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Famous German-Americ
Famous German Americans
| Question | Answer |
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| Dankmar Adler | (1844-1900) was a Jewish German-American architect and Civil War hero who worked with Louis Sullivan in Chicago. Born in Eisenach, Germany, Adler came to Detroit in 1854 with his widower father, Liebman Adler. Later the Adlers moved to Chicago. More.. (We |
| Felix Adler | (1851-1933) was a Jewish German-American philosopher, educator, and reformer who first came to America in 1857. His ideas on "ethical culture" and applied ethics asked people to "act so as to elicit the best in others" and oneself. Adler studied in Heidel |
| Josef Albers | (1888-1976) Painter and graphic artist, born in Bottrop, Germany. Associated with the Bauhaus, Albers went to North Carolina's Black Mountain College when the Nazis closed down the Bauhaus in 1933. He later taught design at Yale. Author of Interaction of |
| John Peter Altgeld | (1847-1902) came to the US at the age of three. As a lawyer and a Democratic governor of Illinois, Altgeld was active in prison reform. His defiance of the federal government during the infamous Pullman strike in Chicago ended his political career in 1896 |
| Hannah Arendt | (1906-1975) Jewish German-born writer and political philosopher. She held professorships at Berkeley, Princeton, and Chicago. One of her best-known works was Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951. Her work was heavily influenced by the German phil |
| Fred Astaire | (1899-1988) The famous dancer's real name was Frederick Austerlitz; his father was born in Linz, Austria. WEB > Astaire - German-Hollywood Connection |
| John Jacob Astor | (1763-1848) Born near Heidelberg. Came to America in 1783 and became successful in the fur trade (American Fur Co.) and later in New York real estate and banking. At his death Astor was worth an estimated $25 million. Succeeding generations of Astors adde |
| Melissa Auf der Maur | (1972- ) Canadian-born rock singer whose family comes from Switzerland. WEB > Auf Der Maur - laut.de (Deutsch) and Melissa Auf Der Maur (official site) |
| Walter Johannes Damrosch ( | 1862-1950) German-American conductor and composer born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland). Damrosch was the conductor of the NBC (National Broadcasting Co.) symphony orchestra from 1928 to 1942. His father Leopold and brother Frank were also promin |
| Leonardo DiCaprio | (1974- ) is an American actor with a German mother and an Italian father. He gained attention in What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and then went aboard the Titanic. More recently he portrayed Howard Hughes in The Aviator. WEB > DiCaprio - German-Hollywood Conn |
| Marlene Dietrich | (1901-1992) was a well-known German-American actresss and singer born in Berlin. WEB > Dietrich - German-Hollywood Connection |
| Rudolph Dirks | (1877-1968), the creator of the beloved cartoon strip "The Katzenjammer Kids," was born in Heide, Germany (now in the German state of Schleswig-Holstein), but he moved to Chicago with his parents in 1884 when he was only seven. Rudolph and his brother Gus |
| Everett M. Dirksen | (1896-1969) was a prominent Republican Congressman (1933-1948) and Senator (1951-1969) from Minnesota. Everett McKinley Dirksen was the minority leader of the Senate from 1959-1969. "Dirksen was the son of immigrant parents, part of a big colony of their |
| The Donner Party | (1846-47) was named for George Donner, a German emigrant who had first settled in North Carolina before moving west. In the fall of 1846 the 87 members of the Donner party became trapped in deep snow in the Sierra Nevada range as they made their way to Ca |
| Theodore Dreiser | (1871-1945) was an American novelist and journalist. Theodore Herman Dreiser was born into a German-American family in Terre Haute, Indiana, on August 27, 1871. His parents were Sarah Schanab and Johann Dreiser. His father had emigrated from Mayen, German |
| Kirsten Dunst | (1982- ) is an American actress with a German father and a Swedish mother. She shot to fame in the Spider-Man movies. WEB > Dunst - German-Hollywood Connection |
| Gertrude Ederle | (1905-2003) 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 grandmot |
