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House of Representatives
Session of 2019 - 2020 Regular Session

MEMORANDUM

Posted: May 28, 2019 09:12 AM
From: Representative Steven R. Malagari
To: All House members
Subject: Resolution designating October 6, 2019 as “German American Day in Pennsylvania”
 
In the near future, I plan to introduce a resolution recognizing October 6, 2019 as “German-American Day” in Pennsylvania.

On October 6, 1683, thirteen families, having sailed earlier from the German city of Krefeld, established Germantown, Pennsylvania, the first German settlement in America. Between the 1680s and the American Revolution, the majority of an estimated 100,000 German immigrants coming to North America settled in Pennsylvania, comprising a third of Philadelphia’s population by the 1760s.

In the years since, millions of German immigrants have come to the United States and this Commonwealth in pursuit of personal and religious freedoms and economic opportunity. Their descendants continue to shape the cultural landscape of our Commonwealth, with over 3.3 million Pennsylvanians reporting German ancestry, making it our largest ancestry group. German-Americans are rightfully proud of how their deep cultural, historical, and familial ties have helped strengthen this robust transatlantic relationship.

Please join me in honoring German-American heritage in Pennsylvania by cosponsoring this resolution.

Thank you for your consideration.



Introduced as HR526