Background
He was born at Gießen, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, to Christoph Follenius (1759-1833) and Rosine Follenius (1766–1799). His father was a counselor-at-law and judge.
He was born at Gießen, in Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany, to Christoph Follenius (1759-1833) and Rosine Follenius (1766–1799). His father was a counselor-at-law and judge.
Philanthropist, a German attorney, settled on the north side of the Missouri River along Lake Creek in 1824. He was investigating the possibilities of settlement in the area by his countrymen. In 1827 he returned to Germany, which he felt was overpopulated.
There he published Bericht über eine Reise nach den westlichen Staaten Nordamerika"s ("Report of a Journey to the Western states of North America") in 1829.
Both had participated in the outlawed republican and democratic movements in Germany in the wake of the French July Revolution of 1832. As there was no immediate hope for success, they intended to establish a "new and free Germany in the great North American Republic" to serve as model for a future German republic.
The Giessen Society was stillborn on its arrival in the United States in 1834. Follenius and Muench dissolved the society upon their meeting in Saint Louis.
lieutenant is important to note that they never intended to create any sort of "utopia" in America.
They intended to fully participate in democracy as constituted in the United States. lieutenant was, after all, where THE experiment in enlightened government was playing out, and they wanted to be part of lieutenant Follenius and Muench were merely searching for freedom.
They planned to be bilingual from the start, which shows that they did not expect to be situated apart from the rest of United States. society.
Paul Follenius died of disease 10 years after emigrating to the United States. In 1834 they led 500 into Missouri.
They soon realized that their plan for a separate federal state was untenable. They settled in the German populated Dutzow in Warren County, Missouri not far from the former farm of Follenius died in Dutzow.