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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European Americans
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| Central Europe |
- Austrian1
- Czech
- German1
- Hungarian
- Liechtensteiner
- Luxembourgian
- Polish1
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Sorbian
- Swiss
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| Eastern Europe |
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Northern Europe
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- Estonian
- Finnish
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Scandinavian
- Danish
- Icelandic
- Norwegian
- Norwegian Dakotan
- Norwegian Minnesotan
- Sami
- Swedish
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| Southeast Europe3 |
- Albanian
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Croatian
- Cypriot
- Greek
- Macedonian
- Moldovan
- Montenegrin
- Romanian
- Serbian
- Turkish4
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| Southern Europe |
- Italian
- Maltese
- Portuguese
- Sanmarinese
- Spanish
- Asturian
- Basque
- Canarian
- Catalan
- Galician
- Hispano
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1 Poles came to the United States legally as Austrians, Germans, Prussians or Russians throughout the 19th century, because from 1772-1795 till 1918, all Polish lands had been partitioned between imperial Austria, Prussia (a protoplast of Germany) and Russia until Poland regained its sovereignty in the wake of World War I.
2 Russia is a transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The vast majority of its population (80%) lives in European Russia, therefore Russia as a whole is included as a European country here.
3 Yugoslav Americans are the American people from the former Yugoslavia.
4 Turkey is a transcontinental country in the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Has a small part of its territory (3%) in Southeast Europe called Turkish Thrace.
5 Azerbaijan and Georgia are transcontinental countries. They have a small part of their territories in the European part of the Caucasus.
6 Kazakhstan is technically a bicontinental country, having a small portion in European hands.
7 Disputed; Jews and Roma both have recognised origins and historic ties to Asia ( the Levant and Northern India respectively), but individual groups listed here experienced at least some distinctive identity development while in diaspora among Europeans.
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Images for kids
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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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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)
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Hugo Münsterberg, Harvard professor of psychology
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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 German Americans according to the 2000 Census
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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
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German-American farmer John Meints of Minnesota was tarred and feathered in August 1918 for allegedly not supporting war bond drives.
