page_title: Afro-Germans
section_title: African and German interaction 1600 to late 1800s
hierarchical_section_title: Afro-Germans / History / African and German interaction 1600 to late 1800s
caption_attribution_description: English: Inside of Gross-Friedrichsburg, view in February 1884 Deutsch: Im Innern von Groß-Friedrichsburg, Ansicht im Februar 1884
context_page_description: Afro-Germans, Black Germans are people who are citizens and/or residents of Germany and who are of Sub-Saharan African descent. Afro-Germans are found across Germany, but are mostly situated in larger cities, such as Hamburg, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Munich, Bremen, Cologne and Berlin.
  Cities such as Hamburg and Frankfurt, which were formerly centres of occupation forces following World War II and more recent immigration, have substantial Afro-German communities. With modern trade and migration, communities such as Frankfurt, Berlin, Munich, and Cologne have an increasing number of Afro-Germans. As of 2018, there were approximately 494,000 Afro-Germans in a country with a population of 82,000,000 people of partial, mixed or full Sub Saharan African descent up to grandparents, there are 936,000 individuals if Egyptians, Moroccans, and North Africans are included.
context_section_description: The first Black People in Germany were here around the Dark Ages  then in the 17th century. During the 1720s, Ghana-born Anton Wilhelm Amo was sponsored by a German duke to become the first African to attend a European university; after completing his studies, he taught and wrote in philosophy. Later, Africans were brought as slaves from the western coast of Africa where a number of German estates were established, primarily on the Gold Coast. After King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia sold his Ghana Groß Friedrichsburg estates in Africa in 1717, from which up to 30,000 people had been sold to the Dutch East India Company,  the new owners were bound by contract to "send 12 negro boys, six of them decorated with golden chains," to the king. The enslaved children were brought to Potsdam and Berlin.
caption: Inside Brandenburger Gold Coast.  View in February 1884.
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