Dr. Franz Heinrich Zitz (November 18, 1803 in

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– April 30, 1877) was a prominent

attorney and enjoyed much success with women due to his comeliness. He was a restless and at times dissolute man. On June 3, 1837, he married the writer Katharina Theresa Halein, not completely of his own free will, but under threat of suicide. They lived together two years and remained married for the rest of their lives. As a member of the

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, Franz played a respected role on the far left, and as the head of the militia in Mainz he was highly esteemed and trusted by the people of that town. He sported a remarkably full and unkempt beard during the 1849 uprising, and when it failed, toward the end of that year, he emigrated to America, settling in New York as a notary, a partner in the firm Kapp, Zitz and Fröbel.Carl Wittke, ''Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America'', Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn. Press, 1952, p. 55. The firm became Zitz and Kapp after Fröbel's withdrawal. (p. 326) When amnesty was offered, he returned to Europe and died in

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Carl Schurz Carl Christian Schurz (; March 2, 1829 – May 14, 1906) was a German-American revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer. He migrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–1849 and became a prominent ...

, ''Reminiscences'' (3 volumes), New York: The McClure Company, 1907. Schurz meets Franz Zitz as a revolutionary leader in the Palatinate town of Kircheimbolander in Chapter VII of Volume One. He reports that “Mr. Zitz, a few years later, was well known in New York as a member of the law firm of Zitz & Kapp.” 1803 births 1877 deaths Politicians from Mainz 19th-century German lawyers German revolutionaries German-American Forty-Eighters University of Giessen alumni University of Göttingen alumni People from Rhenish Hesse 20th-century Freikorps personnel {{Germany-law-bio-stub