page_title: List of German Americans
section_title: Brewers
hierarchical_section_title: List of German Americans / Businesspeople and entrepreneurs / Brewers
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of Adolphus Busch (1839-1913), co-founder of Anheuser-Busch.
context_page_description: German Americans are citizens of the United States of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered the United States since that point. Immigration continued in substantial numbers during the 19th century; the largest number of arrivals moved 1840–1900, when Germans formed the largest group of immigrants coming to the U.S., outnumbering the Irish and English. Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe, and others for the chance to start afresh in the New World. California and Pennsylvania have the largest populations of German origin, with more than six million German Americans residing in the two states alone. More than 50 million people in the United States identify German as their ancestry; it is often mixed with other Northern European ethnicities. This list also includes people of German Jewish descent.
context_section_description: Eberhard Anheuser – soap and candle maker, president and CEO of Eberhard Anheuser and Company, which eventually became Anheuser-Busch
  Valentin Blatz – beer baron, started the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company
  Adolphus Busch – Anheuser-Busch brewing company founder
  Adolphus Busch III – brewing magnate who was the President and CEO of Anheuser-Busch, 1934–1946
  August Anheuser Busch Sr. – brewing magnate who served as the President and CEO of Anheuser-Busch, 1913–1934
  August Busch IV – president and CEO of Anheuser-Busch
  Gussie Busch – brewing magnate who built the Anheuser-Busch Companies into the largest brewery in the world as company chairman, 1946–1975, and became a prominent sportsman as owner of the St. Louis Cardinals franchise in MLB
  Adolph Coors – Coors beer empire founder
  Matthias Haffen – New York City brewer, formerly located at the Haffen Building in the Bronx
  Theodore Hamm – founder of Hamm's Brewery
  Frederick Miller – Miller beer creator
  Frederick Pabst – founder of Pabst Brewery (with Philip Best)
  Tom Pastorius – founded Penn Brewery (Pennsylvania Brewing Co.)
  Frederick Schaefer – beer baron, started F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company
  Joseph Schlitz – beer baron, founded Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company
  Kosmas Spoetzl – brewer, Shiner Brewery
  Peter P. Straub – founder of Straub Brewery
  August Uihlein – Uhrig Brewery and Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company brewer, business executive and horse breeder
  Herman Weiss – first brewmaster in Shiner, Texas; hired in 1909 by the Shiner Brewing Association to start the brewery; later took the same position at the San Antonio Brewing Association
caption: Adolphus Busch
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