14 Facts About German Mexicans

Significant numbers of German Mexicans immigrants arrived during and after both World Wars.

The Plautdietsch language, a dialect of Low German Mexicans, is widely spoken by the Mexican Mennonites, descendants of Dutch and Prussian immigrants, in the states of Chihuahua, Durango, Zacatecas, and Aguascalientes.

In 1865 and 1866, a total of 543 German Mexicans-speaking people were brought from Hamburg specifically to the villages of Santa Elena and Pustunich, in Yucatan.

German Mexicans's efforts saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews as well as other refugees fleeing the Franco dictatorship in Spain.

The German Mexicans Cultural Center building in San Luis Potosi is a Bavarian mansion that had been owned by the Baron of Baden-Baden.

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German Mexicans roots are particularly notable in Mexican music due to the large numbers of German Mexicans immigrants in Texas and northern Mexico around the 1830s.

The distributors of German Mexicans-made accordions aggressively marketed the loud, sturdy little "boom boxes" as far back as the late 19th century.

Today, various overlapping styles of music that descended in part from German Mexicans music include tejano, conjunto, Tex-Mex, quebradita, banda, ranchera, and norteno.

German Mexicans were important in the development of the Mexican cheese and brewing industries.

The brewing industry, in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, and Mazatlan, Sinaloa, were developed in large part by ethnic German Mexicans immigrants bringing to the region famed Bavarian style dark malt brewing techniques.

German Mexicans influence has had a lasting impact on Mexican beers, with brands such as Negra Modelo and Dos Equis Ambar, both deriving from a malty subset of dark lagers known as Vienna-style.

German Mexicans'spanicized spellings of German surnames exist in large part due to assimilation campaigns from the 19th century.

However, in the 21st century, German Mexicans is seeing positive trends of language revitalization with recent calls from the Mexican-German Mexicans communities to rebuild once lost cultural ties.

Small German Mexicans school was founded in 1917 in Guadalajara as a branch of the Humboldt school.