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This is a list of notable German Americans.

German Americans (Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of German ancestry and 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, when Germans formed 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[3]. Over 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry[4].

Americans of German descent live in nearly every American county, 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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Contents

Art and literature

Architects

Artists

political cartoonist Thomas Nast

Authors and writers

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

Entertainment

Actors and actresses

Fred Astaire, dancer
Actress, singer, entertainer
Hilary Duff
Tom Cruise

Celebrities

Paris Hilton

Directors/producers

Humorists

Models

Music

Entrepreneurs

John D. Rockefeller, industrialist
Levi Strauss, blue jeans

Brewers

Historical figures

Laura Bullion, Old West outlaw
Pat Nixon, first lady

Inventors

Military

George Armstrong Custer, U.S. cavalry commander
Baron von Steuben, Continental Army

Philosophers

Politicians

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

Religious

Scientists/researchers

Wernher von Braun, rockets and spaceships

Sports

Babe Ruth, baseball player

See also

References

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  2. ^ Adams, J.Q.; Pearlie Strother-Adams (2001). Dealing with Diversity. Chicago, IL: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. 0-7872-8145-X. 
  3. ^ German-American Heritage Foundation
  4. ^ [1] "US Census Bureau, German ancestry - German: 50,764,352"
  5. ^ [2]"The New Ulm monument and statue of Hermann was first conceived by architect Julius Berndt of New Ulm."
  6. ^ <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."
  7. ^ [3] "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."
  8. ^ Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America - The Book to Accompany the Exhibitions
  9. ^ [4] "Walter Gropius was a German architect and art educator"
  10. ^ [5] "German-born architect famous for his wire rope suspension bridge designs, in particular, the design of the Brooklyn Bridge."
  11. ^ [6] "German-born Architect"
  12. ^ [7] "German-born designer of the U.S. capitol dome. (c. 1817-1900)"
  13. ^ [8] "German-born American Textile Artist"
  14. ^ [9] "German-born Bierstadt, whose teachers had included the German Romantic painter Lessing..."
  15. ^ [10] "Born in Heide, Germany, Rudolph Dirks moved with his parents to Chicago at the age of seven."
  16. ^ "Alfred Eisenstaedt". Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/181526/Alfred-Eisenstaedt. Retrieved 2009-06-07. "born December 6, 1898, Dirschau, West Prussia ... pioneering German-American photojournalist" 
  17. ^ [11] "early 20th century German artist, George Grosz."
  18. ^ [12] "Ulrike Herzner (“Uli),” is a 35-year-old German native who currently resides in Miami Beach."
  19. ^ [13] "German-American painter and teacher, often called the dean of abstract expressionism"
  20. ^ [14] "Harold Hering Knerr was the son of an emigrated German physician."
  21. ^ [15] "German Americans also have influenced greatly our artistic heritage. Emanuel Leutze's 1851 painting, "Washington Crossing the Delaware River," remains a cherished and recognized symbol of American courage and determination."
  22. ^ [16]"German-born artist, designed the first Confederate flag and the Confederate uniform."
  23. ^ [17] "German/American, 1832-1932"
  24. ^ [18]"Thomas Nast - German-born Father of American Caricature..."
  25. ^ [19]"German American art historian who gained particular prominence for his studies in iconography (the study of symbols and themes in works of art)."
  26. ^ [20] "German native Severin Roesen is most famous for his abundant fruit..."
  27. ^ [21] "Of German and Norwegian descent. As a youth, he had a drawing of his dog appear in..."
  28. ^ [22] "Schwartz first worked at MetaDesign Berlin, developing typefaces for Volkswagen and logos for a number of corporations. He then returned to the US and joined the design staff at The Font Bureau, Inc., working for a wide range of corporate and publication clients."
  29. ^ [23] "Birthplace: Cologne, Germany"
  30. ^ [24] "...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."
  31. ^ [25] "Though her father (Rene Von Drachenberg) is of German descent and her mother (Sylvia Galeano) has Spanish-Italian roots, both her parents are native Argentinians."
  32. ^ [26] "Her father René Drachenberg and her mother Sylvia Galeano were both born in Argentina, though René's family origins were German and Sylvia's Spanish-Italian"
  33. ^ [27]"Freiin, under German Nobles"
  34. ^ [28] "German American Corner: WIMAR, Karl Ferdinand (1828-1862)"
  35. ^ [29] "German Heritage"
  36. ^ Rogers, p. 1.
  37. ^ Actors Directors from Germany, Austria, Switzerland - German-Hollywood Connection
  38. ^ [30] "So when Bukowski, who was German-born, got along with this young..."
  39. ^ [31] "Part of a large German-American family, and the ninth of ten children, his childhood was marked by poverty." [32] "Theodore Dreiser was the son of a German Catholic immigrant father and a German-Moravian Mennonite mother."
  40. ^ [33] "1829 - Gomried Duden's published travel report encourages thousands of Germans to come to America, especially Missouri"
  41. ^ [34] "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."
  42. ^ [35] "Born May 27, 1917, in Hamburg, Germany; died February 11, 2006, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Came to United States in 1938; resided in New York City from 1938 to 2006."
  43. ^ Catalano, Grace (February 1997). Leonardo DiCaprio: Modern-Day Romeo. New York, New York: Dell Publishing Group. pp. 7-15. ISBN 0-440-22701-1. 
  44. ^ [36] "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."
  45. ^ [37] "Her father was of German descent and she did not meet him until she was twelve - the surname Highsmith was from her stepfather..."
  46. ^ [38] "The two most distinguished German Sinologists at the turn of the century, Friedrich Hirth (1845-1927) and Berthold Laufer..."
  47. ^ [39] "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."
  48. ^ [40] "Mencken came from a German-American neighborhood and family."
  49. ^ [41] "...largely German-speaking neighborhood (Miller's grandparents had emigrated from Germany"
  50. ^ [42] "In Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath does many things: she explores her guilt about being German during World War II..."
