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“Bilder aus Louisiana.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 6, June 1877, pp. 281-84.
Part one of a three-part article. Begins: “Wenn der Nordländer, welcher den unteren Süden noch nie gesehen, plötzlich einige Meilen unterhalb New-Orleans versetzt würde, so würde nicht blos der Mund, sondern auch die Augen ganz herzhaft fragen: ‘Wo bin ich denn eigentlich angekommen? Ist dieser herrliche Strom, dieser unvergleichliche Pflanzenwuchs, der die ganze Natur erfüllende Wohlgeruch nicht Ueberbleibsel vom alten Paradise?'”
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Bilder aus Louisiana. II.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 7, July 1877, pp. 369-70.
Part two of a three-part article. Sections include: “Die Gründung und Geschichte von New-Orleans”; “Die Einführung der Sklaverei und des gelben Fiebers”; “Nicht zwei Uebel, sondern zwei grosse Wohlthaten auf einem Schiff”; “Kälte und Feuersnoth”; Louisiana wird von Napoleon an die Ver. Staaten verkauft”; and “Das gegenwärtige New-Orleans.”
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Bilder aus Louisiana. III.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 8, Aug. 1877, pp. 415-18.
Part three of a three-part article. Sections include: “Grösse und Bevölkerung der Stadt,” Oeffentliche Anlagen und historische Plätze,” “Das kirchliche Leben,” “Klimatische Verhältnisse,” “Die politische Lage,” “Handel und Produkte,” “Das Volk als ein Ganzes.” Concludes: “Willst du, mein freundlicher Leser, New-Orleans je besuche, so gehe im November. . . Die Sonnenhitze ist vorüber und hat einer angenehmen Wärme Platz gemacht; die Flora ist in ihrem besten Zustand, und die goldenen Orangen sind wahrhaft köstlich, wenn man dieselben mit eigener Hand pflücken kann.”
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Chronik der Gegenwart. Brigham Young.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 11, Nov. 1877, pp. 612-13.
“Brigham Young, der vielgennante Prophet und — fast möcht ich sagen — Selbstherrscher aller Mormonen, ist am 29. August plötzlich an der cholera morbus verschieden.”
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Chronik der Gegenwart. Der amerikanische Schwarzwald.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 8, Aug. 1877, pp. 447.
“Der amerikanische Schwarzwald ist also dennoch trotz allem das neue Goldland Amerikas. So sagt wenigstens der Bericht des Gouverneurs von Wyoming Territorium — Herr Thayer, und man sollte doch meinen, dass ein Gouverneur seinen Namen unter kein Dokument setzt, von dessen Inhalt er nicht überzeugt, dass derselbe wahr ist. . . . Trotzdem werden manche in dem goldenen und fast schattenfreien Licht, bei dem er zeichnet, den Anhaltspunkt zu der Voraussetzung finden, dass Gouverneur Thayer entweder ein befangener Enthusiast, oder dass finstere Hintergedanken ihm die Feder in die Hand drückten.”
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Chronik der Gegenwart. General Grant erfreut sich mit seiner Familie in England.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 8, Aug. 1877, pp. 445.
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Chronik der Gegenwart. Hand in Hand.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 12, Dec. 1877, pp. 666.
Brief news item, beginning: “Hand in Hand mit bedeutenden südlichen Politikern, die für die Sklavenhalter-Conföderation gar wacker d’rein schlugen, wandelte Präsident Hayes durch den sonnigen Süden.”
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Chronik der Gegenwart. Ist Präsident Hayes auf richtiger Bahn?” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 7, July 1877, pp. 391.
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Chronik der Gegenwart. Unser Marine und Navigations-Gesetze.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 8, Aug. 1877, pp. 446-47.
“Wenn etwas an uns Amerikanern elend und wahrhaft jämmerlich ist, wenn wir uns über etwas zu schämen haben, so ist dies unsere Flotte und unsere Schifffahrtsgesetze.”
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Die Delaware-Enge in den blauen Bergen.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 6, June 1877, pp. 301-5, ill.
Describes a trip from New York to the Delaware Water Gap on the border of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
Langbein, Paul. Christliches Vergissmeinnicht in Spruch und Lied für alle Tage des Jahres. New York, N.Y.; Lahr (Baden): Kaufmann, n.d. 384 pp., col. ill.
On title page: Ausgewahlt von Paul Langbein, Pfarrer in Dettlingen a. E.; on t.p. verso: Printed in Germany; inscribed Rudolf Rautmann. . . 1913-1914; inscribed p. 82 (16. Maerz): Ella Rautmann 1896; donated by Sheboygan County Historical Research Center.
“Longfellow’s Psalm des Lebens.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 5, May 1877, pp. 256.
German translation of Longfellow’s “A Psalm of Life.”
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Mardi gras, oder: Ein Carneval im Süden.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 5, May 1877, pp. 235-37.
Describes Mardi Gras in Galveston, Texas.
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Ein Menschenfreund.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 11, Nov. 1877, pp. 565-70, ill.
