Abstract
About 7,800,000 refugees have migrated to the Federal Republic of Germany since the latter half of World War II, accounting for 16 % of the population of the country in the 1961. As of 1950, the largest number of refugees in the Federal Republic of Germany had come to the State of Bavaria. In this paper, the refugee policy and the integration of German refugees in Bavaria are analyzed. The Bavarian State adopted various refugee policies in collaboration with the Federal Republic of Germany. As a consequence, the Bavarian State was able to socially integrate about 1.6 million refugees. Up to 1950, about 40,000 firms had been established by refugees. Moreover, the divide that existed between refugees and locals in 1950 had almost disappeared by 1960. For this reason, the refugee policy adopted by the Bavarian State is considered to be successful.
