Friedrich Hecker
Two Lives for Liberty
Sabine Freitag author Steven Rowan translator Steven Rowan editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association
Published:30th Nov '06
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Friedrich Hecker (1811-1881) lived the first half of his life in the Grand Duchy of Baden, a small state in southern Germany. He was a major leader of a rebellion on behalf of the German republican movement in 1848, but his defeat forced him into exile in America. There he spent the second half of his life as a farmer in southern Illinois, helping to found the Republican Party and campaigning among his countrymen in local and national elections. During the Civil War, he served bravely, fighting in some of the most important battles. Although much better known in Germany than in America, he founded a remarkable family in the Midwest that is still flourishing and is a major example of the melding of the European and American traditions of liberty. The work draws heavily from original sources, including letters and diaries at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection, the Missouri Historical Society, and the St. Louis Mercantile Library.
As an immigrant leader in St. Louis and neighboring Illinois, Friedrich Hecker forged the bonds that tied the region's German community to the party of Abraham Lincoln and to the cause of emancipation that shaped modern America. - Louis S. Gerteis, author of Civil War St. Louis
ISBN: 9780963980472
Dimensions: 237mm x 172mm x 32mm
Weight: 458g
494 pages