Legacy of 1848: Transplanted Ideas & Values in America’s Past and Present Conference, 2017 The “Forty-Eighters,” were a relatively small number of individuals who emigrated from Europe in the late 1840s and early 1850s after fighting unsuccessfully with both pen and sword for liberty, democracy, and national unity. Many of the German Forty-Eighters immigrated to […]
Warum nur wollen so viele Deutsche nichts von der Geschichte ihrer Demokratie wissen? Ein gebildeter deutscher Bürger spricht zu uns: Georg Cremer, geboren 1952 in der Bundesrepublik, Volkswirtschaftler und Statistik-Experte, Generalsekretär eines der größten deutschen Wohlfahrtsverbände. Er habe, so gab er vor wenigen Tagen in einem Interview mit derSüddeutschen Zeitung zu Protokoll, erst in der […]
English Translation of the article in Kieler Nachrichten, January 4, 2016 Sylt Love MovieThe Couple from a Picture BookBy Kristiane BackheuerA couple from Sylt are becoming movie stars more than 100 years after their deaths. During his research, Dr. Joachim Reppmann, a historian from Flensburg, came across the story of Mathilde and Bleik Peters, who […]
“The Legacy of 1848: Trailblazers of Democracy, An International Conference on the Forty-Eighters in the USA” March 30 – April 2, 2017 Northfield, Minnesota The German and European rebels and freedom fighters that immigrated to the USA as a result of the 1848 Revolution will be the focus of a trans-Atlantic conference. “The Legacy of […]
The 2017 Northfield Conference, “Legacy of 1848 & Holocaust Education”, concluded with “Thoughts on Being German,” a poignant and heartfelt address delivered by Hans Jörg Gudegast, aka Eric Braeden. Born in Bredenbek, Schleswig-Holstein, Gudegast experienced firsthand the horrors of World War II prior to his immigration to the United States in 1959. Eric lives in […]
"On April 1, Consul General Herbert Quelle presented Dr. Joachim “Yogi” Reppmann with the German American Friendship Award during the Euro-Atlantic Conference "The Legacy of 1848, Through Today" in Northfield, MN. The conference, co-sponsored by the German Consulate General, was organized by Reppmann and was the most recent of a lifetime of contributions to German-American […]
The 2017 Northfield Conference, “Legacy of 1848 & Holocaust Education”, concluded with “Thoughts on Being German,” a poignant and heartfelt address delivered by Hans Jörg Gudegast, aka Eric Braeden. Born in Bredenbek, Schleswig-Holstein, Gudegast experienced firsthand the horrors of World War II prior to his immigration to the United States in 1959. Eric lives in […]