Shelldrake
FM
Number of posts : 3048
Localisation : Camberley
Cap Badge : Royal Artillery
Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh
Registration date : 2010-10-26
 | Subject: Re: 8000 redundant  11/10/2012, 13:38 | |
| Perhaps the most famous/successful "Gastarbeiter" is David McAllister, the Minister President of Niedersachsen. His father is Scottish (Scaley att) and his mother German. | |
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EricTheTurk
Cpl
Number of posts : 19
Localisation : Essex
Cap Badge : Royal Engineers
Places Served : Long Marston, Osnabruck
Registration date : 2012-10-08
| | Subject: Re: 8000 redundant 11/10/2012, 19:12 | |
| - Shelldrake wrote:
- Perhaps the most famous/successful "Gastarbeiter" is David McAllister, the Minister President of Niedersachsen. His father is Scottish (Scaley att) and his mother German.
Anyone born in the country and has a German passport is officially a German Citizen and not a "gastarbeiter". David McAllister was born in Germany and has a German mother so that makes him a German with a Scottish father. This off course is the official version but some Germans still like to call them "Insel Affen" and/or "Kliffen pisser", the same as they call the rest of us as a joke or even as an insult.  | |
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Dulaigh
WOI
Number of posts : 135
Cap Badge : Royal Signals
Places Served : Catterick Newark Aldershot 201Shorncliffe WinterbourneGunner TOS SHARJAH Bunde 249 Singapore NE Thailand Aldershot Catterick
Registration date : 2012-03-19
| | Subject: Re: 8000 redundant 11/10/2012, 21:09 | |
| Anybody with a name like McAllister in German would go down well. When I was there in 64/65 there was a shortage of eligble young men and the local girls were vey keen to strike up a relationship with us providing we were formally introduced. After the war thousands of German boys were sent abroad. So there was a shortage. I was too young. | |
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