List of German Americans

German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population.[1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered the United States since that point. Immigration continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals moved 1840–1900, when Germans formed the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering the Irish and English.[2] Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start afresh in the New World. California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone.[3] More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities.[4] This list also includes people of German Jewish descent.

Americans of German descent live in nearly every American county, from the East Coast, where the first German settlers arrived in the 17th century, to the West Coast and in all the states in between. German Americans and those Germans who settled in the U.S. have been influential in almost every field, from science, to architecture, to entertainment, and to commercial industry.

Art and literature

Architects

Artists

Authors and writers

Businesspeople and entrepreneurs

Brewers


Distillers

Entertainment

Actors

Celebrities

Composers and musicians

Directors, producers, screenwriters, and film editors

Humorists

Models

First Ladies of the United States

(in order by their husband's presidency)

Historical figures

Military

Philosophers

Politicians

Religious

Scientists and inventors

Sports

Baseball professionals

Basketball

Football

The Nesser brothers in the early 1920s. (L–R:) Ted, John, Frank, Fred, Phil, and Al

Golf

Ice hockey

Soccer

Tennis

Wrestling, mixed martial arts, and boxing

Other sports

See also

References

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  9. "Walter Gropius was a German architect and art educator"
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  11. " German-born and educated Richard Kiehnel (1877–1944) and his partner John Blair Elliott (b. 1868) were commissioned to design the school."
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  16. "The church was designed by Frederick C. Sauer. While at Technical School in Wittenberg, Germany he worked as a stone cutter, brick layer arid carpenter. After graduation in 1879 he came to Pittsburgh at the age of 19."
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  41. "Born in Ebingen, Württemberg. Krimmel immigrated to the United States in 1810. Settled in Philadelphia, where he painted portraits, miniatures and gently satirical street and domestic scenes. He returned to Germany from 1817 to 1818. Back in Philadelphia in 1819. Early 1821 he was elected president of the Association of American Artists, but on July 15 of the same year he accidentally drowned near Germantown, Pennsylvania."
  42. "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."
  43. "... born in Germany. Worked as an itinerant artist in Europe before immigrating to the United States in 1837. While living in New York City he married a French-Canadian and spent most of his life in Canada."
  44. "German-born artist, designed the first Confederate flag and the Confederate uniform".
  45. "German/American, 1832–1932"
  46. "Josef Muench (David's father) was born in Schweinfurt, Bavaria on February 8, 1904."
  47. "Josef Muench (Marc's grandfather) was born in Schweinfurt, Bavaria on February 8, 1904."
  48. "NAHL, Charles Christian (1818–1878), born in Kassel, immigrated to United States in 1849".
  49. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-05-18. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Thomas Nast – German-born Father of American Caricature ..."
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  51. "German American art historian who gained particular prominence for his studies in iconography (the study of symbols and themes in works of art)."
  52. "German-American painter trained in the "Munich School" style who is best known for his nudes, clowns and portraits and his ill-fated voyage of the South Pacific which nearly cost him his life"
  53. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-05-02. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "German native Severin Roesen is most famous for his abundant fruit ..."
  54. "... born most likely in Nuremberg, landscape and botanical painter. Studied art in Düsseldorf and Munich. In 1825 he went to Switzerland, where he stayed for 20 years before he emigrated to America in 1845."
  55. "... 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."
  56. "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."
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  58. "... born in Tilsit, East Prussia, came to America at the age of 17."
  59. "Gustavus Sohon was born in Tilsit, Germany on December 10, 1825. He came to America at the age of 17 and lived in Brooklyn, New York. A gifted linguist (he spoke English, French, and German) ..."
  60. "Gustavus Sohon, a native of East Prussia, arrived on the Columbia River in 1852 as a private in the US Army."
  61. "Birthplace: Cologne, Germany"
  62. "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."
  63. "About | Kat von D Beauty". Archived from the original on 2008-04-10. Retrieved 2008-04-09. "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"
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  73. "Part of a large German-American family, and the ninth of ten children, his childhood was marked by poverty." "Theodore Dreiser was the son of a German Catholic immigrant father and a German-Moravian Mennonite mother."
  74. "1829 – Gomried Duden's published travel report encourages thousands of Germans to come to America, especially Missouri"
  75. "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."
  76. "Born May 27, 1917, in Hamburg, Germany; died February 11, 2006, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Moved to United States in 1938; resided in New York City from 1938 to 2006."
  77. Max Ehrmann "An American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana. Born September 26, 1872 – Died September 9, 1945"
  78. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2005-03-24. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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."
  79. "German: from a short form of a Germanic personal name cognate with Old High German gratag 'greedy'."
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  83. "The two most distinguished German Sinologists at the turn of the century, Friedrich Hirth (1845–1927) and Berthold Laufer ..."
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  85. Archived 2007-08-10 at the Wayback Machine "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 moved to America in 1941. His studies concentrated on how cinema both influences and is influenced by social and economic conditions."
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  89. "... largely German-speaking neighborhood (Miller's grandparents had emigrated from Germany"
  90. "Pennsylvania Dutch Identity: Anna Balmer Myers"
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  92. "Ottendorfer's desire was to help to uplift both the body and the mind of his fellow Germans in the United States ('dem Körpen und dem Geisten zu helfen')."
  93. "In Lady Lazarus, Sylvia Plath does many things: she explores her guilt about being German during World War II ..."
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  108. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-05. Retrieved 2010-04-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "John Ernst Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California, on February 27, 1902 of German and Irish ancestry."
