The North Texas Chapter of the German American Chamber of Commerce celebrated their annual membership appreciation event on December 4, 2008  in the lobby of the Mercantile Place upscale apartments on Main Street in the heart of downtown Dallas with a beautiful view over the Dallas skyline. 

We are thankful for the support of our main sponsors, Dan Hughes with The Mercantile apartments who made it possible to use one of their lobby's on the 14th floor for our Christmas Event. A special thanks to Dan as well for taking our guests on several tours throughout the entire apartment complex.

Vertima Smith, owner of Le Soiree Catering spoiled our guests with delicious Hors-d’œuvre's and a beautiful arranged fruit buffet.

Special thanks goes to the following companies who donated products for our silent auction:

The Bavarian Grill, Eugene Flynn, GermanDeli.com, La Buena Vida Vineyard and Lufthansa German Airlines.

The winning bidders will help us to make a donation to the Dirk Nowitzki Foundation.
 
A special thanks goes  to Jorge Varela with Technology for Business Corporation, who was the highest bidder of the night and received a picture signed by Dirk Nowitzki. 

The other winners are: Patrick Moebel with ABX Logistics USA, Eugene Flynn with Eugene Flynn, P.C., Lothar Katz with Leadership Crossroads and Traute Malhotra with THM Realty.

Another special thanks goes to the Event organizing team Traute Malhotra, Alexandra Kinney, Kristin Drauschke, Christina Stoll-Shewmaker and Nathalie Flat for her continous support during the year.

Alex Kinney, Christina Stoll-Shewmaker, Nathalie Flatt and Kristin Drauschke (not on picture Director of the GACC Traute Malhotra)

Here are some more pictures, - hope to see you next year again! Merry Christmas everyone and all the best for 2009!