After discovering a copy the German novel, Deutsche suchen den Garten der Welt--Das Schicksal deutscher Auswanderer in Texas vor 100 Jahren nach Berichten erzählt von Fritz Scheffel, the almost lost and fascinating story of the German Texas pioneers was republished originally in German in order to make it available once again to German readers. The book was originally published in 1937 and is written in a style and with elements of the German nationalistic culture of the time. It seems that the novel had almost been forgotten and hardly appears in any information about Scheffel. In the meantime, there are unfortunately hardly any German speaking Texans left and the descendants of those pioneers have no access to this literary and historical work which, whilst it is a good story, it is very close to the real history of Texas of the 1840's and has the potential to bring history alive to them.
The book has been recomposed into English rather than leave it as a pure translation. However, the original flavor and the storyline of the novel have been retained, making it more accessible to the average American today.

A German Paradise in Texas: The Fate of German Emigrants to Texas in the 1840's

Literature & Fiction

Engelking, Stephen Arthur

Scheffel, Fritz

Dramas & Plays

Texianer Verlag

In the spring of 1933, exactions of old age forced William Trenckmann to sell his newspaper to the National Weeklies of Minnesota but he remained its editor in all matters pertaining to Texas. Mr.Trenckmann was regarded as one of the best informed men in Texas on state and national affairs and during his many years in the newspaper business wrote considerably about the history of the state and the nation while in the making. From the date of the founding of his newspaper, he wrote each week a summary of national and state news for the readers of his weekly newspaper. Politically, Mr.Trenckmann was a democrat, not in the partisan interpretation of the word but rather in the light of the tenets of justice, tolerance, freedom of speech and freedom of press, to which ideals he remained loyal throughout life, with a loyalty stimulated by the teachings of his father, a disciple of Kant, who was born in Germany in the time when the teachings of that philosopher on the concept of duty were beginning to spread.

History of Austin County Texas: Edited and published in 1899 as a supplement to the Bellville Wochenblatt by William A. Trenckmann

History

Trenckmann, William

Americas

Raimund Fischer gehört zu den Menschen, die in Statistiken als ?soziale Aufsteiger" auftauchen: Als Sohn eines Schreiners und einer Hausfrau wächst er in der südbadischen Provinz auf, schafft die Hauptschule und verkauft aus seinem Kinderzimmer heraus die ersten Katalogküchen. Jahre später gehören sieben Gesellschaften zur Fischer Holding - die Fischer Küchenateliers, die er 2018 für einen Millionenbetrag verkauft. Was wie eine geradlinige Karriere aussieht, ist das Resultat seiner Beharrlichkeit, Selbstzweifel aus dem Weg zu räumen und konsequent quer zu denken: Wichtig ist nicht, wo Sie herkommen, welches Elternhaus und wieviel Geld Sie haben. Sondern was Sie sich erlauben, zu erreichen. In seiner Biografie geht Fischer ebenso offen mit seiner überwundenen Depression wie mit seinen größten Ängsten um: Vor dem Verlassenwerden, vor dem finanziellen und gesellschaftlichen Ruin und vor dem Gefühl, nicht genug zu sein. Dementgegen gibt er klare Tipps für Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer, von der Geschäftsidee bis hin zur perfekten Exit-Strategie und Neuorientierung. Für alle Bereiche gilt: Nur, wer sein geschäftliches Tun als Ganzes mit seinem sonstigen Lebenswandel, seinen Zielen, Träumen und Idealen im Privaten wie im Beruflichen betrachtet, kann Mut schöpfen und Erfolg haben - ob durch die richtige Körpersprache im Bankgespräch, Finanzierungsmodelle, geistige und körperliche Fitness und ungewohnte spirituelle Methoden. Kurzum: Durch ein Erfolgskonzept, das Fischer heute als Business-Coach weitergibt - an Einsteiger und Fortgeschrittene.

Real Good Business: Wie ich vom Hauptschüler zum Selfmade-Millionär wurde (German Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Fischer, Raimund

Professionals & Academics

No longer a very young man, Philipp Wilhelm Sack, is discharged from Frederick the Great's army after battling and getting wounded fighting Napoleon. Before starting a new career in the government, he decides to take a journey in the part of Germany he loves, meeting up with relatives on the way. He falls in love and gets involved in religious differences, putting off marrying his sweetheart due to his sense of honor.A tale of joy and sometimes despair as we gather insights into the Prussia of the late 18th and early 19th century. Politics, romance and poetry accompany us on Philipps journey. Based on a true story this wonderful novel was lost for ninety years and has now been re-discovered and re-interpreted into English.

For Love and for Prussia: A Novel based on the Life of Philipp Wilhelm Sack

Von Dieckmann, Gertha

Engelking, Stephen A.

