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Texan Silesians. German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃʔameʁɪˌkaːnɐ]) are Americans who have full or partial German ancestry. According to the United States Census Bureau 's figures from 2022, German Americans make up roughly 41 million people in the US, which is approximately 12% of the population. [7]
Robert Siodmak – director [ 439 ] Wim Wenders – film director [ 440 ] William Wyler – film director [ 441 ] Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. – Broadway impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld Follies [ 442 ] George Lucas -director, founder of Lucasfilm, of German and Swiss-German descent.
American German. Over 50 million Americans claim German ancestry, which makes them the largest single claimed ancestry group in the United States. Around 1.06 million people in the United States speak the German language at home. [6] It is the second most spoken language in North Dakota (1.39% of its population) [7] and is the third most spoken ...
German American journalism includes newspapers, magazines, and the newer media, with coverage of the reporters, editors, commentators, producers and other key personnel. . The German Americans were thoroughly assimilated by the 1920s, and German language publications one by one closed down for lack of read
People of German ancestry fought on both sides in the American Revolution. Many of the small German states in Europe supported the British. King George III of Britain was simultaneously the ruler of the German state of Hanover. Around 30,000 Germans fought for the British during the war, around 25% of British land forces. [1]
German American Bund parade on East 86th St., New York City, October 30, 1937. On March 19, 1936, the German American Bund was established as a follow-up organization for the Friends of New Germany in Buffalo, New York. [7][18] The Bund elected a German-born American citizen Fritz Julius Kuhn as its leader (Bundesführer). [19]
German Americans in the American Civil War. German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War [citation needed]. More than 200,000 native-born Germans, along with another 250,000 1st-generation German-Americans, served in the Union Army, notably from New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.
In the 2020 United States census, English Americans (46.5 million), German Americans (45 million), Irish Americans (38.6 million), Italian Americans (16.8 million) and Polish Americans (8.6 million) were the five largest self-reported European ancestry groups in the United States. [7]