Do associates within Germany believe surrounded by Santa Claus?
Answers: Germans believe in Santa (aka "Weihnachtsmann"), as in good health, as they believe in the Easter rabbit - up to an age of just about 5-8.
Christmas is a reason for some holidays, it's a polite opportunity to meet the ancestral (and argue), it's a great time for toy and entertainment buissness and Co., 'cause somehow it's seen as a date, folks enjoy to give respectively other some presents, it's a time to eat even more, for Christians it even get some strange additional meaning, it's a nice time to suicide, if you got noone who like you...
but, hey, Santa is for kids.
(a)Amar D: Most german atheists and members of other religions honour christmas too. It's kinda secularized, so it's no problem.
Amendment: Take care, as here are two different characters: St. Nicolaus, who "comes" in the darkness of 5th to 6th december and the Santa-fellow, you know (in some areas with christian majority, little Jesus comes instead of him, but that's fairly an exception), whose date is 24th. The second one is way more earth-shattering today.
No We call him Weihnachtsmann, Knecht Ruprecht or Nikolaus.
yes, most do Yes, but we ring up him Weihnachtsmann! In our area we believe more within the Christkind and not in the Weihnachtsmann.
Nikolaus is on December 5th.
Lol, resourcefully in our nouns near Cologne we phone call him Nikolaus and have a special time for him December 6. Kids get a plate or boot chock-full with candy,nuts,apples,oranges and one small bequest. Then on the 24 Chriskindle comes with the big gifts. yep, and i hope he's showing up!
jerry's answer is percectly correct!!
Christian Germans do believe within Santa Claus. Non Christian Germans don't. This applies to all the culture in the rest of the world as very well. I expect they call him Farter Klaus, yes.
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