Central Germans

[Kyp]

Are they mostly dirty blonds?

yes

[Götterfunke]

In a sense imo my family from Central-West Germany have darker hair and darker (more "olive" when tanned) complexion compared to their Northern counterparts, blue eyes though.
Generally differing headshape/features in general from what I have observed from central Germans.

There is a slight "Western" (Mediterranean) influence in West Germany. Joseph Goebbels for example was born not too far from my place, West of Cologne, and he could pass as an Italian:

That influence might explain your ancestors olive skintone. Other than that, the Faelid (Phalian), nordic and alpine race used to be dominant here.

[Bender1999]

Google says it’s Thüringen, Sachsen and Sachsen Anhalt, Wikipedia says it includes the „equator“ of Germany. I mean Germany is more known for West/East or South/North differentiation. For the specific areas Germans has specific terms, like Oberbayern, Schwaben, Sauerland etc. The area of Mitteldeutschland is simply known as Thüringen/Erzgebirge.

[RandomGuy20]

There is a slight "Western" (Mediterranean) influence in West Germany. Joseph Goebbels for example was born not too far from my place, West of Cologne, and he could pass as an Italian:

That influence might explain your ancestors olive skintone. Other than that, the Faelid (Phalian), nordic and alpine race used to be dominant here.

Yeah definitely agree. My grandma has similar features (Alpine-Med) -



Central/Western Germany has a very interesting history ay - Celts, Germanics, Romans and some later Italian immigration. Makes for an interesting mishmosh of phenos

[andre]

There is a slight "Western" (Mediterranean) influence in West Germany. Joseph Goebbels for example was born not too far from my place, West of Cologne, and he could pass as an Italian:

That influence might explain your ancestors olive skintone. Other than that, the Faelid (Phalian), nordic and alpine race used to be dominant here.

Wtf, no he couldn’t pass as italian. He has a very strange face for italy.

[Götterfunke]

Yeah definitely agree. My grandma has similar features (Alpine-Med) -



Central/Western Germany has a very interesting history ay - Celts, Germanics, Romans and some later Italian immigration. Makes for an interesting mishmosh of phenos

Indeed. Although I wouldn't overestimate the Celtic and Roman influence-they were non-Germanics and it was certainly not common practice to marry them (like it is these days where no one cares about ethnicity anymore) ... the same goes for the Slavs in East Germany-they were considered "unfrei" or "unfree" - literally slav(e)s, and a marriage between them and a Germanic person was not legitimate up until the 18th century or so.

Although rape and the occasional mingling surely happened-also the other way around.

[Finnish Swede]

ofcourse not

yes

So they are not mainly dark haired, dark eyed but dirty blonds? So which one (type) they are?

[Götterfunke]

So they are not mainly dark haired, dark eyed but dirty blonds? So which one (type) they are?

All these races are present in all of Germany (and Europe) ...

South West Germany (Baden-Württemberg) has more alpine (ostisch) influence, South East Germany (Bavaria) has alpine (ostisch) and dinarid (dinarisch) influence.

North Germany has more nordic (nordisch) influence, albeit not extremely much so.

West Germany (Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia) has faelid (fälisch) and mediterranean (westisch) influence, although nordic (nordisch) and alpine (ostisch) people are present here too.

The very East of Germany (Silesia and Königsberg or "Kaliningrad", nowadays considered parts of Poland and Russia) have east baltid (ostbaltisch) influence.

All of these races can be found anywhere in Germany, especially in modern times, so it's nearly impossible to give you a clear distinction of what people in German areas look like.

One can only try to narrow it down a bit.

[Finnish Swede]

All these races are present in all of Germany (and Europe) ...

South West Germany has more alpine (ostisch) influence, South East Germany has alpine (ostisch) and dinarid (dinarisch) influence.

North Germany has more nordic (nordisch) influence, albeit not extremely much so.

West Germany (Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia) has faelid (fälisch) and mediterranean (westisch) influence, although nordic (nordisch) and alpine (ostisch) people are present here too.

The very East of Germany (Silesia and Königsberg, nowadays considered parts of Poland and Russia) have east baltid (ostbaltisch) influence.

All of these races can be found anywhere in Germany, especially in modern times, so it's nearly impossible to give you a clear distinction of what people in German areas look like.

One can only narrow it down a bit.

Some looks pretty ''wierd'' to say nicely.

[Kyp]

So they are not mainly dark haired, dark eyed but dirty blonds? So which one (type) they are?

They don't have a dominant type. I wonder when people will realize...
Differences in Germany are gradual and cannot be judged on indiviudal basis. For example people like Mats Hummels, people on TA automatically assume he is Southern German but he is North/Western.

Especially in Central Germany there are not dominant types.