People descended from ethnic German colonists living in present-day Namibia
German Namibians Deutschnamibier
Hybrid Flag of Namibia and Germany
Total population
c. 30,000 (c. third of White Namibians)
Regions with significant populations
Central and South Namibia
Languages
German, Afrikaans, English
Religion
Roman Catholic, Lutheran
German Namibians (German: Deutschnamibier) are a community of people descended from ethnic German colonists who settled in present-day Namibia. In 1883, the German trader Adolf Lüderitz bought what would become the southern coast of Namibia from Josef Frederiks II, a chief of the local Oorlam people, and founded the city of Lüderitz. The German government, eager to gain overseas possessions, annexed the territory soon after, proclaiming it German South West Africa (German: Deutsch-Südwestafrika). Small numbers of Germans subsequently immigrated there, many coming as soldiers (German: Schutztruppe), traders, diamond miners, or colonial officials. In 1915, during the course of World War I, Germany lost its colonial possessions, including South West Africa (see History of Namibia); after the war, the former German colony was administered as a South African mandate. The German settlers were allowed to remain and, until independence in 1990, German remained an official language of the territory alongside Afrikaans and English.
GermanNamibians (German: Deutschnamibier) are a community of people descended from ethnic German colonists who settled in present-day Namibia. In 1883...
languages in Namibia. German is the mother tongue of GermanNamibians as well as older black speakers of Namibian Black German and Black Namibians who as children...
White Namibians (German: Weiße Namibier or Europäische Namibier) are people of European descent settled in Namibia. The majority of White Namibians are...
4% using English (15,912). German is spoken by only 0.3% of the rural Namibians as compared to 1.7% of the urban Namibians. The maximum concentration...
thousand Namibians speak German as a second language – many, but not most of them Black, and while NamibianGerman often does not adhere to standard German, it...
waged against the Herero (Ovaherero) and the Nama in German South West Africa (now Namibia) by the German Empire. It was the first genocide to begin in the...
Ferdinand Friedrich Krauss (1812–1890), scientist and traveler GermanNamibians "German Immigrants to the Cape Colony under the Dutch 1652-1806". safrika...
Premier League until 2013. It is known to be the sports club of GermanNamibians (thus the German spelling variant Sport Klub, although the correct spelling...
German South West Africa (German: Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 until 1915, though Germany did not officially recognise...
The German diaspora (German: Deutschstämmige) consists of German people and their descendants who live outside of Germany. The term is used in particular...
Namibians can speak and understand English and Afrikaans. Up to 1990, English, German, and Afrikaans were official languages. Long before Namibia's independence...
today, some older Namibians still have some knowledge of it. German remained a de facto official language of Namibia after the end of German colonial rule...
well as about 100 local people. Angolans in NamibiaGermanNamibians Xoagub, Francis (2011-02-17), "Namibia: Chinese 'Invasion' Gets Mixed Reaction", New...
Routledge 2002. "Germans return skulls to Namibia. On Friday, Germany will return the first 20 of an estimated 300 skulls of indigenous Namibians butchered a...
Namibia. The station went on air on August 1, 2012. Owners were the German Namibians Wilfried Hähner and Sybille Rothkegel, and since October 2020 Sybille...
capital, Luanda. Other German Angolans left for Namibia, which was a German territory and where the remaining colonial German population lives and Portuguese...
GDR-Children of Namibia is a colloquial term denoting black Namibian children that were raised in East Germany, also known as the German Democratic Republic...
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referred to by its Herero name Ejova (singular)/ Omajowa (plural). GermanNamibians refer to the mushroom as "Termitenpilz." Termitomyces schimperi can...
Südwesterlied [de] for the German Scouts which later became the unofficial national anthem of the GermanNamibians. German-speaking Scout units can also...
declaration of war between Germany and Portugal (March 1916), German and Portuguese troops clashed several times on the border between German South West Africa...
song Südwesterlied [de] for the German Scouts which later became the unofficial national anthem of the GermanNamibians. Deutscher Pfadfinderbund von Südwestafrika:...
/ Baster Kavango people San Tswana people White Namibians Zambezi people The majority of the Namibian population is of Bantu-speaking origin—mostly of...
century to Namibia's independence on 21 March 1990. From 1884, Namibia was a German colony: German South West Africa. After the First World War, the League...
Huguenots and Germans. Theal argued that most studies suggesting a higher percentage of German ancestry among Afrikaners wrongly counted as "German" all those...
against German rule at the turn of the 20th century, has been depicted on all Namibian banknotes. However, on 21 March 2012, the Bank of Namibia introduced...
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