Biographical sketch of George Peabody, a dry goods merchant and philanthropist in the northern United States, founder of the Peabody Institute.
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
[Nysingh, Johann.] “Ein altes deutsch-amerikanisches Dokument.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 10, Oct. 1877, pp. 537-38.
“In dem Nachstehenden geben wir ein Stück des ältesten in Amerika in deutscher Sprache abgefassten öffentlichen Schreibens. Dasselbe ist um so merkwürdiger, als es von einem Schweden eigenhändig geschrieben und an einem Holländer adressirt ist. Dasselbe befindet sich in den Staatsarchiven New Yorks und ist eine Entgegnung auf Stuyvesant’s Protest wegen Nysingh’s Benehmen in New Amsterdam.”
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
Rampelmeier, Anastasius. “Die ‘Westkönigin’.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 1877, pp. 5-12, ill.
Describes a trip to Cincinnati. Begins: “Wir, das heist ich und mein Reisekamerad, fuhren auf der ‘Kentucky Centralbahn’ in so mässiger Geschwindheit, dass die Unterhaltung ohne grosse Anstrengung geführt werden konnte. Was wir mit einander plauderten, als der Zug sich dem Ohiothal und Cincinnati näherte, dazu brauch ich nur anzudeuten, dass mein Reisegefährte in Chicago daheim ist, ich aber in Ohio.”
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
———. “Draussen vor der Westkönigin.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 2, Feb. 1877, pp. 73-76, ill.
Describes a trip in the Cincinnati area, including Mount Auburn and Spring Grove.
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
Romberg, Johannes. Gedichte. Dresden, Leipzig: E. Pierson, 1900. xx, 294 pp., frontispiece.
German-American author; from Ward: b. 1808 in Alt-Bukow, Mecklenburg, d. 1891 in his home on the San Bernard River in Texas. Came to America in 1847. Lived an independent pioneer life in Galveston and later in Fayette County, Texas (Black Jack Creek). On title page: Mit dem Bilde des Verfassers. Vorwort signed Alfred Wagner, Black Jack Springs, Fayette Co, Texas, Juni 1899. Book is in poor condition. Inscribed to Glenn Gilbert as “a gift from Annie Romberg, the granddaughter of the author, Austin, Texas, Spring 1964.”
Includes Biographische Skizze by Alfred Wagner. Among the poems are: “Wahl eines Hausplatzes,” “Am Rio Colorado,” “Die Deutschen,” “Auswanderer,” “Bacchus und die Prohibition,” “Der Winter in Texas,” “Pressfreiheit und Pressfrechheit,” “Nordwind in Texas,” and “An Deutschland.”
Donated by Glenn Gilbert, 2006.
“Rutherford B. Hayes, Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 7, July 1877, pp. 348-50, ill.
Biographical sketch.
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Das Telephon.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 7, July 1877, pp. 367-69.
Begins: “Vielfach klingt dieses Wort an user Ohr und es scheint uns an der Zeit, unseren Lesern Einiges über den Gegenstand mitzuteilen. Dieser neue Apparat is zwar nicht — wie vielfach behauptet — ein Erzeugniss der unmittelbaren Vergangenheit, sondern ein Produkt der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte.”
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
“Urtheil eines Amerikaners über die deutsche Sprache.” Haus und Herd. Eine Monatsschrift für die Familie und Sonntagschule, vol. 5, no. 1, Jan. 1877, pp. 50.
“Sehr selten vernimmt man von einem Amerikaner ein anerkennedes und wohl begründetes Urtheil über den Werth und die Bedeutung der deutschen Sprache. Neuerdings aber ist von dem Herausgeber des Journal of Education, Hrn. Searing, einem Manne von anerkannter Gelehrsamkeit, ein solches offen und ehrlich ausgesprochen worden.” Provides a portion of the text of Searing’s article.
Donated by the Mayville (Wis.) Historical Society.
Bungert, Heike, Cora Lee Kluge, and Robert C. Ostergren, eds. Wisconsin German Land and Life. Madison, Wis.: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2006. xxv, 260 pp., ill., maps.
