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List of German Americans

This is a list of notable German Americans. German Americans 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 the U.S. population.

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  • Conrad Beissel - religious leader who in 1732 founded the Ephrata Community in Pennsylvania
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer - Lutheran pastor, theologian, participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, and a founding member of the Confessing Church.
  • August Ernst - former president of Northwestern University and ordained minister[210]
  • Barbara Heck - founded the first Methodist church in New York[211][212]
  • Adolf Hoenecke - served as the head of Wisconsin Synod congregations from 1878 - 1908</ref>[266] "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."</ref>
  • Johannes Kelpius - Pietist, mystic, musician, and writer, interested in the occult, botany, and astronomy, came to believe with his followers in the "Society of the Woman in the Wilderness"
  • Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg - Lutheran clergyman [213]
  • George Erik Rupp - educator and theologian, the former President of Rice University and later of Columbia University, and president of the International Rescue Committee
  • Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf - founded the town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where his daughter Benigna organized the school which would become Moravian College[214]

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