German Society of the City of New York
The German Society of the City of New York was founded in 1784. Its purpose was the smooth immigration of Germans to the USA . She took care of the bureaucratic affairs of the German-Americans.
history
Founded on the model of the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia by Johann Christoph Kunze and Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben , among others , the society initially supported the German-American churches in New York. With the onset of the great waves of immigration from the 1830s, the German Society dealt with the smooth flow of immigration. This included providing information about the nature and dangers of emigration in Germany. In addition, the German Society informed the German-Americans in New York about important bureaucratic peculiarities of the New World.
John Jacob Astor was the Society's president from 1837 to 1841, donating $ 5,000 annually to the Society. In his will, he left her an additional $ 20,000. That money was to be invested and used to run a staffed office in New York.
See also
literature
- Klaus Wust: Guardian on the Hudson. The German Society of the City of New York, 1784-1984 . New York 1984, ISBN 0-917968-11-5 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Lutherans of New York: Their Story and Their Problems by George Wenner from 1903