| Albert Einstein | (1879-1955) was born in Ulm, Württemberg on March 14, 1879. He spent his early formative years in Munich. He and his family later lived in Italy and Switzerland. Einstein published his famous "Special Theory of Relativity" in 1905. The German-American sci |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | (1890-1969) is one of only two American presidents of German extraction. (The other was Herbert Hoover.) After serving as Allied supreme commander in World War II, Eisenhower became the 34th president of the U.S. (1953-1961). On Oct. 14, 1890 in Denison, |
| Roland Emmerich | (1955- ), the German director of Hollywood films including Stargate, Independence Day, Godzilla, The Patriot, and The Day After Tomorrow, was born in Stuttgart. WEB > Emmerich - German-Hollywood Connection |
| Andreas Feininger | (1909-1999) was a German-American photographer and the son of Lyonel Feininger (below). |
| Lyonel Feininger | (1871-1956) was born in New York City to artistic German parents. (His father Karl was a violinist, his mother a singer.) Unlike most German-Americans in this index, Leonell (his real name) Feininger went from the U.S. to Germany and then back. In 1887 he |
| Harvey S. Firestone | (1868-1938) founded the American tire and rubber company that bears his name, but has been owned by the Japanese Bridgestone Corporation since 1988. The Firestone family goes back to German immigrants named Feuerstein. Harvey Firestone's great-great-great |
| August Charles Fruehauf | (1867-1930) was a German-American blacksmith who invented the tractor trailer or semi-trailer (Sattelschlepper in German) in 1914. Four years later he later founded the Fruehauf Trailer Corporation. |
| Clark Gable | (1901-1960) was a German-American actor who appeared in Hollywood film classics from Gone with the Wind to The Misfits. Both Gable's mother (Adeline Hershelman) and father (William H. Gable) had German ancestors (Frankenfield, Hershelman, and Haupt) who h |
| Lou Gehrig | (1903-1941) - Baseball Hall of Fame member, born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig in New York City to German immigrant parents. Both his mother and father were Lutherans born in Germany: Christina Flack in Schleswig-Holstein, Heinrich Gehrig in Baden. They came to |
| Dick Gephardt | (1941- ) was a U.S. congressman from 1977 to 2005. Gephardt made unsuccessful bids to become the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988 and 2004. His father, Lou Gephardt, was the grandson of German immigrants. He farmed family land in Washington, Miss |
| Gustav Goelitz | (1846-1901) was a candy and ice cream merchant whose endeavours led to candy corn and the Jelly Belly candy company. Gustav and his brother Albert arrived in America in 1867. Two years later Gustav bought a confectionery firm in Belleville, Illinois. WEB |
| Stefanie 'Steffi' Graf | (1969- ) was the world's number one woman tennis player in the 1980s and 1990s. She won 22 Grand Slam singles titles. She retired from pro tennis in 1999. Born June 14, 1969 in Mannheim, Germany, Graf learned to play tennis from her father, Peter Graf. On |
| Walter Gropius | (1883-1969) was the founder of the Bauhaus school of architecture and industrial design in Germany (1925), which was housed in Weimar and Dessau before being closed by the Nazi regime in 1933. Gropius came to the the U.S. in 1937 and taught at the Harvard |
| William Hahn | (1829-1887) was a painter born Karl Wilhelm Hahn in Ebersbach, Saxony, Germany on January 7, 1829. After art studies in Germany and some success in Europe, Hahn met the American artist William Keith in Düsseldorf and went to the U.S. in 1871. Hahn soon ha |
| Oscar Hammerstein | (1847-1919), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960) and Oscar Hammerstein III (1905-2003) - The first Oscar Hammerstein was born in Stettin, Pommerania (now part of northern Germany and Poland). He arrived in New York during the Civil War in 1864. Best known as |
| Henry J. Heinz | (1844-1919) was the founder and president of the H. J. Heinz Company (1869, as Heinz Noble & Company) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father, Henry (Heinrich) Heinz, was born in Kahlstadt, Bavaria, and came to America in 1840. In 1843 he married Anna Mar |
| Milton Hershey | (1857-1945) earned his fortune by appealing to people's sweet tooth and love of chocolate. Hershey was born on September 13, 1857, in a farmhouse near Derry Church, Pennsylvania. He was a descendant of immigrants who had come to Pennsylvania from Switzerl |
| Paul Hindemith | (1895-1963), the composer and violinist, was born in and died in Germany, but he lived and worked in the U.S. from 1940 to 1953, and became an American citizen in 1946. After leaving Germany (the Nazis labeled his music "degenerate"), Hindemith taught at |
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