List of German Americans

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This is a list of notable German Americans.

German Americans (German Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of ethnic German ancestry and currently form the largest ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of US population.[1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants entered the United States since then. Immigration continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals came 1840–1900. Germans form the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering even the Irish and English.[2] Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others simply for the chance to start afresh in the New World. California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with over six million German-Americans residing in the two states alone.[274] Over 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry[3]. In Pennsylvania, English and German were co-official languages until around the time of World War I.

Americans of German descent live in nearly every American county, they have been here for 400 years, from the East Coast, where the first German settlers arrived in the 1600s, to the West Coast and in all the states in between. German-Americans and those Germans who settled in the US have been influential in most every field, from science, to architecture, to entertainment to commercial industry.

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political cartoonist Thomas Nast
political cartoonist Thomas Nast

John A. Roebling, civil engineer, Brooklyn Bridge
John A. Roebling, civil engineer, Brooklyn Bridge

Fred Astaire, dancer
Fred Astaire, dancer
Actress, singer, entertainer
Actress, singer, entertainer
Hedy Lamarr, actress, inventor
Hedy Lamarr, actress, inventor

H. L. Mencken, satirist, social critic, cynic, freethinker
H. L. Mencken, satirist, social critic, cynic, freethinker
Gertrude Stein, writer
Gertrude Stein, writer

Bix Beiderbecke, with jazz cornet
Bix Beiderbecke, with jazz cornet
Lawrence Welk, "champagne music"
Lawrence Welk, "champagne music"

Adolphus Busch, brewer
Adolphus Busch, brewer
John D. Rockefeller, industrialist
John D. Rockefeller, industrialist
Levi Strauss, blue jeans
Levi Strauss, blue jeans

Adolf Cluss, architect
Adolf Cluss, architect
Bruno Hauptmann, kidnapper
Bruno Hauptmann, kidnapper
Pat Nixon, first lady
Pat Nixon, first lady

George Armstrong Custer, Indian fighter
George Armstrong Custer, Indian fighter
Baron von Steuben, Continental Army
Baron von Steuben, Continental Army

Henry Kissinger, statesman
Henry Kissinger, statesman
Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman, reformer, US Army General, politician
Carl Schurz, revolutionary, statesman, reformer, US Army General, politician

Wernher von Braun, rockets and spaceships
Wernher von Braun, rockets and spaceships

Gertrude Ederle, swimmer, Olymipic medalist
Gertrude Ederle, swimmer, Olymipic medalist
Babe Ruth, baseball player
Babe Ruth, baseball player

