Friedrich Hecker and the Baden Uprising

Friedrich Hecker

A German-born lawyer, politician, radical democrat, and revolutionary. One of the most prominent speakers and agitators of the 1848 German March Revolution and Baden Revolution, he led the Hecker Uprising aiming to establish a republic. Following the failure of the uprising, he emigrated to the United States, where he led Illinois regiments composed largely of German immigrants as a Union colonel during the American Civil War. In America, he supported the abolition of slavery and influenced the political activities of the Republican Party and German-Americans.

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Year	Friedrich Hecker
1811	Birth of Friedrich Hecker (Period: September 28, 1811, Location: Angelbachtal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
1830	Legal Studies at the University of Heidelberg (Age: 18 years old, Period: 1830s, Location: Heidelberg)
1838	Beginning of Career as a Lawyer (Age: 26 years old, Period: 1838, Location: Mannheim)
1839	Marriage (Friedrich Hecker, Marie Josefine Eisenhardt, Age: 28 years old, Period: October 24, 1839, Location: Mannheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse)
1842	Election to the Second Chamber of the Baden Diet (Friedrich Hecker, Age: 30 years old, Period: 1842, Location: Grand Duchy of Hesse)
1845	Expulsion from Prussia (Age: 33 years old, Period: 1845, Location: Prussia, Stettin, etc.)
1847	Participation in the Offenburg Program (Age: 35 years old, Period: September 12, 1847, Location: Offenburg)
1848	Rejection of Credentials for the Baden Diet (Age: 36 years old, Period: 1848–1849, Location: Grand Duchy of Hesse) Demands for a Republic at the Frankfurt Pre-Parliament (Age: 36 years old, Period: March 1848, Location: Frankfurt am Main) Armed Struggle in the Baden Revolution and German March Revolution (Age: 36 years old, Period: April 1848, Location: Grand Duchy of Hesse, especially Donaueschingen to Kandern) Hecker Uprising (Age: 36 years old, Period: April 12 – April 20, 1848, Location: Grand Duchy of Hesse, Donaueschingen, Black Forest, Kandern) Emigration to the United States (Friedrich Hecker, Age: 36 years old, Period: September 1848 – 1849, Location: Around Belleville, Illinois)
1849	Battles during the Resurgence of the Baden Revolution (Age: 37 years old, Period: Spring 1849, Location: Baden and Southwest Germany)
1856	Activities in the Illinois Republican Party (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1856, Location: Illinois)
1861	American Civil War (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1861–1865, Location: United States of America) Command of the 24th Illinois Infantry Regiment (Age: 49 years old, Period: 1861, Location: Chicago, Illinois, etc.)
1863	Wounded in the Battle of Chancellorsville (Age: 51 years old, Period: May 2, 1863, Location: Chancellorsville, Virginia)
1864	Involvement in the 1864 Republican Split (Age: 52 years old, Period: May 1864, Location: Illinois and Cleveland, Ohio, United States)
1871	Welcoming Speech for German Unification (Friedrich Hecker, Age: 59 years old, Period: Around 1871, Location: St. Louis, Missouri)
1873	Visit to Germany (Age: 61 years old, Period: 1873, Location: Germany)
1881	Death of Friedrich Hecker (Age: 69 years old, Period: March 24, 1881)

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liberalism	Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Ernst Moritz Arndt Friedrich Ludwig Weidig Georg Büchner Friedrich Hecker Gustav Struve Robert Blum
German Empire	Otto von Bismarck Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Helmuth von Moltke Albrecht von Roon Albrecht von Bismarck Friedrich Wilhelm IV Friedrich III Leo von Caprivi
Musical Revolution	Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Johannes Brahms Felix Mendelssohn Robert Alexander Schumann Richard Wagner Anton Bruckner Johann Baptist Strauss
Marxism	Karl Marx Friedrich Engels Ferdinand Lassalle August Bebel Eduard Bernstein Wilhelm Liebknecht Clara Zetkin

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