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 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
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
Forty-eighters
…investment bankers: Abraham Kuhn, Solomon Loeb founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. Soldiers in the American Civil War: Louis Blenker; Alexander Schimmelpfennig; Carl Schurz; Franz Sigel; Max Weber; August Willich; Peter Joseph Osterhaus; Frederick Salomon; Joseph Weydemeyer; Gustav Struve; Friedrich Hecker Journalists…
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