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Fritz Anneke

German-American political activist, Union Army Civil War colonel, journalist (1818-1872) · United States · On the map · Activists · Died at 54

Karl Friedrich Theodor "Fritz" Anneke was a German revolutionary, socialist and newspaper editor. 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.

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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.

Country
United States
Category
Activists
Type
Activist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1818 to 1872 · aged 54