page_title: German Argentines
section_title: German immigration to Argentina
hierarchical_section_title: German Argentines / German immigration to Argentina
caption_attribution_description: Español: Elianne Oswald, reina de la colectividad alemana, durante el desfile inaugural de la XXVI Fiesta Nacional del Inmigrante, en Oberá, Misiones, Argentina. El jueves 8 de Septiembre fue elegida como Reina Nacional del Inmigrante edición 2005. English: Elianne Oswald, queen of the Germany collectivity, during the inaugural parade of the XXVI Immigrant's National Festival, in Oberá, Misiones, Argentina. Thursday, 8th September was chosen as National Queen of the Immigrant edition 2005. Português: Elianne Oswald, rainha da coletividade alemã, durante o desfile inaugural da XXVI Festa Nacional do Imigrante, em Oberá, Misiones, Argentina. A quinta-feira 8 de Setembro foi elegida como Rainha Nacional do Imigrante edição 2005. Français&#160;: Elianne Oswald, reine de la collectivité allemande, pendant le premier défilé du XXVIe Festival nationale de l'immigré, à Oberá, Misiones, Argentind. Jeudi le 8 de septembre, elle a été choisie comme reine nationale du défilé de 2005.
context_page_description: German Argentines are Argentine citizens of German ancestry. They are descendants of Germans who immigrated to Argentina from Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Some German Argentines originally settled in Brazil, then later immigrated to Argentina. Germany as a political entity was founded only in 1871, but immigrants from earlier dates are also considered German Argentines due to their shared ethnic heritage, language and culture. German Argentines today make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in Argentina, with over two million Volga Germans alone.
  German Argentines have founded German schools such as the Hölters Schule and German-language newspapers such as the Argentinisches Tageblatt. The five provinces with the largest numbers of inhabitants of German descent are, in order of largest German population: Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Misiones and La Pampa.
context_section_description: Between 1885 and the First World War the population of Argentina doubled with the influx of three million European immigrants, 100,000 of whom spoke German. Many surnames of Germanic immigrants of 20th century continue resounding up to date like Altgelt, Born, Braun, Bracht, Bunge, Bullrich, Frers, Holmberg, Klappenbach, Mallmann, Meyer, Seeber, Stegmann, Alemann,Tornquist, Zimmermann, Zuberbühler and others that comprised traditional families of the country. Strong German communities developed in Argentina, and especially in Buenos Aires, with their own schools, hospitals, shops, theaters, sport clubs and banks. Many of those Germans who immigrated directly from Germany were assimilated with the upper middle class of Buenos Aires, but maintained strong ties to German culture, providing high-quality German instruction so that their children would not be at a disadvantage when they returned to Germany.
  German immigration to Argentina occurred during 5 main time periods: pre–1870, 1870–1914, 1918–1933, 1933–1940 and post–1945. During the first period till 1870, immigration to Argentina was in general low. Of note are the colonias alemanas, the first one founded in the province of Buenos Aires in 1827. The colonias are a unique and notable phenomenon in Argentina's immigration history but were also far from an exclusively German practice.
  During the second period, from 1870 until 1914, Argentina experienced a massive boom in immigration due to or causing massive economic expansion in the port of Buenos Aires and in the wheat and beef producing pampas. In this time frame, the German speakers of Argentina established themselves and developed several institutions, which are often examined in academic studies, such as newspapers, schools and social clubs. Despite originating from all over German speaking Europe, once in Argentina, a new, Germanic Argentine identity developed. One example of this can be found in the studies of the newspaper Argentinische Tageblatt; it was founded by Swiss immigrants but, by the 1930s, became the primary forum for exiles from Nazi Germany. In this time period Volga German immigrants also arrived in the country and settled in different provinces.
  During the third period, after a pause during World War I, immigration to Argentina again resumed and German speakers came in their largest numbers. This can be attributed to increased immigration restrictions in the United States and Brazil as well as the deteriorating conditions in post-World War I Europe. The two largest years of German immigration to Argentina were 1923 and 1924, approximately 10,000 in each year. This period is of particular interest because while the older groups of German speakers began to feel a sense of cultural crisis due to the assimilation policies of the Argentine state, the new arrivals gave new life to German cultural institutions, such as the aforementioned newspaper, and created new ones.  Between 1905 and 1933, the number of German schools rose from 59 to 176. Though found throughout Argentina, over 80% were located in Buenos Aires, Misiones, or Entre Ríos in 1933. Further, attendance at German schools rose from 3,300 in 1905 to 12,900 in 1933.  The studies inherently favour Buenos Aires, where half of all Germans lived, over the colonias because fewer institutions, particularly newspapers, developed.
  During the fourth period, from 1933 to 1940, Argentina experienced another surge in German immigration. The majority were German Jews although other German opponents of Nazism also came. In total, 45,000 German speakers came at this time and half settled in Buenos Aires. From 1933 to 1945, they comprised 28% of total immigration to Argentina, as mass migration to Argentina was slowing. Two recent German studies have been written on these arrivals’ impact on Das Argentinische Tageblatt and how the newspaper was used by anti-Nazi immigrants within the Argentine German-speaking community's debate about fascism.
  The fifth category of German immigration to Argentina occurred between 1946 and 1950 when President Juan Perón ordere
caption: Queen of the German Collectivity in the Fiesta Nacional del Inmigrante in Oberá, Misiones.
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