Lorenzo Brentano was a German revolutionary and journalist who served as President of the Free State of Baden during the 1849 Baden Revolution. Following the failure of the revolutions, he and many other intellectuals and leaders fled to the United States, where he became editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung and eventually served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois.
Brentano in 1878
Lorenz Brentano in 1848
Brentano's grave at Graceland Cemetery
The Baden Revolution of 1848/1849 was a regional uprising in the Grand Duchy of Baden which was part of the revolutionary unrest that gripped almost all of Central Europe at that time.
Gustav Struve
September 1847 flyer with the "demands of the people", which formulated the goals of the radical democrats at the Offenburg Assembly
Contemporary lithograph, from the perspective of the revolutionaries, of the Battle of Kandern on 20 April 1848, at which the Hecker Uprising was put down
Monument at the Kandern Scheideck for General Friedrich von Gagern and the fallen soldiers and revolutionaries