Louis F. Schade


Louis Frederick Schade was a German American lawyer and newspaper editor who was prominent in political and social circles of Washington, D.C., in the United States. He is most famous for defending Confederate States of America Major Henry Wirz in a war crimes trial in 1865. Wirz was condemned to death for his supervision of the Camp Sumter prisonerofwar camp.

Louis Schade was born on April 4, 1829, to Friedrich and Wilhelmina Schade in Berlin in what was then the Province of Brandenburg in the Kingdom of Prussia. He studied law and medicine at the Frederick William University in Berlin, graduating in 1848. He learned to speak four European languages fluently, and could translate another five. He participated in the Revolutions of 1848, erecting barricades in the streets, and was sentenced to death for his role in the revolution. He then fled the country for the United States in 1851.

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