Editor’s Note: The following material was edited and translated from information provided by the German Embassy in Ukraine.
1 Germany had the first ambassador accredited and living in Kyiv in independent Ukraine. In addition to the embassy in Kyiv and the Donetsk Consulate-General, currently in Dnipro, Germany has four honorary consuls in Ukraine (Odesa, Lviv, Kharkiv and Chernivtsi).
2 In Ukraine, 1,200 German companies or joint ventures are registered.
3 A German-Ukrainian Chamber of Industry and Commerce started in Kyiv in October 2016.
4 Germany is the third largest direct investor in Ukraine.
5 Parts for motor vehicles are the largest share of Ukrainian exports to Germany.
6 Germany was the largest importer of Ukrainian honey in 2016 and the first half of 2017.
7 More than 133,000 Ukrainian citizens live in Germany.
8 Germany is giving 26 million euros in humanitarian aid to Ukraine in 2017 and donated 430 million euros between 2014 and 2016.
9 Between 2014 and 2017, Germany has spent more than 15 million euros on promoting civil society exchanges between Germany and Ukraine. This year, Germany supports 75 projects of transnational exchanges of civil society representatives in which Ukrainian nongovernmental organizations take part. In 2017, Germany will spend 3 million euros for exchanges between Germany and Ukraine.
10 More than 9,000 Ukrainians are currently studying at German universities.
11 Every year, some 1,500 Ukrainian students receive grants and scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
12 There are 160 university partnerships between the universities of both countries.
13 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv had five German rectors. The largest Ukrainian technical college in Kyiv was founded in 1898, following the model of the RWTH Aachen University (Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen).
14 Since Sept. 9, Germany and Ukraine have been holding German-Ukrainian Year of Languages with more than 50 events in Ukraine as well events in Germany. In Ukraine, more than 700,000 people learn German the language. Ukraine occupies the 5th place in the world in terms of number of people who learn German.
15 There are currently nearly 1,000 words in the Ukrainian language borrowed from German (so-called “lexemes”).
16 There are 41 schools with intensive German lessons in Ukraine.
17 There are 40 city partnerships between Ukraine and Germany.
18 With German football club Bayern Munich, Anatoliy Tymoshchuk won the Champions League, twice the German Championship Bundesliga and twice the German Cup DFB-Pokal. There are three football players from Ukraine’s national team playing in the Bundesliga: Andriy Yarmolenko in Borussia Dortmund, Yevhen Konoplianka in Schalke 04 and Vladlen Yurchenko in Bayer Leverkusen.
19 Last year, 136,563 arrivals from Ukraine were registered in German hotels and campsites.
20 Approximately 650 applications for German-Ukrainian marriages have been submitted since January 2017. Last year it was more than 1,150.
21 Kyiv, since 1892, was the second city in Europe after Berlin to have an electric tram thanks to German technology from Siemens.
22 Amand Struve, a military engineer with German-Baltic roots, led the gas lighting in Kyiv’s streets and built the longest railway bridge across the Dnipro River in Kyiv between 1868 and 1870.
23 Viktor Schröter, a German-Baltic architect in the service of the Russian czar, built the city theater in Kyiv, today’s National Opera of Ukraine.
24 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt are honorary members of Kharkiv National University.
25 On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of German-Ukrainian relations, a jubilee stamp was issued.
