After World War II, many Soviet Armenians, former POWs in particular, fled to the American occupied areas of Germany.

These include the orientalist Friedrich Carl Andreas (1846–1920), whose father came from an Armenian family of minor princes and gave up his family name Bagratuni, or the co-founder of the Tchibo group Carl Tchilling -Hiryan (1910–1987), whose Armenian father was born in Aydın in western Turkey.

There is already an Armenian descent legend for the early 18th century: According to a baptismal certificate, the founder of the Bavarian noble family Aretin, Johann Baptist Christoph Aroution Caziadur, is said to have been born in 1706 as the son of the Armenian petty prince Baldazar, who had fled from the Persians Caziadur and his wife Gogza of the House of the Princes of Qarabagh, to have been born in Constantinople.

In the 1980s other associations in Bremen, Braunschweig, Bielefeld, Duisburg, Neuwied, Bonn, Hanau, Eppingen, Nuremberg, Kehl and other places throughout Germany.

The Diocese of Germany bears the costs of assisting Armenians from post-Soviet Armenia and considers these services part of its mission.