  1. ^ US demographic census. Retrieved on 2007-04-15.; The 2000 census gives 15.2% or 42.8 million. The 1990 census had 23.3% or 57.9 million.
  2. ^ Adams, J.Q.; Pearlie Strother-Adams (2001). Dealing with Diversity. Chicago, IL: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. 0-7872-8145-X. 
  3. ^ Cite error 8; No text given.
  4. ^ [1] "German-born Bierstadt, whose teachers had included the German Romantic painter Lessing..."
  5. ^ [2] "early 20th century German artist, George Grosz."
  6. ^ [3] "born Karl Wilhelm Hahn in Ebersbach, Saxony, Germany on January 7, 1829. After art studies in Germany and some success in Europe, Hahn met the American artist William Keith in Düsseldorf and went to the U.S. in 1871. Hahn soon had a studio in San Francisco and became very successful, notably for his paintings of California scenes and landscapes. In 1882 he married an American artist named Adelaide Rising. They were on an extended European tour when he died unexpectedly in Dresden"
  7. ^ http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/atol/hofmann.html] "German-American painter and teacher, often called the dean of abstract expressionism"
  8. ^ [4]"Nicola Marschall - German-born artist, designed the first Confederate flag and the Confederate uniform."
  9. ^ [5]"Thomas Nast - German-born Father of American Caricature..."
  10. ^ [6]"German American art historian who gained particular prominence for his studies in iconography (the study of symbols and themes in works of art)."
  11. ^ [7] "German native Severin Roesen is most famous for his abundant fruit..."
  12. ^ [8]
  13. ^ [9] "...earliest type founder in America, published the first Bible in German, 1743, and the first religious magazine in America, 1764. The magazine was published by Christopher Sauer II, who took over the printshop after his father died in 1758."
  14. ^ [10] "Born in Darmstadt. Studied in, settled in Philadelphia. Frequent exhibitor at Pennsylvania Academy. He frequently collaborated with the painter Christian Schüssele."
  15. ^ [11] "Born to German-Jewish parents in New York City, Cohn, his brother Jack (1889-1956), and partner Joe Brandt founded C.B.C. Films in 1920, later Columbia Pictures."
  16. ^ [12] "Son of Kirk Douglas and German mother Anne ..."
  17. ^ [13] "...the German director of Hollywood films including Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot, and The Day After Tomorrow, was born in Stuttgart."
  18. ^ [14] "German-American motion-picture director"
  19. ^ [15]
  20. ^ [16] "Born Emil Anton Bundmann. German-American director. (Sullivan's Travels, Border Incident, Winchester '73, The Glenn Miller Story, God's Little Acre, El Cid)"
  21. ^ [17] "German-American film producer and screenwriter. Born in Berlin, the son of Seymour Nebenzahl (below). His production work in Hollywood includes CABARET (1972) and Billy Wilder's FEDORA (1978)."
  22. ^ [18] "(1897-1961, aka Nebenzal) - German-American film producer born in New York, educated there and in Berlin, Germany. Together with his father Heinrich Nebenzahl (d. 1938), Seymour founded film companies and produced many of the classic movies of the Weimar period, including PANDORA'S BOX with Louise Brooks and M with Peter Lorre. In Hollywood Seymour worked as a producer at MGM and his own Nero Films."
  23. ^ [19] "Mike Nichols, the German-born director of HBO's Angels in America, tells the Washington Post his feel for Yiddish rushed back in a skit when Elaine May..."
  24. ^ [20] "...came to the US at the age of 19. The second son of Max Reinhardt (below), Gottfried was born in Berlin but lived in both Germany and the US before he died in Los Angeles in 1994."
  25. ^ [21] "German-American cinematographer and inventor of the “Schüfftan process” for optical special effects, used until it was replaced by the simpler matte method. Camera work: Menschen am Sonntag (1929), The Hustler (1961, Acad. Award), Lilith (1964)."
  26. ^ [22] "German-born Pioneer architect in Chicago whose influence helped to bring about the architectural renaissance in Chicago at the turn of the century. (1844-1900)."
  27. ^ [23]"The New Ulm monument and statue of Hermann was first conceived by architect Julius Berndt of New Ulm."
  28. ^ <http://varusbattle.com/_wsn/page6.html> "An emigrant from Silesia in Germany at age 20, Berndt brought artistic skills and ideas from his homeland to the new world."
  29. ^ [24] "In 2000, The 106th Congress of the United States designated the Hermann Monument in New Ulm to be an official symbol of all citizens of German heritage. The Hermann Monument, erected in 1897, was built in memory of an ancient Teutonic hero, Hermann of Cherusci. Hermann is honored as the liberator of Germany from Rome in 9 A.D., and the father of Germanic independence."
  30. ^ [25] "Walter Gropius was a German architect and art educator"
  31. ^ [26] "German-born architect famous for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, in particular, the design of the Brooklyn Bridge."
  32. ^ [27] "German-born Architect"
  33. ^ [28] "German-born designer of the U.S. capitol dome. (c. 1817-1900)"
  34. ^ [29] "He was born Guenther Edward Schneider February 18, 1890 in New York City to fur cutter Carl Schneider and Elizabeth Ohse formerly of Hanover, Germany. Five children made for a crowded coldwater flat, but the thrifty German family somehow always had enough food on the table."
