Stoltenberg Yearbook 2016

September 12, 2020

Stoltenberg Yearbook of Forty-Eighter Studies The Stoltenberg Institute of Forty-eighter Studies, a forum for German-American discourse, will be publishing a yearbook focusing on Germans who came to the U.S. after the 1848 European revolutions, according to its Executive Director, Dr. Joachim Reppmann. The new institute is named in honor of Dr. Gerhard Stoltenberg (1929-2001), who served as Minister-President of the state of Schleswig-Holstein. The institute’s first volume will contain the papers presented at a German-American History Conference (“The Legacy of 1848”) held at Wartburg College in late October. The conference was organized by Reppmann and Dr. Daniel Walther, Wartburg College’s Gerald Kleinfeld Distinguished Professor in German History. An advisory board for the new institute has also been formed. Chaired by Dr. Don Heinrich Tolzmann, its members include Henry Kissinger, Eric Braeden, Walter Pfaeffle, and others prominent in the fields of German-American Studies and U.S.-German relations. The Stoltenberg Institute’s goal is to “preserve the history of European democratic republican Forty-eighter immigrants by actively collecting, preserving, interpreting, and presenting documents, artifacts and scholarly research and by promoting public involvement in and appreciation of this heritage through educational programming and community outreach.” The Stoltenberg Institute aims to be “a transatlantic institute, heritage center espousing the Forty-eighters’ conviction that we all embody moral values that should be publicly expressed, thereby making a meaningful contribution towards solving the myriad of challenges confronting the Western world.” For further information: www.moin-moin.us.