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 was the first German born US Senator (Missouri, 1868) and later US Secretary of the Interior
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German population density in the United States, 1872
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"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
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The Wahrenberger House in Austin served as a German-American school.
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Temporary quarters for Volga Germans in central Kansas, 1875
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Hugo Münsterberg, Harvard professor of psychology
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Marlene Dietrich signing a soldier's cast (Belgium, 1944)
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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.
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Distribution of Americans claiming German Ancestry by county in 2018
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Percentage of Americans claiming German Ancestry by state in 2018
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German newspapers in North America, 1922
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This 1850 census map shows the Lutheran population. Nearly all were German, since few Scandinavians had arrived yet.
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American wartime propaganda depicted the bloodthirsty German "Hun" soldier as an enemy of civilization, with his eyes on America from across the Atlantic
