German Argentines
German Argentines (German: Deutschargentinier, Spanish: germano-argentinos) are Argentines of German ancestry as well as German citizens living in Argentina. 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. Although Germany as a political entity was founded in 1871, the German language and culture have traditionally been more important than the country of origin, as the basis of the ethnic and national consciousness of Germans. Today, German Argentines make up the fifth-largest ethnic group in Argentina, with over two million citizens of Volga German descent alone.
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German Argentines during the Immigrant's Festival in Oberá, Misiones. | |
| Total population | |
| More than 600.000 to 1 million (descendants of German citizens: (descendants of Volga Germans: more than 2.5 million) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province, Entre Ríos, La Pampa Province, Río Negro Province, Misiones, Chaco, Santa Fe, Neuquén. | |
| Languages | |
| Rioplatense Spanish · German and German dialects (notably Hunsrik and Paraná-Wolga-Deutsch) | |
| Religion | |
| Roman Catholicism (majority) · Protestantism (minority) (Lutheranism · Evangelicalism) · |
German Argentines have founded German schools such as the Hölters Schule and German-language newspapers such as the Argentinisches Tageblatt ("Argentine Daily"). German descendants even make up the majority of the population in several localities in the interior of the country.