  51. ^ [43] "German-American, journalist, born in Makó, Hungary. Pulitzer immigrated to the U.S. in 1864 and served in the First New York Cavalry during the American Civil War. He became an American citizen in 1867, a reporter on a German daily, the Westliche Post, in Saint Louis."
  52. ^ Heinrich Armin Rattermann : German-American author, poet, and historian, 1832-1923 [WorldCat.org]
  53. ^ Wolfgang Reitherman
  54. ^ a b [44]
  55. ^ North Side: People: Mary Roberts Rinehart
  56. ^ [45] "Charles Sealsfield (1793-1864): German and American novelist of the nineteenth century."
  57. ^ [46] "German screenwriter for B-movies and classic monster movies such as The Wolf Man (1941), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) and Son of Dracula (1943). He also wrote scripts for Berlin Express (1948) and Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1948). He went to Hollywood in 1938."
  58. ^ [47] "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."
  59. ^ [48] "Allegheny City (Deutschtown), Pittsburgh, PA birth placard"
  60. ^ [http://usa.usembassy.de/germanamericans.htm About the USA > "Germans in America"
  61. ^ [49] "John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902 of German and Irish ancestry."
  62. ^ About the USA > Germans in America
  63. ^ [50] "German-born U.S. journalist and financier"
  64. ^ [51] "Vonnegut, a fourth generation German-American, was sent to a POW camp in Dresden." [52]
  65. ^ [53] "German Ancestry"
  66. ^ [54] "Maxine Bahns was born in 1971 in Vermont, the daughter of a German-American father..."
  67. ^ [55] "Jaid Barrymore Bio"
  68. ^ [56] "Betz Surname"
  69. ^ [57] "Born in Berlin, Bois worked as a “wide-eyed” character and stage actor for many years in Germany until he was forced to leave..."
  70. ^ [58] "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."
  71. ^ [59] "Hans Gudegast (a.k.a. Eric Braeden) is a German-born actor whose career has been very different from that of most other German-speaking actors who have made it big in Hollywood."
  72. ^ [60]
  73. ^ [61] "After going through professional nursing school, she married my father, who was an American of German and English descent, and had five kids."
  74. ^ [62] "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."
  75. ^ [63] "...Bruckner is definitely German"
  76. ^ [64] "The half-German, half-Alabaman Bullock was born in Washington, DC...
  77. ^ [65] "Her grandfather was Nordic-German..."
  78. ^ [66]"...I would learn later, after she had passed away, that her name was really Klotz! And I don't ever remember her telling me that herself, you know, that's kind of a German name, but she would always say, 'Well, I'm half Irish.'"
  79. ^ [67] "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."
  80. ^ [68] "The Costners, of Irish and German descent..."
  81. ^ [69] "...the 19-year-old was then able to get to safety in America."
  82. ^ [70] "though as it happens, Doris Day, nee Doris Kappelhoff, is purebred German. "And I have a beautiful shitsu called Wesley Winfield.""
  83. ^ [71] "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."
  84. ^ [72] "Interviewer: German, Irish? Johnny Depp: Yeah. Pu-pu platter, yeah. Combination of weird things. Indian, Irish, German and god knows what. Just a mutt, really."
  85. ^ "Girl, interrupted". Telegraph.co.uk. 2003-01-09. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/01/09/bfcam09.xml. Retrieved 2008-03-06. 
  86. ^ Rowland, Hilary (undated). "Cameron Diaz:Not Just Another Hollywood Bombshell". Hilary Magazine. http://www.hilary.com/celebrity/cameron-diaz.html. Retrieved 2008-01-12. 
  87. ^ "Cameron Diaz: Hollywood crowd-pleaser DAmon rox". BBC News. 2005-07-29. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/film/4717013.stm. Retrieved 2008-01-12. 
  88. ^ Hawk, Mason (1998). "A Cheap Date With Cameron Diaz". NYRock. http://www.nyrock.com/spc/1998/diaz.asp. Retrieved 2008-01-12. 
  89. ^ [73] "He's half-German, half-Italian."
  90. ^ [74] "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."
  91. ^ [75] "How did you choose the name Leonardo Wilhelm? My daughter Irmelin’s husband is Italian. Leonardo goes well with the last name DiCaprio. But so he would also have something German about him, we added the name of my husband Wilhelm. His roots, by the way, lie far to the east where our ancestors come from."
  92. ^ [76] "German-American motion-picture actress whose aura of sophistication and languid sensuality made her one of the most glamorous of all film stars."
  93. ^ Diller Family Crest
  94. ^ [77] "Son of Kirk Douglas and German mother Anne ..."
  95. ^ [78] "Duff's middle name of "Erhard" was the maiden name of her part German American paternal grandmother, Mary Erhard; Duff also has German ancestry on the part of her maternal grandmother, Amy Beulah Schlemmer"
  96. ^ [79] "...posters of this Swedish/German beauty will be plastered in locker rooms everywhere..."
  97. ^ [80] "...born in Rosenheim, Germany..."
  98. ^ [81] "Born Douglas Elton Ulman"
  99. ^ Dakota Fanning - [82] "I'm also half German" [83] "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."
  100. ^ [84] Naturalized citizen from Germany.
  101. ^ [85] "Fey’s mother is Greek-American and her father is German-Scottish, but she’s wary of claiming an ethnic identity."
  102. ^ [86] "What nationality are you? (Ginny) German.
  103. ^ [87]"In actuality, Franz is Dennis's middle name, and the first name of his father, a German immigrant. Though unfailingly mispronounced, 'Franz' is less difficult to say than his given surname. "'Schlachta' was never easy for people to hear, say or spell," says Dennis."
  104. ^ [88]"He was played by Dennis Franz, the son of German immigrant postal workers from Chicago, who was also a graduate of Robert Altman's acting company."
  105. ^ [89] "...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."
  106. ^ [90] "Germanic Surname Lexikon (Gerber)"
  107. ^ [91] "Gish Biography - Bio and Lyrics"
  108. ^ [92] Naturalized citizen from Germany.
  109. ^ [93] "Uta Hagen, a German actress who achieved fame in her role in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, died on Wednesday. Uta was 84. Uta was born on June 12, 1919 in Gottingen, Germany. Her family was very artistic. At age 7, her father got a job as head of the art history department of University of Wisconsin."
  110. ^ [94] German-blood
  111. ^ [95] "...Hasselhoff took advantage of his fluency in the German language to establish a phenomenal successful singing career in Europe."
  112. ^ [96] "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."
  113. ^ [97] "Her Irish-German beauty helped her grab her first TV gig back in her native Nebraska..."