  35. ^ [30]"After his arrival in New York and a brief stay at Ellis Island, Fritz Austerlitz made his way west to Omaha, Nebraska. There he met a woman much younger than he named Johanna (Ann) Geilus. Johanna had been born in Omaha, but her parents, David Geilus and Wilhelmina Klaatke, were German-speaking, Lutheran immigrants from East Prussia and Alsace. The 25-year-old Fritz and 16-year-old Johanna were married at the First German Lutheran Church in Omaha on Nov. 17, 1894. On the marriage license the groom is listed simply as “Fritz Austerlitz.” The bride's name is recorded as “Johanna Geilus” with the notation “consent given by father” of the teenage bride."
  36. ^ [31] "Mary Astor was born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in Quincy, on May 3, 1906, to German immigrant parents."
  37. ^ [32] "American actress of German-Jewish heritage, most famous as Humphrey Bogart's partner, both on and off screen (they married in 1945). Bronx-born Bacall got her screen name from her German-Romanian grandmother, who raised her after her parents' divorce in 1930."
  38. ^ [33] "German Ancestry"
  39. ^ [34] "Born Hans Gudegast, Eric Braeden emigrated to the U.S. in 1959 from the port city of Kiel, West Germany and became a naturalized citizen while attending college. In 1989, Eric served as a member of the German-American Advisory Board along with the likes of Dr. Henry Kissinger. Eric has also been awarded the Federal Medal of Honor by the President of Germany for promoting a "positive, realistic image of Germans in America."
  40. ^ [35] "German actor who came to Hollywood in 1937 after fleeing Nazi Germany via France. In the US he was busy as a character actor in many films of the 1940s."
  41. ^ [36] "...Bruckner is definitely German"
  42. ^ [37] "The half-German, half-Alabaman Bullock was born in Washington, DC...
  43. ^ [38] "Her grandfather was Nordic-German..."
  44. ^ [39] "...the 19-year-old was then able to get to safety in America."
  45. ^ [40] "though as it happens, Doris Day, nee Doris Kappelhoff, is purebred German. "And I have a beautiful shitsu called Wesley Winfield.""
  46. ^ [41] "Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff, 1924- ; some bios claim she was born in 1922) - American film actress and TV personality born in the Cincinnati suburb of Evanston, Ohio in her family's house, "attended by a good German midwife." Both her parents were children of German immigrants. (Her maternal grandfather Welz came from Berlin.) Despite being Catholics, Doris' parents separated over William von Kappelhoff's extramarital affair when Doris was eleven, and later divorced. In the 1940s in California, the singer began to use the stage name Doris Day."
  47. ^ [42] "He's half-German, half-Italian." [43] "His dad, George DiCaprio, half German and half Italian, is an underground comic book artist... DiCaprio's mother, Irmelin Indenbirken (sometimes spelled In Den Birken), was born in a German air raid shelter in the midst of a World War II air raid. After the war, in the 1950s, she emigrated to the US with her parents as a young child... DiCaprio's maternal grandparents, Wilhelm and Helene Indenbirken, continued to live in the US for many years before returning to Germany to enjoy their retirement." [44]
  48. ^ [45] "German-American motion-picture actress whose aura of sophistication and languid sensuality made her one of the most glamorous of all film stars."
  49. ^ [46]
  50. ^ [47] "...posters of this Swedish/German beauty will be plastered in locker rooms everywhere..."
  51. ^ [48] "Born Douglas Elton Ulman"
  52. ^ Dakota Fanning - [49] "I'm also half German" [50] "My Grandmother was German, and the tradition was to hide an ornament in a pickle, and whoever find it gets a prize. It's a lot of fun."
  53. ^ [51] "What nationality are you? (Ginny) German. American."
  54. ^ [52] "Fey’s mother is Greek-American and her father is German-Scottish, but she’s wary of claiming an ethnic identity."
  55. ^ [53] "...born in Cadiz, Ohio. Both Gable's mother (Adeline Hershelman) and father (William H. Gable) had German ancestors (Frankenfield, Hershelman, and Haupt) who had settled in Pennsylvania."
  56. ^ [54] "Germanic Surname Lexikon (Gerber)"
  57. ^ [55] "Uta Hagen, a German actress who achieved fame in her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, died on Wednesday. Uta was 84."
  58. ^ [56] "Raised in Connecticut with her two older brothers, Holt and Jason, and older sister Meg, the half-Irish, half-German natural blonde was a child model for Sears catalogs before landing small roles in commercial work."
  59. ^ [57] "Her Irish-German beauty helped her grab her first TV gig back in her native Nebraska..."
  60. ^ [58] "On the 1910 Census of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, it shows that the grandfather of Constance "Veronica" was born in Germany instead of Sweden..."
  61. ^ [59] "LR: How can you be Italian with a name like Lauper? CL: Lauper's my father's name. He's German and Swiss and my mom's Italian. So I'm German, Swiss and Sicilian. Kinda like cold cuts. [laughs] The German and the Italian in me are always fighting and the Swiss guy in the middle is goin', "OK, let's talk here. Everybody calm down." [both laugh]"
  62. ^ [60]
  63. ^ [61] "I am only French, Dutch and German. I get my skin color from the French side of my family."
  64. ^ [62] "Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the part Panamanian, part German, and all woman Candice Michelle"
  65. ^ [63] "Half German, half Native Indian"
  66. ^ [64] "Born Maximilian Josef Sommer in Greifswald, Germany, Sommer came to the US as a youth."