This book could have started with "Once upon a time there was a Jewish boy who had a dream...." because it describes the life of a personality who was driven by a strong destiny, fuelled by the discovery of Jesus as the Messiah of history and with a plan to save mankind from self destruction. He became a renowned biblical researcher, the founder of a world nation and was to influence both the meek and the mighty. He was a radical thinker and a man of action supported by a wife of equal strength and determination. Often the subject of the most vitriolic and unjustifiable attacks, he remained true to his vision and principles throughout his life. By unveiling considerable previously unpublished sources, the real man behind the 'Passover Plot' is brought alive to the reader.

A Life for Mankind: The Biography of Hugh Joseph Schonfield

Religion & Spirituality

The Millheim and Cat Spring Pioneers German Immigrants Building a New Life in Texas This book is a continuation of an effort began in 2015 by a handful of individuals with an interest in the history of the German settlements at Cat Spring and Millheim in Austin County, Texas. Three of the early literary works by Millheim settlers have been republished -- Experiences and Observations and A History of Austin County by William Andreas Trenckmann, and A Boy's Civil War Story by Charles Nagel. Obscure books, newspaper and periodical articles, literary novels and plays written about the area by former residents a century or so ago have been identified. An inventory of all such documents and their current status as to public availability has been developed. This book presents a brief history of the extended Cat Spring--Millheim community in western Austin County, along with reproductions of several articles written by early area pioneers such as Robert Kleberg, Rosa von Roeder Kleberg, Caroline Ernst von Hineuber, Adalbert Regenbrecht and Ottilie Fuchs Goeth. We provide brief biographies of many of the early settlers including Elemenech Swearingen, Ludwig von Roeder, Robert Kleberg, Carl Amsler, Friedrich Engelking, Andreas Trenckmann, Robert Kloss, Gustav Maetze, Dr. Herman Nagel, Adalbert Regenbrecht, Rev. Arnost Bergmann and Louis Constant. Also summarized are the significant literary works created by early settlers in the area, including William Andreas Trenckmann, Charles Nagel, Johannes Christlieb Nathanael Romberg and Adolph Fuchs. Several of these long out-of-print works are reproduced herein.

The Millheim and Cat Spring Pioneers: German Immigrants Building a New Life in Texas

Woodrick, James V.

From the original fly leaf: "A distinguished American statesman and member of the bar, known chiefly heretofore as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor in the Cabinet of President Taft, as director in important enterprises, and as counsel for various corporations and individuals, here makes his bow as author (at the fine age of nearly 88) of a good book giving his recollections of life as it was lived, and war as it was waged, in the days of 1861 to 1865 during the conflict between the States. A penetrating pen-picture of things and places that few persons living today have experienced for themselves, and that still fewer are now capable of recollecting, Mr. Nagel's book also takes the happy reader to the Germany of student days, where as a young man the author entered the University of Berlin, which later was to confer on him the honorary degree as Doctor of Political Science. Known not less for his good works than for his great accomplishments, the present modest memoir will afford the reader both information and pleasure, and put in permanent form a record of days and ways that will not come again." This edition has been augmented with copious footnotes and illustrations to assist the modern reader to understand better the context of the time.

A Boy's Civil War Story: Annotated and Illustrated

Nagel, Charles

Community & Culture

The Speech that Moved the World: "Hegesippus"

Schonfield, Dr. Hugh J.

Second Edition 
It's July 1940, Italy. A young Polish-born Jewish doctor, rendered stateless by the racial laws of 1938, is unable to flee the country. Henry Raupner is arrested and transported to Ferramonti Concentration Camp in Calabria, destined to become the largest internment camp for Jews in the whole of Italy. This autobiographical novel written by Henry in 1982, takes the reader back to WW2 to experience life behind the barbed wire of Ferramonti, its freezing winters, scorching summers, malaria swamps, hunger and uncertainty. Above all, Ferramonti becomes the salvation of 3,000 Jews escaping the clutches of the Final Solution. The second edition of this unique book now contains additional photos and amendments.

Ferramonti: Salvation behind the barbed wire

Ropschitz, David Henryk

It is somewhat surprising and illuminating to discover for how many people the Prophet of Nazareth has been little more than a theological concept with a semblance of humanity. I have chosen the ambitious description of biography for this life of Jesus, because that is the class of writing to which it is intended to belong. My book is not designed to serve any theological or propagandist purpose whatsoever. I have attempted to take the subject out of the domain of purely religious literature, though I know how difficult it is-and has been for myself-to acquire the unbiased and detached viewpoint which is vital to such an experiment. I cannot pretend that I have always succeeded; but I believe that I have gone further in this direction than any of my predecessors. The name of Jesus is so intimately bound up with an exalted faith, which is daily operative for thousands, that the task of him who would remember only that his function is to relate the story of a Galilean Jew, who lived nearly two millenniums ago and claimed to be his people's Messiah, is no enviable one.

Jesus a Biography: A Biography

SCHONFIELD, HUGH J.

World

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