Banat
Biographies
Banat
Biographies Index Est. 13 Feb 2010 at
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McKim Pharr.
STEIGERWALD, Jacob *Banat
Topola
Banat Post WWII
Survivor, Teacher Ph.D., Author,
Historian, Translator & Interpreter
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From an
Unwanted Group in Yugoslavia to a Professorship in America
As a member of Yugoslavia's
disenfranchised German minority, Jacob Steigerwald had not even
finished grade school when he immigrated to America at age 20.
Along with other group members, he was confined to forced labor
camps in April 1945, as the process of ethnic cleansing was
underway, involving executions, starvation, and other methods of
genocide.
Jacob survived by fleeing to Romania at age 14, where he worked
for a farmer while keeping a low profile to avoid apprehension and
deportation.
Without prospects for a future under Communism, Jacob trekked to
Austria in 1947 and worked there as a refugee until he emigrated
to Chicago.
In the land of opportunity, Jacob eventually became an educator
and a family man, thanks to staunch support from his wife Marie.
In the monograph on his birthplace Banat Topola and in his memoir
'Profile of an Americanized Danube Swabian Ethnically Cleansed
under Tito,' Jacob provides ample insights toward a better
understanding of his widely scattered ethnic group.
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03 Feb 1975
Winona Daily News
"Jacob Steigerwald earns doctorate"
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Winona
State College Instructor earns
doctorate in German
Feb 03, 1975
JACOB STEIGERWALD, assistant
professor of foreign languages at
Winona State College, has completed
requirements for the doctor of
philosophy degree in German
languages and literature at the
University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and
will be awarded the degree at the
June commencement.
An ethnic German born in Yugoslavia,
Dr. Steigerwald emigrated to the
United States in 1951 and became a
naturalized citizen after joining
the U.S. Army in 1953.
After extensive studies both in the
United States and in Europe, he
earned a bachelor of arts degree
from Columbia College, Chicago, and
bachelor and master of arts degrees
from Columbia College, Chicago, and
a bachelor and master of arts degree
from the University of Illinois,
Urbana.
His dissertation, "The Bremer
Beitrager: Their relationship with
Gottsched and Their Position in the
History of German Literature," is
concerned with the contribution of
this group of eighteenth century
poets toward promoting the use of
standard German.
Dr. Steigerwald, his wife and three
children live at 355 W. 4th St.
*** PUBLICATIONS by Jacob Steigerwald,
Ph.D. – Chronological Listing Finding Vital 1796-1945 Data Regarding German and
Hungarian Ancestors of
Banat(ska) Topola
and Novo Selo, Plus an
Exposé About the Local
1945-1946 Internment Camp
for Germans of Yugoslavia;
By
Jacob
Steigerwald
- The publication should
also be of particular
interest to descendants of
Danube Swabians who have
been wondering about actual
procedures that Tito’s
partisans employed in wiping
out the ethnic group. In a
variety of ways, my account
also has relevance regarding
criminal actions against
indigenous Germans elsewhere
in the country, from 1944
until 1948.
[16 Nov 2009]
ISBN 0-9615505-5-4.
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"Die Ausgewanderten"
Donauschwäbische
Lehrerblätter 24,1
(1968) 3-10 |
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"Das Wunder, oder der
wackelnde Kirchturm"
Der Donauschwabe (August
4, 1968) 5 and 8 |
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"Zur heutigen Lage
der Donauschwaben"
Donauschwäbische
Lehrerblätter 15,2
(1969) 4-5 |
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"Die Bremer Beiträger:
Ihr Verhältnis zu
Gottsched und ihre
Stellung in der
Geschichte der deutschen
Literatur" (Doctoral
Dissertation -
University of
Cincinnati, 1975) |
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"Bestandsaufnahme:
Eine Generation nach
Flucht und Vertreibung"
Der Donauschwabe
(February 9, 1975), 3 |
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"Krise im
Fremdsprachenunterricht
in den Vereinigten
Staaten von Amerika"
Donauschwäbische
Lehrerblätter 21,2
(1975) 16-19 and in:
Nachrichten der
Donauschwaben in Chicago
(March 1975) 8 and
(April 1975), 5-6 |
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"Unbegrenzte
Möglichkeiten der
Ausbildung als Schlüssel
zur Welt"
Burgenländische
Gemeinschaft 5 (1975)
4-5 |
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"Bildung – ein
lebenslänglicher Vorgang"
Nachrichten der
Donauschwaben in Chicago
(May 1975) 6-7 and in:
Der Donauschwabe
(September 7, 1975) 9 |
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"Soll unsere Jugend
studieren?"