  67. ^ [65] "Stossel's last feature film was G.I. Blues (set in West Germany with Elvis Presley and Juliet Prowse) in 1960. Stossel was still active when he died in Beverly Hills after a fall at the age of 90."
  68. ^ [66] [67] "a naturalized US Citizen of note."
  69. ^ "I'm a mutt. I have so much of everything in me, and half of it I don't even know. German on one side, Greek, Turkish and Welsh on the other. My mom is very olive-skinned; I get my blue eyes from my dad."
  70. ^ [68] "German Ancestry"
  71. ^ [69] "I’m Irish and German, I thought that I could go toe-to-toe but it’s hard to keep up with the Aussies."
  72. ^ [70] "Ethnicity: German/American"
  73. ^ [71] "The German-born, New Jersey-raised Willis, 43, is one of Hollywood's biggest..."
  74. ^ [72] "Zilzer and Palfi married in 1943 and soon moved to New York. Both continued to act, mostly in television. Zilzer died in Berlin in 1991, and his former wife (they divorced amicably when Zilzer was seriously ill and wanted to go to Germany), who refused to return to Germany, died just a few months later in New York."
  75. ^ [73] "German Heritage"
  76. ^ [74]
  77. ^ [75] "So when Bukowski, who was German-born, got along with this young..."
  78. ^ [76] "Part of a large German-American family, and the ninth of ten children, his childhood was marked by poverty." [77] "Theodore Dreiser was the son of a German Catholic immigrant father and a German-Moravian Mennonite mother."
  79. ^ [78] "1829 - Gomried Duden's published travel report encourages thousands of Germans to come to America, especially Missouri"
  80. ^ [79] "I could hear the pain in my German-American father's voice as he recalled being yanked out of Lutheran school during World War I and forbidden by his immigrant parents ever to speak German again."
  81. ^ [80] "Like Charles Follen and Carl Schurz, Lieber was a German revolutionary and patriot but only America allowed him to develop his talents to the full."
  82. ^ [81] "Her father was of German descent and she did not meet him until she was twelve - the surname Highsmith was from her stepfather..."
  83. ^ [82] "The two most distinguished German Sinologists at the turn of the century, Friedrich Hirth (1845-1927) and Berthold Laufer..."
  84. ^ [83] "German-American film historian, sociologist and author, best known for his 1947 book From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film. His Theory of Film (1960) was Kracauer's second influential, if also controversial, work. Born in Germany, the former editor of a Frankfurt newspaper and German film critic came to America in 1941. His studies concentrated on how cinema both influences and is influenced by social and economic conditions."
  85. ^ [84] "Mencken came from a German-American neighborhood and family."
  86. ^ in "Tropic of Cancer" he about being from a German family and the German songs he had to learn in his youth
  87. ^ [85] "In Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath does many things: she explores her guilt about being German during World War II..."
  88. ^ [86]
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  90. ^ [88]
  91. ^ [89] "Charles Sealsfield (1793-1864): German and American novelist of the nineteenth century."
  92. ^ [90] "She is the youngest of five surviving children of Daniel Stein and Amelia Keyser. Both parents belonged to German Jewish -mmigrant families who settled in Baltimore, Maryland before the Civil War."
  93. ^ [91] "Allegheny City (Deutschtown), Pittsburgh, PA birth placard"
  94. ^ [92]
  95. ^ [93]
  96. ^ [94] "German-born U.S. journalist and financier"
  97. ^ [95] "Vonnegut, a fourth generation German-American, was sent to a POW camp in Dresden." [96]
  98. ^ [97]"I think German guys are really hot ... I am German."
  99. ^ [98]
  100. ^ [99] "My background is Norwegian and German, two of the unfunniest ethnic groups in the history of the world."
  101. ^ [100] "Ethnicity: Mexican/German "
  102. ^ [101] "German-American conductor and composer"
  103. ^ [102] "Elbert Joseph Higgins of Portuguese, Irish and German descent..."
  104. ^ [103] "...one of the most important figures in 20th century music, and an influential teacher. Hindemith was born in Hanau on Nov. 16, 1895, and studied at the Hock Conservatory in Frankfurt... ...He went to the U.S. in 1940 and taught at Yale University"
  105. ^ [104] "German-born American choreographer of modern dance and Broadway musicals"
  106. ^ [105]
  107. ^ [106] "...born in San Francisco. His father was a cellist trained in Dresden, Germany; his mother, Eva König, was born in Germany. Because he could speak German, Warner Bros. assigned Friedhofer to work with the Austrian composers Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner. Despite his own strong skills, he remained in their shadow for many years. Friedhofer won an Academy Award for his score for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)."
  108. ^ [107] "Born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1816, coming to this city when a child, and at an early age manifesting his talents as a musician, teacher and composer influencing the likes of Stephen Foster"
  109. ^ [108] "German descendant pop singer Nick Lachey was first popular as a member of the multi-platinum selling boy band 98 Degrees..."
  110. ^ [109] "Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) was a German-American violinist and composer"
  111. ^ [110] "German/American, 1832-1932"
