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2 unusual facts about German American


Arnold Hauser

Arnold George "Peewee" Hauser (September 25, 1888 in Chicago, Illinois – May 22, 1966 in Aurora, Illinois) was a German American shortstop in Major League Baseball.

Julius Kruttschnitt

Julius Kruttschnitt (July 30, 1854 – June 15, 1925) was a German American railroad executive.


André Emmerich

André Emmerich (October 11, 1924 – September 25, 2007) was an influential German-born American gallerist who specialized in the color field school and pre-Columbian art while also taking on artists such as David Hockney and Al Held.

Dardanelle, Arkansas

Vast numbers of Czech and German families, including Ballouns, Vodrazkas, Staneks, and Pfeiffers, came to the town in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and their impact can still be felt today.

Heros von Borcke

Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke (July 23, 1835 – May 10, 1895) was a German American cavalry officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and in the Prussian Army during the Austro-Prussian War.

Optometry

However, in 1907 Professor Berthold Laufer, who was a German American anthropologist, stated in his history of spectacles 'the opinion that spectacles originated in India is of the greatest probability and that spectacles must have been known in India earlier than in Europe'.

Peter Douglas

Peter Vincent Douglas (born November 23, 1955) is an American television and film producer, a son of actor Kirk Douglas and his second wife, German American producer Anne Buydens.

Presser v. Illinois

In this 1886 case, Herman Presser was part of a citizen militia group, the Lehr und Wehr Verein (Instruct and Defend Association), a group of armed ethnic German workers, associated with the Socialist Labor Party.

United States presidential election in New York, 1928

Smith, a Roman Catholic of Irish, Italian, and German immigrant heritage, held special appeal to Catholic and ethnic immigrant communities that populated cities like New York and Boston.

Wladimir Seidel

Wladimir P. Seidel (December 21, 1907 – January 12, 1981) was a Russian-born German-American mathematician, and Doctor of Mathematics.


see also

Adventures in Good Music

German-American musicologist Karl Haas, whose knowledge of every facet of music was encyclopedic, started Adventures in Good Music in 1959 on radio station WJR in Detroit, Michigan.

Alexander Lebenstein

Alexander Lebenstein (born November 3, 1927 in Haltern, Germany; died 28 January 2010 in Richmond, Virginia) was a German-American Holocaust survivor.

Arnold Bernstein

Arnold Bernstein (23 January 1888 in Breslau - 1971, Palm Beach, Florida) was a German-American shipowner and pioneer of transatlantic cargo transport, which he revolutionised since he was transporting goods without the usual wooden boxes and was thus able to reduce freight rates.

Bartsch

Paul Bartsch (1871–1960), German-American biologist, zoologist and malacologist

Biorheology

The term was first proposed by Alfred L. Copley, a German-American medical scientist, at the first International Congress on Rheology in 1948.

Bohnstedt

Frederick W. Bohnstedt (1825-1883), German American Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey from 1867 to 1869

Brandywine, Maryland

In 1912, the Bank of Brandywine was chartered from what had previously been the Southern Maryland German-American Bank.

Charles Brode

Brode was a director of the German-American Savings Bank and of the Los Angeles Soap Company.

Cologne, Minnesota

In 1939, the town of Cologne was preserved on film in the amateur short subject Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther, which chronicles aspects of life in the German-American community prior to the American engagement in World War II.

De Boor

Carl R. de Boor (born 1937), German-American mathematician and professor emeritus

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Zentrum/James F. Byrnes Institute

-Byrnes-Institut (English German American Centre/James F. Byrnes Institute) in Stuttgart, Germany was founded in 1995 as the successor institution to the Stuttgart Amerika Haus, which was closed that year.

The Institute is organized as an association in which, in addition to the State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Stuttgart, the Universities of Hohenheim and Stuttgart, the Fachhochschulen of Baden-Württemberg, German-American organizations, the U.S. Embassy in Germany as well as private persons and corporations are represented.

Esslinger

Hartmut Esslinger (born 1944), German-American industrial designer and inventor

Faas

Ekbert Faas (born 1938), German-American novelist and literary critic

Feininger

Karl Feininger (1844-1922), German-American musician, father of Lyonel

Gymnasium Achern

Every fall, Gymnasium Achern sends a group of students to Freedom High School in Morganton, North Carolina, USA to stay with student's families for two weeks as a part of the German American Partnership Program (GAPP).

Hans G. Conrad

Later, between 1952 and 1954, Conrad designed promotional advertising for the German-American furniture manufacturer Knoll International belonging to Florence Knoll and Hans Knoll.

