Peter Michael Kraushaar, was born in 1960 in Cincinnati, Ohio and currently resides in Vancouver, Washington. Known as Mike to close family and friends, he grew up in Tucson, Arizona and graduated from Sabino High School in 1978 then served in the US Army Military Police for 3 years stationed in Northern Franconia (North Bavaria), Germany and Washington DC. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1985. Peter was employed as police officer. He served as a deputy sheriff for Multnomah County Oregon, as a US Government Police Officer, also as a radio announcer and worked at radio stations KLPX, KWFM and KSTM in Arizona in the 1980's, KUIK in Portland in the 1990's, and Internet station Radio Free Phoenix in this new century. Peter started the first radio station at Sunset Beach, Oregon KBFD-FM on May 11th 2004. After well over 6 years of genealogy and history research, Peter was able to trace our family history back to the year 1330 in Deutmecke and published the history on his website and preserved it on paper for all current and future generations. In 2014 he traveled to the Sauerland to complete his research.
