Since the 1970s, Tamils from Sri Lanka arrived as asylum seekers to Germany (most of them were Hindus).

About 42,000–45,000 were Sri Lankan Tamils; 60,000–80,000 were Indian; more than 7,500 were from a white and other ethnicities; and some 7,000–10,000 were Afghan Hindus.

The first Hare Krishna temple in Germany was built 1970 in Hamburg.

The ISKCON guru Sacinandana Swami translated the Bhagavad Gita into German.

[7] There are about 700 Balinese Hindu families living in Germany,[8] with the one temple located in Hamburg in front of the Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg and the second, Pura Tri Hita Karana located in Erholungspark Marzahn, Berlin, which is a functioning Hindu temple located in the Balinese Garden of the park and it is one of the few Hindu temples of Balinese architecture built outside Indonesia.