The result of a cooperative project by a group of German and American scholars, this volume represents an innovative approach to immigration research. The focus is on migrants from farming communities along the Rhine who relocated to Wisconsin in the nineteenth century: from the Westerwald to Reeseville; from the Cologne area to Cross Plains; from the Eifel to the so-called Holyland in Fond du Lac and Calumet counties; and from Rhine Hesse to Washington and Sheboygan counties. The authors of each essay take unique approaches to reveal the migrants’ relationship to the land, utilizing official records on both sides of the Atlantic, such as census and family records, land registers, plat maps, and land surveys. The broad picture presented here includes the migrants’ situation in their original home, the migration process itself, and their experience in Wisconsin. The first section, “The Premigration Situation,” includes “‘Aus dem Wiedischen Land’: Emigration from the Westerwald to Wisconsin,” by Anke Ortlepp; “Before Cross Plains: The Immigrants from the Cologne Bay,” by Ulrich Sänger; and “Using Archival Resources in Germany for Research Focused on Emigration from the Rhineland in the Nineteenth Century,” by Ute Langer. The second section, “The Migration Process,” includes “A Geographical Perspective on Nineteenth-Century German Immigration to Wisconsin,” by Timothy Bawden; “The Wisconsin Commissioner of Emigration 1852-1855: An Experiment in Social and Economic Engineering and Its Impact on German Immigration to Wisconsin,” by Johannes Strohschänk and William G. Thiel; “The Story of German Settlement in the Forests and on the Prairies of Wisconsin,” by Scott A. Moranda; and “Truthful Letters and Irresistible Wanderlust: The Emigration from Rhenish Hesse to Wisconsin,” by Helmut Schmahl. The third section, “The Experience with the Land in Wisconsin,” includes “‘Farm, so heißt in Amerika ein Gut’: Land and Agriculture in a Westerwald Settlement in Wisconsin,” by Kevin Neuberger; “The Borders of the Holyland of East-Central Wisconsin,” by M. Beth Schlemper; and “Agriculture in the New World: A Comparative analysis of Rhenish Prussians and Other Immigrant Groups in Cross Plains, Wisconsin,” by Suzanne Townley. The final article is “A Transcontinental Regional Perspective on Migration: A Concluding work,” by Cora Lee Kluge and Joseph C. Salmons.
Camann, Eugene. “Prussian Immigration to the Buffalo, New York Area, 1844-1847.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben (Germantown, WI.), Sept. 2006, pp. 3-4.
Listing names (family, given, and maiden), ages, place of origin, and year of emigration. Places of origin include Alt-Glietzen, Alt Rudnitz, Bergholz, Boock, Bruessow, Cremzow, Eickstedt, Fahrenwalde, Fitze, Frauenhagen, Gramzow, Greifenberg, Grimme, Gross-Wubiser, Lietze-Goericke, Loecknitz, Meichow, Menkin, Mewegen, Neuenhagen, Ploewen, Prenzlau, Retzin, Rossow, Schwaneberg, Schwedt, Strasburg, Wallmow, and Wollin.
Carpenter, Ingeborg. “A True Story of St. Nikolaus Eve in East Frisia.” Pommerscher Verein Freistadt Rundschreiben, Dec. 2006, pp. 4-5, ill.
Germantown, WI. Reprinted from the Ostfrisien “Neues Blatt” with permission from the editor, Lilian Marks.
Remembrance of a visit by Saint Nikolaus and Knecht Ruprecht.
Clark, Erin. “Using the Internet to Find Parish Offices: An Answer to the ‘Where to Write’ Problem.” Der Blumenbaum (Sacramento German Genealogy Society), vol. 24, no. 1, Jul./Aug./Sept. 2006, pp. 16-23..
Provides an annotated listing of provincial Websites for Evangelical Lutheran and Catholic churches in Germany.
De Vos, Julius, and James E. Feuge. “Hilda United Methodist Church Sesquicentennial Celebration.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 202.
“In 1856 the Reverend C. A. Grote organized sixty-three men and women [all German immigrants or children of German immigrants] into the Llano River Valley Circuit, Rio Grande Conference, Methodist Episcopal Church, South. . . . The congregations were located in Pleuweville (now Castell), Lower Willow Creek, Upper Willow Creek (now Art), Beaver Creek (now Hilda), Simonsville (now Grossville), Little Saline and New Canaan.”
Demerath III, N. J., and Victor Thiessen. “On Spitting against the Wind: Organizational Precariousness and American Irreligion.” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 71, no. 6, May 1966, pp. 674-87.
From the abstract: This is an analysis of a small-town Wisconsin free-thought movement [Freie Gemeinde of Sauk City] and its response to organizational dilemmas arising out of its irreligion. More particularly, it is an analysis of organizational demise. The study isolates a number of variables which help to account for the movement’s history. Several relate to the community context such as vertical and horizontal differentiation. Others concern characteristics of the organization itself, including the social status of the membership, problems of leadership and charisma, the difficulties posed by negative values and goallessness, and the irreconcilability of commitment and recruitment. In each of these respects, the freethinkers offer a distinctive perspective and new propositions for both the sociology of religion and the wider study of organizational dynamics.
Feuge, James. “The Brandenberger Ranch Home: A Pioneer Family Legacy.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 209-15, ill.
Describes a home in Mason County, Texas. “Gottlieb Brandenberger, the founder of the extensive Brandenberger ranch holdings, was born in Switzerland in 1825 and migrated to Indiana with his brother Fritz in 1848.”
———. “Hilda United Methodist Church.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 238-43, ill.
“Pioneering Germans established the congregation in 1856 and built their first church building in 1862 out of the native reddish-brown sandstone.” Includes images of the churchgrounds and buildings with captions.
———. “Hilda, Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 203-6.
