{{More citations needed|date=January 2016}} {{Infobox ethnic group | group = German Peruvians | native_name = | image = 250px | caption = <small>{{flagicon|Germany}} {{flagicon|Peru}}</small> | population = +50k Estimated | popplace = Lima, Oxapampa, Pozuzo, Villa Rica, Trujillo | langs = Spanish, German, Hunsrik, Austrian German | rels = Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism | related = }}
'''German Peruvians''' are Peruvian citizens of full or partial German ancestry. In general, the term is also applied to descendants of other German-speaking immigrants, such as Austrians or the Swiss, or to someone who has immigrated to Peru from German-speaking countries, such as German Italians (Italian citizens of German descent and speak German language).
== 20th century == During World War II, some German Peruvians fell under the influence of Nazi Germany and began their own branches of the Nazi Party.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Martínez-Flener |first=Milagros |date=2013 |title=Presente sin pasado: la comunidad alemana en el Perú y el Partido Nazi (1932-1945) |journal=Revista del Archivo General de la Nación |volume=29 |pages=209–210}}</ref> About 2,000 German Peruvians lived in Peru during World War II,<ref name=":0" /> with the total number of known active Nazi party members in Peru being documented at more than 200.<ref name=":0" /> Prominent families such as the Emmel family in Arequipa and Fischer family in Andahuaylas, the Albrecht family in Cusco and the Schäfer family in Piura signed their names as Nazi Party members.<ref name=":0" /><ref>(24 July 1939) ''Internal report of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the appointment of Mr. Albrecht as honorary consul in Cuzco''. Berlin, p. 169005</ref> Carl Dedering led the Nazi Party in Peru and much of the documentation regarding the party in Peru was lost, some of it burned by party members to prevent incrimination.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">Martínez-Flener, Milagros (2013) ''NSDAP/AO Landesgruppe Peru: presentación general del Partido Nazi en el Perú (1932-1945)''</ref> In the remote village of Pozuzo, the Nazi Flag would be raised on the town's flagpole.<ref name=":1" />
Peru's government would abide by British blacklists targeting German businesses in the country during the war.<ref name=":0" /> The Alexander Humboldt School in Lima was a meeting place for five branches of the Nazi Party, with the school's director and teachers being deported to internment camps in the United States for being leaders.<ref name=":0" /> After Peru broke diplomatic relations with Germany in 1942, some naturalized German Peruvians were sent to internment camps in the United States.<ref name=":0" /> Many German Peruvians placed their accounts in the Embassy of Francoist Spain due to its closeness with Nazi Germany, with about 3 million soles being present by 1945.<ref name=":0" />
==Education== German schools in Peru: * Colegio Peruano-Alemán Beata Imelda * Deutsche Schule Lima Alexander von Humboldt (Lima) * Deutsche Schule Max Uhle Arequipa * Reina del Mundo Schule (Colegio Peruano-Alemán Reina del Mundo)
==Notable German Peruvians== {{col-begin}} {{col-2}} *Andrea Moberg *Moritz Hochschild *Liesel Holler *Federico Kauffmann *Jorge Koechlin *Maju Mantilla *Alberto Thieroldt *Edith Noeding *Gladys Zender {{col-2}} *Barton Zwiebach *Juliane Koepcke *Martha Hildebrandt *Antonio Brack Egg *Isaac Mekler *Christian Meier *Guillermo Wiese de Osma *Guillermo Lohmann Villena *Francisco Sagasti *Tracy Freundt *Hans Rudolf Oehlhey *Nancy Lange {{col-end}}
==German Peruvian institutions and associations== * [http://www.ipal.edu.pe Instituto Superior Tecnologico Privado Peruano] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081026022320/http://www.ipal.edu.pe/ |date=2008-10-26 }} * [https://www.colegio-humboldt.edu.pe Colegio Peruano Alemán - Alexander von Humboldt] * [http://www.waldorf-lima.edu.pe Colegio Waldorf Lima] * [http://www.espejodelperu.com.pe/ca/per-ale/LKrause/index.htm Asociación Peruano Alemán Leopoldo Krause] * [http://www.cbi.edu.pe Colegio Peruano Alemán "Beata Imelda"] * [http://www.icpa.org.pe Instituto Cultural Peruano Aleman] * [http://www.maxuhle.edu.pe Colegio Peruano-Alemán "Max Uhle"] * [https://archive.today/20240524140541/https://www.webcitation.org/5kn8EL7dc?url=http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/7513/%3F200821 Colegio Peruano Alemán Augusto Weberbauer] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110301013356/http://www.clubperuanoaleman-nrw.de/ Club Peruano Aleman] * [https://www.capaperu.org CAPA - Centro de Amistad Peruano Alemán ] * [http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/CamComer/index.htm Cámara de Comercio e Industria Peruano-Alemana] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629024739/http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/CamComer/index.htm |date=2008-06-29 }} * [http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm Archivo de la Inmigración Alemana en el Perú] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619085412/http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm |date=2008-06-19 }} * [http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm Asociación Cultural Johannes Gutenberg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619085412/http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm |date=2008-06-19 }} * [http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm Asociación Médica Peruana-Alemán] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619085412/http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm |date=2008-06-19 }} * [http://www.espejodelperu.com.pe/ca/per-ale/Beneficencia/index.htm Beneficencia peruano-alemana / Deutsch-peruanischer Hilfsverein ] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080723121305/http://www.centromallqui.org.pe/ Centro Mallqui] * [http://www.fundacionbrandt.com Fundación Brandt] * [http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm Humboldt Club del Perú] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619085412/http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm |date=2008-06-19 }} * [http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm Instituto Cultural Peruano Alemán de Arequipa] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080619085412/http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm |date=2008-06-19 }} * [http://www.acupari.deAsociación Cultural Acupari]{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * [https://www.welthungerhilfe-americadelsur.org/ Agro Acción Alemana / Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (DWHH)] * [http://www.comisionbrandt.com Comisión Brandt] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915134505/http://www.comisionbrandt.com/ |date=2008-09-15 }} * [https://www.goethe.de/ins/pe/lim/deindex.htm Instituto Goethe]
==See also== * Germany–Peru relations * German diaspora * Immigration to Peru ==References== {{Reflist}}
{{German diaspora}} {{Immigrant groups in Peru}} {{Portal bar|Germany|Peru}} Category:Ethnic groups in Peru Category:European diaspora in Peru Category:Peruvian people of German descent Peruvian Category:German diaspora in South America