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The registered German minority in Poland at the 2011 national census consisted of 148,000 people, of whom 64,000 declared both German and Polish ethnicities and 45,000 solely German ethnicity.〔''(Przynależność narodowo-etniczna ludności – wyniki spisu ludności i mieszkań 2011 )''. GUS. Materiał na konferencję prasową w dniu 29. 01. 2013. p. 3. 〕 At a 2002 census there were 152,900 people declaring German ethnicity.〔As of 2002, according to Polish National Census.〕〔Marta Moskal in ("Language minorities in Poland at the moment of accession to the EU )" notes that 2% (704,000) did not state any ethnicity in the 2002 census. She assumes that some members of the German national minority who have inhabited the Silesia region for numerous generations might define their ethnicity as Silesian (173,200 defined their ethnicity as Silesian). Representatives of ethnic minorities presume that the figures for their groups are underestimated because, after their exclusion in the communist period, members of the minority groups prefer not to state their real ethnicity.〕〔Tomasz Kamusella in ''"Dual Citizenship ..."'' estimates the number of ethnic Germans to be 400-500 thousand.〕 In 2013, Poland's German community was estimated to be around 350,000.〔http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2013/09/polands-german-minority〕 Due to complications arising from multi-ethnic identities and previous concealment during the communist period, many people of German descent are not accounted for and some estimates number Poles of German ancestry from 400,000 to 500,000.〔Tomasz Kamusella in "Dual Citizenship ..." estimates the number of ethnic Germans to be 400-500 thousand〕 The German language is used in certain areas in Opole Voivodeship, where most of the minority resides and Silesian Voivodeship. The German Minority electoral list currently has one seat in the Sejm of the Republic of Poland (there were four from 1993 to 1997), benefiting from the current provision in Polish election law which exempts national minorities from the 5% national threshold. There are 325 Polish schools that use the German language as the first language of instruction, with over 37,000 students. Most members of the German minority are Roman Catholic, and some are Lutheran Protestants (the Evangelical-Augsburg Church). A number of German language newspapers and magazines are published in Poland. ==Germans in Poland today== :''See also: Bilingual communes in Poland'' According to the 2002 census, most of the Germans in Poland (92.9%) live in Silesia: 104,399 in the Opole Voivodeship, i.e. 71.0% of all Germans in Poland and a share of 9.9% of the local population; 30,531 in the Silesian Voivodeship, i.e. 20.8% of all Germans in Poland and 0.6% of the local population; plus 1,792 in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship, i.e. 1.2% of all Germans in Poland, though only 0.06% of the local population. A second region with a notable German minority is Masuria, with 4,311 living in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, corresponding to 2.9% of all Germans in Poland, and 0.3% of the local population. Towns with particularly high concentrations of German speakers in Opole Voivodeship include: Strzelce Opolskie; Dobrodzien; Prudnik; Glogowek; and Gogolin.〔()〕 In the remaining 12 voivodeships of Poland, the percentage of Germans in the population lies between just 0.007-0.092%: Poland is also the third most frequent destination for migrant Germans searching for work, after the US and Switzerland.〔http://www.spiegel.de/karriere/ausland/0,1518,802337,00.html〕 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 minority in Poland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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