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German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃʔameʁɪˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. According to the United States Census Bureau's figures from 2022, German Americans make up roughly 41 million people in the US, which is approximately 12% of the population. [7]
This category includes articles related to the culture and history of German Americans in Pennsylvania The main article for this category is Pennsylvania Dutch . Wikimedia Commons has media related to German diaspora in Pennsylvania .
The German American family descends from Henry Muhlenberg (1711–1787), a German immigrant, influential Lutheran minister, and founder of the first Lutheran synod in America. [2] Noted members of the Muhlenberg family include: Peter Muhlenberg (1746–1807) minister, Continental Army general, U.S. Congressman, U.S. Senator [3]
German-American history (16 C, 278 P) P. ... German Americans; List of German Americans; Pennsylvania Dutch!
The history of Germans in Louisville began in 1817. In that year, a man named August David Ehrich, a master shoe maker born in Königsberg, arrived in Louisville.Ehrich was the first native-born German in Louisville, but as early as 1787, Pennsylvania Dutch (Deutsch) settlers arrived in Jefferson County from Pennsylvania.
The formation of the NGAA was supported by existing state and local German-American organizations, as well as the German-American press. [5] In particular, a state-level umbrella group of German-American organizations in Pennsylvania, the German-American Central Alliance of Pennsylvania (Deutsch-Amerikanischer Zentral-Bund von Pennsylvanien), founded in 1899, provided the impetus for the ...
An early 20th century history about German Americans attested that many Germans were anti-Irish because of their hostility to Roman Catholicism. According to this source, Germans often exhibited an effigy of Saint Patrick on Saint Patrick's Day with a string of potatoes around his neck, and an effigy of his wife Sheeley with an apron loaded ...
This category includes American citizens whose German ancestors had immigrated to the U.S. State of Pennsylvania during a certain period of time. Includes full or partial descent. See: Pennsylvania Dutch