Georg Kükenthal (1864 - 1955) was a German pastor and botanist who specialized in the field of caricology.

Conservative German pastors considered this to be an affront to the church because Ebert had been an outspoken atheist.

The program evolved from the writings of Martin Niemoeller, a German pastor who spent seven years in a concentration camp.

"He told the German pastors that people were being put in concentration camps," Mr. Geist said.

During these early years, there were not only German pastors, but also Swedish pastors in the Ministerium.

The seminary was established in 1850 by German pastors in what was then the American frontier.

A German pastor writes in 1773 of a shipload of 1,500 German emigrants only 400 of whom lived to see the new land.

It was named after Joachim Neander, a 17th-century German pastor.

A German pastor, Heinrich Schmelen, became the first European to visit the town in 1827.