Spanish immigration to Germany

Spanish Germans (Spanish: Españoles en Alemania; German: Spanier in Deutschland) are any citizen or resident of Germany who is of Spanish ancestral origin. Between 1960 and 1973, up to 600,000 Spaniards emigrated to Germany.^[1]

Spaniards in Germany

Distribution of Spanish citizens in Germany (2021)
Total population
600,000 (with Spaniards ancestry) [1] 181,640 (Spaniards citizens)[2]
Regions with significant populations
Berlin · Frankfurt · Munich · Hamburg · Cologne
Languages
German · Spanish
Religion
Major Catholicism · Others
Related ethnic groups
Spaniards · Other European peoples

Notable people

List of Spaniards in Germany: Mario Gomez, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Gonzalo Castro, Francisco Copado, Curro Torres, Enrique Sánchez Lansch, Marc Gallego, Stefan Ortega, Joselu, Daniel Brühl, Aarón (footballer), Oscar Corrochano, Stephanie zu Guttenberg, Alberto Mendez, Vanessa Petruo, Alexandra Sanchez, Santiago Ziesmer, Sercan Sararer, Marcos Alvarez, Marcel Titsch-Rivero, Gabi Delgado-López.

Spaniards in Germany per Bundesland (1980 to 2020)

Spaniards in Germany per County (Kreise) (2001 to 2020)

Population over time

Spaniards in Germany

Year	Population[3]
1980	179,952
1985	152,781
1990	135,498
1995	132,283
2000	129,471
2005	107,778
2010	105,401
2015	155,918
2020	181,640

Number of Spaniards in larger cities
#	City	People
1.	Berlin	15,045
2.	Munich	9,414
3.	Frankfurt	7,261
4.	Hamburg	6,040
5.	Düsseldorf	4,477
6.	Cologne	4,154
7.	Dortmund	3,623
8.	Bonn	3,282
9.	Stuttgart	3,233
10.	Hanover	2,846
11.	Essen	1,931
12.	Nuremberg	1,872
13.	Mannheim	1,764
14.	Wiesbaden	1,538
15.	Karlsruhe	1,513

See also

• Germany portal
• Spain portal

• Germany–Spain relations
• Spanish diaspora
• Immigration to Germany