Gustav Koerner
| Gustav Koerner | |
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| 12th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois | |
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In office 10 January 1853 – 12 January 1857 |
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| Governor | Joel Aldrich Matteson |
| Preceded by | William McMurtry |
| Succeeded by | John Wood |
| United States Minister to Spain | |
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In office 14 June 1862 – 20 July 1864 |
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| President | Abraham Lincoln |
| Preceded by | Carl Schurz |
| Succeeded by | John P. Hale |
| Member of the Illinois House of Representatives | |
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In office 1842 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
Gustav Philipp Körner 20 November 1809 Frankfurt am Main |
| Died | 9 April 1896 (aged 86) Belleville, Illinois |
| Resting place |
 Cemetery Walnut Hill, Belleville, Illinois |
| Citizenship |
 Free City of Frankfurt United States (1838) |
| Nationality | German, American |
| Political party | Republican (co-founder) |
| Other political affiliations |
Democrat, Liberal |
| Spouse(s) |
 Sophie Engelmann (m. 1836–88)
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| Children |
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| Residence | 200 Abend St., Belleville, Illinois 62220 |
| Alma mater | University of Heidelberg, Transylvania University |
| Occupation | Politician, lawyer, judge, journalist |
| Profession | Doctor juris utriusque |
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| Website | www.gustavekoerner.org |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | United States of America Union |
| Service/branch |
United States Army Union Army |
| Years of service | 1861–1862 |
| Rank |
 Colonel, Brig. General
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| Unit | 43rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment |
| Battles/wars | American Civil War |
Gustav Philipp Koerner, also spelled Gustave or Gustavus Koerner (20 November 1809 – 9 April 1896) was a revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, judge, and statesman in Illinois and Germany and a Colonel of the U.S. Army who was a confessed enemy of slavery. He married on 17 June 1836 in Belleville Sophia Dorothea Engelmann (16 November 1815 – 1 March 1888), they had 9 children. He belonged to the co-founders and was one of the first members of the Grand Old Party; and he was a close confidant of Abraham Lincoln and his wife Mary Todd and had an essential role in his nomination and election for president in 1860.
Gustav was the son of the Frankfurt publisher, bookseller and art dealer Bernhard Körner (1776–1829) and his wife Maria Magdalena Kämpfe (1776–1847), daughter of another Frankfurt bookseller. He graduated with Abitur from the Gymnasium Francofurtanum. Then he studied law at the universities in Jena, Munich and Heidelberg and graduated 1832 from the University of Heidelberg as Dr. iuris utriusque, doctor as well as German and Roman law.
Because of his participation at the so-called Christmas riots in Munich on Christmas Eve 1830 he was taken into custody for four months. He was involved in a snowball fight and due to the Christian celebrations at this day a little drunken what led to a confrontation with the Gendarmerie of that city in royal Bavaria where an officer was knocked down and wounded. He has learnt more about the law in the time of his captivity in Munich than ever before during the two-year studies at the university of Jena, he remembered himself later. Owing to this event the university of Munich was temporarily closed and Koerner changed to the university in Heidelberg after his custody.
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