Do I Have Any German In Me If My Great Great Grandfather Was Full Blood German

If my great grandfather is half Thai, does that make me a quarter- or half-Asian?

Oh dear, you certainly failed maths at school didn’t you?A person has 8 great grandparents who each make a 12.5% (or 1/8) contribution to your genetics.So if one one these great-grandparents is half Thai, then (presuming there is no other Thai blood in your ancestry line), you are 1/16th Thai. If your other 7 great-grandparents are non-Asian, than this is you Asian proportion of your ethnicity.Therefore, you are one sixteenth Asian, which is so insignificant that you basically don’t even have the right to claim it.

If my grandmother was German, how much German am I?

Let me ask you this:Verstehst Du diesen Satz, ohne dass Du ihn in Google Translate eingeben musst? Und kannst Du Dich mit anderen Deutschen unterhalten? Zumindest ein Bisschen?Do you have a German passport? Do you know what Löwenzahn, Pusteblume, Die Sendung mit der Maus, Mainzelmännchen, Wigald Boning, und Bud Spencer are? Did you ever stand in line in a Rewe or Edeka to purchase bread on the day before Christmas or on a Saturday evening? Do you carry vast loads of cash? Did you ever buy something no one needs from a Tchibo Coffee House? Do you consider it to be the ultimate vacation to drive eight hours over a mountain range, hard boiled eggs and mineral water in your trunk, to sit with the the same people at the same lake in Italy for 30 years?Congratulations, you might have a little German in you.The lowest level of Germanness is having a German passport. That makes you, legally, a German. In this case, being German is black and white: either you have a passport (even a dual citizenship will suffice) or you don’t. Some people surrender theirs, but they’re generally the kind of German who wouldn’t call themselves German anymore after emigrating.Level 2 of being German is to have the above. You also iron your socks and underpants. You also don‘t hate the Dutch or Swiss, in fact a good friend of yours is Swiss or was in Switzerland once. You do hate the French. Especially the ones coming to Saarbrücken and complaining about there not being a French language menu at McDonalds.At Level 3 you’ll discuss Tatort at your place of employ every Monday morning, and know who’s in DSDS and who had to leave the Big Brother house.Level 4 is when you willingly purchase Helge Schneider tickets, because he was funny once, back in the 90s, when he did 00Schneider.Level 5 means you have an opinion on David Hasselhoff singing at the Wall in 89.Level 6 would be Angela MerkelThere is a Level 7, but they’re all dead. Karl Valentin, Heinz Erhardt, Rühmann, Willy Brandt, the cast of Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer, etc.

Can I obtain German citizenship? My grandfather was a German citizen and came to the US. He was drafted into the US Army and later went into the reserves. Did he lose his citizenship?

Unfortunately, even if your grandfather did NOT surrender his German citizenship, this would not help.Your father and/or your mother must have had German citizenship at the time of your birth. Only then would you be entitled to apply for German citizenship on grounds of ancestry.If you were born before 1975, it gets even worse. If your parents were married, then your FATHER must have been a German OR your parents must have declared until 1977 that they want you to get German citizenship.The only exception: If your grandfather lost his citizenship because the Nazis revoked it.