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Are Germans German?
Germans (Germans; Deutsche) are the main ethnic group in Germany. Most of the others are located in Austria, Switzerland, the United States and other countries. The main features are mostly tall and blond. Most of them belong to the Nordic type of the Europa race, and some belong to the Alpine type. Using German, it belongs to the Indo-European language family-Germanic language family, and it is divided into two types: High German and Low German. The text is spelled in Latin and has a unique set of cursive letters (Gothic, Fraktur in German). The written language is High German. Most people believe in Protestantism, and a few believe in Catholicism.
National history
In 843, after the separation of the Kingdom of Germany from the Kingdom of the Franks, Henry I, Duke of Saxony, was elected as the king in 919, and the Saxon Dynasty was established. After the transmutation, after the victory of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, a centralized German Empire was established.
Later, he embarked on the road of militarism, provoked two world wars in 1914 and 1939, and surrendered in 1918 and 1945. The Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic were established in 1949. In October 1990, Germany was unified. Since ancient times, the Germans have mainly focused on agriculture and animal husbandry, and handicrafts and commerce are also relatively developed. After entering the 19th century, modern industry developed rapidly.
Population Distribution
About 94.5 million people (1978), mainly in Germany (76 million, 91% of the country’s population). The remaining more than 10 million people are distributed in countries such as the United States (6.5 million), Russia (2.9 million), Canada (3.2 million) and Brazil (3.7 million). Most of them belong to the Nordic type of the Europa race, and some belong to the Alpine type. German is used, which belongs to the Germanic language family of the Indo-European language family, and is divided into High German and Low German. The text is spelled in the Latin alphabet and has a unique set of squiggly letters. The written language is High German.
Most of them believe in Protestantism, some believe in Catholicism. Germany, the word “Deutsch”, was written Teutsch in ancient German. This ethnic name appeared in this period, indicating that the Germans have begun to have a common national consciousness. However, due to the long-term feudal and separatist state of Germany, there were as many as 300 small states in the country, the feudal lords were authoritarian, the economy was decentralized. The local concept was strong, and the development of national consciousness was hindered. National unification was not completed until the second half of the 19th century. However, there are still obvious local differences within the German nation. According to the characteristics of dialect, culture and customs, Bavarians, Mecklenburgs, Saxons and Hessians can also be distinguished.
Germans have been in feudal society since the beginning of the 10th century. In the 16th century, the religious reform movement and the peasant war broke out, which attacked the Holy See and local feudal forces, and began to develop into modern society. In 1866, Prussia defeated Austria and became the hegemony among the German states. After winning the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Prussia unified the states and established a centralized German Empire. Shortly thereafter, the German Empire embarked on the path of militarism, demanding the redistribution of land, and in 1914 the First World War was launched. In 1918 the defeated empire collapsed.
Hitler came to power in 1933, annexed Austria and Czechoslovakia in 1938, and attacked Poland in 1939, launching World War II. surrendered in 1945. After the war, it was occupied by the Soviet Union, the United States, Britain and France. The Soviet-occupied territories formed the German Democratic Republic in October 1949. The Federal Republic of Germany was established in May 1949 in the territories occupied by the United States, Britain and France. Germany was reunited in 1990.
Famous person
Due to special historical conditions, many great world-renowned figures have emerged in different periods, such as the famous English composer Handel, such as the sixteenth-century religious reformer Martin Luther, the revolutionary Thomas Münzel and the humanists Houden, the philosopher Immanuel Kant and the playwright Lessing of the eighteenth century, the poet Goethe and the playwright Schiller; the philosophers Hegel and Feuerbach of the nineteenth century, the poet Heine and the labor movement Weitling; especially Engels, who is as famous as the German radical philosopher Marx.
