2 MEN FROM GERMAN UNIFICATION

GUSTAV VON STUVE

• Struve was born in Munich the son of a Russian diplomat Johann Christoph Gustav von Struve

GUSTAV Pt. 2

• Along with Friedrich Hecker, Struve took on a leading role in the revolutions
• Beginning with the Hecker Uprising, also accompanied by his wife Amalie.
• Both Hecker and Struve belonged to the radical democratic, anti-monarchist wing of the revolutionaries
• On 21 September 1848 he made another attempt to start an uprising in Germany
• Once again it failed, and this time Struve was caught and imprisoned.

GUSTAV Pt.3

• Struve was freed during the May Uprising in Baden in 1849.
• Grand Duke Leopold of Baden fled and on 1 June 1849 Struve helped set up a provisionary republican parliament under the liberal politician Lorenz Brentano.
• Under the liberal politician Lorenz Brentano.
• After the revolutions and his return to Germany.
• On 21 August 1870 he died in Vienna where he had settled.

GUSTAV Pt.4

• Along with other revolutionaries, managed to escape execution, fleeing to exile

FRIEDRICH HECKER

• Was a German lawyer, politician and revolutionary.
• He was one of the most popular speakers and agitators of the 1848 Revolution.
• Born at Eichtersheim, the son of a revenue official, he studied law at the University of Heidelberg
• In 1838, he was an advocate before the Supreme Court in Mannheim.
• He abandoned the legal profession on being elected to the Second Chamber of Baden in 1842

FRIEDRICH HECKER PT.2

• returned to Baden and resumed his former position as the radical champion of popular rights
• later becoming president of the Volksverein. where he was destined to fall still further under the influence of the agitator Gustav
• 1848, attempted to extort from the government the most far-reaching concessions. But failed.

FRIEDRICH HECKER PT.3

• After moving to the United States, Hecker always maintained an acute interest in events in Germany.
• In the spring of 1849, the Baden revolution re-ignited, and Hecker returned to Europe to participate.

FRIEDRICH HECKER PT.4

• He died at his farm in Summerfield, Illinois on March 24, 1881.