List of German football players with dual nationality

Or your father did your paperwork and her mother didn't.

Do you think your passport just popped out behind you? LOL!!!

My kids are German citizens, but they don't have German passports at the moment. And knowing the way they feel about this country because of the way they were treated up in the Oberpfalz and in Erlangen growing up, they probably never will elect to carry German passports.

Much like many of the German-Turkish footballers.

Hell, that might be it with Dundee. Somebody in his ancestry was German. That's how they pulled off expressing his paperwork.

 

Wow, was it so bad there?

 

Dunno about that. Maybe she was already 18 at the time.

 

Yes. So bad that my daughter, after moving to the USA with me and deciding she missed her siblings too much and returning to Germany, begged me to take her back again.

The racism was open and accepted.

 

That's horrible! Is it better where you live now?

PS: Sorry for carrying this offtopic. That'll be my last question...

 

Yes. Much better. Thanks.

 

If one of your parents is German you receive German citizenship by birth. If you can proof this (if only your father is German and you were born outside of Germany you'll need to provide a test) you have the right to get a German passport, so the state can't deny it to you. The only exception are children of German parents who were born out of Germany and got the citizenship through their parents but never lived in Germany themselves.

 

They woudn't need to actually. You can get German citizenship without going through the citizenship process if it's considered to be of "national interest", which makes it easier for professional athletes if they are willing to represent Germany.

 

Yes, I know that too, but I distinctly remember someone justifying it by stating he has German ancestry.

I thought I remembered it being a grandfather, but maybe it was further back than that.

I only remember them doing this for Dundee, Neuville and Rink during that period and as far as I remember, all three had some type of German ancestry.

 

I just did a google search and it appears that Dundee got the prefered treatment (if you search for "Sean Dundee" and Einbürgerung you get some newspaper articles that hint this).

 

Don't need to look. I'll trust your word on it. I'm doing all this on the fly at work, so I don't really have time to look up things.

Thanks for getting it right.

 

No problem. Here's an article (wasn't too much work so I thought it wouldn't hurt to post the link anyway ):

http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-zeitung/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/1996/1026/sport/0185/index.html

 

I think, it's probably the former.
I know this Swiss/German couple, he's German, she's Swiss and they live in Switzerland and aren't married. Both their daughters were born in Switzerland, have always lived there and both have a Swiss as well as a German passport since birth. I think this worked pretty much automatically, but I would have to ask the parents to be sure.

 

The law is pretty clear:
http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/rustag/__4.html

The age only seems to play a role if only your father is German.

 

It also sounds as if a test is only needed, if it isn't clear who the father is (that "Anerkennung der Vaterschaft" bit).

 

Ah, yes. Didn't really read it this time, as I just went with what I remembered from posting on this very topic from the last citizenship thread on BigSoccer (no kidding ), but after rereading it now you're right on the above.