Abstract The Deutscher Verein was a German cultural, social, and musical organization formed officially in 1874 through the consolidation of two much older local German groups from the mid-1850s; namely, the Turnverein, or Turners, and Liederkranz or Singing Society. In 1875 the German Independent School Society also joined the Deutscher Verein. Later names were the Germania Society and the Pioneer Club. The organization dissolved in 1937.Records of the Deutscher Verein von La Crosse...