German Peruvian

Infobox Ethnic group
group = flagicon|Germany German Peruvian flagicon|Peru


caption = Notable German Peruvians Martha Hildebrandt
Antonio Brack Egg
Isaac Mekler
Christian Meier
Efrain Goldenberg

flagicon|Germany flagicon|Peru
poptime = 600,000 [ [http://actualidaddelperu.blogspot.com/2007/03/problemtica-de-los-descendientes-de.html Perú al Día: Problemática de los Descendientes de Alemanes en Perú ] ]
popplace = Lima, Oxapampa, Pozuzo, Villa Rica, Arequipa
langs = Spanish, German, Austrian German
rels = Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism
related =

A German Peruvian is a Peruvian citizen of German descent. The phrase may refer to someone born in Peru of German descent or to someone who has immigrated to Peru from Germany. Among European Peruvians, Germans were one of the largest groups of immigrants to settle in the country.

History

Since independence Germans had been immigrating to Lima on a small scale. The first wave of immigration occurred in 1853, organized by then-president Ramon Castilla. These immigrants established themselves in the cities of Tingo Maria, Tarapoto, Moyobamba, and in the department of Amazonas. Barón Cosme Damián Freiherr Schutz von Holzhausen, the leader of the immigration movement, consulted with the then Peruvian Minister of Foreign Relations, Manuel Tirado. The meeting's purpose was to colonize the central jungle to better link the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. The colonists would end up colonizing Pozuzo. In 1854, the first immigration contract was signed between the Baron and then-president José Rufino Echenique. The next year, in 1855, this contract was nullified as Echenique had been ousted and Ramon Castilla had assumed the presidency again. The Baron signed a new contract with the new president on December 6, 1855. According to the contract each colonist would be reimbursed by the government for the cost of the voyage from Europe to Pozuzo, the construction of a new highway from Cerro de Pasco to Pozuzo, each colonist 15 years old or older would receive 15 pesos, the distribution of 140 square miles land between the colonists of which they would have legal ownership, exemption for the first six months of taxes, and the responsibility to build schools, churches, and other basic needs. The government, however, required that the colonists be Catholic and workers skilled at a trade. To make this project possible the Baron was hired by the Peruvian government to oversee the colonization, paying him a salary of 2,400 pesos annually. The first wave of colonists departed Antwerp in 1857 and arrived in the Peruvian port of Callao two months later. The third wave of immigrants to the jungle occurred in 1868, taking the same route as the second wave of immigrants did. In later years, the descendants of the German immigrants would go on to found new cities throughout the central jungle such as Oxapampa and Villa Rica.

Throughout the history of Peru, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries, a substantial number of German immigrants have settled in other parts of Peru, primarily in Lima. Also, many of these German immigrants have Jewish heritage. A large part of Jewish Peruvians are of German descent.

Most known German - Peruvians:

[Carla Saskia (Sanchez Obregon)]

HSSO(Horacio Salvador)(Sanchez -Obregon

Roger and Rosario Blaschek

Robert and Romina Blaschek

Patrick Hernandez

Nora and Olaf

Alix Saphn

Winfred and Edith S.PS.O

German Peruvian institutions and associations

* [http://www.ipal.edu.pe Instituto Superior Tecnologico Privado Peruano]
* [http://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"]
* [http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/7513/?200821 Colegio Peruano Alemán Augusto Weberbauer]
* [http://www.clubperuanoaleman-nrw.de Club Peruano Aleman]
* [http://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]
* [http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm Archivo de la Inmigración Alemana en el Perú]
* [http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm Asociación Cultural Johannes Gutenberg]
* [http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm Asociación Médica Peruana-Alemán]
* [http://www.espejodelperu.com.pe/ca/per-ale/Beneficencia/index.htm Beneficencia peruano-alemana / Deutsch-peruanischer Hilfsverein ]
* [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]
* [http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Cultura/index.htm Instituto Cultural Peruano Alemán de Arequipa]
* [http://www.acupari.deAsociación Cultural Acupari]
* [http://www.peruano-aleman.com/AB/P/Ayuda/DesAsoc.htm Agro Acción Alemana / Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (DWHH)]
* [http://www.comisionbrandt.com Comisión Brandt]
* [http://www.goethe.de/ins/pe/lim/deindex.htm Instituto Goethe]

References

* [http://ap.concytec.gob.pe/ferias/b2-Rese%C3%B1a_Hist%C3%B3rica%20Pozuzo.htm]