Friedrich 'Fritz' Anneke (January 3, 1818, Dortmund, Prussia – December 8, 1872, Chicago, United States) was a German revolutionary, socialist and newspaper editor, owner, and reporter. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1849 and became an officer in the Union Army, and later an entrepreneur and journalist. He was the husband of Mathilde Franziska Anneke, the older brother of Emil Anneke, the first Republican Michigan Auditor General, and the father of Percy Shelley Anneke, well known in Duluth, Minnesota, as co-founder and owner of the famous Fitger Brewing Company, now registered as a U.S. National Historic Place.
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3 January 1818 Dortmund, Prussia, Germany
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Died |
6 December 1872 (aged 54) Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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