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  110. Archived 2007-12-04 at the Wayback Machine "German-born US journalist and financier"
  111. "Vonnegut, a fourth generation German-American, was sent to a POW camp in Dresden."
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  120. "German-born electrical engineer invested $200,000 in a quirky search engine in 1998. Google returned the favor—and $1.5 billion."
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  125. "Bonwit, Paul J. (29 Sept. 1862-11 Dec. 1939), retail merchant, was born Paul Joseph (or Josef) Bonwit near Hanover, Germany, the son of Bernard Bonwit."
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  129. "The American founder of Chrysler was a descendent of the German Johann Phillip Kreisler (1672–1742) who sailed to the New World in 1709."
  130. "Kay Baker Gaston, "George Dickel Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey: The Story Behind the Label", Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 2 (Fall 1998), pp. 51–64."
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  132. "Noah Dietrich was born February 28, 1889 in Madison, Wisconsin and was the fourth of six children born to Sarah Peters and German-born evangelical Lutheran minister John Dietrich."
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  135. "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 "
  136. "Emigration from Lippe to the USA"
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  138. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-01-09. Retrieved 2012-03-19.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "William Filene"
  139. "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."
  140. Archived 2010-12-17 at the Wayback Machine "The grandson of German and Italian immigrants, he embodies the entrepreneurial spirit of risking it all for a shot at success."
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  145. Archived 2009-02-24 at the Wayback Machine "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."
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  147. Father: Augustus Holver Hilton (Norwegian) – Mother: Mary Laufersweiler (German)
  148. "George Albert Hormel, the son of German immigrants, used the knowledge, skills, and values he learned from his family to succeed as an independent meatpacker in an industry dominated by corporate giants."
  149. Archived 2011-10-06 at the Wayback Machine "When a baby was born to the 23-year-old Jandali – now known as John – and his 23-year-old German-American girlfriend, Joanne Schieble, in 1955, there was no chance he'd be able to grow up with his biological parents."
  150. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-13. Retrieved 2007-08-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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."
  151. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-03-09. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Born a middle-class, assimilated German Jew ..."
  152. "Otto Kahn was the son of banker Bernard Kahn in Mannheim, southwestern Germany."
  153. "German: nickname from Middle High German kec 'lively', 'active' (cognate of English quick), which later changed its meaning to 'bold', 'forward', 'fresh'."
  154. East Tennessee Historical Society, Mary Rothrock (ed.), The French Broad-Holston Country: A History of Knox County, Tennessee (Knoxville, Tenn.: East Tennessee Historical Society, 1972), p. 436.
  155. "Kluge, a German-born billionaire, donated a whopping $60 million to start the ..."
  156. "Born in Bremen in Germany, Kleinfeld began his career as a marketing consultant in 1982 but before long had joined Siemens, the global engineering and technology services firm, and one of Germany's greatest companies."
  157. "From music have come – beside the piano- and organ-makers, Steinway, Knabe"
  158. "Lynne Koplitz – Out of the Pink". Lynnekoplitzcomedy.com. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
  159. "Company Spotlight: Kraft Foods, Inc". The Fundraising Journal (January 2010).
  160. "Kroger was born in Cincinnati, Ohio the fifth of ten children in a family of German immigrants."
  161. "When he was 13, in the Panic of 1873, Bernard Kroger's German immigrant father's Cincinnati dry goods store failed."
  162. "Born 1743 in Germany"
  163. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2012-03-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Johan Adam Lemp was born in Gruningen, Germany"
  164. "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."
  165. "The Founding Father". Flying Magazine: 76. Aug 1976.
  166. Archived 2009-05-29 at the Wayback Machine "Famous German-Americans"
  167. "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."
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  169. "Ludens"
  170. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-04-17. Retrieved 2008-01-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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, New York, that started off selling sandwiches and steak tidbits before graduating to full-fledged steak dinners."
  171. Scheiffarth, Engelbert: "Der New Yorker Gouverneur Nelson A. Rockefeller und die Rockenfeller im Neuwieder Raum". Genealogisches Jahrbuch, 9 (1969), pp. 16–41.
  172. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-12-22. Retrieved 2008-01-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Soon Oscar's brother Gottfried, a "wurstmacher" (or sausage-maker) from Nuremberg, 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."
  173. "Carrie Marcus Neiman (1883–1953)". Immigrant Entrepreneurship: German-American Business Biographies.
  174. "Bremen, Germany Merchant"
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  180. "John Augustus Reitz was born on December 17, 1815, in Dorlar, Prussia. He grew up in a German family that emphasized skill, thrift, and hard work. He came to the United States in the 1830s when many other Germans came, and for the same reasons: to find better business opportunities and a more "republican" form of government."
  181. "William Rittenhouse was born in what is now Germany, near the Dutch border. His name was then Wilhelm Rittenhausen, later changed in America"
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  185. "Popular, wealthy, and well-connected within the German-American community, Ruppert was a natural for politics."
  186. "The son of German immigrants Jacob Ruppert and Anna Gillig, Ruppert was born August 5, 1867, attended Columbia Grammar School in New York, and went to work in the small Jacob Ruppert's family brewery in 1887."
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  189. "Pauline Farabaugh and John Schwab, both of whose parents were German-born Catholics, were married in western Pennsylvania a week after the president appealed for volunteers to put down the rebellious Southern states. John wanted to join the Union Army with his pals. Pauline talked him out of it."
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  203. "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."
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  214. "Rudolph Wurlitzer (born January 30, 1831, Schöneck, Saxony [Germany]—d. January 14, 1914, Cincinnati, Ohio), emigrated to the United States in 1853, settling in Cincinnati."
  215. "German-born American cofounder of the firm later to be known as Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., one of the largest breweries in the world."
  216. "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."
