Afro-Germans
Over 1 million black people live in Germany. Black people were persecuted in Nazi Germany for their race and ethnicity along with Gypsies and Jews.
Afro-Germans Media
Number of people with African roots in German cities and districts. *Majority of the population is located in the Rhine-Ruhr region, Hamburg region, Munich region, Bremen-Oldenburg region, Rhine-Main region, Stuttgart region, Hanover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg region, Nuremberg region and Bielefeld region. Higher presence in Western Germany.
Map of Africa in 1914 with regions colonized by Germany shown in yellow.
Steffi Jones, President of the Organizing Committee of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and head coach of the Germany women's national football team from 2016 to 2018
Coat of arms of Coburg, 1493, depicting Saint Maurice
Aminata Touré, minister in the state government of Schleswig-Holstein.