Austrian British

Infobox Ethnic group
group = Austrian British
Österreich britische


caption = flagicon|Austria flagicon|UK
poptime = 19,511 Austrian Born (2001) [http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/18/23/34792376.xls Place of birth data collated by OECD based on 2001 UK Census] ]
Ancestral Numbers Unknown
(Over 0.03% of British population)
popplace = Throughout the United Kingdom, with the largest numbers in London and South East England
langs = British English, Austrian German
rels = Roman-Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and other minorities

Austrian British is a term used to refer to citizens or non-citizen immigrants of the United Kingdom whos ethnic origins lie fully or partially in the Central European, German speaking nation of Austria.

History

Austrians have existed in what is now the UK for centuries, but it was only during the 1930s when Austrians came to the UK in their thousands. The vast majority of these were Austrian Jews who fled to the UK to escape the Nazi leadership during the period of the Third Reich or 'National Socialist Period' (1933-1945). [ [http://www.bl.uk/collections/westeuropean/germanaustrian.html British Library archive of Austrian exiles in the UK] ]

Population

According to the 2001 UK Census, some 20,000 Austrian born people were living in the UK, which is actually a drop of around 5% from 1991, despite this there are also large but unknown numbers of British born people of Austrian descent, which is reflected in the list of famous Austrian British people below. The population spread of Austrian born people can be seen below. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/05/born_abroad/countries/html/austria.stm BBC Born Abroad, Austria] ]

Notable Austrian British people

* Gabrielle Anwar, British born actress of Austrian and Iranian descent
* Anna Freud, Austrian born Psychologist
* Friedrich von Hügel, Roman Catholic layman, religious writer, Modernist theologian and Christian apologist
* Siegfried Frederick Nadel, anthropologist, specialising in African ethnology
* Andy Hunt, British born footballer of Austrian and English descent
* Myleene Klass, British born singer, actress, TV Presenter and model of Austrian and Filipino descent
* Eric Pohlmann, Austrian born actor and exile
* Joe Skarz, British born Footballer of Austrian and English descent
* Ruby Wax, American born comedian of Austrian descent

ee also

*German Briton

External links

* [http://www.kipferl.co.uk/ Kipferl - London's only Austrian delicatesse]
* [http://www.austrianclublondon.com Austrian Club London]

References