Bill Text: NY K00911 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim Thursday, October 6, 2022, as German-American Day in the State of New York

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2022-05-17 - adopted [K00911 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-K00911-Introduced.html

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Assembly Resolution No. 911

BY: M. of A. Rules (Brabenec)

        MEMORIALIZING  Governor  Kathy  Hochul to proclaim
        Thursday, October 6, 2022, as German-American Day in
        the State of  New  York,  in  conjunction  with  the
        observance   of  National  German-American  Heritage
        Month

  WHEREAS, It is the custom of  this  Legislative  Body  to  recognize
official  days  and  months  that are set aside to increase awareness of
issues that affect the lives of citizens of New York State; and

  WHEREAS, Attendant to such concern, and  in  full  accord  with  its
long-standing  traditions,  it  is the sense of this Legislative Body to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim Thursday, October 6, 2022,
as German-American Day in the State of New York, in conjunction with the
observance of National German American Heritage Month; and

  WHEREAS, The German American ethnic group consists of Americans  who
have  full  or  partial  German  ancestry;  German  Americans make up 50
million people of the United States population;  German  Americans  were
attracted   to   this   country   by  religious  freedom  and  abundance
opportunity; and

  WHEREAS, German-American Day is celebrated annually and commemorates
the date in 1683 when 13 German families from  Krefeld  near  the  Rhine
landed in Philadelphia; these families founded Germantown, Pennsylvania,
the first German settlement in the original 13 American colonies; and

  WHEREAS,    Celebrations    originated    in   the   19th   Century,
German-American Day died out during World War  I  as  a  result  of  the
anti-German  sentiment;  in  1983,  President  Ronald  Reagan proclaimed
October 6th as German-American Day to  celebrate  and  honor  the  300th
Anniversary  of  German  American  immigration  and  contribution to the
culture of the United States; and

  WHEREAS, Germantown Quakers  were  the  first  to  petition  against
slavery  in  the  English colonies; this petition was drafted by Francis
Daniel Pastorius and signed by him and three other German Quakers living
in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on  behalf  of  the  Religious  Society  of
Friends; and

  WHEREAS, Pioneers who settled our great country often spoke a German
dialect;  they  settled  towns like Milwaukee, Cincinnati and St. Louis;
beer, a famous German  beverage,  was  perfected  in  these  cities  and
produced for mass consumption; and

  WHEREAS,  New  York  has  benefited  from German Americans and their
culture; the port of entry to our great country started in the State  of
New  York for many ethnic groups; Germans Americans settled on the Lower
East Side and Yorkville in the Borough of Manhattan; the lasting  impact
of  German  influence  can  be  seen  in  buildings  architecture in the
neighborhood of Yorkville; now, therefore, be it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
memorialize Governor Kathy Hochul to proclaim Thursday, October 6, 2022,
as German-American Day in the State of New York, in conjunction with the
observance of National German-American Heritage Month; and be it further

  RESOLVED,  That  a  copy  of this Resolution, suitably engrossed, be
transmitted to The Honorable Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of  New
York.