Max and Moritz provided an inspiration for German immigrant Rudolph Dirks, who created the Katzenjammer Kids in 1897.

More than 16 million people are of foreign / immigrant descent ( first and second generation, including mixed heritage and ethnic German repatriates and their descendants ).

His maternal grandfather was an immigrant from Derry in northern Ireland and his maternal grandmother was of German ancestry.

His master, Moses Carver, was a German American immigrant who had purchased George's parents, Mary and Giles, from William P. McGinnis on October 9, 1855, for $ 700.

His parents were Henry Kern ( 1842 – 1908 ), a Jewish German immigrant, and Fannie Kern née Kakeles ( 1852 – 1907 ), who was an American Jew of Bohemian parentage.

The Katzenjammer Kids is an American comic strip created by the German immigrant Rudolph Dirks and drawn by Harold H. Knerr for 37 years ( 1912 to 1949 ).

His patrilineal ancestor, Johann Wilhelm Brandau, was a German immigrant to New York in the early 1700s.

* 1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.

German immigrant schools, churches, hospitals, farmers ' cooperatives, youth groups, and charitable societies became active Axis backers.

The son of an immigrant German brewer and a Paraguayan woman, Stroessner was born in Encarnación in 1912.

The current dome and the House and Senate wings were designed by Thomas U. Walter and August Schoenborn, a German immigrant, and were completed under the supervision of Edward Clark.

In general, commercial and manufacturing towns and cities voted Whig, save for strongly Democratic precincts in Irish Catholic and German immigrant communities ; the Democrats often sharpened their appeal to the poor by ridiculing the Whigs ' aristocratic pretensions.

Hirsch, a Naval Intelligence officer who is fluent in German, orders Tyler to locate Radioman Wentz, who is fluent in German due to his immigrant parents.

The election came on the heels of the outbreak of World War I — an issue Harding downplayed due to the significant German immigrant population in his district.

Willkie was born in Elwood, Indiana, the son of Herman Willkie, a German immigrant from Aschersleben whose family name originally was " Willcke ", and his wife Henrietta Trisch.

He was born in Kraków, the son of a German immigrant town-clerk, but the view, once generally held, that he was descended from the Pomeranian noble family of Kraków, is now discredited ( cf.

Another inventor, William Edenborn, a German immigrant who later settled in Winn Parish, Louisiana, patented a machine which simplified the making of barbed wire and cut the unit price of production from seventeen to three cents per pound.

While on the ranch, he learned bits of Spanish and German from the mix of immigrant ranch hands.

John Paul Dreiser was a German immigrant from Mayen in the Eifel region, and Sarah was from the Mennonite farming community near Dayton, Ohio ; she was disowned for marrying John and converting to Roman Catholicism.

Karl Wallau and Stephen Born ( real name Simon Buttermilch ) were both German immigrant typesetters who settled in Brussels to help Marx and Engles with their Communist League work.

German immigrant engineer Hermann Bogenschild filed a patent in 1906 for a mechanical " dust removing apparatus ".

“ Frederick Town ” was laid out by Daniel Dulany — a land speculator — in 1745 ; it was settled by a German immigrant party led by a young German Reformed schoolmaster from the Rhineland Palatinate named Johann Thomas Schley ( d. 1790 ), who came to the Maryland colony with his wife, Maria Winz.

Compositae were first described in 1792 by the German botanist Paul Dietrich Giseke.

The 12th century German monk Theophilus described how preheated crucibles were one sixth filled with powdered calamine and charcoal then topped up with copper and charcoal before being melted, stirred then filled again.

) In 2007, Christopher Gray of The New York Times described it as " a writhing composition in white Tyrolean marble depicting Lorelei, the mythical German figure, surrounded by mermaids, dolphins and seashells.

West Berlin was surrounded by East German territory and East Germany proclaimed East Berlin ( described as " Berlin ") as its capital, a move that was not recognized by the western powers.

The German physician and medical writer Justus Hecker suggested that a mistranslation of the Latin atra mors ( terrible, or black, death ) had occurred in Scandinavia when he described the catastrophe in 1832 in his publication " Der schwarze Tod im vierzehnten Jahrhundert ".

Donaldson later described his father Robert, the son of Italian and German immigrants, as a man who " frowned on display of emotion " and his mother Lois as " an English, Scottish Texan, artistic, free-spirited, emotional, impulsive.

also written von Haeckel, was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology, including anthropogeny, ecology, phylum, phylogeny, stem cell, and the kingdom Protista.

In The Legal Basis of the Total State, Nazi political theorist Carl Schmitt described the Nazi intention to form a " strong state which guarantees a totality of political unity transcending all diversity " in order to avoid a " disastrous pluralism tearing the German people apart "

The Greek governmental structure is similar to that found in many other Western democracies, and has been described as a compromise between the French and German models.

German gothic fiction is usually described by the term Schauerroman („ shudder novel “).

East Germany's culture was strongly influenced by communism and particularly Stalinism and was described by East German psychoanalyst Hans-Joachim Maaz in 1990 as having produced a " Congested Feeling " among East Germans as a result of the East German state's goal to protect people from dangers of deviant cultural influence and dangers of popular expression deviating from the state's ideals through enforcing official ideals through physical and psychological repression of these tendencies via its institutions, particularly the Stasi.

In 2008 the German news magazine Der Spiegel described Himmler as one of the most brutal mass murderers in history, and the architect of the Holocaust.

Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt ( June 2, 1885 – December 30, 1964 ) was a German neuropathologist, who first described the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

While a member of the Institute of Social Research, Marcuse developed a model for critical social theory, created a theory of the new stage of state and monopoly capitalism, described the relationships between philosophy, social theory, and cultural criticism, and provided an analysis and critique of German fascism.

The period from 900 to 200 BCE has been described by historians as the axial age, a term coined by German philosopher Karl Jaspers.

The schism was between the various ' group thinks ' within the kabbalistic mystical communities of the descendants of the French and German Jews called at some point Ashkenazi, but more accurately should be described as the diverse Yiddish speaking world.

Churchill – referring to the fact that a German naval victory would have made it impossible for Britain to supply her army in France, or even import food – described Jellicoe later as ' the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon '.

A Middle High German version was described as " Perhaps the flower of religious literary creativity in the German Middle Ages " by Heinrich Heine.

Herbert von Dirksen, who was German Ambassador in London from 1938 – 1939, described his predecessor, Ribbentrop, as " an unwholesome, half-comical figure ".

The American historian Gerhard Weinberg described the Henderson-Ribbentrop meeting in this way: " When Joachim von Ribbentrop refused to give a copy of the German demands to the British Ambassador at midnight of 30 – 31 August 1939, the two almost came to blows.

On 19 May 1940 Ribbentrop met the new Italian Ambassador Dino Alfieri, who described the meeting as follows :" He commented at length on the " dazzling " successes of the German armies, extolling the military genius of the Führer ... who had " revealed himself as the greatest military genius since Napoleon "... He spoke of the inevitable clash between the young nations and the old ; of the necessity of breaking the ring with which the Judaeo-democratic-plutocratic powers were trying to encircle Germany and Italy ; and of the need to create a new European civilization.

When it came to time for Ribbentrop to present the German declaration of war on 22 June 1941 to the Soviet Ambassador, General Vladimir Dekanozov, Paul Schmidt described the scene :" It is just before four on the morning of Sunday, 22 June 1941 in the office of the Foreign Minister.

The Klein bottle was first described in 1882 by the German mathematician Felix Klein.