German Angolans are the descendants of

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settlers in the nation of

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. German immigrants to

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started to appear in the mid-19th century. They took part in the founding and initial growth of the coastal city of

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in the 1850s. More German immigrants came to Angola in the 20th century, with about 1,400 immigrating between 1915 and 1930. After Angolan independence and the subsequent

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that occurred, most German Angolans left the county for Europe (both Germany &

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, depending on their choice), though some families remain, mainly in the town of

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, as well as the capital,

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. Other German Angolans left for Namibia, which was a German territory and where the remaining colonial German population lives and Portuguese and black Angolan refugees also left for, & others along with Portuguese settlers and black Angolans left for Portuguese-speaking country of Brazil, where there is a visible presence of German population & culture and where the largest German population outside Germany lives. Until 1975, there was a German-language school in

Benguela Benguela (; Umbundu: Luombaka) is a city in western Angola, capital of Benguela Province. Benguela is one of Angola's most populous cities with a population of 555,124 in the city and 561,775 in the municipality, at the 2014 census. History Por ...

called the Deutsche Schule Benguela.Deutscher Bundestag 4. Wahlperiode Drucksache IV/3672

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(West Germany). 23 June 1965. Retrieved on 12 March 2016. p. 30/51.

Notable German Angolans

Ruth Lara Ruth Manuela Pflüger Rosenberg Lara (17 September 1936 – 25 October 2000) was a Portuguese-Angolan educator, mathematician, translator, and activist. She was the First Lady of Angola briefly, after her husband, physicist-mathematician, anti-c ...

, First Lady of Angola (1979)

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Notable German Angolans

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