Wisconsin German Land and Life
Wisconsin German Land and Life

Author: Robert Clifford Ostergren

Publisher: Max Kade Institute

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 296

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This volume, an innovative approach to immigration research, is the cooperative project of a group of German and American scholars. 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. Taking different approaches, the authors of the essays concentrate on the migrants' relationship to the land, and use, among other sources, official records on both sides of the Atlantic, such as census and family records, and 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. Distributed for the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies

The Wisconsin Office of Emigration, 1852-1855, and Its Impact on German Immigration to the State
The Wisconsin Office of Emigration, 1852-1855, and Its Impact on German Immigration to the State

Author: Johannes Strohschänk

Publisher: Max Kade Institute

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 172

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In 1852 Wisconsin established the Office of Emigration to attract European--mainly German-speaking--settlers to the state. Drawing on contemporary newspaper articles and privately published emigrant guides, as well as official publications of the emigration office, the authors document the office's influence on the settlement history of early Wisconsin and assess that influence against the backdrop of state politics in the mid-nineteenth century. Complementing the text are rare and interesting photographs illustrating the work of the office and the people it served. This book is invaluable for genealogists interested in learning more about emigration, as well as for anyone interested in Wisconsin history and German American studies. Distributed for the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies.

Germans in Wisconsin
Germans in Wisconsin

Author: Richard H. Zeitlin

Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 80

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German Milwaukee
German Milwaukee

Author: Jennifer Watson Schumacher

Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions

Published: 2009-07

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781531639075

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German immigrants began arriving to Milwaukee in the 1830s. By 1859, over one-third of the city was German. They opened schools and churches, started businesses, ran for office, and introduced professional German theater, art, and music to the city. Milwaukee soon became known throughout the United States--and even abroad--as the "German Athens of North America." There is a reason Milwaukee is known as the city of beer and brats, why it is here that the biggest Germanfest in the country takes place, and why still today the German language can be seen and heard throughout the city. As the well-known German newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine stated in 2008, "Deutscher als Milwaukee ist nirgendwo in Amerika" (There is nowhere in America more German than in Milwaukee).