Ukrainians in Germany

As of the end of 2022 the number of Ukrainians in Germany (German: Ukrainer in Deutschland) was approximately 1,164,200. In 2021 before the war in Ukraine was of 155,310. Germany's Ukrainians have created a number of institutions and organizations, such as the Central Association of Ukrainians in Germany and Association of Ukrainian Diaspora in Germany.

Tourist-visa scandal

In 1999, a conflict arose involving the German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, who eased conditions for citizens of the former Soviet states to get German visas. Many people opposed this claim that it enabled thousands to enter Germany illegally using the abuse of visas granted to them. The majority of Ukrainians that are in Germany on scholarship are there on such visas, adding to the controversy.

Some Ukrainian organizations in Germany have accused Germans of racism and prejudice, and of the belief that Ukrainians are only in Germany to work illegally.

Notable people

See also

• Germany–Ukraine relations
• Germans in Ukraine
• Ukrainians in the Czech Republic
• Ukrainians in Poland

References

1. Ukrainian collaboration with Nazi Germany
2. Ukrainian diaspora
3. Ukrainians
4. Germany–Ukraine relations
5. Reichskommissariat Ukraine
6. Ukrainian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Germany and Scandinavia
7. History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union
8. Russians in Germany
9. Russo-Ukrainian War
10. 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician)
11. Black Sea Germans
12. Ukraine national football team
13. Ukraine
14. Ukrainians in Slovakia
15. Anti-Ukrainian sentiment
16. Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia
17. Tanks of the Ukrainian Army
18. Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists
19. Ukrainian refugee crisis (2022–present)
20. Germany