Historical populations

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|1967|200,951

|1972|389,426

|1977|328,465

|1982|300,824

|1987|256,396

|1992|345,902

|1997|363,202

|2002|359,361

|2007|294,891

|2012|298,254

|2017|362,245}}

{{see also|Turks of Western Thrace|Muslim minority of Greece|Greek Muslims}}

There are some members of the Turks of Western Thrace who espouse a Turcophone identity including Turks of the Dodecanese among the some 350,000 Greeks living in Germany.{{cite web | url=http://tag.fuen.org/mx5-member-15/germany/ | title=Deutsche Minderheit in Germany - Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe }}{{Harvnb|Westerlund|Svanberg|1999|loc=320-321}}. The majority of them immigrated from Western Thrace.{{Harvnb|Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly|2007|loc=118}}. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Thracian tobacco industry was affected by a severe crisis and many tobacco growers lost their income. This resulted in many Muslims leaving their homes and emigrating abroad, with estimates suggesting that there are now between 12,000{{Harvnb|Clogg|2002|loc=84}}. and 25,000{{cite web|author=International Assembly of Western Thrace Turks|title=POLITICAL AND CIVIL ORGANISATION COMMISSION|url=http://www.batitrakya.info/btt/Content.aspx?mID=4;12&l=en-US|access-date=2010-05-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721185514/http://www.batitrakya.info/btt/Content.aspx?mID=4;12&l=en-US|archive-date=2011-07-21|url-status=dead}} residing in Germany.

• Theophano (960-991) - Empress of Holy Roman Empire, Wife of Otto II.
• John Argyris (1913-2004) - was among the creators of the Finite Element Method (FEM)
• Daniela Amavia - actress and model
• Adam Bousdoukos- from Soul Kitchen
• Constantin Carathéodory - mathematician
• Miltiades Caridis - conductor
• Costa Cordalis - singer/songwriter
• Giorgos Donis - footballer
• Margaritis Dimitsas (1830-1903) - geographer
• Artemis Gounaki - singer/songwriter
• LaFee - singer/songwriter
• Georg Anton Jasmatzi (1847-1922) - founder of the Jasmatzi tabac factory (later sold to British American Tobacco)
• Aris Kalaizis - painter
• Panajotis Kondylis (1943-1998) - philosopher
• Jonas Kyratzes - video game designer
• Vicky Leandros - singer
• Pierre Mavrogordatos (1870-1948) - archaeologist
• Ioannis Masmanidis - footballer
• Kostantinos Mitroglou - footballer
• Argyris Nastópoulos - singer
• Demis Nikolaidis - footballer
• Antonis Remos - singer
• Susan Sideropoulos- singer and actress
• Despina Vandi - singer
• Melina Aslanidou - singer
• Andromache Dimitropoulou - singer
• Anastasia Zampounidis - broadcaster
• Antonios Papadopoulos - footballer
• Linda Zervakis - newscaster (Tagesschau)
• Haris & Panos Katsimihas - singers, songwriters, composers
• Odisseas Vlachodimos - footballer
• Panagiotis Vlachodimos - footballer
• Shindy - rapper
• Ioannis Panousis - Author, Law Enforcement Specialist
• Aziz Retzep German Greek football player
• Evan K
• Joseph Pilates Inventor of the Pilates method of physical fitness.

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• Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Germany

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• [http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3127654,00.html Your Link to Germany]

• {{Cite book |last=Clogg|first=Richard|year=2002|title=Minorities in Greece: Aspects of a Plural Society|publisher=C. Hurst & Co. Publishers|isbn=1-85065-705-X }}.
• {{Cite book |last=Council of Europe: Parliamentary Assembly|year=2007|title=Parliamentary Assembly: Working Papers 2007 Ordinary Session 22–26 January 2007|publisher=Council of Europe|isbn=978-92-871-6191-8 }}.
• {{Cite book |last1=Westerlund|first1=David|last2=Svanberg|first2=Ingvar|year=1999|title=Islam Outside the Arab World|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=0-312-22691-8 }}.

• {{cite journal| last = Troebst| first = Stefan|date= September 2004| title = Evacuation to a cold country: child refugees from the Greek Civil War in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1989| journal = Nationalities Papers| volume = 32| issue = 3| pages = 675–691| doi = 10.1080/0090599042000246442| s2cid = 153812866}}

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