Peter Hart

Born in Oberhausen (Rhineland) Germany, Josef emigrated to Ithaca, New York in 1951 and moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1955. His professional career was in broadcasting, retiring as the manager of commercial productions of Channel 2 in Tulsa in 1993. His civic career consisted of work in the Theater Tulsa, television and film production, one of the founders of Tulsa's Oktoberfest, an active member of the German American Society Arts Association and German American Society Building Corporation in Tulsa. Because of his active involvement in the German American Society, he was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Distinguished Service Cross) by the Counsel General for the Federal Republic of Germany, on the tenth anniversary of the German American Society of Tulsa.