Mathilde Franziska Anneke
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Mathilde Franziska Anneke was a German writer, feminist, and radical democrat who participated in the Revolutions of 1848–1849. In late 1849, she moved to the United States, where she campaigned to en
Mathilde Franziska Anneke
Anneke circa 1875
Graves of Fritz and Mathilde Franziska Anneke at Forest Home Cemetery
Forty-eighters
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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
Mathilde Franziska Anneke
…on July 23, 1849, Prussia and Baden defeated the revolutionary forces at Rastatt, Baden. Like many other refugees of the Revolutions of 1848 (the Forty-Eighters), the Anneke family fled to the United States. Following other relatives, they moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1849. This chapter of Anneke's life…
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