  114. ^ [98] "...in my family, the Herrmanns, who were German on my father's side. My father didn't speak English until he went to school. They were the most highly respected immigrant group in America, the Germans. They were models of immigrant application and education and hard work and honesty. They went from that to being vilified in about two years from 1914 to 1916. He was thrown off streetcars for forgetting and speaking German in public."
  115. ^ [99]"Is of Irish and German descent"
  116. ^ [] "Although in his autobiography the actor falsely claimed Brooklyn as his birthplace, Emil Jannings (Theodor Friedrich Emil Janez, July 23, 1884 - January 3, 1950) was actually born in Rorschach, Switzerland to a German mother (Margarethe Schwabe) and an American father (Emil Janez). He grew up as a German citizen in Switzerland, Leipzig, and Görlitz, Germany. Jannings began his acting career on the German stage. He made his first film in 1914, but his first real movie success came a few years later when he worked with the German (later Hollywood) director Ernst Lubitsch at the Ufa studios near Berlin."
  117. ^ [100] "Naturalized US Citizen: Birthplace: Cologne, Germany"
  118. ^ [101] "Naturalized US Citizen - Birthplace: Michenberg, Germany"
  119. ^ [102] "On the 1910 Census of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, it shows that the grandfather of Constance "Veronica" was born in Germany instead of Sweden..."
  120. ^ [103] "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]"
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  122. ^ [104] "I am only French, Dutch and German. I get my skin color from the French side of my family."
  123. ^ [105] "Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the part Panamanian, part German, and all woman Candice Michelle"
  124. ^ [106] "Nolte's father was Franklin, of German origin and, so the story goes, one of a tribe of giants - Nolte's uncles Bener and Poob, plus his dad, all rode in at over 6ft 6in"
  125. ^ [107] "She was born in Bochum, Germany and died in New York. She was married to actor Wolgang Zilzer (Paul Andor). Both appeared in "Casablanca.""
  126. ^ [108] "Germans Lotte Palfi and Wolfgang Zilzer were two such refugee actors."
  127. ^ [109] "German actress who at one time was married to Rex Harrison. She arrived in Hollywood via France and England in 1945."
  128. ^ Shipman, David (1991). The Great Movie Stars: The Independent Years. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0316784893. 
  129. ^ [110] "Erich Pommer ranks with the most important personalities of the German silent movie era and he was participated in the worldwide success. No other producer had so influenced the German film like Erich Pommer."
  130. ^ [111] "Raft was born George Ranft in Hell's Kitchen, New York City to Conrad Ranft (a German immigrant) and an Italian-American mother, where he quickly adopted the "tough guy" persona that he would later use in his films."
  131. ^ [112] "Born in Düsseldorf, Germany on Jan. 12, 1910. She became a U.S. citizen in 1940"
  132. ^ [113] "Lutheran Mullenberger"
  133. ^ [114] Naturalized American citizen from Germany.
  134. ^ [115] "Half German, half Native Indian"
  135. ^ [116] "Born Maximilian Josef Sommer in Greifswald, Germany, Sommer came to the US as a youth."
  136. ^ [117] "German: variant of Siegfried."
  137. ^ [118] [119] "a naturalized US Citizen of note."
  138. ^ "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."
  139. ^ [120]"Date of Birth:22 January 1893, Potsdam, Germany"
  140. ^ [121]
  141. ^ [122] "German Ancestry"
  142. ^ [123] "His maternal grandparents were German his paternal grandfather was an immigrant from Austria-Hungary."
  143. ^ [124] "Jenna: (On her last name) My last name is German and both my grandparents immigrated from Germany. The name is actually composed of two parts..."von", denotes land ownership, and "Oy" refers to a region in the lower Rhine. The family name predates any national borders and the ancestoral estates are in present day Holland. In fact, ruins of a castle still exist there. In current Dutch, the "Oy" mimics the Dutch word for stork and our family crest does portray a stork."
  144. ^ [125] "Both of his parents were immigrants -- his father, Paul, from Germany; his mother, Rosalie, from Scotland."
  145. ^ [126] "I’m Irish and German, I thought that I could go toe-to-toe but it’s hard to keep up with the Aussies."
  146. ^ [127] "Ethnicity: German/American"
  147. ^ [128] "Weissmuller was born in the tiny hamlet of Freidorf (“free village” in German, Hungarian Szabadfalu) not far from Timisoara (Ger., Temeschburg). Even today the area around Timisoara is dotted with small towns bearing German names such as Gottlob, Johanisfeld and Liebling, reflecting the German ethnic influence on the region. Weissmuller’s family left Banat for America in 1904, shortly after Johnny’s birth, settling first in Pennsylvania, where many other Austrians and Germans lived (and where brother Peter was born in 1905), and later in Chicago, another Germanic stronghold and the home of Weissmuller's maternal grandparents. The original German family name Weissmüller translates literally as “white miller” or “wheat miller” (Weizen)."
  148. ^ Jewish News, Jewish Newspapers - Forward.com
  149. ^ [129] "The German-born, New Jersey-raised Willis, 43, is one of Hollywood's biggest..."
  150. ^ [130] "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."
  151. ^ [131] "Americanized spelling of German Konrad. In some cases the name may be French in origin, from the French form of the same name, or alternatively it may be an Americanized form of any of the various cognates in other languages, such as Dutch Koenraad or Czech Konrád."
  152. ^ [132] "Naturalized US Citizen - Birthplace: Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany"
  153. ^ [133]"I think German guys are really hot ... I am German."
  154. ^ a b Entertainment News, Celebrity News, Movie News, Music News, TV News - AOL News
  155. ^ [134] "Naturalized US Citizen - Birthplace: Nordenham, Germany"
  156. ^ [135] "But the workaholic, something he picked up from his father, an executive vice president for IBM, and his stay-at-home mother, looks forward to work every day as he is surrounded by genuine members of his German-Italian family."
  157. ^ [136] "German: variant of Sandmeyer."
  158. ^ [137] "German: from Middle High German mantac, German Montag ‘Monday’. As a German name, this was a nickname for someone who had a particular association with this day of the week, probably because he owed feudal service then."
  159. ^ "'Countdown with Keith Olbermann' for August 2, 2007". http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20107912.  "You know, the same way the anti-immigrant bigots didn‘t want my immigrant German ancestors changing the tempo of the whole neighborhood in 1900."
