FAMOUS MIGRANTS Carl Schurz After his emigration in 1852 he became an US-American politician who was among other things the first German member in the US Senate. Biography Childhood Carl Christian Schurz was The father of Carl Schurz was named Christian born on 2nd March 1829 Schurz .Christian Schurz lived from 1797 to 1876 in Liblar. He was a and he was a teacher at a county school . German revolutionary, an His mother was also born in Liblar near Cologne . American statesman and Carl Schurz had two younger brothers and sisters, a reformer. At the end they were Heribert (1830-1838), Anna (1833-1908) of the 1840 years Schurz and Antoinette (1837-1923). was a radical German revolutionary. From 1833/34 on he went to the school at Liblar, After his emigration he from Easter 1837 attended the grammar school in became an accomplished Brühl and from 1839 to 1846 the “Marzellen journalist, newspaper Gymnasium” in Cologne. For financial reasons editor and orator, who in he had to leave the school and move to Bonn. There 1869 became the he got his exam as an external on the 28th of July, first German-born 1847. American elected to the United State Senate. From 1847 he studied philology and history at the From 1877 to 1881 he university of Bonn. Here he made friends with was State Secretary of the professor Gottfried Kinkel and joined the Bonn United States under students' society Rutherford B. Heyes. Frankonia in 1847. Carl Schurz: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schurz#/media/File:Carl-Schurz.jpg Emigration Quotation While in London, Schurz married fellow revolutionary Johannes „Ideale sind wie Sterne. Man kann sie nicht Ronge's sister-in-law, Margarethe Meyer, in July 1852 and then, like erreichen, aber man kann sich nach ihnen many other “Forty-Eighters”, emigrated to the United States. Living orientieren.“ (Ideals are like stars. One cannot initially in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Schurzes moved to reach them, but one can orientate himself after Watertown, Wisconsin, where Carl nurtured his interests in politics them.) and Margarethe began her seminal work in early childhood education. But in 1862 Schurz started his career during the Civil War when he joined the Union army of the United States of America. In a few months he rose to a General major and division commander of the US-army. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Schurz#/media/File:Carl_Schurz_Signature.svg “No one can rise their idol but you can orientated on your idol.” Philip & Leonie (GBN, year 9) http://gutezitate.com/zitate-bilder/zitat-ideale-sind-wie-sterne-man- kann-sie-nicht-erreichen-aber-man-kann-sich-nach-ihnen- orientieren-carl-schurz-221026.jpg .