Fritz Anneke
| Fritz Anneke | |
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| Born |
January 3, 1818 Dortmund, Prussia |
| Died | December 6, 1872 (aged 54) Chicago, United States |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America Prussia
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 1862–1863 |
| Rank |
 Colonel
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| Unit |
 34th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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| Commands held |
34th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment
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| Battles/wars | U.S. Civil War |
| Other work | Journalist, political activist |
Friedrich 'Fritz' Anneke (January 3, 1818, Dortmund, Prussia – December 6, 1872, Chicago, United States) was a German socialist and newspaper editor, owner, and reporter. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1849 and became an officer in the Union Army, and later 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, now registered as a U.S. National Historic Place.
The Anneke family (usually spelled "Annecke"; Fritz changed the spelling of his name while still in Germany) originates from a small village called Schadeleben close to Quedlinburg in what is today Saxony-Anhalt. Schadeleben is close to the Harz mountains, one of the oldest mining regions in Europe. Like the family of Martin Luther, whose birthplace, Eisleben, is only a few kilometers away from Schadeleben, many of Anneke's ancestors had worked in mining, which is why the family moved to Dortmund in the early 19th century, when industrial coal mining was beginning in the Ruhr district. Like his father, Anneke's brother Emil was a mining inspector, before he became involved in the 1848 revolution.
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