GermanAmericanPioneers.org
Preserving the history of German Pioneers in Silicon Valley, USA.
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