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Fritz Anneke | |
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Born | Dortmund, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia | January 31, 1818
Died | December 8, 1872 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | (aged 54)
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Allegiance | Forty-Eighters United States |
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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.
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