19 Facts About German Brazilians

German Brazilians refers to Brazilians of full or partial German ancestry.

When German Brazilians-speaking immigrants first arrived in Brazil starting at the beginning of the 19th century, they did not identify themselves so much as a unified German Brazilians-Brazilian group.

From Sao Leopoldo and Novo Hamburgo, the German Brazilians immigrants spread into other areas of Rio Grande do Sul, mainly close to sources of rivers.

Nowadays these areas of German Brazilians colonization are among the wealthiest parts of Brazil, with the lowest levels of unemployment and illiteracy found in the country, and still retain a strong influence from German Brazilians culture.

The areas of German Brazilians settlement emerged in the center of the region, isolated from other settlements.

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German Brazilians had moved away from European standards, habits, language and aspirations.

However, coexistence with the local German Brazilians showed that the differences with the locals were great.

Some of the old German Brazilians communities are now prosperous industrial centers, such as Sao Leopoldo, Novo Hamburgo, Blumenau, Joinville and Itajai.

Use of the German language is in decline in Brazil, however, there are 3, 000, 000 Brazilians who speak German and important German-speaking communities in Brazil even almost 200 years after the beginning of immigration.

German Brazilians immigrants preserved their language more than any other group of immigrants in Brazil.

Brazilian Census of 1940 revealed that German Brazilians was the second most spoken language in Brazil, with 644, 458 speakers.

The fact that they spoke German did not prevent them from seeing themselves as Brazilians, since they saw themselves as "Brazilians of German culture".

German Brazilians saw themselves as part of a pluralist society, so that the Deutschtum conception seemed compatible with the fact that they were Brazilian citizens.

Not only the people of German Brazilians origin were considered "alien": almost all descendants of immigrants, in some degree, were "non-assimilated", in the opinion of Bethlem and other participants in the campaign.

The record of the first impressions about the city of Blumenau in his book received the subtitle of "One Weird City", arguing that "the German Brazilians language is spoken without constraints, including in public offices".

German Brazilians forbade any organised manifestation of German culture in Brazil.

Publicly speaking foreign languages, including German Brazilians, was banned under penalty of imprisonment; this was especially enforced against the public use of German Brazilians.

Many German Brazilians schools re-opened during the 1950s and are regarded as some of the best places to educate children.

German Brazilians community founded two of the main football clubs in Brazil.