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German Americans is a ethnic group of American citizens of German ancestry. According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2013 there were 46 million Americans who claimed some German ancestry. In parts of the Northern United States they outnumber any other ethnic groups. In Wisconsin, for example, 41% of the population is German-American. They are the largest ethnic group in the United States.


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  • Carl-Schurz

    Carl Schurz was the first German born US Senator (Missouri, 1868) and later US Secretary of the Interior

  • German population 1872

    German population density in the United States, 1872

  • Germans-emigrate-1874

    "From the Old to the New World" shows German emigrants boarding a steamer in Hamburg, to New York. Harper's Weekly, (New York) November 7, 1874

  • WahrenbergerHouseAustinTX

    The Wahrenberger House in Austin served as a German-American school.

  • Volga-Germans-US

    Temporary quarters for Volga Germans in central Kansas, 1875

  • Germans1900

    The German vote in 1900 was in doubt; they opposed the "repudiation" policy of Bryan (right poster), but also disliked the overseas expansion McKinley had delivered (left poster)

  • Hugo Munsterberg

    Hugo Münsterberg, Harvard professor of psychology

  • Marlene Dietrich ww2 47

    Marlene Dietrich signing a soldier's cast (Belgium, 1944)

  • New ulm police

    Parking meter checker stands by his police vehicle which is imprinted with the German word for police (Polizei). It is part of the town's highlighting its German ethnic origins. New Ulm, Minnesota, July 1974.

  • Distribution of Americans claiming German Ancestry by county in 2018

    Distribution of Americans claiming German Ancestry by county in 2018

  • MONUMENT AND STATUE OF HERMANN-ARMINIUS, GERMAN PATRIOT WHICH WAS ERECTED IN NEW ULM, MINNESOTA, IN 1888. THE TOWN... - NARA - 558113

    The Hermann Heights Monument in New Ulm, Minnesota. Erected by the Sons of Hermann, it is the 3rd largest copper statue in the United States after the Statue of Liberty and Portlandia. Historians have regarded Hermann's victory over Roman troops in 9 CE as Rome's greatest defeat, and in the 19th century he became a symbol of unity for German immigrants facing anti-German sentiment in the United States

  • Bundesarchiv Bild 137-005795, Deutsche Zeitungen in Nordamerika

    German newspapers in North America, 1922

  • US census map of Lutheran churches - 1850

    This 1850 census map shows the Lutheran population. Nearly all were German, since few Scandinavians had arrived yet.

  • Anastasy Vonsyatsky marching with the German American Bund

    Anastasy Vonsyatsky marching with the German American Bund in 1939

  • WWIHunNatlArchives

    American wartime propaganda depicted the bloodthirsty German "Hun" soldier as an enemy of civilization, with his eyes on America from across the Atlantic

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