German Brazilians (Brasileiros Alemães)

Date: 1820 [unknown]
Location: [unknown]
Surnames/tags: Latin America Brazil German Roots

Contents 1 Bem-vindo à página da Seleção Brasileiros Alemães 1.1 História 2 Welcome to the German Brazilians Team Page 2.1 History 2.2 Culture and Cities 3 WikiTree Categories and Stickers 3.1 Categories 3.2 Stickers 4 Team 5 Research Help and Current Resources 5.1 Vital Records 5.2 Emigration 5.3 Church Records 5.4 Cemeteries 5.5 Online Resource Compilations

Bem-vindo à página da Seleção Brasileiros Alemães

Esta página foi criada como um auxílio de pesquisa para encontrar informações sobre os alemães que emigraram para o Brasil a partir do início da década de 1820.

História

O seguinte foi copiado da Wikipedia: German Brazilians e deve ser reescrito eventualmente:

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Welcome to the German Brazilians Team Page

This page was created as a research aid to find information on those Germans who emigrated to Brazil from the early 1820s.

History

The following was copied from Wikipedia: German Brazilians and should be re-written eventually:

When German-speaking immigrants first arrived in Brazil starting at the beginning of the 19th century, they did not identify themselves so much as a unified German-Brazilian group. However, as time went on this common regional identity did emerge for many different geo-socio-political reasons. Germans immigrated mainly from what is now Germany, but also from other countries where German communities were established. From 1824 to 1969, around 250,000 Germans emigrated to Brazil, being the fourth largest immigrant community to settle in the country, after the Portuguese, Italians and Spaniards. About 30% of them arrived between World War I and World War II.

The first German immigrants to settle in Brazil were 165 families who settled in Ilhéus, Bahia, in 1818. One year later, 200 families settled São Jorge, in the same state. Some Germans were brought to work in the Brazilian army after Independence from Portugal in 1822.

However, the cradle of the German settlement in Brazil was São Leopoldo, in 1824. At that time Southern Brazil had a very low population density. Most of its inhabitants were concentrated on the coast and a few in the Pampas. The interior was covered by forests and sparsely populated by different groups of native Amerindians. The absence of a unified population in the interior was regarded as a problem by the Brazilian government because Southern Brazil could easily be invaded by neighboring countries.

Since Brazil was recently independent from Portugal, it was not possible to bring Portuguese immigrants. Germany was suffering the effects of the wars against Napoleon, overpopulation and poverty in the countryside. Many Germans were willing to immigrate to Brazil. Furthermore, Brazil's Empress, Maria Leopoldina, was Austrian and encouraged the arrival of German immigrants.

The first years were not easy. Many Germans died of tropical disease, while others left the colonies to find better living conditions. The German colony of São Leopoldo was in the early years a disaster. Nevertheless, in the following years, a further 4,830 Germans arrived at São Leopoldo, and then the colony started to develop, with the immigrants establishing the town of Novo Hamburgo (New Hamburg). From São Leopoldo and Novo Hamburgo, the German immigrants spread into other areas of Rio Grande do Sul, mainly close to sources of rivers. The whole region of Vale dos Sinos was populated by Germans. During the 1830s and part of the 1840s German immigration to Brazil was interrupted due to conflicts in the country (Ragamuffin War).

Immigration restarted after 1845 with the creation of new colonies. The most important ones were Blumenau in 1850 and Joinville in 1851, both in Santa Catarina state; these attracted thousands of German immigrants to the region. Some of the mass influx was due to the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. Nowadays these areas of German colonization are among the wealthiest parts of Brazil, with the lowest levels of unemployment and illiteracy found in the country, and still retain a strong influence from German culture.

By the end of the 19th century, 122 German communities had been created in Rio Grande do Sul, and many others in Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro. Germans helped to establish a middle-class population in Brazil, a country that was formerly divided between slaves and their masters.

More information can be found below:

• The first German communities
• DVHH
• Seyferth, Giralda. "German Immigration and the Formation of German-Brazilian Ethnicity." in Anthropological Journal on European Cultures, vol. 7, no. 2, 1998, pp. 131–154. JSTOR

Culture and Cities

NEEDS SECTION ADDED

Culture:

• Culture Trip: How Southern Brazil Became Little Germany

Cities:

• Wikipedia: Pomerode
• Germanic Towns in Southern Brazil

WikiTree Categories and Stickers

Categories

NEED THESE SET UP

Stickers

... ... ... migrated from Germany to Brazil.

Use this coding on Migrating Ancestors:

{{Migrating Ancestor |origin= Germany |destination= Brazil|origin-flag= Flags.gif |destination-flag= Flags_of_South_America-17.png }}

NOTE: Brazilian flags from other regions can be found HERE (Flag of Bahia attached to example sticker above).

For Nonmigrating Ancestors, use the {{German Roots Sticker}} sticker

... ... ... has German Roots.

Team

Team Leader: Steve Thomas

Team Members:

Research Help and Current Resources

Vital Records

• Ancestry.com Resources page($): South America, Brazil, BMD

Emigration

• Ancestry.com Resources page($): South America, Brazil, Immigration and Emigration
• FamilySearch: Brazil Emigration and Immigration
• FamilySearch: Germany Emigration and Immigration
• German Immigration Archive at Martuis Staden Institute
• Auswanderungen, 1815-1850: Emigrations to Poland, Brazil, the United States, etc. and internal migrations from Kusel, Bavaria Royal State Commissioner
• Coleção da Sociedade Histo-lógica Cruzeiro do Sul A collection of essays and works chiefly written in German which deal with German immigration to Brazil, see Film Notes for German localities and specific families covered.
• 1859 Lists of Germans immigrating to Brazil, 1859, in Portuguese.
• 1890-1901 Auswanderung nach Brasilien und Venezuela, 1890-1901 Civil records relating to the migration to Brazil and Venezuela of inhabitants of Bromberg, Posen, Germany
• 1904-1914 Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 at MyHeritage($); index & images, includes those with Destination of Brazil
• 1920-1939 Germany, Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939 at MyHeritge ($); index & images; includes those with Destination of Brazil
• 1929-1930 Auswandererkartei der Rußlanddeutschen, 1929-1930 Index cards, arranged alphabetically by surname, for German-speaking emigrants from Russia to Germany, Canada, Brazil, Paraguay, etc.
• Lists of Immigrants to Joinville, 1851-1891 and 1897-1902

Church Records

• FamilySearch: Brazil Church Records

Cemeteries

• FamilySearch: Brazil Cemeteries

Online Resource Compilations

• Genealoger: Germans to South America
• FamilySearch: Brazil Genealogy
• Ancestry.com Resources page($): South America, Brazil
• International German Genealogy Partnership