  160. ^ [http://www.genealogy.com/famousfolks/marlonb/d0/i0000002.htm ]
  161. ^ [138] "...the German director of Hollywood films including Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot, and The Day After Tomorrow, was born in Stuttgart."
  162. ^ [139] "German-American motion-picture director"
  163. ^ [140] "Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) came to Hollywood from his native Berlin in 1922—at the request of Mary Pickford. It was in the German film capital that he began to develop what would later be known simply as “the Lubitsch Touch.” In the American film capital his success would be phenomenal."
  164. ^ [141] "Born Emil Anton Bundmann. German-American director. (Sullivan's Travels, Border Incident, Winchester '73, The Glenn Miller Story, God's Little Acre, El Cid)"
  165. ^ [142] "Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: The Biography of Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film -- 'Certainly Lydia’s most significant betrothal was to William Arthur Meyer, a Missouri-born East Oakland cop of German heritage...'"
  166. ^ [143] F.W. Murnau Facts
  167. ^ [144] "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)."
  168. ^ [145] "(1897-1961, aka Nebenzal) - German-American film producer born in New York, educated there and in Berlin, Germany. Together with his father Heinrich Nebenzahl (died 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."
  169. ^ [146] "German-born director Kurt Neumann came to the US in the early talkie era, hired to direct German-language versions of Hollywood films."
  170. ^ [147] "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..."
  171. ^ [148] "Born to in 1909 to Bavarian-Jewish German father and a Irish Catholic mother, Arch Oboler grew up protestant in Chicago, IL"
  172. ^ [149] "Yahoo! Movies Biography"
  173. ^ [150] "...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."
  174. ^ [151] "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)."
  175. ^ [152] "Born in Germany... He moved to the United States in 1940."
  176. ^ [153] "German director and actor. After a long career in Germany that included directing and writing the screenplay for Viktor und Viktoria (1933, remade by Blake Edwards in 1982), Schünzel came to the US in 1938. In Hollywood he acted (Hangmen Also Die, The Hitler Gang, Notorious, Golden Earrings, Berlin Express) and directed (Rich Man Poor Girl, Ice Follies of 1939, New Wine)."
  177. ^ [154] "German director and brother of Hollywood screenwriter, Curt Siodmak. Although born in Memphis, Tenn., Robert grew up and was educated in Germany. He began his film career at the German UFA studios in 1925"
  178. ^ [155] "Wim Wenders was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, Germany. After living in Los Angeles for eight years, the director returned to his homeland to make his first German-language film since moving to the U.S. The German director has made most of his films in English in the U.S. He has been living in Los Angeles since the 1980s, although he spends part of each year in Germany and Berlin (his favorite city)."
  179. ^ [156] "...born in Mülhausen (Mulhouse), Alsace-Lorraine (then German, now part of France) on the first day of July 1902... ...Wyler became a US citizen in 1928."
  180. ^ [157] "My background is Norwegian and German, two of the unfunniest ethnic groups in the history of the world."
  181. ^ [158] "Ancestry of David Letterman"
  182. ^ [159] "Ethnicity: Mexican/German "
  183. ^ [160] "The second son of German middle class immigrants, Leon Bix Beiderbecke was born on March 10, 1903, in Davenport, Iowa."
  184. ^ [161] "German-American conductor and composer"
  185. ^ Ancestry of John Denver
  186. ^ [162] "Dietz Family History"
  187. ^ [163] "German-born U.S. composer, pianist, and conductor"
  188. ^ [164] "Elbert Joseph Higgins of Portuguese, Irish and German descent..."
  189. ^ [165] "...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"
  190. ^ [166] "German-born American choreographer of modern dance and Broadway musicals"
  191. ^ Horst P. Horst on artnet
  192. ^ [167] "Frauenheim was the fifth of seven children born to Edward J. and Antoinette Marie “Nettie” Vilsack Frauenheim whose own parents were the co-founders of the Pittsburgh Brewing Company"
  193. ^ [168] "...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)."
  194. ^ [169] "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"
  195. ^ [170] "Naturalized US Citizen - Birthplace: Breslau, Silesia, Germany"
  196. ^ [171] "German descendant pop singer Nick Lachey was first popular as a member of the multi-platinum selling boy band 98 Degrees..."
  197. ^ [172] "Charles Martin Loeffler (1861-1935) was a German-American violinist and composer"
  198. ^ [173] "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."
  199. ^ [174] "The German origins are well documented and go back to Valentine Pressler (1669-1736) and his wife, Anna Christina (nee Frank) both of Niederhochstadt, in what is now the Rhineland-Palatinate. The family including their children emigrated to Maryland in 1709. Their eldest son changed his name to Presley..."
  200. ^ [175] "Father was Federico (Fred) Ronstadt – 1868-1954. His father was Herr Frederick Augustus Ronstadt, a German mining engineer, who came to the West in the 1850’s from Hamburg, Germany. He settled in Las Delcias, Sonora, and married Margarita Redondo. She gave birth to Federico, known later as Fred, on January 30, 1868. Fred was brought to Tucson in 1882, when he was 14, to work and help support the family of four children: Gretchen, Peter, Linda & Mike. During the 1960’s, Gretchen, Peter & Linda played and sang at coffeehouses in Tucson."
  201. ^ [176] "(The German surname comes from a grandfather who married into the Mexican family.)"
  202. ^ [177]"Salter came to the United States in 1937 and composed scores for some 150 Hollywood movies."
  203. ^ [178] "German-born American conductor who was largely responsible for the role of symphony orchestras in many American cities."
  204. ^ Ramones: Facts Of Dee Dee Ramone
  205. ^ [179]"1941 - Birth of his son Lawrence on 27 January. Arnold, Gertrud and Nuria are granted American citizenship."
  206. ^ [180] "German composer, American citizen from 1943"
  207. ^ [181]"Lawrence Welk, German-American bandleader"
  208. ^ "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."
  209. ^ [182] "German-American merchant and financier, born near Heidelberg, Germany."
  210. ^ Johnson, Rossiter (ed.) (1904). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Boston: The Biographical Society. pp. unpaginated. http://books.google.com/books?id=vmlmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PT159&dq=john+jacob+astor+born+(waldorf+OR+walldorf)&as_brr=1. Retrieved 2009-06-07. "ASTOR, John Jacob, merchant, was born at Walldorf near Heidelberg, Germany, July 17, 1768" 