  112. ^ [111] "The Latin name PASTORIUS was once the German Schäfer, meaning shepherd. Jaco's father, John Francis Pastorius II, was born in Pennsylvania from German and Irish descendants."
  113. ^ [112] "German-born American conductor who was largely responsible for the role of symphony orchestras in many American cities."
  114. ^ http://www.kauhajoki.fi/~jplaitio/members/deedee.html
  115. ^ [113] "German composer, American citizen from 1943"
  116. ^ [114]"Lawrence Welk, German-American bandleader"
  117. ^ "No one really sounds like me. I'm German-Irish but for some reason I have soul in me. I've always had it - ever since I was a kid. So I'm bringing my spirit and my heart because every song I sing, I'm telling a story."
  118. ^ [115] "German-American merchant and financier, born near Heidelberg, Germany."
  119. ^ [116] "German Heritage"
  120. ^ [117] "German Heritage"
  121. ^ [118] "One of the oldest continually operating companies in the US today, Bausch & Lomb traces its roots to 1853, when John Jacob Bausch, a German immigrant, set up a tiny optical goods shop in Rochester, New York."
  122. ^ [119]
  123. ^ http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/oakland/oak_centg.html
  124. ^ http://www.foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/buhl/profile.html "To the new business Henry Buhl brought German thoroughness and caution, an infinite capacity for hard work, and a business training acquired from his successful father and from that staunch old pioneer, his grandfather, Christian Buhl."
  125. ^ [120] "Adolphus Busch, was a Corporal Co. E 3rd Regiment US Reserve Infantry Corps (3 months, 1861) after the war became St. Louis most famous German immigrant."
  126. ^ [121]
  127. ^ [122] "The American founder of Chrysler was a descendent of the German Johann Phillip Kreisler (1672-1742) who sailed to the New World in 1709."
  128. ^ [123] "And so it was with Adolph Coors, the young German immigrant who founded Coors Brewing Company..."
  129. ^ [124] "his father, Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-American descent."
  130. ^ [125] "The Firestone family goes back to German immigrants named Feuerstein. Harvey Firestone's great-great-great grandfather was Hans Nikolaus Feuerstein, born March 25, 1712 in Berg, Alsace, a German-speaking region now in France. Hans and his wife Catharina arrived in America in September 1753 and Hans is believed to have died in Pennsylvania in 1763."
  131. ^ [126] "...was a German-American blacksmith who invented the tractor trailer or semi-trailer (Sattelschlepper in German) in 1914. Four years later he later founded the Fruehauf Trailer Corporation."
  132. ^ [127]
  133. ^ [128]
  134. ^ [129]
  135. ^ [130] "Having made a fortune in the pharmaceutical industry, he endowed the Max Kade foundation with the goal of promoting the mutual understanding of the people and cultures of Germany and the United States."
  136. ^ [131] "Born a middle-class, assimilated German Jew..."
  137. ^ [132] "Kluge, a German-born billionaire, donated a whopping $60 million to start the..."
  138. ^ [133] "From music have come - beside the piano- and organ-makers, Steinway, Knabe"
  139. ^ [134] "Johan Adam Lemp was born in Gruningen, Germany"
  140. ^ [135] "Frederick Miller, a German immigrant who started his own brewery in 1855..."
  141. ^ [136]
  142. ^ [137] "The history of Penn Brewery making great German beers began with Tom Pastorius' great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Franz Daniel Pastorius. Today considered the father of German-Americans, Franz Daniel Pastorius was an idealistic scholar..."
  143. ^ [138] "William Rittenhouse was born in what is now Germany, near the Dutch border. His name was then Wilhelm Rittenhausen, later changed in America"
  144. ^ http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/mtoz/roebling.html
  145. ^ [139] "The roll call of German-American leaders in business and finance includes names like Astor, Boeing, Chrysler, Firestone, Fleischman, Guggenheim, Heinz, Hershey, Kaiser, Rockefeller, Steinway, Strauss (of-blue jeans fame), Singer (originally Reisinger)..."
  146. ^ [140] "Claus Spreckels was born on July 9, 1828 and started off as a poor German immigrant who first settled in North Carolina upon arriving in America in 1846."
  147. ^ [141] "Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, a German master-carpenter, builds his first instrument in his Seesen..."
  148. ^ [142] "http://www.wargs.com/noble/strachwitz.html"
  149. ^ [143] "the founder of the modern day denim industries"
  150. ^ [144] "Pennsylvania-German-built Conestoga wagons carried the pioneers westward, some armed with "Kentucky rifles," also made in Pennsylvania by Germans. A leading German-American wagon builder, Clement Studebaker, later produced the popular car that bore his name."
  151. ^ [145] "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California..."
  152. ^ [146] "The celebrity, who is half Scottish and half German, is thrilled with the honor..."
  153. ^ [147]
  154. ^ [148] "1914 - ...Frederick Weyerhaeuser, German-born lumber king, dies. His fortune: $300,000,000."
  155. ^ [149] "German-born American Textile Artist"
  156. ^ [150] "German-born George Atzerodt immigrated to the United States with his family in 1843, at the age of eight."
  157. ^ [151] "Ethnicity Swiss/German"
  158. ^ [152]
