Andreas Gottschalk (28 February 1815 in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...

– 8 September 1849) was a German physician. He was a member of the

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

community

Communist League The Communist League (German: ''Bund der Kommunisten)'' was an international political party established on 1 June 1847 in London, England. The organisation was formed through the merger of the League of the Just, headed by Karl Schapper, and the ...

. He was an

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of the "Left"

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tendencies of the German working class movement. He founded and became president in April 1848 of the Cologne Workers Association, which he led until he got arrested in June of that year. He was released from jail in December. After spending a short time abroad, he returned to Cologne, where he worked as a doctor for the poor until his death in the fall of 1849 having the previous year been "cheered on by a crowd of 5,000, called for the establishment of a revolutionary committee" as part of the 1848 revolts. Gottschalk died after contracting

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himself.

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