Nachrichten der
Donauschwaben in Chicago
(November 1975) 1 and
in: Der Donauschwabe (Januar
4, 1976) 3 |
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"Deutscher
Sprachgebrauch in
Westdeutschland und in
den USA. Krise oder
Erneuerung?"
Südostdeutsche
Vierteljahresblätter
24,4 (1975) 249-252 |
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"Auswanderung –
gestern und heute"
Nachrichten der
Donauschwaben in Chicago
(January 1976) 10-11 |
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"Rückblick ins
Mutterland"
Nachrichten der
Donauschwaben in Chicago
(January 1976) 11 and
in: Der Donauschwabe
(February 22, 1976) 4 |
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"Ethnische
Minderheiten als
stabilisierende Faktoren
der amerikanischen
Gesellschaft"
Nachrichten der
Donauschwaben in Chicago
(March 1976) 1 and in:
Der Donauschwabe 21.
March 1976) 2 |
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"Zur Anpassung der
Donauschwaben in ihrer
neuen Umgebung" Der
Donauschwabe (May 2,
1976) 6 and in:
Nachrichten der
Donauschwaben in Chicago
(May 1976) 1 |
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"Anregung zur
Schaffung eines
weltweiten Wegweisers zu
donauschwäbischen
Vereinen und
Institutionen" Der
Donauschwabe (April 24,
1977) 5 |
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"Zum 25-jährigen
Bestehen der Vereinigung
der Donauschwaben in
Chicago" Nachrichten
der Donauschwaben in
Chicago (August 1978)
1-2 |
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"Bestände von Werken
Adam Müller-Guttenbrunns
(1852-1923) an
amerikanischen und
kanadischen Bibliotheken,
die bis 1956 erschienen
sind"
Donauschwäbische
Forschungs- und
Lehrerblätter 25,3
(1979) 71-76 |
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"Zur Herkunft der
Donauschwaben"
Nachrichten der
Donauschwaben in Chicago
(February 1981) 5-7 |
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"Das Problem der
Erhaltung der
Muttersprache in den USA"
Entwicklung und Erbe des
donauschwäbischen
Volksstammes.
Festschrift für Josef
Volkmar Senz zum 70.
Geburtstag. Editor:
Georg Wildmann. Munich:
Donauschwäbische
Kulturstiftung, 1982.
297-305 |
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Donauschwäbische
Gedankenskizzen aus USA
– Reflections of Danube
Swabians in America,
Aufsätze – Articles,
1968-1982. Anthology
(with addenda in English
and German). Winona,
Minnesota: Translation &
Interpretation Service,
1983. ISBN 0-9615505-0-3 |
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"In der Geburtsstunde
des Donauschwabentums:
Erste deutsche
Gruppenauswanderung nach
Amerika"
Donauschwäbische
Forschungs- und
Lehrerblätter 29,2
(1983) 49-55 |
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"High Technology and
Translation"
Business Brevities,
Winona State University,
Department of Business
Administration and
Economics (Spring 1983)
16-17 |
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"Danube Swabians"
Society of
German-American Studies
Newsletter 6,2 (1985)
12-13 |
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"Entre Rios ist eine
Reise wert!" Der
Donauschwabe 35,13
(March 31, 1985) 6 |
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Tracing Romania’s
Heterogeneous German
Minority from Its
Origins to the Diaspora.
Winona, Minnesota:
Translation &
Interpretation Service,
1985. ISBN 0-9615505-1-1 |
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"Foreign Language
Instruction at Winona
State University. An
Overview: 1932-1985"
Unpublished Manuscript,
January 1986 (11
typewritten pages) |
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"The Languages of
Luxembourg" Winona
Shopper and Post 15,20
(May 14, 1986) 10-11 |
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"Ein Beispiel
Elsass-Lothringischen
Kulturerbes in Banat
Topola" Das
Donautal-Magazin 10,29
(June 15, 1986) 23 |
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"Die
Deutschamerikaner"
Festbuch zur 30.
Jahresfeier des
Verbandes der
Donauschwaben in den
USA, e. V., 1957-1987.
Edited by Michael
Bresser and Franz
Awender. Cleveland,
Ohio: Danube Swabian
Association of the USA,
1987, 55-56 |
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Exploring French,
German, and Spanish.
Winona, Minnesota:
Translation &
Interpretation Service,
1987. ISBN 0-9615505-2-X
(German &
English in one combined volume)
Practical primers to help beginning
learners determine for which of these languages their particular aptitude
might be preeminent. There is potency in one's underlying aptitudes!
[Reviews]
Paperback 27.5 X 21 cm, 163
pages. $11.95, ISBN 0-9615505-2-X, includes illustrations and
bibliographic references.