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  222. "'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 US 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."
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  226. "According to Texas historian Patrick J. Wagner, an organization founded by German investors known as the Shiner Brewing Association wanted to drink home brew, rather than city brew. "So they recruited Kosmos Spoetzl, a Bavarian brewmaster with an old-world brewing recipe that had been in his family for generations." "
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  252. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-06-24. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "The half-German, half-Alabaman Bullock was born in Washington, D.C. ...
  253. Sarah Chalke "Her mother is originally from Rostock, Germany. According to a Scrubs commentary track, she used to attend the German school in her hometown twice a week."
  254. "Her grandfather was Nordic-German ..."
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  262. "though as it happens, Doris Day, née Doris Kappelhoff, is purebred German. "And I have a beautiful shitsu called Wesley Winfield.""
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  269. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-03-23. Retrieved 2006-04-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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."
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  274. "German its actually von dinklage (dink-lager)".
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  287. "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."
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  290. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-03. Retrieved 2010-10-04.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Gish Biography – Bio and Lyrics"
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  295. "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 Göttingen, 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."
  296. "As you might expect for someone with solid St. Louis roots, Jon Hamm has German heritage. Roughly three-eighths of his family tree traces back to the fatherland, but he's equally English and one-quarter Irish."
  297. Stated on Who Do You Think You Are?, August 6, 2012
  298. "... Hasselhoff took advantage of his fluency in the German language to establish a phenomenal successful singing career in Europe."
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  301. "Jonathan Vincent Voight was born in Yonkers, NY, on 29 December 1938. His paternal grandfather immigrated from Košice, now the Slovak and European home of U.S. Steel, his maternal grandfather came from Büren, Germany, his grandmothers were born in the U.S."
  302. "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."
  303. "Her Irish-German beauty helped her grab her first TV gig back in her native Nebraska..."
  304. "...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."
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  308. "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."
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  322. "Of German and Irish descent, Lauter does both redneck and roughneck with great relish and subtle variation, and though he excels at looming and hulking, he appears equally at home (and equally unnerving) behind a clipboard and a white lab coat."
  323. "I am only French, Dutch and German. I get my skin color from the French side of my family."
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  366. "German Ancestry"
  367. "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 ancestral 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."
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  370. "Ethnicity: German/American"
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  372. "Born Florence Lois Weber on June 13, 1879, in Allegheny City (annexed in 1907 officially as the North Side, Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania, Lois Weber was the second daughter of George and Mary Matilda (née Snaman) Weber. George's parents, Salesius Weber and Elizabeth Koch Weber arrived by 1854 from Germany."
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  386. "Naturalized US Citizen – Birthplace: Nordenham, Germany"
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  414. "... 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 US in 1940 and taught at Yale University"
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  419. "Charles Martin Loeffler (1861–1935) was a German-American violinist and composer"
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  425. "Elvis' descends from the PRESSLER family of the Southern Palatinate, Johann Valentin Pressler changed his name to PRESLEY during the Civil War."
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  429. "Milwaukee-born Heinz Roemheld followed a circuitous route to a career as a film composer. At age four he was identified as a piano prodigy; he later studied with Ferruccio Busoni and Egon Petri in Berlin, and performed as a guest soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic at 23."
  430. "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 1850s 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 1960s, Gretchen, Peter & Linda played and sang at coffeehouses in Tucson."
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  432. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-08-10. Retrieved 2007-07-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Salter came to the United States in 1937 and composed scores for some 150 Hollywood movies."
  433. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-01-18. Retrieved 2008-12-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "1941 – Birth of his son Lawrence on 27 January. Arnold, Gertrud and Nuria are granted American citizenship."
  434. "His father, John Antonio Sousa, was born in Spain of Portuguese parents, and his mother, Marie Elizabeth Trinkaus, was born in Bavaria."
  435. "Stoermer Name Meaning North German (Störmer): nickname for a hot-tempered person, from a derivative of Middle Low German storm 'storm'."
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  438. "German-born American conductor who was largely responsible for the role of symphony orchestras in many American cities."
  439. "German composer, American citizen from 1943"
  440. "Lawrence Welk, German-American bandleader"
  441. "German: from a pet form of the personal name Werner, or, especially in eastern regions, from a short form of the Slavic personal name Wenceslaw."
  442. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-11-29. Retrieved 2010-02-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Born in Berlin, established in the USA"
  443. "Gesine Bullock-Prado".
  444. "As children, the Bullock sisters lived in Germany, moving to Virginia when Sandra was 11 and Gesine was five where their father, John, worked at the Pentagon. Helga, a German opera singer, continued to travel back to Europe for work – sometimes taking her daughters with her on tour."
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  446. "... the German director of Hollywood films including Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot, and The Day After Tomorrow, was born in Stuttgart."
  447. "German-American motion-picture director"
  448. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-07-06. Retrieved 2007-07-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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."
  449. Archived 2007-08-10 at the Wayback Machine "Born Emil Anton Bundmann. German-American director. (Sullivan's Travels, Border Incident, Winchester '73, The Glenn Miller Story, God's Little Acre, El Cid)"
