According to the YouGov poll, carried out for the Deutsche Presse Agentur news agency, 66 percent of Germans expected Daesh, also known as ISIL, to attack the country next year. 17 percent said they didn't think there would be an attack in 2016, while a further 17 percent were undecided.
The poll has revealed how despite never experiencing a major terror attack, many Germans are concerned at the rise of Islamic jihad, following high profile attacks in Paris, Beirut and Turkey in recent months.
@raywhitesa @Radio702 Europe's police and armed force on high alert for the end of the year festive season pic.twitter.com/YXXVLdnjzD
— Hamburgdave (@Hamburgdave) December 29, 2015
Germany's first and only Islamist-motivated terrorist attack occurred in 2011 when an ethnic Albanian man from Kosovo killed two US airmen and wounded two others in an attack at Frankfurt airport.
Germany is by far the odd country out in respect of major terror attack this century
— richard duke (@cyberduke23) December 27, 2015
Despite the limited number of attacks on Germany in the past, security and intelligence agencies have been on high alert, with an international football match between Germany and the Netherlands canceled last month amid credible evidence of a planned terrorist attack at the event.
The polls come as both the UK and Germany stepped up their military efforts to try and defeat the group in the Middle East.
British parliamentarians voted to extend the bombing of Daesh targets into Syria, while German MPs also approved measures to send up to 1,200 troops to the Middle East to help support the international coalition against Daesh.
German forces will not engage in active combat, but will instead assist tankers and aircraft in the region.
