Wolfgang Straßmann

On 18 March 1848 Prussian troops under the command of Karl von Prittwitz stormed the barricades, Straßmann and eight of his comrades managed to hide in the house of Meno Burg.

[1][2] On 12 August 1848, Straßmann walked along the Unter den Linden in a group of revolutionaries which started to wrest Prussian cockades from other promenaders.

At the Café Kranzler, he finally addressed the crowd, declared the Hohenzollern dynasty "no longer worthy of the throne of Prussia" and proclaimed the German Republic.

[1][2] Straßmann moved to Schleswig-Holstein and volunteered in the First Schleswig War as a medic in the German Federal Army under the command of Karl von Prittwitz.

Straßmann supported the separation of church and state which made him a target to antisemitic attacks of court chaplain Adolf Stoecker in 1883.

Barricades at Königstrasse, Berlin in March 1848
Straßmann's grave, Jewish cemetery Berlin- Prenzlauer Berg