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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Gates, Paul W. |
| Title, Analytic | Charles Lewis Fleischmann: German-American Agricultural Authority |
| Journal Title | Agricultural History |
| Date of Publication | January 1961 |
| Volume ID | 35 |
| Issue ID | 1 |
| Location in Work | 13-23 |
| View Online | Link to digital article |
| MKI Annotation | Carl Ludwig Fleischmann was born in Amberg, Bavaria, in 1806. He attended the Royal Agricultural and Technical School at Schleisheim, receiving an education that influenced his later career. After working on a noble's estate, he immigrated to America in 1832, staying first in New York, then Cincinnati. In 1835 he accepted a position as drafstman in the Patent Office. In 1838, Fleischmann began a campaign to convince Congress that American agriculture needed to be improved. In a "tightly constructed and informative memorial to Congress, he described the progress agriculture had made in Europe, . . . showed the advantages of . . . a program of improving livestock by . . . breeding only the best imported stock, sketched a plan for agricultural schools, and argured for a botanic garden." He wrote, in German, a series of treatises on American agriculture, industry, commerce, government, and law for prospective immigrants from his native land, including Der nordamerikanische Landwirth. Ein Handbuch für Ansiedler in den Vereinigten Staaten. Although Kate Asaphine Everest, an early historian of Germans in Wisconsin, credited this work as having had "much to do with the great influx of immigration to Wisconsin," Fleischmann actually gives the state little attention. He does give "an inordinate amount of space to slavery." From 1849 to 1853, he served as US consul in Stuttgart; he also worked with the Württenberg Branch of the National Association for German Emigration and Settlement to produce an 1849 pamphlet that promoted a colony of Germans in America. Fleischmann argued that group migration was helpful in allowing joint planning, and in protecting setlers against deception and fraud. "Fleischmann's career after 1859 is not easy to trace." He died in 1890, and is buried in Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC. |
| Call Number | Digital file |
| MKI Terms | Agriculture/ German Americans/ Farming/ Emigration and immigration/ Fleischmann, Charles Louis (Carl Ludwig), 1806-1890 |