Von: jsnyder@feist.com (Joan Snyder)
  Datum: 08.07.98, 20:31:32
Betreff: Re: 1848-49 REVOLUTION

Greetings to all those on the list.  Information of the German
Revolutionists of 1848 and some information on my family search.

Came to America, George Albert WIRTH (1847), Phillip GERNER (1848).
BAUER, WALDECKER, and NASSER, are other names found in Baden, Germany.
William Fredrick WINZER came over in 1848 from Saxony, Germany, he and
two other brothers jumped a German Navel ship and worked their way to
Weston, Platte Co., MO.  Any information on these families would be
appreciated.

Family oral history told me that my Wirth family came to America with
General Segal who was defeated in Baden Germany and come across the Rhine
to Switzerland and then came to America.  On this list I did find an
uncle Phillip Gerner, also were several other family sir names, I did not
find my direct ancestor Albert Wirth although my understanding was he
came in 1847 with his second wife and child.  Four other children were
left in Germany and come with another uncle Gerner to America in 1850 to
join their father in Attica, NY.  I found more information when looking
up General Segal in the American War between the States.  He had a great
following of German emigrants and I appreciated the fact that it gave a
history of him coming to America, which  followed our history of how this
part of my family came to America  and the events.  Most of the children
came to Platte Co.,  Mo. where their uncle Phillip Gerner was a miller.

This following information I will send in two parts, as I don't know how
much I can put on e-mail.  This is my first time on, although I have
enjoyed reading many of your questions and answers.

German-American Genealogical Research
Monograph Number 21, Part 1

German Revolutionists of 1848
Among Whom Many Immigrants to America
Clifford Neal Smith

Westland Publications
McNeal, Arizona
1985
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929.343
Sm53
V. 21
Pt.1

Kansas State Historical Research Library
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Introduction

Emigrants from the German principalities began migrating to New York and
the "Island of Pennsylvania" in the early eighteenth century and it is
likely that, even before then, some German soldiers were stationed in the
colonies as members of British army units.  With notable exceptions,
German settlers before 1850 were peasants, rudimentarily educated, more
interested in farming than in pursuing intellectual activities.  The
exceptions were likely to have been Lutheran or Reformed ministers, a
mere handful.  Thus, it was only after the upheavals of 1848 in Germany
that many intellectuals came to America.  When, during the decade
following 1850, such individuals did arrive in numbers, a great flowering
of German culture took place in America.  A myriad local and regional
German-language newspapers and magazines were founded; German-language
newspapers and magazines were founded; German-language schools abounded;
most importantly, the new immigrants organized political and cultural
clubs, even their own settlements on the American frontier.  Nearly all
the new German-Americans were abolitionists opposed to the institution of
slavery in the United States.  When the American Civil War began,
German-Americans flocked to the Northern cause, and there were numerous
Northern troops units in which German was the only language spoken.  Thus
it is that the German revolutionists of  1848 hold a particularly
distinguished place in the history of Germandom in the United States.


Ron Waters wrote:

> Does anyone have information on the Baden-Wurttemberg Revolution of
> 1848-49.  I'm curious about how this may have affected  emmigration.
> Any information would be helpful.
>
> I'm researching Hofele, Humel and Hoellriegel from the Schwabisch Alb
> area of Wurttemberg.
>
> Thank you,
> Jeanne Waters