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Other German immigrants who arrived in Puerto Rico to claim the free land that the Spanish government offered under the terms of the Spanish Royal Decree settled in the central mountainous areas of the island in towns such as Adjuntas, Aibonito, Lares, Utuado, San Sebastián and Ciales, among others where their descendants are today.
German immigrants arrived in Puerto Rico from Curaçao and Austria during the early 19th century. Many of these early German immigrants established warehouses and businesses in the coastal towns of Fajardo, Arroyo, Ponce, Mayaguez, Cabo Rojo and Aguadilla. One of the reasons that these businessmen established themselves in the island was that ...
Schomburg was born and spent the majority of his childhood in the town of Santurce in the Captaincy General of Puerto Rico, to Mary Joseph, a freeborn Black midwife from St. Croix in the Danish West Indies, and Carlos Federico Schomburg, a merchant and son of a German immigrant to Puerto Rico.
This category lists articles on Puerto Rican people of German descent (ethnic ancestry or national origin), including naturalized immigrants and their descendants as well as Puerto Rican people born to binational parents.
Puerto Rico remained largely undeveloped and underpopulated until 1830, when a great number of immigrants, many coming from the Spanish provinces of Catalonia, Majorca, the Canary Islands, and many non-Spanish settlers coming from countries in good standing with Spain, like Austria, Ireland, Portugal, Italy and France, began to arrive to Puerto ...
I write as the daughter of German immigrants who survived Nazi Germany and came to America in the early 1950s. My father was conscripted in Germany, at 17 years of age, and fought in the German ...
Puerto Rico portal; Pages in category "German emigrants to Puerto Rico" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.
A comedian told a Trump rally on Sunday that Puerto Rico is "a floating island of garbage." ... The incident echoes the aftermath of Trump spreading a false claim about Haitian immigrants. Puerto ...