  450. "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 ...'"
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  453. Archived 2006-04-26 at the Wayback Machine "German-born director Kurt Neumann came to the US in the early talkie era, hired to direct German-language versions of Hollywood films."
  454. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-10-07. Retrieved 2006-05-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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 ..."
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  456. "Pfister: South German and Swiss German: occupational name for a baker, from Middle High German pfister 'baker' (from Latin pistor)."
  457. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-24. Retrieved 2007-07-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "... 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."
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  460. Archived 2007-08-10 at the Wayback Machine "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)."
  461. Archived 2007-08-10 at the Wayback Machine "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 U.S. 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)."
  462. Archived 2007-08-10 at the Wayback Machine "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"
  463. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-02-17. Retrieved 2008-01-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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 US The German director has made most of his films in English in the US He has been living in Los Angeles since the 1980s, although he spends part of each year in Germany and Berlin (his favorite city)."
  464. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2008-01-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "... 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."
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  474. "Ancestry: German, Welsh, English, Irish; Lucretia Garfield's parental great-grandfather immigrated to Pennsylvania (in a part that is now Delaware) from Württemberg, Germany. Her mother's family all originated in New England, the latest immigrating from England six generations before her own. Among her American ancestors were James and Mary Chilton, Pilgrims on the Mayflower."
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  477. "Anslinger’s zeal for law and order manifested early. He was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in 1892 to Swiss German parents."
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  480. "Meta Schlichting was born in Milwaukee in 1873 to parents who came to the city from Germany during their childhood. Schlichting's father, Bernard, who served on Milwaukee's school board, hired Victor Berger to teach German."
  481. "Ethnicity Swiss/German"
  482. "Hitz Name Meaning German: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name formed with the first element hild 'strife', 'battle'."
  483. "Willard Erastus Christiansen was born in Ephraim, Utah to a Swedish father and German mother – both Mormon converts."
  484. "This biography joins the ranks of several others on second-echelon German-American political and intellectual figures such as Frederick Hecker and Francis Hoffmann that have recently appeared."
  485. "The ancestral home of the Earhart family is in the German province of Bavaria. Earhart is a German nickname surname. Such names came from eke-names, or added names, that described their initial bearer through reference to a physical characteristic or other attribute."
  486. "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."
  487. "The German Belt is the product of concepts and processes well known to students of migration, particularly the concept of "dominant personality", the process called "chain migration", and the device of "America letters." Voluntary migrations generally were begun by a dominant personality, or "true pioneer." This individual was forceful and ambitious, a natural leader, who perceived emigration as a solution to economic, social, political, or religious problems in his homeland. He used his personality to convince others to follow him in migration. In the case of the Texas Germans, Friedrich Diercks, known in Texas under his alias, Johann Friedrich Ernst, was the dominant personality."
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  490. "... 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."
  491. "Meyer, though a native speaker of German, was Swiss-German."
  492. "Peter Gusenberg (Gusenberger) 'Goosey'. 434 Roscoe St. Born September 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."
  493. "German-born American carpenter and burglar"
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  496. "A Pennsylvania German named Michael Hillegas was the first Continental Treasurer. "
  497. "Hoffa's father was a coal miner and of Pennsylvania "Dutch" (German) lineage"
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  500. "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."
  501. "German-born Jacob Leisler"
  502. "Hume, Edgar Erskine, "The German Artist Who Designed the Confederate Flag and Uniform". The American-German Review, August 1940."
  503. "Miller, Benjamin Kurtz"
  504. "German-American"
  505. "Charles Mohr (1824–1901), German-born Mobile pharmacist and botanist, is best known for the monumental Plant Life of Alabama"
  506. "Irish, German; Pat Nixon's mother immigrated from the Ober Rosbach region of Germany ..."
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  512. "In future years many leaders of American labor were German American, including Walter Reuther"
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  514. "The founder, August Schrader was a creative and inventive German immigrant"
  515. "Carl Schurz, one of the most celebrated German Americans"
  516. "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."
  517. "Dutch Schultz (August 6, 1902 – October 25, 1935) was a New York City-area gangster of the 1920s and 1930s. 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."
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  519. "Prolific mob hitman Frank "the German" Schweihs has been indicted for alleged involvement with organized crime, including 19 unsolved homicides."
  520. "German-born Swiss pioneer settler and colonizer in California"
  521. "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."
  522. "The Baron told the curt his grandfather was a count in Czarist Russia and that his father is a German nobleman."
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  525. "John Wetzel was a German Palatine emigrant who had survived indentured servitude and had become successful enough to win the hand of Captain Bonnet's daughter in marriage."
  526. "Murdered German-American Mobsters: Frank Gusenberg, Peter Gusenberg, Gus Winkler, Andrew Von Etter"
  527. Articles on American Mobsters of German Descent, Including: Frank Gusenberg, Peter Gusenberg, Gus Winkler, Andrew Von Etter, John Dillinger, Adam Wort
  528. "Wurzelbach (from Wurzel = root and Bach = creek) is a town in Germany. Wurzelbacher just means person from Wurzelbach."
  529. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2008-04-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "German immigrant printer named John Peter Zenger"
  530. Judy Putnam (January 12, 2018). "Ingham judge has creative life off the bench with new crime thriller". Lansing State Journal. [Aquilina's] father was born in Malta, a Mediterranean country near Sicily, and her mother in Germany.
