Germans in Alabama

There is a German national population residing in Alabama, and historically there was a German immigrant population.

In 1866, the German immigrants founded Cullman, Alabama.[1]

Wernher von Braun, formerly affiliated with Nazi Germany, helped establish the space industry in Huntsville, Alabama.[1]

The German companies began widespread business operations in Alabama when Mercedes-Benz established its first assembly plant in the U.S. in Alabama, Mercedes-Benz U.S. International;[1] in 1993 it selected Vance,[2] a town west of Birmingham,[1] and east of Tuscaloosa.[2]

The Alabama State German Evangelical Holiness Pentecostal Church was founded in 1935 by Rev. Dorothy Forrest Trumbo and her husband, Charles Ross Trumbo, after the fall of the German United Protestant Church of The South, in Fyffe, Alabama.

References
  1. Reeves, Jay (2007-05-20). "Ala., Germany have Mercedes, rocket ties". Associated Press at the USA Today. Archived from the original on 2016-08-18. Retrieved 2016-08-18.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link) - Also available at: Reeves, Jay. "Ties Cozy Between Alabama, Germany." Associated Press at the Times Daily. Monday May 21, 2007. p. 1B, 4B
  2. Nauss, Donald W. (1993-09-30). "Mercedes to Build Plant in Alabama : Rural Hamlet Beats Out Carolinas for $300-Million Facility". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016-08-18.

Further reading

Articles

Books
  • Laney, Monique (2015). German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past During the Civil Rights Era. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300198034. OCLC 894310406.


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