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The German community in Uruguay is small but significant; it numbers ca. 10,000 German expatriates and 40,000 people of German descent.〔(Uruguay-Portal ) 〕 Most of them live in the Montevideo area, although there are German minorities in Paysandú, Río Negro, San José and Canelones. ==History== One of the first Germans to come to the region was Ulrich Schmidl (known locally as Ulrico Smidel), who arrived at the oriental shores of the River Plate in the early 16th century and described the Charrúas. The German presence in Uruguay was always small, relatively discrete. The 2011 Uruguayan census revealed 1,167 people who declared Germany as their country of birth. However, there are important German names closely linked to the political landscape: * Carlos Fischer (Colorado; President of the National Council of Government, 1958-1959) * Héctor Grauert (Colorado; representative, minister, and member of the NCG) * his brother Julio César Grauert (Colorado hero, opposer to the Dictatorship of Terra) * Tabaré Hackenbruch (Colorado, three-term mayor of Canelones Department) * Alberto Heber (Blanco; President of the National Council of Government, 1966-1967) * his brother Mario Heber (Blanco; representative and senator) * his son Luis Alberto Heber (Blanco; senator since 1995; president of the party) * Ernesto Kroch, German-born syndicalist Sport is another field where several German Uruguayans stand out: * Carlos Grossmüller, footballer * Gary Kagelmacher, footballer * Martín Kutscher, swimmer * Paul Kutscher, swimmer * Sergio Orteman, footballer * Gerardo Vonder Pütten, footballer Other important German-Uruguayan people are: * Elio García-Austt, neuroscientist * Carlos Ott, architect * Carlos Rehermann, novelist and playwright * Siegbert Rippe, commercial jurist * Bernardo Rosengurtt, botanist and agrostologist * Erwin Schrott, opera singer * Rodolfo Wirz, Roman Catholic bishop of Maldonado and Punta del Este 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「German Uruguayan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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