  531. "Antietam: Maj Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke". Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2007-04-29. "German-Prussian officer, served under General Jeb Stuart"
  532. George Armstrong Custer "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'."
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  536. Webpage for Dilger Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine "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."
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  544. "Notable among many German-Americans who have shaped our military to meet later challenges were John J. Pershing, whose ancestral family name was Pfoerschin."
  545. "Alexander Schimmelfennig was born in Germany in 1824. A graduate of the German military academy he joined Franz Sigel, Carl Schurz, August Willich, Peter Osterhaus, Max Weber in taking part in the failed 1848 German Revolution. Schimmelfennig emigrated to America and on the outbreak of the American Civil War he joined the Union Army."
  546. "Schoonmaker, German..."
  547. Archived 2006-11-04 at the Wayback Machine "military officer/Union general"
  548. Sohn: "a German word meaning "son""
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  556. "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."
  557. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2013-11-27.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "His last real name was von Willich. His father was an officer in the Prussian army. He was born in Braunsberg, Prussia in 1810."
  558. "August Willich was born in Germany in 1810. A graduate of the German military academy he joined Franz Sigel, Carl Schurz, Peter Osterhaus, Alexander Schimmelfennig, Max Weber in taking part in the failed 1848 German Revolution."
  559. Seifrit, William C. (1987), Charles Henry Wilcken, an Undervalued Saint, 55, Utah Historical Quarterly, pp. 308–321
  560. Hart, John L. (August 20, 1994), Soldier finds peace, not war, in Utah, Deseret News
  561. "Jurgen Wilson was born in Hamburg, Germany, on 18th December, 1836. His parents were English and he lived for a time in Norway before emigrating to America in 1858. He settled in Madison, Wisconsin, and found work as a clerk in a drug store."
  562. "He was born in 1838 in Bremen, Germany, and came to the U.S. with his family in 1844."
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  567. "Rudolf Carnap, a German-born philosopher and naturalized US citizen"
  568. "Francis Lieber German-born US political philosopher"
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  571. "A family genealogy reports that John George Carl Barnitz was the son of John Leonard Barnitz. John George Carl Barnitz born at Falkenstein, Germany on August 14, 1722, as stated in his will, dated October 12, 1796, probated January 4, 1797 (York County Will 1-J-235). However, the will of Charles Barnitz, with the dates noted, was recorded, but the recorded version makes no mention of the birthplace of Charles."
  572. "1806 – ...Martin Baum, riverboat pioneer on the Ohio and Mississippi, becomes mayor of Cincinnati"
  573. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2008-05-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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."
  574. ""It was Play Or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth Century American Popular Theatre, Pg. 90"
  575. Rep. John Boehner Gets Huge Overnight
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  577. "1842 – William Bouck (Bauk) becomes Governor of New York"
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  580. In Indiana Senate race, Republican Mike Braun avoids Trump's bravado but stays close on policy
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  587. "... a descendant of Hans Nikolas Eisenhauer."
  588. She is of Southeast Asian (25.6%) French and German (24.6%), and Polynesian descent—as well as a mixture of 9 other ethnicities.
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  596. "John Paul Hammerschmidt was born on May 4, 1922, in Harrison to Arthur Paul and Junie M. Hammerschmidt. Hammerschmidt was the fourth of five children. Both sets of grandparents migrated to Boone County in the early years of the twentieth century and were of German descent."
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  604. "Charles Frederick Kirschler was born in Beaver County in 1864 to a two-generation family of German immigrant farmers from Gemmingen in the Duchy of Baden."
  605. "Born in Fürth, Germany to Jewish parents. Naturalized as US citizen in 1943"
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  619. "The prefix -stahl, in German, actually means steel to begin with."
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  629. "This snapshot of Frederick A Schroeder's life was captured by the 1940 U.S. Census. Frederick A Schroeder was born about 1873 in Germany. On April 1, 1940, he was 67 years old and lived in New York, New York."
  630. " SCHURZ, Carl, a senator from Missouri; born in Liblar, near Cologne, Germany, March 2, 1829; educated at the gymnasium of Cologne and the University of Bonn; having taken part in the German revolutionary movement of 1848, he was compelled to flee from Germany; was a newspaper correspondent in Paris and later taught school in London; immigrated to the United States in 1852 and settled in Philadelphia, Pa.; moved to Watertown, Wis., in 1855; studied law; admitted to the bar and practiced in Milwaukee, Wis ..."
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  645. American anthropologist, Volume 10 (1908), American Anthropological Association
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  652. "Mack was born in the obscure agricultural village of Schriesheim, a few miles from Heidelberg, Germany in 1679..."
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  666. "Rodeo - Earl Bascom". www.theinventors.org. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  667. "Dr. Max Bentele (born Ulm, Germany January 15, 1909 – died New York May 19, 2006, at age 97) was a pioneer in the field of jet aircraft turbines and mechanical engineering"
  668. "German-born American citizen"
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  670. "Wernher von Braun, the German physicist who oversaw most of the achievements of the US space program until his death in 1977"
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  673. "Werner K. Dahm, an internationally recognized rocket pioneer whose work in Germany and the United States."
  674. "German-born American physicist who shared one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989 with the German physicist Wolfgang Paul"
  675. "Max Delbruck German-born US biologist, a pioneer in the study of molecular genetics."
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  678. "Nationality: United States, Germany"
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  682. "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"
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  684. "James Franck German-born American physicist"
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  687. "There was no reason to think there was anything extraordinary about the boy born to George Fritz and Mary Meharg on Aug. 21, 1822. Little Johannes Fritzius, named after his German grandfather, soon found that there was plenty to do on his family's farm in rural Chester County. Under the stern but loving eye of their Scotch-Irish mother, John Fritz and his six brothers and sisters grew to maturity."
