German Peruvians are
Peru
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vian citizens of full or partial
German ancestry
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. In general, the term is also applied to descendants of other
German
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-speaking immigrants, such as
Austrian
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s or the
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, or to someone who has immigrated to Peru from German-speaking countries.
History
Since independence Germans had been immigrating to
Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...
on a small scale. The first wave of immigration was in 1853, organized by then-president
Ramon Castilla. These immigrants established themselves in the cities of
Tingo Maria
Tingo is a district of Luya Province in Peru. It borders with Colcamar District, Colcamar to the north, Levanto District, Levanto and Magdalena District, Chachapoyas, Magdalena districts of Chachapoyas Province to the east, San Juan de Lopecancha D ...
,
Tarapoto
Tarapoto is a commercial hub town in the San Martín Province of the Department of San Martín of northern Peru. It is an hour by plane from Lima, in the high jungle plateau to the east of what is known as the ''selva baja'' (low jungle). Althoug ...
,
Pucallpa
Pucallpa (, qu, puka allpa, lit=red dirt; Shipibo language, Shipibo: ''May Ushin'') is a city in eastern Peru located on the banks of the Ucayali River, a major tributary of the Amazon River. It is the capital of the Ucayali region, the Corone ...
,
Moyobamba
Moyobamba () or Muyupampa ( Quechua ''muyu'' circle, ''pampa'' large plain, "circle plain") is the capital city of the San Martín Region in northern Peru. Called "Santiago of eight valleys of Moyobamba" or "Maynas capital". There are 50,073 inha ...
, and in the department of
Amazonas.
Baron Kuno Damian 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
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and
Atlantic
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coasts. The colonists would end up colonizing
Pozuzo
Pozuzo is a village and district in the Oxapampa Province and Pasco Region of Peru. The village, at an elevation of , is situated near the left bank of the Huancabamba River which is renamed the Pozuzo River after it passes by the village. The pop ...
. In 1854, the first immigration contract was signed between the Baron and then-
president
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José Rufino Echenique
José Rufino Pompeyo Echenique Benavente (November 16, 1808 in Puno, Peru – June 16, 1887 in Lima, Peru) served as the 12th President of Peru from 1851 to 1855.
He participated in the Peruvian War of Independence. In 1851, Echenique won the p ...
. 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
Pozuzo is a village and district in the Oxapampa Province and Pasco Region of Peru. The village, at an elevation of , is situated near the left bank of the Huancabamba River which is renamed the Pozuzo River after it passes by the village. The pop ...
, the construction of a new highway from
Cerro de Pasco
Cerro de Pasco is a city in central Peru, located at the top of the Andean mountains. It is the capital of the Pasco region, and an important mining center. At elevation, it is one of the highest cities in the world, and the highest or the sec ...
to
Pozuzo
Pozuzo is a village and district in the Oxapampa Province and Pasco Region of Peru. The village, at an elevation of , is situated near the left bank of the Huancabamba River which is renamed the Pozuzo River after it passes by the village. The pop ...
, each colonist 15 years old or older would receive 15 pesos, the distribution of 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
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and workers skilled at a trade. To make this project possible the Baron was hired by the
Peruvian government
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to oversee the colonization, paying him a salary of 2,400 pesos annually. The first wave of colonists departed
Antwerp
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Peru
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vian port of
Callao
Callao () is a Peruvian seaside city and Regions of Peru, region on the Pacific Ocean in the Lima metropolitan area. Callao is Peru's chief seaport and home to its main airport, Jorge Chávez International Airport. Callao municipality consists o ...
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
Oxapampa is the capital of Oxapampa District and Oxapampa Province in Peru in the eastern part of the Pasco Region. . Oxapampa belongs to the natural region known as Selva Alta or high jungle. northward down the valley of the Huancabamba River ...
and
Villa Rica.
Throughout the history of
Peru
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, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries, a substantial number of
German
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immigrants have settled in other parts of
Peru
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, primarily in
Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón River, Chillón, Rímac River, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of t ...
. Also, many of these German immigrants have
Jewish
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heritage.
Education
German schools in Peru:
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Colegio Peruano-Alemán Beata Imelda
Colegio Peruano-Alemán Beata Imelda (german: Deutsch-Peruanische Schule Beata Imelda) is a German international school in Lurigancho-Chosica, Lima Province, Peru
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Deutsche Schule Lima Alexander von Humboldt
''Deutsche Schule Alexander von Humboldt Lima'' ( es, Colegio Peruano Alemán Alexander von Humboldt) is a German international school with two campuses in Lima, Peru: one in Miraflores and one in Surco, with a recreational centre in Huampaní. ...
