After Heine's German birthplace of Düsseldorf had rejected, allegedly for anti-Semitic motives, a centennial monument to the radical German-Jewish poet ( 1797 – 1856 ), his incensed German-American admirers, including Carl Schurz, started a movement to place one instead in Midtown Manhattan, at Fifth Avenue and 59th Street.

The Mugwumps, including such men as Carl Schurz and Henry Ward Beecher, were more concerned with morality than with party, and felt Cleveland was a kindred soul who would promote civil service reform and fight for efficiency in government.

* 1829 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and statesman ( d. 1906 )

Together with Carl Schurz, the American Turners were supportive of the election of Abraham Lincoln as president of the United States.

* In Life of Henry Clay, Carl Schurz notes that “ his fondness for card-playing, which, although in his early years he had given up games of chance, still led him to squander but too much time upon whist .”

* May 14 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman ( b. 1829 )

* March 2 – Carl Schurz, German revolutionary and American statesman ( d. 1906 )

Last page of a letter from Mazzini to Carl Schurz when both were in London in 1851.

Carl Schurz, in Volume I of his ' Reminiscences ' ( New York: McClure's Publ.

One harsh assessment came from Carl Schurz, who reported on the situation in the states along the Gulf Coast.

* Carl Schurz ( 1820 – 1906 ), senator, secretary of the interior under Rutherford B. Hayes.

Carl Schurz Park in New York City bears his name

Thompson, as Secretary of the Navy, had never been among the leading figures of the Cabinet ( William Evarts, John Sherman, or Carl Schurz ) nor had been even a close colleague and friend of President Hayes like Vice President William Wheeler.

His contemporary Carl Schurz described Seward as " one of those spirits who sometimes will go ahead of public opinion instead of tamely following its footprints.

The town was named after Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz.

In history, Spandau Prison succeeded as a prison to the Renaissance-era Spandau Citadel where Frederick II of Prussia had held captive the magistrates of the Prussian Kammergericht and the Spandau jail, where Carl Schurz had freed his friend Gottfried Kinkel in the aftermath of the 1848 German revolution.

* Carl Schurz Elementary School

Johann Gottfried Kinkel ( 11 August 1815 – 13 November 1882 ) was a German poet also noted for his revolutionary activities and his escape from a Prussian prison in Spandau with the help of his friend Carl Schurz.

In 1848, with his wife and Carl Schurz, he started a newspaper, the Bonner Zeitung, mostly devoted to following revolutionary activities, but also providing the traditional material such as musical and theatrical reviews that people expected then from a full-service newspaper.

He was eventually transferred to Spandau in Berlin, where his friend and former student Carl Schurz helped him escape the prison at Spandau and reach London, England in November 1850.

* Carl Schurz, ( 3 vols., New York: McClure Publ.

During the winter of 1879 and 1880, she and her father visited Washington and gained permission from Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz for the Paiutes to return to Malheur at their own expense.

In the building where the Westliche Post was co-edited by Dr. Emil Pretorius and Carl Schurz, the attorneys William Patrick and Charles Phillip Johnson and surgeon Joseph Nash McDowell also worked.

He often played in the chess room where Carl Schurz noticed his aggressive style.

A cartoon from Harper's Weekly of December 21, 1878, features Philip Sheridan and Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz

* 1777 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician ( d. 1855 )

* 1874 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1940 )

* 1779 – Carl Ritter, German geographer ( d. 1859 )

* 1794 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist ( d. 1868 )

* 1885 – Carl Goßler, German rower ( d. 1914 )

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

Carl Maria von Weber, a relative of Mozart by marriage whom Wagner has characterized as the most German of German composers, is said to have refused to join Ludlams-Höhle, a social club of which Salieri was a member and avoided having anything to do with him.

The name " alkaloids " () was introduced in 1819 by the German chemist Carl F. W.

* 1985 – Carl Schmitt, German philosopher and theorist ( b. 1888 )

Although the term “ biochemistry ” seems to have been first used in 1882, it is generally accepted that the formal coinage of biochemistry occurred in 1903 by Carl Neuberg, a German chemist.

German strategist Carl von Clausewitz stated that " the employment of battles ... to achieve the object of war " was the essence of strategy.

German military history had previously been influenced by Carl von Clausewitz, Alfred von Schlieffen and von Moltke the Elder, who were proponents of maneuver, mass, and envelopment.

Bunge & Born was founded in 1884 by Ernesto Bunge, a German Argentine whose uncle, Carl Bunge, had been Consul General in Argentina for both the Netherlands and Prussia, and his brother-in-law, Jorge Born, who had recently arrived from Antwerp.

Clausewitz's Christian names are sometimes given in non-German sources as " Carl Philipp Gottlieb " or " Carl Maria ", because of reliance on mistaken source material, conflation with his wife's name, Marie, or mistaken assumptions about German orthography.

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (;, ) ( 30 April 177723 February 1855 ) was a German mathematician and physical scientist who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy and optics.

Carl Friedrich Michael Meinhof ( July 23, 1857 – February 11, 1944 ) was a German linguist and one of the first linguists to study African languages.

Carl Meinhof was the great-uncle ( the brother of the grandfather ) of Ulrike Meinhof, a founding member of the German Red Army Faction ( RAF ), a left-wing militant group, which operated in West Germany in 1970s and 1980s.

Though Adolf Hitler succeeded in garnering the support of many German industrialists, prominent traditionalists openly and secretly opposed his policies of euthanasia, genocide, and attacks on organized religion, including Claus von Stauffenberg, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Henning von Tresckow, Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen, and the monarchist Carl Friedrich Goerdeler.

The CGS system goes back to a proposal in 1832 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

J. S. Bach's son Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a great proponent of the instrument, and most of his German contemporaries regarded it as a central keyboard instrument, for performing, teaching, composing and practicing.

* 1872 – Carl Lehle, German rower ( d. 1930 )