Afro-Germans

Afro-Germans
Afrodeutsche
Total population
from 711 000 to over 1,000,000
Regions with significant populations
Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Stuttgart, Bremen, Hanover, Frankfurt, Düsseldorf, Munich, Braunschweig, Nuremberg, Hamburg)
Languages
German, English, French, African languages
Religion
Islam, Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism

Afro-Germans (German: Afrodeutsche) or Black Germans (German: schwarze Deutsche) are German citizens who have ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

Cities such as Hamburg and Frankfurt, which were formerly centres of occupation forces following World War II and more recent immigration, have substantial Afro-German communities. With modern trade and migration, communities such as Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, and Cologne have an increasing number of Afro-Germans. The German census does not use race as a category. The number of persons "having an extended migrant background" (mit Migrationshintergrund im weiteren Sinn, meaning having at least one grandparent born outside Germany), is reported as over 1,000,000. The Initiative Schwarzer Deutscher ("Black German Initiative") estimates the total of Germans with African ancestry to be over 1,000,000 persons.

Number City Number(total) 2 largest nationalities from Africa
1 Berlin 115,000 Nigeria and Ghana
2 Hamburg 55,500 Ghana and Nigeria
3 Cologne 30,000 Morocco and Nigeria
4 Munich 26,500 Nigeria and Ethiopia
5 Frankfurt am Main 23,100 Morocco and Eritrea
6 Bremen 20,500 Ghana and Nigeria
7 Düsseldorf 19,200 Morocco and Nigeria
8 Hanover 18,700 Ghana and Nigeria
9 Stuttgart 18,400 Nigeria and Egypt
10 Dortmund 17,900 Morocco and Ghana
11 Essen 17,300 Cameroon and Nigeria
12 Nuremberg 16,800 Ethiopia and Eritrea
13 Braunschweig 15,300 Tunisia and Cameroon
14 Mannheim 15,200 Eritrea and Morocco
15 Duisburg 14,700 Nigeria and Eritrea
16 Bonn 14,500 Morocco and Tunisia
17 Karlsruhe 13,600 Eritrea and Morocco
18 Kiel 13,400 Ghana and Nigeria
19 Bochum 13,400 Ghana and Cameroon
20 Wiesbaden 12,800 Morocco and Eritrea
21 Aachen 12,200 Morocco and Nigeria

In total at least 711 000 people of Subsharan-African origin.