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Hungarians in Germany
Ungarn in Deutschland  · Németországi magyarok

Distribution of Hungarian citizens in Germany (2021)
Total population
207,000+
Regions with significant populations
Germany: Mainly Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Hesse
Languages
Predominantly German followed by Hungarian
Religion
Predominantly Catholic and Calvinist Minority Atheist
Related ethnic groups
Other Hungarian people

There are around 207,000 Hungarians in Germany. Hungarians have emigrated to Germany since the Middle Ages. However, their number continues to grow at an increased pace since the end of World War I. Today, around 75% of this population live in the states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Hessen.

Population

Only about 60% arrived with a Hungarian passport, as many of them arrived from areas of the former Kingdom of Hungary (see Treaty of Trianon, 1920).

Major population changes:

• About 30,000 arrived after 1945
• About 25,000 arrived after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
• 25,000 Gastarbeiter from Yugoslavia after 1960
• Around 5,000 migrants from Czechoslovakia after the Prague Spring of 1968
• Approx. 30,000 Hungarians from Transylvania after 1975
• About 15,000 fleeing communism in Hungary
• 15,000 moving to East Germany (until the 1990 German reunification)

Culture

In 2006/2007, Hungary presented its country and culture in Germany with a whole series of cultural events including the exhibition "Germans in Hungary – Hungarians in Germany. European Lives".

Notable individuals

• Albrecht Dürer, painter (his father moved to Germany from Hungary, his surname refers to their old Hungarian village)
• Béla Ernyey, actor
• Joschka Fischer, politician, foreign minister, his family was expelled from Hungary in 1946
• Imre Kertész, writer, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Kevin Kurányi, football player (Hungarian on paternal side)
• Philipp Lenard, physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1905
• Franz Liszt, composer
• Leslie Mándoki, musician
• Dzsenifer Marozsán, football player, captain of the Germany women's national football team
• Willi Orban - football player
• Gabor Steingart, journalist
• Niklas Süle, football player
• George Tabori, writer
• Patrick Buzas, ice hockey player
• Béla Réthy, sport reporter
• György Grozer, volleyball player
• Palkó Dárdai, football player
• Matyas Szabo, fencer
• Zoltán Sebescen, football player
• Nadine Schatzl, handball player
• Vera Molnar, actress
• Szebasztián Szabó, swimmer

Gallery

• House of Franz Liszt, Weimar
• Tomb of Franz Liszt, Bayreuth
• Former Hungarian Embassy, Bonn
• Hungarian Embassy, Berlin
• Collegium Hungaricum Berlin

See also

• Germany–Hungary relations
• Hungarian diaspora
• Immigration to Germany
• Germans of Hungary

References

1. "More than 207 thousand Hungarians live in Germany" (in Hungarian). 9 January 2019. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
2. "General Information - Hungarians in Germany". Association of Hungarian Organisations in Germany (in Hungarian). Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
3. "Germans and Hungarians launch "Europe's Ark"". Press and Information Office of the German Government. Archived from the original on 2011-09-26. Retrieved 2016-06-01.

External links

• Association of Hungarian Organisations in Germany (in Hungarian and German)
• Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (in Hungarian and German)
• Irány Németország (in Hungarian)

• Germany
• Hungary

• German people of Hungarian descent
• Hungarian expatriates in Germany
• Hungarian diaspora by country
• Ethnic groups in Germany
• Germany–Hungary relations
• 20th century in Hungary
• Hungarian minorities in Europe