  159. ^ [153] "German traders also appeared in different parts of North America. Soon after Henry Hudson had discovered the noble river which now bears his name, a German, Hendrick Christiansen of Kleve, became the explorer of that stream. Attracted by its beauty and grandeur, he undertook eleven expeditions to its shores. He also built the first houses on Manhattan Island, 1613, and laid the foundations of the trading stations New Amsterdam and Fort Nassau, the present cities of New York and Albany. "
  160. ^ [154] "...numerous Germans, of whom several held responsible positions in the Dutch West Indian Trading Company. There were also German physicians, lawyers and merchants. One of the latter, Nicholaus de Meyer, a native of Hamburg, became in 1676 burgomaster of New York."
  161. ^ [155] "In Texas, there were several substantial waves of German immigration. The first, when Friedrich Ernst, "Father of German Immigration to Texas," arrived in Texas in 1831 and received a grant of more than 4,000 acres (16 km²) in what is now Austin County. He set about encouraging other Germans to join him. This tract of land formed the nucleus of what is now known as the German Belt."
  162. ^ [156] "...born in Kassel, Hesse, in 1805. He left Europe late in 1833 and spent a year each in London and New York and two years in New Orleans. In 1837 or early 1838 he came to Houston, Texas, where he was consul for the Hanseatic League (modern-day Germany). He became interested in the exploration and colonization of the San Saba area and in 1839 was acting treasurer of the San Saba Company, which was later reorganized as the San Saba Colonization Company."
  163. ^ [157] "German-born U.S. composer, pianist, and conductor"
  164. ^ [158] "Meyer, though a native speaker of German, was Swiss-German."
  165. ^ [159] "Arriving in Texas in the mid 1840s, German farmers became the first settlers of what is now known as Gruene, Texas. Ernst Gruene, a German immigrant, and his bride Antoinette, had reached the newly established city of New Braunfels in 1845, but land was scarce. Thus, Ernst and his two sons purchased land just down river, and Ernst built the first home in Gruene in early fachwerk style. His second son, Henry D. Gruene, built his home (now Gruene Mansion Inn) and planted his surrounding land with cotton. Having become the number one cash crop, the cotton business soon brought 20 to 30 families to Henry D.'s lands."
  166. ^ [160] "German-born American carpenter and burglar"
  167. ^ [161]
  168. ^ [162] "A Pennsylvania German named Michael Hillegas was the first Continental Treasurer. "
  169. ^ [163]
  170. ^ [164] "Lederer, a German-born physician"
  171. ^ [165] "The unknown interior of the latter colony was first explored by a young German scholar, Johann Lederer. who, born in Hamburg, came to Jamestown in 1668."
  172. ^ [166] "German-born Jacob Leisler"
  173. ^ "Hume, Edgar Erskine, "The German Artist Who Designed the Confederate Flag and Uniform". The American-German Review, August, 1940."
  174. ^ [167] "German-American"
  175. ^ [168] "Charles Mohr (1824-1901), German-born Mobile pharmacist and botanist, is best known for the monumental Plant Life of Alabama"
  176. ^ [169] "Irish, German; Pat Nixon's mother immigrated from the Ober Rosbach region of Germany..."
  177. ^ [170] "In future years many leaders of American labor were German American, including Walter Reuther"
  178. ^ [171] "The founder, August Schrader was a creative and inventive German immigrant"
  179. ^ [172] "Carl Schurz, one of the most celebrated German Americans"
  180. ^ [173] "the Schwarzkopfs emigrated to the US long before the rise of Nazism, are not known to have voiced Nazi leanings, and were a respected part of the substantial German-American community in New Jersey."
  181. ^ [174] "Germans have been a part of Cincinnati's history from its very beginning when Benjamin Steitz landed the first settlers in 1788."
  182. ^ [175] "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California"
  183. ^ [176] "Accordingly, in May 1842 the association sent two of its members, counts Joseph of Boos-Waldeck and Victor August of Leiningen-Westerburg-Alt-Leiningen to Texas to investigate the country firsthand and purchase a tract of land for the settlement of immigrants."
  184. ^ [177] "His successor in New Sweden was a German nobleman, Johann Printz von Buchau, a giant in body and energy. During his regime, which lasted from 1643 to 1654, the colony New Sweden became very successful..."
  185. ^ [178] "In 1910, a German immigrant, Paul Warburg"
  186. ^ [179] "John Wetzel was a German Palatinate emigrant who had survived indentured servitude and had become successful enough to win the hand of Captain Bonnet's daughter in marriage."
  187. ^ [180] "German immigrant printer named John Peter Zenger"
  188. ^ [181] "German-Swiss Heritage"
  189. ^ [182] "On November 8 1887, Emile Berliner, a German immigrant working in Washington DC..."
  190. ^ [183] "Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German inventor"
  191. ^ [184] "Gustave Whitehead, a poor, German immigrant"
  192. ^ [185]
  193. ^ [186] "German-Prussian officer, served under General Jeb Stuart"
  194. ^ [187] "Originally his ancestry came from Westphalia in Northern Germany. They emigrated and arrived in America in the 17th century. The original family name was "Küster"."
  195. ^ [188]
  196. ^ [189]"Birth State: Germany, Death Date: 7/7/1875"
  197. ^ [190]
  198. ^ [191]
  199. ^ [192] "Notable among many German-Americans who have shaped our military to meet later challenges were John J. Pershing, whose ancestral family name was Pfoerschin."
