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Friedrich Hecker

1811–1881 · 19th century

Friedrich Hecker was a lawyer and radical democrat from Baden who led an armed rising for a German republic in April 1848, the Hecker Uprising, which was defeated near Kandern. He fled to Switzerland and then to the United States, where he farmed in Illinois and served as a colonel in the Union army during the American Civil War.

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Grand Duchy of Baden

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