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The first german immigration was in the colonies in 1670, when the Germans came with the other nations to set up colonies for Britain. -
In 1790 100,000 germans moved to America. They came to Pennsylvania and made up 33% of the population. They also made up 12% of the Maryland Population.
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The failure of the german revolution led to many Germans leaving. The amount was around 1,000,000 from 1850-to 1860, in 1850 alone there were 214,000.
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In 1872 the Tsarist government made it impossible for German farmers to move to Russia causing massive waves of emigration.
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Nearly 1.4 million Germans moved to the U.S. in the time period. This was the heaviest decade of moving to the U.S.
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In 1894 there were more than 800 German journalists were stationed in the U.S. with more than 2.8 million German-born immigrants. Later in 1910, the number of journalists would drop to 550 and the German-born immigrants would drop to 2.3 million. -
The German population of immigrants in the U.S. dropped to 1.7 million. Also, the German language publications dropped to around 230 as from the 550 in 1910, 10 years ago.
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As Adolf Hitler came to power, many scientists, scholars, and musicians all came to the U.S. to escape persecution. Such as Albert Einstein, Bruno Walter, and Walter Dietrich.
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This marks the date of the 300th anniversary of Germans moving to the U.S.
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A total of 58 million Americans are of German descent in America.