German Americans
German Americans are an ethnic group of American citizens of German ancestry.[1] According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2013 there were 46 million Americans who claimed some German ancestry.[1] In parts of the Northern United States they outnumber any other ethnic groups.[1] In Wisconsin, for example, 41% of the population is German-American.[1] They are the largest ethnic group in the United States.[2] There are also Germans Americans of Danube Swabians Background [3]
German Americans Media
World map of German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller (Germany, 1507), which first used the name America
John Jacob Astor, in an oil painting by Gilbert Stuart, 1794, was the first of the Astor family dynasty and the first millionaire in the United States, making his fortune in the fur trade and New York City real estate.
Carl Schurz was the first German born US Senator (Missouri, 1868) and later US Secretary of the Interior.
Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, "father of the American military"
"From the Old to the New World" shows German emigrants boarding a steamer in Hamburg, to New York. Harper's Weekly, (New York) November 7, 1874.
Kliese Housebarn in Emmet, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Built ca. 1850 for Friedrich Kliese, an immigrant from Silesia
The Wahrenberger House in Austin served as a German-American school.
Temporary quarters for Volga Germans in central Kansas, 1875
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 German-Americans: The silent minority (February 7, 2015)The Economist Newspaper Limited. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
- ↑ Erik Kirschbaum. Whatever Happened to German America?. The New York Times (September 23, 2015). Retrieved February 1, 2017.
- ↑ Danube-Swabian Emigration to the United States of America – Hrastovac-Eichendorf.