  688. "Born in Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1890, Frieda Fromm-Reichmann graduated from medical school at Königsberg, Eastern Prussia, in 1913."
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  695. "German-American psychiatrist"
  696. "German psychologist"
  697. "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 US citizen in 1934."
  698. "Naturalized US Citizen – Birthplace: Blankenburg, Germany"
  699. "Encyclopedia Astronautica Index: 1". Archived from the original on 2008-12-20. Retrieved 2008-12-20. "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."
  700. "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."
  701. "Ottmar Mergenthaler, a German inventor"
  702. "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."
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  713. "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."
  714. "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."
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  717. "In 1960 he emigrated to the United States and joined the Worthington Biochemical Corporation in Harrison, New Jersey, eventually becoming vice-president. During his life he was awarded numerous scientific medals and awards, and he published over 200 patents. Hellmuth Walter died on 16 December 1980."
  718. "Growing up in Vienna in a well-to-do Jewish family ..." "One of the most brilliant Jewish scientists to be driven from Germany by Nazi persecution ..."
  719. Farmer, Gene; Dora Jane Hamblin (1970). First On the Moon: A Voyage With Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. pp. 51–54. Bibcode:1970fomv.book.....F. Library of Congress 76-103950.
  720. "Gustave Whitehead, a poor, German immigrant"
  721. "Heinz Becker, the only German-born big-leaguer who played during the years of World War II."
  722. "Zinn is the German word for tin"
  723. "The Benz family was of German Catholic stock, Joe's grandfather, also named Michael, having emigrated from the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1849."
  724. The American Game. SIU Press. 2002. p. 30. ISBN 9780809389094. Retrieved August 6, 2019 via Internet Archive. lou bierbauer german.
  725. "German origins of the Boesch surname"
  726. "Breitenstein, 65, Dies; Once Noted Pitcher" (PDF). The New York Times. May 4, 1935.
  727. "The Bumgarners began arriving from southwest Germany a couple of hundred years ago."
  728. "FamilySearch". Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  729. "His father, Daniel, was a German immigrant; his mother, Rosina (née Shellhorn), was the daughter of a German immigrant."
  730. "Father Peter Danzig emigrated to the United States in 1880, he was considered and listed himself in the 1900 census as German"
  731. "His father, Fred, was a salesman at a drugstore in Burleson, Texas, in 1920. Ten years later the 1930 census shows him as a salesman in a garage. Fred was a native Texan, too, but his father had been born in Berlin and his mother was Moravian. Both German and Bohemian were spoken in the household."
  732. Bill Dietrich at Society for American Baseball Research (SABR)
  733. "Dietrich Name Meaning & Dietrich Family History at Ancestry.com®". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  734. Barney Dreyfuss at the SABR Baseball Biography Project, by Sam Bernstein, Retrieved November 8, 2013., "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."
  735. Big and Little Poison: Paul and Lloyd Waner, Baseball Brothers
  736. "David Eckstein was born to German-American parents in Sanford, Florida. He is an MLB shortstop and current leadoff hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals. Eckstein was named the World Series MVP in 2006."
  737. "Elmer Albert Eggert was born and died in Rochester, New York – born on January 29, 1902 to parents of German ancestry. His mother Theresa Felgner Eggert had been born in Rochester, and his father Fred was born in New York City to two German parents."
  738. Society for American Baseball Research"Henry Eibel was born to foreign-born parents. His father, Henry, had come from Germany to America in 1870 and worked as a blacksmith in 1900 and a baker in 1910. His mother, Elizabeth, had been born in England, but to two German parents; she came to America in 1864. "
  739. "BGS The Report Card – December 8, 2006". Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  740. "Oscar Emil Felsch, who grew up to be arguably the best baseball player ever produced by Milwaukee's north side, was born in 1891 in a German working-class neighborhood – Reference: Felsch's Application for Social Security Account Number, December 3, 1943; Wisconsin Original Certificate of Death #'64 024373; and 1900 and 1930 United States Censuses."
  741. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-10. Retrieved 2015-02-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "The Guy Richard Freese Family Home Page"
  742. "1929 — ...baseball stars: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Honus Wagner, Frank Frisch, all of German descent"
  743. "Froemming Name Meaning North German (Frömming): patronymic from Fromm."
  744. "Lou Gehrig's life, from the poor German boy in Yorkville to the famous star playing America's favorite pastime."
  745. "Sketch of the Men Who Now wear the Dauvray Medals" (PDF). The Sporting Life. 1887.
  746. "Pretzels Getzien"
  747. Society of Baseball Research / SABR "Grimm’s German-born father wanted him to join the family painting business, but young Charlie had other ideas."
  748. Major League Baseball Players of 1916: A Biographical Dictionary
  749. "Happ Name Meaning & Happ Family History at Ancestry.com®". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  750. Heilmann surname
  751. [https://books.google.com/books?id=P63_5PFD5S8C&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47 "German Americans comprised of 30% of the U.S. Armed Forces, among them such high profile players such as Charlie Gehringer, Tommy Henrich, Pete Reiser and Red Ruffing."
  752. "German American assistants Rudolph Hynicka and August Hermann"
  753. "Young August, a good Cincinnati German, worked for another good Cincinnati German..."
  754. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-11-29. Retrieved 2013-08-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "...He wasn't angry, but true to his German roots..."
  755. Dick Hoblitzell at the SABR Baseball Biography Project, by Tom Simon, Retrieved November 8, 2013., "Richard Carleton Hoblitzell... his father, Henry Hoblitzell, whose ancestors hailed from the oft-disputed Alsace-Lorraine region, was part German, Swiss, and French."
  756. "part German mother"
  757. " Charles Schaeffer Kelchner ...was the son of Martin and Maria (Schaeffer) Kelchner, of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent."
  758. "His paternal great-grandfather, Johann Justus Kellner, a German immigrant."
  759. "The Knepper Family... accompanied their founder, Alexander Mack, from Europe to Pennsylvania was a certain Wilhelm Knepper... 'Bob' Knepper, the noted baseball player, is a descendant"
  760. "Howie Koplitz Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
  761. "Eugene Hamlet Krapp was born to Frederick “Fritz” and Bertha (Hettig) Krapp on May 12, 1887 in Rochester, New York. His father was born in Wurtemberg, Germany in 1854 and came to the United States three years later. His mother was a native New Yorker whose family had come from the same area in Germany."
  762. "The Kuenns were the typical German-American blue-collar family that so heavily populated Milwaukee."
  763. Goldstein, Richard (2007-03-16). "Bowie Kuhn, 80, former baseball commissioner". The New York Times. Retrieved 2013-11-08.
