Birth Name: John Frank Stossel
Place of Birth: Chicago Heights, Illinois, United States
Date of Birth: March 6, 1947
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
John Stossel is an American television personality, author, and libertarian pundit. He hosts the weekly news show Stossel on Fox News. John is the son of Anna Dora (Tuchmann) and Otto Ernst Stossel. They were both Jewish immigrants from Germany. They joined a Congregationalist church in the U.S., and John was raised in that faith. As an adult, John re-embraced his Jewish heritage, and is married to a Jewish woman.
John’s maternal grandparents were Otto Manfred Tuchmann (the son of Friedrich “Fritz” Tuchmann and Karoline Obermeyer) and Grete Dessauer (the daughter of Carl Dessauer and Berta Feistmann). Otto and Grete were born in Nuremberg, Germany. Friedrich was born in Uehlfeld, Germany. Karoline was born in Fürth, Germany.
Source: Genealogy of John Stossel (focusing on his mother’s side) – http://www.geni.com
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