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Einwanderer
Famous German-Speaking Immigarants
26
Language - German
11th Grade
01/25/2012

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John Peter Zenger
Definition
Wrote against the colonial governor of New York, fought for freedom of the press
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Wernher von Braun
Definition
Rocket scientist and Nazi supporter who was brought to the US in Operation Paperclip
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General von Steuben
Definition
Prussian general who came to lead the colonists in the American Revolution
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Thomas Nast
Definition
Cartoonist - exposed boss Tweed
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John Jacob Astor
Definition
Immigrated 1784
Beaver Pelts - established American Fur Company
First American millionaire
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Levi Strauss
Definition
Immigrated 1879
made jeans
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Balthasar Andreas Kapp
Definition
neben Wiesban -> New Orleans
1850s
wirtschaftliche Grunden
fought for North in Civil War
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Dirk Nowitzki
Definition
Basketball player
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Francis Daniel Pastorius
Definition
founded Germantown, PA - first German settlement

late 1600s
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Emil Brach
Definition
Brach's House of Sweets
1900
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Fritz Lang
Definition
Jewish film director
immigrated in 1930s
Metropolis and M
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Heidi Klum
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model
immigrated in 1990s
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Henry Steinway (Heinrich Steinweg)
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Came because of the 1848 rebellions
made pianos
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Balthasar Heinrich Succop (Willie)
Definition
Deutschland -> Baltimore -> Pittsburg
1830s
wirtschaftlichen Grunden
merchant taylor
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Adolphus Busch
Definition
Deutschland -> St. Louis
1857
Started Budweiser
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John Jacob Bausch und Henry Lomb
Definition
Wurtenburg u. Birgham -> NYC
1850s
wirtschaftlichen Grunden
sie machten Brillen
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George Ellwanger
Definition
Gave Rochester Highland Park
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Max Ernst
Definition
artist - Dadaismus
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Marlene Dietrich
Definition
moralische Shauspielerin des 2WKs
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John Roebling
Definition
Brooklyn Bridge
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Jakob Hau
Definition
the first German immigrant in Rochester
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Henry Kissinger
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Foreign minister under Nixon and winner of the Nobel prize
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Hedy Lamarr
Definition
Actress who invented military technology for the US
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Walter Gropius
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Designed Bauhaus
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Vincent Bach (Vincenz Schrottenbach)
Definition
made trumpets, trombones, and mouthpieces
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Albert Einstein
Definition
Famous scientist, developed Theory of Relativity, was Jewish and left Germany because of the Nazis
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