His father was Guilherme Augusto Geisel (born Wilhelm August Geisel), a German teacher from Herborn.
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Johann Baptist Reus, S.J. or João Batista Reus, S.J. (Pottenstein, Bavaria, July 10, 1868 - São Leopoldo, Brazil, July 21, 1947) was a Jesuit priest and a German-Brazilian religious leader.
Born in Itajaí, Santa Catarina, he was the son of the German immigrants Peter Müller and Anna Michels, originally from the Rhineland.
In the Cerrado areas, mostly in the south, central and east, there is a predominance of Southern Brazilian farmers of German, Portuguese and Italian descent.
São Leopoldo, in the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul, founded in 1824 by the first pioneer German speaking families to settle permanently in Brazil, is officially considered the cradle of German-Brazilian culture (see the Riograndenser Hunsrückisch German language of South America).
A portable personal stereo audio cassette player, called Stereobelt, was first invented by the German-Brazilian Andreas Pavel in 1972.