Provides information on the colonization of the Beaver Creek/Hilda (Mason County), Texas, area. “Gottlieb Brandenberger, a Swiss, moved to the Beaver Creek area and purchased property in 1855. . . Fritz Kneese, brother-in-law of Brandenberger, settled in the same area at the same time.” Other names mentioned are: Eckert, Anderegg, Ellebracht, Lehmberg, Geistweidt, Woerner, and Schulze.
Gerber, David A. “‘The Germans Take Care of Our Celebrations’: Middle-Class Americans Appropriate German Ethnic Culture in Buffalo in the 1850s.” Hard at Play: Leisure in America, 1840-1940. Kathryn Grover, ed. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press; Rochester, NY: Strong Museum, 1992, pp. 39-60, ill.
Includes bibliographical notes.
Examines how the large influx of Germans into Buffal deeply influenced American recreation, noting that the series of German festivals (such as the 1854 and 1858 Turnfeste, the 1860 Lagerbier Fest, and the annual St. John’s Day Feste) enjoyed substantial American attendance. Also examines Americans’ views on the consumption of beer among Germans.
Heitzer, Art. “Hitler Ordered Death of Mildred Fish Harnack: The Milwaukee Native Was the Only American Woman Executed for Being a Member of the Resistance in Nazi Germany in World War II.” Perspektiven (Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.), vol. 5, no. 4, Fall 2006, pp. 6-7, ill.
Mildred Fish (1902-1943) was of English ancestry, but grew up in the heavily German immigrant west side of Milwaukee. She married Arvid Harnack, a German lawyer and economist, and went to Germany with him when he returned in 1929. Both began working for one of the most significant early resistance groups inside the Third Reich. She and her husband were arrested in late 1942; her husband was executed shortly thereafter for treason, and Mildred was at first imprisoned, but later re-tried and sentenced to death in 1943.
Kita, Terry. “Koeppel and Multerer Families in Bavaria.” Germanic Genealogy Journal, vol. 9, no. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 10-13, ill.
Recounts the author’s search for the birthplaces of “my Germanic great-great-grandparents, Johann Koeppel and Catherine Multerer Koeppel. In 1854, they immigrated separately to Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where they married and settled.” With the assistance of individuals in Bavaria, the author discovered his ancestors had come from Haselmühle, near Hohenwart.
Knopp, Kenn. “Friedrichsburg: Seine Zukunft und Schicksal = Fredericksburg: Its Future and Destiny. Part 3: Higher Education Began Early in Friedrichsburg.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 341-49.
Includes bibliographical notes.
Section headings: Rev. Alto Sebastian Hoermann, O. S. B. (1829-1867). The Founding of the Catholic College of Texas in Freidrichsburg — The Founding of the Catholic Parish in Friedrichsburg — The Travail of the Civil War Period — The Benedictine Years in Friedrichsburg — The Catholic College of Texas and the Benedictine Monastery and Seminary of Friedrichsburg — Some of the Known Writings of Father Hoermann — Fredericksburg College Opened by the Methodists in 1876 — St. Anthony’s College Opened in 1909 — Community Colleges Began Offering Courses in 1971 — The Hill Country Higher Education Steering Committee — Texas Tech University-Fredericksburg Established in 2002 — City of Fredericksburg Offers Land for the Texas Tech Campus
———. “The Situation in Germany and in Texas 1840-1860. Julius Theodor Splittgerber (1819-1897): A Prussian Militarist Becomes a First Founder of Fredericksburg, Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 337-40.
Includes bibliographical notes.
Sections headings: Splittgerber Reports to Baron Meusebach instead of Prince Solms — The Gruelling Effects of the Civil War, Especially on the Splittgerbers — The Present Day Descendants
Konnak, Sally. Toward Understanding the Founders of the Freie Gemeinde of Sauk County (307 Polk Street, Sauk County, Wisconsin). Spring Green, Wis.: the author, 2006. [68] pp.
Contents: The 1848 German Revolution (summaries of Friedrich Engels’ The German Revolutionaries and Theodore S. Hamerow’s Restoration, Revolution, Reaction); German Immigrant History: An Overview (summaries of LaVern Rippley’s The German-Americans and The Immigrant Experience in Wisconsin); Freie Gemeinde of Sauk County, Wisconsin: List of Founders. Includes references.
Donated by Sally Konnak.
