The German-American Experience by Don Heinrich Tolzmann

There are also essays on the German Forty-Eighters, that is, the disappointed revolutionaries of German-speaking areas of Europe who failed to achieve democracy in 1848. Likewise, he includes a fascinating essay on the role of the German language in the Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church. For example, the forced Prussian Church Union of 1817, between the Lutheran and Reformed faiths in northern Germany (Prussia), led to an exodus of German Protestants to the United States.

He has studied the Lutheran, Reformed, and Catholic religious traditions of Germany extensively. Tolzmann has yet another advantage as a historian.

His understanding of the role of German emigration societies is also critical to his narrative. Tolzmann’s extensive knowledge of German Americans derives from his fluency with the German language, and his decades of experience in translating many German travel and immigrant guides, as well as diaries, pertaining to the United States. Tolzmann discusses the “German Triangle” of settlement, with its points at Cincinnati, Milwaukee, and St. German Heritage Explorations begins with an overview, and then quickly passes to explorations of the nation’s first permanent all-German settlement at Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia), and Germans serving on both sides of the American Revolution. The sections are designed for the busy person in today’s twenty-first century world of expanding responsibilities and limited reading time. Its short, readable chapters derive from previously published materials. Tolzmann’s book is a superb introduction to the full extent of German-American immigration to the United States. You can examine the many activities of the Max Kade Center at its website. Tolzmann’s latest work is entitled German Heritage Explorations, published by the well-known Max Kade German-American Center of IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis). And if you desire to learn more about German Americans, you need to read any of Dr. If you hope to learn to play tennis or golf, you find your way to a tennis court or a golf course. If you want to learn more about a foreign nation, you visit it.

The German-American Experience by Don Heinrich Tolzmann