240th Anniversary Dinner (November 4, 2023)

On Saturday, November 4, the German Society of Maryland celebrated its 240th Anniversary with a dinner at the Fogo de Chao restaurant at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.

The celebration opened with a toast to the Society with wines from the Weegmüller winery in Neustadt an der Weinstraße, specially purchased for the occasion. After the singing of the German and American national anthems, Pastor Siegfried Otto (a past-president of the Society) offered an invocation and attendees then enjoyed an outstanding meal, albeit Brazilian and not German! During the dessert course, Dr. Nicholas Fessenden (President of the Society for the History of the Germans in Maryland) gave a short presentation on the history of our Society. We look forward to seeing you at next year’s dinner.