(Lima)
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Deutsche Schule Max Uhle Arequipa
Colegio Max Uhle (german: Deutsche Schule Max Uhle Arequipa) is a German international school in Arequipa, Peru. It serves years 1-12.
The school's activities began in 1956.
History
In 1961 the school had 269 students, with 70 in kindergarten, ...
* Reina del Mundo Schule (Colegio Peruano-Alemán Reina del Mundo)
Notable German Peruvians
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Andrea Moberg
Andrea Moberg Tobies (born 4 June 1994) is a Peruvian model, activist and beauty queen, who will represent that country in the Miss Grand International 2018 contest.
Early life
She was born and raised in the city of Iquitos, the capital of the L ...
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Moritz Hochschild
Moritz (Mauricio) Hochschild (February 17, 1881 – June 12, 1965) was a leading mining industry businessman in the first half of the twentieth century. Along with Simón Iturri Patiño and Carlos Víctor Aramayo, he was one of the three so-calle ...
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Liesel Holler
Dr. Liesel Holler Sotomayor (born 1980) is a Peruvian doctor, model and former beauty pageant titleholder who won the titles of Miss Peru 2004 and Miss Caraibes Hibiscus 2004.
Pageantry
Holler represented the department of Pasco in the Miss P ...
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Federico Kauffmann
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Jorge Koechlin
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Maju Mantilla
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Claudio Pizarro
Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio (; born 3 October 1978) is a Peruvian retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He is currently serving as Club Ambassador for Bayern Munich. He was captain of Peru's national football team, being ...
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Alberto Thieroldt
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Edith Noeding
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Barton Zwiebach
Barton Zwiebach (born ''Barton Zwiebach Cantor'', October 4, 1954) is a Peruvian string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Work
Zwiebach's undergraduate work was in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Nac ...
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Juliane Koepcke
Juliane Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), also known by her married name Juliane Diller, is a German-Peruvian mammalogist and biologist.
In 1971, when she was 17 years old, Koepcke survived the LANSA Flight 508 plane crash. After falling while ...
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Martha Hildebrandt
Martha Luz Hildebrandt Pérez-Treviño (13 January 1925 – 8 December 2022) was a Peruvian linguist and Fujimorist politician. She was first elected to Congress in 1995 and, in 1999, she became the second woman to serve as President of the Co ...
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Antonio Brack Egg
Antonio José Brack Egg (3 June 1940 – 30 December 2014) was an agronomist engineer, an ecologist
Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers o ...
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Isaac Mekler
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Christian Meier
Christian Dietrich Meier Zender (born June 23, 1970), best known as Christian Meier, is a Peruvian actor and singer in Latin America, the US Hispanic market, and around the Spanish speaking world.
Biography
Meier was born in Lima, Peru, the yo ...
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Guillermo Wiese de Osma
Guillermo Wiese de Osma (1927 in Paris – April 27, 1999 in Lima, Peru) was a Peruvian businessman and lawyer. He was the son of Augusto N. Wiese Eslava and Virginia de Osma Porras, who had another 4 children (Clotilde, Silvia, Mary Virginia an ...
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Guillermo Lohmann Villena
Guillermo Lohmann Villena (1915–2005) was a Peru
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Gladys Zender
Gladys Rosa Zender de Meier ( née Zender Urbina; born October 19, 1939) is a Peruvian model and beauty queen who became the first Latin American to win the Miss Universe title. She was crowned Miss Peru Universe 1957 by Miss Peru Universe 1956, ...
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Francisco Sagasti
Francisco Rafael Sagasti Hochhausler OSP ( (); born 10 October 1944) is a Peruvian engineer, academic, and author who served as the President of Peru from November 2020 to July 2021.
Sagasti has worked as an advisor for economic development a ...
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Tracy Freundt
German Peruvian institutions and associations
Instituto Superior Tecnologico Privado PeruanoColegio Peruano Alemán - Alexander von HumboldtColegio Waldorf LimaColegio Peruano Alemán "Beata Imelda"Instituto Cultural Peruano AlemanColegio Peruano-Alemán "Max Uhle"Colegio Peruano Alemán Augusto WeberbauerClub Peruano AlemanCAPA - Centro de Amistad Peruano Alemán *
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See also
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Germany–Peru relations
{{Immigrant groups in Peru
Ethnic groups in Peru
European Peruvian
Peruvian
Peruvians ( es, peruanos) are the citizens of Peru. There were Andean and coastal ancient civilizations like Caral, which inhabited what is now Peruvian territory for several millennia before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century; Peruvian p ...
German diaspora in South America