Emil Anneke

Summary

Emil Anneke (Emil Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Annecke; December 13, 1823 in Dortmund – October 27, 1888 in Bay City, Michigan, United States) was a German revolutionary and Forty-Eighter and American journalist, lawyer and politician (Republican Party). From 1863 until 1866 he served as Michigan Auditor General, the first Republican serving in that position. Emil was the younger brother of U.S. colonel and former German revolutionary commander Fritz Anneke, his sister-in-law was the famous German-American writer, college founder, abolitionist and suffragette Mathilde Anneke.

Literature edit

  • Michigan Historical Commission: Michigan biographies, including members of Congress [...]. Band I, Michigan Historical Commission, Lansing 1924
  • John Andrew Russell: The Germanic Influence in the Making of Michigan. University, Detroit 1927
  • Heinrich Annecke: "Die Bauernfamilie Annecke in Schadeleben und ihre Stammfolge." In: Deutsches Familienarchiv. Band 13, 1960, p. 116–140 (p. 129 briefly about Emil Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Annecke) ISSN 0012-1266

External links edit

  • Office of the Auditor General, State of Michigan
  • Detailed Biography of Emil Anneke
  • Michigan State Archives: Documents about a vendetta against Anneke in 1864
Political offices
Preceded by
Langford G. Berry
Michigan Auditor General
1863–1866
Succeeded by
William Humphrey