  211. ^ "John Jacob Astor". Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 30: 308-323. 1865. http://books.google.com/books?id=tX8CAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA309&dq=john+jacob+astor+born+(waldorf+OR+walldorf)&as_brr=1#PPA308,M1. Retrieved 2009-06-07. 
  212. ^ [183] "German Heritage"
  213. ^ [184] "German Heritage"
  214. ^ [185] "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."
  215. ^ a b Famous German-Americans | Profiles - Biographies
  216. ^ The Carnegie Science Center
  217. ^ 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. For nine recorded generations, the Buhls had been merchants — in Bavaria and in Zelienople, Pennsylvania."
  218. ^ [186] "The American founder of Chrysler was a descendent of the German Johann Phillip Kreisler (1672-1742) who sailed to the New World in 1709."
  219. ^ [187] "his father, Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-American descent."
  220. ^ a b [188] "The property No. 34 , today Salzufler Strasse 48, since 1995 private home and office of HELIPAD.consulting/Germany, is the house where the brothers Fritz and August Düsenberg lived until emigration to America in the year 1885 "
  221. ^ a b [189] "Emigration from Lippe to the USA"
  222. ^ a b [190] "Fritz und August Duesenberg aus Kirchheide"
  223. ^ [191] "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."
  224. ^ [192] "...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."
  225. ^ [193] "Shortly after the Civil War, two young brothers came to America from their family home in the Harz Mountain region of Germany..."
  226. ^ a b Famous German-Americans - Part 3: G-H-I
  227. ^ [194]"Richard Hellmann was born in Vetschau, in the Spree forest south of Berlin, in the state of Brandenburg. In 1905, two years after arriving in the United States, he married the daughter of a delicatessen-owner in New York City."
  228. ^ [195]"In 1905, two years after arriving in the United States, German immigrant Richard Hellmann opened up a delicatessen in New York City."
  229. ^ [196]" Like most of the people whom he knew, he was the descendant of people who had come to Pennsylvania from Switzerland and Germany in the 1700s. He grew up speaking the "Pennsylvania Dutch" dialect and inherited from these people characteristics such as a zest for hard work, diligence, and thriftiness."
  230. ^ [197] Father: Augustus Holver Hilton (Norwegian) -- Mother: Mary Laufersweiler (German)
  231. ^ [198] "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."
  232. ^ [199] "Born a middle-class, assimilated German Jew..."
  233. ^ [200]"Otto Kahn was the son of banker Bernard Kahn in Mannheim, southwestern Germany."
  234. ^ [201] "Kluge, a German-born billionaire, donated a whopping $60 million to start the..."
  235. ^ [202] "From music have come - beside the piano- and organ-makers, Steinway, Knabe"
  236. ^ [203] "Johan Adam Lemp was born in Gruningen, Germany"
  237. ^ a b [204] "It's a bit of an irony that the Blue Note label — synonymous with jazz, the seminal American music form — was created by two German immigrants. In Blue Note Records, The Biography, author Richard Cook tells the story of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, who formed the label in 1939."
  238. ^ a b c [205]"Famous German-Americans"
  239. ^ [206]"Bausch & Lomb Incorporated, one of the oldest continuously operating companies in the U.S 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."
  240. ^ [207] "Among the black-and-whites is a shot of a burly German man. That would be Great Uncle Peter - more specifically, Peter Luger, who in 1887 opened a beer garden in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, N.Y., that started off selling sandwiches and steak tidbits before graduating to full-fledged steak dinners."
  241. ^ [208] "Soon Oscar's brother Gottfried, a "wurstmacher" (or sausage-maker) from Nurnberg, Germany, would join Oscar in the states, and together they leased the Kolling Meat Market on Chicago's north side. Before long, customers in their German neighborhood were standing in line for Mayer specialties like bockwurst, liverwurst, and weisswurst. By the time a third brother, Max, joined them from Germany, the brothers had moved into their own establishment."
  242. ^ Database Debunkings - About
  243. ^ [209] "William Rittenhouse was born in what is now Germany, near the Dutch border. His name was then Wilhelm Rittenhausen, later changed in America"
  244. ^ German American Corner: ROEBLING, John Augustus (1806-69)
  245. ^ [210] "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)..."
  246. ^ [211] "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."
  247. ^ [212] "Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, a German master-carpenter, builds his first instrument in his Seesen..."
  248. ^ [213] "http://www.wargs.com/noble/strachwitz.html"
  249. ^ [214] "the founder of the modern day denim industries"
  250. ^ [215] "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."
  251. ^ [216] "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California..."
  252. ^ [217] "The celebrity, who is half Scottish and half German, is thrilled with the honor..."
  253. ^ Famous German-Americans by Category
  254. ^ [218] "1914 - ...Frederick Weyerhaeuser, German-born lumber king, dies. His fortune: $300,000,000."
  255. ^ [219] "Rudolph Wurlitzer (born Jan. 30, 1831, Schöneck, Saxony [Germany]—d. Jan. 14, 1914, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.), emigrated to the United States in 1853, settling in Cincinnati."
  256. ^ [220] "German-born American cofounder of the firm later to be known as Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., one of the largest breweries in the world."
  257. ^ [221] "Valentin was a German-American brewer and banker. He was born in Bavaria and worked at his father’s brewery in his youth. He started a brewery which became home to Blatz Beer. Valentin was one of the many “beer barons” of Milwaukee. So many, in fact, that there is a section at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee called “Beer Baron’s Hill” which houses a few of these men."
  258. ^ [222] "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."
  259. ^ [223] "And so it was with Adolph Coors, the young German immigrant who founded Coors Brewing Company..."
  260. ^ [224] "The Hell Gate Brewery was established by George Ehret in the year 1866; hence, at a time when the annual production of malt liquors [in the U.S.] had increased to 5,115,140 barrels. He had then just attained the age of thirty-one years, the date of his birth being April 6, 1835. Nine years before the establishment of this brewery, Mr. Ehret came to America (1857) to join his father, who had emigrated from Germany in August, 1852. "
