Carl Schurz - in Memoriam

In Memoriam

Schurz is memorialized in numerous places around the United States:

  • Carl Schurz Park, a 14.9 acre (60,000 m²) park in New York City, adjacent to Yorkville, Manhattan, overlooking the waters of Hell Gate. Named for Schurz in 1910, it is the site of Gracie Mansion, the residence of the Mayor of New York since 1942
  • Karl Bitter's 1913 monument to Schurz outside Morningside Park, at Morningside Drive and 116th Street in New York City
  • Carl Schurz and Abraham Jacobi Memorial Park in Bolton Landing, New York
  • Schurz, Nevada named after him
  • Carl Schurz Drive, a residential street in the northern end of his former home of Watertown, Wisconsin
  • Schurz Elementary School, in Watertown, Wisconsin
  • Carl Schurz Park, a private membership park in Stone Bank (Town of Merton), Wisconsin, on the shore of Moose Lake
  • Carl Schurz Forest, a forested section of the Ice Age Trail near Monches, Wisconsin
  • Schurz Monument ("Our Greatest German American") in Menominee Park, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
  • Carl Schurz High School, a historic landmark in Chicago, built in 1910.
  • Schurz Hall, a student residence at the University of Missouri.
  • Carl Schurz Elementary School in New Braunfels, Texas
  • Mount Schurz, a mountain in eastern Yellowstone, north of Eagle Peak and south of Atkins Peak, named in 1885 by the United States Geological Survey, to honor Schurz's commitment to protecting Yellowstone National Park
  • In 1983, the U.S. Postal Service issued a 4-cent Great Americans series postage stamp with his name and face
  • In World War II, the United States liberty ship SS Carl Schurz was named in his honor.
  • The USS Carl Schurz was commissioned in 1917 as a Patrol Gun Boat. Formerly the small unprotected cruiser SMS Geier of the German Imperial Navy, the ship had been taken over by the U.S. Navy when hostilities between Germany and the U.S. commenced, after having been interned in Honolulu in 1914. The Schurz sank after a collision in April 1918 off Beaufort Inlet, Florida.

Several memorials in Germany also commemorate the life and work of Schurz:

  • Streets named after him in Berlin-Spandau, Bremen, Stuttgart, Erftstadt-Liblar, Giessen, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Köln, Rastatt, Paderborn, Pforzheim, Pirmasens, Leipzig, Wuppertal
  • Schools in Bonn, Bremen, Berlin-Spandau, Frankfurt am Main, Rastatt and his place of birth, Erftstadt-Liblar
  • The Carl Schurz Haus in Freiburg im Breisgau is an innovative institute (formerly Amerika-Haus) fostering German-American cultural relations
  • an urban area in Frankfurt am Main
  • the Carl Schurz Bridge over the Neckar River
  • a memorial fountain as well as the house where Lt. Schurz was billeted in 1849 in Rastatt
  • German Armed Forces barracks in Hardheim
  • German federal stamps in 1952 and 1976

The United States Army base in Bremerhaven, Germany was also named for Schurz - Karl Schurz Kaserne. The base served as a logistical hub for U.S. forces in Germany. The base was returned to the German government in 1996, following the end of the Cold War.

Schurz was portrayed by Edward G. Robinson in John Ford's film Cheyenne Autumn (1963), which shows in part his efforts to secure fair treatment for Native Americans.

Highlights of Schurz's career are dramatized in the third part (“Little Germanies”) of Engstfeld Film's four-part series Germans in America (2006).

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