1. Friedrich Karl Franz Hecker was a German lawyer, politician and revolutionary.
18 Facts About Friedrich Hecker
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Friedrich Hecker was one of the most popular speakers and agitators of the 1848 Revolution.
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Friedrich Hecker abandoned the legal profession on being elected to the Second Chamber of Baden in 1842, and at once began to take part in the opposition against the government, which assumed a more and more openly radical character.
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Friedrich Hecker's influence helped to oust the Blittersdorf ministry from office.
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Friedrich Hecker had to yield to the more moderate majority, but on this account was driven still further towards the Left.
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The grand-ducal government of the Seekreis was dissolved, and Friedrich Hecker gradually gained reinforcements.
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Friedrich Hecker fled into the Canton of Basel, where he published a radical newspaper, and wrote his work "".
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Friedrich Hecker was again elected to the chamber of Baden, but the government refused its ratification and would no longer respect his immunity as a deputy.
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On being refused admission to the Frankfurt Parliament, though twice elected to represent Thiengen, Friedrich Hecker resolved in September 1848 to emigrate to North America like many other Forty-Eighters and bought a farm near Belleville, Illinois.
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Under the conditions of dreary guard duty, and not being professional soldiers, morale and discipline faltered, and Friedrich Hecker resigned his command on December 23,1861.
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The unit served in the eastern campaigns, and Friedrich Hecker was badly wounded at Chancellorsville on May 2,1863.
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Friedrich Hecker resigned this command on March 21,1864, but like the 24th Illinois, "Friedrich Hecker's Second Regiment" continued on active duty for the remainder of the war.
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When Friedrich Hecker returned home, almost immediately he became involved in a political split in the Republican Party.
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Dissatisfaction among radical republicans with Lincoln's middle political road came to a head in May 1864 when Friedrich Hecker led a faction of Fremont supporters to oppose Lincoln's renomination.
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Friedrich Hecker received a less favourable impression when he visited Germany in 1873 for criticizing lack of individual rights and the size of government in the new German government organization.
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Friedrich Hecker died at his farm in Summerfield, Illinois on March 24,1881.
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Friedrich Hecker was always very much a favourite with all the German democrats.
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On October 1,1882, the Friedrich Hecker Monument was installed in Benton Park, in St Louis, Missouri.