  261. ^ [225] "Edward Frauenheim – a young German immigrant – formed Iron City Brewing Company in 1861, when Pittsburgh was establishing itself as an industrial superpower."
  262. ^ [226] Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company
  263. ^ [227] "Frederick Miller, a German immigrant who started his own brewery in 1855..."
  264. ^ [228] "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..."
  265. ^ [229] "Conrad Pfeiffer was an emigrant from the German province of Hessen. When he came to America in 1871 at the age of seventeen, he had a limited education and worked various jobs loosely related to brewing for several years. His formal entrance into the career of brewing began at the age of twenty-seven in 1881 when he began working for the Phillip Kling brewery. Eight years later, in 1889, Conrad started brewing beer under his own name with his nephew Martin Breitmeyer. The Breitmeyer's were a wealthy family as a result of their florist business and provided the necessary financial backing. In 1902, the company was re-incorporated as the C. Pfeiffer Brewing Co."
  266. ^ [230] ""F. & M.", as most breweriana buffs know, stands for Frederick and Maximilian, the brothers who founded Schaefer. Frederick Schaefer, a native of Wetzlar, Prussia, Germany, emigrated to the U.S. in 1838. When he arrived in New York City on October 23rd he was 21 years old and had exactly $1.00 to his name. There is some doubt as to whether or not he had been a practicing brewer in Germany, but there is no doubt that he was soon a practicing brewer in his adopted city."
  267. ^ [231] Schaefer Center at the 1939 World's Fair
  268. ^ Schlitz - Go for the Gusto
  269. ^ [232] "Peter STRAUB -- Christening: 29 Jun 1850, Katholisch, Felldorf, Schwarzwaldkreis, Wuerttemberg. Father: Anton STRAUB; Mother: M. Anna EGER. Source: Kirchenbuch, 1801-1968. Katholische Kirche Felldorf (OA. Horb)"
  270. ^ The Stroh Brewery Company, Funding Universe, March 14, 2007
  271. ^ [233]"Brigitte Wambsganß, “Buzz Aldrin: Mond-Mann mit Trupbacher Wurzeln,” Der Westen (Germany), July 17, 2009."
  272. ^ [234] "German-born George Atzerodt immigrated to the United States with his family in 1843, at the age of eight."
  273. ^ a b [235] "Ethnicity Swiss/German"
  274. ^ [236] "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. "
  275. ^ [237] "Willard Erastus Christiansen was born in Ephraim, Utah to a Swedish father and German mother – both Mormon converts."
  276. ^ [238] "...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."
  277. ^ [239] "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."
  278. ^ [240] "...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."
  279. ^ [241] "Meyer, though a native speaker of German, was Swiss-German."
  280. ^ [242] "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."
  281. ^ a b [243] "Peter Gusenberg(Gusenberger)"Goosey". 434 Roscoe st.Born Sept.28,1888 in Chicago ,Illinois. Married to Myrtle Coppleman Gorman. He tells her he is salesman and uses the last name Gorman. His father was named Peter Gusenberg also. He was from Germany."
  282. ^ [244] "German-born American carpenter and burglar"
  283. ^ German American Corner: HECKER, Friedrich Karl Franz (1811-1881)
  284. ^ [245] "A Pennsylvania German named Michael Hillegas was the first Continental Treasurer. "
  285. ^ German American Bund
  286. ^ [246] "Lederer, a German-born physician"
  287. ^ [247] "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."
  288. ^ [248] "German-born Jacob Leisler"
  289. ^ "Hume, Edgar Erskine, "The German Artist Who Designed the Confederate Flag and Uniform". The American-German Review, August, 1940."
  290. ^ [249] "German-American"
  291. ^ [250] "Charles Mohr (1824-1901), German-born Mobile pharmacist and botanist, is best known for the monumental Plant Life of Alabama"
  292. ^ [251] "Irish, German; Pat Nixon's mother immigrated from the Ober Rosbach region of Germany..."
  293. ^ [252]
  294. ^ [253]
  295. ^ [254]"In 1683 Francis Daniel Pastorius was commissioned by the Frankfort Land Company and a group of merchants from Crefeld, Germany to form a settlement in America. They purchased fifteen thousand acres in Pennsylvania and Germantown was born."
  296. ^ [255] "In future years many leaders of American labor were German American, including Walter Reuther"
  297. ^ [256] "The founder, August Schrader was a creative and inventive German immigrant"
  298. ^ [257] "Carl Schurz, one of the most celebrated German Americans"
  299. ^ [258] "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."
  300. ^ [259]"Dutch Schultz (August 6, 1902–October 25, 1935) was a New York City-area gangster of the 1920s and '30s. Born Arthur Flegenheimer into a German Jewish family in the Bronx, he made his fortune in bootlegging illegal alcohol and the numbers racket in Harlem."
  301. ^ [260]
  302. ^ [261] "Germans have been a part of Cincinnati's history from its very beginning when Benjamin Steitz landed the first settlers in 1788."
  303. ^ [262] "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California"
  304. ^ [263] "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."
  305. ^ [264] "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..."
  306. ^ [265] "In 1910, a German immigrant, Paul Warburg"
  307. ^ [266] "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."
  308. ^ [267] "Wurzelbach (from Wurzel = root and Bach = creek) is a town in Germany. Wurzelbacher just means person from Wurzelbach."
  309. ^ [268] "German immigrant printer named John Peter Zenger"
  310. ^ [269] "German-Swiss Heritage"
  311. ^ [270] "Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German inventor"
  312. ^ [271] "Gustave Whitehead, a poor, German immigrant"
  313. ^ pixel panache | design, illustration, photography, websites - Cincinnati, Ohio
  314. ^ [272] "German-Prussian officer, served under General Jeb Stuart"
  315. ^ [273] "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"."
  316. ^ Webpage for Dilger"DILGER WAS BORN MARCH 5, 1836 IN EUGEN, A BLACK FOREST TOWN. NAMED HUBERT ANTON CASIMIR DILGER, TAKING THE TWO MIDDLE NAMES FROM THE BOYS PATERNAL AND MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS"
  317. ^ [274] "Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient. An immigrant from Germany, in support of the Union at the start of the Civil War, he enlisted and was commissioned a Captain in the 1st Ohio Light Artillery Corps."
  318. ^ Cazoo.org: German-American Cultural Center
  319. ^ [275]"Birth State: Germany, Death Date: 7/7/1875"
