Did Germans descend from "steppes people"?

Question

Someone online told me Germans descended from steppes people...which I guess was an asiatic tribe. I have seen many Germans in documentaries and online and I have indeed notice some 'asian eyes' on them before. But i'm wondering has anyone heard of this before?

Answer 1

If you have noticed somewhat "Asian" eyes on "German" people you are most probally observing German Jews. A lot of Ashkenazic Jews have "Asian" looking eyes.

Answer 2

Actually, this is incorrect.  The steppes were a part of North Eastern Russia which was the home of the Mongol tribes, the Tatars, and the origins of Attila the Hun.

While Asian eyes are not common in the Germanic peoples, they are not due to this source.  The German people actually have closer links to the Dutch, French and English isles.  The occasional Asian features that crop up are due to either immigration to Germany (for jobs or through marriages) or children of mixed European/Asian parents (which happens a lot due to military exchanges and business persons/students travelling abroad...  

In fact, most of Western Europe has been proven to be genetically linked to the Vikings as being their genetic ancestors due to their location and lifestyle.

Answer 3

The Germanic tribes descended from the Proto-Indo-Europeans which originated in the steppes of southern (not north eastern) Russia.  This group spread quickly from the area around the Caucus Mountains (which gave the name Caucasians) taking agricultural advances, technology (chariots and weapons), and their language from Spain (except the Basques) to India.  There are also central Asian groups near/inside modern German borders which have 'asian eyes'.  You need only look at Romania, Hungry, southern Russia, Turkey, etc. to find these traits.  England was settled by Germanic tribes (Anglos, Saxons and Jutes; hence the name England from Anglo-land).

Answer 4

Some Germanic people may have

Lapp ancestry the Steppe stretches across much of Eurasia people probably have moved back and forth.

Answer 5

SOME of them did, some didn't.  

We're all human, ultimately all cousins descended from the first humans regardless which theory you like, creation or evolution from the single cell.  "Germans" are people from various tribes that wandered and settled, or invaded and settled, tribes or peoples like Celts, Franks, Goths, Avars, Huns, Romans, Magyars, Teutonic, ...but ultimately the first people in Germany as in other places, were cavemen that wandered there from wherever the first humans came from... "The oldest human relic found in Europe is of Heidelberg Man...dated to approximately 400,000 years ago".  Furthermore, a lot of caveman migration came into what is now "Germany" from the part of Europe that is now Bulgaria, Macedonia, etc, 6000 years ago, south-eastern Greece, Turkey, Middle east 7000 years ago...Cavemen of then are described now by the type of pottery they made, and one that expanded into "Germany" was called "Danubian Linear Incised Pottery Cultures".  Those other tribes listed above that swept through Europe in waves came only several hundred years ago.  Germans are really a mix of people from various places, and ultimately back in history, from the same ancestors as everyone on earth.

Answer 6

The Germans are a Germanic people which as an ethnicity emerged in southern Scandinavia in the centuries leading up to the Migrations Period, where they were in contact with other peoples, including Finnic inhabitants of Scandinavia to the north, Balto-Slavic peoples to the east and Celts to the south. Later in history, Germanic peoples — as most other European people — mixed with bordering ethnic groups such as Gallo-Romans and Slavs.

Answer 7

Germans themselves didn't come from the steppes of central asia but there has been some Asian blood injected into the German gene pool from invading Huns, Bulgars, Magyars, Alans and Mongols in the dark ages.