The New York Times/1888/5/23/Carl Schurz's Friend Hensel

CARL SCHURZ'S FRIEND HENSEL

From the American Register of Paris.

Carl Schurz's public reception in Berlin has certainly been of a most sympathetic and flattering character. Thirty-nine years ago the honored guest of the omnipotent Chancellor was a fugitive and an outlaw on German soil, and it would have fared ill with him had he fallen into the hands of the authorities. In this connection it may be interesting to know that the name of the friend who, at the risk of his own freedom, assisted both Godfried Kinkel and Carl Schurz beyond the frontier is Adolf Hensel, who at that time was settled on an estate near Spandau, and later on became an Alderman in the city of Görlitz and one of the leaders of the Progressist Party. He was in the plot, and it was he who himself, with his wagon and horses, drove the two fugitives from the Hotel Krüger in Spandau, where they changed their outer garb, to the Mecklenburg frontier. One of the horses succumbed to the fatigue; the other died of old age on Hensel's estate of Thormersdorf. Hensel, later in life, removed from Görlitz to Strehlen, near Dresden, where he died in 1872 in consequence of injuries received in endeavoring to stop a runaway team.


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