Berlitz, Language school
Bierstadt, Painter
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De Caprio, Actor
Follen, Reformer, Teacher
Frankenberg, Kindergarten

 


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Famous German Americans

GAMHOF’ Board of Trustees recently approved a list of prominent German-Americans to be considered for future induction. I have included some of them here.

Abraham, Jacobi, Father of American Pediatry

Albers, Joseph, artist

Altgeld, John Peter, Governor, Illinois, Heymarked

Anheuser and Busch, Brewers

Anneke, Mathilde, Defender of Womens' rights

Astor, John Jacob, was richest man in America

Bausch, John Jacob, Optic

Blatz, Valentine, Brewer

Braeden, Eric, actor

Bruno, Walter, conductor

Berliner, Emile, Inventor

Berlitz, Maximillian,language school

Boeing, E. William, Airplane manufacturer

Boehler, Peter, Moravian Biship

Boas, Franz, Anthropologist

Bierstadt, Albert, painter

Bullock, Sandra,actress

Chrysler, Walte, automobile manufacturer

Cluss, Adolf, Architect in Washington DC

Coors, Adolph, Brewer

de Caprio, Leonardo, actor

Day, Doris, actress

Dietrich, Marlene, actress

Damrosch, Walter, conducter

Donner, Georg/ Jacob. Donner Party

Erdrich, Louise, writer

Follen, Carl, reformer

Foss, Lucas, composer

Frankenberg, Louise, Kindergarten

Frank, Dennis, actor

Gebel, Gunther William, Animal trainer

Gropius, Walter, architet

Grosz, George, artist

Hammerstein, Oscar,Poet, Ame.Musicals

Harnishfeger, Henry, Industrialist

Hecker, Friedric, Revolutionary

Heinz, Henry John, Ketchup

Hillebrand, William,Physician in Hawaii

Hindemith, Paul, composer, conductor

Hoan, Daniel Webster, Milwaukee Sociolist Mayor

Kade, Max,Philanthropist, German-American Stusies

Kay, John, Bandleader, Steppenwolf

Klemperer, Otto, Conductor, Composer

Klum, Heidi, Model

Lang, Fritz, Movie director

Leisler, Jacob, English revolustion1688

Lieber, Francis, Political scientist

Lubitch, Ernst, Film director

Mann, Thomas, novelist

Mencken, H.L.Newspaper man

Muehlenberg, Peter,clergyman, soldier, politician

Nast, Thomas, Newspaper cartoonist

Nimitz,Chester Williams, Admiral

Ottendorfer, Anna,Publisher,

Peterson, Wolfgand, Movie director

Pitcher, Molly, Heroine

Prang, Louis, created first Christmas card

Preminger, Otto, Movie director

Presley, Elvis, singer, entertainer

Pulitzer, Joseph, Journalist

Remarque, Erich Maria, Novelist

Roebling, John August,Bridge Builder and more

Rohe van der, Ludwig, Architect

Rudolph, Arthur, Rocket engineer

Sour, Christopher, Printer

Schulz, Charles, caroonist

Schurz, Karl,most prominent German-American

Schmitz, Bruno, build huge monuments in Ger./Amer.

Schwarzkoph, Elisabeth, Singer

Stauss, Joseph, chief architect of Golden Gate

Steinway, Engelhard, Piano builder

Strauss, Levi, invented the Blue jean

Meyer, Margarethe, first Kindergarten in USA

von Steuben, General in the Revolutionary War

Wagner, F Robert, Senator, Union organizer.

Weil, Kurt, composer

Weissmueller,Johny, actor, Tarzan

Weyerhaeuser,Friederik, saw-and paper factories

Welk, Lawrence, big band leader

Zenger, Peter, defender of Freedom of the Press

 

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