Emil Anneke (''Emil Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Annecke''; December 13, 1823 in

Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...

– October 27, 1888 in

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, United States) was a German revolutionary and Forty-Eighter and American

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and politician ( Republican Party). From 1863 until 1866 he served as

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, the first Republican serving in that position. Emil was the younger brother of U.S. colonel and former German revolutionary commander

Fritz Anneke Karl Friedrich Theodor "Fritz" Anneke () 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 en ...

, his sister-in-law was the famous German-American writer, college founder, abolitionist and suffragette

Mathilde Anneke Mathilde Franziska Anneke (née Giesler; April 3, 1817 – November 25, 1884) was a German writer, feminist, and radical democrat who participated in the Revolutions of 1848–1849. In late 1849, she moved to the United States, where she campaign ...

Literature

* Michigan Historical Commission: ''Michigan biographies, including members of Congress ..'. Band I, Michigan Historical Commission, Lansing 1924 * John Andrew Russell: ''The Germanic Influence in the Making of Michigan''. University, Detroit 1927 * Heinrich Annecke: "Die Bauernfamilie Annecke in Schadeleben und ihre Stammfolge." In: ''Deutsches Familienarchiv''. Band 13, 1960, p. 116–140 (p. 129 briefly about Emil Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Annecke)

External links

Office of the Auditor General, State of Michigan

Michigan State Archives: Documents about a vendetta against Anneke in 1864
{{DEFAULTSORT:Annecke, Emil Politicians from Dortmund German-American Forty-Eighters German revolutionaries 1823 births 1888 deaths 19th-century American newspaper editors German emigrants to the United States Michigan Republicans Michigan Auditors General People from the Province of Westphalia American male journalists 19th-century American male writers