  764. The Art of Hitting .300
  765. "Leibrandt Surname"
  766. "MLB – Chuck Machemehl Player Page". Sports Illustrated.
  767. "Markakis, who is half Greek and half German, led the Greek Olympic team..."
  768. "Henry William Meine was born on May 1, 1896 in an unincorporated area called Luxemburg in the predominantly German neighborhood known as Carondelet bordering the Mississippi River in south St. Louis, Missouri. Meine's parents were both children of German immigrants; Henry (born in 1864) and Louisa (nee Kulhman, born in 1873) married in 1891 and had seven children, Lilly, Henry, Edwin, Arthur, Charles, Ferdinand, and Walter, born between 1892 and 1908."
  769. "Wisconsin, Births and Christenings". familysearch.org. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
  770. "Frederick William Muller was born on December 21, 1907, a son of German immigrants George and Mary Muller."
  771. Les Mueller at the SABR Baseball Biography Project, by Jim Sargent, Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  772. "Fritz Mollwitz Stats". Baseball-Almanac.com. Retrieved 2011-05-21.
  773. Fritz Mollwitz "Frederick August Mollwitz -- Born: 6/16/1890 at Koburg (Germany)"
  774. Mike Eisenbath and Stan Musial. Cardinals Encyclopedia. pp. 258–259.
  775. Census entry for Henry Peitz, ball-player, born November 1870. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Census Place: Cincinnati Ward 23, Hamilton, Ohio; Roll: T623_1279; Page: 10A; Enumeration District: 193.
  776. Census entry for Henry Peitz and family. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Census Place: Saint Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri; Roll: 733; Family History Film: 1254733; Page: 509C; Enumeration District: 306; Image: 0189.
  777. "Heinie Peitz Is A Favorite". The Pittsburgh Press. March 16, 1905.
  778. "Roettger surname from Hesse, DE"
  779. "Roettger Name Meaning North German (also Röttger): variant of Rudiger or Roger."
  780. "... 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 ..."
  781. Germany Schaefer at the SABR Baseball Biography Project, by Dan Holmes, Retrieved November 13, 2013., "Herman A. Schaefer was born to German immigrant parents in Chicago's South Side Levee District, on February 4, 1876."
  782. Dan Holmes (2006). "Germany Schaefer". Deadball Stars of the American League. Potomac Books, Inc. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  783. Wonder Boy - The Story of Carl Scheib: The Youngest Player in American
  784. "to PRer free7694, "Scherzer" is German for "joker". If Mad Max doesn't catch on, what about The Joker?"
  785. "Schimpf Family History", Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved on 16 January 2016.
  786. MIKE SCHMIDT HAS CREDENTIALS TO RATE WITH BEST "Schmidt is of German extraction."
  787. Bill Lamb. Frank Schneiberg. Society for American Baseball Research.
  788. Bill Nowlin. Al Schroll. Society for American Baseball Research.
  789. "...to German immigrant John Schulte"
  790. Cahill, Dan (July 22, 2015). "Kyle Schwarber: 7 things you might not know". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  791. Society for American Baseball Research / SABR"James Robert “Bob” Shawkey was born on December 4, 1890, in Sigel, Pennsylvania. He was descended from German immigrants named Schaake."
  792. "Americans of German descent, like John Smoltz"
  793. Harry Steinfeldt at the SABR Baseball Biography Project, by Tom Simon, Retrieved November 8, 2013., "The son of a German immigrant, Henry M. Steinfeldt was born on September 29, 1877, in St. Louis."
  794. Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Q-Z
  795. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-12-08. Retrieved 2008-12-02.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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."
  796. "He was born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on May 20, 1879, to Leonard and Mary Thielman. Leonard was a hardware dealer at the time of the 1900 census, a German immigrant who had come to the United States around 1858. Mary had been born in New York to German immigrant parents."
  797. "Elias Thoeny was a painter, a German immigrant as was his wife. National boundaries have, of course, changed over time. The Thoenys appear to have come from the southern part of current Germany..."
  798. "His father, Victor, half German and half Viennese, with his hearty manner and curious mind, was the biggest influence in his life, says Ueberroth."
  799. "James “Jim” Umbricht was born in Chicago on September 17, 1930, to Mr. and Mrs. Eduard Umbricht. Eduard's parents were from Illinois and he was born and raised in the state. Jantina Frank, Eduard's wife, was born in Holland to a Dutch mother and German father. She was a native German speaker."
  800. "The story of Alfred Holmes "Fritz" Von Kolnitz illustrates ethnic ambivalence. Sensitive to his obviously Prussian-sounding name, he used the name "R. H. Holmes" when entering professional baseball in 1913..."
  801. "In sports there have been such memorable figures as baseballers Honus Wagner, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Casey Stengel ..."
  802. "The Wambsganss name was German in origin, though the best a German professor at Concordia College in Fort Wayne, Indiana, could tell him was that it seemed to combine components of the word for overcoat, or at least a word that might have been used as overcoat in early 20th century German usage."
  803. "Fred's father Fred Richard Gehrke was born to August Gehrke and Elizabeth Bergau in Konigsberg, Germany (which was renamed in 1949, Kalininggrad, part of the Russian Federation)."
  804. Rodriguez, Juan C. (March 4, 2014). "Marlins notes: Yelich branches off family football tree". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
  805. "The Boeheims were German in an Italian neighborhood, but honestly, it's not like my family celebrated their cultural heritage much."
  806. "Notes: He is the son of Florian Hartenstein, a German former professional basketball player and basketball coach... His mother is American and he was born in Eugene, Oregon ... He lived in USA until 2008, when he followed his family in Germany where his father was playing professionally... He has been a member of the German junior national teams since 2014, when he was 16 years old."
  807. "A government official told the players about anti-German sentiment in Poland, one of their main stops of the 21-game tour. Heinsohn, with his unmistakably German last name, was a bit wary, but he didn’t think much of it. He was just going to play basketball anyway."
  808. Phil Jackson, "Sacred Hoops", p. 27
  809. "Clippers' Kaman becomes German citizen for Olympics". Los Angeles Times. 2008-07-03.
  810. "...described herself as German..."
  811. "Prevalence of Prohm Surname in Deutschland"
  812. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2009-04-21.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "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."
  813. "Heisman Trophy – Jay Berwanger – Heisman Winners". heismantrophy.com. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  814. "Tom Brady's roots run deep into 19th-century Boston – The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2018-02-18.
  815. "Born: June 19, 1946 (Age: 70-313d) in Munich, Germany"
  816. "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."
  817. "Thuringia region (located between Hessen and Lower Saxony in the west and Saxony in the east). Doering name is an ethnic name for someone from Thuringia (German Thüringen). The region is named from its former occupation by the T(h)uringii, a Germanic tribe. The meaning is from a personal name based on cognate of the German turren, or 'to dare'."