(Winona, MN 1987). |
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Banat Topolas
Schwaben: 1791-1945.
Winona, Minnesota:
Translation &
Interpretation Service,
1992. ISBN 0-9615505-3-8
Descendants of expelled and widely
scattered former inhabitants of this village in the Vojvodina are now also
living in some English-speaking countries. The listing of former
local residents (p.48-51) should prove useful in genealogical research,
along with the village history that is provided, from it's founding to the
expulsion of its German-speaking native population in 1945. - How this
German-Hungarian Catholic settlement with the successive names of
Torontáltopolya, Töröktopolya, and Banatska Topola became a place of religious
veneration is also covered in this combined German and English volume.
[Reviews]
Bilingual paperback (Ger. &
Engl.) 27.5 X 21 cm, 154 pages, $19.95, ISBN 0-9615505-3-9 Illus., with
intermittent biographic content and a bibliography.
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Profile of an
Americanized Danube
Swabian Ethnically
Cleansed under Tito.
Littleton, Colorado:
Translation &
Interpretation Service,
Littleton, CO, 2001.
ISBN 0-9615505-4-6
Story
of a Danube Swabian immigrant to Chicago and his quest for
self-improvement upon having been denied educational and vocational
opportunities as a member of Yugoslavia's disenfranchised German minority
and as a refugee in Romania, Hungary and Austria, form 1944 until he came
to America in 1951. His advancement to a career as a university
professor in the Midwest contrasts sharply with former exposure as a
teenager to Nazi and Communist thinking. Proverbial tenets regarding
traditional perceptions in his native environment are fittingly
reexamined. By means of a historic group overview, the book
contributes toward filling a gap in pertinent English coverage. [Reviews]
Paperback 12.5 X 21.2 cm, 283 pages.
$29.95, ISBN 0-9615505-4-6, includes map drawing, 3 Appendices, and an
annotated bibliography.
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"Gegenwart und
Zukunft einer
Volksgruppe.
Überlegungen zum
donauschwäbischen Dasein"
Donauschwaben-Zeitung
2,4 (April 2004) 7: 2,5
(May 2004) 7: 2,6 (June
2004) 7 |
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"Gelebte
Volksfrömmigkeit.
Betrachtungen zum
Wallfahrtsort Banat
Topola"
Donauschwaben
Heimatkalender 2005.
Waiblingen: gsg medien,
2004. 51-54 |
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"Danube Swabian
Easter Customs"
www.dvhh.org/heritage/traditions/easter-customs~Steigerwald.htm
(16 Mar 05) |
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Reviews
Publications in which
Reviews of the book
Profile of an Americanized Danube Swabian Ethnically Cleansed under Tito
appeared, include:
(in
chronological order):
1)
Der Donauschwabe. Bundesorgan der Heimatvertriebenen aus Jugoslawien, Rumänien
und Ungarn, vol. 51, No. 15 (July 29, 2001), p.11 [pre-publication abstract].
2)
“Bücher-Ecke,” Gerhardsbote. Mitteilungsblatt des St. Gerhards-Werkes e. V.
und des Südostdeutschen Priesterwerkes, Stuttgart, Germany, vol.47, No. 5 (May
2002), p. 38.
3)
Amerika Woche/Washington Journal, vol. 143, No. 27/28 (July 8/15, 2002), p. 17.
4)
Der Donauschwabe. Bundesorgan der Heimatvertriebenen aus Jugoslawien, Rumänien
und Ungarn, vol. 52, No. 19 (September 22, 2002), p. 7.
5)
“Biography Shelf,” Midwest Book Review. Internet Bookwatch (October 2002).
6)
“Buchbesprechung,“ Eintracht. Wochenzeitung der Deutschsprachigen, Jahrgang
81-vol. 14 (December 7, 2002), p. 3.
Publications in which
Reviews of the book
Banat-Topola’s Schwaben:
1791-1945 appeared, include: (in
chronological order):
1)
Reference & Research Books, vol. 8
(March 1993), p. 6.
2)
AFRA – Family Records, TODAY, vol. 16, No. 1 (January 1995), p. 34.
3)
The German Quarterly, vol. 68, No. 1 (Winter 1995), p. 80-81, by Don Heinrich
Tolzmann.
4)
Donauschwäbische Forschungs- und Lehrerblätter, vol. 41, No. 4, Sequel 164
(Munich 1995), p. 86-87, by Anton Tafferner.
5) German
Genealogical Digest, vol. 18, No. 1 (Spring 2002), p. 29-30, by Gay P. Kowallis.
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