German Americans(II): timeline

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legend to an online-only timeline titled “Lander of the Free--A selected history of German-Americans”

I do not know why The Economist uses "lander."  The English noun land has the same spelling in Old English (which came from present-day Germany). See (2).

The meaning of German surnames Hasselhoff, Seuss and Streep are not known.
(a) “1607 First German arrives in America[:] A Teutonic botanist lands in Jamestown, the first European settlement in North America”
(i) Press release: Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the First Germans in America, April 18 to 20, at Jamestown and Williamsburg, VA. Committee for the Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the First [], Mar 25, 2015
www.prnewswire.com/news-releases ... rg-va-57119287.html
("The German physician and botanist Dr Johannes Fleischer, Jr, who arrived at Jamestown with the first ship in 1607, was the first university-educated in English America, and was the only non-British among the initial group of settlers")
(ii) The German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) surname Fleischer (pronunciation: 'flī shər): "a butcher, from Fleisch ‘flesh,’ ‘meat’ + the agent suffix -er"
(b) “1776 Throwing off the German yoke[:] Americans reject George, King of Hanover (and Britain)”
(c) “1820-1914 First wave of immigrants[:] Nearly 6m Germans emigrate to the United States. Not all travel business class.”
(d) Adolphus Busch
(i) Adolphus can be a surname or a male given name.
(ii) For Adolphus, see Adolf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf
(also spelled Adolph and sometimes Latinised to Adolphus)
(e) “1914-1918 First World War[:] Anti-German hysteria reigns. Sauerkraut renamed ‘liberty cabbage’"
(f) “1957 The Cat in the Hat[:] ‘Your mother will not mind at all,’ said Dr Seuss's most famous creation. Really?”

Theodor Seuss Geisel
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Seuss
(1904-1991; born in Springfield, Massachusetts; "Upon graduating from Dartmouth, he entered Lincoln College, Oxford, intending to earn a PhD in English literature. At Oxford, he met Helen Palmer, who encouraged him to give up becoming an English teacher in favor of pursuing drawing as a career")
(i) Seuss was his mother’s maiden name.
(ii) The German surname Geisel: “from a short form of a personal name formed with Gisel- (see Giesel)”
(iii) Giesel: "from the personal name Giesel, a short form of any of several Germanic personal names with the first element gisil ‘pledge,’ ‘hostage,’ ‘noble offspring.’ In ancient and medieval Germanic society, the younger children of kings and princes were sometimes sent to be brought up at the court of a neighboring ruler, as a pledge of peace between the two nations or clans. Thus, the male personal name Gisil and its feminine equivalent Gisela [as well as Gisele, as in Gisele Bündchen] mean both ‘pledge’ and ‘noble offspring’"
(g) “1982 Sophie's Choice[:] Meryl Streep wins an Oscar for Best Actress. Ms Streep's unmatched ability to pretend anyone at all perhaps explains why few Americans realise she is German-American”

Meryl Streep
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryl_Streep
(1949- )

Her father was of German and Swiss-German ancestry, while her mother (née Mary Wolf Wilkinson) had English, German, and Irish ancestry.
(h) “1989 Baywatch[:] Premiere of ‘Baywatch,’ starring David Hassellhoff. Shortly afterwards the hirsute entertainer helps topple the Berlin Wall”
2011 Boehner becomes Speaker[:] As speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner is second in line to the presidency. He has wisely anglicized the pronunciation of his name.
* David Hasselhoff
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hasselhoff
(1952- ; He was noted for his performance at the Berlin Wall at New Year's Eve 1989; His father was of half German and half Anglo Irish descent, and his mother had English ancestry)
* The Night David Hasselhoff Rocked The Berlin Wall. NPR, Nov 8, 2009
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120191822
(The rumors aren't true: David Hasselhoff did not bring down the Berlin Wall. But he was there to sing over the ruins. * * * [He] delivered a song that became a soundtrack for the Wall's fall. Called "Looking for Freedom," it was the centerpiece of a New Year's Eve concert he headlined at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate a few weeks later [ie, on Dec 31, 1989--a few weeks after Berlin Wall fell])
(i) “2011 Boehner becomes Speaker[:] As Speaker of the HOuse of Representatives, John Boehner is second in line to the presidency. He has wisely anglicised the pronunciation of his name"

I do not know what The Economist is Saying. See TheGermanProfessor, How to pronounce ö and ü. undated
www.thegermanprofessor.com/how-to-pronounce-o-and-u/