Fritz Anneke

Karl Friedrich Theodor "Fritz" Anneke (January 31, 1818  December 8, 1872) 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. 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.

Fritz Anneke
Born(1818-01-31)January 31, 1818
Dortmund, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia
DiedDecember 8, 1872(1872-12-08) (aged 54)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Place of burial
Forest Home Cemetery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
AllegianceForty-Eighters
United States
Service/branch
  • Prussian Army
  • United States Volunteers
    Union Army
Years of service1840s (Prussia)
18621863 (USV)
RankColonel, USV
Commands held34th Reg. Wis. Vol. Infantry
Battles/warsGerman revolutions of 1848–1849
American Civil War
Other workJournalist, political activist
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