Kreis, Karl Markus, ed. Ein deutscher Missionar bei den Sioux-Indianern. Der Sprachforscher, Ethnologe und Sammler Eugen Büchel / Eugene Buechel (1874-1954): Materialien zu Leben und Werk. Ergebnisse aus Forschung und Entwicklung, Nr. 19. Dortmund: Fachhochschule Dortmund, [2004]. 107 pp., ill.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: Part 1: Leben und Werk. “‘Wanbli Sapa,’ der ‘Indianerpater’ aus der Rhön,” by Karl Markus Kreis — “Pater Eugen Buechel SJ / Father Eugene Buechel, S.J. Lebensdaten,” by Josef Buechel and K. M. Kreis — “‘Die Menschen mochten ihn.’ Aussagen über Person und Werk,” by K. M. Kreis — “Der Missionar als Wegbereiter des interkulturellen Austauschs,” by K. M. Kreis — “Eugene Buechels ethnologische Sammlung,” by Raymond A. Bucko SJ — “Schwarzer Adler über die Sioux-Grammatik,” by William J. Moore SJ — “Fotografien von Rosebud und Pine Ridge, 1922-1942. Einführung zur Fotoausstellung,” by David Wing — Part 2: Texte von Eugene Buechel. “Briefe an Jesuiten in Deutschland”: “Sorge um die katholischen Indianerschulen,” — “Erfolg der Schule. Ein Mädchen mit dem ‘zweiten Gesicht'” — “Alltag eines Superiors” — “Eine neue Indianer-Religion” — “Artikel in amerikanischer Missionszeitschriften”: “St. Patricks-Kirche, Rosebud Reservation” — “Drei grosse alte Männer” — “Der faule Indianer–ein Mythos” — “Alte Indianer sind fest im Glauben” — “Frank Arrowside” — “Ein indianischer Kamillus” — “Weihnachten in den Missionen” — “Arbeiter der elften Stunde” — “Nachdenkliches von einem altgedienten” — “Missionar” — Nachwort: “Deutsche Ordensletue bei den Sioux. Bericht aus einem kaum erforschten Gebiet,” by K. M. Kreis.
Donated by Karl Markus Kreis, 2006.
———. Reaktionen in der deutsch-amerikanischen Presse auf die nationalsozialistischen Judenverfolgungen: “Buffalo Volksfreund” und “Aurora und Christliche Woche,” Buffalo, N.Y. Ergebnisse aus Forschung und Entwicklung, Nr. 17. Dortmund: Fachhochschule Dortmund, [2001]. 68 pp.
Includes bibliographical references.
Section titles are: I. Zur sozialen und politischen Situation bei Beginn der dreissiger Jahre — II. Presseberichte über Judenverfolgungen nach der “Machtergreifung,” Januar-März 1933 — III. Veränderungen zwischen 1933 und 1938 — IV. Presseberichte über Judenverfolgungen bei und nach Novemberpogromen 1938 — V. Fazit und offene Fragen — VI. Literatur — VII. Veröffentlichungen des Autors seit 1995 zu deutsch-amerikanischen und verwandten Themen.
Donated by Karl Markus Kreis, 2006.
Kretzschmar, Angelina Genzer. “Dr. George Ferdinand Herold’s Relationship to the Schmidt, Lauw, and Linbrugger Families in Texas.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 306-9.
“In the 1870 Frelsburg, TX census, Dr. Herold or Harold was 40 years old and from Prussia. He is listed as a farmer and physician. . . . He lived with his wife Anna, who was 50 years old. . . . In the 1880 Frelsburg, TX census, George F. Herhold, 46, from Hesse Cassel is listed with his wife, Anna Herhold, 61, from Oldenburg. Listed as living with them are four orphans, Mathilde Lauw, 13 at school; Julie Lauw, 11 at school; Anna Lauw, 9 at school; and Anna Meyer, 1, orphan. Lauw is spelled Laow. . . . Around 1886, William and Lina Linbrugger and their family moved to Osage, on the north bank of the Colorado River, on a farm belonging to Dr. G. F. Herold. . . . William Schmidt, per his obituary, accepted a position with Dr. G. F. Herold of Frelsburg, TX, who voluntarily offered to defray all of his incidental expenses and pay him a cash bonus of $200 at the end of the year, as a farm manager. . . . This article was written only as a historical source on how Dr. Herold helped the Schmidt, Lauw and Linbrugger families in Texas. I found his name mentioned numerous times in my family history and always as assisting them.”
Kuse, Loretta. Joseph Brucker and the Brucker Ludloff Building. 2 pp.
Printed from the Internet. Folder also includes holdings record from Wisconsin Historical Society for Der Waldbote newspaper.
“Joseph Brucker was a German immigrant who greatly influenced the settlement of Taylor County [Wisconsin]. . . . Joseph Brucker started “Der Waldbote,” a German weekly newspaper. At first it was printed in Milwaukee but later in Medford [Taylor County, Wisconsin]. . . . [Brucker] moved to Chicago in 1892.”
Lässig, Simone, and Cornelia Wilhelm. “German Jews in the United States: A Guide to Research Resources.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 39, Fall 2006, pp. 101-5.
“The GHI is currently working with the Department for Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and the Academic Working Group of the Leo Baeck Institute in Germany to prepare [a guide on the history of German-speaking Jews in the United States].”
Lessoff, Alan, and Christof Mauch, eds. Adolf Cluss, Architect: From Germany to America. GHI Studies in German History. [Washington, D.C.]: Historical Society of Washington, D. C.; [Heilbronn]: Stadtarchiv Heilbronn; New York and Oxford: in association with Berghahn Books, 2005. 184 pp., ill., maps.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Adolf Cluss, born 1825 in Heilbronn, emigrated to the United States in 1848 during the time of the failed revolution in the German states. Until 1858 he was a member of the Communist League with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. In the years after the American Civil War, he became the most influential architect in Washington, D.C., especially known for his model schools and other public buildings.