  320. ^ German-American History
  321. ^ [276]
  322. ^ [277] "Notable among many German-Americans who have shaped our military to meet later challenges were John J. Pershing, whose ancestral family name was Pfoerschin."
  323. ^ [278] "military officer/Union general"
  324. ^ [279] "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."
  325. ^ [280]"Weitzel was born on November 1, 1835, in Germany. His family moved to Cincinnati, Ohio when he was quite young. He was educated in public schools and received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1851."
  326. ^ Heinrich Hartmann Wirz
  327. ^ [281] "Zumwalt Family Name"
  328. ^ [282] "Felix Adler, a German-American educator"
  329. ^ [283] "Arendt, a Jew, gained fame as a German-Jewish refugee scholar"
  330. ^ [284] "The phrase comes from the German philosopher Ernst Bloch"
  331. ^ [285] "Rudolf Carnap, a German-born philosopher and naturalized US citizen"
  332. ^ [286] "Francis Lieber German-born US political philosopher"
  333. ^ [287] "1806 - ...Martin Baum, riverboat pioneer on the Ohio and Mississippi, becomes mayor of Cincinnati"
  334. ^ [288] "Beginning in 1795, when Martin Baum, a Maryland German industrialist, came to Cincinnati and quickly established himself as one Cincinnati's wealthiest and most influential citizens. Through his agents in Baltimore, New Orleans and Philadelphia, Baum attracted even greater numbers of German immigrants to work in his various enterprises - steamboats, a sugar refinery, a foundry and real estate. Soon, Cincinnati's German population began to soar."
  335. ^ [289] Rep. John Boehner Gets Huge Overnight
  336. ^ [290] "1842 - William Bouck (Bauk) becomes Governor of New York"
  337. ^ [291] "Born into an affluent German-Jewish family in Louisville"
  338. ^ [292] "... a descendant of Hans Nikolas Eisenhauer."
  339. ^ [293] "His father, Lou Gephardt, was the grandson of German immigrants"
  340. ^ Ancestry of Dick Gephardt
  341. ^ [294] "Hagel’s name is German."
  342. ^ [295] "1820 - Joseph Heister becomes Governor of Pennsylvania"
  343. ^ [296] "German-American Corner"
  344. ^ "Born in Fürth, Germany to Jewish parents. Naturalized as US citizen in 1943"
  345. ^ Paul Nitze Biography - Academy of Achievement
  346. ^ [297] "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."
  347. ^ a b c [298] "Americans with Odd German Names"
  348. ^ [299] "Reynier Tyson, born in Krefeld, Germany is the 4th great-grandfather of American President Theodore Roosevelt."
  349. ^ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
  350. ^ The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Schmitt to Schneid
  351. ^ [300]"Birthplace: Nastatten, Hessen-Nassau, Germany"
  352. ^ [301] "Conrad Beissel, founder of Ephrata, was born in Eberbach am Neckar, Germany, in March 1691."
  353. ^ [302] "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."
  354. ^ [303] "1768 - Barbara Heck, German-lrish, founds first Methodist church in New York"
  355. ^ [304] "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."
  356. ^ [305] "She was born in Concordia, Missouri to German parents and died in Tulsa, following open-heart surgery."
  357. ^ [306] "Led by Christian Metz, they hoped to find religious freedom in America and left Germany in 1843-44"
  358. ^ [307] "German-born American clergyman"
  359. ^ Robert Paul Sutton, Communal Utopias and the American Experience: Religious Communities (2003) p. 38
  360. ^ "The Very Rev. Joseph Strub". Obituary (The New York Times). 28 January 1890. http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C0DE5D9143BE533A2575BC2A9679C94619ED7CF&oref=slogin. Retrieved 2008-01-30. 
  361. ^ [308] "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."
  362. ^ [309]"Reinhold Albert Aman was born on April 8, 1936, in Fürstenzell (Bavaria), Germany. He grew up in Straubing and Oberschneiding, studied chemical engineering in Augsburg, and worked in Frankfurt and Munich."
  363. ^ (German) Structurae [en]: Othmar Herrmann Ammann (1879-196)
  364. ^ [310] "Baade wanted to go there to observe with it himself, but his German citizenship prevented him"
  365. ^ [311]"Dr. Max Bentele (born Ulm, Germany January 15, 1909 - died New York, USA May 19, 2006 at age 97) was a notable pioneer in the field of jet aircraft turbines and mechanical engineering"
  366. ^ [312] "German-born American citizen"
  367. ^ NOAA Central Library
  368. ^ [313] "German-born American physicist who shared one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 with the German physicist Wolfgang Paul"
  369. ^ [314] "Max Delbruck German-born US biologist, a pioneer in the study of molecular genetics."
  370. ^ [315]"The MDC is named after the German-American Nobel Prize winner Max Delbrück."
  371. ^ [316]"Krafft Arnold Ehricke American Engineer. Born 24 March 1917. Died December 1984. Personal: Male, Married, Three daughters. Born in Berlin, Germany. BEng"
  372. ^ [317] "Nationality: United States, Germany"
  373. ^ [318] "German-born Harvard economist and developer of large-scale macroeconometric models (for which he founded a forecasting corporation, Data Resources Inc. (DRI))"
  374. ^ [319] "German-born botanist"
  375. ^ [320]"The city was named originally after Katherine the Great who promoted agriculture in the steppes of the Ukraine by inviting settlers from Germany, among them the Mennonites. Dr. Esau's family is Mennonite. Dr. Esau's great-grandfather Aron Esau immigrated to the Ukraine In 1804 from Prussia"
  376. ^ Edmond Fischer
  377. ^ [321] "James Franck German-born American physicist"
  378. ^ [322] "Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1890, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann graduated from medical school at Königsberg, Eastern Prussia, in 1913."
  379. ^ [323]"1848 - After Göbel had sold his possessions he emigrated with his family on a commercial sailing ship the "J.W.ANDREWS" to America, leaving port in Bremen, Germany on November 13th. 151 German immigrants were on board."
  380. ^ [324] "German-born American physicist"
  381. ^ [325] "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."
  382. ^ [326] "Herman Hollerith was the German American who first automated US census information"
  383. ^ [327] "German-American psychiatrist"
  384. ^ [328] "German psychologist"
  385. ^ [329]"Heinrich Klüver, son of Wilhelm and Dorothes (Wübbers) Klüver, was born on May 25, 1897, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He arrived in the United States in 1923, married Cessa Feyerabend on February 4, 1927, and was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in 1934."
  386. ^ [330] "Naturalized US Citizen - Birthplace: Blankenburg, Germany"