  200. ^ [193] "military officer/Union general"
  201. ^ [194] "German-Prussian General who served with George Washington in the American Revolutionary War and is credited with teaching the Continental Army the essentials of military drill and discipline. He reorganised the Continental Army and guided it to victory."
  202. ^ [195] "1806 - ...Martin Baum, riverboat pioneer on the Ohio and Mississippi, becomes mayor of Cincinnati"
  203. ^ [196]
  204. ^ [197] "1842 - William Bouck (Bauk) becomes Governor of New York"
  205. ^ [198] "Born into an affluent German-Jewish family in Louisville"
  206. ^ [199] "Ethnicity Swiss/German"
  207. ^ [200] "... a descendant of Hans Nikolas Eisenhauer."
  208. ^ [201] "His father, Lou Gephardt, was the grandson of German immigrants"
  209. ^ [202]
  210. ^ [203] "Hagel’s name is German."
  211. ^ [204] "1820 - Joseph Heister becomes Governor of Pennsylvania"
  212. ^ "Born in Fürth, Germany to Jewish parents. Naturalized as US citizen in 1943"
  213. ^ [205]
  214. ^ [206] "The surname Ravenstahl, of German origin, might be translated as "steadfast raven" or "steel raven." ... one of only a few German-American mayors in Pittsburgh's history."
  215. ^ [207] "Eventually, he met Ingrid Rimland, an ethnic German who now lives in Tennessee"
  216. ^ [208] "Reynier Tyson, born in Krefeld, Germany is the 4th great-grandfather of American President Theodore Roosevelt."
  217. ^ [209]
  218. ^ [210] "Rev. August F. Ernst, President of Northwestern University; born in Hanover June 25, 1841; educated in the colleges of Celle and at the University of Gottingen; taught one year in Germany; then in 1863, came to America and located in New York City, where he was engaged in the holy ministry. In 1864, he was ordained at Pottstown, Penn.; preached in New York City until 1868; for ten months thereafter, he had pastoral charge of a congregation at Albany, N.Y., then came to Watertown."
  219. ^ [211] "1768 - Barbara Heck, German-lrish, founds first Methodist church in New York"
  220. ^ [212] "Adolf Hoenecke (1835-1908) received his theological training at the University of Halle in Germany. One of his teachers was Friedrich A. G. Tholuck (1799-1877), who opposed rationalism and yet favored the union of the Lutherans and the Reformed. Young Hoenecke was sent to Wisconsin by the Berlin Missionary Society, but very soon he opposed the unionism of his teacher and the German mission societies and became a truly confessional Lutheran. He served as pastor of Wisconsin Synod congregations in Farmington, Watertown, and Milwaukee. His learning and confessionalism made him the natural choice to head the Wisconsin Synod seminary, first from 1866 to 1870 in Watertown, and then again from 1878 to 1908, first in Milwaukee and then in Wauwatosa. For many years he was the editor of the Wisconsin Synod's Gemeindeblatt. As seminary director he was instrumental in founding the journal of theology known as the Theologische Quartalschrift, which continues to this day as the Wisconsin Lutheran Quarterly."
  221. ^ [213] "German-born American clergyman"
  222. ^ [214] "Zinzendorf himself visited St. Thomas, and later visited America. There he sought to unify the German Protestants of Pennsylvania, even proposing a sort of "council of churches" where all would preserve their unique denominational practices, but would work in cooperation rather than competition. He founded the town of Bethlehem, where his daughter Benigna organized the school which would become Moravian College."
  223. ^ [215]
  224. ^ [216] "Baade wanted to go there to observe with it himself, but his German citizenship prevented him"
  225. ^ [217] "German-born American theoretical physicist"
  226. ^ [218]
  227. ^ [219]
  228. ^ [220] "German-born American citizen"
  229. ^ [221]
  230. ^ [222] "German-born American physicist who shared one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 with the German physicist Wolfgang Paul"
  231. ^ [223] "Max Delbruck German-born US biologist, a pioneer in the study of molecular genetics."
  232. ^ "Born in Ulm, Germany to Jewish parents. Einstein was German citizen until 1933, he also held the Swiss citizenship since 1901 and became a naturalized US citizen in 1940"
  233. ^ [224] "German-born botanist"
  234. ^ [225]
  235. ^ [226] "James Franck German-born American physicist"
  236. ^ [227] "German-born American physicist"
  237. ^ [228] "To the most prominent men of that period belonged also Augustin Herrman, a surveyor, who made the first reliable maps of the colonies of Maryland and Virginia."
  238. ^ [229] "Herman Hollerith was the German American who first automated US census information"
  239. ^ [230] "German-American psychiatrist"
  240. ^ [231] "German psychologist and cofounder"
  241. ^ [232] "German psychologist"
  242. ^ [233]
  243. ^ [234] "The first approximately accurate calculation of the distance from the earth to the sun was made by David Rittenhouse in 1769"
  244. ^ [235]
  245. ^ [236] "Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest "The name is so difficult for those who do not speak German that I am usually called sles'in-jer, to rime with messenger. It is, of course, of German origin and means 'a native of Schlesien' or Silesia. In that language the pronunciation is shlayzinger, to rime with singer." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)"
  246. ^ [237]
  247. ^ [238] "The German mineral specialists Jonas Schütz and Gregor Bona (Gut) accompanied Martin Frobisher, the seeker after the Northwest Passage to China in 157.7"
