Carl Christian Schurz was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–1849 and became a p
Portrait by Mathew Brady c. 1869–1875
Carl Schurz as a young man
Carl Schurz, [c. 1859–1870]. Carte de Visite Collection, Boston Public Library
"For freedom in Germany and America": West German commemorative stamp featuring Schurz for the United States Bicentennial, 1976
The Forty-eighters were Europeans who participated in or supported the Revolutions of 1848 that swept Europe, particularly those who were expelled from or emigrated from their native land after those
Carl Schurz
…Prussia suppressed the revolutionary movement Schurz fled to France. When police forced him to leave France he migrated to London. Like many other "Forty-Eighters", he then migrated to the United States, settling in Watertown, Wisconsin, in 1852. After being admitted to the Wisconsin bar, he established a legal…
Carl Schurz in 1860. A participant of the 1848 revolution in Germany, he immigrated to the United States and became the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior.
St. Louis Turnverein, 1860