The Golden Age of Albany German Americans, 1871 - 1917

In Spring 1902, during the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to Albany, the Times Union wrote "There is no city in America more German than
Albany." The paper noted the Germanness of the Duits who founded the
city, as well as the Deutsch that numbered prominently among its present inhabitants.

Join Thomas Reimer for this talk about the flowering of the German-American community during the period later remembered as its golden age, and the gentle process of acculturation and assimilation that transformed it, until it wilted during the anti-German hysteria ofWorld War I.

This Albany Heritage event is part of the Neighbor Stories series.

Thomas Reimer is an expert on local German American history who has curated German-American exhibits at the Rensselaer County Historical Society and the Ten Broeck Mansion. He is a frequent presenter at the German-American Culture Club in Troy, Germania Hall in Troy and the German Club of Albany.

Professor Reimer is assistant editor of the Encyclopedia of New York State and is adjunct faculty at Empire State College-Center for Distance Learning and at Russell Sage-Evening Division.