Deutsch-Amerikanische Gesellschaft Neuss e.V. (DAGN)

25/02/2026

21/01/2026

Our honorary member Phil Murphy retired as Governor of New Jersey. We wish him and his family all the best for his retirement.

26/11/2025

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all our friends around the Globe! We wish you a happy family day with all your beloved ones around you and awesome food! 🦃 🥧 🍁🍷

26/11/2025

“On June 12, 1990, in the private residence of the White House, George H.W. Bush quietly signed the top-secret presidential decision directive authorizing the wheelchair lift to be installed at the family quarters—not for any visiting dignitary, but for his secret summer guest: eight-year-old Ryan White, the Indiana teenager who had been expelled from school for having AIDS and was now dying. George had invited Ryan and his mother Jeanne to spend an entire month living upstairs with the Bushes so Ryan could swim every day in the White House pool—the warm water eased his pain like nothing else—and Barbara turned the solarium into a makeshift bedroom overlooking the South Lawn so Ryan could watch Marine One come and go. On the night of June 27, when Ryan’s fever spiked dangerously, George slipped into the solarium alone at 2 a.m., sat on the edge of the hospital bed, and held the boy’s hand while reading aloud from Treasure Island until Ryan’s breathing steadied; Barbara found them at dawn, George asleep in the chair still clutching the book, his reading glasses crooked. Ryan told Jeanne the next morning, ‘The President said I’m the bravest pilot he ever met.’ When Ryan passed away the following April, George wept openly at the funeral—the only time a sitting president ever attended the funeral of an HIV-positive child—and kept Ryan’s red bicycle locked in the White House garage until the day he left office, a silent promise that no child would ever again be turned away for something they didn’t choose.”

18/11/2025

Minnesotan Govenor Tim Walz is visiting NRW, partner state of MN in Germany with a trade delegation. At a reception of the State of NRW and AmerikaHaus NRW, Governor Walz met DAGN-President Thomas Schommers, he also spoke to students from Alexander-von-Humboldt Gymnasium Neuss and mentioned their previous visit in Saint Paul, MN in his keynote speach. His son graduated from Central HS in Saint Paul, MN and it is the partner school of Humboldt Gymnasium. At the last US presidential election, Governor Walz was the running mate of Kamala Harris.

06/10/2025

We wish all our transatlantic friends around the world all the best! TODAY is German-American Day! Humboldt-Gymnasium Neuss is visiting Central High School in Saint Paul, MN. Enjoy your stay and hopefully, everybody has a wonderful German-American Day!

15/09/2025

10/08/2025

We use all available information in our visa screening and vetting to identify visa applicants who are inadmissible to the United States, including those who pose a threat to U.S. national security. Since 2019, the United States has required visa applicants to provide social media identifiers on immigrant and nonimmigrant visa application forms.

Wir nutzen alle verfügbaren Informationen bei der Überprüfung und Bewertung von Visa-Anträgen, um Antragsteller zu identifizieren, die nicht in die Vereinigten Staaten einreisen dürfen, einschließlich solcher, die eine Bedrohung für die nationale Sicherheit der USA darstellen. Seit 2019 müssen Visa-Antragsteller in den Vereinigten Staaten ihre Social-Media-Nutzernamen in den Formularen für Einwanderungs- und Nichteinwanderungsvisa angeben.