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Dr. Carl Heinrich Schnauffer (4 July 1823 Heimsheim, Kingdom of Württemberg - 4 September 1854 Baltimore, Maryland) was a poet, soldier and editor.

Early Life in Germany
Schnauffer was born July 4th, 1823 in Heimsheim, in what is today the state of Baden-Württemberg, the son of a dyer. Sources also state his parents were descended of "old state officials." In 1834, he was apprenticed to a merchant in Grossbottmar following the death of his father, Johann Heinrich Schnauffer. After his apprenticeship ended, he was employed by a Mannheim merchant, Joseph M. Tunna.

Family bio

He and Elise had two daughters in Baltimore. The first born was Lena, who lived until 1896.

he was one of the editors of the Journal in the city of Mannheim in Baden, Germany.

Doctorate

Before this time, by taking part in the German revolution of 1848-49, he was compelled to leave his native country.

Baltimore and Der Wecker
He founded the Baltimore Wecker in the fall of 1851. Almost immediately the publication encountered a setback, when a fire in December of the same year destroyed $200 of the Wecker's paper and type equipment. .

In short order, Schnauffer became an established leader in the German community in Baltimore. When exiled Governor-President Lajos Kossuth, one of the leaders of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, was on his tour of the United States in 1851, Schnauffer was the chairman of the German committee that lead a large torchlight procession through Baltimore in his honor.

His brother, William Schnauffer (1835-1889), joined him in Baltimore about 1854, and shortly thereafter became a contributor and later partner in Der Wecker.

By 1854, Schnauffer's home was in what had been Carroll Mansion, the same place where "founding father" Charles Carroll of Carrollton had spent his final years.

Poetry
In June 1854, he received an "elegant and costly silver goblet" as an award from the German Singing Association in Canton, Ohio, owing to his having written the best "national jubilee song." The poem, which seems to have been known simply as "German Song," with music by Professor Charles Lenschow, was performed at various points, including Baltimore's National Musical Festival in 1854.

Schnauffer is known to have written at least one German language tragedy entitled King Charles the First; or Cromwell and the English Revolution. His widow Elise sued to prevent its posthumous performance in 1855.

Death and Legacy
The Sun reported the events of his funeral "were of a very impressive character, whilst the number in attendance far exceeded any cortege of the kind lately seen in Baltimore," and that "the whole affair attested the great popularity of the deceased and the high estimation in which he was held by his fellow-countrymen." The Sun reported 3,000 mourners in attendance, but other sources maintain as many as 8,000 may have been present. The large procession of mourners moved across about 4 miles of the city, gathering in Monument Square, proceeding to the family's residence at Lombard Street, before heading northwest several miles to Baltimore Cemetary, where he was interred. The composition of the mourners in his funeral procession reveals the character of Schnauffer's associations in the city. Organizations represented included:
 * German-affiliated militia groups (Pioneers of the Rifle Companies, German Riflemen's Band, German Rifle Corps, Independent German Yeagers, Black Yeagers, Jackson Guards, Band of the Monumental Riflemen, Baltimore Riflemen)
 * Social Democratic Association of Turners with which the Wecker was affiliated
 * Workingmen's Indigigent Beneficial Association
 * Concordia Literary Association
 * German Freeman Association
 * Various Baltimore choirs and bands (Baltimore Saengerbund, Harmony Singing Association, East Baltimore Vocal Association, Captain Linhard's Band, Baltimore Liederkranz)
 * Representatives of Baltimore-area fraternal orders (William Tell & Schiller Lodge of the old order of Harru Gari, Keokuk and Philip Tribes of the Improved Order of Red Men, Fell's Point Band No. 10 of the Independent Order of United Brothers, Sagamore Tribe of the Independent Order of Red Men, Goethe and Washington Lodges of the Improved Order of Independent Brothers).

After he died, his widow continued the Wecker without interruption.

Following Carl's death, William married his widow and continued his work on Der Wecker until his own death in 1889.