Description
Der Baltimore Wecker was a daily paper published in the German language in Baltimore, Maryland. It was the object of violence in the civil unrest at Baltimore in April 1861 that produced the first bloodshed of the American Civil War.
Der Wecker was founded by Carl Heinrich Schnauffer in October, 1851. Its founder was before that time one of the editors of the Mannheimer Abendzeitung in the city of Mannheim in Baden, Germany, but by taking part in the German revolution of 1848-49 he was compelled to leave the country. He traveled first to Switzerland, and then sought asylum in England, before finally moving to Baltimore in May 1851. Schnauffer was 48er (referring to the failed German 1848 revolution), and brought his liberal ideas to the United States.
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026860/
Location
3 North Frederick Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
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