Carl Schurz
Prussian student Carl Schurz lived here on the market square during the Rastatt Revolution. Despite being just 20 years old at the time, he was sympathetic to the ideology behind the revolution. He served as an adjutant during the uprising in Rastatt, often observing the enemy troops from the palace’s tower.
However, the revolution was almost his undoing. After the end of the Rastatt Revolution, he was very lucky to make an adventurous escape through the sewers and to freedom in France.
He eventually immigrated to the USA via London, where he met his wife. But he still held political ambitions. He was a close companion of Abraham Lincoln and later became Secretary of the Interior there. His wife Margarethe Meyer-Schurz was in no way inferior to him. She founded the first kindergarten in the USA.
