German New Zealanders

German New Zealanders
*Deutsch-Neuseeländer*
Total population
(German 12,810 (2013)^[1])
Regions with significant populations
Auckland, Kirke, Wellington
Languages
New Zealand English, German
Religion
Predominantly Lutheranism and Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Germans, German Australians, German Americans, German Canadians, French Germans

German New Zealanders (German: Deutsch-Neuseeländer) are New Zealand citizens of ethnic German ancestry. The German community constitute one of the largest European ethnic groups in New Zealand, numbering 12,810 in the 2013 Census.

Demography

The 2013 Census counted 12,810 New Zealand residents who had ancestry from Germany.^[1] This number does not include people of German ancestry who selected their ancestry as simply "New Zealander". Today the number of New Zealanders with German ancestry is estimated to be approximately 200,000 (5% of the population). Many German New Zealanders anglicized their names during the 20th century due to the negative perception of Germans fostered by World War I and World War II.

In 2013, the German language was spoken at home by 36,642 persons in New Zealand. German is the ninth most widely spoken language in the country after English, Māori, Samoan, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese, French, Cantonese, and Chinese (not further defined).

Tourism

New Zealand has long been a popular destination for German backpacker tourists and students.

German New Zealand culture

The Goethe-Institut is active in New Zealand and there is a branch in Wellington.^[2]

Notable German New Zealanders

Morton W. Coutts, inventor
Russell Crowe, actor
Christian Cullen, rugby union footballer
Awen Guttenbeil, rugby league footballer
Howard Kippenberger, major general
Josh Kronfeld, TV presenter and rugby union footballer
David Lange, 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
Oscar Natzka, operatic singer
Arnold Nordmeyer, politician
William Ott, mayor
Victoria Schmidt, actress
Karl Urban, actor

References

German people

Historical

Diaspora

Europe

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Eastern Europe	Moldova Romania Transylvanian Saxons Landler Danube Banat Satu Mare Swabians Bukovina Dobruja Regat Russia (Volga Caucasus) Ukraine Bessarabia Black Sea Russian Mennonite Crimea Galicia

Northern Europe	Denmark Potato Germans

Southern Europe	Bulgaria Italy Yugoslavia Turkey Bosporus

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Multinational dimension	Baltic states Central and Eastern

Americas

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Canada
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United States
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- Nebraska
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- by city
Uruguay
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El Salvador

Africa

Asia

Oceania

See also

Immigration to New Zealand

From Africa	Africans South Africans

From the Americas	Americans Canadians

From Asia	Arabs Cambodians Chinese Filipinos Indians Indonesians Iranian Iraqis Japanese Jews Koreans Malaysians Nepalis Pakistanis Sri Lankans Thais Turkish Vietnamese

From Europe	Albanian Austrian British English Scottish Welsh Croatian Danish Dutch Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Icelandic Irish Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Serbian Spanish Swedish Ukrainian

Oceania	Australians Samoans

See also	Refugee migration into New Zealand Immigration New Zealand

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