Indian-Germans

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Indian-Germans are people of Indo-German descent or those who live in Germany and are of Indian descent. In the beginning of 2000, nearly 40,000 Indian-Germans holding German citizenship and just as many holding Indian citizenship lived in Germany.

1 History
2 Prominent Indian-Germans
3 Popular Indian-German websites
4 References

[edit] History

For the most part, the history of Indians in Germany dates back to the 1960s, when nurses from Kerala were hired by German hospitals. ^[1] Until 1973, when Germany ceased issuing working visas for guest workers, German companies hired many Indians as engineers or computer scientists. In the 1980s, asylum seekers mainly from the North Indian state of Punjab came to Germany. In 2001, the German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder issued the German green card ^[2] for IT professionals, which brought another 20,000 Indians to Germany. Today, most Indian-Germans are middle-class professionals, such as doctors, engineers, professors or software developers.

[edit] Prominent Indian-Germans

Sujata Bhatt: Poet. (Citizenship?)
Anita Bose-Pfaff: Professor of Economics at the University of Augsburg and daughter of Subhash Chandra Bose (Netaji). She is an Austrian citizen.
Atul Chitnis: Consulting technologist and founder of FOSS.IN. (Citizenship?)
Rahul Peter Das: Professor of South Asian Studies at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, board member of the EuroIndia Centre, Hind Rattan award winner. He is a German citizen.
Alokeranjan Dasgupta: Poet, Sahitya Akademi award and Pravasi Bharatiya Samman award winner. (Citizenship?)
Gita Dharampal-Frick: Professor of South Asian History at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. (Citizenship?)
Sebastian Edathy: Member of German parliament belonging to the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He is a German citizen.
Collien Fernandes: Media person. (Citizenship?)
Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn: Professor of Transcultural Anglophone Studies at Saarland University. She is a German citizen.
Ravindra Gujjula: Mayor of the borough (Stadtteil) of Altlandsberg in Altlandsberg. He is a German citizen.
Anant Kumar: Author. (Citizenship?)
Judith Lefeber: Singer. She is a German citizen.
Subrata Kumar Mitra: Professor of Political Science of South Asia at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Chevalier dans l’Ordre de la Palme Academique. He is a French citizen.
Xavier Naidoo: Singer. He is a German citizen.
Kamala Reddy (Mother Meera): Well-known spiritual leader. (Citizenship?)
Rahul Sengupta: Head of the department of surgery at the Johanniter Hospital, Radevormwald. He is a German citizen.
Sabrina Setlur: Singer and ex-girlfriend of Boris Becker. She is a German citizen.
Josef Philip Winkler: Member of German parliament belonging to the Alliance '90/The Greens (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen). He is a German citizen.
Ranganathan Yogeshwar: Television presenter specializing in science and technology. He is a citizen of Luxemburg.