Friedrich Hecker

Sabine Freitag was previously Scholar in Residence at the German Historical Institute in London and is now a member of the Historical Seminar of the University of Cologne. She is the coeditor of British Envoys to Germany, 1816-1866. Steven Rowan is Professor of History at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. He is the author, editor, or translator of many books, most notably Germans for a Free Missouri.

As an immigrant leader in St. Louis and neighboring Illinois, Friedrich Hecker forged the bonds that tied the region's German community to the party of Abraham Lincoln and to the cause of emancipation that shaped modern America. - Louis S. Gerteis, author of Civil War St. Louis