Hans-Ulrich Klose

On 16 March 2010, Germany's Minister for Foreign Affairs Guido Westerwelle appointed Klose to succeed Karsten Voigt as the government's coordinator for German-American affairs.

Helen Engelhardt

Mothers And Sons – a double portrait of the German sculptor Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), who created "The Grieving Parents," a memorial to her son who died in WWI, and the contemporary German-American sculptor Suse Lowenstein, who created a work to honor her son, a victim in the 1988 Lockerbie disaster.

Herbert Ratner

She was born in Sylvania Township, Lucas County, Ohio, the daughter of a farm family of twelve children and the granddaughter of Yankee and German-American settlers in the county.

Hohman

John George Hohman (also known as Johann Georg Hohman(n)), a German-American printer

Jake Lingle

The man convicted of the murder was a German-American mob associate, Leo Vincent Brothers.

John James Maximilian Oertel

John James Maximilian Oertel (born at Ansbach, Bavaria, 27 April 1811; died at Jamaica, New York, 21 August 1882) was a German-American journalist.

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Any More is a 1944 American comedy/romance film featuring Robert Mitchum, and was the final film directed by the German-American director Joe May.

Justus Christian Henry Helmuth

Justus Christian Henry Helmuth (born in Helmstedt, Brunswick, Germany, 16 May 1745; died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 5 February 1825) was a German-American Lutheran clergyman.

Kleinmann

Ralf Kleinmann (born 1971, Cologne, Germany), a German-American football player

Klüver

Heinrich Klüver (1897–1979), German-American psychologist born in Holstein, Germany

Lackawanna Old Road

On June 16, 1925, a passenger train carrying German-American tourists from Chicago to Hoboken was slated to run over the Lackawanna Cut-Off, but in order to avoid freight trains on the line the special train was diverted onto the Old Road to Port Morris.

Liepmann

Hans W. Liepmann (1914–2009), German American engineer, emeritus Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology

Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California

Looking Down the Yosemite Valley, California is an 1865 painting by the German-American painter Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902).

Louis F. Schade

He is interred at Washington's Prospect Hill Cemetery, the traditional resting place of Washington's early German-American population.

Lyonel

Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), German-American painter and caricaturist

Manfred Swarsensky

Manfred Erich Swarsensky (22 October 1906 in Marienfließ in Pomerania – 10 November 1981 in Madison, Wisconsin) was a German-American rabbi.

Marius Barbeau

In 1913, the German-American anthropologist Franz Boas, then of the American Folklore Society (AFS), convinced Barbeau to specialize in French Canadian folklore.

Mary Berger

Mary Odilia Berger (1823 – 1880), German-American religious leader, founded Sisters of St. Mary

Michael Schwab

Michael Schwab (August 9, 1853 – June 29, 1898) was a German-American labor organizer and one of the defendants in the Haymarket Square incident.

Minna Kleeberg

Minna Cohen Kleeberg (born in Elmshorn, Holstein, Germany, July 21, 1841; died in New Haven, Connecticut, December 31, 1878) was a German-American poet.

November 2001

Melanie Thornton, the German/American Pop singer, also the former member of La Bouche, dies in a plane crash going to Zürich, Switzerland,along with Maria Serreno-Serreno and Nathaly Van Het Ende of the German dance band Passion Fruit (band).

Paul Lévy

Paul Bern (Paul Levy, 1889–1932), German-American film director, screenwriter and producer

Samter

Max Samter (1909, Berlin - 1999, Evanston), German-American physician

Scheyer

Galka Scheyer (1889-1945), German-American art collector and painter

Schwanitz

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz (born 1955), German-American Middle East historian

Seeliger

Dr. Nicholas Edward Seeliger (born 1980), German-American Humanitarian and Professor of Family & Community Medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine.

Steel Prophet

Due to creative differences, vocalist Rick Mythiasin left the band in December 2002, intending to concentrate completely on his German/American band-project Taraxacum.

Storl

Wolf-Dieter Storl (born 1942), German American anthropologist and ethnobotanist

The Christmas Village in Philadelphia

For children there is a Santa's house and more special themed events including a lantern parade; for adults there are daily live performances from local artists such as string and brass bands, soloists and school choirs at a central stage, and an opening ceremony with the original Christkind from Christkindlesmarkt Nuremberg, the City of Philadelphia's Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony and a German American weekend.

Wilhelm Weitling

He participated with the experimental German-American settlement of Communia, Iowa.

Yizhi Jane Tao

She later moved to West Lafayette, Indiana, where she received her Ph.D. in biological science while studying under the German-American biophysicist Michael Rossmann.