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Relatively few place names in the United States have names of German origin, unlike Spanish or French names. Many of the German town names are in the Midwest, due to high German settlement in the 1800s. Many of the names in New York and Pennsylvania originated with the German Palatines (called Pennsylvania Dutch), who immigrated in the 18th ...
Alger Hiss – American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, original surname of "Hesse" [472] Jimmy Hoffa – labor union leader and author [473] J. Edgar Hoover – first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Lena Kleinschmidt – jewel thief; Fritz Kuhn – German American ...
This is a list of US places named after non-US places. In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent : cities , towns , villages , hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities , boroughs , townships , civil parishes, localities, census-designated places , and some districts.
Here are 100 German girl names, from Anselma to Heidi. ... One example of a prominent German-American female figure with a German girl name is Heidi Klum. In Germany, it’s a tradition for a ...
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
Many German-American families anglicized their names (e.g. from Schmidt to Smith, Schneider to Taylor, Müller to Miller), and German nearly disappeared in public in many cities. In the countryside, the presence became quieter but persevered particularly in regions of many Germans.
Questions of German American loyalty increased due to events like the German bombing of Black Tom island [98] and the U.S. entering World War I, many German Americans were arrested for refusing allegiance to the U.S. [99] War hysteria led to the removal of German names in public, names of things such as streets, [100] and businesses. [101]
The most common name among black Americans was Williams and the most common name among Asian Americans was Nguyen. The name Wilson was 10th in the 2000 census but was replaced by Martinez in 2010. The names Garcia and Rodriguez had previously entered the top ten in the 2000 Census, replacing Taylor and Moore. [12]