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German nationality law details the conditions by which an individual is a national of Germany. The primary law governing these requirements is the Nationality Act, which came into force on 1 January 1914. Germany is a member state of the European Union (EU) and all German nationals are EU citizens.
The English term Germans is derived from the ethnonym Germani, which was used for Germanic peoples in ancient times. [7] [8] Since the early modern period, it has been the most common name for the Germans in English, being applied to any citizens, natives or inhabitants of Germany, regardless of whether they are considered to have German ethnicity.
German and foreign national population pyramid of Germany in 2021. As the end of 2023, the most common groups of resident foreign nationals in Germany were as follows: [83] This list does not include non-ethnic Germans with German nationality and foreign nationals without resident status.
The German government also encouraged the estimated several million ethnic Germans living in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe to remain there. From 1993 to 1999, the German government established a cap limiting ethnic German immigration to 220,000 people per year, which was later lowered to 100,000.
The German government published a list of Jews whose citizenship was annulled: "Name Index of Jews Whose German Nationality was Annulled by the Nazi Regime 1935–1944." The records were created when German citizenship was revoked because of the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. The records are accessible via Web site Ancestry.com. [5]
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Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
German identity documents use the in Germany officially registered name in Latin letters, normally based on transcription into German. German naming law accepts umlauts and/or ß in family names as a reason for an official name change (even just the change of the spelling, e.g. from Müller to Mueller or from Weiß to Weiss is regarded as a ...