Polish and Turks are very popular

Wiesbaden - 2007 Canadian men were married in 4200 and 3800 Polish German women a Turkish man, as the Federal Statistical Office said. Approximately 43 500 married in 2007, a German foreign partner. Many German men were also a Turk (1900), Russian (1700) or Thailänderin (1500) the Jawort. German women also often married Italians (1700) and Americans (1200).

Overall, less the German Federation of Marriage Registry. In the years 2000 to 2007, the number of marriages of around 22 percent, from 420 000 to around 370 000. The binational marriages are among German women actually declined by 32 percent, to the German men by 27 percent.

Hiltrud scad-Zafari Association of binational families and partnerships in Frankfurt suggested that the decline binational marriages in part to the fact that increasingly is married abroad. "In Denmark, for example, a marriage may be less bureaucratic than in Germany," she said. At the same time she sees weaknesses in the statistical measurement of binational couples: "The Federal Office asks only by nationality. Are established in these figures as German, "she said. Another point that the statistics do not show up, was the frequent combination of marriage to the right of residence. So many couples would get married sooner than they wanted, so that the foreign partner could remain in Germany. In the clinic of the center was a decline in the bi-national marriages not been felt: "The number of questions about the marriages remain the same and the number of binational couples, including the unmarried, is de facto, not decreased," Mackerel, Zafari said .

According to a study by the German Social Science Infrastructure (GESIS) by 2006, the Turkish migrants a special position: "Both the Turkish men and Turkish women are considered among all nationalities, by far the lowest proportion of those on which the German population einheiraten" , Says the study. Compared were married couples where one partner had the biggest immigrant groups in Germany. Unlike other migrants were married Turks in the second generation often own fellow countrymen.