# Serbs in Germany

Serbs in Germany (Serbian: Срби у Немачкој, romanized: Srbi u Nemačkoj; German: Serben in Deutschland) refers to persons living in Germany who have total or partial Serbian ancestry. They form the seventh largest group of foreigners in Germany.

## Demographics

The majority (64%) of the Serbian population is concentrated in three federal states: North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria. Within the three states the Serbs are numerous in Düsseldorf, Stuttgart and especially Munich. Ulm had the highest share of migrants from Serbia in 2011 according to German Census data. But a considerable part of the Serbian Migrants was not included, because it still went under former nationalities (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro, Serbia until 2008) at the time of the census. According to the Federal Statistical Office, at the end of 2015 the number of foreigners with Serbian nationality in Germany stood at 230,427. Another 29,785 foreigners living in Germany with the citizenship of the former Serbia and Montenegro have not yet decided on one of the possible new citizenships.
Official data:
* 1925: 14,067 (Yugoslav nationality)
* 1935: 17,258 (Yugoslav nationality)
* 1939: 58,240 (Yugoslav nationality)
* 1968: 99,000 (workers)
* 1971: 469,000 (workers)
* 1973: 471,000 (workers)
* 1988: 295,000 (workers)
* 1989: 300,000 (workers)
* 1990: 652,500 (Yugoslav nationality)
* 1994: 420,000 (Serbia and Montenegro)
* 1995: 418,000 (Serbia and Montenegro)
* 2001: 304,000 (Serbia and Montenegro)
* 2003: 568,240 (Serbia and Montenegro); 112,507 Germany-born Serbian nationals
* 2011: 197,984 (Serbian nationals)
* 2013: 241,374 (Serbian nationals)
* 2015: 313,198 (Serbian ancestry)
Number of Serbs in larger cities :
| # | City | People |
| 1. | Berlin | 20,109 |
| 2. | Munich | 14,283 |
| 3. | Frankfurt | 9,404 |
| 4. | Hamburg | 7,405 |
| 5. | Stuttgart | 5,844 |
| 6. | Cologne | 5,627 |
| 7. | Braunschweig | 3,931 |
| 8. | Essen | 3,774 |
| 9. | Bremen | 3,405 |
| 10. | Offenbach | 3,156 |
| 11. | Nuremberg | 3,027 |
| 12. | Hanover | 2,748 |
| 13. | Mainz | 2,639 |
| 14. | Gelsenkirchen | 2,582 |
| 15. | Duisburg | 2,488 |
| 16. | Oberhausen | 2,090 |
| 17. | Bielefeld | 2,037 |
| 18. | Wuppertal | 1,997 |
| 19. | Münster | 1,885 |
| 20. | Wiesbaden | 1,827 |
| 21. | Freiburg | 1,761 |

## Notable people

| Iván Petrovich | Gojko Mitić | Zvjezdan Misimović | Marko Marin | Andrea Petkovic |
* Danko Bošković, footballer
* Marko Djurdjević, illustrator
* Dejan Janjatović, footballer, Croatian Serb
* Slobodan Komljenović, footballer
* Srđan Maksimović, footballer
* Marko Marin, footballer, Bosnian Serb
* Tamara Milosevic, documentary filmmaker
* Zvjezdan Misimović, footballer, Bosnian Serb parentage
* Nikola Mladenović, footballer
* Wolfgang Nešković, politician
* Dragan Paljić, footballer, Bosnian Serb parentage
* Andrea Petkovic, female tennis player, Bosnian-born, Serb father
* Marjan Petković, footballer
* Aleksandro Petrović, footballer, Bosnian-Serb
* Iván Petrovich, actor, silent screen star, Serbian-born
* Petar Radenković, footballer
* Vladimir Ranković, footballer
* Michael Rensing, footballer, Serbian mother
* Sreto Ristić, retired footballer
* Christina Sampanidis, female footballer, Serbian mother
* Marko Savić, water poloist
* Kristian Sprećaković, footballer
* Aleksandar Stevanović, footballer
* Predrag Stevanović, footballer
* Neven Subotić, footballer, Bosnian Serb
* Stefan Kapičić, actor, German born
* Branko Tomović, actor, Serbian parents
* David Vržogić, footballer
* Marc Vucinovic, footballer
* Konstantin Grcic, world renown industrial designer