Lutz, Tom. “The Gruenmettstetters of Town Herman and Sheboygan County.” The Researcher (Newsletter of the Sheboygan County Historical Research Center), vol. 26, no. 6, Aug. 2006, pp. 4-6, ill.
In addition to pioneers from Lippe Detmold who settled [in the summer of 1847] just west of Howards Grove, Sheboygan County was also settled by another group of Germans who “arrived and homesteaded in nearly the same area [also in 1847], settling in Town Herman just east of Ada. . . . These Germans were not Lippers, but Wuerttembergers, and not Protestant, but Catholic. They came from the small hamlet of Gruenmettstetten, on the northeastern edge of the Black Forest, in Germany’s Neckar River valley.” Describes the accomplishments of two Gruenmettstetters, Caspar Pfister and Johann Lutz.
McDade, Thomas M. “Lurid Literature of the Last Century: The Publications of E. E. Barclay.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 80, 1956, pp. 452-64, ill.
E. E. Barclay began publishing in New York in 1841. He moved to Cincinnati about 1846, and then to Philadelphia in 1849. “Many titles were issued in both English and German editions. When this happened, the illustrations bore both English and German captions to make a single plate available for both editions.”
Martin, Mona Kadel. “Schmidt Family Reunions: A Story About a Pioneer German Family in Western Illinois.” Infoblatt (German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa), vol. 11, no. 4, Autumn 2006, pp. 5-8, ill.
“The descendants of Peter (Johann Peter) Schmitt and Elizabeth Katharina Spilger Schmitt gathered every year for a reunion in Weed Park, Muscatine, Iowa . . . beginning in the year 1918. Peter and Elizabeth Schmitt immigrated to America from Bonsweiler, Hesse, Germany (the Odenwald), in 1856, settling in Buffalo Prairie Township, Rock Island County, Illinois.”
Prinz, Merle E. “The Contributions of Carl Schurz, 1829-1906: A Radical, a Fugitive, and a German-American Leader. Part 16. The Senator from Missouri.” Infoblatt (German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa), vol. 11, no. 4, Winter 2006, pp. 15-20, ill.
Riemer, Shirley J. “It Was the ‘Patriots’ vs. the ‘Slackers’: World War I Fear and Hysteria, Anchored, It Seemed, on ‘Liberty Cabbage’.” Der Blumenbaum (Sacramento German Genealogy Society), vol. 24, no. 1, Jul./Aug./Sept. 2006, pp. 28-32, ill.
Discusses “politically correct” name changes for Sauerkraut, German shepherds, dachsunds, and German measles; effects on German-language newspapers; the lynching of Robert Prager, a German coal miner in Collinsville, Illinois; other examples of “war hysteria, terrorism, intimidation”; and seditions laws in America.
Rippley, LaVern J. “One Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Carl Schurz–May 14, 2006.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 27, no. 3, Sept. 2006, pp. 19-23, ill.
Ritter, Gerhard A. “Meinecke’s Proteges: German Emigre Historians between Two Worlds.” Bulletin of the German Historical Institute, no. 39, Fall 2006, pp. 23-38.
Lecture delivered at the GHI on May 15, 2006.
“The basis for this lecture is a new edition of letters from the papers of Friedrich Meinecke, the founder of the history of ideas in Germany. The selected letters illuminate Meinecke’s relationship with those of his students who were forced to emigrate after 1933 and show these students’ close bond with their teacher, to whom they reported about their lives in the United States and about their scholarly plans, and whom they helped after the war by supplying CARE packages and medicines unavailable in Germany. . . . The letters allow us to explore many questions, including the question of German-Jewish identity. The letters throw light on emigration and remigration, on restitution, and on the lives and scholarly development of Meinecke’s students. . . . I have selected Hajo Holborn [1902-1969], Dietrich Gerhard [1896-1985], and Hans Rosenberg [1904-1988] for discussion here because in my opinion they best illustrate the challenge of grappling with life in two worlds.”
Scheibler, Samuel. “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” Perspektiven (Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.), vol. 6, no. 1, Winter 2006-2007, pp. 1, 5-7, ill.
“While marked by all Christians since the 5th century A. D., the special import of [the twelve days of Christmas] arose in pre-Christian Germany and spread gradually throughout Western Europe. This even dozen very distinctive feast days. . . represent a remarkable synthesis of ancient Germanic belief, Christian doctrine, and popular piety.” Discusses cleansing rituals, talking animals, manifestations of “die Frau,” visits by the “raging hosts” in Mecklenburg and Pomerania, and the custom of “lead pouring” as fortune telling.
Schulze, Curtis. “The Hilda Post Office.” The Journal (German-Texan Heritage Society), vol. 28, no. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 206-8.
