MO-Germans.com

11/04/2018

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Do you have family or ancestors that immigrated from Germany? Looking for a way to reconnect with your German Heritage?

Looking for a way to reconnect with your German Heritage? Here you will find the news, stories, people, history, events and cultural organizations that bring our heritage alive! Want to know more about the reasons your ancestors came to America? Or maybe its how to do your family history? What is happening near you? Whatever the reasons… we are

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Pat Turner Riles

August 6, 2017 at 12:51 pm

The Black Brothers frat at Geissen University, so named for a popular children s book about helping each other in all things to gain success and freedom, became popular with guidance from Karl Follenious (my gramps times 5 older brother ). Karl changed name to Chas Follen (see Whittier, ,s poem about him) and taught at Harvard after escaping Germany for his being a revolutionary. His brother Paul and Frederick Muench, brothers in law, also students at Geissen, brought 500 immigrants to MO early on.

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1. Dorris Keeven-Franke
  
  August 6, 2017 at 5:17 pm
  
  From the University of Giessen’s explanation, and I attended the anniversary of their founding, the Black Bruders were so named for the long black cloaks that they donned. I can’t imagine University students wanting to be named after a “children’s book”.
  
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