Fritz Anneke

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Fritz Anneke
Born	(1818-01-31)January 31, 1818 Dortmund, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	December 8, 1872(1872-12-08) (aged 54) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Place of burial	Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Allegiance	Forty-Eighters United States
Service/branch	Prussian Army United States Volunteers Union Army
Years of service	1840s (Prussia) 1862–1863 (USV)
Rank	Colonel, USV
Commands	34th Reg. Wis. Vol. Infantry
Battles/wars	German revolutions of 1848–1849 American Civil War
Other work	Journalist, political activist

Karl Friedrich Theodor "Fritz" Anneke (January 31, 1818 – December 8, 1872) was a German revolutionary, socialist and newspaper editor.^[1] He emigrated to the United States with his family in 1849 and became a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, and later worked as an entrepreneur and journalist. He was the husband of Mathilde Franziska Anneke, the older brother of Emil Anneke, the first Republican Michigan Auditor General, and the father of Percy Shelley Anneke, well known in Duluth, Minnesota, as co-founder and owner of the famous Fitger Brewing Company.