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→The single person most identified as "Father" of the United States is George Washington, a general in the American Revolution and the 1st President of the United States.^[1]^[2]^[3] Washington was part of a larger group of revolutionaries known as the "Founding Fathers". Within the Founding Fathers, there are two key subsets, the Signers (who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776) and the Framers (who were delegates to the Federal Convention and took part in framing or drafting the proposed Constitution of the United States). Some historians have suggested a revised definition of the "Founding Fathers", including a significantly broader group of not only the Signers and the Framers but also all those who, whether as politicians, jurists, statesmen, soldiers, diplomats, and ordinary citizens took part in winning U.S. independence and creating the United States of America.^[4]

Frederick Barbarossa has, from time to time, been cited as the father and hero of the German people. According to a Germanic medieval legend, Barbarossa was not dead but asleep, and would awaken in the hour of Germany's greatest need and restore the nation to its former glory. ^[5] This idea gained prominence among German Nationalist movements in the 19th and 20th century. During the German Empire, Kaiser Wilhelm I was declared the reincarnation of Frederick.^[6]^[7] In 1937, Adolf Hitler praised Barbarossa as the emperor who first expressed Germanic cultural ideas and carried them to the outside world through his imperial mission; he would later name his invasion of the Soviet Union.^[8]

^ Unger, Harlow Giles (2013). "Mr. President": George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office. Da Capo Press, A Member of the Perseus Book Group. pp. 236–237. ISBN 978-0306822414.
^ Parry, Jay A.; Allison, Andrew M. (1991). The Real George Washington: The True Story of America's Most Indispensable Man. National Center for Constitutional Studies. p. xi. ISBN 978-0880800136.
^ "Father of His Country". George Washington's Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. Archived from the original on July 13, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2024.
^ R.B. Bernstein, The Founding Fathers Reconsidered (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).
^ Childers, Thomas (2017). The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 470–471. ISBN 978-1-45165-113-3.
^ Jarausch, K. H. (1997). After Unity; Reconfiguring German Identities. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 35. ISBN 1-57181-041-2.
^ Freed, John (19 June 2016a). Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth. Yale University Press. pp. 523–526. ISBN 978-0-300-22116-9. Retrieved 11 February 2022.
^ Mayer, Arno J. (1989). Der Krieg als Kreuzzug: Das Deutsche Reich, Hitlers Wehrmacht und die Endlösung (in German). Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowolt. p. 340. ISBN 978-3-49804-333-9.

[1] Unger, Harlow Giles (2013). "Mr. President": George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office. Da Capo Press, A Member of the Perseus Book Group. pp. 236–237. ISBN 978-0306822414.

[2] Parry, Jay A.; Allison, Andrew M. (1991). The Real George Washington: The True Story of America's Most Indispensable Man. National Center for Constitutional Studies. p. xi. ISBN 978-0880800136.

[3] "Father of His Country". George Washington's Mount Vernon. Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. Archived from the original on July 13, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2024.

[4] R.B. Bernstein, The Founding Fathers Reconsidered (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009).

[5] Childers, Thomas (2017). The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 470–471. ISBN 978-1-45165-113-3.

[6] Jarausch, K. H. (1997). After Unity; Reconfiguring German Identities. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 35. ISBN 1-57181-041-2.

[7] Freed, John (19 June 2016a). Frederick Barbarossa: The Prince and the Myth. Yale University Press. pp. 523–526. ISBN 978-0-300-22116-9. Retrieved 11 February 2022.

[8] Mayer, Arno J. (1989). Der Krieg als Kreuzzug: Das Deutsche Reich, Hitlers Wehrmacht und die Endlösung (in German). Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowolt. p. 340. ISBN 978-3-49804-333-9.

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