Greater Volga-German population

No it was also because the Germans was more urban than the Kazakhs, the fact that they have the same birt rate today, are a result of the German population have become more rural as the urban population have emigrated to Germany, and that the Germans have simply upkept their pre-1989 birth rate.
The German birth rate in Kazakstan is impressing. Kazakstani ethnic Germans have 3 times the birth rate of the German ethnic Germans. Imagine if Germany proper had the same birth rate!
 
Another intresting possibility is that of some Volga Germans escaping oppression in the Soviet Union, fleeing into China's Xinjiang province. Depending on the relationship between the Soviet Union and PRC, will matter much to these potential refugees. If SU and PRC have good relations they are likely to be "returned" i think. If not i think they would have been helped to migrate to Germany proper. A more intresting scenario would be to see a diaspora in China and how they interact with Germany proper and the diaspora in the former USSR.
 
I am thinking of means of increasing the population aside from immigration, so it will have to be something about the lifestyle and culture that spurs the population growth.

If the Germans were less prone to drugs, alcholism, obesity this would also increase their life expectancy, helping grow the population. Atleest for a while untill potential low birth rates catch up with the progress in live expectancy, and leads to population decline as death outnumber births.

So most immigrant to Germany are the home sovieticus and not traditional stock germans.

The Germans from USSR are a mix of people who speak German as first language, people who identify as Germans, people with some degree of German ancestry and people married with some of the above. Also honestly while there have been some problems with them, I think that they're in general overestimated, and have been more of a news item, because people expected them to be more cultural German than they were. It seems logical to me that people who have lived in Russia/USSR in between 150-250 years and have in general been treated discriminated minority the last 70 years, wouldn't fit perfectly into modern Germany. Other German groups who have returned to Germany the last 30 years was in general in a better social position.

The German birth rate in Kazakstan is impressing. Kazakstani ethnic Germans have 3 times the birth rate of the German ethnic Germans. Imagine if Germany proper had the same birth rate!

It would be next to impossible when people becomes urban their population growth fall. We can see it in Denmark with immigrants from the developing world as urban group their birth rate have fallen below rural Danes.
 
It would be next to impossible when people becomes urban their population growth fall. We can see it in Denmark with immigrants from the developing world as urban group their birth rate have fallen below rural Danes.
It is sad that urbanisation seem to result in so low birth rates. Especially since i believe that urbanisation is the way foreward. Urbanisation is more resource efficent, which is helpfull when you have quick population growth since then you can serve more people cheeper. When population decrease starts is will be better as it will allow for workers to help more elderly as the elderly to worker numbers grow. Is there a way around the problem of low urban birth rates?
 
It is sad that urbanisation seem to result in so low birth rates. Especially since i believe that urbanisation is the way foreward. Urbanisation is more resource efficent, which is helpfull when you have quick population growth since then you can serve more people cheeper. When population decrease starts is will be better as it will allow for workers to help more elderly as the elderly to worker numbers grow. Is there a way around the problem of low urban birth rates?

No not really, there's way to avoid it falling too far (access to child care, a generous welfare state and affordable access to housing), but falling birth rates are unavoidable and to large degree a positive, as a country do best with a slow population increase, as high population increase eat up economic growth.

Also a question, your usename are Danish/Norwegian, are you from one of those countries?
 
No not really, there's way to avoid it falling too far (access to child care, a generous welfare state and affordable access to housing), but falling birth rates are unavoidable and to large degree a positive, as a country do best with a slow population increase, as high population increase eat up economic growth.

Also a question, your usename are Danish/Norwegian, are you from one of those countries?
Norway
 
In that case let me be the first one to welcome a fellow Scandinavian. If you haven't read it @Bastiram is writing a excellent timeline with a unified Nordic kingdom.
I will look into his story, later. It is late now here in Scandinavia, you should know.

But before i go.

My understanding is that the Scandinavian poltical climate was either in a hot war or in a cold war. This compition severly restricted scandinavian expansion abroad. If you look at a map, Sweden is dependent on having its ships bypass Denmark--Norway, while the latter is vulnerable to a Swedish land invasion. If Sweden had Norway or the nordic countries were integrated somehow, then there would be much more possibilty for expansion.
 
I will look into his story, later. It is late now here in Scandinavia, you should know.

But before i go.

My understanding is that the Scandinavian poltical climate was either in a hot war or in a cold war. This compition severly restricted scandinavian expansion abroad. If you look at a map, Sweden is dependent on having its ships bypass Denmark--Norway, while the latter is vulnerable to a Swedish land invasion. If Sweden had Norway or the nordic countries were integrated somehow, then there would be much more possibilty for expansion.

Yes you're correct, so a unified Scandinavia (with POD in the early 13th century) pretty much change the situation around the Baltic and later have effects on all of Europe. Bastiram have reached the 17th century.
 
You have two hurdles, the first is the distrust showered upon Germans in a Soviet Union post-WWII and the other is the general lack of enthusiasm to procreate inside the oppressive USSR. So either avoid a Soviet-German war or make the USSR more an actual "paradise" or both. A possible "cheat" is to have the ethnic Germans play a bigger role in the revolution, have more prominent early Communist heroes be Germans, and elevate an ethnic German to such prominence that it shields the ethnic Germans from suspicion or suppression.
The distrust of germans might help to keep them seperate from the general soviet population.
 
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