  248. ^ [239] "In a pattern that would dominate English exploration of the New World, German mining experts managed or supervised assay work, and, as at other English settlements, German miners performed the labor."
  249. ^ http://www.germanheritage.com/biographies/mtoz/stern.html
  250. ^ [240] "German botanist"
  251. ^ [241] "Wernher von Braun, the German physicist who oversaw most of the achievements of the US space program until his death in 1977"
  252. ^ [242]
  253. ^ [243] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [244] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."
  254. ^ [245] "Chronicle: Dave, you are Croatian American, tell us about your background? Diehl: I grew up on the south side of Chicago. I’m fifty percent Croatian and fifty percent German. I went to grammar school and High School (Brother Rice) with some Croatian friends. So I have been following Croatian heritage ever since I can remember. That’s why people couldn’t figure out why I have Diehl as my last name and Croatian GRB tattooed on my left arm. I grew up going to St. Jerome’s Croatian Catholic Church with my Grandmother. Her maiden name was Semanic and she was from one of the Croatian islands. I remember going to St. Jerome’s and having palacinke for breakfast. My grandmother married Grandpa who was Ante Bekavac from small village Bekavci near Lovrec in Imotski, Dalmacija, Croatia. My father Jerry who passed away in August was hundred percent German on both sides."
  255. ^ [246] "Not bad press for a man who just twenty-four years before had arrived from Freiburg, Germany with just a few dollars in his pocket."
  256. ^ [247] "was the first woman to swim the English Channel. The German-American swimming champ was born on October 23, 1905 in New York City, one of six children. Her father was a butcher from Germany. When Gertrude was eight, while visiting her grandmother in Germany, she fell into a pond, a fateful experience that led her to learn to swim. At the Paris Olympics in 1924 she won gold in the 400-meter freestyle relay, and bronze in the 100 m and 400 m individual freestyle events. In her 1926 Channel swim she beat the men's record by more than two hours. She held the women's record until 1950, when Florence Chadwick crossed the Channel in 13 hours and 20 minutes."
  257. ^ [248]
  258. ^ [249] "1929 -...baseball stars: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, Frank Frisch, all of German descent"
  259. ^ [250] "Lou Gehrig's life, from the poor German boy in Yorkville to the famous star playing America's favorite pastime"
  260. ^ [251]
  261. ^ [252] "Marcus' surname comes from his German roots, with his parents leaving Hamburg 35 years ago"
  262. ^ [253] "...before I sat down to enjoy my first home – cooked meal in weeks, my dad let me know, "If you're going to live here, you're going to work and then you're going back to school." He wasn't angry, but true to his German roots, he spoke with unwavering resolve. I didn't argue. I knew better than to argue."
  263. ^ [254] "Hostelter is a descendant of the Amish-Mennonite immigrant Jacob Hochstetler."
  264. ^ [255]...at home in Southern California, he enjoys blissful anonymity.
  265. ^ [256] "The Knepper Family. Among the German Baptists who in 1729 accompanied their founder, Alexander Mack, from Europe to Pennsylvania was a certain Wilhelm Knepper... ..."Bob" Knepper, the noted baseball player, is a descendant"
  266. ^ [257]
  267. ^ [258]"The Art of Hitting .300 (Paperback) by Charley Lau (Author)..."
  268. ^ [259]
  269. ^ [260]
  270. ^ [261] "Markakis, who is half Greek and half German, led the Greek Olympic team..."
  271. ^ [262] "Unlike some coaches, Mr. Rupp rarely played the role of a substitute father to his players. He was not the chummy sort. He had stern and demanding qualities, inherited from his German-immigrant father. He had reverence for order and precision and demanded it from his players. To some person, he appeared to be a mean old man."
  272. ^ [263] "...born George Herman Ruth in Baltimore, Maryland to parents of German background. His mother, Katie Schaumberger, was the daughter of Pius and Anna Schaumberger, both born in Germany. Babe Ruth's father, saloon owner George Ruth, had German grandparents. Although Babe Ruth's German background is certain..."
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  274. ^ [265]
  275. ^ [266] "His father, Victor, half German and half Viennese, with his hearty manner and curious mind, was the biggest influence in his life, says Ueberroth."
  276. ^ [267] "In sports there have been such memorable figures as baseballers Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Casey Stengel..."
  277. ^ [268] "The Wanderones were German-Swiss"
  278. ^ [269] "Felix Adler, a German-American educator"
  279. ^ [270] "Arendt, a Jew, gained fame as a German-Jewish refugee scholar"
  280. ^ [271] "The phrase comes from the German philosopher Ernst Bloch"
  281. ^ [272] "Rudolf Carnap, a German-born philosopher and naturalized US citizen"
  282. ^ [273] "Francis Lieber German-born US political philosopher"
  283. ^ http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/512.html "Chicago's initial period of rapid growth in the mid-nineteenth century coincided with the acceleration of German immigration to the United States, and especially with the movement of Germans into the Midwest."
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