Colombian citizens of German ancestry
Ethnic group
German Colombians
Deutschkolumbianer
·
Germanocolombianos
- 9,688
Germans nationals (by birth and sons) in 2011
[1]
- 4,500
Germans residents in (1938).
[2]
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Bogota
,
[3]
Santander
,
[4]
Antioquia
,
[5]
Caribbean region
,
[6]
Norte de Santander
,
[7]
Huila
,
[8]
Boyaca
,
[9]
Cundinamarca
,
[10]
Narino
,
[11]
Valle del Cauca
,
[12]
Meta
[13]
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Colombian Spanish
·
German
and
German dialects
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Roman Catholicism
·
Protestantism
(
Lutheranism
·
Evangelicalism
)
·
Atheism
Judaism
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German Colombians
(
German
:
Deutschkolumbianer
;
Spanish
:
Germanocolombianos
) are
Colombian
citizens of German ancestry. They may be descendants of Germans who immigrated to Colombia from Germany or elsewhere in Europe. Most German Colombians live in the departments of
Andean Region
and
Caribbean Region
. Germans have been immigrating to Colombia since at least 16th century. During
World War II
, thousands of Germans fled to Colombia.
[14]
German immigration to Colombia
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The first German immigrants arrived in the 16th century contracted by the Spanish Crown, and included explorers such as Ambrosio Alfinger. There was another wave of German immigrants at the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th century including Leo Siegfried Kopp, the founder of the famous Bavaria Brewery.
SCADTA
, a Colombian-German air transport corporation which was established by German expatriates in 1919, was the first commercial airline in
the Americas
.
[15]
By the mid of the 18th century, German businessmen arrived to
Barranquilla
in
Atlantico
, and
El Carmen de Bolivar
, in
Bolivar
, with the purpose of exploiting tobacco. Most of them were from
Bremen
. Along with them, there were some
Dutchmen
, and
Sephardi Jews
from
Curacao
; however the
Germans
had absolute control of this business for three decades, expanding their trade quarters to biggest cities like
Cartagena
and
Barranquilla
.
In 1941, the
United States
government estimated that there were around 5,000
German citizens
living in Colombia. Several thousand more joined their ranks in Colombia's burgeoning cities.
[16]
There were some
Nazi
agitators in Colombia, such as
Barranquilla
businessman Emil Prufert,
[16]
but the majority was apolitical. Colombia asked Germans who were on the U.S. blacklist to leave and allowed Jewish refugees in the country illegally to stay.
[16]
In the 1980s, thousands of German Colombians emigrated back to
West Germany
due to the
Colombian armed conflict
. However, this trend began to decline in the late 2000s (decade) as living standards rose sharply after the
Colombian economic boom
.
German immigration to Santander
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German immigration was of great importance in the Santander region. From the arrival of the engineer Geo von Lengerke to the contributions to the cattle industry by Enrique and Aurelio Gast, who were outstanding cattle breeders in Santander and helped establish this region as a national reference in this industry.
[
citation needed
]
Eduardo Gast, Aurelio's son, was a well-known reference and pioneer breeder of the beefmaster breed in Colombia. The recently built event center for livestock fairs and exhibitions in Socorro, Santander, was named after him in 2021 to honor his legacy and contributions to the region's cattle industry.
[
citation needed
]
Augusto Gast made important contributions to the medical and scientific community in Colombia. He graduated as a surgeon from the National University of Colombia, directed the Carlos Finlay Institute for more than 12 years and was part of the National Institute of Health. His participation was definitive in establishing in Colombia the viscerotomy program for the diagnosis of yellow fever. In recognition of his merits as a researcher, Dr. Gast represented Colombia in several international conferences on yellow fever and was a reference in the Latin American epidemiological community.
[
citation needed
]
Education
[
edit
]
German schools in Colombia:
Famous German Colombians
[
edit
]
Source:
[17]
See also
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edit
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References
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edit
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Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche.
"Alemanes en Colombia: en busqueda de oportunidades | DW | 17.04.2011"
.
DW.COM
(in European Spanish)
. Retrieved
19 May
2023
.
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Distantes y distintos: los emigrantes alemanes en Colombia 1939-1945
- ^
"Germans in the Altiplano: Immigrants series"
.
Senal Memoria
(in Spanish). 1 January 1995
. Retrieved
20 May
2023
.
- ^
Semana (7 June 2019).
"Europeans in Santander: a History of migrations "Migrants from different European countries arrived in Santander since the mid-17th century in search of wealth. The German colony was the most representative"
"
.
Semana.com Ultimas Noticias de Colombia y el Mundo
(in Spanish)
. Retrieved
20 May
2023
.
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Estrada, Rodrigo de Jesus Garcia (1 January 2018).
"Book of German Immigrants in Antioquia, 1850-1930"
.
Inmigrantes Alemanes en Antioquia (Colombia), 1850-1930
.
- ^
Lazaro, Julian Andres (2020).
"The Germans in the Colombian Caribbean. Migration, sociability and National Socialism in Barranquilla, 1919-1945"
.
doi
:
10.1387/hc.20129
.
hdl
:
10810/47128
.
ISSN
1130-2402
.
S2CID
213992877
.
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Labrador Morales, Guillermo Leon. "Cucuta and Norte de Santander: Historical configuration of a imagined community".
Pontificia Universitad Javeriana
.
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Villamil Barrera, Laura (2020).
"
"La conservacion de un mar de montanas": Una familia de origen aleman se ha encargado de conservar un bosque del Macizo Colombiano durante 90 anos"
"
.
Elespectador.com
.
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Luque, Armando Munoz (30 June 2016).
"German influence in the industry of Boyaca [Colombia]"
.
Labor e Engenho
(in Spanish).
10
(2): 191?198.
doi
:
10.20396/lobore.v10i2.8646189
.
ISSN
2176-8846
.
- ^
"Fusagasuga, Cundinamarca: The Colombian concentration camp for Germans and Japanese during World War II"
.
BBC News Mundo
(in Spanish)
. Retrieved
20 May
2023
.
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Aportes de los extranjeros a la dinamica social y economica Pasto
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S.A, El Pais.
"Colombia/Germany, a story of brotherhood"
.
www.elpais.com.co
(in Spanish)
. Retrieved
20 May
2023
.
- ^
Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (7 April 2018).
"Mennonites in Meta buy 16,000 hectares"
.
El Tiempo
(in Spanish)
. Retrieved
20 May
2023
.
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Neumann, Gerhardt, 1914, German Jews in Colombia: A Study in Immigrant Adjustment
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Jim Watson.
"SCADTA Joins the Fight"
. Stampnotes.com. Archived from
the original
on 24 September 2015
. Retrieved
20 February
2015
.
- ^
a
b
c
Latin America during World War II by Thomas M. Leonard, John F. Bratzel, P.117
- ^
"Los alemanes"
. 28 October 2006.
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