The German pioneer
“ Der Deutsche Pionier ” was a German-language “ monthly for memories from the German pioneer life in the United States ”. The magazine was published by the " German Pioneer Association of Cincinnati " ( Ohio ) in the years 1869 to 1887 (18 years).
history
The " German Pioneer Association of Cincinnati " was founded in 1868. Of the 522 members in 1869, 37 came from the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and 108 from the Kingdom of Hanover .
The editors-in-chief were Gustav Brühl and Heinrich Rattermann . Rattermann came from Ankum in the district of Osnabrück , was a historian and founded the " German Mutual Insurance Company " in Cincinnati .
In December 1874, Rattermann also visited Friedrich Münch , the founder of the " Gießener Emigration Society ", on his farm near Dutzow . The result of this conversation appeared in the April 1875 edition of Pioneers.
The memoirs of Luise Ernst (1800–1888), wife of Friedrich Ernst , the first German settler in Texas , were published in 1884 in the magazine.
archive
This monthly is now a treasure trove for historians and genealogists who are interested in the general life and biographies of German emigrants from the German northwest of the 1830s and 1840s (see also: Thirties and Forty-Eighters ). All 18 years were therefore archived on microfilm and on the DAUSA website for general use by the research center “ German emigrants in the USA ” (DAUSA, Oldenburg ).
literature
- Rainer Sell: The German Pioneer Association of Cincinnati, Heinrich Armin Rattermann and "Der Deutsche Pionier", A Nucleus of Nineteenth-Century German-America , in: "Yearbook of the Society of German-American Studies", Volume 20, Cincinnati ( Ohio) 1985.