“The Rev. Gustav Schulze and his third wife, Emma Stiehl Schulze, established the official post office in the Beaver Creek community and named it for the community, but had to rename it ‘Hilda,’ because the name of ‘Beaver Creek’ was already in use. . . . According to the family history book . . . the Schulze family closed the store and post office in 1918, dismantled the buildings and loaded them onto wagons, sold the land, and moved to another community in Mason County named Ten Mile.”
Stoessel, Ed. “‘Lady of Germania ‘ Reborn in Davenport.” Infoblatt (German American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa), vol. 11, no. 4, Autumn 2006, pp. 9, ill.
“An eight foot bronze statue of Lady of Germania was unveiled on August 15, 2006, as the centerpiece of the Centennial Gateway Plaza . . . in Davenport. . . . Lady of Germania will help restore historical significance to the neighborhood and be a reminder of Davenport’s immigrant past.” Includes a photo of the original Lady of Germania, which stood atop a water fountain at the same location beginning in 1876.
Strohschänk, Johannes. William Dunlap und August von Kotzebue: Deutsches Drama in New York um 1800 = William Dunlap and August von Kotzebue: German Drama in New York around 1800. American-German Studies = Deutsch-Amerikanische Studien, 7. Cornelius Sommer, Gale A. Mattox, and William C. McDonald, eds. Stuttgart, Germany: Hans-Dieter Heinz, 1992. vi, 232 pp., ill.
Summary in English. Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-217).
Contents: Einführung, Stand der Forschung, Aufgabenstellung — Die Ursprünge des amerikanischen Theaters — William Dunlap als Direktor des New Yorker Theaters — Kotzebue am Park Street Theatre — Kotzebue in der zeitgenössischen amerikanischen Pressekritik — Ergebnisse der Untersuchung — Literaturverzeichnis — English Summary.
From the English summary: “August von Kotzebue’s [1761-1819] great popularity among readers and theatergoers of his time is due to the tried and proven ingredients of popular literature: sentimentality, suspense, comic relief and sensationalism. . . . The treatment of Kotzebue’s reception in America has been generally quite superficial, seen either from the theater history viewpoint, where his short-lived yet intense success is considered as a curious spike in a statistical curve, or as part of the history of German influence in American culture, usually in a specific locale (Milwaukee, New Orleans, etc.). . . . This study concentrates on New York as the principal port of entry of Kotzebue’s plays as well as their principal stage. . . . its purpose is to describe, delineate and explain the relatively short-lived phenomenon of Kotzebue’s popularity in New York, thus laying the groundwork for further study, namely comparisons between original and English or American adaptations of Kotzebue plays. . . . In Chapter 3, we follow–somewhat critically–the career of William Dunlap, the theater director most responsible for importing Kotzebue to the United States. In the second part of the book, Kotzebue’s reception in New York is chronicled in detail, season by season, and supported by statistical tables, against a background of profound changes in troupe structure and repertoire, which must in part be attributed to Kotzebue’s strong presence at that time (Chapter 4). Chapter 5, then, discussed various types of reviews of Kotzebue’s works by theater critics over roughly the same period of time. This process reveals a certain pattern in public attitude toward Kotzebue and art in general. Chapter 6 summarizes the findings of the study.”
Donated by Johannes Strohschänk, 2006.
“Watertown, Wisconsin Celebrates the 150th Anniversary of the First Kindergarten.” Society for German-American Studies Newsletter, vol. 27, no. 3, Sept. 2006, pp. 17, ill.
“The kindergarten was founded [in 1856] by Margarethe Meyer Schurz, wife of the famous German-American statesman, Carl Schurz.”
Wellauer-Lenius, Maralyn A. “German-Speaking Swiss in Wisconsin.” Perspektiven (Goethe House of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis.), vol. 5, no. 4, Fall 2006, pp. 12-13.
Briefly describes significant settlements of Swiss immigrants in Wisconsin, including: Alma and Tell City, Buffalo County; Town of Ashford, Fond du Lac County; Bangor and Mormon Coulee, La Crosse County; Honey Creek, Sauk County; Brookfield, Waukesha County; and Iola and Scandinavia, Waupaca County.
Zamzow, Don. “Famous Pommerns — August Kickbusch: Pioneer, Settler, First Mayor of Wausau.” Dat Pommersche Blatt (Pommerscher Verein Central Wisconsin), no. 50, Aug./Sept./Oct. 2006, pp. 16-17, ill.
Part two of a biographical profile of August Kickbusch, who helped to develop Marathon County, Wisconsin.
Finkler, Henry P. M., and Adolph Finkler. Erinnerungsblätter von meinem Bruder Henry P. M. Finkler, 1866-1928: Seinem Andenken geweiht, seinen Freunden gewidmet. Darmstadt [Germany]: privately printed by L. C. Wittich’sche Hofbuchdruckerei for Adolph Finkler, Milwaukee, 1929. 81 pp.
