24 Facts About Gustav Struve

Gustav Struve spent over a decade in the United States and was active there as a reformer.

The younger Gustav Struve grew up and went to school in Munich, then studied law at universities in Gottingen and Heidelberg.

In Baden, Struve entered politics by standing up for the liberal members of the Baden parliament in news articles.

Gustav Struve was compelled in 1846 to retire from the management of this paper.

In 1845, Gustav Struve married Amalie Dusar on 16 November 1845 and in 1847 he dropped the aristocratic "von" from his surname due to his democratic ideals.

Gustav Struve gave attention to phrenology, and published three books on the subject.

Gustav Struve wanted to spread his radical dreams for a federal Germany across the country, starting in southwest Germany, and accompanied by Hecker and other revolutionary leaders.

Hecker and Gustav Struve fled to Switzerland, where Gustav Struve continued to plan the struggle.

Gustav Struve published Die Grundrechte des deutschen Volkes and made a "Plan for the Revolution and Republicanisation of Germany" along with the revolutionary playwright and journalist Karl Heinzen.

Once again it failed, and this time Gustav Struve was caught and imprisoned.

Gustav Struve was freed during the May Uprising in Baden in 1849.

Grand Duke Leopold of Baden fled and on 1 June 1849 Gustav Struve helped set up a provisionary republican parliament under the liberal politician Lorenz Brentano.

Gustav Struve edited Der Deutsche Zuschauer in New York City, but soon discontinued its publication because of insufficient support.

Gustav Struve wrote several novels and a drama in German, and then in 1852 undertook, with the assistance of his wife, the composition of a universal history from the standpoint of radical republicanism.

Gustav Struve promoted German public schools in New York City.

At the start of the 1860s, Gustav Struve joined in the American Civil War in the Union Army, a captain under Blenker, and one of the many German emigrant soldiers known as the Forty-Eighters.

Gustav Struve resigned a short time later to avoid serving under Blenker's successor, the Prussian Prince Felix Salm-Salm.

Gustav Struve was an abolitionist, and opposed plans to create a colony of freed slaves in Liberia because he thought it would hinder the abolition of slavery in the United States.

Gustav Struve never became naturalized since he felt his primary objective was to battle the despots of Europe.

In 1863, a general amnesty was issued to all those who had been involved in the revolutions in Germany, and Gustav Struve returned to Germany.

Gustav Struve was a leading figure in the initial stage of the German vegetarian movement.

Gustav Struve had become a vegetarian in 1832 under the influence of Rousseau's treatise Emile.

Gustav Struve authored the first German vegetarian-themed novel, Mandaras Wanderungen in 1833.

Gustav Struve founded the Vegetarische Gesellschaft Stuttgart in 1868.