  387. ^ [331]"Willy Ley was an extremely effective populariser of the idea of space flight - first in Germany and then in the United States. Ley was born in Berlin. Fluent in German, English, Italian, French, and Russian, he studied astronomy, physics, zoology, and paleontology at the University of Berlin."
  388. ^ [332]"German engineer who was a founder of the German Rocket Society. In 1934, he emigrated to the United States rather than pursuing military applications of rocketry. In the U.S., he became a popularizer of space exploration and travel, writing many popular books."
  389. ^ [333]"Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born in New York City on April 22, 1904. His parents, Julius S. Oppenheimer, a wealthy German textile merchant, and Ella Friedman, an artist, were of Jewish descent but did not observe the religious traditions."
  390. ^ [334] "The first approximately accurate calculation of the distance from the earth to the sun was made by David Rittenhouse in 1769"
  391. ^ William Rittenhouse
  392. ^ [335] "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.)"
  393. ^ Alfred schutz, Austrian Economists and the Knowledge Problem - Knudsen 16 (1): 45 - Rationality and Society
  394. ^ [336] "The German mineral specialists Jonas Schütz and Gregor Bona (Gut) accompanied Martin Frobisher, the seeker after the Northwest Passage to China in 157.7"
  395. ^ [337] "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."
  396. ^ [338] "Two of San Francisco's best-known landmarks were built by Germans: Joseph Strauss designed the 1937 Golden Gate Bridge, and Bernard Maybeck, son of a German immigrant, designed the Palace of Fine Arts."
  397. ^ [339] "Stern was born in Sorau, Germany (now Zary, Poland), and educated at the University of Breslau. He taught at Technische Hochschule in Zürich and at the universities of Frankfurt and Hamburg. In 1933 he moved to the U.S., accepting the position of research professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pa."
  398. ^ [340] "German botanist"
  399. ^ [341] "Wernher von Braun, the German physicist who oversaw most of the achievements of the US space program until his death in 1977"
  400. ^ what is wais Who is wais For? What does "Wais"... - Q&A
  401. ^ [342] "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family..." [343] "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution..."
  402. ^ [344]"Maximillian Adelbert Baer, was born in Omaha, Nebraska, to German immigrant parents. His father was a butcher, and Baer often credited his powerful shoulders to working as a butcher."
  403. ^ [345] "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."
  404. ^ [346] "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."
  405. ^ [347]"David Eckstein was born to German-American parents in Sanford, Florida. He is a Major League Baseball shortstop and current lead-off hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals. Eckstein was named the World Series MVP in 2006."
  406. ^ [348] "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."
  407. ^ BGS The Report Card - December 8, 2006
  408. ^ [349] "1929 -...baseball stars: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, Frank Frisch, all of German descent"
  409. ^ [350] "Lou Gehrig's life, from the poor German boy in Yorkville to the famous star playing America's favorite pastime. Christina was born in 1881 in Wiltser, Schleswig-Holstein, a province of pre-World War I Germany, near the German-Danish border. She emigrated to the United States in 1899. Heinrich Ludwig Gehrig was born in 1867 in Adelsheim, Baden, and came to America in October of 1888."
  410. ^ Ernie Grunfeld
  411. ^ [351] "Marcus' surname comes from his German roots, with his parents leaving Hamburg 35 years ago"
  412. ^ [352] "...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."
  413. ^ [353] ""Margaret Hoelzer" (3:30:46 PM): hahaha, yeah my grandfather on my dad's side invented the analog computer, it was during WWII and he's german so he never got much credit, but he did do it. "Margaret Hoelzer" (3:31:16 PM): i don't really understand all the technology but it had something to do with the V2 rockets. onehandtoucher (3:32:13 PM): thats pretty sweet, what exactly is an "analog" computer? "Margaret Hoelzer" (3:33:24 PM): from what i understand there are analog computers and digital computers, kinda like tvs....what we use at home is a digital computer, an analog computer in the sense of rockets had something to do with measuring the distance the rocket needed to go to drop the bomb - "Margaret Hoelzer" (3:33:56 PM): like i said, i'm not an engineering major, so i don't know that i fully understand the difference either"
  414. ^ [354] "Hostelter is a descendant of the Amish-Mennonite immigrant Jacob Hochstetler."
  415. ^ Clippers' Kaman becomes German citizen for Olympics. Los Angeles Times. 2008-07-03.
  416. ^ [355]...at home in Southern California, he enjoys blissful anonymity.
  417. ^ [356] "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"
  418. ^ [357] "Knievel"
  419. ^ [358] "The team had a pronounced German-American flavor from its owner beer baron Jacob Ruppert to Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Mark Koenig, Bob Meusel, George Pipgras, Dutch Ruether and half Germans Waite Hoyt and Earle Combs"
  420. ^ [359]"Kruger"
  421. ^ [360]
  422. ^ [361]"The Art of Hitting .300 (Paperback) by Charley Lau (Author)..."
  423. ^ SI.com - Major League Baseball - Chuck Machemehl Player Page
  424. ^ a b c [362]"A popular nickname for German and German-American baseball players (particularly those named Henry — "Heinrich" in German) in the early part of the 20th century."
  425. ^ [363] "Markakis, who is half Greek and half German, led the Greek Olympic team..."
  426. ^ [364] "Golden wonder"
  427. ^ [365] "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."
  428. ^ [366] "...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..."
  429. ^ [367] "to PRer free7694, “Scherzer” is German for “joker”. If Mad Max doesn’t catch on, what about The Joker?"
  430. ^ [368]
  431. ^ [369]
  432. ^ [370] "Spach Family Name"
  433. ^ [371]"Ed (his mother never calls him Duke, a nickname coined by his father when the boy was five) is named Edwin Donald and has German-Dutch bloodlines on the paternal side and Scotch-Irish on the maternal side."
  434. ^ [372] "His father, Victor, half German and half Viennese, with his hearty manner and curious mind, was the biggest influence in his life, says Ueberroth."
  435. ^ [373] "In sports there have been such memorable figures as baseballers Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Casey Stengel..."
  436. ^ [374] "The Wanderones were German-Swiss"

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