“Of this work one hundred copies have been privately printed by L. C. Wittich’sche Hofbuchdruckererei, Darmstadt, for Adolph Finkler, Milwaukee, 1929.” Some pieces in English. Vorwort written by Dr. Curt Baum, Milwaukee, im Juni 1929. Inscribed Lester Seifert, 10 Dec. 1946.
Contents: Princess Padmini — New Discoveries about Queen Thi of Egypt and About the Books of Law of the Old Testament: A Historical Study — Woman’s Part in the Readjustment of Mankind: An Address — Thoughts of a Modern Woman: Who Is She? — All About a Woman’s Heart and That of Man, A New Theory of Life After Death — three poems (Lasse das Wissen, Mahnung, and O Hilf) — Die Alt-Arier und ihr Einfluss — Finis Aryanorum: Eine historische Studie aus Persien — Tadza und der Germane: Eine Historische Studie aus dem alten Ägypten — Castruccio Castracani: Eine geschichtliche Erzählung aus Italien, 1325-1328 — König Tut-Ankh-Amen — Die Königin der Lotosblume: Eine Studie aus Indien.
Voss Family Papers and Documents.
Contents:
Vaccinations-Attest (smallpox) for 2-year-old Hans Voss of St. Annen, dated 1845.
Legal handwritten documents from 1858 and 1900, both stamped Ober Landesgerichtsbezirk Kiel. The 1900 document is addressed “Am den Landemann Herrn Hans Voss in Neuholstein, Rentoul [Rantoul] Potter Calumet Co. Wisc Nordamerike.”
Belag zur Begründung des Klassensteuer-Abgangs in der Ortschaft Coldenbüttel des Veranlagungs-Kreis Eiderstedt, for Hans Voss, dated 1868.
Trau-Schein [marriage certificate] for Anna Reinhold and Hans Greve, 15 Dec. 1867.
Trau-Schein [marriage certificate] for Anna Reinhold and Hans Voss, 16 Jan. 1870.
Taufschein [baptism certificate] for Anna Louise Vosz, born on 28 March 1871 and baptized 10 September 1871. Her parents are Herr Hans Vosz, born in St. Anna, Holstein, Deutschland and his wife Anna neé Reinhold from Bernhusen, Schleswig, Deutschland. The baptism took place in Town Rantoul, Calumet Co., Wisconsin.
Confirmationsschein for Anna Reinholdt; she was confirmed on 23 April 1865 in Town Rhine.
Baptism certificate for Ida Maria Mathilde Voss, born 30 June 1882, baptized 21 November 1882
Baptism certificate for Emma Augusta Margaretha Voss, born 27 April 1886 in Town of Rantoul, Calumet Co., Wis. Baptised 23 May 1886.
Confirmation certificate for Ida Mathilde Voss, born 30 June 1882, confirmed 29 March 1896.
Letter from Chr. Clausen to his uncle, aunt, and cousins, written from Chicago 2 March 1900 on letter head paper which reads: Plattdüttsche Gilde Fritz Reuter, No. 4.
Legal handwritten document dated May 1900, possibly related to the death of Antje Voss of St. Annen, Schleswig Holstein. Mentions the names Detleff Heinrich Voss (St. Annen); Anna Margarethe Jess geb. Voss; Hans Voss (Rentoul [Rantoul] Calumet County, Wisconsin); Carl, Detlef, Claus Clausen (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Hans Peter Christian Clausen (Chicago); Anna Catharina Haack geb. Clausen (Wauwatosa, Wisconsin); Johannes Freidrich Bernhardt Clausen (Chicago); and Fritz Dietrich Clausen (Milwaukee).
Certificate of Award, for Punctuality and Perfect Attendance, awarded 15 March 1904 to Hermuth Voss of School District No. 2, Town of Rantoul and Charleston.
Certificate of Award for having read Adventures of Brownie, awarded 17 Jan. 1906 to Hermuth Voss, grade 4.
Certificate of Award for having read Divided Skates, awarded 25 Oct. 1905, to Hermuth Voss, grade 3.
Certificate of Award for having read Reynard the Fox, awarded 20 April 1906 to Hermuth Voss, grade 4.
Certificate of Award for having read Robinson Crueso [sic], awarded 11 May 1906 to Hermuth Voss, grade 4.
Certificate of Award for having read Boy on the Farm, awarded 18 May 1906 to Hermuth Voss, grade 4.
Confirmation certificate for Hermuth Alb. Heinr. Voss, born 5 May 1896, confirmed 17 April 1910.
One book of predominently unidentified professional studio photographs, once owned by Ida Voss. The photos are attributed to the following studios: Stierle Bros. of Marshfield; G. F. Baumann of Grand Island, Neb.; Schubert’s, of Kiel, Chilton, Wis.; Hageman of New Holstein, Wis.; C. W. Schnell of Chilton, Wis.; and Thompson of Brillion, Wis.
[See: Photograph album of Ida Voss]
Donated by Herb Falck, 2005.
No materials donated to this collection at this time.