I was going through ff nation and so many ff have German last names and probably don't know it. I went through 52 pages out of 840 pages and found the following names:

Kieffer, Kurzdorfer, Messer, Wurzel, Bier, Sauerbier, Stumpf, Rosenberger, Schutz, Schultz, Schwartz, Schneider, Schmidt, Albrecht, Wagner, Bauer, Stahl, Dreher, Rickenbach, Brandt, Ziegler, Rieger, Keller, Hartman, Hess, Scharnhorst

Some of the names have a meaning such as a thing, for example, Messser = knife.

Here's a great German to English or vice versa dictionary:
http://dict.tu-chemnitz.de/

I'd like to hear anyone's take on this. I read on the internet that Germans make up the largest immigrant group in the US. Just a few states such as PA and TX have lots of German towns.