List of United States Political Families (A) - The Annekes (Wisconsin, Michigan)

The Annekes (Wisconsin, Michigan)

• Emil Anneke (1823–1888), Republican Party, mining engineer, emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1850, one of the founders of the Republican Party in Michigan, abolitionist and strong supporter of Abraham Lincoln, Michigan Auditor General from 1863 until 1866, lawyer in East Saginaw and later in Lansing, Michigan.
  • Edward E. Anneke, of Bay County, Michigan, son of Emil Anneke (see ref. above), Candidate for circuit judge in Michigan 18th Circuit, 1905.
• Fritz Anneke (1818–1872, Republican Party), artillery officer (Prussia, Palatinate, Baden, US Army (Union)), brother of Emil Anneke, husband of Mathilde Anneke, and father of Percy Shelley Anneke, born in Germany, Prussian artillery officer, democratic leader in Cologne together with Moses Hess (the "grandfather" of Zionism), Carl Schurz, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wilhelm Liebknecht (founder of German SPD party), active during the German 1848 revolution, commander of Carl Schurz in the 1849 military campaign against Prussia, fled to the United States in 1850, newspaper editor in Newark and Milwaukee, commanding officer of the 34th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment, active supporter of Giuseppe Garibaldi and the Italian Risorgimento, died in Chicago in 1872.
• Mathilde Anneke (1817–1884), Republican Party, wife of Fritz Anneke, sister-in-law of Emil Anneke, and mother of Percy Shelley Anneke, romantic writer in Westphalia at the time of Biedermeier, close friendship with Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, turned from conservative Catholic to progressive socialist after her divorce, officer with Carl Schurz in the regiment of her husband during the 1849 military campaign in the Palatinate, emigrated to the USA in 1850, writer, feminist author, close relationship with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, abolitionist, agitation against slavery and for the liberation of African Americans, U.S. foreign correspondent in Zürich, Switzerland, founding of first women's college in Wisconsin.
  • Percy Shelley Anneke (1850–1924), entrepreneur and businessman in Duluth, Minnesota, son of Fritz and Mathilde Anneke, founder of Fitger Brewing Company in Duluth, now a U.S. National Historic Place, sold his enterprise at the beginning of Prohibition in 1920 and moved to Pasadena, California.