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{{Infobox ethnic group
|group   = Filipinos in Germany
|image   = Filipino population relative to total Filipino population in Germany 2021.svg
| caption = Distribution of Filipino citizens in Germany (2021)
|population = 65,000 (2008)<ref name="ManilaTimes">{{citation|url=http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/mar/12/yehey/top_stories/20080312top6.html |periodical=The Manila Times |date=12 March 2008 |title=German ambassador helping Philippines from 'sidelines' |access-date=2008-10-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620003751/http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2008/mar/12/yehey/top_stories/20080312top6.html |archive-date=June 20, 2009}}</ref><BR/><small>Including an estimated 30,000 naturalised Germans of Philippine origin. Regional population figures as of 2003 for Philippine citizens only.</small>
|region1 = North Rhine- Westphalia
|pop1    = 4,517
|ref1    = <ref name="OFWJC">{{citation|last=Opiniano|first=Jeremaiah M.|url=http://www.ofwjournalism.net/previousweb/vol3no12/latestories3124.php|title=A taste of Filipino life in Germany|volume=3|issue=12|date=30 December 2004|access-date=2008-10-13|periodical=OFWJC Newspacket|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080618155109/http://www.ofwjournalism.net/previousweb/vol3no12/latestories3124.php|archive-date=18 June 2008}}</ref>
|region2 = Hesse
|pop2    = 3,682
|ref2    = <ref name="OFWJC"/>
|region3 = Bavaria
|pop3    = 3,503
|ref3    = <ref name="OFWJC"/>
|region4 = Baden-Wurttemberg
|pop4    = 3,282
|ref4    = <ref name="OFWJC"/>
|langs   = [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]], [[English language|English]], and other [[languages of the Philippines]]; [[German language|German]]<ref name="Hardillo2007">{{citation|last=Hardillo-Werning|first=Mary Lou U.|chapter=The Filipino Women Migrants in Germany|pages=270–282|title=In De Olde Worlde: Views of Filipino Migrants in Europe|editor-last=Mongaya Hoegsholm|editor-first=Filomenita|publisher=Philippine Social Science Council/Philippine Migration Research Network|year=2007|isbn=978-971-8514-29-0}}</ref>
|rels    = [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]],<ref name="Hardillo2007"/> [[Atheism]]
|related-c = [[Filipinos|Filipino people]], [[Overseas Filipinos]]
}}

The tens of thousands of '''Filipinos in Germany''' consist of people from various walks of life, including [[migrant worker|migrant workers]] in the medical sector and marine-based industries, as well as a number of women married to [[Germany|German]] men they met through [[mail-order bride|international marriage agencies]].<ref name="ManilaTimes"/><ref name="Hardillo2007"/>

== Migration history ==
The history of Filipinos in Germany goes back to the 19th century; national hero [[José Rizal]] lived in Germany for some time and finished writing his famous novel ''[[Noli Me Tangere (novel)|Noli Me Tangere]]'' while living there, and published it with the assistance of professor [[Ferdinand Blumentritt]]; the house where Rizal lived in [[Berlin]] sports a commemorative plaque, and efforts are underway to purchase the building from its owner.<ref name="ManilaTimes"/> Mass migration from the Philippines to Germany began in the late 1960s, with large numbers of Filipina nurses taking up employment in German hospitals; however, with the onset of the [[1973 oil crisis]], German recruitment of ''[[gastarbeiter]]'' largely came to a halt. Immigration through marriage began in the 1980s, with roughly 1,000 women a year applying at the Philippine Embassy for a Certificate of Legal Capacity to Contract Marriage up until 1990.<ref name="Hardillo2007"/>

==Demography==
Reliable estimates on the number of Filipinos in Germany are difficult to obtain. The German embassy to the Philippines estimated that 35,000 Philippine citizens worked in Germany as of 2008, and that another 30,000 had naturalised as German citizens.<ref name="ManilaTimes"/> Roughly 1,300 Filipinos acquire German citizenship each year.<ref name="OFWJC"/> Official figures of the [[Federal Statistical Office of Germany]] showed 23,171 Filipinos residing in the country as of 2003; that number did not include Filipinos naturalised as German citizens, nor those who [[illegal immigration|resided in the country illegally]]. A 2007 study by scholars of the Philippine Migration Research Network suggested that the number of illegal residents might be as high as 40,000.<ref name="Hardillo2007"/> However, the Philippine consulate-general claims that the number of Filipinos illegally residing in Germany is very small.<ref name="OFWJC"/> As a result of the early female-dominated migration of nurses and [[international marriage agency|international marriage agencies]] in West Germany, the Filipino community is heavily gender-imbalanced, with nearly 3.5 women for every man, according to the [[Federal Statistical Office of Germany]].<ref name="Hardillo2007"/> Only in Hamburg is this ratio reversed.<ref name="OFWJC"/>

==Community==
Filipinos in Germany have established more than one hundred civic organisations.<ref name="Hardillo2007"/> [[Karaoke]] contests are a particularly popular form of social gathering.<ref name="OFWJC"/> Church-based volunteer work is also widespread and has been particularly successful in encouraging social engagement by female migrants, aimed at assisting the local Filipino community as well as raising money for charity projects in the Philippines.<ref name="Hardillo2007"/> Filipinos are well-integrated into German society, viewed by their neighbours as hardworking, skillful and peaceful.<ref name="ManilaTimes"/> According to a 1997 survey by the [[Netherlands]]' [[Tilburg University|Universiteit van Tilburg]], 75% feel they have no problems with cultural or linguistic adjustment.<ref name="OFWJC"/>
==Notable people==
{{further information|:Category:German people of Filipino descent}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Philippines|Germany}}
*[[German settlement in the Philippines]]
*[[Germany–Philippines relations]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

{{Overseas Filipinos}}
{{Immigration to Germany}}

[[Category:Asian diaspora in Germany]]
[[Category:Filipino diaspora by country|Germany]]
[[Category:Filipino expatriates in Germany| ]]
[[Category:German people of Filipino descent| ]]
[[Category:Germany–Philippines relations]]