Edmund Jüssen
Edmund Jüssen was a German American politician and diplomat.Biography
Jüssen came to the Wisconsin Territory from Germany in 1847 where he opened a store in Columbus, in Columbia County, Wisconsin. He then moved to Saint Louis, Missouri, but returned to Columbus. He studied law and was admitted to the Wisconsin bar.
Jüssen served in the Wisconsin State Assembly in 1862 as a Republican. He served in the 23rd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment as a colonel in the American Civil War. After the war he practiced law in Chicago, Illinois.
He was United States Consul General in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, in 1885. His father, Jacob Jüssen, til 1848 mayor of Jülich, Rhine Province, Kingdom of Prussia, was an uncle of Carl Schurz.
He died in Frankfurt, German Empire, while returning to the United States.