  818. "Ertz Name Meaning German: variant of Ersch, from a pet form of Aro or Arez."
  819. Archived 2015-10-02 at the Wayback Machine "... the Goff name comes from the Old German term 'goff', which means a priest, god-like person or a powerful warrior."
  820. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-01-22. Retrieved 2016-10-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Born Johann Wilhelm Heisman on October 23, 1869, in Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of John M. Heisman and Sara Lehr. The name John William was later adopted in order to make less apparent the fact that he was the son of immigrants. His father was the estranged son of German aristocrats and husband to his lower-class wife, for whom he gave up his family, inheritance, and surname."
  821. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-08-21. Retrieved 2007-08-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Hostelter is a descendant of the Amish-Mennonite immigrant Jacob Hochstetler."
  822. http://azstrong.tripod.com/harry_alice/legacy/1109.htm
  823. 1900 Census, St. Louis, Missouri, FHL Film No. 1,240,888, Central Twp, E. D. 119, Sheet 5A, Family 105 at Lines 28–33.
  824. "Kuechly Surname : 19th Century Germanic Immigrants to USA"
  825. The Man Who Built the National Football League: Joe F. Carr, page 29 et seq.
  826. Archived 2008-05-14 at the Wayback Machine "Their father, Theodore Nesser, was lured from Germany by the railroad and designed the steam engine the Pennsy used for years"
  827. "Ott is a family name with Bavarian roots."
  828. "Pflugrad Surname Distribution"
  829. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Norka – a German colony in Russia"
  830. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-11-17. Retrieved 2015-11-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Norka – a German colony in Russia"
  831. "German: from Middle High German slegel 'hammer', 'tool for striking' (Old High German slegil, a derivative of slahan 'to strike'), hence a metonymic occupational name for a smith or mason, or a nickname for a forceful person."
  832. "German Surname – (Schöbert): variant of Schober.variant of Schubert."
  833. "Spach Family Name"
  834. The Family Tree German Genealogy Guide: How to Trace Your Germanic Ancestry
  835. Sperber, Murray (July 29, 2014). Onward to Victory: The Creation of Modern College Sports. Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 9781466876453. Retrieved August 6, 2019 via Google Books.
  836. Gustke, Axel (December 31, 2012). "Berliner Mauer vor dem Durchbruch". Der Tagesspiegel (in German).
  837. "German: variant of Duffner."
  838. "Golden wonder"
  839. "Germans to America Passenger Data file, 1850–1897, Ship Normannia, departed from Hamburg, arrived in New York, New York, New York, United States, NAID identifier 1746067, National Archives at College Park, Maryland". familysearch.org. Retrieved 23 June 2015.
  840. "Backes is a surname of German immigrants to America."
  841. "German: topographic name of uncertain origin, possibly related to modern German Eichel 'acorn'. German: habitational name for someone who lived at a house distinguished by the sign of an acorn."
  842. "...became a U.S.-German dual citizen before the move."
  843. It's a small hockey world for Guentzel
  844. "Kreider Family Crest and History". Houseofnames.com. 2013-11-26. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
  845. "Die Kultfigur bei den Pinguins – Sport in Bremen – WESER-KURIER". www.weser-kurier.de. Archived from the original on 2016-02-13. Retrieved 2016-02-13.
  846. "German (Müller) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a miller, Middle High German müller, German Müller. In Germany Müller, Mueller is the most frequent of all surnames; in the U.S. it is often changed to Miller."
  847. "German: nickname from Middle High German schallære 'braggart', 'orator', 'babbler'. Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a trumpeter or a shofar player, from an agent derivative of Yiddish shaln 'to sound'."
  848. "German: topographic or habitational name of unexplained origin."
  849. Hanc, John. "Walter Bahr reflects on the day the US beat England and stunned the so..." AARP. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  850. "Chandler Emerging at FC Nurnberg". Yanks Abroad. January 26, 2011. Retrieved March 5, 2011.
  851. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-01-02. Retrieved 2007-12-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Marcus' surname comes from his German roots, with his parents leaving Hamburg 35 years ago"
  852. "VfB sign Jerome Kiesewetter". VfB Stuttgart. 16 May 2012. Archived from the original on 30 May 2015. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  853. "Philadelphia German Americans win the 1936 US Open Cup". Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  854. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-17. Retrieved 2009-01-03.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Born in Tübingen, West Germany, he moved with his family to America at the age of four."
  855. "Mature beyond his years". Yanks Abroad. November 9, 2005. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
  856. Winner, Andrew (September 19, 2005). "Spector aims to boost World Cup credentials". ESPN FC. Retrieved May 17, 2015. Archived from the original on May 15, 2010.
  857. "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."
  858. "An XL model mixes up the WWE stars". Sport1. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  859. Jericho, Chris. "TIJ – EP168 – Sasha Banks". Talk is Jericho (Podcast). Podcastone. Event occurs at 48:09. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
  860. Sonnenberg (disambiguation) "German for 'sunny hill'"
  861. "Turnen is simply the German word for gymnastics, but the Turner movement has been defined by its compelling combination of physical exercise, cultural activity, and civic engagement. The German-American group played a leading role in the public life of Milwaukee, especially in the late nineteenth century."
  862. "Ancestry of Dale Earnhardt Jr".
  863. "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."
  864. "Recorded in several forms including Fogt, Foit, Vogt, Vogts, Veogt, Voigt and Voight, this is a German surname, but of pre 5th century Roman (Latin) origins. It derives from the ancient word "advocatus.""
  865. "Hans Halberstadt at the 1928 Olympics," West Coast Fencing Archive.
  866. "Both of Harry Greb's parents came from German families ..."
  867. "Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel was the first of two children born to Robert E. and Ann Keough "Zippy" Knievel. His surname is of German origin; his great-great-grandparents on his father's side emigrated to the United States from Germany and on his mother's side from Ireland."
  868. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-12-05. Retrieved 2008-03-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) "Knievel"
  869. "Niebrugge Name Meaning & Niebrugge Family History at Ancestry.com®". www.ancestry.com. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  870. "michael phelps". ancestry.com. Archived from the original on 2012-08-08. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
  871. "Schnoor Family Crest and History". Houseofnames.com. 2012-09-25. Retrieved 2014-05-22.
  872. "The Wanderones were German-Swiss"
  873. "Von Zedtwitz, Waldemar" Archived 2014-05-31 at the Wayback Machine. Hall of Fame. ACBL. Retrieved 2014-12-04.
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