1. hecker, friedrich karl franz a German revolutionary, born at Eichtersheim, Baden; practised as an advocate in Mannheim, and in 1842 became an activedemocrat and Socialist; frustrated in an attempt during the '48 Revolution to create a republican assembly, he headed a revolutionaryattack upon Baden, was defeated, and subsequently settled in the United States, where he took to farming; took part in the Civil War at the head of a regiment of Germans, and became a commander of a brigade (1811-1881).
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