Germain Metternich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German revolutionary
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Place of Birth: Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About Germain Metternich
- Germain Franz Metternich (born 5 April 1811 in Mainz; died 13 May 1862 on Tybee Island, Georgia) was the son of Mathias Metternich, one of the leading Mainz Jacobins.
- Metternich pursued a military career initially, but became involved with the German democratic movement in the southern states of the German Confederation from the beginning of the 1830s onward.
- He participated in the Hambacher Fest and later in the campaigns of the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states.
- In 1850 he immigrated to the United States as part of a larger wave of politically active Forty-Eighters, following the defeat of that movement in continental Europe, and remained politically active in his new, democratic homeland.
- Because of this background, he was particularly concerned with the struggle for of human rights and became involved with both the socialist and the abolitionist movements.
- At the beginning of the American Civil War he joined the Union Army.
- He was killed in 1862 by a drunken fellow soldier.
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